It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
In this undated photo, the railway bridge over the Muskoka River. Hunters Bay is in the background.
The railway came to Huntsville in 1885. The original train station was built shortly after by the Northern and Pacific Junction Railway, which became part of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1892. In 1923 it became the Canadian National Railway.
The present train station was built in 1924.
(Photo courtesy of Glen Duffield, from the 1967 Old Home Week centennial souvenir program. Details from Huntsville: With Spirit and Resolve)
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Brian Tapley says
It kind of shows the effect that road salt has on structures when many essentially unprotected steel structures like this bridge are still in use after well over 100 years with some minimal maintenance having been done whereas highway bridges seldom seem to go more than 25 to35 years without a rebuild. This despite the highway bridge being mostly concrete and built to protect if from corrosion to the best ability of the engineers at MTO. Road de-icing is expensive to do in the first place and the long term effects to structures and the environment in general are not good. It would be great to find an affordable alternative to our current methods.