There is very little information available about the yard and buildings at Sudbury. The old yard location is now a flat field in the "Little Britain" area of Sudbury. During the seventies the foundations for the AER water tank at the west end of the yard could still be found in the long grass, however a visit by this author in 1997 could not find any remnants. Most of the information on the yard layout at Sudbury comes from the Algoma Eastern Railway plan book handed over to the CPR during the 1930 take-over. The Sudbury plan is partially reproduced in Dale Wilson's book Algoma Eastern Railway, Nickel Belt Rails 1977. It is unlikely that the Algoma Eastern's Sudbury yard and structures lasted very long past the 1930 take-over as all locomotive servicing and car sorting would have been transferred to the CPR facilities a mile to the south. In the picture we are standing at the east end of the yard, where the
original AER main line from the CPR interchange (now part of the Nickel
Subdivision) enters the yard. The flat cleared area ahead and curving off
to the left is where the yard used to be. The AER water tank stood in the
left foreground, the old engine house to the right, again in the foreground
and the new engine house to the left in the middle background.
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