First Train Passing Through to the North
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This picture was taken at Huntsville. I have written nine books on steam railway operations in the Province of Ontario, and this location is obvious to me. See www.canadianbranchline.com
A July 30, 1926 article in The Toronto Daily Star (pg. 2, col. 1) implies that this photograph from the "Old Boys' Reunion". The article states that the locomotive was rescued from the scrapheap at Stratford and the cars from Point St. Charles. An excerpt from the article: In All Its Glory
The Huntsville Committee offered to pay for all the fitting out necessary to transform the old engine and cars into a semblance of their former glory so that when the train rattled along the rails on its way from Toronto to Huntsville to-day, it was bright with its original colors—maroon with gilt lettering.
The train consists of engine 269, the original engine that first puffed into Huntsville, a baggage car, a combination coach and mail car and a passenger coach. Like the cars, the engine sports a coat of fresh paint--in the old days all the engines were painted the particular color used by the railway, in this case, maroon.