After the Gold Rush With the rugged landscape ablaze in colour, a pair of Ontario Northland EMD SD40-2s guide Timmins (Kidd Mines) to Englehart train no. 308 through the community of Swastika, Ontario. The town of Swastika, with its name most unusual, was quite literally built on gold. Adopting its name from the Sanskrit good-luck symbol, the Swastika Gold Mine was staked in 1907 and the burgeoning town was flooded with prospectors, entrepreneurs and eventually, the railway. With fortunes lost and won and many a debt to pay, today, all that remains of the Swastika Gold Mine is a scar on the earth and the subject of local lore. The Gold Rush may have ended long ago, but ONR's handsomely painted EMDs and surrounding foliage do a fine job at keeping a little gold alive in the small town of Swastika.
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