Canadian National 89

Revenue service No. 89 was originally built in February 1910 by the Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC) in Kingston, Ontario, for the Grand Trunk Railway (GT) as No. 1009. It has a wheel arrangement of . Green Mountain Railroad In 1961, No. 89 was purchased by New England seafood magnate and steam locomotive collector F. Nelson Blount for his Green Mountain Railroad (GMRC) and moved to North Walpole, New Hampshire, in the United States. No. 89 quickly became Blount's favorite locomotive and he would often be found at the throttle until his death in 1967. It arrived at Strasburg on July 15, 1972 and placed into service the following year on March 17, 1973. No. 89 frequently operated in tandem with Pennsylvania Railroad 4-4-0 No. 1223 on Strasburg's half-hour trains until it was taken out of service in the early 1980s for major repairs. During these repairs which lasted the majority of the decade, No. 89 was completely rebuilt from the ground up including major boiler and running gear work. In 2008, No. 89's tender logo was re-lettered to read "Strasburg Rail Road," in keeping with Strasburg's policy of historical authenticity. == Appearances in media ==

• The locomotive appears at east Strasburg station in the 2012 History channel series The Men Who Built America l in multiple episodes. • In 2013, the locomotive appeared in a live action segment of an episode of ''Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood'' titled "All Aboard." The Segment was filmed in October 2012. • In 2022, the engine appeared in an episode of The Gilded Age entitled "Charity Has Two Functions," with an unlettered tender. ==See also==