Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-06

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00:01:10 1 History
00:02:29 1.1 Portage railway
00:04:42 1.2 Expansion
00:05:48 1.3 Decline
00:06:59 1.4 Moving away, and back
00:07:48 2 Railway route
00:08:46 3 Steamboats



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The Huntsville and Lake of Bays Transportation Company was a company chartered in 1895 to operate steamboats on the Lake of Bays, and a series of lakes connecting to Huntsville in the northern section of the Muskoka Lakes District of Ontario, Canada. The wholly owned Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway ran a short line narrow gauge railway to connect steamboats operating on Lake of Bays and Peninsula Lake outside Huntsville, Ontario. Covering a vertical distance of 175 feet (53 m) along the hilly 1.125 miles (1.811 km) route, it was known as the "smallest commercially operated railway in the world".The network, which eventually contained eight steamboats, a single locomotive and several hotels and lodges in the area, operated as a unit until 1959. At that time, increasing automobile use led to a rapid decline in laker traffic. The hotels were sold off one by one, but the company remained a legal entity until 1967. The railway was purchased by the town of St. Thomas in southern Ontario, where it was reassembled to become the Pinnifore Park Railway. During the 1980s it was purchased by a group of enthusiasts in Huntsville and returned north, operating today as the Portage Flyer.