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Dumping Fill

A train on a bridge dumping fill into Cole Harbour

[ca. 1917-18]. The Wilfred Bissett Album. Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society Archives.

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 marsh in order to build a causeway. Later, after the trains had long stopped running, the rail bed would become part of the Trans Canada Trail.