| Posted by FSWood on December 16, 2017 | |
Found the location on Google Maps and looking at aerial view shows what changes have happened during the last three decades, mostly with things disappearing but the building with mansard roof remains. Station is now unpainted brick. Building with blue door is gone. Spurs behind station are gone. Shed by yellow truck is gone. Tracks switcher and caboose occupy here is gone. There is just the faintest hint of where track beyond mint green house was. Spurs with boxcars, and the associated buildings, are gone with trees growing where buildings were.
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| Posted by FSWood on December 16, 2017 | |
Hey, just found something, go look up Brockville Railway Tunnel; Canada's first railway tunnel is in this town a little to east of this location. Tunnel was slowly built between 1854 and 1860, slowed by that old and famous financial issues thing.
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Loving this series!
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| Posted by thewiz on December 16, 2017 | |
I remember this manoeuvre well. Sometimes the Montreal section had a dome car which was lovely to ride in winter with the snow blowing up around the train at speed, but if one was going to Ottawa one had to remember to move up to the front carriages at or before Brockville.
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