The Toad Swamp and Punk Hollow Railroad
Golden Spike
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. See A 3/4 Inch Scale Electric Locomotive.
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.
Bill (A.W.) Leggett Sr. stands behind his second 3/4" Pacific "Addie" built in 1938. To right is Leo Lapalme and Fred Jerome (on flat car). The photo was taken on April 17, 1947 by Bill Leggett Jr at the home track of the Leggett's Toad Swamp & Punk Hollow R.R. on Hickson Ave., St. Lambert, Que.
Bill Leggett Sr. fills the tender of his freelance ten-wheeler on his home track in St. Lambert, Quebec. June 28, 1966.
Carol Harper drives Jim Leggett's Toad Swamp & Punk Hollow 'Mogul' with Fred Motten following up on his Hullo Central yard switcher. Both locos were built by Jim Turnbull. Montreal Live Steamers club track, August 1994. From TrainNet.org.
