Caption: As it was mentioned in the comments on John Freyseng's shot of 5107, here is a shot of the joint Upper Canada Railway Society and Canadian Railroad Historical Association trip behind E-10-a 2-6-0 90 and N-4-a 2-8-0 2649 at Bancroft.
Departing Belleville amid the light rain that morning at 0645h - with a crew from the National Film Board setup in the baggage car - the excursion ran along the Campbellford Subdivision to Anson Junction, taking the east leg of the wye onto the Maynooth Subdivision. The train would pause briefly at Bancroft before proceeding three miles north to York River where the train could be wyed for the return trip. Arriving back at Anson Junction, the excursion would continue south into Trenton, turning on the wye before returning north to Trenton Junction to rejoin the Oshawa Sub mainline for the short twelve mile run back to Belleville. The special reached a top speed of 55mph on the high iron, running barely 30 minutes ahead of Toronto - Montreal train 6, due into Belleville at 1815h.
Notes of the trip per John Freyseng's extensive article in the June 1959 UCRS newsletter. Neither of these locomotives would last another year, with 90 meeting the torch in February 1960, and 2649 that March.
Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.
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Those must have been great excursions. Alway like seeing the steam photos.
I am informed the contraption seen just above 90′s tender was used to load coal into the tenders. 2649 looks to be spotted to be topped up here.