Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision at (MP 164.1-165.7) south of Pearl, ON. Features the grade south of Pearl Station with rock cuts, milepost markers and views of Portage Creek.
Part 3 of 4.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision at (MP 164.1-165.7) south of Pearl, ON. Features the grade at Pearl Station, including the remains of the siding which is normally flooded by a beaver dam, but has been exposed due to dry weather.
Part 2 of 4.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision at (MP 164.1-165.7) south of Pearl, ON. Features the grade at Pearl Station, including the siding with ties still in place and a few rock cuts. Here the grade has been washed out in one place and then flooded for several hundred metres by a beaver dam.
Part 1 of 4.
Active, 1914-2005.
In an undated photo, a locomotive passes through one of the many rock cuts near Pass Lake Station. Pass Lake was located at Milepost 120.6 of the Canadian Northern Railway Nipigon Subdivision and later Canadian National Railways Dorion Subdivision. In 1960 it became Milepost 170.3 of the Canadian National Railway Kinghorn Subdivision.
While an exact identification is very difficult due to the resolution of the photo, it appears to be a CNR 3200 locomotive, possibly 3281. If correct, #3281 was a Class S-1-b 2-8-2 Mikado built 1916-1917 by the Canadian Locomotive Company for the Canadian Government Railways. The boxcar visible has what appears to be Canadian Northern lettering, placing the photograph in the early 1920s.
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Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision at (MP 161.7-164.1) Pearl, ON. Features the grade approaching Pearl Station with a rock cut, rail, telegraph pole and the beginning of the siding.
Part 4 of 4.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 161.7-164.1) at Pearl, ON. Features the grade north of Pearl Station with telegraph poles, culverts and a large rock cut.
Part 3 of 4.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 161.7-164.1) at Pearl, ON. Features the grade east of Pearl Station with a level crossing, telegraph poles, flanger signs, a rail and a wheel flange greaser.
Part 2 of 4.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 161.7-164.1) at Pearl, ON. Features the grade east of Pearl Station with a concrete culvert, telegraph pole and low rock cut.
Part 1 of 4.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 156.7-161.7) near Pearl, ON. Features the grade as it crosses the Pearl River on a short bridge, then past a rock cut to Road 5 South.
Part 6 of 6.
Active, 1914-2005.
Removing the rails on the Pee Dee. This photo, taken circa 1939, shows crews in an unknown location removing the remaining 35 miles of what was the Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway.
The PAD&W was constructed from 1889 and 1893 to provide a link between Port Arthur, ON and Duluth, MN as well as tap nearby iron deposits. Eighty-five miles of rail were laid to the international boundary and six miles into Minnesota to the Paulson Iron Mine, but unfortunately the iron enterprise collapsed just as it was supposed to open. The planned connection to Duluth was never built (despite many later attempts to complete it) which left the line with no real terminus.
It was abandoned in sections, with the last trains running in March 1938. The line’s owner at the time, Canadian National Railways, petitioned the federal government to completely abandon the North Lake Subdivision as it was called which was granted in October 1938.
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