Comments on: Setting off one final tank car for storage and allowing the previously cloudy skies to open up, the pair of F units momentarily pause under the old coaling tower http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sun, 10 May 2026 01:02:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=31783#comment-39998 Stephen C. Host Thu, 21 May 2020 19:06:08 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/12802.jpg#comment-39998 Stuart, my understanding is it was built 1943 by CN for the Wabash to have another spot to fuel trains. Would have been to aid in the war effort, since just about everything had to be approved by the wsr board to be constructed in those days.. I can only imagine the traffic on the line was insane to justify it. clearly it wasn't used very long since the wabash dieselised by 1951 or so. Stuart, my understanding is it was built 1943 by CN for the Wabash to have another spot to fuel trains.

Would have been to aid in the war effort, since just about everything had to be approved by the wsr board to be constructed in those days.. I can only imagine the traffic on the line was insane to justify it.

clearly it wasn’t used very long since the wabash dieselised by 1951 or so.

]]> By: Stuart Streit http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=31783#comment-24833 Stuart Streit Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:31:30 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/12802.jpg#comment-24833 Could someone help out with background on the coal tower? Could someone help out with background on the coal tower?

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