The No. 1 Car Shop, Rip Track, and Farm

In this photograph on the left side we can see the steel framework of the No.1 Car Shop with some service cars in the foreground, they were probably being used for offices and lunchrooms for the workers.this shop also had a tin shop, where they did repairs on cabooses, and the other rolling stock that had sheet-metal. As part of my apprenticeship, after two years, I would've gone to work in this tin shop for two years. All the other apprentices would have to serve two years in the back shops such as Alyth in Calgary, or Nelson in British Columbia. In the middle we can see the fence on the eastern side of the property. And on the right side we can see the south end of the Planning Mill. The track, where the service cars are standing later became the Rip Track, Rip stands for "Repair in place" and was used for light repairs that could be done outside the Car Shop. The Farm is tracks in the yard north of the Car Shop; they were used for cutting up obsolete rolling stock, destined for the scrap yard. You can see this in the photograph of cars being cut up with a torch that I have posted above. I also posted a picture of a Royal Hudson heading for the scrap line. We use to go down to the Farm to salvage sheet-metal from some of the cars being scrapped, for projects we were working on around the shops to help keep the price down.