TCTrail

Engine 1095, the Spirit of Sir John A (4-6-0 built in Kingston 1913) rests oustide Kingston's inner station.

The Kingston & Pembroke railway eventually became part of the CPR system as the Kingston subdivision. From Kingston, the line through to Sharbot Lake was constructed by 1875 (to Mississippi in 1877, to Lavant in 1881 and to Renfrew in 1883). The CPR measured the miles south from Pembroke. The Trans Canada Trail will occupy the rail bed north to Sharbot Lake where the trail then heads west on the former Havelock subdivision. The rail between Sharbot Lake and Tichborne had been abandoned by 1964. South of Tichborne, the steel was removed by the end of 1986. The turntable from the K&P's Kingston station lives on in Wakefield, Québec, turning the excursion steam train. See the photographs in post concerning the Maniwaki subdivision.

The turntable and round house are long gone but the nearby stone-construction oil warehouse still stands (2006).

The trains once supplied Quattrocchi's fruit and vegetable warehouse at Montreal and Railway streets, 1.4 miles from the inner station.

The right-of-way crosses Sydenham Road 5.1 miles from the inner station.

Highway 401 can be seen on the far right (north), six miles from the inner station.

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