Putting on one heck of a show out of Bensenville Yard, CP 2816 prepares to obliterate Tower B17 on its way to Nahant Yard in Davenport, IA.

CP 2816 "Empress" rolls through the edge of BNSF Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN.

CP 2816 "Empress" departs the CPKC Humboldt Yard in Minneapolis, MN.

After turning its train at Tower A-5, CPR #2816 heads west through Franklin Park, IL before laying over in Bensenville Yard for the night.

2816 crossing a Soo lettered bridge just east of Barrett on the home stretch to Glenwood at the end of a marathon run of about 320 miles.

2816 stretches her legs east of Voltaire.

2816 rounds the curve at Sawyer, passing one of the new searchlights that populates this line.

Just after 8am on Sunday over a decade ago, the conductor of 450 chows down on some breakfast as the Ex. Guilford unit CP 4650 in a rare move takes a short 450 long hood forward north through Coho... (more)

CP 7014 leads NS 245 through Woodstock, AL

On a beautiful morning in the Twin Cities, CP 2816 makes its departure out of Pigs Eye Yard with a nice plume of smoke to boot. In charge of the Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour, the "Empre... (more)

CP 2816 approaches Tower B17 on the final stretch to Bensenville Yard just outside of Chicago on the CPKC Final Spike Steam Tour. Too bad the KCS is hardly represented on this train other than a f... (more)

Day 2 of the Final Spike Tour and we are at the TransCanada Highway between Hatton & Maple Creek.

While all eyes were on a certain steam locomotive, I couldn't help but notice these veterans nearby. There is still a fairly remarkable fleet of them in service today, thankfully, but most are in... (more)

A CPKC train with five motors "the conventional way" is not something to ignore, but I very quicky found out the "conventional way" of two motors, one CP on KCS, was all-too-co... (more)

2816 pulls out of it's fourth maintenance stop of the day, on top of meeting six trains, on the marathon run of about 320 miles from Minot, ND to Glenwood, MN. Here the Hudson says goodbye to Nor... (more)