Chasing Steam

Spent Tuesday chasing trains. 2816 is the Hudson 4-6-4 steam locomotive owned by CP Rail. It had run out of Montreal in the early 50's, ended up at Steamtown in Pennsylvania and when Steamtown received U.S. federal funds, they wanted to reduce their foreign collection and CP was ready to buy it back. Some refer to it as Rob Ritchie's 1:1 scale toy train. Mr. Ritchie, retiring CEO of CP Rail has been a great supporter of first the Royal Canadian Train - vintage Tuscan Canadian Pacific coaches running out of Calgary and pulled by two FP7 locomotives in the tuscan and grey. Here's just a sample to whet your appetite, see my gallery of colour train pictures for the other images.