Rolly Martin Country

Exploring Canadian railways, history, technology, et cetera.
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03 October 2025

CPR 1982 Windsor - Detroit, Local Rail Maps for Shippers

Six railways and two barge lines utilize the Windsor gateway, they say. This was a year before Minivan production began and 49 years after r...

27 September 2025

Ezra Miller Saved Lives

Sixty-four passengers were killed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mud Run station, Kidder Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania at 2002hr o...

19 September 2025

CNR 1922 CD Howe's Terminal Grain Unloader

Having seen my post about the grain doors and end doors used with wooden boxcars, Jim Christie thought I might be interested in this piece h...

12 September 2025

1908 Grain Doors and End Doors

Now extinct, wooden grain doors and end doors were once quite common in and on early Canadian wooden boxcars. Specialized steel cars have r...

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