@doncarpo80 Hi. Thanks for the comment. Did you mean that your grandfather is the engineer shown in this video? Was his name Mr. Weston Rock? I would love to know who the driver is on this train. My grandfather used to be the running shed foreman and foreman boilermaker at the TGR in the 1920s.
Search "Last Train to San Fernando" a film by Glen Beadon.
@doncarpo80 Thanks so much! I'll pass that along to Mr. Glen Beadon who operates the Trinidad's Lost Railways channel. He's currently writing a book on the TGR. Do you by any chance have any photographs of the TGR at all?
I used to play on the train line near couva back in 1962, was probably 6 years old. Apart from watching the passenger steam/oil trains pass by i was absolutely amazed to see a massive caroni deisel train as it thunded by..you should have heard the noise from its engine as it accelerated - indescribable! They should never have shut down the railways in trinidad.
@tigereye8593 It was quite a sophisticated system with a modern signalling system. Of course, history has proven that Trinidad should have kept her railways in view of the gridlock there today.
@oldtimecalypso I agree they should have never got rid of the train, the government of the day was very shortsighted and should have modernised the railway years later the last pnm goverment under manning attempted to bring the train back but it was too expensive to do so now trinidad is paying for it
Ah boy the abandoned #26. Thankfully my dad was around when it was cut up in 72 and he saved a piece of it. Stashed away at our other house-it's a driving line connector bar. Even born in 86, I was sad to know that I missed the twilight years of these beautiful behemoths. :(
The only train I ever saw in operation in Trinidad was owned owned by Caroni Limited on a track near to the STE Madeline Sugar Factory. I have never seen a public train operate in Trinidad and I am born and raised here. WOW!
This is the best footage of the TGR I have ever seen. No 26 was built by the Montreal Locomotive works of Canada in 1921. At 21 tons it's driving wheels were 4' 3 1/4" in diameter. Its wheel arrangement was 4-6-0. Originally coal burning these locomotives converted to oil burners in around 1936. No 26 was abandoned at St Joseph in the early 60s where it remained for many years. It was cut up in 1971 or 72. If you have exact dates for any of this or comments I would like to hear it. GB 6-3-10
Great video my grandfather was the engineer on that train
doncarpo80 5 months ago
@doncarpo80 Hi. Thanks for the comment. Did you mean that your grandfather is the engineer shown in this video? Was his name Mr. Weston Rock? I would love to know who the driver is on this train. My grandfather used to be the running shed foreman and foreman boilermaker at the TGR in the 1920s.
Search "Last Train to San Fernando" a film by Glen Beadon.
oldtimecalypso 5 months ago
@oldtimecalypso yes it is and his name is Mr. George Carpette
doncarpo80 5 months ago
@doncarpo80 Thanks so much! I'll pass that along to Mr. Glen Beadon who operates the Trinidad's Lost Railways channel. He's currently writing a book on the TGR. Do you by any chance have any photographs of the TGR at all?
oldtimecalypso 5 months ago
@doncarpo80 It's part of a number of films you will find under "Trinidad's Lost Railways" here on YouTube.
oldtimecalypso 5 months ago
I used to play on the train line near couva back in 1962, was probably 6 years old. Apart from watching the passenger steam/oil trains pass by i was absolutely amazed to see a massive caroni deisel train as it thunded by..you should have heard the noise from its engine as it accelerated - indescribable! They should never have shut down the railways in trinidad.
isatrini4ever 8 months ago
@isatrini4ever Look up "Trinidads Lost Railway" on YouTube. There's lots of videos taken of the USM diesel cane trains there, shot by Glen Beadon.
oldtimecalypso 8 months ago
my grandfather tells me stories of trinidad's railways.....its amazing the history of the island.
tigereye8593 1 year ago
@tigereye8593 It was quite a sophisticated system with a modern signalling system. Of course, history has proven that Trinidad should have kept her railways in view of the gridlock there today.
oldtimecalypso 1 year ago
@oldtimecalypso I agree they should have never got rid of the train, the government of the day was very shortsighted and should have modernised the railway years later the last pnm goverment under manning attempted to bring the train back but it was too expensive to do so now trinidad is paying for it
curtiss744 1 year ago
Ah boy the abandoned #26. Thankfully my dad was around when it was cut up in 72 and he saved a piece of it. Stashed away at our other house-it's a driving line connector bar. Even born in 86, I was sad to know that I missed the twilight years of these beautiful behemoths. :(
evankimori 1 year ago
The only train I ever saw in operation in Trinidad was owned owned by Caroni Limited on a track near to the STE Madeline Sugar Factory. I have never seen a public train operate in Trinidad and I am born and raised here. WOW!
fuzzybearphoto 2 years ago
This is the best footage of the TGR I have ever seen. No 26 was built by the Montreal Locomotive works of Canada in 1921. At 21 tons it's driving wheels were 4' 3 1/4" in diameter. Its wheel arrangement was 4-6-0. Originally coal burning these locomotives converted to oil burners in around 1936. No 26 was abandoned at St Joseph in the early 60s where it remained for many years. It was cut up in 1971 or 72. If you have exact dates for any of this or comments I would like to hear it. GB 6-3-10
galbeadon 2 years ago
awesome
abu3333 2 years ago