Rivers, Manitoba, 31 MAY'17
On a building downtown there were a couple of paintings to depict "the way it was"; this is how it was until 1970 for the CN bridge over the Little Saskatchewan River. The original trestle was about a mile long, so the fill on either approach is extensive. I was honored to be following the footsteps of Lawrence Stuckey, a fine photographer and also a CPR engineer out of Brandon dring the '40s and '50s. He took quite a few photographs in this area, and also ran trains on the CPR branch that once passed through here on its way to Lenore. The book that he authored, published by Nickel Belt Rails and titled "Prairie Cinders", is cover to cover with his stories of a career and travels with the Railway. If it's still available, it's well worth the purchase.
Rivers, Manitoba, 31 MAY'17
On a building downtown there were a couple of paintings to depict "the way it was"; this is how it was until 1970 for the CN bridge over the Little Saskatchewan River. The original trestle was about a mile long, so the fill on either approach is extensive. I was honored to be following the footsteps of Lawrence Stuckey, a fine photographer and also a CPR engineer out of Brandon dring the '40s and '50s. He took quite a few photographs in this area, and also ran trains on the CPR branch that once passed through here on its way to Lenore. The book that he authored, published by Nickel Belt Rails and titled "Prairie Cinders", is cover to cover with his stories of a career and travels with the Railway. If it's still available, it's well worth the purchase.