Deggesty selector This is the E&N Ry station at it's northern terminus in Courtenay, Vancouver Island. The RDC ran until 2012 when service was suspended due to embargoed tracks and bridge structures. Money was arranged, except the Federal portion never seemed to be forthcoming. Then local municipalities got annoyed and withdrew their own offers. It's all in limbo, but I'd say it's moribund...badly so. I find it quite sad that this line currently has no operation on it. My wife and I made three trips; the first was from Victoria to Nanaimo (and back by bus because we had a time constraint (ferry from Seattle and back)); the second was a round trip covering the entire line to Courtney, and the third was from Nanaimo (bus from Vancouver) to Courtney and then down to Victoria (then bus back to Vancouver.
selector This is the E&N Ry station at it's northern terminus in Courtenay, Vancouver Island. The RDC ran until 2012 when service was suspended due to embargoed tracks and bridge structures. Money was arranged, except the Federal portion never seemed to be forthcoming. Then local municipalities got annoyed and withdrew their own offers. It's all in limbo, but I'd say it's moribund...badly so.
This is the E&N Ry station at it's northern terminus in Courtenay, Vancouver Island. The RDC ran until 2012 when service was suspended due to embargoed tracks and bridge structures. Money was arranged, except the Federal portion never seemed to be forthcoming. Then local municipalities got annoyed and withdrew their own offers. It's all in limbo, but I'd say it's moribund...badly so.
I find it quite sad that this line currently has no operation on it. My wife and I made three trips; the first was from Victoria to Nanaimo (and back by bus because we had a time constraint (ferry from Seattle and back)); the second was a round trip covering the entire line to Courtney, and the third was from Nanaimo (bus from Vancouver) to Courtney and then down to Victoria (then bus back to Vancouver.
-Crandell
EnzoampsAshland, VA, wow. I lived there half of 1980, and I don't recall ever going to that station. Too busy working a million hours up at King's Dominion.
Thank you for your service!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Ashland, VA, wow. I lived there half of 1980, and I don't recall ever going to that station. Too busy working a million hours up at King's Dominion.
Why thank you! And the same to you!
Here is your K-1 Wayne. Merry Christmas!
That is just stunning! That should be your Christmas card for next year.
Very evocative too, I can almost hear the whistle of an approaching Erie K-1 in the distance.
We got our first snow of the season in NJ yesterday (12/10) My local station, Oradell, NJ (former NJ&NY / Erie RR) looked like a Christmas card. The station will be spending another winter protecting her waiting passengers from the weather.
A 2016 view of the area with the station pictured below shows that the station has been demolished and the street has had a underpass constructed so it passes under the railroad.
Growing up I lived in Garrett, IN for several years with my father being Superintendent of the B&O at the time
Vince, concerning smoking we had a saying in the Marines...
"I'm gonna die someday, I might as well have a say in it!"
And man, you should have heard the screams when they started leaving the cigarettes out of the C-rations!
Wayne
Firelock- Coffee and a smoke sitting in your car at the station...can't tell you how many times I've done that...told ya, we would be buddies. There is quite a difference between American and Canadian tobacco, ...I could just hear us..."hey give me one of your's....ok but Ill take one of your's". Of course we will get lectured by someone now.
Well, there's one good thing about the Staples Mill station. See that photo of the loading platform area? When I'm picking up someone coming to visit us, usually Shotgun Charlie, it's a nice place to sit with a big container of coffee and a smoke, especially if there's a slight chill in the air, and watch the trains roll by.
On a good afternoon I might catch an Amtrak train and maybe a freight or two.
The Ashland station's a much better place to watch trains, though. Comfy seats at the station, sometimes other railfans to shoot the breeze with, plenty of places to get a snack or two, the RF&P mini-museum in the station is fascinating, AND there's a train store in town about two blocks south, "Tiny Tim's Trains and Toys."
www.trainandtoystore.com
OK, I'm plugging 'em, but they advertise in "Classic Toy Trains" so I suppose it's cool.
Oh, and Johnny, the old Broad Street Station was THE showplace station for anyone arriving in Richmond decades ago, as you so well put it a prestigious place for the state capital, "History City" and the old "Capital of the Confederacy." Anybody who was anybody came through there at one time or another.
Penny Trains Firelock76 ...that thing out on Staples Mill Road Yeah. Looks like it was designed by the same guy who did Denny's restaurants.
Firelock76 ...that thing out on Staples Mill Road
Yeah. Looks like it was designed by the same guy who did Denny's restaurants.
Johnny
Firelock76...that thing out on Staples Mill Road
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Now how could I forget these? Prominent features of where I live now...
Two really magnificent structures...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Street_Station_(Richmond)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Main_Street_Station
Going in that last one is like being a time traveler, a great restoration!
And this little gem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashland_station_(Virginia)
And then there's what a local writer called "...that thing out on Staples Mill Road..." included just for general interest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Staples_Mill_Road_station
Berea is an interesting spot. It was the crux of NYC's Ohio operations. It's where the Cleveland downtown and bypass routes converged, and the Chicago and St. Louis routes diverged. Now it is the symbolic spot where the NS/CSX split of Conrail's "Water Level Route" takes place.
