Miscellaneous Hanley Spur Images

Here's an end of the year roundup: the caboose on the fast-moving Kingston's Hanley Spur blog which has grown exponentially in the last two months! Whew! 

Kingston Whig-Standard stock photo published 1973 of the CPR station trackage (top photo). Bollard for tying up oil tankers in the Inner Harbour near the causeway:

Flooding on the Wellington Street side of the CN freight shed, 1951 from Queen's Archives. Woodie!

Flooding along Wellington Street, looking north where trackage should be between Anglin buildings:

 The earlier Davis Tannery:

 Canadian Dredge & Dock tugs, undated:

The Glenbow Archives maintains archives of Imperial Oil installations. These two show the (later) Bailey Broom Factory site at Rideau and Cataraqui Streets. Thanks to Andrew Jeanes for the links.

Tank cars, box cars, and a horse that knows "Whoa!"A second photo taken from the roof of the house in line with the telegraph pole shown in the photo above, looking toward the tank cars down the spur:

From Kingston 300: A Social Snapshot. Some Hanley Spur history written by Cecil E. Day of the Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transit

And a plug for the CIGGT. A large piece of track machinery was kept at the outer Station for some time.

 Royal Train at the Outer Station in 1951. Note stock pens in background:

Obituary for one of Kingston's better-known coal merchants, appearing in the Ottawa Journal, July 1940:

 From Kingston 300: A Social Snapshot - a nice sketch of Hanley Station by David Holmes:

CP No 612 Eng 485 at Cataraqui, June 25, 1956:

Farther up the K&P (above) and an architectural journal version of Kingston's waterfront, published in 1961:

A rather sad view - where once the mightly Limiteds trod...from Charles Cooper's Railway Pages, 1996. Single track only:

And two views of the Outer Station in HO scale on my layout...hope for the future. Happy New Year, 2019 and thanks for being aboard this blog! 

- Eric