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Cedarside, looking westbound in the direction of Canoe River, August 2011.The troop train should have stopped at Cedarside siding (righthand track). On November 21, 1950, a westbound troop train, Passenger Extra 3538 West—consisting of the S-2-a class 2-8-2 steam locomotive 3538 and 17 cars, about half of which had wood bodies with steel underframes—was travelling from Camp Shilo, Manitoba ...
The CNR acquired its first 4-8-4 Confederation locomotives in 1927. Over the next 20 years, it ordered over 200 for passenger and heavy freight service. The CNR also used several 4-8-2 Mountain locomotives, almost exclusively for passenger service. No. 6060, a streamlined 4-8-2, was the last CN steam locomotive, running in excursion service in ...
This line opened for traffic on July 21, 1836, although there are cases of animal-drawn mining tramways in Nova Scotia from the 18th century onward. Thousands of railways followed the C&SL and were given a charter by the federal or provincial governments, although in most cases these charters never resulted in an actual line being constructed.
Renumbered CNR class J-8-a No. 590–595 [9] – No. 593 preserved and remainder scrapped 1957–1958 196 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-6-2 1926 59531 Renumbered CNR class J-8-b No. 596 [9] – scrapped 3/1957 197 Montreal Locomotive Works: 4-6-2 1926 67129 Renumbered CNR class J-8-b No. 597 [9] – scrapped 4/1957 198–199 American Locomotive ...
The Goderich–Exeter Railway was created in 1992 [1] by its owner, RailTex (subsequently purchased by RailAmerica in 2000, and Genesee & Wyoming in late 2012), to operate over Canadian National Railway's Goderich Subdivision, 46 miles (74 km) of track between Stratford and Goderich, Ontario; and its Exeter Subdivision, 24 miles (39 km) of track between Centralia, Ontario and Clinton Jct. that ...
The Canadian National Railway Alderdale Subdivision was a railway line in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.It originally opened in 1915 as a part of the Canadian Northern Railway's transcontinental mainline.
On December 20, 1918, a Privy Council order directed CNoR and CGR to be managed under the name Canadian National Railway (CNR) as a means to simplify funding and operations, but CNoR and CGR would not formally merge and cease corporate existence until January 20, 1923, the date Parliament passed the final act to incorporate CNR. [25]
In Track Warrant Control, or TWC, the train dispatcher issues "track warrants" via radio that authorize the train between two specified limits. The limits are often mileposts or stations. The track warrant may authorize a train to proceed to a station and "clear the main", or enter a siding so an oncoming train can pass.