Can anyone help identify this loco? If so, please contact Glen Smith.

I am trying to track down information about a person who was a railway engineer [as reported in the census] in Kentville 1871, Annapolis Royal 1881, Bridgewater 1891 & 1901. Would like to work out the railways with which he was involved. Also would like to check if his brother was a fireman (an alternative name for stoker?) and if his father, too, might have moved from being a farmer to working on the railways, though father no longer living in 1871. They could all have started off in the Truro area.

Does anyone know of the existence of any lists of employees going as far back as the 1860s, or if the Union of Locomotive Engineers started that early? Would be interested in knowing how people were recruited and the training involved, if such info. exists.

I would really appreciate any help.

Thank you, please e-mail me directly,
Pat Smith

This photo is a cropped enlargement of a 1889 photo taken at Whitbourne Newfoundland by Hugh Hoyles Fraser. It shows the first locomotive to operate on the Placentia Railway. This locomotive became Halls Bay Railroad #1 in 1890, when Robert G Reid began construction to Norris Arm from Placentia Junction.

If you can identify the manufacturer of this tank engine, or have other salient comments concerning this tank engine please e-mail pbyrne@nf.sympatico.ca

[Original photo "Whitbourne, Men Going North" and scan are copyright of Silver Linings Collection aaj269@thezone.net. Persons interested in purchasing copies of this or any other 19th century Newfoundland railway pictures should contact the Silver Linings Collection and not Mr. Byrne]

We would like your assistance in identifying this locomotive taking coal from a schooner in Goldsbro circa 1900, for the Gold mine. (Photographer unknown, Peter Byrne Collection) If you have information regarding this photo, please contact the The Railways of Canada Group.

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