Roster

Locomotives

Notes

1 - Built by Kinmond Brothers of Montreal, Works No. 9. Damaged beyond repair when the Carillon engine house burned in 1895. Scrapped a few years later.

2 – Built of Daniel C. Gunn of Hamilton, Ontario, Works No. 25. Leading wheels attached directly to the main frame so the wheels did not swivel. Scrapped in 1914.

3 – Inspection engine with an upright boiler and not much bigger than a hand car. Acquired 1867. Scrapped about 1880.

4 - Built by Peto & Co. Canada Works, Birkenhead, England as a 2-2-2 for the Grand Trunk bearing either Works No. 29 or 34. (British historians have reconstructed two differing versions of the Canada Works Builder's list.) It was possibly numbered 70 on the Grand Trunk. Rebuilt to a 4-2-2 by the Grand Trunk in 1856 and then to a 4-4-0. Acquired by C&G 1874. Renamed Ottawa after the Kinmond Ottawa was retired. Scrapped in 1914.

J. E. Halsey, General Superintendent of the C&G, provided this description of No. 3 to the Railway and Shipping World: "The cylinders are inclined up 15 in. diameter by 20 in. stroke; cylinders are outside, with valves of the old-fashioned D pattern, inside smoke box, and so placed as to work on their edges, as it were with their backs facing each other. They are connected direct to the pulling link. The link on this engine does not lift; the pulling link is connected to the reversing shaft, and as the shaft reverses the link block moves up and down in link. She has a good steady valve gear, as the link is supported on both sides by hangers, and works on a permanent shaft. The boiler is 40 in. diameter at smoke box end, and there are 180 brass flues 1 7/8 in. diameter, 10 ft. 6 in. long; fire box 3 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 10 in. and 4 ft. high. The fire box and boiler are both made of Low Moor iron; flue sheet 1/2 in. thick; fire box sheets 3/8 in. thick. The rigid wheel base if 7 ft.; total length of engine 21 ft. The tender is 17 ft. 6 in.; total length of engine and tender 38 ft. 6 in. The diameter of driving wheels is 60 in.; truck of the bogie type, with 26 in. wheels. This engine is a good steamer, and very economical in fuel, and can go a steady speed of 30 miles an hour."

Rolling Stock

Carmichael & Brown of Montreal built one first-class coach and one second-class coach for the railway. O'Meara, another Montreal builder, produced at least one second class coach.

In the 1858 Samuel Keefer report is a summary of rolling stock signed by Carillon & Grenville Superintendent J.F. Bernard:

Shortly after this report was issued, one passenger car and one flat car were converted into baggage cars.

At least two of the second class passenger cars were subsequently converted to combination baggage-coach configuration. The car body of Carillon & Grenville's O'Meara built coach survives at the National Museum of Science and Technology (NMST) in Ottawa as a combine. There is also photographic evidence of another combine with an arch roof.

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