Rebuilt 5200 Freight Locomotive
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Description is entirely erroneous. It refers to passenger locomotives. The image is of rebuilt freight locomotive class P1n
The description does not match the photograph. The photo shows Canadian Pacific 2-8-2 locomotive 5200. The engine was built at Montreal in October of 1912 as 2-8-0 wheel arrangement with the original road number 3904 and rebuilt in September 1946 as a 2-8-2 and renumbered 5200. The description may be for the 65, 4-6-4 locomotives known a Hudson type, built in Montreal between 1929 and 1940. Only 45 of those engines built between 1937 and 1940 were streamlined. Of that series, engine 2850 built in August 1938 was selected to haul the eastbound Royal Train from B.C. in 1939. This was the tour of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother). The Royal party was so impressed with the ability of the engine to haul the train without a breakdown, all the streamlined engines of that series were designated Royal Hudsons. In 1951 Royal Train on Canadian Pacific by Princess Elizabeth, (the Duchess of Edinburgh) and her husband Prince Phillip, in place of her ailing father King George VI, was hauled by a pair of 4-6-2 (Pacific type) locomotives built in 1945.