Oshawa Ry. 300 (ON) and Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad 434 at Seashore Trolley Museum

Oshawa Railway No. 300 is a typical locomotive used by interurban lines and electrified steam railroads for hauling freight. It is a 600 volt, Class B electric locomotive built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in 1920 for the Central Limones Railway (Cuba) as their No. 26. (Westinghouse Electric supplied the electrical equipment, and Baldwin Locomotive Works built the body). Central Limones was a 33 mile line in Matanzas Province, Cuba for hauling sugar cane. Central Limones defaulted on the purchase and the locomotive never actually operated in Cuba. Oshawa Railway acquired the locomotive in 1923 and numbered it 300. Seashore purchased No. 300 from the Canadian National Railways for U.S. $1,300 when the Oshawa Railway dieselized in 1964 (when the railway moved away from electricity and operated with diesel instead). No. 300 came to Seashore by rail on its own wheels via CN and Boston & Maine Railroad. Pictured, No. 300 has moved Chicago, Aurora & Elgin No. 434 to Seashore's Highwood Carbarn yard.