The Toad Swamp and Punk Hollow Railroad

Golden Spike
From Jim Leggett

The golden spike ceremony was held July 17, 1938. Fred Jerome, President of TSME, wields the hammer. A.W. Leggett stands to his left. My dad, Billy Leggett, Jr. is behind the engineer running Fred's Timken "Four Aces" 4-8-4.

This track was the third of five layouts at four different locations for the T.S. & P.H. RR beginning with an indoor track for A.W. Leggett's electric box cab, down the hallway of a second floor flat in Montreal in the mid-1920's. Who knows what the downstairs neighbours thought about that? There was one switch to go into the kitchen on a spur.

The track in the photo is the first elevated track built. It was originally on the ground, straight up and down the side of the rented house on Curzon Avenue in St-Lambert and began service in 1932 or a bit earlier.