Railways and Trains

CA BI 77-11-139
Item
1886

Item is a photograph of the C. and S. Swann Locomotive which was built at Sydney Mines for the General Mining Association. It was built under the direction of engineer John Elliot.

Canadian National Railroad Station, Sydney

CA BI 77-1573-1707
Item
ca. 1890

Item is a photograph of five men standing in front of the Sydney Railway Station on Dodd Street.

Umlah Studios

Canso Causeway Construction

CA BI 77-29-158
Item
1954

Item is a photograph of the construction of the railway at the Canso Causeway.

Cape Breton Steam Locomotive

CA BI 77-1425-1560a
Item
1973

Item is a photograph of the first trip of DEVCO's steam locomotive #42.

Cape Breton Steam Locomotive

CA BI 77-1426-1560b
Item
1973

Item is a photograph of DEVCO's Steam Engine at the Victoria Junction ready for its first trip.

Charlotte Street, Sydney

CA BI 77-486-620
Item
ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of Charlotte Street with the railroad running under a bridge.

CNR Station

94-760-25275
Item
n.d.

Item is a photograph of train workers hauling a baggage car during a snowstorm.

Abbass Studios Ltd.

Coal Engine Passing Under Charlotte Street

CA BI 77-167-301
Item
1893

Item is a photograph of a coal engine passing under Charlotte Street. Originally the Glasgow & Cape Breton Railway, by 1893 the Fairlie narrow-gauge locomotive was operated by the Sydney & Louisbourg Railway.

Umlah Studios

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.5
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photograph of a CNR train conductor in uniform standing beside a train.

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.8
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photograph of a CNR train conductor standing next to a train.

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.2
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photograph of a CNR train employee helping a woman off a train.

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.6
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photograph of a CNR worker writing in a book.

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.3
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photographic portrait of a CNR Train Conductor with a group of people in front of a train.

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.4
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photograph of a CNR train conductor standing at a ticket counter.

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.7
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photographic portrait of two CNR train conductors standing next to a train.

Conductors Last Run

CA BI N Series-250.1
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Abbass Studios Ltd. fonds

Item is a photograph of a CNR train employee helping a woman off a train.

Dominion Coal Co. Collieries, Railway and Shipping Piers

CA BI 77-1357-1491a
Item
ca. 1889

Item is a photograph of the railway and shipping piers of the Dominion Coal Co. Collieries.

Dominion Coal Co. Collieries, Railway and Shipping Piers

CA BI 77-1357-1491b
Item
ca. 1889

Item is a photograph of the railway and shipping piers of the Dominion Coal Co. Collieries.

Fairlie Narrow Gauge Locomotive

CA BI 77-157-291
Item
ca. 1910

Item is a photograph of the Fairlice locomotive and engineer.

First Steam Locomotive in Nova Scotia

CA BI 77-169-303
Item
ca. 1860

Item is a photograph of the first steam locomotive in Nova Scotia, built by Timothy Hackworth in1839. The train ran from Abbron Mines, Stellarton, to Abercrombie.

First Train Across Grand Narrows Bridge

CA BI 77-847-981
Item
ca. 1888

Item is a photograph of passengers on an open passenger car, part of the first train to cross the bridge at Grand Narrows.

First train across the Canso Causeway

CA BI 87-269-16799
Item
18-Apr-1955

Item is a photograph depicting the first train crossing across the Canso Causeway.

Gisborne Bridge

CA BI 77-315-449
Item
1879

Item is a photograph of the Gisborne Bridge with a train crossing it, over the Mira River. There are sailboats visible on the river.

Glace Bay Mining Co. Engine

CA BI 77-58-192
Item
20th century

Item is a photograph of the Glace Bay Mining Co. Engine, featuring E.P. Archibal and three employees.

Gypsum Quarry at St. Ann's

CA BI 79-472-3452
Item
1906

Item is a photograph of a group of miners, horses and carts, and boxcars at the St. Ann's Gypsum Quarry.

Inverness Railway and Coal Co.

CA BI 79-1163-4143
Item
ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of the bankhead and colliery buildings at Inverness Railway and Coal. Co..

Johnny Allan MacDonald, Loch Lomond

CA BI T-2051
Item
1982

Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

His people came from North Uist Angus "Mor" MacDonald & his friends prepared for a year to emigrate

The people who "drove" them out

People who came: MacLeods, Morrisons, MacKinnons, Beatons

His grandfather's family - 10 children, 2 born here

His grandmother told him stories of Scotland

They sailed from Loch Maddy on "The Commerce", weeks & 6 days on the journey

Half the group went to West Bay, the rest stayed at Irish Cove - finally all moved to Loch Lomond area

How they acquired stock - oxen, horses, cattle

Many brands - songs were never published

His experiences going west on the "Harvest" trains

Wages & working conditions

Describes different types of work in the lumber camps

The pioneers' religion

Log churches - snow blew in between the logs

Church services, precenting

Social life - ceilidhs, milling frolics,

Milling songs - the best singers were in Loch Lomond

Weddings - the "drive" after the marriage, as many as 100 wagons

One of the songs they sang during the drive - "Cha bhi mi buan 's tu bhi buan"

Sings a chorus of the song

Macdonald, Norman

Limestone Quarrie

CA BI 77-67-201
Item
ca. 1910

Item is a photograph of railcars, tracks, and miners at the limestone quarry in Point Edward.

Mira Gut Bridge

CA BI 77-434-568
Item
20th century

Item is a photograph of the Sydney & Louisbourg Railway Bridge in Mira.

Mira Gut Bridge

CA BI 77-435-569
Item
20th century

Item is a photograph of the Sydney & Louisbourg Railway Bridge in Mira.

Mira Gut, R.R. Station

CA BI 77-431-565
Item
ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of the Sydney and Louisbourg railroad station at Mira Gut.

Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co., Rescue Car

CA BI 80-774-4954
Item
ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of a railroad car equipped as a hospital. The car ran between #3 and #7 mines and Town of Sydney Mines. It was discontinued in 1922. The photograph shows the car with the rescue crew in the foreground.

Old Sydney Collieries

CA BI 77-832-966
Item
ca. 1965

Item is a photograph from the last day of operations at the Old Pier in North Sydney.

Old Sydney Collieries Railway

CA BI 77-127-261
Item
1954

Item is a photograph of the #26 locomotive of the old Sydney Collieries railway used for pushing coal on High Pier. Four men pose in front of the engine, P. H. Hall, Engineer; Mike MacInnis, Conductor; Cliff MacLean, Fireman; and Duncan Whalen, Brakeman.

Photographs

Series

Part of Leo Evans

Series consists of print photographs, slides and negatives of the S&L Railway, various photographs of Whitney Pier and Sydney, photos from around Cape Breton Island and family photographs.