| Still looking good but wearing an ominous protective wood plate over its headlight, CN 4-6-2 Pacific #5300 sits in a storage line at the Montreal Turcot Yard awaiting is final disposition. Built by MLW in August of 1920, the loco served the CN until being scrapped in April of 1960. Specs - serial #61945, class J-7-c, 69" drivers, 200 psi boiler pressure, 24x28" cylinders, approximate engine weight of 268,000 lb and tractive effort of 39,736 lb. H. L. Goldsmith photo |