Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1976.100.004 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Gerry Wellburn cleaning the beam headlight of Cowichan Valley Railway Locomotive No. 25, also known as Samson. The locomotive is a 18 ton 0-4-0 saddle tank engine built by Vulcan Iron Works in Pennsylvania built in 1910. Photograph is undated. Printed by Flett Studios Limited. |
Image File Name |
unk - Wellburn & Samson - Deerholme - 1976100004 - jpg72 - 001 |
Place |
Deerholme |
Provenance |
Samson was built in 1910 with a construction number of 1549. The locomotive was first purchased by the Grant Smith & Company, a construction contractor based in Leavenworth and Spokane WA. In 1920, Samson was then purchased by the S.S. Magoffin & Co. Railway Contractors from the Vancouver Machinery Depot and used it to construct the Great Northern Railway (now CNR) grade through the Fraser Canyon, and later on to transport fill for the construction of North Vancouver’s harbour facilities. It was overhauled by Vancouver Machinery Depot in 1926. Saw very little service afterwards. In 1955, Gerry Wellburn purchased it and saved it from being scrapped. He used it on his property in Deerholme. In 1964, Samson was donated to the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum (BC Forest Discovery Centre), and eventually converted to an oil burner. |
Search Terms |
Wellburn No. 25 Samson Deerholme 0-4-0 Saddletank Locomotive Vulcan Iron Works Glenora & Western Railway People |
Collection |
BCFDC Institutional Memory |
People |
Wellburn Magoffin Vancouver Machinery Depot |
Subjects |
People Locomotives |