Latest information fills in plans between display events
CALGARY — CPKC has filled in many of the blanks on the upcoming Last Spike Steam Tour, releasing a schedule with travel days and intermediate stops for the Canadian and U.S. portions of the three-nation tour of 4-6-4 No. 2816, shown above.
Locations and times for the “Event” days on the schedule were released last month [see “CPKC announces times, locations for Steam Tour …,” Trains News Wire, March 27, 2024.
CPKC CEO Keith Creel had vowed to send the 1930 product of the Montreal Locomotive Works, known as the “Empress,” on a tour of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico if the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger was approved. Initially expected last year, the event became a one-year celebration of the merger as overhaul and subsequent break-in of the locomotive was held last spring and summer. “We are excited to share this extraordinary experience with communities across our network as we mark the one-year anniversary of our CPKC journey,” Creel said in January when the schedule was first announced.
More information is available at the CPKC website.
