NOTES (by item number per listing) - specific notes about each survivor.
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C. CLC {BW} CNR #77 - [Ref.]
(photo and information from Musée Ferroviare Canadien site - all rights reserved.).
#77 at the Canadian Railway Museum/Musée Ferroviare Canadien (right side).
Builder's Plate Data
{to follow}
70-ton, 400-hp Canadian National Railway Class Q-1-a #77 at the Musée Ferroviare Canadien (Canadian Railway Museum) at Delson/St. Constant, Québec, built in 1929 and placed in service in 1930.
Per Don Ross: "7700, Class Q-1-a, was built by Canadian Locomotive-Westinghouse in December 1929, #1861. It was renumbered 77 in 1950 and later reclassified LS-4a. It was rebuilt in 1953 and then sold to Canada Starch Co as 77 in 1962."
The 1929 CNR #77 noted on the Survivors map at "C" [I've changed the symbol!] appears to be a variant of the Baldwin-Westinghouse Visibility Cab unit but without end platforms and with a notch in the body side to allow access to the cab, thus making it a semi-boxcab or a hood unit with an end cab and a blob on the right front (if the cab is at the rear):
It was built as #7700.
Per the Museum's site, CN #77, a diesel switcher built by Canadian Locomotive Company in 1929, "is the oldest surviving Canadian National diesel locomotive" and "is based on the contemporary Westinghouse electric locomotive end-cab design of the period". "The unit has been re-engined but retains its original electrical equipment; it is a good example of the early experimental diesel era".
Here are excellent photographs of #7700 as built (right
side, left side, front, and rear), from the collection
of the Canada Science and Technology Museum at
CN Images of Canada Gallery >
Railways >
Historic CN 1919-1963 >
Locomotives and Equipment;
they are the property of the Museum and I have received
specific, written permission to reproduce them here
(for which I am exceedingly grateful):
(15 Aug 04)
[The first two are two different prints of the same
shot]
(photos property of, and reproduced here by special written permission of,
the Canada Science and Technology Museum - all rights reserved to the Museum.
These images may NOT be copied or reproduced without specific, prior, written permission of CSTM.).
CSTM caption: "CNR No. 7700, the first diesel-electric switcher in Canada,
Montréal, Québec, Canada, 1930, Photographer: unknown,
Subject: Diesel locomotives / Canadian Locomotive Company,
Image No.: CN000522, CSTMC/CN Collection".
[balance: CN001442, CN001443, CN001444, and CN001445 - captions to follow]
Note that this unit is a later version of the classic Baldwin-Westinghouse
"Visibility Cab" design, differing primarily in having a side door,
recessed back to the "shoulder" (window area).
Westinghouse cross-sectional drawings show the configuration of typical Visibility Cab units:
(Drawings from TRAIN
SHED CYCLOPEDIA #43
(restored 15 Aug 04)
This is an Aug 1952 left side shot from Don Ross's Railspot:
(photo from the Don Ross Collection - all rights reserved.
Thumbnail image - click on picture for larger image.).
(restored 15 Aug 04)
There are seven (7) ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR or GE alone) boxcab units surviving and four (4) B-W (or B-W-style) units, one EMC unit, plus two (2) "home-grown" Anglo-Canadian and English units and two (2) electric boxcab survivors, for a total of sixteen(16) known North American and British survivors.
Notes on surviving ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR or GE alone) boxcabs on Survivor Boxcabs Notes page.
Other surviving gas/oil-electric/diesel boxcabs (including +, @, and *, on map) are noted on the Other Boxcabs continuation page.
Other surviving electric (and any other odd) boxcabs (including e and ?, on map) are noted on the Odd Boxcabs continuation page.
NOTES moved to Survivor Boxcabs Continuation Page.
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