Old Time Trains

First transcontinental passenger train hauled by a diamond-stacked 4-4-0 stops at Winnipeg, June 1886. Manitoba Archives

This impressive looking structure was built 1882-3, gutted by fire, it was rebuilt in a slightly different style.(below)
Note structure to the left, sign reads: C.P.Ry. Dining Station

Immigrants by the hundreds, coming to the West. Circa 1900 Canadian Pacific Archives

Immigrants arriving in the 1890's Colonist car interior.

It was replaced by an even bigger structure (below) in 1904 that still exists, though not as a railway station.

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First transcontinental passenger train hauled by a diamond-stacked 4-4-0 stops at Winnipeg, June 1886. Manitoba Archives

This impressive looking structure was built 1882-3, gutted by fire, it was rebuilt in a slightly different style.(below)
Note structure to the left, sign reads: C.P.Ry. Dining Station

Immigrants by the hundreds, coming to the West. Circa 1900 Canadian Pacific Archives

Immigrants arriving in the 1890's Colonist car interior.

It was replaced by an even bigger structure (below) in 1904 that still exists, though not as a railway station.