I can't see why this would have happened unless some bright bulb at CP didn't win the day with, "People need something to cheer them up this season. Many are going into lockdown again.." Although, who would come out to see it if people are being hard-pressed to stay home and to avoid others in public? Dunno....
I did see it was virtual. Big bloody deal. Virtual ain't real.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they're steaming it up, at least it's something, but if they want to really impress me, and I imagine quite a few other people, get it back on the main line. If not this year than next year.
Flintlock76If enough people start asking "Why isn't it pulling the Christmas Train to begin with?" maybe, just maybe, it might lead to better things.
And they could have easily used CGI to produce it, instead of actually steaming the locomotive. Read between the lines. Someone was thinking.
Steam around the yard is better than no steam at all. Who knows? If enough people start asking "Why isn't it pulling the Christmas Train to begin with?" maybe, just maybe, it might lead to better things.
The 'Empress' is back in steam, if only temporarily:
https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2020/11/canadian-pacific-no-2816-to-steam-again-for-holiday-train-video
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
SD70Dude PakunaMatata 6711 is still owned by CP and listed in the Trackside guide. It's house in the heritage fleet repair shop and is used by the heritage department, mainly for car shunting. What I'd like to know is what it was doing to 2816. SD70Dude, where was that little goat pushing that majestic steamer? I can't seem to locate that area on Google maps - maybe the area's been relandscaped since the overhead photos were taken. The current google maps shot was taken on August 31, 2017. Well before that area was landscaped. If you have downloaded the full Google Earth program you can view every shot of an area they have ever taken, by using the historical imagery feature (clock icon). 2816's exact location in the photo is here, I used the warehouse in the background as a reference: 50.996537, -113.999453
PakunaMatata 6711 is still owned by CP and listed in the Trackside guide. It's house in the heritage fleet repair shop and is used by the heritage department, mainly for car shunting. What I'd like to know is what it was doing to 2816. SD70Dude, where was that little goat pushing that majestic steamer? I can't seem to locate that area on Google maps - maybe the area's been relandscaped since the overhead photos were taken.
6711 is still owned by CP and listed in the Trackside guide. It's house in the heritage fleet repair shop and is used by the heritage department, mainly for car shunting.
What I'd like to know is what it was doing to 2816.
SD70Dude, where was that little goat pushing that majestic steamer? I can't seem to locate that area on Google maps - maybe the area's been relandscaped since the overhead photos were taken.
The current google maps shot was taken on August 31, 2017. Well before that area was landscaped.
If you have downloaded the full Google Earth program you can view every shot of an area they have ever taken, by using the historical imagery feature (clock icon).
2816's exact location in the photo is here, I used the warehouse in the background as a reference:
50.996537, -113.999453
Huh. Wonder why they were moving her to the maintenance shed?
Overmod PakunaMatata SD70Dude, where was that little goat pushing that majestic steamer? Some of this question was addressed over on RyPN ... with a little controversy. Best, probably, to say they knew what they were doing with it.
PakunaMatata SD70Dude, where was that little goat pushing that majestic steamer?
Some of this question was addressed over on RyPN ... with a little controversy. Best, probably, to say they knew what they were doing with it.
RYPN thread:
http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34579&start=30
The controversy seems to have been about the future of 2860, not 2816.
That story is truly deserving of its own thread, if and when stuff starts to be publicly announced.
PakunaMatataSD70Dude, where was that little goat pushing that majestic steamer?
I've gotten a 1200 and multiple 1300s and 1400s on the BNSF this summer. They used to be confined to coal trains, but I've mostly found them on manifests this year.
One of the times I did get them on a coal train, a 1400 led a 1300, which isn't supposed to happen because they're not PTC equipped.
The 1500's are still running around on CN and we had some 1400's too, but I haven't seen one of them for a while.
