I came across this digitized recording posted to YouTube by Jeremy Hopkin. Its a wonderful film from 1992 riding a HiRail from McKerrow to Turner filmed by Keith Hopkin with George Dennis Jr. (George’s dad was a long time engineer on the AER/CPR line from Sudbury to Little Current). I’m Continue Reading
Northern Ontario Rails has a chapter with wonderful colour photographs of the Little Current Subdivision by Keith Hopkin. This book is what got me really thinking about a switching layout based on this beautiful corner of the world.
The Unoffical Website of the Algoma Eastern Railway preserved on the Internet Time Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305053326/http://magma.ca/~morcomp/aer.html Its a wonderful site for history of the AER. The site was run by the AER Heritage Group managed by Dale Wilson, John Morgan, Mike LeHoux a past councillor in the Town of Espanola. Continue Reading
