Where can I find track diagrams for the CNR in the Barrie, ON area in the 1930s?

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Our club is about to start building a new layout and we are tentatively thinking of modelling the Allandale yard and the passenger station at Barrie, Ontario, as well as the key features of the tracks that ran both north and south from Barrie. Where can I find maps that show the original track designs circa the 1930s?

Thanks,

Dave

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This site might be helpful.

http://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/Barrie

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Contact Geological Survey of Canada. They may be able to provide historic topo maps similar to USGS maps.

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/maps/9767

http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/science/geology/gsc/17100

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Thanks Guy. I’ll have to study the site some more. I didn’t find any maps initially.

Thanks DSchmitt. The topographic maps are very helpful.

Dave

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Are you a member of the CN Historical Society?

http://cnrha.ca/

If they have annual or regional meets, track charts are a common items at swap meets at such rail historical society meetings. Also, are there “railroadiana” swap meets in your area? They aren’t all dining car china and silverware - lots of maps and charts are offered at such themed swap meets.

Dave Nelson

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Dave, if you can get a copy of Ian Wilson’s “STEAM AT ALLANDALE”, you’ll find small maps of local industrial and station areas throughout the book, and three larger maps near the back of the book showing the Allandale yard, the locomotive servicing area, and an industrial area on the line to Meaford.
While the book deals mainly with the area in the '50s, I’m sure that a lot of stuff wasn’t changed all that much from what it was 20 years earlier.

Wayne

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Thanks Dave! Great idea!

Wayne: I just ordered a copy of the book. Other members of the club will likely have copies but I wanted one for my own reference. Thanks.

Dave