Talk:Canadian Pacific 1246
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Green Mountain #1246?
editWhile doing some research on Canadian Pacific No. 1246, Steamtown, U.S.A., and the Green Mountain Railroad, I stumbled across some images of #1246 with Green Mountain lettering on its tender. It appears that the Green Mountain Railroad must have owned and operated #1246 for a brief amount of time before it was given back to Steamtown. Could info about the locomotives operation on the Green Mountain Railroad be added to the article? An image or two would also be nice. I found a couple of pictures of CP #1246 with Green Mountain lettering on its tender and they can be found in the links below me.
http://www.railarchive.net/rlsteam/images/cpr1246_rdl.jpg - Colored photo taken in Rutland in the fall of 1970. The locomotive looks to have been named "F. Nelson Blount" in honor of Steamtown's and the Green Mountain Railroad's founder, who was killed plane crash in 1967.
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=201207132302499216.jpg&order=byrail&page=7&key=797&photoindex=0&maxpage=49&maxphotoindex=2&key2= - Black and white photo also taken in 1970. Image location is from the former Riverside Station in Bellows Falls.
More photos will be brought up when I find and link them. --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 19:25, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
While doing some more research today, I found out that in June 1967, Canadian Pacific #1246 was relettered to GMRy #1246. It remained under Green Mountain ownership until was sold back to Steamtown six years later in July 1973 and relettered back in its Canadian Pacific lettering. I also found another photo that was already here on Wikipedia that has #1246 with Green Mountain lettering on its tender (though the picture is in black and white). I'll add the photo to the article and add the link where I found the info below this comment. I will also eventually edit the Green Mountain Railroad's article to mention #1246 on the former fleet section of the article.
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr2426.htm
--JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 20:26, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
Well, I added the information to the article. However, the url for the source might not be linked properly. --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 21:03, 1 March 2018 (UTC)