Photograph—Courtesy I. Wilson.
Photograph—Courtesy I. Wilson.
Photograph—Courtesy I. Wilson.
Photograph—Courtesy I. Wilson.
Reproductionof an early type of steam locomotive used by the Great Western Railway of Canada and photographed on the area then known as “Kent’s Paradise”, below Dundurn Park, Hamilton, Ont., in 1864. This locomotive was the first mogul built in Hamilton shops.
The occasion was the visit to Canada of Sir Thomas Dakin, English Chairman of the Great Western Railway, whose name appears on the engine. A key to the interesting headquarters group beside it is given below and some of the gentlemen in the picture still survive.