Picnic on the PAD&W Railway (~1890): The Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History

Picnic on the PAD&W Railway (~1890)

Description

Media Type:: Image
Item Type:: Photographs
Description:: In 1890, Black Auntie, a wood burning locomotive, brought passengers to Stanley Park for a picnic. Picnickers were transported by flatcar or boxcar for the day. The locomotive pushed the flatcar so that the smoke and cinders from the locomotive would not bother passengers. The service lasted a decade until construction of the Canadian Northern Railway destroyed the site.
Date of Original:: 1890
Subject(s):: Picnics
Railroad locomotives
Transportation - land - railway - Port Arthur Duluth & Western
Local identifier:: OPM: 972 28.5
Language Of Item:: English
Geographic Coverage:: Canada - Ontario - Stanley

Latitude: 48.3668
Longitude: -89.56685
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