A recent photo of her on display finds her in very good shape and well cared for while she sits out in the weather.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 10&nseq=59

Wow, she does look nice. Looks like you could throw a match in her and light off.

Agreed. The black and olive CNR steam era paint scheme is one of the most elegant in their history. The locomotive does look like she's ready to roll.
Thank God she's not a GG1, we'd have to cut her up!

Did only a few of those CN engines have the number along the running board and not on the cab? Just not used to seeing the number there. Any other railroads do that?


(I know some railroads had some peculiar quirks to them, just like the Long Island having the numbers mounted over the radiator shutters of some of thier Alcos, it made the numbers seem to be suspended in air the way they were standing out to allow the shutters to still operate)

Just have to get that headlight on her sorted out though.. tinfoil plugging the hole in the reflector????

CNR system locomotives with skirting along the running board had the numbers there (the bullet-nose 4-8-2s, the Hudsons, the 6400-series streamlined 4-8-4s). CPR semi-streamlined locomotives with the recessed headlight (Royal Hudsons, 2-10-4s, Jubilee 4-4-4s, some Pacifics and even some late 2-8-2s) had the number there. Other CPR Hudsons, the two 4-8-4s, and many Pacifics (including 2317 at Steamtown) had running board skirting and a number on the skirting, in a widened-out section. Santa Fe streamlined Hudson 3460 had the number there. Probably there are others I have missed. I think any locomotive with skirting along the running board would be a candidate for such a number position, but not all had it there.

The CNR had 20 Mountains, 5 Hudsons and 5 streamlined Northerns with the numbers on the running boards. The Hudsons were not built that way. They were modified later. Three of the Mountains, 2 of the Hudsons and 1 of the Northerns survive today.