Monday 15 March 2021

Cabbages and Kings film, 1970

This film profiles some down-on-their-luck men in Kingston, who circulate between downtown streets and the Inner Harbour shoreline, girl-watching in the former and day-drinking in the latter. Along the way, the cops come calling and the cells await. Directed by Peter Duffy, the film is online at vimeo.

The rail enthusiast in me picked out three brief scenes that I've screen-shotted. Two of the men rush to rescue someone in danger in the water, with Esso tanks on Rideau Street in the background. They're crossing tracks in the CP yard, with a CN switchstand at right indicating the Hanley Spur switch to the Imperial Oil limestone warehouse. 

Drinking in front a pile of wooden timbers, the men miss this awesome photo of Anglin's crane and its clamshell bucket taking coal from a Reading hopper car, with their covered coal trestle just visible at right:
And though it doesn't show well in this view, at the left of this frame, a CP switcher pushes a few cars into CP's yard, with basic boat docks visible in foreground and the Woolen Mill visible in the background.

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