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I can help you. That is a dead end track, terminating about 1/2 a klm further ahead. There used to be a small two track yard where the photog is standing that was used to block the outbound loads which back in the 1970′s ran about 15 cars a day, a mix of 40ft and 50ft’rs from the ONR, CNR and CPR. on the right side of that main was a lumber yard, the beer store and the express shed. The train would arrive from Timmins via Porquis about noon down the main that bordered Cambridge Ave and shoved their empties into track 1 and 2. Odd cars such as chemical tanks for the mill went in to track 4 or 5. After the inbounds had been put away the local switching was performed and the crew took lunch, then wyed the engines, taking any tank cars for the oil distributors with them, and headed back out towards Porquis, working the oil spur, then backed back into town, coupling on the the loads Abitibi had left on track 3, and shoved them all back down into the station area to sort them on the two tracks mentioned above. Then they were ready to go mid-afternoon back out to Porquis and in those days on to Englehart.
Now THAT was very much appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to write.
My pleasure. The operations I described were earlier, when way freights operated both directions from Englehart to Timmins, usually with some combination of 1500 and 1600. The northbound used to run in and switch Kirkland Lake and the southbound would work Nellie Lake and run into Iroquois Falls. Those train git cancelled mid 1970′s after an extended Abitibi strike and diminishing local traffic. Your photo was on later years when the northbound to Cochrane would work the Falls.
Again, thanks. Being what I guess you could say was ‘late on the scene’, I only recall 3 trains out of Englehart northward in the morning. I ‘think’ one went east to Rouyn; one to Timmins (Kidd?) and the other into Iroquois, back out and up to Cochrane. The Rouyn train came back after dark usually.