Merrickville Ontario - Canadian Pacific Railway

Merrickville is a small town located on the Rideau Canal Waterway. Between the towns of Smiths Falls and Kemptville. This town was known as a small mill town with a British Military Barrack in the 1800. Colonel John By, an officer in the British Military, created the Rideau Canal, after the war of 1812, as a route for ships, incase of American attack where the St Lawrence river could have been cut off from the rest of Canada. Today, pleasure craft cruise up and down the Rideau Canal but Merrickville has something else to offer....trains! In the late 1800's, the Canadian Pacific Railway built a line from Montreal to Smiths Falls. One of the first railway lines in Canada. That very line today is now busy with trans-continental trains running from Montreal to points west. On March 7th, 2009. a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train led by an AC4400CW, a CP/Soo Line SD40-2 and a GP9u, pass through the village of Merrickville on it's trek west to Smiths Falls, and final destination of Toronto's Agincourt Yard. This train, designated as CP #233, orginated in Montreal and terminates in Toronto. There was once a big train station of grand CP design in Merrickville over 40 years ago. Sadly, it was demolished in CP's "scorched earth" policy when the company wanted to distance itself from the passenger business in the 1970's. The location where this video was taken was where the station once was. Mile 114.9 CP Winchester Subdivision