Caption: A typical summer evening in a small, Southern Ontario town finds the local yard switcher wobbling up the yard lead across Downie Street while townsfolk pause their business to wait for the hissing beast to pass. The engineer aboard Canadian National O-12-a, 0-6-0 switcher 7411 looks intently towards the rear of his train watching for hand signals from the brakemen as they shove around the bend into Stratford yard. The battlemented tower of Stratford's station and smoke from another locomotive loom in the background, and like the steam power seen around the yard and still emerging from the big shop, the tower is on borrowed time. It will be demolished during the 1960s. Originally part of the Canadian Northern Railway fleet built by CLC of Kingston, the 1920-built switcher would survive until scrapping in August, 1958.

A recent post by Steve Host, snapped in 2020, shows a similar scene as shot from a couple hundred feet further down the road.

Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.