Tags: Locomotive.
The Countess of Dufferin was the first steam locomotive to operate in the Canadian prairie provinces and is named after Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood Countess of Dufferin (later Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava) the wife of the Earl of Dufferin a Governor General of Canada. The locomotive was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works (builder’s plate No. 2660) and delivered to Northern Pacific Railway as No. 21 in 1872.
