Virginia & Truckee #7

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Virginia & Truckee Locomotive #7 "Nevada" is seen here in service in Canada. As the years went on, the V&T started selling off some of its early locomotives that were no longer needed and not as powerful as the newer locomotives. #7 was sold in 1883 and moved up to Canada where it was in use until 1920.

Date Uploaded: December 13, 2018

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Source Caption: An atypical elevated view of one of Andrew Onderdonk's former Virginia & Truckee 2-6-0s -- specifically V&T No.7 -- used in constructing the Canadian Pacific Railway within British Columbia.

As the 1870s national financial "panic" gripped the economy and business, the V&T found that it had bought too many locomotives and owed too much, even as its Comstock gold and silver mining traffic dwindled. The company weathered that storm, but in 1883 decided to shed more equipment. The railroad's owners decided to sell off more of its lightest and oldest Baldwin "Moguls" and V&T director Darius Ogden Mills bought No.7 'Nevada' and shifted it to his D.O. Mills & Co. and thence up to British Columbia where it joined three other former V&T Moguls (No's 3, 5 and 8). This engine in time became CPR's 'Lytton' and later Intercolonial Railway's No.191 (later their 1026) and finally Canadian Government Railways 0-6-0 No.1026. It was finally scrapped in 1920.

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