Port Alberni Vancouver Island British Columbia - On Saturday morning, market goers saw the Industrial Heritage Society at work at the Station Water Tower, putting the 1928 "Buda" locomotive back on the tracks.
 
The Buda had spent the past year in the Industrial Heritage Centre, where it received extensive restoration work, including a new paint job.
 
The little gas locomotive was built by New Westminster Iron Works for the R.B. McLean Lumber Company to move rail cars around the mill site and prepare shipments onto the main CPR line.
 
Only two such locomotives were built and this is the only surviving one.
 
It is now on display for the month on the spur beside the station, along with a "crummy", a wooden boxcar once used to transport loggers to their work in the forests.
 
It belonged to Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing, a predecessor company to Macmillan-Bloedel, which had logging camps and a big sawmill on the east side of Vancouver Island.
 
David Hooper.