They pull as well as any other ES44AC and their cabs are better laid out than CN's units, with the microwave down in the nose and fully reclining seats. And no inward-facing cameras. I suspect they were built to Ferromex or BNSF specs, as they only had fridges (no microwave or hot plate) when CN started leasing them, and sometimes you have to use the "FXE" initials when setting up Distributed Power with them.
They also have pass-through ECP cables.
Because of the seats they are well liked by crews, and are my favourite units to run.
NDGA Citirail Diesel went by on a drag the other day, too far away to get the number.
I have one in a coal-train consist that reliably shuttles through here. It is helpfully #1211, from the 2012 series that I'd heard nobody was currently leasing. Go figure!
AgentKid Somebodys monkeying around, the 6711 was a SW9, which became the Ogden Shop switcher, and is listed as retired. The newest picture on CPRDieselRoster.com is from 2015. It seems to have worked in Edmonton back in the day. Bruce
Somebodys monkeying around, the 6711 was a SW9, which became the Ogden Shop switcher, and is listed as retired. The newest picture on CPRDieselRoster.com is from 2015. It seems to have worked in Edmonton back in the day.
Bruce
I was able to identify the exact location of the photo at Ogden on Google Earth, using the warehouse in the background as a reference, and using their historical imagery feature I can also date certain features in the photo.
The foreground of the photo (with the little trees) was landscaped between August and October 2018, but the grass strip between the two paved roadways does not appear in the 2018 shots.
Therefore, the photo was taken during late spring or summer 2019.
2816's exact location in the photo is here: 50.996537, -113.999453
The current Google Maps shot (with the 3 F-units sitting outside the nearby shop building) was taken on August 31, 2017.
NDGMust be a record for the Shortest-lived steam locomotives?
I'd propose the Western Maryland's amazing M-2 Potomacs as vying for that honor, at least for engines that had no perceived or operational defect. Ordered and delivered after WM observed the Reading T-1s in action, in 1947, but all out of service by May 1954. (And not scrapped until their equipment trusts hit 10 years ... but every one went then.)
Bet not one in a hundred railfans knows about them. I wouldn't if not for the extensive footnotes in Riding The Locomotive Cabs.
The A-2's were Alco's last steam locomotives, so much so that Lima built the tenders. P&LE management did not want the A-2's but the parent road forced them on P&LE.
If I remember correctly there are multiple D&H 4-6-6-4 tenders in preservation, although I don't know if as many as L&N 'Big Emma' tenders. I'm sure someone who reads this will have exact numbers and perhaps an extended history.
(I'd happily contribute to an effort to build a replica Big Emma using one of the latter. That was perhaps the best of the Berkshires: a full 4-8-4 designed slightly shorter to fit 'as much locomotive as possible' onto available turntables.)
I'd happily contribute to an effort to build a replica Big Emma using one of the latter. That was perhaps the best of the Berkshires: a full 4-8-4 designed slightly shorter to fit available turntables.
If my memory serves me correctly, I think it is a conversion from a former articulated locomotive’s tender, perhaps even from a D&H 4-6-6-4. But I must admit I am a little foggy on that.
Where did CP come up with the design for the auxiliary tender? It's absolutely hideous (and this is coming from a diesel fan).
Well, here is one from days gone by...
https://railpictures.net/photo/653315/
Ah ha .. duped?
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
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Just like my home care nurses! Taking me out to stretch the old legs and get some air. Looking good!
Time for another bump. 2816 was spotted out and about Ogden recently, being towed by a diesel switcher:
That depends. CP is self-insured. Technically, 2816 wouldn't be allowed to operate at all in Canada, thanks to the way her tubes were installed in Oregon, if it were a museum locomotive. However, because no third party is insuring the locomotive, she is granted exemption.
Or so I am told.
That's true. Here in the US there are instances of steam-powered equipment such as locomotives, stationary steam engines, steam tractors, and portable steam engines (they're like the steam tractors but not self-propelled) operating under state inspection only.
Where the "split" is between state and Federal regs and what does or doesn't apply when and where I don't know. Possibly one of our "Forumites" can tell us.
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