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Blue Print of Chalk River Rail Yard in 1915

Audio text
Did Scotty tell you how many tracks there were?
about 15?
No, there were 29 tracks in Chalk River!

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Dragline loading Cinders from the Chalk River sockpile
1900
Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

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A dragline is seen here loading cinders from the cinder pile.

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CPR Water tank
1910
Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

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(Audio Text - J. Wright and Don Hewitt)

Q - Was there a well there or did the water come from another system?

No, this was built over top of a well. Apparently what you did when you wanted to fill it they brought a steam engine up and there was a steam pump in it. They pumped the water up into a tank here and you know, the indicator would show full. Then when you wanted water you just pulled the spout down into the tender and there was a gate valve you opened to fill it up.

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Roundhouse and Shops
1910
Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

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( Audio Text - Don Hewitt)

You can see that shop had 15 bays, you know for the steam engines and that's where the smoke stacks are. If you count them there are 15 there. This half would take bigger engines, the bays were longer.

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Ash handling facility
1950
Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

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(Audio Text - Doug Bell)

This was an "Ash Pit" , that's where you dumped the fire out of the engines. This run across to here, well there was a trolley down in the pit there that used to come over to here, and that was a hoist there that used to lift the ashes up and dumped them into this car.

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Section men with handcar
1927
Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada

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Local Railway workers

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Awaiting the arrival of Stanley Baldwin
1927
Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

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In this picture taken on 15 Aug 1927 at Chalk River, this quartet is awaiting a visit by the Honorable Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain during a cross-Canada tour. The group includes from left to right: car foreman William Cuthbert; car repairman Robert Wyise: car inspector George Tennant; and car inspector Ernest McCarthy.

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Sandhouse location
1915
Chalk River, Ontario, Canada