Parry Sound CPR Trestle
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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 Kansas City 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]
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- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". 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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