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London and Port Stanley Railway Freight Train
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Ken Verrell Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Accession Number
- 2016-30
- Storage Location
- R4 S5 Sh3 B1 2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Ken Verrell Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2016-30
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- R4 S5 Sh3 B1 2
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Publication
- Published by the Elgin County Engineering Department for their "Bridging for the Future" project: April 2021: Image #11.
- Series
- Ken Verrell Collection - Photographs series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w
- Scope and Content
- Two copies of a black and white photograph showing London and Port Stanley Railway locomotive L-1 pulling a freight train composed of coal and tanker cars northbound from the L & PS main Port Stanley station in August, 1940. The King George VI Lift Bridge, inaugurated a year earlier in May, 1939, is visible. The Purdom Cottage and pedestrian bridge across the Hill Crest ravine are visible in the background. View is looking southeast. A note verso reads: "L & PS box cab #1 was captured by photographer George Harris leaving Port Stanley for St. Thomas with a freight train in Aug. 1940. L & PS #1 is a 60 ton box cab built by GE in March 1915. After the railway was de-electrified #1 was displayed at Rectory St. in London until CN donated it to Scie-Tech in Ottawa in 1967. Now back at St. Thomas it is a fine example of the restoration that the [Elgin County Railway] museum is undertaking on all its exhibits. Photo courtesy of Keith Sirman."
- Name Access
- Port Stanley (Ont.)
- London and Port Stanley Railway
- King George VI Lift Bridge
- Subject Access
- Bridges
- Railways
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