More than a dozen Canadian locomotives migrated south to assume new careers operating excursion trains in the United States during the 1960s, after all regular class-one railroad steam operations had ended. The Canadian Pacific had built 102 light 4-6-2 engines for branch-line service after World War II; most were retired after just 12-15 years of service. Well-suited for short-line excursion duties, G-5 class Pacifics Nos. 1246 and 1293, owned by the Steamtown Museum (now at Scranton, Pennsylvania as the National Railroad Museum), double-headed at Brockways Mills, Vermont, in October, 1979.
