What happened to the CP Idea of having true heritage units. I want to see again an Orange and Black Milwaukee Road heritage Unit and not with a fantasy paint scheme like Metra used. I want to see the old style frieght scheme on a locomotive again. There were rumors in the past CP was going to do this but nothing came of it. Wonder if I have to write Mr. Creel myself?
What constitutes a "true" heritage paint job? I am certain that CP is honoring its Canadian heritage with its special paint jobs.
I don't think CP ever had any plans of doing a larger run of heritage units, just as CN never intended to do any more than actually got painted (despite the rumours that you may have heard in the facebook railfan world).
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Just Curious.. Some time past there was a 'big to do' in regards to 'The Merger' [CPR and the KCS, and KLCS de M|....A Grand Tour was promised: On line, with a CPR Steam locomotive, and a OCS to travel from Canada, thru US, and on to Mexico ... The the whole Tour seemed to loose its "Steam'and attendant puiblicity(?) These days.... Crickets ?
Anyone: HAVE ANY INFO ????
LAST STEAM THRU THE se kANSAS WAS UPR'S 4014.. I got to see it passing thru. and stoped in Parsons,Ks.....In 2006 I got to ride behind "LASTA'S Southern Pacific #475 on a couple of trips out of Pittsburg while t was enroute to Kansas City. Needless, to say, many out here would lOve to see some CPR steam in SE Kansas.
samfp1943 - Mr. Creel indicated if the merger was approved, the 2816 would tour the system all the way down to Mexico sometime after the merger integration.
The merger has not been approved yet by the Surface Transportation Board and is not expected to be approved until fall 2022 at the earliest.
So, assuming the merger is ultimately approved, and assuming Mr. Creel was not just blowing smoke (pun intended), look for CP 4-6-4 2816 to tour through eastern Kansas in 2023 or 2024.
2816 is oil-fired with 75-inch drivers.
Here are some pictures from a prior excursion period:
https://railpictures.net/photo/633925/
https://railpictures.net/photo/653263/
https://railpictures.net/photo/653446/
If I recall correctly the enormous canteen is a converted tender off a Delaware & Hudson 4-6-6-4.
CP's tuscan and gray are true heritage units, and they wear the old paint scheme quite well.
I would like to see one done up in the old Delaware and Hudson scheme..
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