GTP/CN-Graham Subdivision MP 22.8-26 V

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Video of the former Grand Trunk Pacific Railway-Lake Superior Division, Canadian Government Railways-Fort William Subdivision, Canadian National Railways-Fort William/Lake Superior/Graham/Crest Subdivision at Kaministiqua, ON. Features the grade south of Strawberry Creek with several cuttings, heavy vegetation and numerous washed out embankments, including one over 125 feet wide.
Part 5 of 8.
Active, 1908-1925.
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20 июн 2024

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@kam75 25 дней назад

..aww my homeland since 1975...covered it all.

@foamer443 25 дней назад

So before I forget ( haven't watched yet). Bumped into one my 'sidewalk buddies' (just guys I know from the sidewalk when I'm working in the garden) today. Amongst other talk, this was a total revelation, a tiny chunk of railway/logging history I had never had an inkling about. This guy had a relative in the forestry sector literally a century ago. Went all over the place. One of the stories he related was most of the felling was done fall and winter (nothing new there). What I am accustomed to is the logs getting pulled out onto lakes and piled up for spring thaw and then driven down river. So for some of the places where this fellow went, the company would actually build track across marsh lands at freeze up and pull logs out until spring thaw!! Sometimes the engines (Shays were specifically mentioned) would be rocking like a ship in a heavy storm as the ice broke and heaved. So presumably there were far more logging rail operations, even temporary ones in Ontario than records have even been kept of.

@padwrr 25 дней назад

I'm sure there were many situations like that. The logging line that I documented and am trying to finish a book on, the Gunflint & Lake Superior, had purportedly branch lines but I had a hard enough time locating the main trunk. The rail were just slapped down on the ground for the most part.

@kam75 25 дней назад

railway blasted the crossing at17:00 because beavers damming the eastside, I drove Beetle over it many times...

@padwrr 25 дней назад

Okay, you were the one that told me that CP took it out. I knew someone told me but I couldn't remember who.

@kam75 25 дней назад

Years after the earth was removed beaver dams kept showing up and were blown up and removed ..a walking trail was made on west side of the line down and up to other side..may be over grown by now.

@padwrr 25 дней назад

Okay, good to know. I went down the east side as it looked the easiest path.

@kam75 25 дней назад

at11:00 wayback could drive to there until bridge became unsafe and blocked off.

@padwrr 25 дней назад

When did the barriers go up on the bridge? That video is going up Monday.

@kam75 25 дней назад

@@padwrr ...ooohh...a while now 25 + years at least...probably more...

@padwrr 25 дней назад

Okay, so in the 80s sometime, possibly early 90s then.

@kam75 25 дней назад

..a few logging roads go up in the hills on the eastside of railway..one had an old sawmill just north of the of the removed embankment in the video..now well overgrown by now ..I remember it from decades ago.

@padwrr 25 дней назад

I think I heard about that, maybe from you. Either in Part 6 or 7 I mention that there was a structure shown on an old map just north of the grade. Of course I couldn't find the map to put it in the video.