Photo above is CNR 3351 at the Dauphin Roundhouse on the turntable late 1950's.

CN 3351 was a Mikado 2-8-2 S-1-d class built by Canadian Locomotive Works in 1918 and scrapped April 1960. It actually started out as CGR 2951.

To provide an update, we were informed by the City of Dauphin that the turntable is now scheduled to be removed the week of August 18th, 2025.  We have requested that a 15' x 14' portion of the full turntable bridge (including the motor) be preserved for the proposed off site memorial to be installed at a later date.  The City has agreed to this proposal.  We will be present to document this removal with photos and videos.  

The Museum has reached out for both engineering and/or architectural assistance(with no response to date) to help to ensure the placement of this 32,000 lb structure will be stable for decades to come and assist with design.  A thumbnail of the design has been developed to date.  We will keep pursuing.

The two proposed sites for the off site memorial include the end of the existing track that holds the caboose right before the Berry Patch west of the CN Station and just east of the CN Station in CN Park.  

We have also been told by the City of Dauphin that fundraising for this project, in collaboration with the City, will be eligible for tax receipts for donations and those will be issued by the City.  Once the details are fully provided we will pass that information in an upcoming update on how this will work.

With that, if anyone that has provided support for this petition has contacts with someone in the engineering and/or architecture world that would assist us with this project, please pass that information along.  We would greatly appreciate that.

Once we have that information and have a grasp on total cost of design, movement and installation of this memorial we can begin in earnest fundraising through grant applications and donations.  The goal would be to have the memorial installed by early Fall 2026.

With that, if you have not had the ability to view the turntable in its original location, we advise you to witness it either on evenings or weekends before the scheduled removal in August.  119 years of history with influence over 100,000's of lives through the years all in the Birthplace of Canadian Northern Railway....Canada's third transcontinental railway and a major pillar of what now is known as Canadian National Railway.