Today we head out to find the ghost trains of Seal Cove...(more)
Today we head out to find the ghost trains of Seal Cove and Holyrood Newfoundland, what we found was amazing, old 100year old locomotive tenders that are stamped " Reid Newfoundland Company ".
These tenders predate the "Newfoundland Railway" of 1926.
Interesting series of videos, you wont want to miss a moment of any of this one.
With considerable experience in building bridges and railways elsewhere in North America, the Scottish-Canadian contractor Robert Gillespie Reid ( 1842 -- 1908 ) undertook in 1890 to complete the railway from St John's to Hall's Bay for the Newfoundland government. In 1893 he agreed to continue the railway to Port-aux-Basques, and operate it for ten years. Reid completed the railway in 1897.
1884 Harbour Grace Railway
1890 Placentia Railway
1893 Hall's Bay Railway
1897 The Newfoundland Northern and Western Railway
1898 (The Reid-Newfoundland Company)
1923 Newfoundland Government Railway
1926 Newfoundland Railway
1949 Canadian National
198x Terra Transport - CN derivative formed to operate railway
1989 - 23 NF210 units remain on Terra Transport's roster. (Units 914, 917, 919, 922-925, 927-928, 930-935, 937-943, 946). Locomotives have been promised to the communities of Port aux Basques, Bay St. George and Bishop's Falls. Units 909 and 918 have been retired.(less)
