Postagoni Bridge
Macdiarmid Tunnel Postagoni River Bridge Orient Bay Station
The Postagoni River Bridge (pronounced paws – TAH – gun – ee) is located just south of the communities of Macdiarmid/Biinjitiwabik Zaaging Anishnabek (formerly Rocky Bay First Nation) at Milepost 37.6/87.3.
The bridge is 287 feet long, 45 feet high and its three spans rest on 2 concrete piers. Costing $103,000 ($1.5 million today), it was opened for traffic in 1924, shortly after nationalization and replaced an earlier wood trestle.
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- Original Postagoni River trestle under construction.
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- Grade just south of the Postagoni River with the trestle visible in the background.
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- Pijitawabik Bay from on or near the Postagoni trestle, circa 1917.
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- Lake Nipigon Sheet, 1917. (DoI)
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- Lake Nipigon Sheet, 1927. (DoI)
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- Sturgeon River Area, 1934. (DoM)
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- Postagoni River Bridge, June 2020.
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- Postagoni River Bridge, June 2020.
