Engine No. 2304 was completed at Angus Shops in Montreal in 1920 and came to Chapleau in that year for passenger train service. It was a 4-6-2 or heavy Pacific type of locomotive. It carried a steam pressure of 200 pounds and was equipped with six driving wheels, each 75 inches in diameter. It had a total light weight of 159 tons.

This picture is also interesting because it shows the side of the old repair shop, now the diesel shop and the three smoke stacks from the boilers located to the side or at the north end of the repair shops near the C.P.R. stores department.

Those in the picture which was taken in 1923 include part of the C.P.R. shop staff and are as follows:

On the ground standing, left to right: Geo. Foley (blacksmith), Jim McTague, Bill Skeins, Cork Robinson, Chas. Norris, Hank Smith (locomotive foreman), Jerry Brooks (master mechanic), Wm (Bunt) Burrows , Theo Goldstien, Frank Hamlin, Adam McKee, Jack Raye.

Sitting: Bill Grinton, Andy Smith, Jack Banks, Johnny McKee, Len Green, Clint Loney, Bob Cummings, Fred Welch, Majorique Therriault, Robert McKee, ? Montary, Fred Lewis, Joe Blais.

Standing on engine, left to right: Arthur Simard, Harry Riley, Fred Therrien, ? Mussolini, Ed (Pet) Lemieux, unidentified, Louis Boullion, Paul Martin, Joe Burns, ? Salvadore, Nick Principe, Louis Fiaschetti and Hank Smith's two daughters.