Old Abandoned Rail Bridge You're Prohibited to use Northern Ontario explore
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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Awesome to have found an Ontario exploration channel! We have so much history in the north of Ontario left over from the logging and mining days, anyone who's traveled the rivers in and around Algonquin Park can still see the square set massive logs they used to tie together and float down just about any river they could use. It's a shame they took up the wooden railways ties, that bridge would have been perfectly fine for hikers, snow-mobiles and mountain bikes for years to come. Great video, subscribed!
Thanks appreciate that! Ya, lots of history in Northern and Northwestern Ontario...I love the history left out there in the bush.
@@JockoFlocko like Kirkland Lake in the federal area behind Northern college across the train tracks there's some old parts n pieces of an old gold mill, now just how much is left there I don't know haven't been there in 20+ yrs now, and there's tons and tons of abandoned old mines, woodmills through out the bush around Kirkland Lake, Harvey Kirkland, king Kirkland kinda like cobalt ont. Lots and lots of abandoned mines, mills and so forth, but will warn u went through khell as I call it now best have either dang good suspension or 4x4 lol the roads have turned to crap and easiest way to old mill structures is to go through federal to east part wishman st, then follow road to mine tailings then head to right side and head to tree line but will warn you many sink holes appear outta no where and some roads do go further in on the left side and if you do go to and find the lake on the left side which was called danger lake because of under surface undertoes and have never seen it but suppose to have a whirlpool in one spot in the lake, and remember many many more sites I use to explore as a kid waaaaay back then lol
Steel made in hamilton ontario , pure canadian steel !
Yep, pretty cool. Thanks John!
@@OutdoorRob It'd be Interesting to reuse some of these old Rail lines, to set up a tourist attraction with a 1920's Steam locomotive. I know there's some in the States.
Insurance in Canada would put and end to that pretty quickly, cost would be prohibitive. Agawa Canyon out of the Soo, ON does train tours, I gotta check that one out. Thanks Andy!
@@OutdoorRob Have you Ever Gone to the small Steam line, in Beeton, Ontario?? I'm Hoping they're still running. It's a 1920's steam engine, with about 4--5 passengers cars.
No, haven't been there, sounds interesting.
i worked on the tresle bridge in iroquois falls ontario same bridge with side guards but man when i drove on it with the all terrain forklift and you could see all the way down through the mesh in the center of the bridge on top made me very uneasy ......foreman said what ever u do dont turn your wheels in the center screen might not support the weight....i pukered up every single time...lol...bridge is still there its on u tube but mill is long gone like most of our pulp mills in northern ontario...love your video be safe...lots of fuel 2 partner always in the bush..and a good lunch....yes im french lolo take care im out
LOL! Ya that kinda decking would make anyone uneasy. Thanks Stephane!
Own property on the other side of that bridge that crosses the AbuDhabi River in Iroquois falls. It's pretty wild story the government refused to maintain it because of its state and was going to shut it down a few years ago the indigenous people raised hell because they're hunting grounds are on the other side so they gave it to them. You think it was scary to cross before now it's a $6 toll and no regulatory agent inspecting it cuz it's private.
Beautifully done.
I wouldn't have the nerve to cross that bridge. Nope.
LOL! I can hold your hand if you want LOL! Don't think I could do it either but at least we'd both be falling LOL! Thanks Marc!
@@OutdoorRob Only for the video. Lol
LOL!
Little bit of overkill with the speed bumps before the bridge! Love these adventure videos of yours.
LOL! That's for sure! Glad you're enjoying the vids, thanks!
That is not overkill. If it was just a fence people would plow through. You can never underestimate the stupidity or feelings of entitlement that people have and when they get hurt they sue.
them speed bumps are for travis pastrana to get air so he can make it over the bridge
LOL! He would try...
I really enjoyed your video, as a fellow Ontarian, it's great to see you cataloguing this. Thanks 👍
Thanks Man! Glad you enjoyed the vid!
Where is the bridge? Judging from the terrain, I'd suspect the CN Pagwa subdivision, near Nakina.
The "National Transcontinental" , basically a straight line from Quebec City to Winnipeg and bypassing every population centre in between.
That's exactly where it is.The bridge is here: maps.app.goo.gl/cEm6pgeLizQy6DMY9
Ten of us tripped on acid in late seventies on a tressel over the black river in Lorain county Ohio just as big..climbed all over it that night and all of us are still alive
LOL! Thanks Man!
Ya man acid is dynomite jj
Wow!! That's a monster of a structure. Don't think I could've crossed that even if it had the ties. Greetings from southeast Pennsylvania.
Thanks Kevin! Would have been more interesting with the ties on it though.
