1238 was purchased by the Waterloo Central Railway, and they have plans to restore the locomotive to operating condition.

[1] It was initially assigned to pull passenger trains throughout Quebec and Ontario, and as the CP dieselized their locomotive fleet, No.

1238 was purchased by steam locomotive historian George M. Hart, who founded Rail Tours Incorporated to host several steam-powered excursion trains throughout the Northeastern United States.

1238 was moved to York, Pennsylvania, where Hart and his crews restored the locomotive back to service in 1966.

In early February 1968, a furnace at a Reading, Pennsylvania, power plant broke down, and Hart had Nos.

1286 over Penn Central trackage from Union Station in Baltimore over the Port Deposit Branch and the Columbia Branch to the Transportation Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS).

However, that trip was plagued with various mechanical issues, and both locomotives were in control of Penn Central employees.

1286 began losing steam due to firebox issues, and these factors caused the excursion to arrive in Harrisburg later than anticipated.

Showalter founded the Alleghany Central tourist railroad (ACRR) along with his family, and it originally lied over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's (C&O) 15-mile (24 km) Hot Springs branch between Covington and Intervale.

1238 was returned to service in 1975, and it began pulling tourist trains between Covington and Hot Springs at 15 mph (24 km/h) along a tributary of the James River.

1238 was loaned to the Southern Railway to fill in for their own steam locomotives, which were all out of service at the time.

The locomotive pulled four excursion trains for the Southern in and out of Alexandria, Virginia, for three weekends during that month.

[8] In October 1983, the USF&G Insurance company hired the ACRR to provide an excursion train for their patrons.

After the 1984 operating season, however, rising insurance costs and ownership disputes forced the ACRR to vacate Covington, and the Hot Springs branch was ripped up with the rails being sold for scrap.

The ACRR subsequently changed their name to the Allegany Central Railroad, and after their equipment was moved to Ridgeley, West Virginia, No.

By the beginning of 1992 Showalter moved his equipment to Gordonsville, Virginia, for storage while he was searching for another tourist line to operate his trains on.

[12] On July 28, 2023, the Waterloo Central Railway (WCR) of St. Jacobs, Ontario, announced their plans to purchase No.