Today comes a great old photo from the John Stefani Collection.
It was noted on the back of the photo:
“Essex Terminal 6 0-6-0”
“Walkerville, Ont. April 24, 1932”
Maybe our resident Railfans can add a little something about the engine for us…
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Well 0-6-0 is the wheel configuration. Looks to have gone unused for a long period of time. Beyond that i’ll have to ask my roommate tomorrow
According to the Essex Terminal website, #6 was built by Baldwin in Feb. 1907 for Oliver Mining and acquired by ET in 1917. Unlike #9, which is living a happy retirement in St. Thomas, #6 was scrapped in 1942. It appeared to have a stablemate from Baldwin (number unknown), both 0-6-0’s gotten from Oliver, both built in 1907, with serial numbers being 48 digets apart.
Nice picture. Thanks for posting….
Well this picture is great to see of the Essex Terminal Railroad. Is there any other pictures from the Windsor & Essex County area, from around this time of the Railroads.
Also to add, ETL #9 is not in St Thomas at present time, it is in Waterloo, running the Waterloo Central, from Downtown Waterloo to St Jacobs, for tours (same group that runs the St Thomas Central). This is a very good thing, since the Museum in St Thomas is going though some hard times, and CN is trying to remove all the tracks in St Thomas. and basically will land lock the Museum and also other items. But the Municipality of St Thomas and Elgin County, is trying to keep all connections and at least part of the rails still intact, to keep the museum going and connection to the Port Stanley Terminal Railway as well.
Thank you, Ian. I hadn’t looked at SOLRS site in a while.
Can anyone tell me what ever happened to the 0-4-0 fireless cooker that used to run on a loop track in a St. Thomas park?
It wasn’t a fireless cooker. It was a tank engine and it now operates in Huntsville.
how have i not seen this post yet?
those tank engines are the “portage flyers” that used run between north and south portage.