Résultats

      Black and white photo of C.N.R. staff members. From left to right: the chief - D.B. McKillop ,W.B. Moore, B&B foreman, steel bridge foreman - E.Naslin and inspector - Syd Harper.

      Photo of a Hamilton Bridge Derrick placing the first girder of the second 78 foot span.

      Two men, Mike Arnoth and Mr. Baeder are shown standing in front of one of the first ore cars to arrive from the iron ore mines at Steep Rock.The CN trestle and ore dock were newly completed. At 9 a.m. the previous morning, the first of the ore cars opened …

      Looking west - Hamilton Bridge Derrick Car erecting posts, for first span. (February 20, 1945)

      Black and white photo illustrating the massive nature of the trestle construction site. The trestle would run from the harbour all the way to Memorial Avenue (over two miles in length, not including the ore docks themselves).

      Hamilton Bridge derrick car using a gib boom to erect posts. This traveling crane was also known as a double boom derrick.

      This photograph shows a Hamilton Bridge traveling crane placing a 32 ton steel girder into place on the trestle. Newspaper reports indicated the trestle itself would be a mile long, followed by a mile and a half approach to the iron ore dock.

      Black and white photo showing the timber frame construction of the ore dock.

      This photograph shows the trestle near completion. The wooden trestle would stretch two thirds of a mile in length. It was composed of fir from British Columbia and structural steel contracted through the Hamilton Bridge Company.

      Trestle during construction.

      Thunder Bay, Ontario

      Steel towers in place at C.N.R. crossing. (February 9, 1945)

      Looking West from top of the 'ore dock proper'., (February 27, 1945)

      Construction of the trestle. (May 22, 1945)

      Looking west from ore dock, showing the bents of the wooden trestle as they were laying down on the deck below before being hauled upright one at a time, like dominos in reverse. (February 9, 1945)

      Black and white photo looking East to ore dock - bents packed to bent 38 and ready to raise. (March 21, 1945)

      The timber used in the construction was from an emergency stockpile which was used in the event of sabotage of railways and bridges (this notation appears on the back of the photograph).

      A steel girder, 32 feet long and weighing 32 tons is lowered into place by a Hamilton Bridge Company traveling crane.

      A Hamilton Bridge Derrick car placing the first steel girder on the wooden trestle at Fort William Road. The girder was 100 feet long.

      Men lay out railway tracks for the 600 foot trestle on June 5th 1945. By July 21st of that same year the trestle and iron ore dock would be complete and the first shipment of Steep Rock iron ore would be loaded at the dock.