Camino Cable & Northern No. 3 is a 2-6-0 Mogul built by Porter in 1909. It worked for the United Fruit Company under Compania Agricola de Guatemala as their No. 56, and later renumbered 2.
In 1959 the locomotive was purchased by Hal Wilmunder and shipped to his Antelope & Western Railroad near Roseville, California, and was renumbered to 3 (albiet keeping the No. 2 numberplate).
In 1964 it was shipped to the Camino, Cable & Northern Railroad in Camino, California, where it gained a proper No. 3 numberplate.
In 1974 when Hal Wilmunder sold off the CC&N equipment, the No. 3 went to International Amusement Devices of Dayton, Ohio. It was then sold in May 1975 to the Huckleberry Railroad along with Tanana Valley No. 152, where the No. 3 was found to be too small for their operations.
In 1993 it was sold to the Otaru City General Museum, where it resides today, pulling excursion trains on a section of regauged track.
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- Two sisters, No. 2 and No. 39 are preserved, with the former operational and the latter on static display.
- In April of 2018, the locomotive was sent out for repairs, and has since returned.
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