Locomotive Coaling Locations
| Location | Details | Notes/Pictures |
| Canadian National and Its Constituents | ||
| Barrys Bay, Renfrew sub. | From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book Platform shovelling into tender Barry's Bay coal dock was 42 x 12 1/2 feet at the station, mile 241.99 | |
| Brent, Beachburg sub. | The Brent coal chute is against the main line to the west of the station. (From Doug Wilson) |  |
| Brockville,. Brockville, Westport and Sault Ste. Marie | Platform shovelling into the tender. | |
| Brockville, Kingston sub. |  Brockville, Manitoba Yard late 1940s. View to west, showing the original coal trestle . LAC PA 203944 |  21 May 1939  6 June 1958 Above from Bruce Chapman |
| Coteau, Alexandria and Kingston (CN) subs. | From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book 1 chute 50 ton capacity 36'8"x47'6" Coteau Jct. is listed as a fuel station with coal shovelled on flat cars, in addition to the 15,790 square feet of coal trestle, mile 56.58. There was a 6-stall roundhouse |  This shows the GTR style coal chute at Coteau in the middle right of the picture (From Doug Wilson)  Taken on 30 March 1958 (Matt-5170) from Doug Wilson |
| Eganville, Renfrew sub. | From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book Platform shovelling into tender Eganville's coal dock was 63 1/2 x 12 3/4 feet at the station, mile 210.19 | |
| Galetta, Renfrew sub. | From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book Platform shovelling into tender Galetta's coal dock was 41 x 12 1/4 feet at the station, mile 166.49. | |
| Hawkesbury, Grenville and Vankleek subs. | From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book Platform shovelling into tender Hawkesbury's fuel station was 144 x 18 1/4 feet, at the station, mile 21.02. | |
| Kingston Outer Station Kingston sub, | Picture on the right show two four wheeled cars on the left which were used to coal locomotives at the Outer Station engine house (1935 Shaw Collection) |  |
| Madawaska, Renfrew sub. From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book 14 chutes 60'6"x23' |  From David Jeanes "Here is a panorama of Madawaska which shows the relative positions of company houses, reataurant and station, coal trestle (end view) (in centre of image), water tank and roundhouse. (Matt-1405)" |  (Matt-1403) |
| Ottawa East, Alexandria and renfrew subs. | The coal station at the Ottawa East roundhouse was 89 3/4 x 12 feet with adjacent sand house 30 x 12 x 12 1/4 feet. The big coal shed (with 13 chutes) was 698 x 39 feet with a 240 foot trestle approach. |  |
| Pembroke, Locksley sub. | From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book Platform shovelling into tender Pembroke's coal dock was 92 x 12 feet at the station, mile 21.09. | |
| Pembroke, Beachburg sub. |  Stephan "Del" Rosamond Picture | |
| Rideau Junction (CNoR) Became Federal | ||
| Rockland, L'Orignal and Hammond subs. | From 1907 GTR Bridge and Building Book Platform shovelling into tender Rockland's coal dock was 52 x 12 feet at mile 15.16, 0.8 miles south of the station and 0.86 miles from end of track. | |
| Walkley, Alexandria and Beachburg subs. | There was no coal facility at Walkley. There was a "C" in the employee timetables at the beginning but this referred to diesel fuel being available. | |
| Yarker, Smiths Falls sub (CNoR) | ||
| Canadian Pacific and Its Constituents "Fuel for the Canadian Pacific" by T. Britt General Fuel Agent | ||
| Calumet. Lachute sub. | ||
| Carleton Place, Chalk River sub |
Aylmer Gazette 4 August 1893
Orders have been issued for the erection of fifteen coal chutes at
Carleton Place. At present the locomotives have to be filled by the
slow bucket process. |
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| Chalk River, Chalk River sub. | This 1909 100-ft high structure was built to hold 160 tons of coal. It was demolished in 1961 (CP Spanner via Bruce Chapman) |  |
| Cornwall, Cornwall sub. |  From Bruce Chapman vbia Chris Granger | |
| Kingston Kingston (CP) sub. |  Both images from Andrew Jeanes |  |
| Maniwaki, Maniwaki sub. |  Bruce Ballantyne Collection | |
| Monkland, Winchester sub. |  | |
| Renfrew, Chalk River sub. |  (Matt-1503 via Bruce Chapman) |  (Matt-3959) |
| Ottawa East, Riverside Mand O sub. | ||
| Ottawa West, Lachute, Carleton Place, Prescott, M&O subs. |  1932 (Matt-5717)  1936 (Matt-3349) |  1964 (Matt-3828) |
| Prescott, Prescott sub. |  From Phil Jago via Malcolm Vant | |
| Smiths Falls, Winchester, Belleville and Brockville subs. |  Matt-6238 via Bruce Chapman |  |
| Almonte
Gazette 19 April 1895 A few days ago Peter Lynch of Smith's
Falls, had two ribs broken by falling down the coal chute in the C.P.R.
yards of that town. |
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| Tichborne, Belleville and Kingston (CP) subs. |  CPR 417 with M612 from Sharbot Lake, coaling at Tichborne while crossing the Smiths Falls -Trenton main line on May 25 1957. When done it will nback past the station and switch on to the ex-K&P and resume its run to Kingston. R.J. Sandusky |  |
| Waltham, Waltham sub. |  22 June 1959 Paterson George Collection | |
| Fassett Lumber | ||
| Fassett, QC | ||
| National Capital Commission | ||
| Ottawa, Museum of Science and Technology |  Ex-CPR 4-6-0 1057 was used for excursions in the summers of 1973 and 1974. It was normally coaled using a front end loader from a coal pile at the museum. However, on one occasion the loader was not available and the Bytown Railway Society Bucket Brigade was called into action |  |
| New York Central | ||
| Ottawa, Mann Avenue |  Several pictures of locomotives in Ottawa show a full tender. This picture is believed to show a locomotive being coaled from the pile behind. NYC 4-6-0 1272 Nov 1949 Paterson George Collection | . This shows a coal pile and a conveyer belt presumably used for coaling the locomotive. Nov 1949. Paterson George Collection |
| Thurso and Nation Valley Railway | ||
| Thurso, QC | ||
Updated 5 July 2023
