Schwitzer Junction was originally situated just north of Wickstrom's buildings on 21-7-22. However, the C.P.R. discovered that, after stopping here, the trains had difficulty getting started up the grade. Consequently, sometime around 1914, they changed the Arcola line so that the junction with the Estevan line was on SE 27-7-22, about two miles northcast of the original location.


On this site, a good sized station was built consisting of a waiting room at one end, freight shed at the other end, and the office and living quarters in the center section.

As there was only a single track between Schwitzer and Souris, a staff system was used. The conductor was required to have a staff - a boltlike instrument about six inches long, before he could leave either Souris or Schwitzer. The machine holding the instruments would not release any, if there had been one removed at the other end. This interesting arrangement insured that there could be only one train on that stretch at arry given time. For years three switch rail lines were on the North side of the  main line. These ran for one half mile east of Schwitzer, and were used for passing trains. There was a loading platform beside the most northerly line. Also on this line, as many as six portable elevators would be situated in  harvest time, loading grain into 1000 bus, boxcars. Nels J. Loberg spent some tie at the original Schwitzer station, boarding at Wickstroms and he was the only agent at the new station, leaving when the C.P.R. phased Schwitzer out as an active station, about 1932.