Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour The Empress CPR #2816 Heavener, OK to Shreveport, LA 4K #empress
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Published 2024-05-26
May 22nd, 2024, and the #canadianpacific Canadian Pacific Empress #2816 is running from Heavener, Oklahoma to Shreveport, LA.. The #Epress is a Hudson 4-6-4 has been totally restored and is a beauty to behold! The Empress is in the process of touring from Canada to Mexico City on The Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour. On this leg it is running beside Hwy 59 from Heavener to Shreveport, LA. where it will be on display Friday May 24th, 2024 from 4until 8 pm. Take the time to go and see this #steamtrain it is worth your time!
Chapters: #steam #railway #rail
00:00 Heavener, Oklahoma
01:25 Departure Heavener
07:20 HWY 59 Pacing
07:57 Rich Mountain Crossing
09:39 Mena Station
10:45 Northbound Freight
20:15 Hatton & Polk Rd
24:26 Ashdown Pacing after Lubrication Stop
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
Inspection and lubrication 70-90 miles (20-30 min)
Our plan was to get as much video as possible. The Empress likes to run at 40 to 55 mph so it is a challenge to get a lot of opportunities.
Enjoy the live steam action, pacing shots, runbys and a small piece of history. Thanks to the CPKC RR for supporting the operation of steam engines, and allowing future generations to enjoy these fine locomotives.
Neil
All Comments (7)
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Nice footage!
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Nice shots. i see myself at 34:05 with the Black Escape.
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Nice video!
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I’m from heavener but wasn’t there to see 2816
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Majestic machine! But this is actually way bigger news than people realize. Mexicans are going out by the thousands to wave because not only is this an amazing piece of history but to Mexico this marks a new beginning. The trains are coming back to Mexico. Canada, US and Mexico are now fully connected by rails and Mexico is investing heavily on reviving its once great rail network. They are also competing with Panama by building its own rail “canal” at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Tren Maya in the Yucatán peninsula. Mexico has plans to connect the Maya Train to Belize and Guatemala. Americans and Canadians should be happy about this because Mexico is quickly becoming industrialized and bringing back all the manufacturing jobs from Asia. This will not only benefit Mexico but all of North America and Mexico doesn’t want to leave Central America behind. Helping Central America will be the only viable way to reduce mass migration. Mexico has a great plan but America is way too proud to admit it’s right. American politicians keep pushing the anti Mexico/invade Mexico agenda because they can’t stand the thought of Mexico becoming a Leftist, Humanitarian country that renationalized the petroleum and electric industries as well as nationalizing lithium. Current Mexican President AMLO has gained so much respect for Mexico around the world in the last 6 years and has started a movement called the 4th Transformation of Mexico. Now Claudia Sheinbaum, the new president elect of Mexico, will continue with what’s is referred to as the 2nd level of the 4th Transformation. Remember that American politicians know that there always needs to be an enemy and they sadly keep making it Mexico and its people. Mexico has always been a humanitarian country that remains neutral helps anyone that needs it (to a point of even helping others before its own people) and always asks for peace among nations. America is just too greedy and proud to allow Mexico to solve its issues. They create the problem and try to force their own solution on you, and that solution hardly ever helps your country.
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Great work. If there is a God in Heaven they will not repaint those beautiful F Units in that crappy CPKC paint scheme. Ditto for the gorgeous KCS F units.
