Names and numbers
Caldwell
date unknown
Structures
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as reportedDate: Event
1899-02-17: Caldwell's Corners is very busy. Much grain, produce, pulpwood daily.
1902-11: Location surveys completed for new four mile spur from Caldwell to Radnor Iron Mines.
1924-08-29: Station burned.
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History
11 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1894-06-01 | The O.A. & P.S. Ry. are building a flag station at the Scotch Bush road near Eganville. A siding is also being built at the same place. Confirmed established by 1894-06-08 (Renfrew Mercury): 'A flag station has been established at the crossing of the O.A. & P.S. Ry. at the Scotch Bush road, and a siding will also be placed there.' | Ottawa Journal 1894-06-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1894-06-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1894-06-15 | On Monday, last week, at the gravel pit at Caldwell's Corners a wreck took place on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. As a train of twenty loaded ballast cars were going east, 8 or 10 of the flatcars passed over the switch safe, one truck took the siding and the others kept the main line and the car became crosswise in the centre of the line. Several of the cars became so badly broken up that they were set on fire and burned. The wreck trains arrived on Tuesday and cleared the track. The gravel pit on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. near Eganville has been abandoned, it becoming almost a solid bed of stone after sinking a few feet. The steam shovel, men and boarding cars were removed on Thursday to Caldwell's Corners, where the company have procured a good gravel pit. This removal will seriously affect the boarding houses at the station here, one boarding house losing 40 boarders and the other one 30. The total number of men employed in connection with the work at the pit is 115. | Mercury 1894-06-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1894-06-29 | Samuel Irwin, of Carleton Place, while working in the gravel pit at Caldwell's, on the O.A. & P.S. R. near Eganville Thursday last, fell between two gravel trains going in opposite directions and had his left hand so badly mutilated that it had to be amputated. | Almonte Gazette 1894-06-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1895-03-15 | During the past winter there has been an average of fifteen car loads of pulp wood, railroad ties and fence posts delivered at Caldwell's station (Scotch Bush) on the O.A. & P.S. Ry. | Mercury 1895-03-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, Ottawa Railway H...) | |
| 1899-02-17 | Caldwell's Corners is very busy. Much grain, produce, pulpwood daily. | Fleming Renfrew Mercury | |
| 1901-03-22 | An elderly man named Hugh Henderson, a resident of Grattan township, was killed by the snowplough special on the Canada Atlantic near Caldwell's station on Wednesday afternoon. Henderson was walking along the track with his shovel on his shoulder, and evidently heard the whistle, for he started to run ahead. But he must have been confused, for he remained close by the rails, and was struck and killed. | Almonte Gazette 1901-03-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1901-12-27 | The company operating the St. Louis iron mines near Eganville, will build a spur line of railway from the mines to Caldwell's Station on the C.A.R. The spur is the mining company's own construction, not the CAR's; recorded for its interchange with the CAR at Caldwell's Station. | Almonte Gazette 1901-12-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1902-11 | Location surveys completed for new four mile spur from Caldwell to Radnor Iron Mines. | CRSW p381 | |
| 1924-08-29 | Station burned. | leader | |
| 1934-01-02≥ | By 2 January 1934 (the issue date), the paper reported: "At Caldwell, also on the Ottawa-Madawaska line near Eganville, a snowplow was derailed but this obstruction was cleared early." The same item covers other places, filed separately. | Ottawa Citizen 1934-01-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1962-01-25≥ | By 25 January 1962 (the issue date), the paper reported: A loaded freight train "left the tracks at Hyndford, just east of here yesterday morning, and smashed the station house and a freight shed to splinters." There were no persons in either building. The derailment happened about 11.30 a.m. as CNR freight train 570, headed to Ottawa from Barry's Bay; "One of the 14 cars cleaned off the station leaving only the floor in its original location." Ottawa area superintendent Pat Burns estimated the damage at over $25,000. "The station was to have been torn down with the abandonment of the Barry's Bay line." Filed on Caldwell at the operator's direction: the operator suspects Hyndford is the same place as Caldwell, which has disappeared from maps. The item itself says only Hyndford, just east of Eganville. | Ottawa Citizen 1962-01-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |