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A Scene of Wreckage, December 27, 1942

Photograph of the wrecked third coach of the Ottawa Valley Local in Almonte with people walking through town, 1942

Source: North Lanark Regional Museum

When the troop train crashed into the Ottawa Valley Local on December 27, 1942, the last two coaches were obliterated in its path. Only one half of the third coach remained through the wreckage, a testament to the destruction left in the troop trains wake.