A Scene of Wreckage, December 27, 1942
![Photograph of the wrecked third coach of the Ottawa Valley Local in Almonte with people walking through town, 1942](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/almonte-train-wreck_l-accident-de-train-d-almonte/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2017/09/train_wreck_8.jpg)
Source: North Lanark Regional Museum
When the troop train crashed into the Ottawa Valley Local on December 27, 1942, the last two coaches were obliterated in its path. Only one half of the third coach remained through the wreckage, a testament to the destruction left in the troop trains wake.