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Royal Hudson CP 2860
Builder:	MLW
Model:	4-6-4 Hudson
Serial Number:	69292
Built:	6/1940
Built for:	Canadian Pacific Railroad
Road Number:	CP 2860
Class:	H1-e
Status:	Damaged in a derailment in 1956 (Vancouver)
Status:	Retired May 1959
Status:	Sat on the scrap line for five years
Status:	Sold to the Vancouver Railway Museum Association in 1964
Status:	Sold to Joe W. Hussey in 1970
Status:	Sold to British Columbia government in 1973
Road Number:	Renumbered BCOL 2860
Status:	Royal Hudson excursion service between North Vancouver and Squamish on 20 June 1974
Status:	Travelled North America in 1978 as a promotion for BC tourism
Status:	On permanent loan to the West Coast Railway Association (WCRA) and is housed at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park in Squamish
Status:	Has been seen on the CNR line from Squamish to North Vancouver since late April 2009

My CP 2860 Ticket 34232, Front, BC Rail North Vancouver Station, North Vancouver, BC, 9/14/1977, Scan by Carson Wiebe

My CP 2860 Ticket 34232, Rear, BC Rail North Vancouver Station, North Vancouver, BC, 9/14/1977, Scan by Carson Wiebe

ROYAL HUDSON DISCOVER BRITISH COLUMBIA TOUR 1978

Scan of the Schedule - Collection of Carson Wiebe

I was lucky enough to ride in the cab of CP 2860 from Toronto to Woodstock on April 13th and 14th.

ROYAL HUDSON DISCOVER BRITISH COLUMBIA TOUR 1978
Hour-by-Hour Schedule
Display HOURS 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (subject to change)
March 30	Leave	Vancouver	1400	Drake St. Yards
		Port Coquitlam	1435
		Haney	1452
		Mission	1515
		Agassiz	1555
		Yale	1645
		North Bend	1800-1900
		Ashcroft	2120
March 31		Kamloops	2300-0001

		Revelstoke	0400-0500
		Field	1015 (PT)-1215 (MT)
		Lake Louise	1315
		Banff	1400
		Calgary	1630-1730
		Medicine Hat	2100-2200
		Swift Current	0115 (MT)-0315 (CT)
April 1
		Moose Jaw	0600-0700
		Broadview	1015-1115
		Brandon	1415-1515
		Winnipeg	1830-2000
April 2		Kenora	2330-0030
		Ignace	0410-0510
		Thunder Bay	0850-0950
		Current River	1010-1110 (ET)

		Nipigon	1240
		Schreiber	1410-1510

		Terrace Bay	1530
		Marathon	1640
		White River	1840-1940
April 3		Chapleau	2310-0010
		Cartier	0340-0440
		Sudbury	0530
		North Bay	0710-0810
		Mattawa	0925
		Chalk River	1110-1210
		Pembroke	1250
		Renfrew	1350
		Carleton Place	1450
April 3	Arrive	Ottawa	1600	Gare d'Ottawa Station
April 5	Leave	Ottawa	2100
April 6	Arrive	Montreal	0030	Gare Park Avenue Station
April 7	Leave	Montreal	2100
April 7	Arrive	Trois Rivieres	2300	La gare du Canadien Pacifique
April 8	Leave	Trois Rivieres	2100
April 8	Arrive	Quebec City	2255	La gare du Canadien Pacifique
April 10	Leave	Quebec City	2100
April 11	Arrive	St. Luc	0100-0130
		Vaudreuil	0600
		Smiths Falls	0900-1000
		Perth	1020
		Belleville	1215
		Trenton	1230
		Cobourg	1320
		Port Hope	1330
		Oshawa	1415
April 11	Arrive	Toronto	1530	Canadian National Exhibition
April 13	Leave	Toronto	2100
April 14	Arrive	London	0300	Old CPR Station
April 15	Leave	London	2100
April 16	Arrive	Windsor	0300	CPR Yards
April 18	Leave	Windsor	0800
April 18	Arrive	Detroit, Mich.	1100
		Plymouth	1145
		Lansing	1300
	Arrive	Grand Rapids	1500-1600
		Holland	1645
		Benton Harbor	1830
		Michigan City	1945
	Arrive	Chicago, Ill.	2200
		Shiller Park Yard	2330
April 20	Leave	Chicago	2100
April 21	Arrive	Waukesha	0010	Old Soo Line Station
April 22	Leave	Waukesha	2100
		Fond du Lac	2320-2350
April 23		Stevens Point	0320-0420
		Chippewa Falls	0730-0830
		Camden Place, Minn.	1230
April 23	Arrive	Minneapolis, Minn.	1300
		Minnehaha Park	1400
April 25	Leave	Minnehaha Park	2100
April 26	Leave	Humboldt Yard	0001
		Glenwood	0330
		Thief River Falls	1030-1130
		Noyes, Minn.	1400
		Emerson	1600
April 26	Arrive	Winnipeg	2000	CPR Station
April 28	Leave	Winnipeg	2100
April 29		Brandon	2345-0005
		Broadview	0305-0340
April 29	Arrive	Regina	0605	CPR Station
April 30	Leave	Regina	2100
May 1	Arrive	Saskatoon	0430	Old CPR Station
May 2	Leave	Saskatoon	2100
May 3		Wilkie	2359-0030
		Hardisty	0400 (CT) - 0330 (MT)
		Wetaskiwin	0730-0800
May 3	Arrive	Edmonton	0900	CPR Station (South Edmonton)
May 4	Leave	Edmonton	2100
		Red Deer	2300-2330
May 5	Arrive	Calgary	0115	CPR Station
May 7	Leave	Calgary	0600
		Field	0940 (MT) - 0900 (PT)
		Golden	1015
		Revelstoke	1330-1430
		Sicamous	1540
		Salmon Arm	1620
		Notch Hill	1650
		Chase	1720
May 7	Arrive	Kamloops	1830
May 8	Leave	Kamloops	0700
		Ashcroft	0825
		Spences Bridge	0910
		Lytton	0955
		North Bend	1100-1130
		Yale	1245
		Agassiz	1335
		Mission	1415
		Haney	1435
		Port Coquitlam	1455
		Vancouver	1530

Four Royal Hudsons have been preserved (Hudson No. 2816 is not streamlined and thus is not "Royal" but is often mistakenly referred as a Royal Hudson, some call her "Royal" due to her name, Empress).

2839 Operated in the 1970s and 1980s. Now at the Nethercutt Collection and Museum, Sylmar, California. Good cosmetic shape, displayed outside.

2850 The locomotive that hauled the Royal Train and known as "The" Royal Hudson, served a long career until 1960 when she was retired and is now preserved at the Canadian Railway Museum at Delson/Saint-Constant, Quebec. Very good cosmetic and mechanical shape, displayed indoors.

2858 Preserved at the National Museum of Science and Technology at Ottawa. Good cosmetic shape, displayed inside.

2860 Preserved at the West Coast Railway Association at Squamish, BC. First CPR Hudson built as a Royal Hudson, one of the last five built. Operated excursions 1974-1999 and 2006-2010. Operable, displayed inside.

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