I have been hunting this engine for a while now. I do not understand why CPR only had two of these 4-8-2’s on their roster. This version of the Mountain is not that large of an engine.
Now to gather the courage to get it ready for a paint job. Still studying photographs to figure out which of the CPR liveries to follow, While I really like the grey and maroon with black I have only seen these engines in black.
Don7:
Nice engine!
Are you planning on painting it yourself? If so, since you are good with a camera, how about taking some pics along the way?
I am mostly into diesel but I do have a few steamers that I want to paint. It would be interesting to watch the process.
Dave
I have been practicing on some old mantua and roundhouse metal engines.
I bought a sandblaster for removing old paint and an airbrush for painting.
Frankly painting is not that hard, having said that you must go slow, prepare the engines and when painting go slowly, thin coats and wait a few hours between coats…
I think one of the hardest parts is to find the proper mix between paint and thinner, not to thin as you want to eliminate any running paint.
I have taken to baking the engines a day or two after final painting with a gloss or semigloss final coat.
One of the sought after painters at the local railroad club uses aerosol cans and brushes, no airbrush for him. Thin coats of paint, wait, then another coat,
Don, that’s a real beauty. Where on the system was it mainly used, and was it a dual-service engine? I’ve always found it odd that CPR largely stayed away from 4-8-2 and 4-8-4 types, while CNR embraced them rather wholeheartedly.
Tom
I read somewhere that CPR 2901 was CPR’s fastest engine. It was clocked at 112 mph.
Bear in mind that these two engines were not that large, they only measured 92’ coupler to coupler
CPR kept these two engines in passenger service back east, they served the main line passenger service between Toronto and Ottawa and points east. They were Pool Trains.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Trenton/2901.htm
Funny, both the 4-8-2’s and the two 4-8-4’s were both kept for CPR’s Eastern mainline passenger service. These engines never ventured West.
Nice engine, both scrapped in 1944-5 numbers were 2900 and 2901 you have 2900. have never seen a photo of 2901. CPR’s 4-4-4 Jubilee is quoted from Omar Lavallee’s book, the 3001-3004 quotes “their schedules seldom required speeds in excess of 60mph, there are unnoficial accounts of th F-2 class engines travelling at almost twice that speed” Good luck on the painting.
If you want to see 2901 open the link
Wouldn’t you know it. A dealer I have had some business with just sent me an e-mail offering me what he describes as one of the rarest CPR engines around. One of a run of a limited run.
The engine, it is another PFM Van Hobbies 4-8-2 and I can have it for $1,300.
I can not believe it, I have looked for this engine for a couple of years now and now there are two available within a short time periodl
Would be nice to get another one, but not at that price.
I am told that is a firm price and no other offers are being taken.