Rail Archives | Crossing Cole Harbour: From Ferry to Dyke then Rail to Trail

Train tracks in Cole Harbour in 1974.

A Marion Steam Shovel, used to build the Eastern Railway in Cole Harbour.

A view of Cole Harbour and the salt marsh from the Canadian National Rail causeway in 1971, looking North.

Two unidentified people sit on the Eastern Railway bridge over Cole Harbour.

A train crossing Cole Harbour on the railway, which was still in place in 1975.

An unidentified woman and girl stand outside of Cole Station, a railway stop in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.

Building the railway involved adding rock to the rail bed, so it would be able to support the railway. Here, a train stops to dump fill into the […]

A Marion Steam Shovel, used to move earth in course of building the Eastern Railway.

A Marion Steam Shovel moves earth in the course of building the Eastern Railway.