Class B-16-a (CNR) (Locobase 5589)

Data from http://www.proto87.org/ca/loco/621-622.html (19 June 2003), Rene Gourley's website describing this Eastern Canadian railway.

Estimated 1,395 sq ft of tubes, according to calculation. The specifications featured onthe proto87 website indicated that the design had arch tubes. (The fire bricks are to rest on water tubes "as on Canada Atl 12", but the specs caution, the tubes "not to enter the crown sheet". According to the site, these two locomotives were renumbered by the Grand Trunk when that road fully amalgamated the CA in 1914. According to a Locomotive and Railroad History Bulletin (147) cited in proto87, the two engines then had dimensions of 18" x 26", but the calculation suggests that the LRHS was not correct.

Class D Odd (Locobase 9091)

Data from C&A 6 - 1918 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

These Eight-wheelers showed up in the 1918 diagram book. They came from several sources. 20 was a home-built that apparently remained unchanged through its career. Schenectady supplied 56 and 215 in 1883 to the same design.

Class D1 / D-1a (Locobase 7367)

Data from C&A 6 - 1918 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

These Eight-wheelers showed up in the 1918 diagram book. They came from several sources. 20 was a home-built that apparently remained unchanged through its career. Schenectady supplied 56 and 215 in 1883 to the same design.

Class D1C (Locobase 7368)

Data from C&A 6 - 1918 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

Delivered in the same year as the D1A (Locobase 7367), this Eight-wheeler had a few more tubes and a little more heating surface as a result.

Class D2 (Locobase 7369)

Data from C&A 6 - 1918 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

Produced by the shops at the same time as several other Eight-wheelers, this particular engine had more of an express passenger feel to it. The boiler was smaller while the firebox stayed the same size. There was also more weight on the drivers and overall.

Class D2A (Locobase 7370)

Data from C&A 6 - 1918 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

Predating the D2 (Locobase 7369) by 2 years (which suggests a retrospective classification), this shop-built locomotive had a big boiler and seems to have been based on the 1880 Schenectady engine shown in Locobase 7368. One significant difference is the taller drivers.

Class D2B (Locobase 7371)

Data from C&A 6 - 1918 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

This was another of the C & A's Eight-wheelers that was built to the same basic specs over a 3-5 year period in the 1880s by Schenectady and the shops.

Class D2C (Locobase 7372)

Data from C&A 6 - 1918 Locomotive Diagrams supplied in May 2005 by Allen Stanley from his extensive collection.

Delivered in the same year as the D1C (Locobase 7367), this Eight-wheeler was identical to the Schenectady-built engine except for its taller drivers.

Class D7C (Locobase 3926)

Builder info from B.Rumary, 25 Kingscombe, Gurney Slade, Radstock, BA3 4TH, ENGLAND and Jeremy Lambert as supplied by Allen Stanley in March 2004. Works #3368-3379, produced in November-December 1899.

The Alton had recently introduced day-service between Chicago and St. Louis on a leisurely schedule of 7 hours, 59 minutes southbound (13 stops), 7 hours 54 minutes northbound (15 stops) for the 284 miles. The train, designed to Pullman standards, had 6 cars including a postal car.

Features of the design, according to Railroad Gazette (8 Jan 1900), were the use of 10" piston valves and cast steel in many components. Visually they had a characteristic eyebrow dormer on each side of the cab roof and were painted maroon. They had the typical high running board, spoked drivers and pony truck wheels of the turn-of-the-century American locomotive.

Rumary-Lambert report that the class was delivered with 19 1/2" diameter cylinders that were soon bored out to 20" and some were later fitted with 19" cylinders. The data in the spec, however, comes from the RG account, which was published at the time of their construction.

Drury (1993) comments that these "elegant" locomotives soon proved insufficiently powerful for the passenger service they hauled. Most were scrapped in a single year - 1933.