CALGARY — Canadian Pacific No. 2816 has now been run for about 700 miles since returning to operation, CPKC’s Jonathan J. Morris, manager, operating practices-steam, says in a post on the locomotive’s Facebook page, and is “running like the wind.”
The locomotive was returned to steam June 18 and made its first short run June 29, beginning preparations for the planned trip next year to celebrate the first anniversary of the CPKC merger [see “CP 4-6-4 No. 2816 to embark on Canada-U.S.-Mexico tour …” Trains News Wire, July 18, 2023].
The 1930 product of the Montreal Locomotive Works has traveled as far afield as Lethbridge, Alberta, about 115 miles south of Calgary, and has operated up to 250 miles in a day, that occurring on Monday, Aug. 7. Doyle McCormack and Bill Stetler, who rebuilt the locomotive’s boiler and were otherwise involved in its original restoration completed in 2001, were on hand for the recent test runs, Morris said
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