Canadian National Railways

Niagara St.Catharines and Toronto

All photographs: Joseph Testagrose Collection

NS&T 14 with freight train. 40-ton GE 1914 Car 130 on excursion sits in coal yard siding.
Grantham District line St.Catharines 7/04/1953 Jim Shuman

Note the poleman who has to manually change the pole from one wire to another when switching tracks.

NS&T 15 along with work equipment including sweeper 23 and line car in the freight yard. 50-ton NS&T 1925
St.Catharines 7/04/1953 Jim Shuman

NS&T 17 acq.1926 (ex HEPC Queenston E-9) 400 hp 50-ton NSC 1918 Transferred 1960 to Oshawa Ry.
Welland Avenue shop, St.Catharines 6/26/1957
T.H.Desnoyes/Krambles-Peterson Archive/Joseph Testagrose Collection

NS&T 41 acq. 1927 (ex Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula 60) Express car in
Welland Avenue Yard, St.Catharines, Ontario. 8/16/1956 Eugene Van Dusen
Note the single red flag marker, a NS&T standard practice.

NS&T 63 southbound to Port Colborne acq. 1915 (ex London & Lake Erie) 54 seats 50'7" 30-ton Niles 1912
Swing bridge Welland Canal #1 and #2. 7/07/1946 Jim Shuman/Joseph Testagrose Collection

Express car 82 (NS&T 1925) converted 1956 from coach.
Welland Avenue Yard, St.Catharines, Ontario. 8/16/1956 Eugene Van Dusen

NS&T 83 in old colours (1939-1955). Note destination sign Niagara Falls New York.
Note too the Yellow Coach CNT bus. St.Catharines 7/04/1953 Jim Shuman

Interurban car 83 (NS&T 1925) on the photogenic Martindale Trestle, Port Dalhousie line.
7/1958 Eugene Van Dusen

Car 83 running extra past Lake Gibson. 7/4/1958 Eugene Van Dusen

Car 83 on Elm Street at Killaly Street West, Port Colborne. 7/5/1958 Eugene Van Dusen

City car 100 in Niagara Falls. Brill 1912. Summer 1946 Eugene Van Dusen

Classic wooden interurban car 130 (Preston Car & Coach 1914) crossing trestle in a most picturesque scene near Welland.
7/4/1953 Wm.Janssen

NOTE: This car was preserved at Rail City, a very early tourist railway in New York state.
Unfortunately it deteriorated from neglect and was scrapped. No NS&T equipment exists.

Combine 132 (64 seats 50' 0" 38-tons Preston 1914) trails another interurban car on
Victoria Ave. at Roberts St. in Niagara Falls. 7/07/1946 Jim Shuman

Note: Cars 132, 133 and 134 had a door on one side only.

City car 303 44 seats 42' 6" 16-tons Cincinnati/NS&T 1926 Dispatcher's booth at right.
Lakeside Park, Port Dalhousie 11/25/1948 Jim Shuman

NS&T 620 transferred 1956 ex M&SC 620, 1939 nee WE&LS 500) 50 seats 51' 2" 34 tons Ottawa Car 1930
Leaving Elm Street, Port Colborne 7/25/1957 George Krambles/

Radial car 623 (1956 ex M&SC 623, 1939 nee WE&LS 503) crossing a diamond. Ottawa Car 1930

Car 623 running extra (likely a railfan excursion) in Port Colborne. R.R.Andrews

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