The B.C. government sold off nearly all of BC Rail 20 years ago, but the Crown corporation still pays its two executives half a million dollars every year.

It's a fixer upper that will take thousands of hours to restore but the Northern Summit was the PGE's premier business car, which B.C.'s longest serving Premier W.A.C. Bennett used when opening the railway's mainline from North Vancouver to Squamish in 1956.

It was a case that cost BC taxpayers more than $6 million. Two ministerial aides Dave Basi and Bobby Virk, were charged with fraud in connection with the $1 billion privatization sale of BC Rail in 2003. Global News has acquired the exclusive agreement documents in the case.