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Narrow Gauge
Narrow Gauge
This well-known railway once had a system stretching as far east as Whitehorse, NWT, but now terminates at Carcross, YT.
What is the White Pass & Yukon Route?
The Canadian Pacific F1a class Jubilees, the fastest locomotives in Canada, were patterned off this famed ALCo streamliner.
What was the Milwaukee Road A class?
While it had once been left to rust in the Steamtown collection, this beautiful engine could now claim to be "the 844 of the north".
What is H1a 2816, "The Empress"?
This awkwardly proportioned dinosaur of an engine is one of, if not the oldest preserved Canadian National locomotives. With how jank it looks, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a shop switcher.
What is CN 0-6-0 247?
Notable for flashy paintschemes, beautiful horns, and an electric subdivision, this was the largest regional railway in Canada.
What was BC Rail?
The Newfoundland Railway, the last cape gauge common carrier in the country, was operated under the guise of this subsidiary for its final nine years in operation.
What is TerraTransport?
This one-off beast was the largest and most powerful locomotive in the British Empire, the latter being accomplished thanks to an experimental boiler capable of over 1300psi.
What was CP Selkirk 8000?
This train, a companion and predecessor of the famed "Canadian", often had one of CP's open-air observation cars tacked on the rear.
What was "The Dominion"?
This famed first for North American passenger trains was bought by CN after retirement from its homeroad and used for the "Champlain" streamliner.
What was the Reading Crusader trainset?
Notable for having used european imported rolling stock in the past, this passenger-only counterpart to the "Polar Bear Express" is the ONR's flagship train.
What is "The Northlander"?
The last of its kin, a 2-6-0 mogul built for use in southern Alberta on coal mine railways now resides as a rusty wreck in a deep valley, having been used in the construction of these pieces of railway infrastructure.
What are the spiral tunnels?
These handsome, modern, high-stepping lightweights were the last of their wheel arrangement and lineage built in Canada. Their class would've been well over 300 members had CP not decided upon dieselization.
What were the CP G5 Pacifics?
When CP adopted its famed "Multimark" or "Pac-Man" branding, a variant of this font was introduced as the system standard.
What is Helvetica?
This essential CN service, later taken over by VIA, was one of the few in Canada to employ lightweight streamlined combine coaches.
What is the "Hudson's Bay'"?
This formerly cape gauge CN subsidiary was notable for its use of many 6-axle ALCo diesels in it's later years.
What was the Prince Edward Island Railway?
Originally a Newfoundland Railway landmark, this infamous theme park was one of the province's biggest attractions before being destroyed by hurricane-induced storms.
What is the Trinity Loop?
These heavy CN express engines were the second-to-last in their design family, and were considered by many to be the most beautiful locomotives to ever run on CN rails. Sadly, none survived into preservation, despite their notoriety as special engines, and use in services such as royal trains.
What were the CN U-1-Es?
In the early days of CP's mountain lines, this man was among the few that enjoyed the view from the dangerous, yet scenic option of sitting on the locomotive's pilot beam.
Who was John A. MacDonald?
These awkward road switchers were of a design unique to CN, despite similar units existing elsewhere.
The lone surviving Northern Alberta Railway steam locomotive, connie 73, was originally built for this predecessor.
What was the Edmonton, Dunvegan & British Columbia?
Outside of the twin cape gauge fairlies used on the Toronto-based systems, this was the only narrow gauge railway aside from the Rio Grande to use double fairlie type locomotives in North America.
What was the Glasgow & Cape Breton?
Having originally been patterned after CP streamliners, this shortline workhorse gained notoriety and fame not for its unusual looks as built, but for its escapades later in life.
What is Roberval & Saguenay/Crab Orchard & Egyptian 17?
This artist created a CP themed railway song with the following lyrics:
Manitoba and Saskatchewan then followed...
Where the wheat fields and the old Red River flow...
Who was George Hamilton IV?
CN 2141, known nowadays as "Spirit Of Kamloops", was the last steam locomotive to work on this CN line back in the 1950s.
What was the Vancouver Island line?
This flagship train, despite the system it ran on, was at one point the most modern train in Canada, if not North America.
Hints: questions in a previous category mention the operator, and this train had two names.
What was the "Caribou" or "Newfie Bullet"?