Caption: The boiler room at the E&N roundhouse in Victoria used to have two conventional boilers to provide steam to a next-door engine room (for powering shop machinery by lineshafts), as indicated by two tall smokestacks in early photos. When CP acquired thirteen Baldwin roadswitcher units in 1948, the first five, 8000 to 8004, had one Vapor Clarkson DRK-4516 steam generator in each short hood for handling passenger trains, and when Budd RDCs took over passenger operations starting in 1955, those steam generators, possibly the first on CP, were surplus, so one was used to replace the two boilers, by then used only for shop heat.

As a lone worker on graveyard shift, the pictured steam generator was my friend when it behaved, and I became well attuned to its sound repertoire, and comfortable with firing it up for dayshift on cool mornings. In later years, an inattentive manager allowed it to run dry, and meltdown resulted, with an OK-4625 generator from an F-unit eventually brought in as a replacement.