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LE&N 337 & GRR 228
[LE&N 337 MU'd WITH GRR 228]
LE&N 337 MU'd WITH GRR 228 AT PRESTON

Built by Preston Car & Coach in 1921, MU'd freight motors LE&N 337 and GRR 228 are seen here, on an overcast August 6, 1961, crossing the Speed River on a curved trestle bridge immediately east of the Preston Junction station. They are in charge of a ballast train for the new track diversion in eastend Kitchener. Highway 8 was being widened and relocated onto lands occupied by the GRR right-of-way between Centreville to a point approximately 1000 yards east of Kitchener Junction station. The new GRR line would now turn in a southerly direction at Centerville, paralleling Fairview Road on the east side, until it connected up with the Canadian National line. With trackage rights over a short portion of the CNR, the GRR was able to reach its own lines to serve its customers in Kitchener and Waterloo.

LE&N 337 was sold to the Iowa Terminal Railway, Mason City, IA, in January 1963,
and numbered 81. It was scrapped in 1973.

GRR 228 was sold to the Iowa Terminal Railway, Mason City, IA, in July 1963
and assigned number 82. However, the motor was never repainted or used and was scrapped in 1968.


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