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The Cobourg Peterborough Railway (C&PRy) ran along this lane way from 1858 to 1869. It was uses to ship squared timbers floated down Chemong Lake, for export to the USA. Looking NW.
This tractor trail is built on the old Cobourg Peterborough Railway bed (C&PRy) built in 1858, and used until 1869. Looking south.
The Cobourg and Peterborough Railway (C&PRy) ran down this driveway from 1855 to 1918. Looking north. You can see the hedge row of trees marking the old railway, curving to the south east in the satellite photo. They built one of the longest railway bridges in the world at 4.2 km. long to cross Rice Lake. Ice took it out in the spring, there was no money to rebuild it. The steel tracks were torn up in WW I for the war effort.
Huge glacial erratic boulder transported many tens of km. from the north east, to here by the ice in the Wisconsin Ice age. looking north.
This line of trees crossing diagonally across the marsh was the road bed for the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway (C&P) spur line to Chemong Lake from 1858 to 1869. Looking south.
The Ontario and Quebec Railway (O&Q) built this railway in 1881 from Perth, Tweed, Havelock and North Toronto. It was leased to CPR for 999 years and finally taken over by CP completly. It connected to Toronto Union Station in 1893. Looking east.
Chemong causeway. This was originally a floating bridge made of huge pine logs chained together at right angles to the traffic, with a plank deck. A new layer of logs was added when it got water logged. The deck was always wet and very slippery. The logs were replaced in 1954 with this causeway, it has sunk a half m. since then.
The Cobourg and Peterborough Railway (C&PRy) crossed the Keene Rd. here in 1855 on the embankment on the left, probably over a wooden trestle bridge. It was all gone by 1918, this little hump is one of the few marks left after 100 years of over growing, plowing, and building. You can clearly see the line of trees going to the upper left in the satellite photo, marking the path of the railway.
A huge solar electric farm. They convert sunlight into subsidies.
The Miller Creek Walking trail is on the old Cobourg Peterborough Railway (C&PRy) bed built in 1858 and used until 1869 to export squared logs floated down Chemong Lake. The railway went bankrupt when ice destroyed their bridge across Rice Lake south of here. Looking north.
Lang-Hastings Trail, built in 2012. Looking SW. Built on the old Grand Junction Railway bed (GJ) which ran from Belleville to Peterbrough from 1879 to 1987.
Ontario Sawyer Creek - Lock 25
Coloured Windows
South side of Paterson
Burnham woods autumn
Rainbow
Sunset
winter wonderland
Trent University
Peterborough Fountain
Otonabee River Dam, Peterborough, ON
Ontario - Peterborough - Lock 19
Peterborough
Lock #20, Ashburnham ~ TheWaterway.ca
Ontario - Peterborough - Lock 19
Peterborough Ontario
Peterborough Memorial Centre - 2008 April 13
The Lakefield Rail Trail runs from Trent University to Lakefield. It was built on the Midland Railway (MR) bed which was built in 1869, taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR). The railway ran from Peterborough to Lakefield.
All that is left of the Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway, (PHL&B), looking SW. On the ground, there is little evidence of it due to development, plowing, and re-growth. Beardsmore Road to the NE was built on top of it giving it away in the satellite photo. It was built in 1856, leased to GTR in 1884, taken over by GTR in 1893, then CNR. The last passenger train was 1951, and all was closed in 1970's.
The Lakefield Rail Trail parallels the county road # 32 and Trent Canal on the Otonabee River from Peterborough to Lakefield on the old Midland Railway (MR) which later became the Grand Trunk Railway(GTR) railway. The railway bed on the right was built in 1869. Try pictureing an old steam locomotive blowing white steam, black smoke and the whistle blowing, slowly approaching you out of the trees, 100 years ago. It burned wood then, and had a top speed of about 45 kph.
The Lakefield Rail Trail beside county road 32 and the Otonabee River. The Midland Railway (MR) railway here was built in 1869, leased to the Grand Trunk Railway in 1884, The GTR took possession in 1893. Try picturing an old steam locomotive spewing black smoke, white steam and the whistle blowing here, and only horse powered traffic on the road. It used wood for fuel before coal was available.
View across Chemong Lake and the James Gifford Causeway. It was formerly a floating bridge made out of huge pine logs, decked with very wet slippery planks until 1954. It was a major challenge on a motor cycle.
House on a hill.
Train Bridge
Queen Mary and Trees
Tunnel and Road under Peterborough Liftlock
Knox at End
610 Walkerfield
Sprouting Tigerlilly
359 Hunter St. W.
Rear of 179 Charlotte
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