The second locomotive acquired to build the Pacific end of the Canadian Pacific Railway was this "pony locomotive" named Emory- a yard locomotive formerly employed building the seawall in San Francisco. One of the first orders of business was the addition of a 4 wheel tender with 600 additional gallons of water. Nicknamed "Curly" it started work in 1881.
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The engine is indeed still in Burnaby Village, largely exposed to wind and weather in an open-sided shed behind the historical buildings and mock-ups that are the Village's main attractions. She's no beauty, but the fact that a loco you can see in photos of the CPR's 1880s construction today sits unremarked and rusting away is a travesty.
Hello,
I grew up adjacent to a forest in South Surrey that has been relatively untouched since being logged in the 1890s. There is still a raised railway bed and many spikes/artifacts along the route that I've mapped with GPS. I believe the route was used by Old Curly. I am searching for any further information to verify if it was in fact there.
Don't know if it helps in your search but here's another image of Curly...
https://www3.vpl.ca/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=https%3A%2F%2Fwww3.vpl.ca%2Fspe%2Fhistphotos%2FhistPhotoAdvancedSearch.html&TN=PHOTOS&SN=AUTO20254&SE=81329&RN=41&MR=20&TR=100000&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=0&XP=&RF=briefweb&EF=&DF=Full+Photo&RL=0&EL=0&DL=0&NP=2&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=6805&NR=0&NB=2&SV=0&SS=0&BG=&FG=&QS=&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1
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