Identity area
Reference code
CA ON00156 2013-41/2
Title
C.N.R. Engine - Zwick's West
Date(s)
- 1968-1995 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred from Recreation, Culture and Community Services Department of the City of Belleville, 2013.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Copy of agreement with Canadian National Railway Company concerning the purchase of locomotive 2534. (The engine was permanently loaned to the City in 1968 and was purchased in 1986 for $1.00. The file also includes an invitation and program for the official unveiling of the plaque at the locomotive on 23 June 1968; Polaroid photographs of the locomotive from 1990; and newspaper clippings from 1995 concerning the discovery of asbestos on the engine.