According to Lavallee, these two were built in the summer of 1914, just before
the shot heard around the world. More new locos weren't ordered until after the
war, so there was no development to this class. The need to haul steel cars was
satisfied by Pacifics and Hudsons. I'm paraphrasing here for the full story see
CP Steam Locomotives pgs 135-137. It also sounds like Vaughn would have gone on
to further development if not for infighting with George Bury. Things like
superheating were increasing the efficiency of locos at that time also. There's
also the line that CP had better trackwork than the polygot lines that went
into CN so they could put more weight on the drivers so they went for more six
coupled locos rather than CNRs light 4-8-2s and 4-8-4s.
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:40:42 -0500
Subject: RE: [cpsig] CPR passenger service to Seattle
1940,s Now maybe one of the cp sig steam grurs knows why they were scrapped
early?? Van Hobbies did a model of them but they don,t fit in my1950,s time
There were 95 G3's delivered between 1942 and 1945. I think there wouldn't
be any justifiable reason the pair of oddballs around.
Jeff
