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This is another view of the process to bring the wayward steam engine back onto the track, circa 1917.A large track Crane is pulling the steam engine back onto the track.
Crane is on the left, Mirror's Roundhouse is in the background in the middle, and the steam engine is on the right.
No information is known about the people in the photo.
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GTP Train Wreck1914
Near Mirror, Alberta
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A crowd gathers around a Grand Trunk Pacific steam engine train wreck one mile East of Clive (Clive is about 18km West of Mirror) around 1912.This was a circus train. The ground was very wet, and the track gave way, dumping the engine and rail cars on their side.
The track on this line would have been fairly new, and may not have been through many wet seasons yet.
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Grand Trunk Pacific Train Station1914
Mirror, Alberta
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A 1914 photo of Mirror's Grand Trunk Pacific train station. This view is from the back of the station.This photo is on the front of a postcard, written on September 7, 1914 from an "Annie" from Calgary, Alberta, to a "Mr. James Brindle" in Mirror.
The trainyards and Roundhouse are in the background, (west of the station) with a passenger train between it and the station.
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The back of the postcard of the Mirror Station.2 September 1914
Mirror, Alberta
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Here is the back of the same postcard.34
Trainyards and Town1922
Mirror, Alberta
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The same trainyards on October 23, 1928, after the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway failed, and the Canadian National Railway took over.Note the town of Mirror in the right of the photo, the train station in the middle with steam billowing over it, and the two grain elevators in the distance on the left.
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CNR (formerly GTP) Trainyard1928
Mirror, Alberta
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Another October 23, 1928 view of the CNR yards, showing the turntable as well as the yards, roundhouse, station and a bit of the town itself.38
2076 Steam Engine Built in 19081928
Mirror, Alberta
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This photo was taken in the Mirror trainyards, and is of CN steam engine, 2076 (35%), built at the Canada Foundary in 1908.It was pulled out of service Nov/33 to be cut up.
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Steam Engine 1286 Built in 19071928
Mirror, Alberta
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