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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 69.4-72.7 III (Nipigon River Bridge)

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 119.1-122.4) north of Nipigon, ON. Features 610-foot Nipigon River Bridge, originally constructed and completed circa 1913. It is the second longest structure on the line after the Blende River Viaduct (https://youtu.be/RW7mF35xBY0).

Part 3 of 6.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on February 7, 2024 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 69.4-72.7 II

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 119.1-122.4) north of Nipigon, ON. Features the grade south of Cameron Falls Station with cuttings, culverts, a wheel flange greaser and the approaches to the Nipigon River bridge.

Part 2 of 6.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on February 6, 2024 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 97.8-100.5 II (Coldwater Creek Bridge)

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 147.5-150.2) north of Dorion, ON. Features the grade from the 180-foot bridge over Coldwater Creek south over numerous embankments with telegraph poles.

Part 2 of 4.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on May 19, 2023 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 88.4-95 V (Big Creek Bridge)

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 138.1-144.7) at Coughlin, ON. Features the grade at the end of the siding at Coughlin as it parallels the Canadian Pacific to a 47.5-foot deck plate girder bridge over a creek.

Part 5 of 8.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on May 5, 2023 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 82.4-85 II (Big Trout Creek Bridge)

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 132.1-134.7) at Red Rock, ON. Features the grade west of Red Rock Station with culverts, a rail, washouts and the 95-foot bridge over Big Trout Creek.

Part 2 of 5.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on April 18, 2023 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 33.3-37.6 VII (Postagoni River Bridge)

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 83-87.3) south of Macdiarmid/Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek, ON. Features the 287-foot bridge over the Postagoni River (pronounced paws–TAH–gun–ee), which was built in 1924, replacing an earlier trestle, and cost $103,000 at the time.

Part 7 of 7.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on January 18, 2023 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn Subdivision MP 102.4-105.1 IV (Suckle Creek Bridge)

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn Subdivision (MP 1.7-4.3) west of Longlac, ON. Features the grade as it crosses Suckle Creek on a 40-foot bridge and then parallels with signage and a stone culvert.

Part 4 of 5.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on November 3, 2022 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 107-112 VI

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.

 
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Posted by on April 3, 2022 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 76.4-79.8 VI

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 126.1-129.5) at Nipigon, ON. Features the grade as it heads south from Nipigon with old culverts, beaver dams, a bridge over the Stillwater Creek and some visitors on the Canadian Pacific line.

Part 6 of 6.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on March 10, 2022 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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CNoR/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision MP 76.4-79.8 I

Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 126.1-129.5) at Nipigon, ON. Features the grade as it passes alongside the Nipigon River, under bridges for the TransCanada Highway and Canadian Pacific Railway to the start of crossing of the river known as “The Causeway.”

Part 1 of 6.

Active, 1914-2005.

 
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Posted by on March 3, 2022 in Hiking, History, Railway, Video

 

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