Wooden Ore Car -Pieces

Description

Media Type: Image
Item Type: Images, Electronic
Description: Made of red oak. Two pieces of a tilting iron ore car that travelled along the Cobourg-Peterbourgh Railway. The piece suspended on top is a bottom plank from the ore box. Below that is a framing member with a bevelled end. Beside these pieces is a shovel used for the iron ore transport.
Notes: These pieces belong to one of the five iron ore cars which were submerged in Rice Lake for almost 100 years. It is said that on one of the last trips from the Blairton Mine in 1881 a car wheel bearing jammed. The conductor decided to pick up speed in hopes of unlocking it, however the momentum pushed five ore cars into Rice Lake instead. These ore cars were recovered in the early 1980s. A scale replica was made by George Parker and Ken Willcocks in 2014 and can be viewed at the Cobourg Marina.
Date of Original: 1867
Date Of Event: Derailment: 1881, Retrieval: 1980, Replica: 2014
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