Baldwin #7717 Steam Locomotive

Baldwin #7717 was a Baldwin 2-6-0 mogul steam locomotive, builders #7717, road #6, with a 36-inch gauge, built for the North Western Coal & Navigation Co. in 1885. It was originally used to carry bituminous coal on a narrow gauge railway connecting the C.P.R. mainline with coal mines near Lethbridge. In 1893, that railway track was converted to standard gauge, creating a surplus of narrow gauge engines. This locomotive was purchased in 1907 for construction of the C.P.R. Spiral Tunnels in the Kicking Horse Valley, and when construction was completed in 1908, it was abandoned there.

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