Railpictures.ca - A.W. Mooney Photo: Here’s a glimpse of the old CN station at Caledonia, as of today, still standing. Small town stations are few and far between these days. This one was fortunate to escape the wrecker’s ball; as CN looked for permission to pull it down in 1978, one year after the signal and pole was removed, in turn a year after this photo was taken. This is Southern Ontario Railway territory now. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

Here's a glimpse of the old CN station at Caledonia, as of today, still standing. Small town stations are few and far between these days. This one was fortunate to escape the wrecker's ball; as CN looked for permission to pull it down in 1978, one year after the signal and pole was removed, in turn a year after this photo was taken. This is Southern Ontario Railway territory now.

Caption: Here's a glimpse of the old CN station at Caledonia, as of today, still standing. Small town stations are few and far between these days. This one was fortunate to escape the wrecker's ball; as CN looked for permission to pull it down in 1978, one year after the signal and pole was removed, in turn a year after this photo was taken. This is Southern Ontario Railway territory now.

Photographer:	A.W. Mooney [2189] (more) (contact)
Date:	08/08/1976 (search)
Railway:	Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks:	Not Provided
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	CN Dunnville Sub. (search)
City/Town:	Caledonia (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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4 Comments

Joseph Bishop

September 10, 2014 at 8:26 am

Very cool history lesson Mr. Mooney! Here is a comparison of the station now fully restored: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6233
Cdntrainphotog

September 10, 2014 at 8:29 am

Wallowing in a little nostalgia Mr M.?
I like your picture and the time frame that you took it with the signal and pole still standing. I note a CN Express truck in the background. Did you not include that in a shot? By that time I think they would truck the Express shipment from the larger to the smaller stations and do the local delivery with those orange trucks. Was there still local passenger service to Caledonia in 1976?
awmooney

September 10, 2014 at 9:58 am

I am sure the passenger service ended a long time prior to 1976. What do the local history buffs say, Mr. Bishop?
rlk1752

September 10, 2014 at 10:26 am

The last run of the Hamilton to Port Dover passenger service (Trains M233 and M238) was on October 26th 1957. Passenger service continued in the form of mix trains between Brantford and Fort Erie on the Dunnville Sub until at least the end of 1959 as trains M220 and M217. Not sure how long that service continued into the 1960′s, but certainly there was no passenger service by the time of this photo. CN ended up putting brand new radio tower equipment in a room at the east end of the station in the late 1970′s rather than in a signal box which ended up saving the station from demolition for years. Long enough for local business man Ron Clark to buy it and restore it for the town. PR Hammond.

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