A labour of love by volunteers and members of the Grand Falls-Windsor Heritage Society has restored a piece of the town’s history that was close to being lost forever.

The 1953 Plymouth switcher – a small locomotive engine – was used by the AND Company in central Newfoundland at the height of pulp and paper operations in the region.

Chair of Collections with the Grand Falls-Windsor Heritage Society, Brian Reid says the switcher was put into storage after it retired from service, and was eventually donated to the Trinity Loop amusement park by Abitibi Price in the 1980s where it was put on display.

When the park closed, the engine sat abandoned, becoming the target of vandals. Reid says the Heritage Society first tried to gain access to the engine in 2018, but that effort failed.

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