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Virginia & Truckee Railroad number 8 - "Humboldt"
Builder: Baldwin
Date Built: 1870
Type: 2-6-0 Mogul
Cylinders: 16 x 24 inches
Drivers: 48 inches
Weight: 55,000 pounds
V&T number 8 was labeled CPR number 3, the "New Westminster", when sold to Andrew Onderdonk for his Dominion Government construction contracts along the Fraser and Thompson Canyons in May of 1882. 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 189. Subsequently it was renumbered once again, this time to ICR 1024 in 1912. Then in 1913 it became Canadian Government Railway 1024 and was scrapped in 1918.
Builder: Baldwin
Date Built: 1870
Type: 2-6-0 Mogul
Cylinders: 16 x 24 inches
Drivers: 48 inches
Weight: 55,000 pounds
V&T number 8 was labeled CPR number 3, the "New Westminster", when sold to Andrew Onderdonk for his Dominion Government construction contracts along the Fraser and Thompson Canyons in May of 1882. 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 189. Subsequently it was renumbered once again, this time to ICR 1024 in 1912. Then in 1913 it became Canadian Government Railway 1024 and was scrapped in 1918.
