Comments on: Canadian Pacific U3e 0-6-0 6269 (built by CPR’s Angus Shops in 1912) has just arrived at CN’s Mimico Yard to switch CPR customers in New Toronto, working the Swansea Transfer job in 1954. The little 0-6-0′s, with no leading or trailing trucks, were ideal for use as yard switching and transfer locomotives as all the weight was on the drivers. Omer Lavallee’s “Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives” says this locomotive was later converted to Shop Tool SL-6 in 1956. For more on the CP’s Swansea Transfer and the customers it served, see Ray Kennedy’s page on Swansea at Old Time Trains. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: PRR5406 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=23489#comment-13531 PRR5406 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:26:27 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/CPR-6269-working-at-CN-Mimico-Yard-ON-1954-Bill-Thomson-IMG-904e-despec-cc-shrp.jpg#comment-13531 Note the fluid lines around the cab roof and windows. Steam locomotives were really utilitarian objects of art. There is something comforting and familiar about a functional steamer. Note the fluid lines around the cab roof and windows. Steam locomotives were really utilitarian objects of art. There is something comforting and familiar about a functional steamer.

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