 The locomotive, along with six flatcars and a caboose, was loaded onto barges at Fisher's Landing, Minnesota, and propelled by the SS "Selkirk", they were shipped down the Red River to St. Boniface, now an electoral district of Winnipeg, Manitoba, arriving October 9, 1877, at a cost of $440.Upon arrival the locomotive was used on Government of Canada Contract No.5, the first contract issued in the promised rail link that brought British Columbia into Confederation.