Parry Sound CPR Trestle

Parry Sound CPR Trestle
Parry Sound CPR Trestle
	Trestle viewed from downtown Parry Sound
Coordinates	45°20′27″N 80°01′58″W / 45.3409°N 80.0328°WCoordinates: 45°20′27″N 80°01′58″W / 45.3409°N 80.0328°W
Carries	CPR (Northbound only); CNR (Northbound only)
Crosses	Seguin River
Locale	Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
Characteristics
Material	Concrete, steel
Total length	1,695 feet (517 m)
Height	105 feet (32 m)
History
Construction end	1907
Inaugurated	1908
Location

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.

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.^[1]

Today the trestle provides northbound rail traffic for both the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway while all southbound traffic uses Canadian National trackage. This sharing of resources was adopted by the competing companies as a way of alleviating congestion in Central Ontario.^[2]

References[]

^ Johnson, Stephannie (2014-01-24). "Two signs to mark local sites Tom Thomson painted". Parry Sound North Star. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
^ "Parry Sound train station". Via Rail Canada. Retrieved 2015-02-05.

External links[]

Media related to Parry Sound CPR Trestle at Wikimedia Commons

Johnson, Stephannie (2007-01-13). "Trestle bridges to celebrate 100 years". Muskokaregion.com. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
"CPR Bridge". Parry Sound Public Library. 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-07-05. Includes circa 1920 image.
CPR Bridge - Parry Sound, images from the David Thomas Collection exhibit at the West Parry Sound District Museum

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[1] Johnson, Stephannie (2014-01-24). "Two signs to mark local sites Tom Thomson painted". Parry Sound North Star. Retrieved 2014-10-20.

[2] "Parry Sound train station". Via Rail Canada. Retrieved 2015-02-05.

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