The photo was taken at St Catharines, the steam locomotive is CNR's H-6-G class Ten-wheeler, the electric locomotive belongs to the Niagara, St Catharines and Toronto Railway. This line mostly ran between St Catharines, Thorold & Port Dalhousie. Like all the other Ontario electric interurban lines it was obsoleted by GM’s bus program that kicked in after the war. This line was gone by 1959, #1406 by 1961.
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That first photo is great, but I think it's actually another CNR subsidiary - the Oshawa Railway. The NS&T never had a locomotive numbered 229, and had nothing with those rounded-end handrails. While I can't find an image of a 200-series Oshawa Railway freight motor, the 300-serie has those same handrails.
ReplyDeleteDid the Oshawa area have electric lines?
ReplyDeleteIt absolutely did! The Oshawa Railway was another CNR electric subsidiary. When the CNR dropped the wire over the NS&T in 1960 and switched to diesels, the CNR relocated many of the NS&T freight motors to Oshawa. By this time, both lines used freight motors painted in a CNR scheme, with CNR markings, so the parent company didn't even have to repaint. The Oshawa Railway continued to switch freight under wire until 1964, when CNR dieselized that operation as well.
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