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Caption: A general overview of Canadian Pacific's Guelph Junction is shown, looking west along the Galt Sub in August 1959. The caboose and tail-end of a westbound freight is visible, along with the westbound signals, water tower, and coal tower. The shop building is hidden in the background, and the station is out of view just to the right of the photo. The CP Goderich Sub to Hamilton (presently part of the Hamilton Sub) branches out at the bottom left, with the north portion of the Goderich Sub continuing to Guelph (the Guelph Junction Railway) and on to Goderich partially visible in the background on the right.
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Very nice capture of all the older structures.
Every time I look at photos like this, I keep thinking those were better days. Except for dentistry, of course):o)
Those days, you could sink your teeth into railroading…..pun intended and worth every Peso
This how I remember the JCT when I started going there as a young lad with my father.
I belive that the double track ended about 10 cars ahead of that van, the staggered signal with its back to us, governed eastward movements over the spring switch. That switch was later moved to the vicinity of the road crossing at the west end of the yard. It was removed when CTC arrived at “the Jct.” in the early 1980s. The end of double track was moved even further west to its current location.
I should add, this track configuration was already changed by the time I started in 1973. Oldtimers sometimes talked about the old track setup, that’s where I got some of my info. It seems that a lot of things changed in the decade before I started.