Canadian National 6060 is a 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotive built in 1944 by the Montreal Locomotive Works as the first of the U-1-f class for the Canadian National Railway (CN).
6060 was constructed in October 1944 by the Montreal Locomotive Works in Montreal, Quebec as the prototype locomotive of the Canadian National Railway's (CN) U-1-f class 4-8-2 "Mountain types".[1] It was initially assigned to pull mainlinepassenger trains until 1959 when it was retired and sat in storage on a siding outside in Winnipeg, Manitoba, awaiting to be sent to the scrap yard, but was eventually rescued for preservation by CN engineer Harry R.J. Home, and was put on static display at the Jasper station in Jasper, Alberta during 1962.[1] Ten years later, CN reacquired 6060, and they restored it to operating condition for excursion service by 1973.[2]
In 1980, to commemorate the Province of Alberta's 75th anniversary, 6060 was presented to the people of Alberta as a gift. After more than five years of retirement, it was restored a second time with the help of Harry Home, the Province of Alberta and volunteers from the Rocky Mountain Rail Society. 6060 travelled under her own power to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1986 to participate in the Steam Expo, part of that year's World's Fair alongside several other steam locomotives, including Canadian Pacific (CPR) 4-6-42860, CPR 4-6-2 1201, CN 4-6-0 1392, and Union Pacific (UP) 0-6-04466.[3]
After several years of storage at the Alberta Railway Museum near Edmonton, 6060 was moved to Stettler in 1998 to operate regularly in the service of Alberta Prairie Steam Tours (APST). More than a decade later, it continued to transport thousands of excursion passengers every summer until it went out of service in 2011. Nine years later, the APST began performing an overhaul on the No. 6060 locomotive, and as of 2022, the overhaul is still under way.[4]
