The latest information fills the planes between viewing events
CALGARY – CPKC has filled in several blanks on the upcoming Ultimate Spike Steam Tour, releasing a schedule with travel days and intermediate stops for the Canadian and American portions of the three-nation tour of 4-6-4 No. 2816, shown. above
Locations and times for the “Event” days in the calendar were released last month[see[see[vede[see“CPKC Announces Times, Venues for Steam Tour…”, The trains News Wire, March 27, 2024.
CPKC CEO Keith Creel had promised to send the 1930 product of the Montreal Locomotive Works, known as “the Empress,” on a tour of Canada, the United States and Mexico if the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger was approved. Initially planned last year, the event became a one-year celebration of the merger as the overhaul and subsequent theft of the locomotive took place 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 site.
