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Early in May 2009, I flew into Sault Ste. Marie to ride the Algoma Central Railway to the end of the line in Hearst. While we were able to buy our tickets at the new downtown station, we had to go a couple of miles out of town to the Algoma rail yards to actually board our train which consisted of a single coach, an engine and a generator car. There were at most a half dozen other passengers who came and went during the first half of our journey. The pictures below show the route in early spring with the snow and ice still on the ground in many places. The journey shown here is not the fancier excursion service which the Algoma Central runs on the southern part of the line during peak seasons. I traveled on the scheduled service through the interior where the train provides the only access to the camps here that have been built many miles from the nearest road. At Franz we crossed over the Canadian Pacific mainline and continued on to Hearst where we had booked into the Companion Hotel Motel, immediately adjacent to the location where the train stopped. This trip was the first leg of a multipart journey. Early on the morning after we arrived in Hearst, we caught the Ontario Northland bus to Cochrane from which we took the Ontario Northland service up to Moosonee and, later, back to Cochrane and on to Toronto. |
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