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CPR8131
Dominion Atlantic Railway Diesel Locomotive No. 8131
- Builder No.: A1731
- Date: 04-1959
- Order Number: C261
- Model: SW1200RS
- Built by: General Motors Electro-Motive Division at General Motors Diesel, London, Ontario
- Prime Mover: EMD 12-567-C (V12 2-Stroke)
- HP: 1200
- Displacement: 567 cu in per cylinder = 6804 cu in total
- Stroke & Bore: 8.5" x 10"
- Aspiration: Roots Blower
- Generator: EMD D15
- Gear Ratio: 62:15
- Tractive Effort: 42,000 lbs @ 18% Adhesion
- Trucks: EMD Flexicoil B-B trucks
- Wheel Arrangement: B-B
- Drivers: 40"
- Weight: 232,700 lbs
- Wheelbase length: 22' (center of bolsters)
- Overall length: 44' 5" (coupler face to coupler face)
- Height: 14' 6-1/2"
- Width" 10' (underframe)
- Maximum Speed: 65 mph
- CPR Class: DRS-12b
No. 8031 arrived on the D.A.R in 1959. First photographic evidence of it was in August 1959. Last photographic evidence of it was in September 1982. Retired 3/2008.[1] Scrapped in Winnipeg in 2010.[2]
Operational Appearances
Gallery
The Kentville Roundhouse with locomotive 8131 on the right, the Kentville Machine Shop and hose shed on left, and the stack of the Canada Foods Plant in background, 1959.
No. 8131 leading wayfreight from Kingsport Branch approaching Kentville in August 1959.
8131 in Kentville 1959 August 19
No. 8131 in front of the Kentville Water Tower in August 1959.
Kentville Turntable, power plant, car shop and No. 8131, from door of roundhouse in August 1959.
No. 8131 in front of the Kentville Roundhouse in August 1959.
No. 8131 and No. 8132 with loco shops and turntable on right, and car shops and power plant on left in August 1959.
CP No. 8131 leading freight at Kentville on July 20, 1967.
No. 8131 on a Kingsport local run passes the Kentville Roundhouse on July 20, 1967.
No. 8131 at Truro Railyard on January 19, 1975.
Kentville Train No. 24 to Truro Train No. 21 4th class freight led by No. 8131 approaching Windsor from causeway on July 19, 1975.
No. 8131 switching Train No. 21 at Windsor on July 19, 1975.
CP No. 8131 inside Kentville Car Shop in May 1977.
Engine 8131 leading the Gypsum Train to Hantsport - 13th September 1977
No. 8131 on an eastbound way freight in front of Yarmouth Station in September 1982.
