NEW LOCOMOTIVES
SPEEDING UP OF TRAFFIC IN CANADA. OTTAWA, Canada. Ten new locomotives are being built by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company which, when completed, will be the heaviest and most powerful engines doing duty in the British Empire. They are being built for use in speeding up traffic over the steep grades of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and are part of the railway company’s 1938 equipment expansion programme of 2,350,000 dollars which includes orders for 50 special refrigerator cars and 50 special automobile freight cars. The new engines will weight 453,000 pounds, will burn oil, and will be equipped with five pair of 63-inch driving wheels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1938, Page 7
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107NEW LOCOMOTIVES Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1938, Page 7
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