Sydney & Louisburg 2-8-2 Locomotives in Canada

Class 70 (Locobase 16320)

Data from Locomotive Cyclopedia entry archived on line by Old Line Trains at [], last accessed 23 Novmber 2017. For a detailed background essay on the S&L in particular and Cape Breton coal and iron exploration in general, see David Frank, "The Cape Breton Coal Industry and the Rise and Fall of the British Empire Steel Company" Acadiensis (1977), pp. 3-34. (Thanks to Steve Low in his November 1917 email supplying a copy of the LC entry.). Works numbers were 66319 in August 1925 and 67622 in July 1928.

The second of these two low-drivered Mikados was ordered first by the British Empire Steel Corporation, a short-lived conglomerate which was taken over in the same year by the S&L's parent Dominion Coal Company, Ltd.