CPR Facilities

Crossing protection

Aerial view of downtown Vancouver yards 1953
Detailed description of facilities.

Views of downtown Vancouver yards 1950's - 1980's.

Inside Drake Street Roundhouse near the end.

Drake Street shops

STORIES: Memories of Drake Street Roundhouse

Older memories of Drake Street roundhouse

Aerial view of Hochelaga facilities in 1926.

Two aerial views of Angus Shops. Above at its peak circa 1940. Below near the end 1979 Click each image to enlarge.

Changing out the turntable for a longer one. Outremont (Montreal Terminal) 1942

2811 with Third Class symbol freight 911 due to depart Smiths Falls yard 12:45 p.m.for Chalk River Subdivision destined to Sault Ste.Marie. July 19,1958 Smiths Falls Robert F. Collins/James A.Brown Collection

Note: On the headend is CP 40876 a 40 foot wood steel frame staggered doors box car just renumbered from auto car series 296307-299799. Mixed in with the 36 foot 2448 cu.ft. steel frame stock cars (2000+ cars) is 277052 one of two hundred new 40 foot 3863 cu. ft. steel stock cars.

Twin diesel sanding towers at Toronto Yard with famous one-of-a-kind 8921. 4/22/1980 Clayton Langstaff

Glen Yard Montreal. October 1976 Kevin Day

Straight ahead is a G5 class 1200, to the left a 2400 with Royal Hudsons at far left and right.
Diesel intruder at far right. Summer 1959 Frank Bunker

Aerial view of downtown Vancouver yards 1953
Detailed description of facilities.

Aerial view of Ottawa West roundhouse.

Ottawa West with 2401 near the old coal chutes soon to be replaced.
Stock car spotted at Stores Department carried OCS parts from Angus.
c. 1950 L B Chapman Collection

Modern coaling plant at Ottawa West. G2 2582 has its small 12 ton tender filled with an extra half ton or so of coal!
New RS-10 8481 delivered 4/28/55 dates this photo. Ron Visockis Collection

CP 233 westbound with 3096_STLH_8223_8207 at Dalhousie Mills Mileage 41.6 Winchester Sub. right on the Quebec-Ontario boundary, passing old water tank apparently still in use by the town judging by the gauge. The red paint is just too bright but, never-the-less a nice restoration. This style of water tank with a stone foundation was in use at a number of locations on the CPR including Perth and Renfrew. (See below for more water facilities) May 5, 2007 Brian Nicholson

Preston assigned 8161 in the Electric yard Galt. Note overhead crane in center background and scale at far left.
Main yard on the Galt Sub. in the foreground.

Typical crossing watchman's tower. Chatham Oct. 15, 1980

Water tank still in use long after steam engines ended,
serving the small community of Spanish, ON. July 13, 1973

Very typical standpipe to water steam locomotives.
Likely built by Fairbanks-Morse which also made scales.
Galt March 1959

Standard steel water tank seen all over the CPR.
Long after dieselization. It still exists long after abandonment of line.