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The Algoma Central Railway (reporting mark AC) is a railway in Northern Ontario, Canada, that operates between Sault Ste. Marie and Hearst. It used to have a branch line to Wawa. The area served by the railway is sparsely populated, with few roads. The railway is well known for its Agawa Canyon tour train. Until 2015, the line also provided ...
Sault Ste. Marie station in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada is a railway station which acts as the terminus for the Algoma Central Railway train service. The Algoma Central Railway is a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway. The station building and passenger platform are located in the parking lot of Station Mall.
Sault Ste. Marie (/ ˈ s uː s eɪ n t m ə ˈ r iː / SOO-saynt-mə-REE) is a city in northern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of the St. Mary's River directly across from its "twin city," Sault Ste. Marie, in the state of Michigan. The city's population was 72,051 at the 2021 census, making it the third most populous city in northern Ontario.
One of the terms of British Columbia entering into the Canadian Confederation in 1871 was the construction of a transcontinental railway connecting it with the original eastern Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; this would result in a route through the largely-uncolonized Prairies, including the restive province of Manitoba, which had only recently been the ...
The Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway was a railway in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1884 as the Brockville, Westport & Sault Ste Marie Railway. [1] Construction began in 1886 heading north-west from Brockville, Ontario to Westport, Ontario. The line opened March 4, 1888, between Westport and Brockville.
The Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Bridge was originally built in 1887 to facilitate rail traffic crossing St. Marys River and the international border between Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It runs parallel to the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge. It has nine Camelback spans and carries a single line of track.
A well-used Soo Line ore car, built in 1916. Hauling iron ore was an important part of the Soo Line's business.. The Soo Line was never a major carrier of passenger traffic since its route between Chicago and Minneapolis was much longer than the competing Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road), Chicago and North Western Railway, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ...
The roadbed included a surveyor-straight 25-mile (40 km) east-west section, the ancestor of today's "Seney stretch". Although the state of Michigan granted the DM&M more than 1.3 million acres (5,300 km 2 ) of state land, almost 9000 acres-per-mile (23 km 2 /km) as a construction subsidy, by 1886 the new DM&M went into receivership.