The Cobourg and Peterborough Railway was one of the first railway lines to be built in Central Ontario, Canada. The line was initially considered in 1831 as a way to bring the products from the burgeo
A locomotive on the Blairton Extension of the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway circa 1870.
The C&P ran straight across Rice Lake on this causeway and a series of bridges further north.
Harwood Station and the causeway to Tic Island, some time after the closure of the Rice Lake crossing.
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The Central Ontario Railway was a railway that ran north from Trenton, Ontario to service a number of towns, mines, and sawmills. It was formed as the Prince Edward County Railway in 1879, and ran bet
A crowd gathers on the Central Ontario Railway platform in Bancroft to await the arrival of the first train on 2 November 1900.
A Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) passenger train heads south out of Bancroft station in 1910.
By the time this photo was taken in 1971, the COR north of Maynooth had been abandoned and the section north of Bancroft was little used. Maynooth station is already in shabby condition.
Looking south from the northernmost "navigable" point of the COR, at the ghost town of Gunters.