CNR Photographs
Name/Title
CNR PhotographsEntry/Object ID
2021.564.01Description
Photograph of CNR #5091 in Pine Falls during a Winnipeg flood in May of 1950. Distinguishing Features: noneContext
Historic photograph of CNR #5091 Part of a series of 14 photographs of various CN locomotives in Western Canada. Canadian National was created following the end of the First World War, by combining five lines which were financially troubled. It soon became the largest railway in the country. Canadian National Railways was founded in 1919 as a combination of several railways that had become bankrupt and were being ran by the Canadian Government Railways, its primary service was freight but also operated passenger service until 1978 until it was absorbed by VIA rail. The Canadian National Railways was created by the Government of Canada as a means to fund the failing railway corporations including: Intercolonial Railway of Canada, National Transcontinental Railway, Prince Edward Island Railway, and Hudson's Bay Railway.Collection
Library ArchiveCategory
Canadian National