"It is the longest rail trestle east of the Rocky Mountains. 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." [DowntownParrySound]
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| C Hanchey Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) "The trestle is 1,695 feet (517 m) long and 105 feet (32 m) high." |
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| Street View, Oct 2022 |
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| I Love Trains posted [See the whole video below.] The Parry Sound Trestle is the longest rail trestle east of the Rocky Mountains! https://trainfanatics.com/cn-engineer-is-not-afraid-of-heights-on-the-parry-sound-trestle/ It is 105' in the air and 1695' long. Andrew D Woolner: Lethbridge High Level bridge/trestle is 5,327 long and 314 feet high. Battle River bridge is 2775 feet long and 195 feet high and both east of the Rockies……. The High Level Bridge in Edmonton which is 2,549 ft in length and 156 feet high, not used by the CPR anymore but the Edmonton Radial Railway still uses it. |
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| Historic Bridges, photo by Ian Graham |
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| C Hanchey Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) |
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| David Brook posted Parry Sound; home of the arguably most famous bridge in Ontario. Amy Brook Why is it famous? David Brook Tom Thompson painted it in 1914, as it was being built, but with views available from the adjacent fire tower (still open to the public), it's kind of an icon to anyone in Ontario (and further) who likes trains. It's easy to see, but trains kind of leap out of the woods and just hang there. And when you imagine in winter in the days of steam....it's a special place. Bill Neill shared |
From what I can tell, Tom Thompson did a painting of a mill that included part of the bridge rather than a painting of the bridge.
I noticed that the other railroad going through this town looped upstream so that they could use a shorter and lower bridge to cross the river. Another bridge was a former CP and CN bridge that was abandoned in 1984. It has been converted to a trail.
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So why did the above freight train cross the bridge so much faster than the passenger train in the video below? Does the passenger train make a station stop in Parry Sound? Yep, we see it stop at the end of the video at a Via station. It probably enters the bridge slowly to minimize the forces on the bridge that would be generated by slowing down a fast moving train for the station stop. This train is incredibly long by Amtrak standards. The California Zephyr I rode on during the Thanksgiving holiday had just nine cars: crew car, 3 sleepers, dining car, lounge car, and 3 coaches.
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A view of the upstream side of the trestle that includes the smaller bridge in the foreground.
(new window) It's interesting that CP mixes manifest freight with intermodal traffic.
I noticed that the other railroad going through this town looped upstream so that they could use a shorter and lower bridge to cross the river. Another bridge was a former CP and CN bridge that was abandoned in 1984. It has been converted to a trail.
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So why did the above freight train cross the bridge so much faster than the passenger train in the video below? Does the passenger train make a station stop in Parry Sound? Yep, we see it stop at the end of the video at a Via station. It probably enters the bridge slowly to minimize the forces on the bridge that would be generated by slowing down a fast moving train for the station stop. This train is incredibly long by Amtrak standards. The California Zephyr I rode on during the Thanksgiving holiday had just nine cars: crew car, 3 sleepers, dining car, lounge car, and 3 coaches.
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A view of the upstream side of the trestle that includes the smaller bridge in the foreground.
(new window) It's interesting that CP mixes manifest freight with intermodal traffic.
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