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In this February 2017, file photo, Locomotive #17 sits in a green space near Ninth Street and Brookdale Avenue in Cornwall, Ont. (Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File)
CORNWALL – A city councillor is reigniting debate on donating Cornwall’s historic locomotive to an Eastern Ontario railway museum instead of restoring it.
In a new business motion for tonight’s council meeting, Coun. Elaine MacDonald says Locomotive #17 has “languished” at the corner of Brookdale Avenue and Ninth Street and no council has “made the commitment to refurbish the car or relocate it in a more accessible pedestrian-friendly location.”
In February 2019, council voted 7-4 against a motion trying to sell or donate the locomotive before scrapping it.