The home page on the Newfoundland Railway has attracted considerable interest.
I have therefore sorted my slides and adapted my flatbed scanner to copy them.
The larger pictures are not ideal but I hope they will be of historical interest.
My thanks to Peter Byrne of Goulds Newfoundland for his information and assistance.
On Friday 24 September 1976 my wife, Pat,
and I travelled on train # 207 locally known as the "Shoreline" from St John's
to Holyrood.
I had a permit to travel in the cab but the crew would only let me ride in the second
locomotive, which I did from Octagon to Holyrood. Regretably I did not take any
photographs of the interior of either the coach or the locomotive.
We left St John's about 10:30am and stopped
at Octagon to switch a steel mill and rerail a freight car before going on to Holyrood.
The train then continued to Argentia and returned to Whitborne as train 208 where it
stayed overnight. On the next day the train travelled to Brigus Junction as train 232 and
from there to Carbonear as train 211 returning to Brigus Junction as # 212 and then to St
John's as train 232.
We photographed train 232 on the previous
day near Upper Gullies.
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