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Windsor, ON Alan L. Brown

GWR 207 crossing Suspension Bridge. Advertisement circa 1876.
4-4-0 Cyl. 17" x 24" Drv. 73" Rhode Island 633 11/1873

GWR 22 Niagara Built Lowell 108 1851

Note: N.G. sign tells switchtenders approaching train is Narrow Gauge.
In fact it was "Standard" gauge 4' 8 1/2" because GWR was actually "Broad" gauge 5' 6".

GWR No.41 Spitfire . Note the early type covered style turntable.
January 1, 1859 William England

ENLARGE

GWR 51 Oberon 2-4-0 Built Stephenson 990 12/1856

GWR 55 Adam Brown Cy. 15" x 22" Drv. 66" Schenectady 97 7/1854

GWR 84 Prospero 2-4-0 Cyl. 16 x 24" Drv. 72" Stephenson 991 10/1856

William Weir 87 at GWR station Toronto. One of several Provincial gauge 4-4-0's rebuilt into standard gauge
0-4-4T switchers. Rebuilt 1871 likely Erie 66 built 9/1853 by John Souther, South Boston, MA.

GWR 90 Scotia 0-6-0 first Canadian locomotive with a steel boiler, built 1861 in GWR Hamilton shops.

Postage stamp part of a lengthy series issued by Canada Post.
This group 1984.

 



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