 In 1969, Prime Minister Wilson agreed to support Pegler via the Trade Department running the locomotive in the United States and Canada to support British exports.To comply with local railway regulations, it was fitted with a cowcatcher, bell, buckeye couplings and an American-style whistle.Starting in Boston, Massachusetts, the tour ran into immediate problems, with some states seeing the locomotive as a fire hazard, and thereby raising costs through the need for diesel-headed-haulage through them.