New guy here. I just stumbled across your channel and I'm so looking forward to checking out your videos. If they are all as good as this one I'm definitely hooked. I love this type of thing. I don't know why I haven't came across it before because this is alot of what I watch. You just never know when it comes to RUclips. Anyway I will definitely see you in the comment section again soon 👍 🇨🇦
I am a multi-theme Channel that doesn't just deal with abandoned stuff. I have visited a lot of abandoned places but I still post other adventures. Abandoned playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL-5iyVaNyNhGgApLBgtqHpttf8bZn7cYs Thanks for tuning in.
@@OutdoorRob ty for taking the time to respond and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing you're adventure's 👍👍🇨🇦
Thanks Man!
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Douglas!
It's in much better shape than the bridge that fell down in Pittsburgh a few years ago.
LOL! It might survive a little longer then. Thanks!
That drive in reminds me of driving into Armstrong. IIRC, that road was about 150 miles and only the first 30 or so was paved.
Fortunately it's paved all the way these days, still a long boring drive there LOL! Thanks James!
The numbers on the rails are either the weight of rail or year manufactured. Was hoping you read the numbers. I guess It would be Hamilton ONT where bridge was built. Good drone footage.
Thanks Fred! I figured someone would know the numbers.
Great exercise video Bob 😀 Quite the little camp under that bridge. Can't really blame the raill company for those massive humps. I'm sure some idiot would try driving an atv across that bridge and if anything happened, you know who would be blamed. You can bet it wouldn't be the idiot.
Thanks Man!
Hi Rob, is this the line from Sioux Lookout to T bay that was abandoned close to 20 years ago ? They used to break up the train up there to pull
the auto racks destined for T Bay and backtrack them. CN didn’t want to do that anymore, and Ford products destined for TBay where trucked
back from Winnipeg, and eventually GM followed suit. That’s when the rail unloader auto yard closed. Imports destined for distribution in Northern
Ontario were trucked in all the way from Vancouver, and where as far as I remember never railed into TBay. They say life goes on, but this bridge
is another example to contradict that. Thanks for recording this piece of fading history.
Thanks George!
It's a former Ontario Northland line from Hearst to Nakina, the bridge is here: maps.app.goo.gl/cEm6pgeLizQy6DMY9
neat bridge. would been neat to see how it looked in operation
Thanks for checking the vid out. Up until last year it still had the ties on it apparently, missed it by that much LOL!
-- A relatively small team could drag a good sized load (say 20 tons) and carefully measure the deflections. It may still be quite strong.
Or does Hamilton mean the steel girders came from Stelco or Dofasco in Hamilton?
Could be they supplied them, yes. Thanks Scott!
@@scottmartin6594 I think the company was Hamilton Bridge & Tank ? I remember back in the 80’s their place in Hamilton was being used as a
coil storage yard. I don’t think they were still in business at that point.
Algoma steel in the Soo
Trestle, not a bridge. Pretty awesome structure. Do you know the name of the railroad that used to use this line?
It was originally part of the National Transcontinental Railway which eventually ended up being owned by CN. It was abandoned in 1986.
RUclips recommended me something good for a change :)
Glad you liked the vid, thanks!
C'mon Rob! You climb fire towers!! Its just an unsafe bridge!😂🤣 Nah, cool piece of history and great drone shots!! Thx for sharing!!
LOL! Thanks Andrew! Maybe if there was something interesting or unknown in the middle LOL!
Would be nice if you could tell us where your at?
So where is this?
It's a former CN (originially NTR) line from Hearst to Nakina, the bridge is here: maps.app.goo.gl/cEm6pgeLizQy6DMY9
Reminds me of the Skead Trestle Bridge. You can get there down highway 17 past Wanapitei.
Thanks for checking the vid out!
Someone burned a car on that one and now it's closed off. People gotta ruin it for the rest of us
Yep, that's why I try and not post locations on Social Media...
Ya looks like the one over the Wahnapitea river
@@1quickdub that made for some excellent memes!! Someone had balls of steel to drive a car on that bridge.
Awesome man, love another northern exploration page 🤙 hope to see ya out there, "Spanish River" area
Thanks Man! Might be back in the Kirkland Lake area in the fall.
It looks like the old trestle at Pagwa River. The road leading to it wasn't cut up when I was there in 2008, but the timbers were removed. I only went a short ways out but didn't have it in me to cross the entire span.
It's not the Pagwa one, further down the line.
@@OutdoorRob Would that be the Kenogami River?
@@Abitibidoug it isn't named on Google Maps, but here's the location. maps.app.goo.gl/3e8wJbn9yBoivrkH7
Bridge & Tank was a old bridge builder on Depew st, Hamilton, ON. Building is still there, between Gage ave and Depew st.
Cool, have to look it up, thanks!
What a terrible waste of an awesome structure! Friggin captain safety of the fun police was there. Someone should go put decking boards on it and not tell anybody til it's done... 😂 Sorry if this posts twice, looks like RUclips deleted it the first time. 🧐
Thanks Man! Ya, seems everything gets torn down in the name of safety...
