Steam Power at Winston Churchill Public School

Before the Canada & Dominion Sugar Company closed, a steam locomotive operated in what is now Winston Churchill's school yard, shunting railroad cars loaded with sugar beets, sent to the factory for processing.

The location of the tracks, which connected the factory to the Canadian Pacific main line south of the school can be seen in an aerial photo below.

A curved fence separated the former school yard from the tracks. Part of that fence still exists, as shown. In addition, a line of trees paralleled the former fence line and can be seen today.

The twin crossings at King Street can be picked out because of the change in road grade and continual cracking of the road surface.

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	Aerial photo showing the school in 1956. The curved railway line through the present day schoolyard can be seen (there are rail cars on the tracks). Photo used with the permission of the Chatham-Kent Museum.
			The existing portion of the curved fence, which separated the railway line from the school yard.
Two lines of trees in the present day school yard, which show the line of the fence which separated the tracks from the play area.
		The change in road grade and cracking pavement pinpoint where the tracks crossed King Street.
The gap in the fence along the north edge of the school yard shows where the tracks continued across King Street, into the factory grounds.
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