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Does this unit have any connection to L1 at the Port Stanley Terminal Railway?
Not really, other than the obvious – they are both GE 25-Ton locomotives and they have similar-looking paint schemes. In fact the paint schemes of the HLBR equipment could very well have been directly influenced by the PSTR during their short tenure in Pinafore Park in St. Thomas, as any shots I’ve seen of them before making their way down there showed them having a sort of maroon color in place of the green. PSTR equipment is standard-gauge whereas HLBR is all 42″ narrrow gauge. It was originally 44″ but when the 2 MLW 0-4-0ST locomotives were acquired from Canada Gypsum in Windsor, NS the line was re-gauged to match the new equipment. Sometime during the St. Thomas stint this 25-Tonner and a little 5-Ton Brookville joined the family, I’m not sure about the Brookie, but the GE came from the Bowater mill in Cornerbrook Newfoundland, and since all Newfie rail was 42″ gauge it was a perfect fit. When the HLBR brought the original equipment back to this area, the GE and Brookville came along with it.