Old Time Trains

Electro-Metallurgical Co. of Canada

Welland

EM 2 an 0-4-0T built by Alco's Cooke works #57721 6/1917

EM 6 MLW #68901 3/1937 Welland 1961 Bill Thomson

One of three similar 0-4-0T saddletanker "dinky" engines that switched the Welland plant.

Preservation

Electro-Metallurgical Co. of Canada 6 MLW #68901 3/1937 September 2005 Gerry Ferns

This engine was acquired by a private collector, Charles Matthews, and later acquired by the Government of Ontario along with many other pieces of Canadian transportation artifacts as part of a still-born operating transportation museum in Toronto. It has been reacquired by the Matthews family and sits rusting away in 2005.

Following Matthews estate sale 6/2017 number 6 acquired privately and relocated to South River.
Same owner relocated 8/2021 engine to Bethany, ON

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Electro-Metallurgical Co. of Canada

Welland

EM 2 an 0-4-0T built by Alco's Cooke works #57721 6/1917

EM 6 MLW #68901 3/1937 Welland 1961 Bill Thomson

One of three similar 0-4-0T saddletanker "dinky" engines that switched the Welland plant.

Preservation

Electro-Metallurgical Co. of Canada 6 MLW #68901 3/1937 September 2005 Gerry Ferns

This engine was acquired by a private collector, Charles Matthews, and later acquired by the Government of Ontario along with many other pieces of Canadian transportation artifacts as part of a still-born operating transportation museum in Toronto. It has been reacquired by the Matthews family and sits rusting away in 2005.

Following Matthews estate sale 6/2017 number 6 acquired privately and relocated to South River.
Same owner relocated 8/2021 engine to Bethany, ON