Names and numbers
Eastmans
date unknown
Carlsbad Springs
date unknown
Dimensions
as reportedHistory
24 facts
| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1882-08-26 | At the Eastman's Springs station of the Canada Atlantic Railway, a man whose name could not be ascertained met with a fatal accident; Dr. Corbett, coroner, left at 4 o'clock the following morning to hold an inquest. | Ottawa Citizen 1882-08-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1882-10-14 | The foundation of the new station at Eastman's Springs had been laid, with Messrs. MacLaren and Parkham sending carpenters from their Stewarton work to proceed there; both stations were expected finished shortly. Mr. R. Watts of Sparks Street was awarded the contract for painting the engine house and freight shed at the Stewarton depot. Running of trains between Montreal and Ottawa on the Canada Atlantic Railway would commence on 1 November. Mr. Switzer, formerly a constable at the St. L. & O. Railway depot in Lower Town, was now acting constable at the Canada Atlantic station at the foot of Elgin street. Merges three items published the same day, 1882-10-14. | Ottawa Free Press 1882-10-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1882-10-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1887-09-27 | NARROW ESCAPE. Part of a Canada Atlantic train derailed and burned. Bush fires had injured the track near Eastman's Springs; the 4:50 p.m. express to Montreal, composed of an engine and tender, baggage car, smoker and mail car, second class car, a first class car and a Pullman, was derailed when the fire-loosened rails spread under it. The cars left the track and settled on their sides but did not overturn completely; dense smoke and nearby bush fire flames prevailed. The engine, tender and baggage car cleared the break, but the Pullman, first class, second class, mail and smoking cars, lying beside the track, caught fire within minutes and were completely burned. The roughly one hundred passengers escaped via the caboose of a following freight train, which had been flagged to stop. A special train with three doctors and stretchers was sent from Ottawa. Mail clerk Wm. Browne saved twenty-seven mail bags, about twelve being burned with the car. No passengers were seriously injured, though all were shaken up; Sir Adolph Caron was among the passengers in the Pullman, and an old man named Berraux from Vaudreuil was slightly cut about the hand. The line was cleared and the torn-up track re-laid; the up train from Montreal, due the previous evening, remained at Alexandria overnight and proceeded up the next morning. | Ottawa Journal 1887-09-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...),Almonte Gazette 1887-09-30(Corroborating weekly report of the same derailment...) | |
| 1894-11-05 | What might have been a serious accident was narrowly averted on the C.A.R. Saturday about noon. A special train carrying Central Vermont Ry. officials, returning from a week's hunt at the terminus of the O., A. & P.S. Ry., left Ottawa about 11 o'clock on Saturday for home. When the special was approaching Eastman's Springs the agent at that place, it is alleged, flagged the train to stop, but the engineer took no notice of the signal and went straight through without stopping. The Boston express coming to Ottawa had, by this time, left Bearbrook, the next station below Eastman's, and it seemed a collision was certain. Half way between those stations the engineers of both trains saw the other train approaching; the engines were brought to a standstill not thirty yards apart. The Central Vermont special backed up in front of the Boston express to Eastman's. An investigation was in progress before Mr. E.J. Chamberlain, general manager of the C.A.R. Located at Eastman's Springs, the nearer of the two stations the source brackets the near-miss between (the other, Bearbrook, has no entity on the site yet). | Ottawa Journal 1894-11-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1898-10-07 | The Canada Atlantic railway company has bought a large sand hill from Thos. Mackay at Eastman's Springs. The hill is about a mile from the main line and switches have been built in to it and trains are hauling sand to Ottawa East, where it is used for filling up the ravine between the tracks of the O.A. & P.S. and those of the C.A.R. When the place is filled up it will give additional space for the grounds connected with the shops, the construction of which is now going on. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1906-09-13 | STATION DESTROYED. Carlsbad Springs Station Was Burned Down. The G.T.R. railroad station here was totally destroyed by fire yesterday. Every effort was made to check the conflagration, but owing to a lack of appliances little could be done but watch the destruction of the property. The fire is supposed to have originated from the spark of an engine attached to a heavy freight train which passed through about noon, and the hot weather made all things considerably dry. The fire started at about one o'clock and the depot was quickly a blackened ruin. Filed on Eastmans per the operator (2026-09-28), who is not certain 'Carlsbad Springs' is the same place; confirm before treating as settled. | Ottawa Citizen 1906-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1907-06-21 | A station is being erected at Carlsbad Springs. Filed on Eastmans, following the operator's identification of Carlsbad Springs with that entity (2026-09-28), still not fully confirmed. | Ottawa Journal 1907-06-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1907-06-22 | As a result of a bad head-on collision on the G.T.R. about three miles west of Carlsbad (Eastmans) Springs late Saturday, William R. Douglas of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a brakeman, met a terrible death, pinned under a locomotive. A