I had a few moments today to walk along the Canadian Pacific Little Current Subdivision. I snapped this photo along what was the Algoma Eastern Right of Way just south of Espanola Ontario. The tracks are gone and the route has been converted to a trail. The roadbed is washed Continue Reading
The Algoma Eastern Railway purchased two identical Consolidation (2-8-0 wheel arrangement) locomotives from Montreal Locomotive works. Number 55 arrived in January 1921 and are nearly identical to Canadian Government Railway engines. After being modified by adding weight to the front to prevent the pilot trucks from derailing it was said Continue Reading
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
