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Dale Wilson (1971) |
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Espanola Freight Shed - Looking North |
The photo to the left shows the Espanola freight shed immediately behind an
old boxcar shed in the foreground. The freight shed was similar to the one
constructed in Little Current, but was likely built in 1912, a year pervious to
the construction of the Little Current shed. The Freight Shed was a frame
structure and seems to have escaped the insul-brick covering that was so popular
with Canadian railways in that era. It was rare for a frame structure on the CPR
to escape being covered with the material.
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John Morgan (1976) |
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Espanola Freight Shed - Rear View |
The original shed included wide full length platforms on both the front
and back of the structure with two inclined ramps from the ground level to
the front and rear platforms built on the north side of the structure. The
back platform shown in the photo of the rear of the freight shed,
lasted until the structure was torn down in the mid-eighties, however the front
freight platform was cut back sometime prior to 1971. The cut back
platform clearly shows in the first photo, along the front freight doors which
were left hanging in mid-air. Note that the freight shed was built along
the main line of the railway, but was also
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Espanola Freight Shed - Looking South |
accessed from a siding which branched off of the main line south of the
freight shed and ran behind it. This siding can be seen in the
second photo on Espanola Station page.
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