What is the 2816 doing this year?

Excursion tickets2005 CPR steam train excursion tickets on sale nowOnce again, we are offering the general public the opportunity to purchase a limited number of tickets to ride our steam train with CPR Empress 2816 at the head end. Below is a list of excursion dates for the months of June and July 2005. All of these trips are in Alberta and British Columbia. More opportunities during the months of August and September are being planned for additional runs in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Details will be released shortly. All of the excursions below depart in the morning. The exact timetables have yet to be determined. Date From To Cost June 29, 2005 Calgary Lake Louise $300.00 +GST June 30, 2005 Lake Louise Golden $100.00 + GST June 30, 2005 Lake Louise Revelstoke Sold out July 1, 2005 Revelstoke Kamloops $300.00 + GST July 2, 2005 Kamloops Vancouver $300.00 + GST July 12, 2005 Vancouver Kamloops $300.00 + GST July 13, 2005 Kamloops Golden $300.00 + GST July 14, 2005 Golden Cranbrook Sold out July 14, 2005 Invermere Cranbrook $100.00 + GST July 15, 2005 Cranbrook Lethbridge $300.00 + GST July 16, 2005 Lethbridge Calgary $300.00 + GSTPlease note: these excursions are one way onlyPassengers will be responsible for their own transportation to and from departure and arrival points, as well as any hotel accommodations that they may choose to arrange at either end of the journeys.Snacks and light refreshments will be sold on board the train; passengers will be required to bring their own lunches.For more information, or to purchase tickets, please call Station 29 Store at 403-837-0133 or 403–319-7094. A Visa or MasterCard number is required to hold your reservation. Tickets are non-refundable.http://www8.cpr.ca/cms/English/General+Public/Steam+Train/Excursion+tickets.htm

Possible double headers with 6060 or the 3716 have been mentioned on this board as well. Then there's always rumors of it coming to STEA one of these days but with the traffic on the D&H now I don't see it happening.Joshua

I can tell you right now there is no way there will be a double header with 3716. 3716 is now permanently at the Kettle Valley Railway and is landlocked.

It would be great to see the CP. 2816 show up at Steamtown someday, where she came from. Heck! CP. sends everything else down this way in its locomotive arsenal via the Sunbury line!Ed K.

I did not know the Kettle was land locked, thank you for clearing that up. Perhaps it was some other engine I was thinking of. Anyone seen photos of 3716 in operation yet?Joshua

3716 official come back from the dead is today, May 22, 2005.