Looks like some newer concrete on the footings of the bridge down below i guess there trying to preserve it ?? Maybe
Maybe trying to keep it from falling in the river LOL! Thanks Kris!
@@OutdoorRob very nice spot anyway 👌
Yes, very cool and that river is so clear...
Thanks for the great report Rob, especially the drone footage. Have you been able to determine the rail line, years used, freight hauled? Somebody paid a lot of money to build that bridge.
I personally can't find much info on it. I believe it was the CN Line but I could be wrong. Another bridge on this line had a plaque from 1911 but the plaque has since been stolen. Thanks Thomas!
It's a former CN (originially NTR) line from Hearst to Nakina, the bridge is here: maps.app.goo.gl/cEm6pgeLizQy6DMY9 - a shorter route made the line unnecessary. It was abandoned in 1986.
Speaking of Hamilton there's a fairly hidden little hamlet with a rail bridge over the access road. The road is called, yes, Hidden Valley Road. It goes under the 403 near Lemonville Road (is that where SCTV got it?). It's not as amazing as this one you cover but it is quite unique, charming and hidden. I found it looking at the side of the 403 a few years ago and doubled back to explore it.
Old bridges are cool no matter how amazing they are. I've seen small bridges that are way more interesting than this one LOL! Thanks Paul!
2:50 That's not a "campfire" .. That's how they signaled the old trains back in the days.
You can recognize the tracks as there is no rails, just flat beams for the flat style rubber tires to roll on.
Seems like such a waste to wreck the approach of a bridge like that. Surely it should be useful for hikers, snowmobiles, etc
I'm sure it's a liability thing, covering their ass with out actually removing the whole structure.
I've seen from the highway what looks to be abandoned ONR tracks east of nipigon on 11. Some big hills id bet there are tunnels
There's one tunnel along there...
That bridge is still mint. Maybe not for a train but a couple sleds. Liability ruining another good thing.
@Dean.F yep, shame they did that to it. Thanks Dean!
And this is where?
maps.app.goo.gl/3e8wJbn9yBoivrkH7
Cool bridge, I wanna BBQ some of those speckled trout, with a side of new potatoes…🍺🍺🍺
That would taste awesome! Thanks Man!
I think I might have seen that bridge in another video when the ties were still there. But I think that people were still atv'ing, snowmobiling, etc on it, not sure it someone got hurt or the CP/CN didn't want to have anyone get hurt. I think it would have made a cool public trail bridge.
Would've been mine, first time seeing it but apparently there was ties on it as late as last year...we just missed it I guess. Thanks Man!
I could be wrong but I beleive the ties cought fire
@@billyzgoneape I hope just by lightning, it is sad when people trash things that others can use.
Sorry back already. Ya it makes perfect sense when it comes to Hamilton so much steel has came from there over the years and for an awfully long time. 👍🇨🇦
Yep, agree, thanks
A lot also came from Algoma Steel in Sault St. Marie.
Yep...
Looks to me like the bridge over the Pagwa river
Looks like the bridge east of Cochrane ON.
I looked in to taking the old Canadian northern line out to Pagwa late this year or next and others in the crown land group stated that that bridge was dismantled in 2015/16 if I am recalling correctly - The Pinetree line station (Just a couple clicks up from the bridge) is also apparently cleared out they said as well.
They've add no trespassing signs and dismantled bridges everywhere in that area, this one is not the Pagwa one...further east.
@@frederickmoller Wrong terrain though. That area is part of the James Bay lowlands and fairly flat.
@@BillBlyleven I never made it to Pagwa, but I spent a fair bit of time in Armstrong, where there was another Pinetree line radar station. However, it was closed shortly before the first time I went to Armstrong, in July 1975. The station at Lowther was still active back then and I did some work at the one in Falconbridge.
Too bad the concrete work wasn't better. That bridge could last another 100 years or more!
Quite possible, ya never know.
those woops would not keep my cj-7 out
but the rails and the ties are money. but so would the steel from the bridge.
i can see why they would not want people on the bridge. but if do to being unsafe then it should be brought down.
the area is unknown to me but turn the old line grade and the bridge into a rails to trails path.
steel deck with plenty of drain holes, with solid railings and anti climb fencing.
but have poles and walls built so trucks or even my jeep can drive on it. aka too narrow to fit even a side by side to fit on the structure.
only on foot or two wheels allowed.
oops lost a “T” in there me t to say NOT even my jeep would fit.
Ya you would think it you're gonna go through that much trouble, spend the extra and take the steel down. Thanks Larry!
What's the location?
Somewhere near Hearst If I remember correctly. We did a lot of roads looking for Fire Towers on that trip. Just find the abandoned Rail Line up north and follow it on Google Earth.
