This shabby steam locomotive is Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-4 Jubilee class F1a number 2929. It is one in a series of twenty engines numbered 2910-2929 of which only two survive today, this one at Steamtown and one at the Canadian Railway Museum in Delson, Quebec. The F2a locomotives (numbered 3000-3004) had a higher, rounded, streamlined pilot, not the same as this engine which carries the more common CPR semi-streamlined pilot seen on the Royal Hudson and Selkirk locomotives. The wave of interest in the concept of streamlining, which swept North America in the 1930s, brought in its wake a renewed interest in the raising of scheduled operating speeds for passenger trains. To pull these trains, steam locomotives were specially designed, having high boiler pressures, large driving wheels and roller bearings, making them capable of sustained speeds well in excess of 100 mph. They were designed to harmonize with their trains having all extraneous piping and other familiar equipment concealed beneath streamlined shrouds. 20 F1a type locomotives with 75 inch driving wheels were constructed for use in local services.