Re: TG&B 2-6-0 specs plus another photo of "Toronto"

Hi Bruce, your post of the Baldwin spec sheet sent me scurrying to Rod Clarke’s book, and it covers the ordering of the Moguls in detail on pages 209 through 216. The spec sheet is on page 213, page 214 has “Baldwin Drawing 12-D No. 2” dated July 1871, and then Rod’s adaptation on page 215 – that is freshly drawn and easier to read than the faded original.

A revision of the original drawing, labelled “Baldwin Drawing 12-D No. 3” and dated ten years later on May 30, 1881, is referenced but not reproduced in Rod’s book. It “shows the engine modified for the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad with a much larger firebox.” This is what both Lavallee and Clarke used as their confirmation for disposition of the “Toronto”, and therefore I wonder what the date was for your roster of P&AC engines, and if the acquisition of “Toronto” was after it???

Rod also points out an Aug 27, 1881 notation on the spec sheet that you posted, concerning a smoke stack change from a “Diamond Yankee” to a “Radley and Hunter”, by which time I gather the locomotives had been returned to Baldwin for their upgrades and further sale.

Digressing a bit, pages 216 to 220 of Rod’s book detail the 1874 Consolidations, with page 219 reproducing their Oct 20/1873 Baldwin spec sheet.

Lastly, here’s another photo of “Toronto” taken near Orangeville, Ontario, probably in summer 1872. She’s on a work train, and approaching is yet another “Director’s Special” on its way to see the progress of construction on the Teeswater branch (any excuse for a party!!!). The locomotive approaching is one of the small Avonside 4-4-0s, complete with decorative flags and coat of arms on the smokebox door. Everything was egalitarian that day, with the top hats posing with the navvies. Note the "Toronto" sports her original cowcatcher, which she had lost by the date of the photo I posted originally.

Cheers,
Ralph