Sunday, 20 January 2019

At Kingston's Outer Station, April 1985

My brother David published this post on his blog, Rolly Martin Country, which shows a transfer-van mishap on a stub-end track at the Outer Station in April, 1985. You'll also see a train of boarding cars there (above), and a view of the Elliott Avenue crossing, looking toward the station.

Interesting fact in one of the tables included in the post: the difference in altitude between the Hanley Spur switch and the downtown (Inner) station was 24 feet! I believe much of this difference was encountered soon after the Spur left the CN Kingston Sub, as the line ventured towards the Inner Harbour, where it was a few feet above the level of the Great Cataraqui River thence Lake Ontario.

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