Sioux Lookout is located north of Superior. It is known as the blueberry capital of Ontario. To railfans on "The Canadian" Sioux Lookout is one of the few places the train stops on its cross-country journey. This offers travellers the opportunity to get out to look at the old station and it offers railfoans the opportunity to grab a few shots of the refuelling operations.
The station is now abandoned and boarded up. This is most unfortunate as it surely must have been a beautiful structure in its heyday. A few years back a private individual purchased the station to renovate and re-open, but when the government learned that internal renovations were taking place, a stop-work order was issued based on the ground that this is a "heritage" building. Apparently this man threw his arms in the air and abandoned any dreams of making the necessary improvements in order to someday reopen the building.
I walk past the station to check on the refuelling job being done. All three locomotives are given a good, long drink before departing the station.
As I walk towards the engines I chose to snap this "artsy" close-up shot of the multiple unit hoses connecting two of our locomotives!
Before crossing the tracks, I seek permission. It is granted and I'm able to snap this photograph of the three workhorses that are pulling us across this vast land of ours! Not long after, we hear the "All Aboard" and we are soon on our way heading to the Ontario/Manitoba border.
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