Caption: While primarily a passenger carrier, freight was an important source of revenue in the early days of the LPS, particularly coal which was brought across Lake Erie from Ashtabula, Ohio and then conveyed to London on the LPS where it was widely used as fuel in steam locomotives and as home heating fuel. As diesel locomotives replaced steam as natural gas and electricity replaced coal, freight traffic declined in relative importance. Freight trains were, for the most part, hauled by locomotives such as L1 pictured here in London but now preserved at the Elgin County Railway Museum in St. Thomas. Having said that, the writer recalls riding a single LPS car from London to St. Thomas not long before passenger service ended. A loaded box car in London was urgently needed in St. Thomas. Rather than wait for the next freight run, the passenger car paused in London, coupled to the box car and off we went. With the added weight, performance was a bit sluggish and arrival in St. Thomas was a few minutes late. But I had ridden on an electric interurban railway mixed passenger and freight train. Priceless!