Explore Prince Edward Island railway history through photographs, documents, places, equipment, and operating stories.
The Best $50 You Can Spend In Canadian Prototype Model Railroading.
A review of CNRHA’s CN Lines back-issue USB and online index as an affordable resource for Canadian National prototype modellers.
Read postFinding inspiration from a later era
A St. Peters Bay potato-loading photo provides prototype ideas for Vernon River’s team track, vehicles and loading scene.
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Vernon River Co-Op Warehouse: a study on shared building plans.
Research comparing PEI co-op warehouses at Vernon River, Morell, Souris and Tignish to reconstruct the 1947 Vernon River building.
Read postA sunny winter’s day prototype visit.
A winter field visit to Vernon River, PEI, to study the former railway right-of-way, landscape, buildings and roads for an HO layout.
Read postVernon River / Murray Harbour Subdivision traffic analysis [PT:2 Researching Traffic Amounts and Crunching the Numbers]
1950s CN carload data reveals typical train length, traffic balance and commodity flows through Vernon River.
Read postVernon River / Murray Harbor subdivision freight traffic analysis [PT. 1 Researching Traffic Types]
Newspaper archives identify Vernon River’s inbound and outbound railway traffic, from potatoes and livestock to coal and feed.
Read postLearning the lay of the land:
Aerial photographs and newspaper records establish Vernon River’s potato, livestock and freight traffic—and support adding a stock pen.
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