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Caption: CN 2023, playing the roll of "yard switcher", rolls to a stop by the VIA Shack after working a cut of cars at the north end of the yard in the community of Gogama. This community was little known by anyone outside of the hunting and fishing crowd until two nasty CN oil train derailments occurred within a few miles of this location earlier this year. But for me it was another one of those places to visit, just to see what was there. It was still a stop for VIA, due to its remoteness; but according to the timetable the westbound Canadian paid a visit at 2315, not a time to want to stand out in the deep night amongst the bugs of summer and the winds of winter waiting for a train that wasn't often on time. I wonder now if there still is a "station" here, or, if it is like Westree some 22 miles down the line, just a place in the North forgotten.
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Another one of your “northern Ontario” shots that you recorded. I’m guessing that in the intervening 30 years much has disappeared. Maybe it’s just a sign now.
Any idea why there is (was) a yard there? I imagine logging and so forth but there’s still a wye there that seemed to lead to a industry of sorts..
The Gogama area is big for tourism, the outdoor activities and great fishing bring in a lot of people. Logging is still quite active and the community once had a couple of mills. RR ties made here years back, thus it became a MoW headquarters of sorts. That might explain the wye. I can’t think of any ‘industry’ other than the aforementioned.
Great shot. Any idea if the “station: is still there?
There must be ‘something’ there seeing it is still a VIA stop. Maybe some portable kiosk.
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