Preservation
The C17s have survived strongly to the present day. Almost 30 examples still remain with eight currently operational or in near operational condition. Nos. 974 and 1000 are retained by the Queensland Rail Heritage Division. Two are currently interstate on the Zig Zag Railway at Lithgow, New South Wales. No. 934 has been operational there for some years, and No. 966 is awaiting restoration. No. 944 has been in open air storage at the Miles Historical Village and Museum in Miles, Queensland since 1971. No. 996 was placed on the waterfront at Southport on the Gold Coast, and was nicknamed "Southport Express". After calls by the local council to have the locomotive removed in 2005, it was purchased by the Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway, and is now at their Box Flat Depot in a dismantled state pending the decision to return it to operational condition.
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