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Canadian Pacific class N2
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by Montreal Locomotive Works· from 1912· class of 199 Canadian 2-8-0 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. C.P.R. Steam, Pass. Eng. -3631 -Class N2A-, Vancouver, 25 Aug 1935: Walter E. Frost· Public domain
what is it?
The Canadian Pacific N-2-a, b, and c was a class of 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotives built between 1912 and 1914. A total of 199 were produced, numbered 3600 through 3799 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and used almost everywhere around the system.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 114 years ago, in 1912.
- Served for 52 years (1912–1964).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1912–1914
- in service from
- 1912
- retired
- 1964
- status
- retired
- number built
- 199
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- Montreal Locomotive Works, Canadian Locomotive Company, Canadian Car and Foundry, CPR Angus Shops
- operators
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28126759, Wikipedia: Canadian Pacific class N2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.