History
The locomotive was an early Canadian Pacific diesel. Before it was delivered in November 1937, the railway had only used self-propelled rail motor cars. The unit was ordered in 1935 from Stone Franklin of Canada Ltd of Montreal but was built by National Steel Car in Hamilton, Ontario. It used a 6-cylinder, 600-horsepower (450 kW) diesel prime-mover from Harland & Wolff of Belfast, Northern Ireland, with electrical equipment by Laurence Scott and Electromotors of Norwich, England. [1] CP 7000 was a double-truck, four-motored switching locomotive. [2] It cost $89,500 when built. [3]
The locomotive worked at the Hochelaga Yard in Montreal until Alco S-2 units arrived at the Yard in 1943. It was then leased to Marathon Paper Mills Ltd., in Peninsula (now Marathon), Ontario, for a period of 3–4 months before being purchased by the mill in October 1944. It operated for many years without a number until it was re-engined in 1951 with a 600-horsepower Caterpillar diesel engine. [1] It was removed from service in 1964 at the paper mill and offered to the Canadian Railway Museum in 1965, where it remains. [4]
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