Loading ...The Northland was dark khaki (olive drab) back then . Most passenger runs from Toronto to North Bay and beyond terminated at Kapuskasing , I think . Several summers , I would travel back to Kirkland Lake to spend part of my school vacation with an aunt and uncle there who were childless and like second parents to me. Swastika was the rail station for KL , west of Chaput Hughes .
My dad once told me that he was on the surveying crew as a very young man (late teens ?) which scouted out the future track of the spur line , now Polar Bear , from Kapuskasing to Moosonee (in summer , because there was a lot of muskeg in that region , to be avoided to be sure of solid footing for the railbed).
WOW ! Maya , That’s a lot more color than when I last rode the Northland to Swastika (KL)
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