Thurso & Nation Valley 2-6-2 Locomotives in Canada

Class 2 (Locobase 4862)

The TNV was a logging railroad built east of Ottawa to exploit the hardwood forests. Construction began in 1925 and this engine was the second to serve the railway and the first bought new. She had only one engineer -- Park Smith -- from service entry to her sale in 1947.

According to the TNV website -- [] -- "[#2] worked mainly on the southern part of the line below Singer. A normal 12 hour day would consist of a trip to Singer, mile 26, with the empties and a return with the loads. It would then switch the Thurso yard. In this work it would burn between 6 and 7 tons of coal (in those days costing $14.00 per ton) and would evaporate 10,000 gallons of water." Repairs to the firebox by the Canadian Pacific shops in 1945 prompted an admonition to engineer Smith that "great care be taken this year not to leave any dead clinkers in the firebox etc, which through a period of time cause much corrosion".

#2 was sold in 1947 to Montreal Coke and Manufacturing Company at Lasalle, Quebec.