SJ1 2-8-0 No. E2 909
Gatineau, PQ, Canada 		Location: 165 Rue Deveault
Status: Stored
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1 SJ Statens Järnvägar Swedish State Railways
Posted: Feb 10, 2023 @ 16:02:02 by Pierre-Hugo Donais
The project to transfer the 909 at the Dalton ecological park was scrapped. The locomotive is still owned by the city of Gatineau and stored at 165 Rue Deveault with presumably the 244. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1954872/train-vapeur-hull-chelsea-wakefield-ferme-dalton-gatineau
Posted: May 30, 2020 @ 08:05:01 by Russell Newman
The former Swedish State Railways or SJ E2 Class inside cylinder 2-8-0 No. 909 is the only member of its Class that is preserved in Canada and was for a time the only operational European steam locomotive in the North Americas. Built in 1907 she was one of many steam locomotives that worked for many years in Sweden till she along with many other were put into strategic reserve in the 1970’s. No. 909 was later bought for preservation by a preservation society in Sweden in the early 1990’s but was later sold for preservation in Canada in 1992. No. 909 was converted to be oil fired and along with a rake of Swedish State Railway Coaches and a diesel locomotive were shipped over from Sweden to Canada for use at the Hull–Chelsea–Wakefield Steam Train operation in Quebec in Canada. The Hull–Chelsea–Wakefield Steam Train ran along a branch line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad from Hull to Wakefield and back where 909 ran there as the only operational European steam locomotive in Canada from 1992 till 2011 as sadly due to flood damage that was beyond repair the line closed that year. The Swedish State Railway carriages that 909 hauled there were sadly cut up for scrap apart from one that was sold to be a small café. Today No. 909 has been put on display at a mock up train station set up at Dalton Ecological Park where the loco is now at.