Overview | |
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Reporting mark | N&N |
Locale | Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada |
Dates of operation | 1884 | –1912
Successor | Egan Estates Railway |
Technical | |
Length | 5.5 mi (8.9 km) |
The Nosbonsing and Nipissing Railway (N&N) was a portage railway constructed by Ottawa lumber baron John Rudolphus Booth.[1] The 5.5-mile (8.9 km) line connected Lake Nipissing with Lake Nosbonsing[2] to allow lumber to be portaged onto the Mattawa River, and from there to the Ottawa River.[3] It allowed timber from a wide area across central Ontario to be sent to Booth's mill in Ottawa, at that time the largest sawmill in the world.[4]