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The July 11th, 1904 Time Table for the Inverness Railway and Coal Company train indicates it left Inverness every morning at 7:30 am. and had thirteen stops before reaching Point Tupper at 11:08 am.
They were at
07:47 - Strathlorne
08:10 - Black River
08:15 - Glendyre
08.25 - Mabou
08:55 - Glencoe
09:10 - Port Hood
09:32 - Catherine's Pond
09:45 - Judique
10.03 - Craigmore
10:18 - Creignish
10:30 - Troy
10:40 - Port Hastings
11:03 - Port Hawkesbury
11:08 - Point Tupper

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Locomotive 79 sitting by the Coal Pier in Port Hastings.
1920
Port Hastings, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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PORT HASTINGS - The rail connection between Inverness and Point Tupper serviced the Port Hastings coal pier via a sidetrack. The main line passed by the pier south of this connection. In this picture, Locomotive 79 of the Inverness Railway and Coal Company sits facing north on the track beside the Coal Pier. Coal cars sitting atop the pier can be seen at right and the masts of coal carrying schooners can be seen rising above the locomotive.

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Train wreck at Glendyre
11 July 1912
Railway Line Strait of Canso

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ACCIDENT AT GLENDYRE - Accidents occurred occasionally. This one occurred at Glendyre on July 11,1912. The engineer, William Campbell of the Locomotive number 79, was killed.
This engine number had originally been No. 1. It was "off the track" three times. After this accident, it was given the number 1219 according to Allister MacBean's book, "The Inverness and Richmond Railway".

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The Central House on Main St.
1915
Port Hastings, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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MEN ATE NOON MEAL IN PORT HASTINGS - Many of the men who worked on the train between Inverness and Point Tupper had their noon meal at the Central House on the Main Street in Port Hastings.
The Inverness Railway and Coal Company saw great success in its first years of operation, but, with a turn in the market, coal output from the mines fell and the profitable years of hauling coal came to an end. The operation collapsed in 1914 and after five years of receivership, the Eastern Trust Company of Halifax took over the Inverness to Port Hawkesbury line in 1919.

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Locomotive Number 1 of the Inverness Railway and Coal Company. Engineer W.A. MacLean is on the left.
1906
Port Hastings, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY IN INVERNESS COUNTY - In 1924, Canadian National Railway signed a three year lease for the Inverness Railway and Coal Company line and in 1929 purchased the line from the Eastern Trust Company. With no desire to operate the mothballed coal operation, CN abandoned the Inverness mines, instead focusing on freight and passengers.
CN's last passenger run on the Inverness-Port Hawkesbury Line was April 25, 1959. When demand for freight service in the area dwindled, it eventually lead to one train a week running on the line.
In 1975 CN applied to abandon the line, but was ordered to maintain the track from Inverness to Port Hawkesbury.

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Canadian National Railway station
1940
Mulgrave, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Canadian National railway Extra gang in the 1940's.
1940

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In the 1940's many local men worked on the Extra Gang for the Canadian National Railway

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Mulgrave train ferry wharf
1930
Mulgrave, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada

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TRAIN FERRIES CREATED WORK- There were 44,950 railway cars transported across the Strait of Canso in 1922 and by 1948, there were 116,585. This meant that on either side of the Strait, siding tracks were used to break up the trains, switch, sort and remake them before continuing either towards Sydney on Cape Breton Island or to western Canadian cities.
In 1953, they were estimating that by 1960, there would be 145,000 railway cars crossing the Strait. (Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys Geographical Bulletin,No.3, 1953)