CN westbound freight passing Mile 104.9 Kingston Sub.

A Canadian National freight (who's assigned train number I forgot) with a C44-9W and an SD70M-2 heads west passing mile 104.9 Kingston Sub.

Cardinal Ont. February 20 2008.

Just east of my location was where the original CN/GTR mainline diverged to Montreal. When the St Lawrence Seaway was being built, CN had to abandon 38 miles of mainline trackage from Cornwall to Cardinal. The new St Lawrence Seaway would flood over the right of way, including several towns along the mainline. Parts of this old mainline still exist but as HWY 2 now.

CN had to built a new mainline 1-2 miles north of the old mainline. Everything was built new on this Cornwall Diversion, as it was called then. Track, roadbed, signals, telephone poles, crossings, stations.

Today, all trains travel the new Cornwall Diversion, but only a handful of people know that trains once ran north of Upper Canada Village on HWY 2.

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