 It was built for the Duluth, Missabe, and Northern Railway as number 332; one of 32 locomotives of the C3 class built between 1905 and 1907.In 1937 it passed to the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway on the merger of the DM&N with the Duluth and Iron Range Rail Road.In 1955 locomotives 332 and 348 (also a C3) were sold to the Duluth & Northeastern and renumbered 28 and 27 respectively.