Here are more photos of wartime trains taken by my father when he was 15 years old.
He was using a box camera for these. His captions are shown ...
'CN 5700 (MLW 1930) with westbound morning Toronto pool train, in Lachine near the future 48th Ave crossing, 1942.'
'CN 6200 class with westbound morning Toronto pool train.'
My efforts to explore the pool train era ...
My efforts to explore the pool train era ...
Pool Trains, Part 1
Pool Trains, Part 2 - At War
Pool Trains, Part 3 - The Pre-War Schedule Is Back
Pool Trains, Part 4 - Their Separate Ways
'CN 5200 class (4-6-2) westbound PM likely for Ottawa.'
'CP 2218 (CPR 1906-7) stopped at Westmount - possibly going to Sherbrooke.'
Looking at the baggage cart piled high with an apparently low-density load ... and with the Pride of Montreal (POM) bakery just on the other side of the Glen Road (cut stone) underpass ... it seems possible that fresh bread is being shipped out on this train, or on a train following it.
'CP 3632 (CPR 1909) 2-8-0 switching at Glen Yard, 1942.'
'The Glen' was opposite Westmount station.
An interlocking tower just east of Westmount station
controlled the movement of trains and drafts of coaches
travelling between Glen Yard and Windsor Station.
LC Gagnon, photographer, August 1948.
Shown with his homemade enlarger at his family apartment, Sherbrooke St, Westmount.
'The Glen' was opposite Westmount station.
An interlocking tower just east of Westmount station
controlled the movement of trains and drafts of coaches
travelling between Glen Yard and Windsor Station.
LC Gagnon, photographer, August 1948.
Shown with his homemade enlarger at his family apartment, Sherbrooke St, Westmount.