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Coal engine passing under Charlotte Street

  • NSSXA 77-167-301
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  • 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

S. & L. Railroad

  • NSSXA 77-481-615
  • Item

Item is a photograph of coal miners and families en route to Louisbourg for an annual picnic on the S. & L. Railroad.

Steam Engine

  • NSSXA 77-819-953
  • Item
  • ca. 1908

Item is a photograph of trainmen on an engine at Mulgrave.

Hatt, Ernest Samuel

First train across Grand Narrows Bridge

  • NSSXA 77-847-981
  • Item

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

Inverness Railway and Coal Co.

  • NSSXA 79-1163-4143
  • Item

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

Gypsum Quarry at St. Ann's

  • NSSXA 79-472-3452
  • Item

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

Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co., Rescue Car

  • NSSXA 80-774-4954
  • Item

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.

Railway Car, Dominion

  • NSSXA 86-325-16523
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Item is a photograph of a railway car in a Dominion railyard containing soldiers of World War 1. Children are in the foreground on the tracks.