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(rshsdepot) Bangor, Minn part 2b (Warroad, MN ; Fort Frances, Ont.; Edmonton (incl. Incline Ry., Streetcar Library, LRT, etc.), Fort Edmonton, S. Edmontton, Alberta & Edmonton Green, U.K.)



Warroad, Minnesota is up on the Minnesota border. The Canadian National
depot (between Winnipeg and International Falls (Fort Frances, Ontario):
1915: http://nrhp.mnhs.org/images/s024_02.jpg
1992: http://nrhp.mnhs.org/images/s024_01.jpg

Fort Frances, Ont. Canadian Northern depot in 1901:
http://www.canadianheritage.org/images/large/20499.jpg
Ft. Frances, Ont. is on other side of border from International Falls,
Minnesota

More Edmonton, Alberta...
Edmonton Interurban Railway gasoline-electric car #1:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/pics/EdmontonInterurban.gif
The EIR, Edmonton to St. Albert only existed 9/30/1913 to 4/1/1914 after a
carbarn fire destroyed all their gascar fleet. Some tracks leased and sold
to Edmonton Radial Railway. The rest torn up.

Edmonton Incline Railway (1908-1913):
http://www.rewedmonton.ca/ARTICLE_PHOTOS/Content/418.jpg
At the foot of First Street.
This picture is on end:
http://www.ourroots.ca/f/viewpage.asp?ID=857830&size=2

Edmonton Light Rail Transit page with station pictures and system map:
http://www.urbanrail.net/am/edmo/edmonton.htm
Belvedere station is nice:
http://www.urbanrail.net/am/edmo/Edmonton-Belvedere_Station.JPG
Edmonton Coliseum Stadium:
http://community.webshots.com/s/image2/0/38/67/45403867tfvUtY_ph.jpg
Similar LRVs to San Diego's. On Dudley Bridge:
http://www.urbanrail.net/am/edmo/Edmonton-Dudley_B_%20Menzies_LRT_Bridge_win
ter.JPG

http://www.urbanrail.net/am/edmo/Edmonton-Dudley_B_%20Menzies_LRT_Bridge_sum
mer.JPG

Returning troops, 1919 at  Canadian Pacific Edmonton station:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/h32/f1/xx004743-v6.jpg

You've heard of Library Buses, here is Edmonton's Library Streetcar,  The
Edmonton Street Car Branch Library, 941:
http://www.epl.ca/EPLTheSourceArticle.cfm?article=V6-3/StreetCar
http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/irm/archives/streetcar.gif

First Passenger train Winnipeg to Edmonton, 1905:
http://www.cta-otc.gc.ca/about-nous/centennial/rpt/CN002380.jpg

Fort Edmonton station: http://www.nalug.org/TrainShow2003/party/

South Edmonton CP station, 1908:
http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view?CONTENT_ID=508

Here is the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway on the Low Level Bridge,
October 20.1902 inaugural train: It never went very far, the 13 mile road
was merged into the Canadian National:
http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view?CONTENT_ID=240
The ROW is a hiking trail today.

[Here are pages with station pictures and history for Edmonton Green (1872)
in England:
http://www.enfield.gov.uk/museum/family_learning/edmonton_green_station.htm
http://www.grunson.com/lower-edmonton.co.uk/railway2.html
The Lower Edmonton station served a railway line Startford-London. London
terminus was Shoreditch station.
You will note when you enlarge the pictures on the page that the railroad is
elevated through here.
The scalloped platform sheds are great!:
http://www.grunson.com/lower-edmonton.co.uk/images/scans/saep/085.jpg
http://www.grunson.com/lower-edmonton.co.uk/images/digital/2000/2000-08-13/1
00-0206.jpg     ]

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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org

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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #987
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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org