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Adjusting the Flag on Canada's last operating steam locomotive, machinist Matt Konuck prepares the old engine for what may be its last run. The locomo(...)
Adjusting the Flag on Canada's last operating steam locomotive, machinist Matt Konuck prepares the old engine for what may be its last run. The locomo(...)

Adjusting the Flag on Canada's last operating steam locomotive, machinist Matt Konuck prepares the old engine for what may be its last run. The locomo(...)

Date1/19/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Adjusting the Flag on Canada's last operating steam locomotive; machinist Matt Konuck prepares the old engine for what may be its last run. The locomotive will chug out of Union Station Sunday on an execursion to Orillia.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012576F
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