locomotive and three cars were ditched and from 100 to 200 feet of track torn up. A shunting engine running light, westbound, collided with the regular eastbound freight train, No. 70, in charge of Conductor W. Summers, Engineer W. Cooper and Brakesman Douglas, travelling at a high rate of speed on the understanding they had the right of way. The shunting engine, driven by Engineer Alexander Dewar, had been coming from Hawkesbury on its way to Ottawa to allow certain repairs to be made to it. Filed on Eastmans, following the operator's identification of Carlsbad Springs with that entity (2026-09-28). | Ottawa Journal 1907-06-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1907-06-23 | Coroner's jury verdict: 'We find that the late William R. Douglas came to his death in St. Luke's Hospital on June 23, 1907. The death was due to a collision of trains 70 and 1337 near Carlsbad Springs. We further find that the collision was due to a misreading of a time table owing to a defective light in the cab of engine 1337. We further believe that if the headlights had been properly displayed on train No. 70 the collision might have been averted. We would strongly recommend that all stations on the main line of a railway system be open day and night and that a responsible person should be on duty there.' Filed on Eastmans, following the operator's identification of Carlsbad Springs with that entity (2026-09-28). The inquest was reported opened and postponed on 1907-07-04 (train 1337 had clearance from South Indian to Rideau Junction) before this verdict. | Ottawa Journal 1907-07-05(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1921-08-31≥ | By 31 August 1921 (the issue date), the paper reported: Three Grand Trunk trainmen, brakeman Edward Carroll, fireman F. J. Brisbois and engineer F. W. Cleveland, "were arrested yesterday shortly before noon... with having broken into and stolen from a freight car at Carlsbad Springs on Wednesday last." The train had left Coteau Jct. for Ottawa; goods of about $300 were taken, most of them recovered. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name (operator). | Ottawa Citizen 1921-08-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1924-01-30≥ | By 30 January 1924 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Passengers from two Montreal-Ottawa trains coming to the city last night had to be transferred to and brought to the city on special trains, on account of the line being blocked by the derailment of cars of a freight train between Vars and Carlsbad Springs." The Journal gives it as a west-bound C.N.R. freight with one car derailed by a broken truck "about three miles east of Carlsbad Springs"; traffic was tied up for an hour and three-quarters. No one was injured. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name (operator). | Ottawa Citizen 1924-01-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1924-01-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1925-08-03≥ | By 3 August 1925 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Traffic on the Canadian National line from Ottawa to Montreal, by way of Coteau, was paralyzed for some hours Sunday morning when a freight train was derailed near Carlsbad Springs, 13 miles from Ottawa. No one was injured, but it tied up traffic for several hours". The morning trains from Montreal and Ottawa could not pass and passengers were transferred. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name (operator). | Ottawa Journal 1925-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1948-09-21 | One coach of the C.N.R. passenger train No. 48 from Ottawa to Montreal, which left Ottawa at 8.45 a.m., "partially left the rails at Carlsbad Springs, eight miles from Ottawa, at 9 a.m." The train was not damaged and no one was hurt; the coach was switched on to a siding and the train arrived in Montreal about three hours late. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name (operator). | Ottawa Journal 1948-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1961-02-20≥ | By 20 February 1961 (the issue date), the paper reported: Joseph Edward Phillips, 43, of Carlsbad Springs, "was forced to stand by and see his car demolished when it was struck by an Ottawa-to-Montreal CNR diesel train here Saturday night", at 9.40 p.m. Police said the car "became stuck on the tracks after sliding off the boards between the rails at the level crossing in the town"; three other men tried to push it clear. The train, engineer W. Breeze and conductor D. Jodoin both of Montreal, was travelling "between 65 and 70 miles an hour" and was delayed about half an hour; no one was hurt. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1961-02-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1962-08-13≥ | By 13 August 1962 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The family of Paul-Emile Prudhomme, 28, of 144 Dagmar Ave., Eastview, was wiped out when a freight train sliced their car in two at a level crossing near Carlsbad Springs, Saturday": his wife Fernande, 31, and children Jean-Marc, 3, and Carole, 18 months, also died. The accident happened at about 11.20 a.m. on the Russell Road, ten miles east of Ottawa, the car meeting an eight-car C.N.R. freight bound for Ottawa at about 50 miles an hour; police noted skid marks and that the car radio was on. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1962-08-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1962-10-03≥ | By 3 October 1962 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury "last night returned a verdict of accidental death" on Paul-Emile Prudhomme and his family, killed at "the Russell Road crossing in Carlsbad Springs" on August 11. It attached no responsibility to either driver or train crew and "recommended that a traffic census of both rail and road should be conducted... to determine if additional warning devices should be installed". Engineer Harold Buske said the train was doing 53 miles an hour in a 60 mile zone; Dr. E. J. S. Major presided. