Welcome to our virtual tour of the Algoma Eastern Railway.  The purpose of this tour is to give you an idea of what the railway looked like in its heyday just prior to the 1930 CPR take-over.

The inventory of buildings is taken from an AER plan book given to the CPR in 1930 at the time of the take-over.  The map on this page is taken from an article in the June 8, 1912 issue of the Engineering Record describing the construction of the AER.

Except for a few bridges on the Little Current Sub, including the second Spanish River crossing Through Truss Bridge and the swing bridge at Little Current, which is now highway only, none of the original AER structures remain standing. Many were demolished shortly after the take-over, or during the abandonments of the thirties and forties. The last remaining buildings including the unique station at Espanola and the Turner shop facilities went under the wrecking ball in the 1980s.

Unfortunately the photographic record of most of these buildings is either very light or completely non-existent.  Because of this, many parts of our tour are text description only.  As further pictures come to light we will try to post them to our tour pages.