I love this image. One guesses the mail contract was the last customer on the branch. How to make it work? Use a worn out ancient 10-wheeler, shut down the infrastructure down the branch, stack up the coal (like 765 did a couple of years ago) and drag along your water supply! Making it work!
Source for the photo is http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=1437245
1956, Courtright, ON.
More information on this 56 year old locomotive and the environs here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...entral_1290_and_1291