Electric Freight Trains in Cambridge, Ontario - 1950s Film

16mm film footage of Lake Erie & Northern/ Grand River Railway electric freight trains, taken by Richard Glaze during the late 1950s.
This video is presented by the Halton County Radial Railway in association with www.transittoronto.ca.
Editing and 2021 footage by HCRR volunteer Trevor Parkins-Sciberras.
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[@clasherclasher]

Beautiful video! The colour is amazing, thanks for sharing this.

[@ninjatuna_14]

Quality footage! Hopefully Cambridge will see electric trains again whenever ION expands.

[@stevebarbier5602]

Nice footage thank you.....................

[@mountainking3]

Great footage. Wish there was more.

[@StreetcarMuseum]

This is all that Richard Glaze took of the LE&N/GRR electric locomotives unfortunately!

[@94stang87]

Great footage , just wish you had some going through Hespeler

[@weserman7522]

What a waste to remove that line! So cool to see electric freights in Ontario!

[@LibertyRailfan]

Great old video footage of the electric freight operation, thank you for sharing. This reminds me of what I just saw on my last road trip at Iowa Traction: ruclips.net/video/ubMoxRjqNNQ/видео.html

[@StreetcarMuseum]

Very cool, thanks for the link!