101 for the Portland, Astoria and Pacific Railroad as part of their small order of locomotives.

However, the order was cancelled, and the locomotive was subsequently sold to the Minarets and Western Railway to haul logging trains.

[4][5] These four locomotives were initially constructed for the new Portland, Astoria and Pacific Railroad to be used to pull logging and lumber trains in Oregon.

In 1923, they were sold to the Minarets and Western Railway (M&W), a subsidiary of the Sugar Pine Lumber Company (SPLCO).

101 into service by hauling lumber trains between the forest near Minarets and the railroad's sawmill at Pinedale.

[7] However, the SPLCO was struggling to pay their debts, and following the effects of the Great Depression, the company declared bankruptcy, in 1933.

In December, the locomotive was sold again to the Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad (A&R) in North Carolina, who renumbered it to No.

40 to haul freight and passenger trains on their trackage between Aberdeen and Fayetteville, and it subsequently became favored by crews who worked operated it.

On one occasion, the locomotive was involved in a major derailment, but it was repaired and returned to service shortly afterward.

40 was used as a supply of hot steam for trains that carried military soldiers out of the nearby Fort Bragg US army base.

[9][5] It became the only steam locomotive from the A&R not to be scrapped, due to its popularity with crews, and the military trains out of Fort Bragg required some heating supply.

40 was test fired before it entered the VALE's locomotive shops for an overhaul that lasted for less than a year.

40 was placed into service for the VALE, on June 17, 1978, with then-Connecticut governor Ella Grasso christening the locomotive.

97 also being due for an overhaul, the VALE began searching for another steam locomotive for use in their operations.

40 was removed from service again, after the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) enforced that any active steam locomotive in the United States go through a mandated 1,472-day overhaul.

40 was again removed from service to undergo another FRA inspection and overhaul, after a year of work, No.

1055, until it was sold to Canadian Forest Products (Canfor) up in Northern Vancouver Island in Woss, British Columbia.