Icing refrigerator cars at Pointe-Saint-Charles

Garden at Victoria Beach Station

Centralized train control tower at Mimico

Digging out caboose No. 55341 after a snowstorm

Handling mail at Moncton Station

Train crew member giving a go-ahead hand signal from the steps of a caboose

Freight conductor picks up a train-order hoop from a dispatcher

Installing an automatic mast signal

Washing passenger coaches

A steam-powered rotary snowplough at work

Nfld. Ry. snow plow 830, right side

Nfld. Ry. ballast car 460, three-quarter view

Nfld. Ry. ballast car 460, side view

Nfld. Ry. snow plow 830, rear view

A section crew and section house on the Nfld. Ry. main line

A track-laying machine laying track for the Nfld. Ry.

A track maintenance train begins tamping the ballast

Interior view of the CNRs Hong Kong office

External view of CNR's Hong Kong office

CNR Hong Kong office interior

Interior of the CNR Hong Kong office

Clearing away snow from a train

The cab of a heavy duty snow plow used in the Fraser Canyon

CN wedge snow plow 55238 and a few assistants clearing the way

CN wedge snow plow 55207

CN wedge snow plow 55601 being sent off to the east

CN snow melter in action

A snow melter in operation releases melted snow

Naming of Central Vermont Railway locomotive 700 as Norwich University

Locomotive 5521 passes Centralized Traffic Control Station

Assembly of Centralized Traffic Control equipment

Road-rail level crossing signals and barrier

A diesel freight train passing new signals outside Paddington Yards

Section man fuels a switch signal lantern

Checking track voltage with a meter

Loading a 500 foot reel of 2-inch diameter signal cable

Exchanging written train orders with a moving train

Leverman in the John Street switch tower, Toronto Terminal Railway Yard

Central Vermont Railways diesel locomotive 3901 and 4927 on the same track to a coaling tower and sand house at St. Albans yard

Central Vermont Railways steam locomotive 3901 being filled with sand at St. Albans yard

Canadian National Railways locomotives 3039 and 9330 at St. Albans yard with coal tower and a stand pipe

An interior view of the Grand Trunk Railways Toronto ticket office

Canadian National Railways Québec City ticket office service counter

Interior view of Canadian National Railways Québec ticket office

Railway supplies being assembled for construction on the Moak Lake line

A train carrying supplies for construction of the Moak Lake line

Serving customers at the original Grand Trunk Railway / Canadian National Railways ticket office

Mount Royal Tunnel - workers repairing interior lining

Mount Royal Tunnel - interior view

Mount Royal Tunnel - cement arch for use in construction

Mount Royal Tunnel - labourers at work in the new south section

Mount Royal Tunnel - work on new south section

Mount Royal Tunnel - freezing plant used to build new south portion of tunnel entrance

Mount Royal Tunnel - entrance to new south section near Place Ville Marie

Mount Royal Tunnel - workers in new south section

Mount Royal Tunnel - new south section near completion

Railway employee oiling moving parts on locomotive

CN employees examine flood damage to CN tracks, Fairview, N.S.

Flood damage to CN tracks, Fairview, N.S.

Steam locomotive 50 being replaced on track by CN employees after a collision, west of Bonaventure station

Steam locomotive 50 being replaced on track by CN employees after a collision, west of Bonaventure station

Steam locomotive 50 being replaced on track by CN employees after a collision, west of Bonaventure station

Steam locomotive 50 being replaced on track by CN employees after a collision, west of Bonaventure station

Steam locomotive 50 being replaced on track by CN employees after a collision, west of Bonaventure station

Damaged railway ties

Two steam locomotives passing by centralized traffic control station

Interlocking tower at St. Lambert, also known as

Rear view of caboose #78484

Wellington interlocking tower and lift and swing bridges

CN scale test car #522257

CN employee checking the lock on the track switch, Val Royal

Checking the lock on the track's switch, Val Royal

Ladder track at Borden, P.E.I.

A Central Vermont Railway passenger train headed by U-1-a steam locomotive 603 passes a track work site.

A Central Vermont Railway freight train headed by T-3-a steam locomotive 707 passes a track work site.

