Franz station
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| Location | Franz, Ontario Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°27′45″N 84°24′40″W / 48.46250°N 84.41111°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Via Rail | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Sign post | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Previous names | Canadian Pacific Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Franz railway station is a railway station located in the community of Franz, Unorganized North part Algoma District, northeastern Ontario, Canada.[1] It is a Via Rail flag stop station on the Sudbury – White River train; service by the Algoma Central Railway ended in July 2015.[2][3][4]
In his autobiography, Stompin' Tom: Before the Fame (Viking, 1995), Canadian country/folk-singing legend Stompin’ Tom Connors relates the story from the early 1950s of him and a travelling companion, Steve Foote, disembarking from a freight car as the train they were on slowed through Franz. “When the train slowed down at one point,” Connors writes, “we figured we must be coming into Hearst [their destination]. So we jumped off and decided to walk into town. But there was no town. There was only a railroad gang there — mainly Métis or Cree — and only one building where they all ate and slept.” A worker told them they had “made a big mistake” and were “still out in the middle of the bush.” After inquiring after the foreman for work, the latter — who “looked like a big bear” — “started up the tracks with a big shovel in his hand, hollering, ‘get the f—— out of here before I cut your heads off with this spade!’” It took Connors and Foote four and half days of walking the tracks to get to Hearst, a distance Connors estimated at over a hundred miles.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Franz". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
- ^ Map 12 (PDF) (Map). 1 : 1,600,000. Official road map of Ontario. Ministry of Transportation of Ontario. 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ "Summer schedule". Algoma Central Railway. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-08-27. Retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ Della-Mattia, Elaine (October 31, 2018). "Passenger train advocates still seeking funding; certificates in place to operate train". Sault Star. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
- ^ Connors, Stompin’ Tom (1995). Stompin' Tom: Before the Fame. Toronto: Viking. p. 233.
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