I lucked out after loosing out in an auction last year for the engine.
I was contacted by the person who did purchase the engine. There was a mix up and the auction house sent me on of his purchases a CPR caboose by mistake. I contacted the auction house who gave me his phone number and I called him to arrange delivery of the caboose.
Well, the person has decided this engine is too old for his layout as he has decided that he will model the 1970’s and he wondered it I was still interested in obtaining one of these Jubilee 4-4-4 steamers.
I would like to have a complete CPR roster of their passenger engines so I took them up on their offer.
I am in no hurry to paint this engine as I would just as soon run my CPR Pacifics and Hudsons for my passenger engines. I have mixed feelinging on these streamlined engines. I was pleasantly surprised when I went to run this engine on my layout. It is supposed to have an open frame motor but it does not, iand it has cab detail which according to the Brass Book it is not supposed to.
It runs like a dream, great speed control and some type of momentum gearing, it almost coasts to a stop.
Someone must have replaced the old open frame motor. There’s a listing for an F-1a at Brasstrains.com (sold) and in one of the pictures you can clearly see the open frame motor through the back of the cab.
Congratulations Don, glad this engine found it’s righhful home. The motor upgrades and details sound great and now make this a beautiful “working” engine and not just a shelf piece…
Nice loco, got into the cab of a Jubilee in Moose Jaw as a child and rode behind one with a baggage car and one coach to Elbow, Saskatchewan on the Outlook line, talk about fast, probably the fastest steam locomotive in Canada, a real beauty.
Class F1a 2900 series Jubilees (75 inch drivers) powered the Moose Jaw-Regina locals in the 1940’s/1950’s. One schedule called for the 10.2 miles between Pasqua and Belle Plaine in 10 minutes, start to stop, an average speed of 61 mph.
I rode the local many times, but not in the cab .
Number 2928 is stored under cover at the Canadian Railway Museum (Exporail) in St. Constant, Quebec, unfortunatley not easily viewed amongst all the other locos.
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