PARRY SOUND, Ontario — A Canadian Pacific special using the railroad’s Royal Canadian Pacific trainset makes a rare southbound move across the railroad’s bridge over the Seguin River at about noon on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, during a trip from Thunder Bay, Ontario, to Toronto. CP executives including CEO Keith Creel were reportedly on board.
The 1,697-foot-long, 105-foot-tall bridge, completed in 1907, is reportedly the longest in Ontario. It is in an area where CP and Canadian National have a directional running agreement between Parry Sound and Sudbury, Ont., and normally handles northbound traffic. But photographer Brandon Muir reports the CP train moved against the normal directional flow to allow the CP managers to observe their right-of-way.
This is the closest we will get to a restored Canadian on the CP line.