Description: Saddle tank steam locomotive no. 3 pauses with a load of rock from the east pit while its driver and fireman shovel on more coal into the locomotive’s coal bunker (at back of cab). Photo taken 20 February 1954. Cooksville Brick went through several name changes. Built in 1912 as National Brick Co, it then became Cooksville Shale and Brick Co. in 1922. In 1924 it became the Cooksville Brick Company, and the Cooksville La Prairie Brick Co. in 1953, and then Domtar (Clay Division). |