On April 26, 2024 Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 #2816 embarked on a monumental two and a half month trip - from Calgary to Mexico City and back - after Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merged to form CPKC. In order to celebrate the new 3-nation railroad, #2816 led the Final Spike Tour across the Canadian prairies, south through the central part of the United States, and finally into Mexico. The locomotive was restored to operation specifically for this trip - an unprecedented 8,000-mile adventure across the North American continent.
This program chronicles the first two weeks of the tour as "The Empress" ran from Calgary Alberta to Kansas City Missouri. On the first two days, #2816 traveled east across Alberta and into Saskatchewan. After a display day in Moose Jaw, the special turned southeast in order to cross into the US at Portal North Dakota. The locomotive then followed the former Soo Line route to the Twin Cities, with displays in Minot North Dakota and St Paul Minnesota. Finally, #2816 ran for two days over CKC's former Milwaukee Road mainline to Chicago, before turning back west for another two days down to Kansas City.
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