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Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway
Model:MLW 4-6-2Built As:CP 1246 (4-6-2)
Serial Number:74906Order No:Q-406
Frame Number:20X28 cylinders, 70" driversBuilt:6/1946
Notes:MLW 06/1946, sold 01/1964 to F. Nelson Blount
Other locos with this serial:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
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Steamtown Bellows Falls Vermont October 1980
Title:  Steamtown Bellows Falls Vermont October 1980
Description:  Double header fan trip
Photo Date:  10/26/1980  Upload Date: 10/6/2016 10:58:39 PM
Location:  Ludlow, VT
Author:  Denis Chartrand
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1293(4-6-2) CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  714   Comments: 1
Steamtown Bellows Falls Vermont October 1980
Title:  Steamtown Bellows Falls Vermont October 1980
Description:  Double header fan trip
Photo Date:  10/26/1980  Upload Date: 10/6/2016 10:56:39 PM
Location:  Ludlow, VT
Author:  Denis Chartrand
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1293(4-6-2) CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  790   Comments: 1
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 standing at Chester station.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 2:17:25 PM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  874   Comments: 1
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 standing at Chester station.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 2:13:06 PM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  857   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 oc a run-by at Chester, VT.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 2:11:19 PM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  842   Comments: 1
CPR 2317
Title:  CPR 2317
Description:  CPR 2317 and 1246 double7head a run-by freight at the lagoon north of riverside.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 2:06:37 PM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 2317(4-6-2) CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1710   Comments: 1
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 with freight train on a runby at Riverside.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:46:36 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1103   Comments: 1
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 headed north out of Bellow's Falls to Riverside.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:44:52 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1153   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 northbound just south of Chester.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:42:58 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  867   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 northbound south of Chester.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:35:05 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  664   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 northbound south of Chester.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:32:07 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 performing runby with freight just south of Chester.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:29:37 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  619   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 on a runby just south of Chester.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:25:37 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1094   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 northbound between Bartonsville and Chester.
Photo Date:  10/24/1981  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 2:24:22 PM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  763   Comments: 0
CP1246 runs around
Title:  CP1246 runs around
Description:  The first day of the 1982 Railfan Weekend was spent doing photo runbys near Bellows Falls,and a short trip up to Chester. Here CP 1246 runs around to change ends for the return to Bellos Falls
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 2:35:20 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  557   Comments: 0
1246 changing ends
Title:  1246 changing ends
Description:  CP 1246 changes ends at Chester during the 1982 Railfan Weekend.
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 3:03:54 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  646   Comments: 0
Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  CP 1246 is ready for the days activity at Riverside Vt during Railfan Weekend
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 3:06:57 AM
Location:  Riverside, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
Passenger runby
Title:  Passenger runby
Description:  There were a number of runby moves staged. This one is CP 1246 with a passenger train
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 7/2/2014 3:30:00 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
Photo freight
Title:  Photo freight
Description:  CP 1246 rolls with a photo freight during Railfan Weekend.
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 3:16:47 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Once and future stars
Title:  Once and future stars
Description:  CP 1246 works an excursion train next to CP 2317, which would achieve its fame several years later after Steamtown moved to Scranton.
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 7/2/2014 3:32:58 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2) CP 2317(4-6-2)
Views:  1124   Comments: 1
Side by side
Title:  Side by side
Description:  CP 1246 passes posed Rutland 405 at the Riverside station on the first morning of the 1982 Railfan Weekend.
