Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1963.900.001 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Black and white photograph depicting a 1-Vulcan steam locomotive, 18 tons, 4 wheel, saddle tank (No. 25) and narrow gauge. The locomotive is also known as Samson. It is 1964.001.477 in the objects catalog. The locomotive is moving on some tracks with some passengers, and the No. 10 caboose is also attached to it. The caboose had a plywood body with metal ladder and plywood platform inside. Centre portion of roof raised and open. It is 1964.001.461 in the objects catalog. |
Image File Name |
1963 - No. 25 & No. 10 Caboose - Deerholme - 1963900001 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1963/ / |
Place |
Deerholme |
Provenance |
No. 25 was used during the construction of the Great Northern Railway (now CNR) grade through the Fraser Canyon by the S. S. Magoffin & Co. Railway Contractors. And later to transport fill for the construction of North Vancouver harbour facilities. The locomotive saw little service after the 1920s and was facing the scrapper’s torch when purchased by Gerry Wellburn, BCFDC founder in 1955. Wellburn used it for a small tourist line that he had set up on his property there until the BCFDC was formed in 1966. The No. 10 Caboose was built by Gerry Wellburn in 1956 and saw limited use at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. In 1993 it was scrapped. |
Search Terms |
No. 25 No. 10 Caboose Locomotive Deerholme Samson saddletank Vulcan Iron Works Cowichan Valley Railway Vancouver Harbour Comissioners Terminal Railway North Vancouver Vancouver Machinery Co. |
Collection |
Locomotives |
People |
Wellburn Magoffin Great Northern Railway CNR |
Subjects |
Locomotives |