Katherine Bickford

CNR 7260 at the Middleton Railway Museum

CNR 7260 is the oldest locomotive built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in Kingston, Ontario, that still exists.

CNR 1274/1521 at the Middleton Railway Museum

1274 is the fourth oldest surviving CNR locomotive and one of two steam engines remaining in Canada with a high-efficiency Belpaire firebox.

The six driving wheels are 63” high.  The overall length is 61.1 feet. 

The locomotive weighs 137 tons which includes ten tonnes of coal in its tender.  The tender holds 5.000 Imperial gallons of water, almost 23,000 litres. 

It received a Schmidt superheater at Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge Shops in February 1914, but originally used saturated steam in its 20” diameter pistons with a stroke of 26.”

Stephenson valve gear actuated the pistons on the inclined cylinders.