Apr 27, 2022
Water when you needed it, even in winter. Water - both reliable and clean - was essential to the successful operation of steam locomotives. The Canadian Pacific Railway design for enclosed water tanks allowed steam locomotives to refill their tenders, even in subzero weather. This rare survivor served at Brookmere, British Columbia until as late at 1959. Remarkably, it has survived the recent devastation in British Columbia from 500 year flooding, and the extensive wildfire season of 2021, which reached the outskirts of Brookmere, just a few hundred meters away.