Bonding a new rail line. A signal department employee connects rails by a short length of steel to ensure good electrical contact for train detection.

Bonding a new rail line. A signal department employee connects rails by a short length of steel to ensure good electrical contact for train detection.

Centralised Traffic Control signals at a passing siding at Dorchester, NS, with an eastbound local freight train.

Steam locomotive U-2-h 4-8-4 6239 with a freight train passing signals.

Model 10 grade crossing signal at Port Credit, ON. Steam locomotive E-10-a 2-6-0 915.

Model 10 grade crossing signal at ort Credit, ON.

Grade crossing signal near Matapédia.

Three-aspect colour light signal protecting a grade crossing.

Wig-wag grade crossing signal at Cornwall.

Crossbuck at a grade crossing in Cornwall.

Diesel locomotive F7A 9070 with a freight train, with signals on an arch.

Steam locomotive S-3-a 3702 with a freight train, with signals on an arch.

Centralized Traffic Control signals with a freight train.

Centralized Traffic Control: a power switch on the Atikokan sub-division.

Control panel for a hump yard.

The Ocean limited and a dwarf signal. Diesel locomotive FPA-4 6764.

First train over centralized traffic control, Pacific Junction

CN porters loading golf equipment onto a truck at the station

Railroad workers handling baggage at Huntsville station

A view of the railroad tracks of the Saskatoon CN station, with the Bessborough Hotel in the distance

Grand Trunk advertisement for Algonquin Park

Surveying crew, Cy Biegler and Ben Nyeste, working in advance of repair gang to stake the line giving the necessary amount of rise needed to keep a constant level on the track

Relaying track in Brent, Ontario

Power ballaster operating on track repair

The operator of the power ballaster controlling the movement of the machine along the rails

The extra gang, on track motor cars, passing the surveying party working in advance of them lining up their work

Putting wooden plugs in spike holes, near Brantford, Ontario

Beginning construction of a spur line for Scott Maritime Pulp Ltd.

Construction of a spur line for Scott Maritime Pulp Ltd.

Construction of a spur line for Scott Maritime Pulp Ltd.

Angle bars are put into position as the rails are placed; this was carried out without delaying any operating train

The material gang, G. Howard, H. Struthers, E. Baker and N. Young, with bolts, washers and other necessities

Tong men, ten at each side, lift the 39-foot, 1033 pound rail into place

Angle bars in place, the bolts holding them are tightened wait a long-handled track wrench by section man, H. Baker of Ernestown

The replacement gang enjoys a breather while a freight train rumbles by; they carried out rail replacement without delaying any operating train

Storage room containing supplies for sleeping and dining car service

Assembling spur line for the Scott Maritime Pulp Ltd.

Concrete tie manufacture in Genstar, near Edmonton

Construction staff on the CNR, and their lodging, alongside the main line near Boston Bar, B.C.

Spike driving machine at work on the Brighton line

Ballast distributor, a self-propelled machine which picks up ballast from both sides of track and puts it back down evenly on either side of the rails

Relaying damaged track at Dauphin, Manitoba

Track gang working together to relay track at Dauphin, Manitoba

Brakeman J.A. Laferrière turning the switch to allow freight “495” to move in the siding to pick up cars destined for Toronto

Rear end brakeman using oil lanterns for signaling

Stops at divisional points en route the freight run between Montreal and Toronto allow the engine and train crews to change

Method to hoop wood cross ties at the Wood Preservation Industries Ltd.

Method to hoop wood cross ties at the Wood Preservation Industries Ltd.

Method to hoop wood cross ties at the Wood Preservation Industries Ltd.

Water tower located in Causapscal, Quebec

Diesel locomotive 7603 with steam generator car 15613 and a passenger train and snowmobiles

Coal yard, ash loader and water tank at Spadina Avenue roundhouse

Steam locomotive 6043 arrives at Winnipeg with the last regularly scheduled use of steam power on CN

CN officials and the press greet CN's last scheduled steam train at Winnipeg

Alan Flemming and Charlie Harris with new CN insignia, Toronto

Extra track gang houses alongside main line near Boston Bar, B.C.

Moncton, N.B. - rail merging