Trains supplies two important historical hand-drawn images and an interesting car interior photo.
from: Trains and Travel, Railroad and Photo Annual, 1953
While 3/4 front views of locomotives are nice, interior rolling stock photographs are dandy for depicting the human experience of railroading and rail travel.
Photos by AC Kalmbach, himself, from: Trains and Travel, Railroad and Photo Annual, 1953
Somewhere I read that a surprising number of light steam locomotives operated from the beginning of the CNR (they generally originated from the CNR's predecessor railways) until near the end of steam in 1960.
... Of course, these light locomotives would have been rebuilt a number of times. They continued in service because they were ideally suited to light-rail branch lines which had never been upgraded with heavier rail (or in some cases with significant crushed rock ballast, or tie plates) since their construction.
Eventually, these branch lines died because of: the loss of freight and express business to trucking firms running on 'new free paved highways'; the end of Royal Mail contracts which had subsidized local passenger trains; or the growth of diesel locomotive rosters (including Budd cars) which allowed more efficient and economical servicing of the branch lines with diesel power.
After its appearance on the Westport Subdivision, which was abandoned in 1952 ...
The 86 was photographed by Don Wood heading south from Owen Sound as seen in August 1958 Trains.