Canadian Pacific 1293 is a class "G5d"

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" Pacific" type

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built in June 1948 by the

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for the

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. Built for passenger service, 1293 served an eight-year career until being replaced by diesel locomotives where it was then retired in 1959. Purchased in 1964 by F. Nelson Blount for use at his Steamtown site in

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, 1293 was easily restored to operation for hauling fan trips for the general public. 1293 was later sold to the Ohio Central Railroad in 1996 for tourist train service. Today, the locomotive is out on display at the

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History

Revenue service

It was built in June 1948 by

. The locomotive was used by the CPR to work passenger and freight trains across branch lines and secondary lines. It was retired in 1959 after only eight years of service when diesel power made it obsolete. This was one of three type

, class G5 light weight "Pacific" locomotives that were operational at the time that

Steamtown, U.S.A. Steamtown, U.S.A., was a steam locomotive museum that ran steam excursions out of North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls, Vermont, from the 1960s to 1983. The museum was founded by millionaire seafood industrialist F. Nelson Blount. T ...

was in Bellows Falls. The other two G-5s of Steamtown were Nos

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and

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. The ''Steamtown Special History Study'' gave no details of the operational career of 1293, but said that Blount purchased it under the name of

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in January 1964.

Steamtown

The Steamtown Foundation purchased the locomotive from Green Mountain Railroad in 1973 and rebuilt it in 1976. Making its debut as an excursion train in June of that year and sporting a green and black color scheme, 1293 served the state of Vermont as its "

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Train", logging . Leased by the state of Vermont for excursions that were scheduled for the entire year, the engine was dubbed "The Spirit of

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". In 1980, the locomotive was renumbered "1881", painted black with silver stripes, and leased to a

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company for use in the filming of the horror movie ''

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'' (1980), starring Jamie Lee Curtis. In 1980, the locomotive was repainted with a color scheme used by Canadian Pacific in the 1930s. The black, gold and Tuscan red paint job was popular with railroad enthusiasts and photographers. The number 1293 was also restored to the engine. In February 1982, the headlights, handrails and cab roof of 1293 were damaged when the roof of a Steamtown storage building gave way to heavy snow.

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was also damaged in the roof collapse. After some repairs were made to the locomotive, it operated multiple excursion trains throughout the 1983 season alongside No. 1246 and No. 2317 to bid farewell to Steamtown's former home of Bellows Falls, before the entire collection would be moved to Scranton,

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the following year. Although the ''Steamtown Special History Study'' reasoned that, since this type of locomotive had historically operated in

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, perhaps as far south as Boston, it qualified to be part of the federal government's collection, the Canadian native sat unused for 12 years following the move to Scranton.

Ohio Central Railroad

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purchased it in 1996 and it underwent a 13-month restoration. On September 18, 1997, the locomotive was restored to operating condition and found itself on a new lease on life by pulling excursion trains out of Sugarcreek,

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alongside other locomotives, including Canadian National

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No. 1551 (which is also a former relic of Steamtown, USA), Buffalo Creek and Gauley

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No. 13,

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No. 6325, and Lake Superior and Ishpeming 2-8-0 No. 33. The year 2004 saw a huge event in Ohio Central's steam operations when "Train festival 2004" took place from July 30 to August 1, 2004, in Dennison, Ohio. It was a major event featuring all of the OC's steam locomotives, some historic diesel locomotives as well as rolling stock, and many more rail-related activities, and No. 1293 took part in the event. No. 1293 was loaned to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad to operate between

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and Akron in the late 2000s and 2012.

Disposition

Steam locomotive at the Age of Steam Roundhouse April 2022 3

Ohio Central Railroad had been purchased by Gennessee and Wyoming, but owner Jerry Joe Jacobson still maintained a small collection of vintage equipment, including No. 1293 and sister engine No. 1278, at his

, near Sugarcreek. No. 1293 is currently out on static display as of 2023 and is awaiting a rebuild and inspection after McCloud Railway

2-8-2 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheel ...

No. 19 finishes its rebuild.

Surviving sister engines

* No. 1201 is currently on static display inside the

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. * No. 1238 is currently in storage under private ownership at the Prairie Dog Central Railway in

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in Canada. * No. 1246 is currently in storage at the

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in Thomaston,

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in the

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. * No. 1278 is currently on static display at the

in Sugarcreek,

in the United States. * No. 1286 is currently with No. 1238 in storage at the Prairie Dog Central Railway in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada.

References

External links

Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 No. 1293
{{Commons category, Canadian Pacific Railway 1293 4-6-2 locomotives

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