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Wreckage of the Ottawa Valley Local

The wrecked Ottawa Valley Local train in Almonte in the aftermath of the train wreck with people standing around it, 1942

Source: North Lanark Regional Museum

 

It wasn’t until I got out on the platform, walked back to see what was happening, that I saw all the debris and stuff there and people lying around, and it was an awful sight… (Marion Jamieson)

The coaches on the Ottawa Valley Local, made of wood and steel construction, simply crumpled and disintegrated in the path of the oncoming troop train.