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On May 22nd of 2024, Canadian Pacific H-1B Hudson #2816 (a.k.a. The Empress) spearheaded the Final Spike Steam Tour between Heavener, Oklahoma and Shreveport, Louisiana. The train was taking part in a historic transcontinental tour from Calgary, Canada to Mexico City via the United States. Riding behind ‘The Empress’ were CP’s F units (#1401 and #4107), along with the royal business train consist. For this video, we followed the train between Heavener, OK and Blanchard, LA with scenes from the following locations:

- Heavener, OK
- Page, OK
- Rich Mountain, AR
- Ouachita River (Eagleton, AR)
- Cove, AR
- Vandervoort, AR
- Hatton, AR
- Wickes, AR
- Grannis, AR
- Gillham, AR
- Winthrop, AR
- CP N. Sandra (AR/LA State Line)
- Caddo Lake (Mooringsport, LA)
- Milepost 544 (near Blanchard, LA)

As a special bonus, we caught a CPKC manifest at Hatton with a CP SD70ACU (#7043), a WAMX GP40-2LW (#4021) along with seven Wisconsin Central boxcars in the consist.

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