In 1963, the locomotive was donated to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin as a static display piece.

In 1985, #5 was sold again to the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, who one year later began using the locomotive to run tourist trips in Missouri.

[1][2][3] In 1963, #5 was decommissioned from service, and it was among 3 steam engines that the Central Illinois Company donated to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum, with the other two being #6, which was formerly E.I.

[8] The engine returned to service in 1986, and it began pulling passenger trips on the new tourist railroad, now dubbed the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, between Jackson, Gordonville, Dutchtown, and Delta.

In 2019, five steam locomotive enthusiasts in Southeastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, Billy Mikoliza, Nathan Beasley, Aspen Welker, Matthew Terlunen, and Lucas Smith, began to formulate plans and applications to return #5 to operational status.

[3] Two years later, in January 2021, it was announced that the five-person team would raise funds to reassemble #5 with new components for a return to service.

[3] The team began to research historical records and evaluate expenses, and they consulted the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis for information on the construction of engines similar to #5.