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. Follows the crossing accident of 11 August 1962. | Ottawa Citizen 1962-10-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1965-01-28≥ | By 28 January 1965 (the issue date), the paper reported: Walter Ladouceur, 54, a Carlsbad Springs store owner, "narrowly escaped serious injury Wednesday when a train struck his small truck less than a mile from his store"; returning on the Eighth Line, he "didn't notice the train until it was too late" and "almost made it across". Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1965-01-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1977-01-13 | A Cumberland Township couple, Brian Lalond, 25, and his wife Jocelyne, 23, "escaped with slight injuries this morning when their car collided with a passenger train at a level crossing near Carlsbad Springs"; northbound on a county road, they slid into the engine and parts of the car were carried more than 400 feet. "A man was killed Sunday in a similar mishap at a nearby crossing." Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. | Ottawa Citizen 1977-01-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1979-02-19≥ | By 19 February 1979 (the issue date), the paper reported: A Via Rail train from Montreal "was delayed more than six hours early Sunday after it slammed into a stolen car abandoned on the tracks at Regional Road 31 near Carlsbad Springs", just after 1 a.m.; none of the estimated 100 passengers was hurt and the car was dragged nearly a kilometre. The Journal places the car on the tracks at Concession Nine, Cumberland. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. The two papers name different crossings (Regional Road 31 and Concession Nine). | Ottawa Citizen 1979-02-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1979-02-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1989-07-24≥ | By 24 July 1989 (the issue date), the paper reported: Larry Cashman, 31, an off-duty Gloucester firefighter of Carlsbad Springs, "was killed Sunday afternoon when his pickup truck was hit by a train near Carlsbad Springs": southbound on Sand Road, three kilometres east of Carlsbad Springs, his vehicle "was struck by a VIA Rail passenger train" heading west. "There are no warning lights or gates at the level crossing... It is marked by two signs." The National Transportation Agency investigated; Garry McLaughlin said on 3 August that the truck had air conditioning and its windows were up. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. The November 1989 item in The Star puts the Sand Road crossing "in rural Vars". | Ottawa Citizen 1989-07-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1989-07-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1989-07-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1989-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 1998-08-15≥ | By 15 August 1998 (the issue date), the paper reported: A police pursuit near Carlsbad Springs on Friday ended with a stolen car stuck on "the CN railway tracks that intersect the road" at Hall Road, off Russell Road, about 500 metres along the tracks: "the 10:15 VIA passenger train from Montreal to Ottawa with 123 people aboard came rumbling over the hill... The train hit both the police cruiser and the stolen car. Both vehicles were complete writeoffs. Nobody on the train was hurt." The tracks were cleared shortly after 3 p.m. and the train arrived in Ottawa before 3:30 p.m. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. The item names the CN tracks at Hall Road off Russell Road near Carlsbad Springs. | Ottawa Citizen 1998-08-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 2007-09-08≥ | By 8 September 2007 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Ottawa police and VIA Rail investigators are looking for someone who tampered with rail traffic signalling lights and crossing barriers in the city's east end. Twice within the past two weeks, items that cause the barriers to malfunction... were put on the tracks at Boundary Road and Eighth Line Road. OPP recently investigated a similar incident at Casselman." Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. The item names the tracks at Boundary Road and Eighth Line Road in the east end, near Carlsbad Springs (inference). | Ottawa Citizen 2007-09-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 2008-07-31≤ | From 31 July 2008 (the issue date), the paper announced: VIA Rail planned to invest more than $25M to modernize its rail infrastructure between Ottawa and Montreal. In the first phase "upgrades to the Ottawa-Montreal line will include the addition of a 0.76-km long passing track approximately 16 kilometres east of Ottawa, near Carlsbad Springs", with remote-controlled power switches tied into the Centralized Traffic Control system. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. | Canada Newswire 2008-07-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) | |
| 2022-10-24 | "Train 38 was travelling from Ottawa to Montreal when it struck a vehicle parked on the tracks" shortly after 19:00 on Monday "near the intersection of Piperville and Boundary roads in the Carlsbad Springs area"; "the train dragged the vehicle east about 1,500 metres before stopping". Neither the one person in the car nor the 117 train passengers were injured; the vehicle was on the tracks due to "driver error", Ottawa police said. Filed on Eastmans, for which Carlsbad Springs is an alternate name, at the operator's direction. | CBC News 2022-10-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 2022-10-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
Notes
Not certain if this is the same location as Carlsbad Springs (2026-09-28)