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The Railway
In Clarenville
Clarenville Heritage Society
Keeping the Railway History Alive
December, 2005 – The Clarenville Heritage society extends the length of
track and adds a 40’ Flat Car and a Locomotive (formerly used at the
Newfoundland Hardwoods) to the display
Photograph: Courtesy
Bonnie
Jarvis-Lowe ©
The Clarenville Heritage society has engine
No. 30 from Newfoundland Hardwoods which was built in 1949
by Plymouth Locomotive Works in Plymouth Ohio, USA, a
Division of the Fate-Root-Heath Company. Weight is 35 tonnes.
According to the staff at Newfoundland Hardwoods, both of
these Locomotives were brought from the Argentia Base to
Clarenville in the 1960's. To date, Hardwoods still has No.
31 though no longer in use.
Rail operations for Newfoundland Hardwoods ceased in late
2005. Up to that point it was the only remaining industrial
rail operation in Newfoundland.
Their locomotive no. 30 was transported from the Hardwoods
site to the Train station on December 6, 2005 by 40 tonne
crane from Avondale. Also transported was a 40' flat car.
The whole operation took 4 hours to complete.
Both railway items were donated by Newfoundland Hardwoods
Ltd. to the Clarenville Heritage Society for public display
and preservation of Hardwoods Railway history. |
Information: Courtesy
Stephen Bonnell ©
Spring 2006 - They are doing
restoration work on the Plymouth Switcher
which is located next to the Railway Station
Plymouth Switcher in 2002
taken at Newfoundland Hardwoods Clarenville
Photograph: Courtesy
Peter Hawksford ©
Plymouth Switcher No. 30
Restoration Project completed
September 2006
Photograph: Courtesy
Stephen Bonnell ©
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