Locomotive Power of the CPR

This post card is printed in a sepia tone, but it is not old. However, the picture of the engine is almost 70 years old. This is Canadian Pacific engine number 463. It was a D-4-g class 4-6-0 (also known as a ten-wheeler). It was one of about 40 engines built at the Angus Locomotive Shops in the year 1913. Number 441 was built in January of 1913 and Number 482 was built in December of 1913. Using interpolation, I have concluded that 53% of the way (463 is 53% of the way from 441 to 482) through the year will put us in June or July. The CPR Angus Shops in Montreal were a railcar manufacturing, repairing and selling facility of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The most of its production consisted of passenger cars, freight cars and locomotives. Built in 1904, it was named after its founder, Richard Bladworth Angus. He was born in 1831 in Bathgate, Scotland - about 20 miles west of Edinburgh. He came to Canada at age 26 with his wife and began work as a bookkeeper and clerk with the Bank of Montreal. After a time working for the Bank of Montreal he became general manager at the headquarters of the bank at age 38 in 1869 - two years after Canadian Confederation. In 1879 he became part owner of a railway and quickly joined the Canadian Pacific Railway; he was their General Manager until 1882, and he sat on their board for 40 years. He died in 1922. There are details about him and great photos and information about the shops themselves here:http://members.kos.net/sdgagnon/ang.html This post card shows the engine at Duncan, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. It was actually in the service of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway by the time this picture was taken in about 1944. It had been transferred to the island in 1930 with its sibling engine 462.

As I wrote above, this is not an old card. It was published by Head-end Rail Prints. They are from White Rock, British Columbia – on the mainland not too far from Vancouver or the American-Canadian border.