DAR0315

Canadian Pacific Railway Steam Locomotive No. 315

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by Category:Canadian Locomotive Works at Kingston, Ontario in December 1891.

• Builder No. 426
• 18" x 24" cylinders
• 58" drivers.
• CPR Class: C1B

This locomotive was delivered to the Canadian Pacific Railway as CPR No. 578. It became CPR No. 315 in on September 1907. It was renumbered again as CPR No. 215 in May 1914 and scrapped in June 1917. It was not transferred to the DAR but appears to have been loaned to the DAR soon after the CPR purchase in 1912 based on a photo of the locomotive at the Plympton ballast pit.

Gallery

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  Locomotives No. 312 and No. 315 at the Plympton ballast pit with steam shovel, circa 1912.

References and Footnotes

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 255 and 290