Because of the growing demand for more effective means of transportation, the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway hastily constructed a branch line of over thirty miles in less than six months. The rails reached the gold camp in the summer of 1911. Shown is the construction over a notorious "sinkhole", a seemingly bottomless bog which swallowed up trainloads of rock and fill before surrendering to the construction crews.
Courtesy: Peters Collection, Public Archives of Ontario
