Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 129.5-132.1) at Red Rock, ON. Features the grade as it heads south alongside the Nipigon River and the Canadian Pacific mainline with long rock fill embankments, rock cuts, concrete ties/slabs used to prevent erosion (rip rap) and gorgeous views.
Part 4 of 6.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 129.5-132.1) at Red Rock, ON. Features the grade as it heads south alongside the Nipigon River and the Canadian Pacific mainline with long rock fill embankments, rock cuts, concrete ties used to prevent erosion (rip rap) and gorgeous views.
*What appears to be telegraph poles on the Canadian Pacific line are in actuality rock slide detection equipment.
Part 3 of 6.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 129.5-132.1) at Red Rock, ON. Features the grade as it heads south alongside the Nipigon River and the Canadian Pacific mainline with long rock fill embankments and gorgeous views.
Part 2 of 6.
Active, 1914-2005.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision (MP 129.5-132.1) at Red Rock, ON. Features the grade as it heads south from Nipigon at the Stillwater Creek bridge alongside the Nipigon River and the Canadian Pacific mainline.
Part 1 of 6.
Active, 1914-2005.
Then and now featuring the railway grades and gorgeous scenery between Nipigon and Red Rock, Ontario. The first photo, a 1970s or earlier postcard, shows Canadian Pacific’s “Canadian” as it hugs the rocky shoreline of the Nipigon River, sandwiched between the Canadian National Railway Kinghorn line and the immense bluffs.
The next two photos show the same area in June 2021, taken from the grade of the now decommissioned Kinghorn Subdivision. The Canadian Northern Railway, who originally built the line between 1911 and 1914, had no other option than to run their grade, at an extraordinary expense, outboard of the Canadian Pacific line. Construction entailed the dumping of tons of fill to create the right of way and extensive use of rip rap to keep the eroding water at bay.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision at Red Rock, ON. Features a signal tower, level crossing, culverts and a telegraph pole. Although the Kinghorn was dark territory (unsignalled), there were a series of signals in the Red Rock area associated with a CN/CP interlock.
Active, 1914-2005.
Part 2 of 3.
Video of the former Canadian Northern Railway/CN-Kinghorn (Dorion) Subdivision at Red Rock, ON. Features the stop at Red Rock, culverts and the bridge over the Big Trout Creek.
Active, 1914-2005.
Part 1 of 3.
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