Great video! Some of my personal favorites from the land up north would definitely be the Jubilees, since relatively small steam engines tend to be overlooked in railroading history in favor of larger, main line engines. The Selkirks are also underrated IMO.
The U-4 streamlining was the result of National Research Council wind tunnel testing to prevent smoke from entering the cab or settling along the train rather than the usual reasons given for streamlining. The standard CN designed whistle was a five chime whistle, designed by my father when he was in the mechanical engineering office, and produced bu McAvity Foundries in St. john, New Brunswick.
CP's F class 4-4-4 Jubilees are criminally underrated, they're just essentially 4-6-4 Royal Hudson but compressed into a 4 wheel driver locomotive and they tend to be obscure.
I can give a little bit of context as to why CP 2839 is here in SoCal. After her last operational gig being the grand opening of the Blue Mountain and Reading the locomotive was set off to the side and eventually sold off. After a period of switching hands, 2839 soon became in danger of being scrapped during the 90's before J.B. Nethercutt purchased the locomotive and had her shipped via flatcar to Sylmar, California. There she would debut with the opening of the Nethercutt museum in 2004 and from then on she is taken well care of by the museum staff whom I spoke to back in 2020. As of 2024, the museum installed a roof over the entire locomotive. Her place of residence may seem strange to some, but apart from being saved from scrapping it's also just cool to have such an iconic class of streamlined locomotive essentially in my backyard to visit.
Wow! The CN 6043 in the B & W intro is on display in Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park. I pass it regularly and have memories of its being moved from a siding less than a block from my home, down a major thoroughfare, across an army base and up a residential street in an upscale neighbourhood! Never did see it in action so seeing it here was a real treat! Thank you very much sir.
Im surprised you didnt do the u1fs, dispite being semi streamlined i still personally would count them. I wish the CNR had more streamlined locomotives, imagine how the k5a would look like with a cn styled torpedo streamlining
Multiple steamliners were made for Canada, CNR and CPR had a couple of iconic streamliners, CPR K1A was based on the CN confederation classes which were a series of 4-8-4s, Confederation series was made In 1927, 1 year later the K1As would be made In 1928, then with the H1As which were built in 1929, then the H1Bs built in 1930s, Something rather Interesting from 6060, Is that it’s 4-8-2s original designs were originally going to be a 4-8-4, but this was a time period In 1944 where metal were fragile during the war, so they had to downgrade it to a 4-8-2, Also they had the Royal Hudson’s which were made In 1937, Same year the UP FEF classes were made, Good part too Is that unlike the US where there steam program closed In 1952, The Canadian steam program didn’t close down until the 1960s, All of these built by the Montreal Locomotive Works, (MLW.)
A model railroad club in my area I am part of offered to paint 5931 because it's in bad cosmetic shape, but for some reason, the locomotive's owners turned them down.
@@TheWinnipegRailfan It looks like a million birds relieved themselves on it. The kicker is the fact they just restored 2 passenger cars and they maintain 2 steam locomotives. The park is really popular and they make a lot of money. It's probably the stupidest decision they've ever made.
Fun fact cp did had northerns and some were streamlined but how ever they are not really well known unlike cn’s but there is a surviving class but they are not streamlined there are numbers 3100 is in the science and technology museum and there is another named 3101 but I don’t know where is located
I hate to break it to you, but saying that something needs to be done about the steam locomotive man that’s time money and work unless you want to go personally go give your own time and money to go do those things they just don’t have the time to get around to those things
That’s owned by a completely different company , I don’t necessarily agree with the condition of some of the locomotives up there in Scranton myself but it is what it is. We can just be happy that they’re still here.
