The Front Yard

When one family transferred out of the CPR section house in Mattawa , we were able to move from New Street . This was in late 56 or 57 . These photos show what the front yard of that home was like . It wasn't a quiet siding but a busy station and maintenance yard for for steam locomotives traveling the CPR mainline.

  The CPR mainline runs east-west in front of the station . In the background , there is a tall building - a stilt structure- which is the coal chute . Forward of it , to the left of the mainline are pipes that stick out of the ground. That is a water chute . Directly left of this , out of the picture , stood the duplex section house .