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The end of the line - CPR to Eg'cmville by Harry Hlnchley About fifteen years ago the last steam locomotive was taken off the run to Eganville. Soon afterwards all train service was discontinued on this line and the rails were torn up. For over 50 years, 6 days a week, the CPR train for Eganville used to leave the station at Renfrew soon after the forenoon local had come in' from Ottawa It would make the trip up through Northcote and Douglas and then early in the afternoon would be back in Renfrew again. This was a short run for a locomotive so it also had the job of doing the switching in the Renfrew yards. In the days when the whole country was served by rail there was always plenty of this work as many cars had to be spotted at the various sidings or picked up for the out-going freights. When the CPR was built from Renfrew to Eganville in the 1890’s the company had hoped to extend the line through to Georgian Bay. In order to do this it was necessary to build through the Wian Pass which was the only feasible route for a railroad through the hills near Wilno Village. The right-of»way through this pass was claimed by J R Booth, the timber baron, who was building his own line, the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound, now the Canadian National. . A legal battle over the rightef-way through this pass resulted hnd J R Booth won the case. This gave him the sole right to use the Wilno pass. The CPR then gave up all plans to put their line through to Georgian Bay and constructed the railroad only as . .,. ._ . .7 V W, . , l A move by Renlrew rteeve Audrey Green to have the rnunty take an option on 12.8 miles of abandoned railway line between Henfrew and C‘alabogle failed September 29 before the county C(tlll‘l'll Renlrew (‘uunty ununul voted 3!} fill against the tlpllOl‘l lining taken at this lime and left the subject of ConvertinL' the all rmlway to ‘Ecruatlnn trail with a eonunlttee for ml 83: U l' D Renfrcw guns agrit-ultnrulland. He added that he has talked \"Illl 12 of the landuuncrs alum;v th' Admnstun strctrh of tho railrunrl “These people Itm- |n|| up will: this for long vnnuuh." he rlwglured “An abandoned r;||l\\'a_\ trmk I: the worst place to put snownmhilr trails," hr atlrlvrl “You have very long trnluhl Sll'l’ll’llt‘h You not mum ‘llll mm'lmn :nul snupwlrulv ilrlu-l's (mil lhwri- \ (I ilunul-I‘ 1:“ er leâ€"n 1L1 tnluuuh .hu .9 u argued that "If we vlnn‘t do sunu lhmp, nuw we‘ll nevu‘ have the opportunity again? and tar " walled for Ilw option In establish the Ho sugar-slur! slntlymu the math-r uuunty'slnlm'uhl and inmnn; up With :I “mind” tut ltm-vr- firm-n vm-t stiff oh- pnmtinn lrmn Arll'nmlnn lli-L-w- lrn Qullty who I’vtmhllml ow mlum‘ll um mu why-l1 \\ lwm: ulnvlml nntl Vlnlllltl lu' llrlvl hulk 'mnl [In l‘Irsi Sllllllltln. pmntinu out that [ho tr.nl r'nlllil stnrt at l" muslin, a .xlnnll hunth :nlnnu L Ivlt nlmul lmn' Hlll null: nl Runllrn. l’i Inn .m lvltl :nrlln; tllllli'lllllllllli: v. «not (The V wmobilers or Quiltysald, Bilfiw‘. and Bhlh -lrl Reeve Roll Knight pmnlen nut that ARM and the M s 1.»st anl ‘y Lunsermtiun Autlmrlt} h tctl a pnrliunnf llu‘ ~n|m~ mllun} south lrmn ('nlnlngin‘ as u r'urL-ntlon trtul, adding thuta lill’ttk number or ptoplc use ll lIc stud it alrunvly proved that l‘ItIl\\:l)'\ make munl snuu‘mululv Li'xnls l‘lmllt ltn'm‘ llt'l'\l' Hnli Sunni“ suhl Insiniluai uxpwrlunre tells him that l'lhrulhnn llmlty, a rmlrmil mm rm ownvil Imn handling: the salt» mm m-nplu-t» lnupllum " llwlllll, llnr-hunun erie Ila-n- thn :ln Vlnm'nrsunlllztl tlu-rnunli lllll'llll l nuth lln-ulil l'llll |_\ Hmlshnl It \tlltlltl lu' ".l wlnlv t'ln'phnnl unlnzulrLl mllnlln-vulml' lieeve du would present an nn-gmng liability in terms of lllHlHlL‘llallCe costs and msurnnr-e ‘ ('ubtlen Rek‘\k' Harold Robinson stml his "personal toulmg is that the t snuwmubllcl‘s “Ill upkeep the trails lln-insi-l‘. ‘5 and the i-uunty \vnuhln‘t' hm t- n. \\ur)‘_\ alqu malnlerutnt’u RIN‘L‘L‘ Quill} sand ARDA would he am to to: rul on m.» “In [Jnrllun of thermlwny Ilm Qntlh snnl lllnl the Iunlwny. unru knnnn as the K & P lKIlttzsldm illnl l’i‘lnbl'ukw \‘lluulil have been takm our in the slxltcs lnr u DILmllv lill1l1\\i_ lrum llunflow to tho ‘ltll ill'lll Kingston llu thrn bllgm‘hlml tln ruunly should (lo sunwllnnu nlmul H'l)llll(l|ll;l lltuh- \\‘u' 311, “hul' ll|l1\ twin I't-Hh In (: lllllt 'Ilw \lznnnvsl rumlln lln'vlvllnn ‘llwu‘tlulllts: l