Comments on: …perfect poise… …rods down… This youngster is a June 1944 build by the CPR Angus Shops class G5a #1201 …successful steam ..( …recently is a rare event…)… … the 1970′s / early 80′s summer Wakefield steam trips – I believe a collaboration between the Bytown rail group and the Museum of Technology – very well done – … why the regularly schedule summer excursions ceased? Perhaps a combination of: track/roadbed damage ( spring flooding) and or federal funding ending and or, 1201 boiler permit expiry, and or ? …any way you view the present situation: shame on YOUR Federal Government ( and those Senior Bureaucrats ) / Museum that 1201 languishes at the Museum’s back shed: now infamously renamed the ‘ conservation centre ‘ !! This is bureaucratic language for ‘ we can’t be bothered with a live operating STEAM museum ‘ …shame shame … ( instead those bureacrats spend mega bucks (YOUR $ ) on a VIRTUAL museum ! ) shame again ! at Wakefield , August 1980 Kodak Kodachrome, transported by a Nikkormat EL, by S.Danko more summer steam cruising astounding performance surprise location high balling road switcher Great 1979 Escape Sunnyside sdfourty

By: robin lowrie

robin lowrie — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:38:04 +0000

What great evidence of great design………CP brushed off some old G2 Pacific plans and built these as G5 Pacifics!

By: mberry

mberry — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 23:04:41 +0000

Nice, a shame trains will never run there again.

By: dhaisell

dhaisell — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 22:34:10 +0000

The virtual museum costs virtually nothing to keep online. Live steam unfortunately is a rather expensive affair – maintenance, insurance, not to mention where they’re going to run it. Is the track to Wakefield still there?

By: harricottbay

harricottbay — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:19:04 +0000

I love this engine Steve! I had hoped to experience it but by the time I rode the HCW train, 1201 was no longer operating on it. Hopefully it will go back in service someday soon.- Ken