Caption: Stations didn't get much larger than this in the North. This rather isolated and barren community was once a vital link in the CN system. It featured a huge yard, an enclosed roundhouse !!! and other advanced features to protect employees from the elements, as winters could get rather severe. However, times have changed. The community is no longer what it once was, CN has eliminated most of the facility over the years, and the need for this huge station with it's adjacent telecommunications centre is no longer.The station itself was built back in the 1920s, the modern looking brick addition in the 1950s. It housed train dispatching offices on the upper floor and CN telecommunications (new centralized signal system) on the lower. A small addition housed battery rooms and a standby generator. Access between buildings was gained by an upper level walkbridge.Hornepayne is dying. The major structure than housed commercial tenants in town, the "Hallmark" building, went broke in 2011. CN downsizing has people leaving, looking for work elsewhere. Population of 1600 in the 90s is now below 1000. The demolition of this huge station complex, a shadow of once was, is just another kick in the teeth, even though it had far outlived it's usefulness and was more of a fire trap than anything else.Looking back, I cannot help but wonder what became of the gorgeous station sign that once adorned the front entrance, and the plight of the probably 500 pigeons that called the old structure "home". Check out Paul O'Shell's photo here