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Caption: A lot can be said about this image........so...........The trash. Disgusting, but what can you do? Some of us on this group can recall days when trying to photograph stopped trains (or even moving ones!) and just as the shutter clicked, someone on board was throwing garbage out the window. It was almost an epidemic. Metal water cans (10 oz) were the worst. Then it became plastic water bottles. And everything else. This image is an example of that. Wind from the NW has blown collective trash into the ditch. There are work cars on the North siding by the old Winona station as the CN Budds, Toronto-bound, slow to pick up passengers. One has to wonder if anyone used that classic outhouse in the photo, other than maintenance crews. There were times when I used to see them everywhere along the railways. They're all gone, and they're certainly not in the hands of collectors of rail artifacts. :o) Probably torched.
Winona station burned down in the fall of 1975. It was located just to the east of Winona Rd; and west of this crossing fruit storage building(s) stood and sidings were usually occupied by cars left in order the locals could fill them with baskets of various crops to rush to the Toronto market. It was once very busy along the line in Niagara, with fruit storage buildings at every community. Naturally, this traffic was eventually lost to trucking, and the daily seasonal local ceased to exist.
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A very nice picture Arnold, ignoring the clutter, of the station at Winona. I don’t recall ever seeing it in person. All those little station buildings that stood along the the tracks throughout southern Ontario marked every town. Most were demolished in the 1970′s weren’t they? It’s too bad now that they are gone but thanks for shooting so many of them.
I’ve rarely seen photos of the Winona station – thanks for sharing.
While you discuss the garbage epidemic along railways it’s pretty safe to say it’s not quite so today – when I was in the UK it was quite the opposite….
Is it because of a difference in culture? Or perhaps the difference is in the amount of passenger rail traffic in this country and the lack of windows that open…
Either way, despite the trash it’s still a nugget of history that I appreciate
I would imagine that someone with many years of railroading that is on this group will explain that over the years the train crews may have been told to clean up their act. I recall places where trains have habitually waited for meets; the incredible number of cans and bottles tossed out the cab windows. Not any more. Not being an employee of the railroads, I assume there are still bottles of water consumed regularly, but there must be receptacles within the cabs now for proper disposal. It makes a world of difference. Now, all we have to do is educate the slobs that DON’T work for the railroads.
A truly typical scene of branch line passenger service in the days of extensive Budd car service and rural train order stations, this one even includes the necessary outhouse. Thanks for the memories Arnold.