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Parry Sound CPR Trestle

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Crosses
  
Inaugurated
  
1908

Height
  
32 m

Location
  
Materials
  
Concrete, Steel

Construction end
  
1907 (1907)

Opened
  
1907

Total length
  
517 m

Province
  
Parry Sound CPR Trestle

Carries
  
CPR (Westbound only)CNR (Westbound only)

Locale
  
Address
  
17 Rotary & The Algonquin Regiment Fitness Trail, Parry Sound, ON P2A 1S3, Canada

Similar
  
Waubuno Beach, Charles W Stockey Centre for, West Parry Sound District M, Georgian Bay, Niagara Falls

The Parry Sound CPR Trestle crosses the valley of the Seguin River, just upstream of the river's mouth at Parry Sound on Georgian Bay, as well as Great North Road, Bay, and Gibson streets in the town of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.

Completed in 1907 (1907) by the Canadian Pacific Railway, the trestle is 1,695 feet (517 m) long and 105 feet (32 m) high. The first scheduled train passed over the span in 1908. It is the longest rail trestle east of the Rocky Mountains.

In July 1914, Tom Thomson (who inspired the Group of Seven) visited Parry Sound and painted the bridge and the former Parry Sound Lumber Company.

Today the trestle provides westbound rail traffic for both the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway while all eastbound traffic uses Canadian National trackage. This sharing of resources was adopted by the competing companies as a way of alleviating congestion in Central Ontario.

References

Parry Sound CPR Trestle Wikipedia


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