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It’s Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Pharmasave: CN railroad

By Doppler Online On April 22, 2020 Community, Photos, Wayback Wednesday

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It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville!

 

We don’t know the year this photo was taken, but it’s been many decades since most people travelled with trunks. What else do you notice about this scene? (Photo courtesy of the CN Images of Canada Gallery)

 


Last week we shared this photo with you:

Wayback Wednesday 2020-14 Main Street Huntsville (Postcard photo: Annabelle Studio)

 

In some ways, Huntsville’s downtown has hardly changed in decades. This photo, looking east along Main Street, was taken in the 1930s. (Photo: Annabelle Studio)

If you want to see more Wayback Wednesday photos, click here.

 

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4 Comments

  1. Robin Yule says

    April 22, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    The photo of the train and baggage has, besides the trunks, a number of bags. I still have my father’s canvas sea bag from when he was in the navy during WWII and it looks a lot like the bags in the photo. Possibly the photo was taken in the early 1940’s.

  2. Wendy Harrison says

    April 23, 2020 at 8:17 am

    I am guessing that all those duffel bags belong to folks who served in WWII. Apparently this is when the bags came into popular use and are named after a town in Belgium (Duffel). The fabric was created to be strong, sturdy and easy to fold up. So this photo is probably in the late 40’s or 50’s.

  3. Sandy McLennan says

    April 23, 2020 at 11:06 am

    Don’t know about this time, but the photo is striking to me. The last time I saw my mother she was blowing me a kiss off the VIA train leaving Huntsville in 1989, right where this scene took place. Thanks for the memory spark.

  4. Elspeth Hogg says

    April 23, 2020 at 12:55 pm

    This could also be a load of trunks and duffle bags going to a summer camp in the 1940’s.

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