The Don Smith Collection
We have a rare opportunity to present you with scans of slides from days gone by. This is the slide collection of Don Smith, a local railfan photographer. These slides cover ONR, CN and CP from the late '50s to the mid '80s. Although we do not have complete documentation on all photos, we can tell you that these photos were all taken in or aroundNorth Bay.
Doug Cameron worked with Don for some time, and provides the following biogaphy:
"Don has been an avid railway modeller, railfanner and photographer for many years. He and a friend would go out on many Sundays to chase the trains around North Bay. He has done several scratchbuilt models for railway layouts. One of his models was a feature article in Model Railroader magazine.....February/1959...Builders Supply Yard......a moderate size industry that was taken from an actual industry in North Bay.....Lakeview Builders. He has also scratch built several bridges and other models. How did we get the pictures....he moved and finally got to the bottom of the pile AND there were the pictures."
There are a lot of photos so they will be initially in raw form with no descriptions. As the webmaster gets the time, they will soon appear in our regular format.