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Train wreck between Waterloo and Warden
Partiellement · 1879
Fait partie de Fonds William E. Foster

Item is a photograph of a train wreck between Waterloo and Warden in 1879. The caption reads: "Wreck between Waterloo & Warden 1879. Engine former C.V. 'Governor Payne', Joseph Clark, 1849-50. Passumpsic, 'Orleans'. Operated in mixed, Sorel to Sutton. S.E.R. train carrying load of granite for the construction of Col. A.B. Foster's home at Waterloo;-- C.W. Foster, gave the signal 'all clear' when the mixed was on the right of way. This event ended his railway career. Engr. John Daly, killed."

S.E.R. No. 16, A.B. Chaffee
Partiellement · [18--?]
Fait partie de Fonds William E. Foster

Item is a photograph of a train locomotive on a railway bridge with people standing on and beside it, probably taken in the 1800s. The caption reads: S.E.R. No. 16, A.B. Chaffee.

Percy A. Baldwin
CA ETRC P173-005-02-001-005 · Pièce · [189-?]
Fait partie de Elvyn M. Baldwin family fonds

The item is a studio portrait photograph of Percival (aka Percy) A. Baldwin, probably taken in the 1890s. Photographer: Kilburn (Coaticook, Que.).

Hally C. Brown
CA ETRC P181-004-002 · Partiellement · [ca. 1895]
Fait partie de Hally Carrington Brent fonds

The item is a portrait photograph of Harriet (aka Hally) Carrington Brown taken in Baltimore around 1895. Photographer: Perkins (Baltimore, MD).

Jeffrey Mine workers in Asbestos
CA ETRC P031-003-01-A-003 · Partiellement · 1905
Fait partie de collection William G. Clark

Item is a photograph showing miners at the Jeffrey Mines in Asbestos around 1905.

The caption reads: This is how stripping was done about 1905 and until 1914. Horses hauled dumpcarts which were loaded by hand, to the dump. Sometimes the drivers, mostly young boys employed by the contractor, would back the cart too close to the edge of the dump and when the latch was released and the load did not slide out easily, everything went, load of earth, dumpcart, and the poor old horse. In most cases that was the end of the horse. The harness was stripped off and the horse shot and buried by suceeding loads of earth. Incidentally the "Dirt Dump" was along side of the Danville road just a short distance below the "Square"

In this picture it is possible to see three separate pits. The small cabins on the edge of the pit were for the signal boys. The hoist operator could not see into the pit or even see the platform where the derrick boxes were dumped into the ore cars. so boys were placed where they could be seen by the hoist operator and the men in the pit. They used paddles about the size of a Ping-pong paddle or bat. These were brightly painted, mostly white with a ex red centre like a large target, bull's eye. With these they transmitted signals from the pit crew to the hoistman. There were two boxes to a hoist. While one was being hoisted and emptied the pit gang were loading the second. When they had loaded and hoisted 100 boxes their day was finished. Starting at 6,30 A.M. to 12.00 noon, one hour for lunch, restart 1.00.P.M. until the 100 box was dumped which was anywhere from 1.30 to 3.00 P.M. These same boxes were used to lower and raise the men into and cut of the pit."