This engine belongs in either Montreal, where it was constructed and served for many years, or in Toronto. It has no connection with St. Thomas whatsoever.
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The locomotive was built by MLW in 5/57 and demonstrated as CP 7007, CN 3899 and PGE 624 before being purchased by CP in 1959. It was chop-nosed at some point and served in heavy transfer service in Toronto (hence Agincourt). Because of it's rare trucks (in Canada, at least) it was retired when they became too problematic to fix, and was then donated to the ECRM. It currently has no prime mover in it, and was only recently painted by volunteers at the ECRM.
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An interesting point of contention among CPR railfans are the nose stripes - When it was chop-nosed by the CPR, they put the stripes on backwards compared to every other CPR locomotive. Railfans disagree whether this was to highlight the uniqueness of the locomotive, or whether someone just did the decals wrong! As you can see, the ECRM repainted those stripes as the CPR did!
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