My father used to walk from here up to the round house up there to work and the snow would be all piled up. They didn’t have snowploughs to clean up the sidewalks then.

That was the station if you wanted to get out of Belleville, that's the only way you could go and they had round houses where the engines were housed, just west of the station between there and Station-Street and there was another one just east of the station in the same area and I remember it and then later, this was still a long time ago, they build the big round-house north of the tracks towards the east end of the city. You know where I mean there. I suppose. Ever seen it?

I called from about October to March and then I went in the Round-House and that was the new Round-House up there and I served my time as a machinist until about nineteen-twenty-two and then the depression years hit and then we all got laid-off ...

That was- that was the most- that was the most closest place to the round house, you-see, where I was boarding. And you had to walk over there. Ah, could be as far as (inc.). Dang cold in the winter too.

And when we come out to see- it was in the- late in the fall- and when we come out of the round house, we had to go across about a hundred and fifty yards over to that hotel, you-see.

Speaker: I think three of them got on the train and away they went, but the engine broke down and it was taken into the roundhouse down here. There was a round house that breath- they were- this was ah- a railway centre for the C-N. Speaker: In Belleville? Speaker: In Belleville yes.

Speaker: There was a coal-yard way up on um Station-Street. Interviewer: Do you ever recall seeing it? Speaker: Yes I do and the roundhouse that was there. The roundhouse ah all of the trains went in there for repairs. One of my uncles worked there.