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Caption: NS&T motor 20 heads eastbound down Welland Avenue in St. Catharines from the Welland Avenue car barns just to the west of this location (today the Midtown Plaza). Note the double track and crossover behind the motor, which ran from the the barns to a point just west of Geneva Street before becoming single track. The Regent gas station at the corner of Francis Street and Welland Avenue is today Gales gas station.
NS&T 20 was built by GE in March 1914 as South Brooklyn Railway number 6. It was sold to the Charleroi and West Side Street Railway of Pittsburg in December 1917, and then to the NS&T in 1937. It was scrapped in 1960.
Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.
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Great picture Jacob, and very interesting that the Regent gas station is still operating on the same site, some 66 years later. NS&T freight motors came in different sizes and shapes, and the numbering sequence does not appear to indicate motor size. Motor 21 is much the same size as 16 (shown in your posting of it at Thorold station) and here is 20, a much smaller and different shaped motor. The larger motors seemed to be the ones that travelled down the Welland Sub while the smaller motors operated in the St Catharines area. I only saw and photographed the small motors like 20 and 14 sitting in the St Catharines barn yard, so very interesting picture to see 20 running down Welland Ave. Thanks for posting, and do you have any more pictures of motors operating in freight/switching operation ? John
There is indeed more to come… stay tuned
Interurbans, motors, line cars, plus some others…
Update: Image date July 19, 1953
Jacob, thanks for update. The cross over track may have been for Port Dalhousie cars entering into downtown St. Catharines.