RAILROAD WEEK
BELLEVILLE, ONT.
JUNE 22-28, 1964
A SOUVENIR TICKET OF YOUR TRIP ON ONE OF THE LAST STEAM TRAINS COMMEMORATING THE REMOVAL OF TRACKS ON PINNACLE STREET, BELLE-VILLE. THESE TRACKS WERE LAID IN 1876 AS PART OF THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY AND IN RECENT YEARS HAVE BECOME A TRAFFIC BOTTLENECK. CANADIAN NATIONAL JOINS BELLEVILLE IN CELEBRATING THE BOTTLENECK'S DEMISE.
On the back it has "ANSON JCT, ONT." Odd as Anson Junction is not in Belleville. Nearby yes, but not in Belleville.
Kate would have been coming up to her 15th birthday that year and may have some recollection of this event. She does remember the train on the Pinnacle Street.
On my side, by comparison, I recall my mother taking Dale, Paul (maybe?) and me on a train from Markdale to visit my sister Ellen in Toronto. She wanted us to ride one of the last passenger trains on that line as the service was being phased out. It was one of those self propelled glorified street-cars — not a steam train! I can't recall the year but it must have been around the same time. Google AI tells me the last passenger train to Owen Sound (Markdale was on that same line) was 1970 but I'm sure it was much earlier when I was about 12 (that would have been 1964). Not only are those trains gone, so to are the train lines.
