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| The NewfieBullet. Jerome captured this shot in the winter of 1953-54. In the 1954 time table, it left St. Johns at 5:00 PM and arrived at Port Aux Basques at 7:40 PM the next day. The rail distance was 547 miles. The"Bullet" was always double headed with two 2-8-2 type steamers until the arrival of their new diesels in 1952. The "Bullet" was discontinued in June of 1969. |
| Here at Mile Post 126.19, Jerome captured this quaint little station marked 65th Siding. Since posting this photo I have discovered there was another one of these structures at M.P. 25.41 named Duff's. I put the question to my friend Albert Noseworthy what they were used for as they were too small for railroad customers. This is what he said: "These were called cut in shacks and you can see by the line leading up to the main line on the pole why these shacks were there. It wasn't only for snow plow trains but all trains that got into trouble used them. |
| USAF PM-40-1 standing behind the PX at McAndrew AFB. The PM stands for Patrol Maintenance. I did not see this car being used while stationed at McAndrew AFB. |
| Randy P. Noseworthy of Whitbourne shared this photo of Army P-40-1 along with a short history. There were four of these cars built by the Edwards Co. in North Carolina, U.S.A. for the American armed forces in Newfoundland in the 1940's. Two were lost en route when the ship they were on was torpedoed. In the construction of the telephone cable line along the railroad this car pulled a flat car loaded with rolls of cable. They slowly traveled along the rail line while unrolling the cable for installation. |
| A snow fence on the branch to Placentia. |
| No. 902 & 905 ready to leave Terra Nova with some flats loaded with pulpwood. No.902 is a class GR-12a built in 1952. This photo taken in fall 1953. Jerome Young photograph. |
| No.905 coming through Camp-I. The spur in the foreground was installed for our two speeders and trailers. The Shoal Harbour Gravel Pit is on the left background. To the right of No.905 is the cut in shack that Albert mentioned at the beginning of this page on 65th Siding. Jerome Young photograph. |
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| The telegraph call was B K. After telegraph was discontinued phone drops were installed. Also there were telephone drops installed about every quarter mile or so for the section men or any speeder operator to get train reports. I believe there was one of these cut in shacks at Shoal Harbour Pit. I have used these shacks when we were ploughing the track for the bullet. When I started as operator there was no telephone line only telegraph. I still can use the key and sounder." |
