Feature Friday
Taken in the fall of 1912, crews from the Canadian Bridge Company of Walkerville, Ontario assemble spans of the Blende River Viaduct (Pass Lake Trestle). This structure was one of the biggest engineering projects on the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway line built from Ruel (Sudbury area) to Port Arthur, Ontario between 1911 and 1914. Construction on the 2258-foot trestle, still the longest in central Canada, was completed in only 8 months.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 165.7-170.3) between Pearl and Pass Lake, ON. Features the grade from MacTavish Road 4 south through several rock cuts.
Part 1 of 8.
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 (MP 170.6-173.4) at Pass Lake, ON. Features the grade as it passes between Pass Lake Station and the Blende River Viaduct with rock cuts, a stone culvert and rails still on the ties.
Active, 1914-2005.
Part 2 of 3.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 170.6-173.4) at Pass Lake, ON. Features the grade at Pass Lake Station, including the former section house, the line as it skirts Pass Lake and a lengthy rock cut.
Active, 1914-2005.
Part 1 of 3.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision at Pass Lake, ON, featuring the siding and section house.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision between Pearl and Pass Lake, ON. Features a very large rock cut over 100 feet in height.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision between Pearl and Pass Lake, ON.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision near Pass Lake, ON. Features the Pass Lake Trestle/Blende River Viaduct, constructed in 1912.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision near Pass Lake, ON, featuring a 1/2 mile of rails and the eastern side of the Pass Lake Trestle/Blende River Viaduct.
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