Canadian Railway Yards,
Water Towers, Round Houses,
Control Towers and Freight Sheds
What I am trying to do is sepperate all these various
structures from the Station pages
This section like the station pages is devided into provinces or areas
Quebec
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| Helicopter view of the CN Chauvigny Yard at Jonquiere, in the Saguenay region, about 140 miles north of Quebec City in the late 70s. Notice the roundhouse to the left and several diesel engines in the middle as well as a large crane with its service train, a bit more to the right. A 2013 Google Earth view of “Chauvigny, Saguenay, QC G7X, Canada”, reveals that while the turntable pit is still there, the roundhouse is gone and so are most of the tracks. |
 | CN 6770 is on the turntable at the yard at Chicoutimi QC in the mid-70s after arriving from Montreal. The FPA-4 was eventually absorbed into the VIA Rail roster. When VIA no longer served Chicoutimi, the turntable was filled-in, buildings demolished, fuel tanks removed and the entire area was redeveloped into a park overlooking the Saguenay River. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | There was still some action within in the Chicoutimi yard in the late 70s. The CN Chicoutimi station can still be seen between the two locomotives and the one on the left appears to be CN 3110. Today, nothing is left of the yard of the area turned into a riverside park. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | CN 3105 and CN 6510 in the Chicoutimi yard for an overnight stay. The 3105 was built by MLW in 1959 (Ser# 82536), while 6510 was built by GMD in 1957 (Ser# A 1050). This portion of the yard was eventually turned into a parking lot, shown on my Quebec Stations page. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | The passenger yard at Canadian Pacific Railway Windsor Station in Montreal taken through an adjacent building window in the late 1960s. Notice a train with a dome in the foreground, very possibly the Montreal Section of The Canadian, which will join the Toronto section, later on. A train composed of first generation of double decker commuter cars destined for the West Island sits on the far track. There are also a couple of RDC cars, used in commuter service to Ottawa via the North Shore and Mont Laurier, that left in late-afternoon. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | The Turcot Round House, 1943 This roundhouse was used until the early 1960’s Note: This picture is in colour. |
| This picture was submitted by Michael McCrea. It was scanned from a colour slide taken by his father in the 1950’s | |
 | The Turcot Round House, 1943 This roundhouse was used until the early 1960’s |
| This picture was submitted by Norman Baker, Kingston ON and is part of the Canada Science and Technology Museum Collection | |
 | A number of CN Steam locomotives at the The Turcot Round House, 1943 |
| This picture was submitted by Norman Baker, Kingston ON and is part of the Canada Science and Technology Museum Collection | |
 | CNR #49 at a repair shop, mid 1920s, Pt. St. Charles Shops |
| This picture was submitted by Norman Baker, Kingston ON and is part of the Canada Science and Technology Museum Collection | |
 | Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) CN Station and yard, Danville QC Picture taken the 1920’s |
| Picture credited to Group Traq~JG | |
 | The Roberval Saguenay yard in Arvida, QC in the late 1970s. Arvida was founded as a company town to establish an aluminum plant near a lot of nearby hydroelectric power in the Saguenay region, about 140 miles north of Quebec. ARVIDA, is named for Arthur Vining Davis (1867-1962) the general manager of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) for more than half a century. The plant, built by the Aluminum Company of Canada (ALCAN) in the 1950s is now operated by Rio Tinto. The purpose of the Roberval Saguenay Railway is to transport bauxite ore from ships at La Baie to their plant in Arvida where it is made into alumina and ingots , which are then transported to nearby satellite plants for processing. Up to the early-90s, RSR power was composed entirely of rebuilt ALCO locomotives from various sources, except for 2 new locomotives purchased from Montreal Locomotive Works (An ALCO subsidiary). The entire fleet was replaced by rebuilt GM, including a few CN locomotives. The RSR fleet was always kept in excellent shape, including their many gondolas and cabooses. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | Earmarked for internal preservation by the Canadian Pacific Railway, CP 8905 and CP 8000 stand in a portion of the Côte St-Luc Yard (known simply as “St-Luc”), around 1974. The preservation failed to come about, as the Corporate Archivist passed away in 1992. After sitting outside, both locomotives found a home; the 8905 at Exporail, south of Montreal and the 8000 in the WCRA Museum in Squamish BC. It is covered in these pages. St. Luc Yard officially opened in 1950 and replaced two older CPR yards in Montreal. Located in the southwest part of the city, it is the Montreal freight terminal for CP and also where the two Holiday Trains originate; one for Canada and one for the US. St. Luc (hyphenated in French) is located on 700 acres and, in addition to being a classification and hump yard, has a full diesel shop and in the days of steam, boasted a 37-stall roundhouse. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | A couple of Expo Express cars languish at the CN Pointe St-Charles Shops awaiting their fate around 1978, after being withdrawn from service for a few years. They were subsequently stored at Les Cèdres (called Cedars in English) near Vaudreuil QC, on Montreal’s West Island and subsequently scrapped as no buyer could be found. Pointe St-Charles (hyphenated in French and affectionally called by locals: “La Pointe” and “The Point”) is situated in the “toe” of the Island of Montreal southwest and in fact, one of Canada’s first industrial slums. Today, much of the area has since been gentrified and boasts a strong community spirit. http://montrealmosaic.com/attraction/griffintown-and- point-st-charles-heritage-trail Originally built in the 1850s by the Grand Trunk Railway Company and closely linked to Victoria Bridge and the Lachine Canal at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,, the shops were rebuilt in the 1920s and constituted the major presence for Canadian National in the Montreal area but operations have since been moved to Taschereau Yard, further north. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones | |
 | In another view of the CN Pointe St-Charles Shops, we see CN 1311 with a string of passenger cars, some already painted in early blue and gold VIA livery and beside it, a car of the Expo Express, which would date the photo to around 1978. Pointe St-Charles was very busy in its days, overhauling as well as servicing steam locomotives and later remanufacturing diesels, most specifically the GP-9. In the back, we see chimneys of some of the complex, built at the turn of the 20th Century and added on bit by bit as needed. After the PSC shops closed around 2009, a film studio was proposed for the site but didn’t materialize and there is now a movement afoot to preserve some of the buildings. The counterpart to the CN Pointe St-Charles shops for the Canadian Pacific was the Angus Shops, located in north-centre Montreal. Only 4 of the 60 buildings there were recycled into something else and a heritage group hopes that some will remain. |
| This picture was taken and submitted by Massey F. Jones |