No. 3 played a heroic part in the 1912 mining disaster and its boiler was said to have glowed red in the race from Zeehan to Queenstown to rescue trapped miners. It was kept in Queenstown after the railway closure in 1963 and was the first locomotive returned to service on its reopening.
No. 3 has been consistently in service since 2002 and has recently completed regulatory boiler maintenance, returning to service in January 2024.