This picture of the Chapleau C.P.R. yards and station taken in May 1946 tells a very interesting story. Some of the numbered landmarks are gone, others will be eliminated in the near future (written in the 1960s). They are:

No. 1, C.P.R. water tank.

No. 2, C.P.R. ice house.

No. 3, smokestack of the C.P.R. power and steam plant.

No. 4, old original coal shutes for filling engine tenders.

No. 5, C.P.R. car barns.

No. 6, new coal shutes, now discarded but still standing.

In the right foreground is the water tank (upright dispenser only visible) that was used to fill the water tank on the steam engines. On the right on the first track is the first section of passenger train No. 3. The first section is denoted by the green flags displayed to the right and ledt of the superheater.

On the second track from the ice house is the engine that will take second No. 3 from Chapleau to White River. One may observe the brakeman advancing from this locomotive so that he may align the switches so that this engine may advance to a point where it can back onto No. 3 as soon as the incoming engine has been taken off.

On the second track from the station and to the rear of No. 3 and headed in the opposite direction is passenger train No. 2.

The yard engine is observed on the third track coupled to the vans. Two engines are seen near the shops, facing each other and no doubt being prepared to take incoming freight trains to Cartier and White River.