ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE NO. 17 - 80 TONS Locomotive 17 was the last electric locomotive serving Cornwall. 1930 - Built by Baldwin Westinghouse for Salt Lake And Utah Railway, U.S.A.~70 ton locomotive. 1954 - Rebuilt to 80 tons and operated by Grand River Railway, Preston, Ontario. 1963 to 1971 - Cornwall Street Railway Light And Power Company Limited (C. S. R. . &P. Co. Ltd.), Cornwall, Ontario. 1971 - Canadian National Railways, retired from service. Cornwall's electric railway operation began in 1896 with the Cornwall Electric Street Railway Company Limited purchasing two locomotives to handle freight from the Grand Trunk Railway to local industries over their electric street car trackage on Pitt Street and Water Street. The Company defaulted on bonds in 1900 and in 1902 operations continued under C. S. R. L. &P. Co. Ltd. formed by the bond holders, Sun Life Assurance Company. Service was from C.N.R., C.P.R. and N.Y.C. railroads to local industries, interplant and inplant switching. In 1948 trolley coaches replaced street cars and freight cars were gradually removed from the city streets. In 1971 the C.N.R. purchased the freight operations and retired the electric locomotives ending a 75 year era of electric locomotives in Cornwall. Locomotive 17, was donated by the C.N.R. in 1971, and restored in 1981 under the direction of Mr, D. R. Seymour, retired Assistant General Manager of C. S. R. L. &P. Co. Ltd., for the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce, with funds from the City of Cornwall and assisted by C. S. R. L. &P. Co. Ltd.

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