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Halton Railway stations

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	Barrels of apples being loaded into a refrigerated boxcar at Freeman Station, ca 1920 1920 The barrels are marked "Canadian Apples - Hamilton, Ontario". Note the hinged insulated doors of the refigerator car. The ice hatch at the right end of the car roof has a ventilation hood attached over the propped open ice hatch to force air through the car while moving, to keep the fruit from...
	Baskets and crates of fruit on the platform at the Burlington GTR Station in Freeman, ca 1920 ca 1920, A print from a negative in the National Archives of Canada. John Boyd (1865-1941), amateur photographer, railway official. Born Emyvale, Ireland, 1865-12-22. His family emigrated to Toronto in the late 1860s. Flourished Toronto, 1870s-1941. Boyd worked for both the Grand Trunk Railway and...
	Fruit harvest in Glover baskets, loaded on horse-drawn wagons waiting for the fruit train at the Burlington GTR Station in Freeman, ca 1920 ca 1920, A print from a negative in the National Archives of Canada. John Boyd (1865-1941), amateur photographer, railway official. Born Emyvale, Ireland, 1865-12-22. His family emigrated to Toronto in the late 1860s. Flourished Toronto, 1870s-1941. Boyd worked for both the Grand Trunk Railway and...