CALGARY, Alberta — CPKC has released a more detailed schedule of dates, display times, and locations for its Final Spike Steam Tour, the three-nation trip featuring CP 4-6-4 No. 2816 to mark the first year of the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern.
The trip begins April 24 in Calgary with a display at CPKC’s head office at 7550 Ogden Dale Road from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.; the U.S. portion concludes May 28 in Laredo, Texas, at CPKC’s Laredo Yard, 604 Serrano Road, with display from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Scheduled intermediate stops (all times local) include:
— April 28, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: CPKC parking lot, 3 Manitoba Street E., noon-4 p.m.
— April 30, Minot, N.D.: Main Street North railroad crossing, 4-7 p.m.
— May 3, St. Paul, Minn: Union Depot, 214 4th Street East, 3-8 p.m.
— May 8, Franklin Park, Ill.: Franklin Park, 9748 Franklin Ave., 3-8 p.m.
— May 10, Davenport, Iowa: Quinlan Court, 101 East River Drive, 2-5 p.m.
— May 18, Kansas City, Mo.: Union Station, Haverty Family Yards, 30 West Pershing Road, noon-5 p.m.
— May 24, Shreveport, La.: CPKC Shreveport Tower Office parking lot, 4540 N. Lakeshore Drive, 4-8 p.m.
The railroad has previously said a stop is also planned in Monterrey, Mexico, on May 31 before the tour concludes in Mexico City on June 4. Details on those stops are not currently available on the English or Spanish-language CPKC websites.
More information on the tour and No. 2816 is available on the tour web page.
I also want to thank CPKC for this tour. However, we still do not have information regarding travel times for the locomotive. For example, the engine will travel form Franklin Park to Davenport sometime between 8 PM on May 8 and 2 PM on May 10. Then the engine has over a week to get to Kansas City. This makes it difficult to arrange time off work to watch it operate.
Ingenuous is right. But I think you meant to say ingenious…
This is a treasure from an era that really wasn’t that long ago… Mark this date if this schedule is anywhere near you. I believe this is the first Canadian steam locomotive to run this route and we have an opportunity to view it in full steam action.
Thanks CPKC !!!! Excellent PR for an ingenuous Class 1 railroad that brings our continent together. We have one chance to build together, be productive and drop the corporate greed that seems to have consumed our nation”s intelligence. Our migrant workers deserve our thanks for doing the work no one else seems to care about doing. This productiveness keeps us all working together and we need to wake up. We can be civil as people and intelligently work through our differences. Let’s make our world a better, NOT bitter, planet,