Let’s Discuss Canadian Pacific Empress 2816
Vital Statistics about The Empress Locomotive Number: 2816 Class: H1b Builder: Montreal Locomotive Works Date built: December, 1930 Last revenue run: May 26, 1960 Type: Hudson Wheel arrangement: 4–6–4 Tractive effort: 45,300 lb (20,548 kg) Driving wheel diameter: 75 in (190.5 cm) Total operating weight (including tender): 643,000 lb (291,665 kg) Extreme length (including tender): 91 ft 2 in (27.8 metres) Extreme height: 15 ft 3 in (4.6 metres) Original cost: $116,555 Converted from coal to oil: March, 1999
Originally retired from revenue service in the 60s and preserved in the United States, in 1998 she was purchased by the Canadian Pacific for a steam program. The restoration took 2 years and cost roughly $3.5 million dollars (adjusted for inflation, this translates to almost $6 million as of today).
She recently completed a tour of the recently Merged Canadian Pacific Kansas City Southern Railway’s network from Calgary, Alberta, all the way to Mexico City. At 10,000 miles round trip, it is most likely the longest steam locomotive excursion in the world.
Out of 65 4-6-4 Hudson’s built for the CP, 2816 is one of 5 preserved, and the only non-streamlined hudson at that.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 23, 2024 1:13 PM
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OP, are you Sheldon Cooper?
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 15, 2024 12:54 PM
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That’s what would make this thread gay, R2.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 15, 2024 12:55 PM
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OP, Could you leave, please? you and your trains are right in our eyelines!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 15, 2024 1:21 PM
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pointless bitching aside, that is one beautiful machine.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 15, 2024 1:25 PM
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Yeah Jack, this is Faye Dunaway... Look I've raced some of the stuff from the O'Neill interview but I'm not really interested in Terry O'Neill - he's a BIG, BIG LIAR and I'm really not interested in in him and you know all and dilly-dallying and carrying over Mommie Dearest...I don't even want to discuss it in my interview or on this Lloyd-Webber thing: those are NEGATIVES and I notice that you have nothing in about Marlon Brando, you have nothing in about Johnny Depp which I did two films with, I don't expect you to get get him for an interview, but you could put some footage in of the of the Kusturica movie which I was BRILLIANT in and it was not well sold in this country you can talk about the Marlon Brando film that I was wonderful in. All the POSITIVE things along that that period, the Marlon Brando film was going on at the same time that the Lloyd-Webber STUPIDITY was going on and you all have to put in the Lloyd-Webber STUPIDITY, you can't put in that I worked with the wonderful Marlon Brando and talk to the director of that movie FOR CHRISTSAKE! And I'm not gonna approve it and I'm really upset now because that uh for two nights now tried to thread through that STUPID interview with a with a man that I will not even waste my time discussing. And and you know who, suffice it to say, stopped working when he married me and pretended to be my manager for a very long time so LET'S NOT EVEN GO THERE! It's very upsetting to me! And then to put my uh our child in JEOPARDY the way he has. So I'm not interested in these NEGATIVE things that you all are putting in there with me in! I don't want Llloys-Webber in, I'd like you to cut him out, and I'd like you to really trim down everything to do with that Mommie Dearest, I'm not gonna talk about it, maybe one thing I'm gonna say about it and THAT'S ALL. It's just like uh you know an obsession, why can't you be obsessed about POSITIVE THINGS?! About Marlon Brando? About the Kusturica movie that was THE HIT OF ALL THE EUROPE AND CANNES? About uh, the film I did with Brando and talk to that, YOU KNOW?!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 15, 2024 6:56 PM
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OP, are you the "___ is/was/let's discuss" troll?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 16, 2024 4:49 AM
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OP likes trains, that's okay. Did you know there are abandoned locomotives in northern Maine? They've become a tourist attraction. They're from the old logging days in the late 19th century. None were left in The White Mountains of New Hampshire but the old railroad grades make for great hiking trails. Check out The Ethan Pond Trail if you're ever in the area.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 16, 2024 6:12 AM
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Francis Bourgeois posts on DL?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 16, 2024 6:26 AM
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Is it really that big of a problem if someone else starts a thread about something that’s not about celebrity gossip or politics? Genuine question.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 18, 2024 6:23 PM
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I think it's a case of priming the audience for the shift. OP's post kinds just copy/pasted it with no context.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 18, 2024 6:27 PM
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The shift from what people are used to seeing here, dear.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 18, 2024 8:03 PM
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There’s also a train at the bottom of a lake in Canada too. They even made a documentary about it.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 3, 2024 5:57 PM
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I remember meeting one of the people involved with restoring that engine. Supposedly there was a lot of drama over the cost of restoring that machine.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 23, 2024 12:19 AM
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Pffft.
Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 23, 2024 3:50 AM
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🎵 And they say I must be one of the wonders….
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 23, 2024 9:08 AM
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R17
Besides the fact that a train under water is extremely creepy, how did it come to be at the bottom of a lake?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 23, 2024 9:18 AM
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