Coal Mining in Puponga
editPuponga at the base of Farewell Spit, New Zealand was home to two coal mining operations over a span of ~70 years. Joseph Taylor was the first to discover a workable seam of coal in 1898
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The Canadian National Class Z-4-a was a batch of nine electric "boxcab" type locomotives built by English Electric for the Montreal Harbour Commissioners, later National Harbour Board of Canada from 1924-1926. The Port of Montreal decided to de-electrify its' railway system in 1940, and so in 1941 the fleet of locomotives were traded with Canadian National Railway for seven steam switcher locomotives[1]. They were given the classification Class Z-4-a by CN and renumbered. They would subsequently be renumbered in 1949 and finally 1969[2]. Here they complimented the older GE built boxcabs, the class Z-1-a. Both boxcab types served the Mount Royal Tunnel route in Montreal for many years until retirement in June 1995.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "News Report 132, April 1962, Page 63" (PDF). Canadian Railroad Historical Association. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ "From Preston to Montreal". Railway Matters. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^ Radford, William J. (September–October 1995). "The End of the Old CN Electrics" (PDF). Canadian Rail (448). Canadian Railroad Historical Assoc.: 40 pages. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
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