Railpictures.ca - AJS Photo: Setting off one final tank car for storage and allowing the previously cloudy skies to open up, the pair of F units momentarily pause under the old coaling tower | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

Setting off one final tank car for storage and allowing the previously cloudy skies to open up, the pair of F units momentarily pause under the old coaling tower

Caption: Setting off one final tank car for storage and allowing the previously cloudy skies to open up, the pair of F units momentarily pause under the old coaling tower

Photographer:	AJS [242] (more) (contact)
Date:	01/02/2018 (search)
Railway:	Ontario Southland (search)
Reporting Marks:	OSRX 1401, OSRX 6508 (search)
Train Symbol:	St. Thomas Job (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	CN Cayuga Sub (search)
City/Town:	Alymer (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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2 Comments

Stuart Streit

January 5, 2018 at 12:31 pm

Could someone help out with background on the coal tower?
Stephen C. Host

May 21, 2020 at 3:06 pm

Stuart, my understanding is it was built 1943 by CN for the Wabash to have another spot to fuel trains.

Would have been to aid in the war effort, since just about everything had to be approved by the wsr board to be constructed in those days.. I can only imagine the traffic on the line was insane to justify it.

clearly it wasn’t used very long since the wabash dieselised by 1951 or so.

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