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Caption: Taking a step across Alice Street from last week's posting, a wider view of the CPR Guelph engine house facilities on the Fibreglass Spur in Guelph. CPR MLW S11 6617 is assigned as the Guelph yard engine.
As mentioned in previous comments by retired CPR conductor, Ron Bowman, the CPR structure at left was sold for use as a private residence, now located at 28 Sackville Street, just a little way behind the photographer around the wye.
Donald Coulman Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.
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Nice. And an AMC Hornet too!
sdfourty
I am informed the structure was an old bunkhouse for the yard crew.
I like the pic, and you sure don’t see too many CPR switch stands with a wooden target anymore. Those have been missing from the scene for decades.
The wooden target was still there into 2015……! This shot is perfectly framed. What would that CPR structure be used for? office for yard crew?
Here’s a photo from recent:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47194
What house is it exactly? it’s either 8 sackville or it’s the brown building across the wye on an unnamed alleyway – a bunch of small shacks there without any yard of any kind
I think it may be the brown shack behind the white houses in this photo
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=49070
This was a poor working man’s neighbourhood and it shows in the way all this is laid out. This was Guelph’s ghetto. I lived a street over for a few years.