Caption: Interesting town, is Goderich. In a photo taken around 2 years after startup of the GEXR, we see three of the original four locomotives hard at work bringing heavy loads of salt up to the yard from the Sifto Salt Mine on Lake Huron (seen in background)in order to build a train to deliver to Stratford. It is a warm day, as evident by the mist, making it difficult to see the long string of salt-laden hoppers in the left background, just in front of the lake freighter at the salt dock. Old track line in mid-background is former CP Goderich line, now reduced to a hiking trail. Photo shows GEXR 177, 178 and 179 sharing in the struggle up a rather steep grade, Fourth unit in the stable, 180, is nowhere to be seen. The salt mine, incidentally, is the largest in the world. There is so much salt down there 1750 meters down that the mining area consists of 7 sq kms below the lake and the vein stretches as far as Cleveland and Detroit to the south. Long ago a tropical sea occupied this part of the world, and when the sea disappeared, the salt was left behind.