c1957 steam engine 6167 loading coal during winter station stop.
Toronto. For many decades travel by train was elite. Train travel gave way to aircraft in time and then passenger trains slowly disappeared for the most part. Most modern day trains are busy shipping goods across North America. A couple of decades ago I used Via Rail to go out to BC and back. Through southern Ontario the train used the old CPR rail line.
During his pursuit of photographic history, my good friend George Dunbar happened upon a Facebook account featuring Train Art. George writes, “A fine archive of train photos here“. While the site is American in origin, many items are common to Canada as are two of the largest North American rail lines: CN and CP. Many railway companies used photographers to record events and the photographs are now held in there archives.
The winter scene (an amateur photo) depicted here is at the old CNR Allandale, Ontario station about an hour north of Toronto. It shows a train from the big smoke taking on more coal as it travels west. Today, the station still exists, but as an historic site. There is nearby stop for GO train service not for CNR – passenger or freight.
Do a browse on Google to see the variety of train photographs old and new. Also, train photos are another great reason to visit a local library or archive.