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 7/8/2014 1:10:47 AM
Location:  Ludlow, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2) GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  903   Comments: 0
Three way
Title:  Three way
Description:  CP 1246 rolls toward Riverside station past future Steamtown star 2317 and display piece CP 2929
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 7/8/2014 1:15:17 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 2317(4-6-2) CP 1246(4-6-2) CP 2929(4-6-0)
Views:  1502   Comments: 1
Flagging the crossing
Title:  Flagging the crossing
Description:  A crewman flags the crossing at Riverside station during the 1982 Railfan Weekend. There were a variety of period cars to add realism to the steam scenes
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 11/13/2011 3:51:31 PM
Location:  Riverside, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  644   Comments: 0
Passenger train
Title:  Passenger train
Description:  Several runbys were done for the assembled fans, both with passenger and freight trains. Here the passenger train rolls past the photo line
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 11/13/2011 3:58:06 PM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  722   Comments: 1
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 with the Green Mountain RR's ex Rutland RS-1 405 at Riverside.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:22:35 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  875   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 on runby at Riverside yard.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:19:39 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  2891   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 on a runby with freight train at Riverside.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:16:37 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1130   Comments: 1
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 posed with CPR 1098 at the north end of Riverside yard.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:08:02 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1435   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 with freight train on runby at the lagoon north of Riverside.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:03:22 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  930   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 with freight train at the lagoon.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 11:01:13 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  805   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 with passenger train at the lagoon.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 10:59:11 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  617   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  CPR 1246 with passenger train on runby at the lagoon north of Riverside.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 10:57:27 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  761   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  Double header northbound crossing the high bridge at Brockways Mills.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 10:54:55 AM
Location:  Brockways Mills, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2) VTR 603(RS3)
Views:  1893   Comments: 2
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  VTR 603 and CPR 1246 northbound at Gassett's.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 10:51:42 AM
Location:  Gassett's, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2) VTR 603(RS3)
Views:  2319   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  VTR 603 and CPR 1246 northbound at Proctorsville.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/11/2005 10:47:24 AM
Location:  Proctorsville, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2) VTR 603(RS3)
Views:  1526   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  1246 arriving in Rutland with train.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 6:15:05 PM
Location:  Rutland, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  822   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  1246 on the tail track of the wye in Rutland.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 6:13:06 PM
Location:  Rutland, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1075   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  1246 headed south with train after turning on the wye at Rutland.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 6:10:57 PM
Location:  Rutland, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1363   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  1246 at East Clarendon.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 6:09:03 PM
Location:  East Clarendon, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  886   Comments: 0
CPR 1246
Title:  CPR 1246
Description:  1246 working upgrade south of Mt. Holly.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 6:06:36 PM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Carl Weber
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  792   Comments: 0
Headed back home
Title:  Headed back home
Description:  CP 1246 is has turned and is ready to head back to Bellows Falls with the Rutland excursion during Railfan Weekend. Note the heavy coats. Despite being only late October, the temperatures topped out around 35 that day.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 3:10:57 AM
Location:  Rutland, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
Photo runby
Title:  Photo runby
Description:  CP 1246 rolls past the photo line on the return trip from Rutland to Bellows Falls.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 3:20:00 AM
Location:  Ludlow, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
Vermont icon
Title:  Vermont icon
Description:  The Steamtown Rutland trip passes one of Vermonts classic covered bridges on the return to Bellows Falls
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 7/8/2014 1:02:57 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  455   Comments: 1
Runby
Title:  Runby
Description:  The return trip from Rutland does a runby near Ludlow in fading fall color
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 7/8/2014 1:06:43 AM
Location:  Ludlow, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  591   Comments: 1
Classic scene
Title:  Classic scene
Description:  Steamtowns CPR 1246 pauses by the water tank at the Riverside station during the Railfan Weekend in 1982
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 1:00:50 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  757   Comments: 0
Northbound runby
Title:  Northbound runby
Description:  The northbound trip to Runtland was assisted by VTR 603 as far as Chester. It participated in a runby shortly out of Bellows Falls.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 3:23:03 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VTR 603(RS3) CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  789   Comments: 0
Smokin locos
Title:  Smokin locos
Description:  VTR 603 and CP 1246 both smoke it up during the photo runby south of Chester.
Photo Date:  10/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 3:25:13 AM
Location:  Chester, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VTR 603(RS3) CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  870   Comments: 0
Al done
Title:  Al done
Description:  CP 1246 has complete the last public trip at Steamtown in Vermont and is putting itstrain away. The equipment will move to Scranton in 1985 when the National Park Service takes over the operation.
Photo Date:  10/23/1983  Upload Date: 11/28/2013 1:12:17 AM
Location:  Cambria, WI
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  468   Comments: 0
Ready to go north
Title:  Ready to go north
Description:  Three Green Mountain RS 1s were called to assist CP 1246 on the last public trip Steamtown ran in Vermont, from"Bellows Falls to Rutland. Here they are ready to roll out of Riverside station in Bellows Falls.
Photo Date:  10/23/1983  Upload Date: 12/1/2013 2:31:25 AM
Location:  Bellows Falls, VT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  GMRC 401(RS1) GMRC 400(RS1) GMRC 405(RS1) CP 1246(4-6-2)
Views:  1416   Comments: 1


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