Canadian Railway Yards,
Water Towers, Round Houses,
Control Towers and Freight Sheds
What I am trying to do is separate all these various
structures from the Station pages
This section like the station pages is devided into provinces or areas
Manitoba
 | Winnipeg’s Arlington Bridge is in the background of this northwest view of the vast CP yard, taken from the adjacent Salter Street Bridge around 1978. Salter Street Bridge, reconstructed around 1984 is now known as the Slaw Rebchuk Bridge. Notice the lack of graffiti on all railway cars. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Freight from the West arrives in the Winnipeg Yard, located northwest of downtown, led by SD40-2 locomotives CP 5698 with CP 5554 and CP 5539, around 1978. Note the trailer on flatcar (TOFC) on the left hand side. The age of the container had not yet arrived. Also 5539 still bears the old style cab striping. Also it is painted with the small CP Multimark, while the others have the Large Multimark. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Another view of CPR’s Winnipeg yard around 1978, looking northwest. The Arlington Bridge in the background opened in 1912, is one of only four ways across the tracks. The bridge also constitutes a fine vantage point over the yard. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | CN yard and station at Neepawa MB. |
| This picture was submitted by Arthur Grieve, Winnipeg, Manitoba | |
 | CN Station gang at CFB Shilo MB. |
| This picture taken and submitted James Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CP Water Tower at Brandon MB, 1960’s |
| This picture taken and submitted James Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | CP Roundhouse at Brandon MB, Jan 1968 |
| This picture taken and submitted James Booth, Willingdon AB | |
 | Watertower Glenboro MB |
| This picture was submitted by Arthur Grieve, Winnipeg, Manitoba | |
 | Federal Grain Elevator, 1937, Plum Coulee MB |
| This pictures was submitter by Jim Sheppard, Fort Frances, ON Canada | |
 | The La Rivière, Manitoba CPR station in 1953, when it was still in use. Completed in 1898, it was in use until the 1960s. The station, built in the French Canadian style with a mansard roof is the only one of its kind still left in Manitoba and now a heritage site (#081) since 1994. La Rivière was founded 1886 by Metis Franco- Manitobans but the area is now English speaking. La Rivière (translated to “The River”) refers to the nearby Pembina River. The name of the station was painted in large white letters on opposite sides of the long roof. The station had full railway facilities on the lower floor and the stationmaster’s family inhabited the upper floor; accessed either through the station or by outside stairways. While everything else was destroyed, the CPR station was moved in 1986, to the nearby Archibald Museum; to be part of their collection, encompassing other historic Manitoba buildings. http://www.rmofpembina.com/museum.htm |
| Photo: The Late Lorne Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection. | |
 | As the CPR was expanding west in 1883 branchlines became necessary to serve recently-opened grain elevators and other needs of settlers in the Pembina Valley. The La Rivière subdivision opened in 1893 (see the timetable). In time, the station became an important divisional point, with the opening of a nearby brickyard and it features not only the station itself but a roundhouse, turntable and a series of other outbuildings. This photo shows the track side of the station in 1953, when it was still in use. The building on the extreme right is most probably the roundhouse, with the turntable pit in front, seen in another view on this page. |
| Photo: The Late Lorne Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection. | |
 | The roundhouse and repair shop at La Rivière MB station in 1953 viewed over part of the turntable pit. The roundhouse was built in 1908 and demolished in 1960. The gentleman in front is an RCAF officer in #5 Dress; very likely a railfan friend of the photographer. An extensive early history of La Rivière (322 pages) can be found at http://manitobia.ca/resources/books/local_histories /154.pdf. Under the heading of “Canadian Pacific Railway”, there is a description of the early line and period photos, one of which is of the Daily Express from Winnipeg and the roundhouse. |
| Photo: The Late Lorne Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection. | |
 | The turntable at the La Rivière CPR station, showing the iconic station to the right, the repair shop to the left and a couple of outbuildings, as well as the mainline track; in 1953, when everything was still in use. It appears to be of the “Armstrong” type, requiring manual pushing to rotate. One of the levers is shown here. The one at the other end can be seen in another view on this page. |
| Photo: The Late Lorne Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection. | |
 | This 1953 view of the track, at La Rivière CPR station, shows a well-maintained right-of-way. Note the tall switch stand and bridge, just west of the station when it was still in use as a divisional point. The bridge at the centre of the photo, spans either the Pembina River or the Mary Jane Creek. This portion was abandoned August 1st, 1962. The landscape is part of the Pembina Hills, almost directly south of Portage La Prairie, MB. |
| Photo: The Late Lorne Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection. | |
 | CPR Employee time table, issued October 28, 1979. Today, the CPR interchanges at Morden with the Boundary Trail Railway Company; a producer-owned railway, which acquired land, bridges and track from the CPR and since 2009, operates on 23 miles of the former La Rivière Sub from Morden to Binney, with former CN 4625; a GP-9 unit still in GTW livery with the same number. http://www.btrc.ca/about.htm La Rivière is no longer served by any railway. |
| Massey F. Jones collection | |
 | CPR south of Winnipeg shown on Employee Time Table 66, issued October 28, 1979. The La Rivière subdivision was (17) |
| Massey F. Jones collection | |
 | Wedge type Canadian Pacific snowplow 400658 and a couple of service cars sit on a siding at La Rivière, Manitoba in this 1953 photo. The wedge plow is part of a 36 new plows manufactured by the CPR at their Angus Shops in east-end Montreal between 1920 and 1929 and numbered into the 400XXX series. La Rivière is no longer served by a railway and the tracks now end a few miles short of there, where a private operator has now taken over a shortline, interchanging with the CPR. |
| Photo: The Late Lorne Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection. | |
 | The wooden water tower at La Rivière MB, almost directly south of Portage La Prairie in 1953. It was located opposite the station along with a very large coaling tower, as shown in a period photograph at http://manitobia.ca/resources/books/local_histories /154.pdf Flip to page 23. Along with other outbuildings, the water tower was likely destroyed in the early 1960s , with only the 1898 station declared a Manitoba Provincial Heritage Site (No. 81) in 1994 and preserved, because of its historical value and the only example of such building in Manitoba. The station was moved to the nearby Archibald Museum to add to their collection of buildings. |
| Photo: The Late Lorne Unwin – Massey F. Jones collection. | |
 | CPR Shed at Plum Coulee MB. and a Jigger car |
| This pictures was submitter by Jim Sheppard, Fort Frances, ON Canada | |
 | CPR Lake of the Woods MB, 1920s/1930/s |
| This pictures was submitter by Jim Sheppard, Fort Frances, ON Canada |