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Virginia & Truckee Railroad number 5 - "Carson"
Builder: Baldwin
Date Built: 1869
Type: 2-6-0 Mogul
Cylinders: 16 x 24 inches
Drivers: 48 inches
Weight: 55,000 pounds
V&T number 5 was lettered Canadian Pacific Ry. number 4, the "Savona", when sold to Andrew Onderdonk for his Dominion Government construction contracts along the Fraser and Thompson Canyons in February of 1883. The actual Canadian Pacific Railway Company was incorporated on 16 Feb 1881. Once Onderdonk was done with the locomotive it was sold in 1887 to the Intercolonial Railway of Canada where it was renumbered 190. Subsequently it was rebuilt as a 0-6-0 type in 1912 then renumbered ICR 1025. It then became Canadian Government Railway 1025, and eventually Canadian National Railway number 7081. The engine was scrapped in 1920.
Builder: Baldwin
Date Built: 1869
Type: 2-6-0 Mogul
Cylinders: 16 x 24 inches
Drivers: 48 inches
Weight: 55,000 pounds
V&T number 5 was lettered Canadian Pacific Ry. number 4, the "Savona", when sold to Andrew Onderdonk for his Dominion Government construction contracts along the Fraser and Thompson Canyons in February of 1883. The actual Canadian Pacific Railway Company was incorporated on 16 Feb 1881. Once Onderdonk was done with the locomotive it was sold in 1887 to the Intercolonial Railway of Canada where it was renumbered 190. Subsequently it was rebuilt as a 0-6-0 type in 1912 then renumbered ICR 1025. It then became Canadian Government Railway 1025, and eventually Canadian National Railway number 7081. The engine was scrapped in 1920.
