We've all seen models of icing platforms--often hundreds of feet long, with men wielding picks and chutes adjacent to the hatches of refrigerator cars. Yet, how many of these actually were there, on the CNR in Ontario during the postwar steam era?
This month we will explore the retail ice business, an industry which was a fixture in the day-to-day lives of people, not to mention railway and truck operations, during the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century...
A couple of weeks ago, I appealed to my Canadian Branchline email list for assistance in meeting a key person at the Durango & Silverton narrow gauge operation...
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