When I moved to this town, we came by train. Got off the train right over here, where city hall is. That was the train station. – Dennis Ballard

…there was this guy with the engineer’s camp. It was my mother’s brother, whom we didn’t know because he lived in Winnipeg. He had managed to bring a train up here and came to visit Mom. And there was this guy. Nothing bad, but we were a bit sassy to him. So we kept a […]

…when the stores put out their merchandise, that cardboard went out the back, we would collect boxes and we took them to the grocery stores for 3 cents. – Linda Allen

I remember one of the big things is the rail station was right outside. Almost where we are here. So people often would go up to town to see the train leave. That was a big deal. Or the train come in. – Bob Putko

So in the early morning, we got on and picked our little seat on the train and sat with our friends. And we went on this adventure. We’d never been on a train before. So the way we went over to Camp Whitney, it was on Lake Athapapuskow. – Marilyn Reader