I watch the Berea webcam daily. It is a great train watching spot.
MiningmanSo where are we here? Ohio?
Yep. Berea is along the Dearborn division (I think) of the old NYC main. It's a great train watching spot, especially if you like seeing auto racks and parts cars going in both directions almost daily.
Dude, that's a lovely station. Did the agent and his family live upstairs?
DeggestyDid the agent and his family live upstairs?
You bet'cha.
In the accompanying link of CPR Stations, the station we lived in at Hatton, SK is listed as a "CPR Standard A2 Western". Mom used to say that the Beiseker AB Station, the next station 5 miles TT noth of Irricana, pictured was so close to how the Hatton Station looked it was hard to believe they were two different buildings
Our station at Irricana is listed as a "CPR Standard #5 Station". One thing mentioned throughout the page is "Ladies Waiting Rooms". It was soon found that pioneer women didn't need separate waiting rooms, and they were converted to "Heated Freight Rooms", which given the Canadian Prairie climate were well used.
Dad thought it was cool when during a renovation on the Irricana Station in 1958 the workers found, still in place, the glass Ticket Wicket Window and related counterweights and tracks to lift it up and down, boarded up inside the wall between the offce and the heated freight room.
Contrary to what is said on the webpage, the picture in my Avatar is a #5 Station at Heritage Park in Calgary, relocated and shortened from Shepard, AB. To appreciate the full size of both our stations look at the pictue of the Beiseker Staion in the A2 section.
There are other nits I could pick about the website, but life is short, and the author did a pretty good job overall.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
. . . __ . ______
Deggesty Dude, that's a lovely station. Did the agent and his family live upstairs?
They did originally. I am not sure when that practice ended on CN (dates varied depending on the location), but I am sure they had moved out by the end of passenger service in 1980.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Sude, that's a lovely station. Did the agent and his family live upstairs?
My hometown of Camrose, Alberta boasted three railways and their stations for a time very early on, but of course it was too good to last. First to go was the Grand Trunk Pacific, after the Canadian National merger the ex-GTP line through town was abandoned and trains rerouted to use the ex-CNoR line and station.
Canadian Pacific's original classic wood station lasted until 1956 (a few years before passenger service ended), when it was replaced with a brick-shaped cinder block building similar to an Amshack (CP was ahead of the times?). That building has since been demolished too, small photos of both are on this site:
http://forthjunction.ca/cpr-stations.htm
The ex-Canadian Northern (later CN) station has been far more fortunate, it saw passenger service until 1980 and today has been beautifully restored into a museum:
The last passenger service was CN/VIA's central Alberta dayliners to Calgary and Drumheller (the ex-CP Edmonton-Calgary dayliner did not go through Camrose, and lasted until 1985). The train would leave Edmonton with two budd cars, which would be split at Camrose with one following the ex-GTP line to Mirror and Calgary, and the other taking the ex-CNoR line through Stettler and Big Valley to Drumheller.
Due to the late end of this passenger service multiple stations have survived in good condition, and have been restored by the Canadian Northern Society:
http://canadiannorthern.ca/
The stations at Stettler and Big Valley are still used by summer excursion trains operated by the Alberta Prairie Railway. An excellent outing if you ever have a summer day to spend in central Alberta.
Miningman Davenport, Iowa
Davenport, Iowa
Born there, lived there 6 years. First train trip at age 3, always remembered.
Yolks! Yikes! That's about as bad as it can be. Maybe add in a bus with chickens in crates on the roof.
So where are we here? Ohio?
I would have nominated the Berea depot:
But I'm a bit saddened by it's current status:
Wanswheel--- You grew up in Davenport, Iowa, or were very familiar with it? Nice station in any case. Long Live the Rock.
AgentKid-- CPR maroon of any type, combine or not, was a fixture across the land, something I thought was eternal.
I couldn't think of whatever current thread would be most appropriate, so I will mention it here. I wanted to make a comment about the Photo of the Day from last week, "Small Town Station Ritual".
I really can't remember anything about railroading before seeing a CPR Combine and Caboose standing in front of our station at Irricana, AB. Sadly, business wasn't usually this good by the time I can remember scenes like this.
http://www.godfatherrails.com/photos/pv.asp?pid=1148
http://www.godfatherrails.com/photos/pv.asp?pid=1149
Thanks for those pictures pajrr! Aren't those stations gorgeous? Built for the ages.
See where those cars are parked at the Tenafly station? That's where the old Public Service (Originally Bergen County Traction Co.) Englewood Line trolleys from the Edgewater Ferry Terminal used to terminate. The line was abandoned in 1937.
Here are a couple stations along the old Erie Railroad Northern Branch. The large one is Tenafly, NJ (now a restaurant) and the one that looks like a church is Demarest, NJ.
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