A 2-6-2 steam locomotive that has led excursions in southeast British Columbia for more than 30 years could be parked this year after the management of the Fort Steele Heritage Town decided to conduct an “independent” review of the locomotive’s condition and the museum’s rail operations in general. But the decision by the museum’s board has frustrated staff who have taken to social media and local media to say there’s no reason to park the locomotive and that doing so could risk its future as an operating exhibit. Locomotive 1077 was built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in December 1923 and spent the last century in British Columbia. The locomotive worked on various logging railroads on Vancouver Island from the 1920s until being retired in 1969. The locomotive was sold to the government of British Columbia to lead the Provincial Museum Train in the 1970s… In 1990, it was brought to Fort Steele where it has operated on about 2.5 miles of track.