Couple miles north of HWY 11 and 631 intersection (north of Hornepayne)
@@hodgsontoaylen Thank you. I live in Toronto but, spent a lot of time in northern Ont.
@@OutdoorRob I did tech work in Hearst, Longlac, Geraldton, Nakina and many others towns in Ont. I live in Toronto but, did tech work all over Ont.
You hit all the hotspots of Northern Ontario LOL! I spent some time up there from time to time also.
Pretty sweet!
Thanks Nick!
"HAMILTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY has been building bridges and highways as a heavy civil contractor since 1939"
Cool, thanks!
Makes me sick that a Provincial ministry would go to such efforts to restrict viewing and seeing the bridge. Why don’t they put as much effort into eliminating homelessness? It’s this woke over reaching mentality that is the Cancer of the earth right now!
Yep, have to agree with you there. Thanks!
Might not be safe for a train but definitely still for foot traffic and, ATV's and snowmobiles.
For sure but then they'd have to put guard rails on it and deck it in to make it safe, then there's the liability of someone figuring a way to drive off of it LOL!
The steel probaly came from STELCO in Hamilton Ontario.
Sounds about right, thanks Robert!
Lack of railings probably deemed it unsafe. Weld railings on it, and put new woood on it, it would be useable again.
Apparently easier to just put up signs and dig up the road I guess LOL! Thanks!
It's kinda hard to use without the ties !
A little bit...
Did the same on the rail road in pagwa.
Ya, think they did all those bridges along there...
The bridge is in good shape. I don't see why they abandon it.
It was a structure that was on the line that was abandoned. One the rails are lifted, it becomes a bridge to nowhere.
@@georgerenton965 That's a heck of an infrastructure to just abandon. Pretty amazing. It looks perfectly serviceable.
Even if the ties were still there I don't think I would go across it !!!!
If the ties were there I'd go but I suck at balancing on a beam LOL! Thanks Vance!
Hamilton is the Steel City. The Pittsburgh of Canada.
Thanks Man!
Subscribed.
Thanks, much appreciated!
Too bad you can't include some of the history of the videos you make.
I include as much as I know, couldn't find any info on this one aside from what you see.
Steel town forever
They weren't fucking around with that deactivation. I've never seen one with a fence and posts, never mind like 5 more back to back.
Seems like a little overkill LOL! Thanks Man!
Deadly
Thanks Ted!
Pass lake maybe
that bridge will last a good 60+ more years. they made it more dangerous by stripping the wood.
I don't see why anyone would want to balance beam across that bridge
Not me that's for sure LOL! Thanks!
It’s too bad that the bridge was in that condition,but I suppose there’s a liability thing. Just takes one dumbass to fall off and die and someone gets sued.🤷🏻♂️
Ya, it's always in the name of "Safety" that things get taken down. Thanks Derek!
Far too many biting bugs for me
And there's lots of them this year, worst year in a long time,
Who is paying to clean this up,
The Railway should but I'm sure we are...
Here's one much closer to civilization. More than 100 years old, and 600m long. Visible at about 4 miles SW of Red Deer, Alberta (go to the south end of Gasoline Alley, then travel on pavement 4 miles west, where you can see it). It would've been made into a bike/hike trail by now, except for a very few powerful NIMBY's who think that trails cause crime. They're selfish idiots, but what else is new? ruclips.net/video/WLJpa8DbYfc/видео.html
Thanks Man!
10 mins of my life lost. My bad.
10 mins and 10 seconds if you watched the whole thing...which I doubt you did. Thanks for the view!
Still better than Netflix
LOL! Thanks Canadian Sled Dog!
My family lives in Whitney, a northern Ontario town that the long abandoned Algonquin Rail Line used to run through. Sure would have LOVED to know where that bridge is, hard to comprehend how you could neglect to mention where the hell you were.
You started out well but turn into a prick...
@@OutdoorRob I don't think so. A lot of people watching these sort of videos would love to know where the locations are so that they too could visit them. That being said I can understand your reluctance to post the actual locations due to there being so much vandalism and/or graffiti at other disclosed locations.
In Rob's defence, he keeps some places private for good reason. Some assholes out there have no respect for some of Northern Ontario's history. So I don't blame Rob at all for keeping some information private. For those who wish to know where it is, there's an old saying, "DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH". Pretty simple really! Nice job Rob, loved the drone as well brother!
@Beaconbrook Thanks! It's also a matter of me telling people and then they go hurt themselves and try and sue me for sending them there.
@@Beaconbrook However, given the roads and distances involved, someone wanting to be an "asshole" would have a heck of a job just getting there. Back in the mid 70s, in my work, I did a LOT of driving in Northern Ontario, including along "highways" that were little more than a dirt road and logging roads.