Caption: The first VIA #2 'The Canadian' to travel east from Vancouver to Toronto after removal of the recent railway blockades is seen sitting at CN Hornepayne, ON mile 0.0 Caramat Sub. on a very chilly -17C March 9, 2020 at 23:30 hrs. Had #2 been on time I would have snapped this photo around 18:00 hrs. but running 5+ hours late, this was the only opportunity to capture, maybe for the last time, this once hustling and bustling passenger station, crew change point, division office building. A February 19, 2020 application by CN to the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change to demolish the structure has been submitted and the formal process has begun. I last photographed Hornepayne station on December 18, 2001 as seen here http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20428 and was surprised to see it still standing 19 years later. I plan to make the east to west journey on VIA #1 'The Canadian' in a few months and will hopefully, at that time, be able to capture, in daylight, what's left of the Hornepayne station.
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If any place could look haunted……….
….sad that these buildings fall by the way side.
Demolition of station began in Oct 2020.
With Covid restrictions taking over our lives within days of arriving in Toronto on VIA #2 back in March of this year, I never got to take my westbound trip on VIA #1 from Toronto to Vancouver this past summer as mentioned in my above photo caption. My chance to capture CN Hornepayne one more time is now gone forever.