Comments on: …2816…. … how many ways: class/model, build year, manufacturers, original road build, original road number…. 2004 road number H 1 b / GP38-2 / FP9-A / F9B 1930 – 1986 – 1958 – 1955 MLW – GMD – GMD – GMD CPR – CP Rail – CNR – CNR 2816 – 3084 – 6541 – 6612 2816 – 3084 – 1401 – 1900 …all this in year 2004….forty four years after CPR dropped all fires on the (operating) CPR steam fleet… …..what was the likelihood of an original CPR steam to operate on CPR track, by a CPR Crew, endorsed by CPR Management, on a CPR revenue run…. …..what is the likelihood anyone ever see – hear – photograph – witness – such a CPR operational sight ever again….. …..by 2011 a guy named Bill Ackman ( Pershing Square Capital Management ) had acquired over 12% of the CPR publicly traded voting shares … …and by 2012 Ackman had arranged for a guy named Harrison Hunter ( of ICR and CNR fame) to be the new Chief Executive….. ….and rest is history …for better or worse… courtesy Ackman & HH At CPR Belleville Subdivision mile 169, Darlington Ontario, May 2004 Kodacolour negative by S.Danko more CPR H class ( Hudson type ) H 1 b at Tapscott H 1 e at Cherry Street http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32685#comment-25844 Stephen C. Host Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:40:19 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/F1000021-4-1280x718.jpg#comment-25844 While you may be right - the best way to go about this is to write a polite letter to CPR PR and talk about 2816's ambassadorship of history and how it touched the public in it's prior visits, and how it benefits the CPR Convince them to give it another tour of duty. That's how I'd go about it. While you may be right – the best way to go about this is to write a polite letter to CPR PR and talk about 2816′s ambassadorship of history and how it touched the public in it’s prior visits, and how it benefits the CPR

Convince them to give it another tour of duty.

That’s how I’d go about it.

]]> By: PRR5406 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32685#comment-25840 PRR5406 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 01:07:04 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/F1000021-4-1280x718.jpg#comment-25840 Like CPR is strapped for cash? Yeah, I don't think so; eh? Like CPR is strapped for cash? Yeah, I don’t think so; eh?

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32685#comment-25830 Stephen C. Host Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:57:53 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/F1000021-4-1280x718.jpg#comment-25830 Do you want to pay for it PRR? :) It costs $$ buddy. Do you want to pay for it PRR? :)

It costs $$ buddy.

]]> By: PRR5406 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=32685#comment-25825 PRR5406 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:51:08 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/F1000021-4-1280x718.jpg#comment-25825 CPR, bring her back into regular service - NOW! Are you listening? Hello? CPR, bring her back into regular service – NOW! Are you listening? Hello?

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