Aroostook Valley No. 54

The Aroostook Valley Railroad operated 27 miles of track in Aroostook County, Maine which were electrified with 1,200 V DC in 1910. In the beginning the motive power consisted of a GE 40-ton steeplecab and a motorized boxcar. In 1924, they received the 60-ton Baldwin-Westinghouse shown here. It was numbered 54 and belonged to the Westinghouse class D. Baldwin designated it type 8-4/150-E-5. It was powered by four 150 hp motors and weighed 120,000 pounds. Its main task was to haul potatoes. Due to the harsh winters in northern Maine, it was equipped with snow plows. In 1946 it came to the Cornwall Street Railway in Cornwall, Ontario and was numbered 8. There it joined several other Baldwin-Westinghouse steeplecabs.