Maximal extent of the Algoma Eastern Railway, including spur lines.
Overview
Headquarters
Turner, Ontario
Reporting mark
AER
Locale
Northeastern Ontario, Canada
Dates of operation
1911–1930
Predecessor
Manitoulin and North Shore Railway
Successor
CPR Little Current Subdivision CPR Nickel Subdivision
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Length
87 miles (140 km)
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System map
Legend
85.5
Little Current
Little Current Swing Bridge
over North Channel
84.6
Turner
Turner Wye
LaCloche Island
77.1
McGregor Bay
72.5
Birch Island
66.2
Whitefish Falls
Whitefish River
65.4
Lawson Quarry
64.0
Willisville
61.7
West River
61.2
McMillan Gold Mine Spur
58.9
Carson
58.0
Fox Lake
55.5
Merritt
53.2
Anderson Lake
end of existing tracks
48.4
Espanola
Stanley junction
at McKerrow
Spanish River
38.0
Huron Central Railway
36.7
Nairn
High Falls spur
32.3
Turbine
31.7
Drury
24.4
Mond
Crean Hill Wye
22.4
Crean Hill
18.1
Vermilion River
15.9
O'Donnell
Gertrude Wye
12.7
Gertrude
11.8
end of existing tracks
11.3
Creighton
7.9
Mileate
3.8
Nickelton
3.2
Copper Cliff
Clarabelle junction
with Inco Railway
0.0
former Sudbury AER yard
Sudbury
and Cartier Subdivision
Sudbury CN/CNoR
Sudbury Spur
part of CN Algo Subdivision
Sudbury Junction
and Bala Subdivision
The Algoma Eastern Railway (reporting mark AER) was a railway in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Originally known as the Manitoulin and North Shore Railway (M&NS) with a charter dating back to 1888,[1] the full mainline was opened to traffic in 1913,[2][3] serving the area along the north shore of Lake Huron between Sudbury and Little Current on Manitoulin Island. It and its sister railway, the Algoma Central, were originally owned by the Lake Superior Corporation, a conglomerate centered on Sault Ste. Marie which was founded by the American industrialist Francis Clergue.[1] Despite ambitious plans to expand across Lake Huron to the Bruce Peninsula using a railcar ferry, the company failed to develop further and was acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1930.[4] With freight traffic low during the Great Depression, Canadian Pacific soon abandoned much of the Algoma Eastern mainline in favor of its own Algoma Branch. Remaining sections of the Algoma Eastern line were turned into spurs, with the longest surviving section operated as a branch line known as the Little Current Subdivision.
Today only two short sections remain, which are used as industrial spurs. The railway's most notable surviving piece of infrastructure is the Little Current Swing Bridge, which crosses the North Channel of Lake Huron to connect Manitoulin Island with the mainland; as of 2021[update], it is used exclusively by road traffic, and is planned to be decommissioned.[5]
^ abWilson 1973, p. 360.
^An Act to incorporate the Manitoulin and North Shore Railway Company, S.O. 1888, c. 70
, later federally incorporated by An Act to incorporate the Manitoulin and North Shore Railway Company, S.C. 1900, c. 64
. Name changed in 1911 by An Act respecting the Manitoulin and North Shore Railway Company, and to change its name to "The Algoma Eastern Railway Company", S.C. 1911, c. 11
^Wilson 1973, p. 364.
^Wilson 1973, p. 373.
^Aelick, Lyndsay (30 March 2021). "Preferred option to replace aging Manitoulin Island swing bridge is a new, two-lane structure". CTV Northern Ontario. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
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