Hanley Spur, Harbour Views

CP 445 skirts the Inner Harbour in the shadow of oil storage tanks

The trackage of the Hanley Spur was inextricably woven into Kingston's waterfront scene. Industries that received supplies by water, or just needed nearby water supplies were built along the water. Some of these included Imperial Oil, the Canadian Locomotive Co., and the many coal dealers that received coal shipments from US coal mines via lake freighter. Crossing Ontario Street, undated:

CPR 437 is shown in the winter of 1953 at the foot of Brock Street (CSTM collection photo):

Below, CPR D4g 417 is at the throat of CP's North Street roundhouse and yard trackage, with the inner harbour in the area of the Woolen Mill visible at right in the background:

 CPR 417 along Inner Harbour from Mattingly collection

CPR 1092 near the station with PFE 40210 on the pin, 1958

Winter view, 1943

Len Poole photo dated 1971 with crossbucks still in place

From 'Block D', dated 1915.

Kingston elevator dated 1905.

Compare the above, rather lively photo shared by Don McQueen from a family album taken in 1910, with this rather quiet view fifty years later:

CP freight house view, 1960

Iceboat with Nickel Plate and CN boxcars, and gantry, undated

CP freight house view, 1960

Trainload of equipment from CLC along Inner Harbour STR24301a.001.aa.cs Contract C571 undated.

CPR has cut off the passenger cars, CN photo

More freight cars are visible in this photo from the RAIC newsletter, 1961.

Foot of Brock Street, from Kingston: Celebrate this City by Joan Finnigan.

Station and City Hall, captioned 1928

Taken from top of the Richardson elevator, CP trackage and a street railway streetcar, 1910!

1955

CLC at left, with coal piles delivered by lake boat, coal pier and passenger car at Hanley Station, and CP freight shed

'Tilt-shifted' view of City Hall and CP trackage, 1919.

Captioned 1961 from RAIC newsletter

CP steam switches the small yard, 1948.

 

With CPR 1095 preserved, the lone CN track leading to CLC looks quite lonely.

Kingston Shipyards 1955 Whig-Standard harbourfront photo