CPR Facilities

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Roundhouses, shops and other facilities.

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Aerial of Montreal 1947 (zoomable link)

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New yard Winnipeg (1904)

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Aerial view of downtown Vancouver yards 1953
Detailed description of facilities.

Views of downtown Vancouver yards 1950's - 1980's.

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West Shops stores building in downtown Calgary. Built 1898. Doug Phillips Collection

Note the two large round disks in front of two men in center of photograph. Written on one is:
C.P.R. c/o S.K. (store keeper) Calgary 2 pcs. Similar message on small can at far left.

 

 

Built to maintain coal unit trains.

Moose Jaw yard. Jim Booth Collection

Sure looks like winter! Yard office Brandon, Manitoba mid-1960's Jim Booth

Another view of the immediate area Brandon taken from the bridge. Nicer weather!

Old style scales with four rails used for faster move across scales without weighing and for locomotive to bypass scale.
There is even a derail. What a place to derail anything! Smiths Falls June 24, 2000 Three photos Rich Stewart.

 

Typical crossing watchman's tower. Chatham Oct. 15, 1980

Crossing protection signals

2811 with Third Class symbol freight 911 due to depart Smiths Falls yard 12:45 p.m.for Chalk River Subdivision destined to Sault Ste.Marie. July 19,1958 Smiths Falls Robert F. Collins/James A.Brown Collection

Note: On the headend is CP 40876 a 40 foot wood steel frame staggered doors box car just renumbered from auto car series 296307-299799. Mixed in with the 36 foot 2448 cu.ft. steel frame stock cars (2000+ cars) is 277052 one of two hundred new 40 foot 3863 cu. ft. steel stock cars.

CP 233 westbound with 3096_STLH_8223_8207 at Dalhousie Mills Mileage 41.6 Winchester Sub. right on the Quebec-Ontario boundary, passing old water tank apparently still in use by the town judging by the gauge. The red paint is just too bright but, never-the-less a nice restoration. This style of water tank with a stone foundation was in use at a number of locations on the CPR including Perth and Renfrew. (See below for more water facilities) May 5, 2007 Brian Nicholson

G1 class 4-6-2 2224 backing onto its train after making a lift from the yard in Perth
while working the Havelock-Smiths Falls Way Freight. Fall 1958. Bill Sanderson

Water tank still in use long after steam engines ended,
serving the small community of Spanish, ON. July 13, 1973

Very typical standpipe to water steam locomotives.
Likely built by Fairbanks-Morse which also made scales.
Galt March 1959

Standard steel water tank seen all over the CPR.
Long after dieselization. It still exists long after abandonment of line.

Preston assigned 8161 in the Electric yard Galt. Note overhead crane in center background and scale at far left.
Main yard on the Galt Sub. in the foreground.