| Stupart | |
|---|---|
  Stupart Location in Ontario | |
| Coordinates: 47°20′51″N81°32′40″W / 47.34750°N 81.54444°W Coordinates: 47°20′51″N81°32′40″W / 47.34750°N 81.54444°W [1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| District | Sudbury |
| Part | Sudbury, Unorganized, North |
| Established | 1912 |
| Elevation [2] | 398 m (1,306 ft) |
| Time zone | Eastern Time Zone (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern Time Zone (UTC-4) |
| Postal Code | P0M |
| Area code(s) | 705,249 |
Stupart is an unincorporated place and railway point in geographic Hennessy Township [3] in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. [1] The community is just off Deschênes Lake in the Opikinimika River system, part of the James Bay drainage basin.
Unorganized North Sudbury District is an unorganized area in the Canadian province of Ontario, comprising all portions of the Sudbury District which are not organized into incorporated municipalities. Despite its name, there is no longer an accompanying "South Part", as that subdivision has subsequently been incorporated into municipalities and Statistics Canada has not renamed the North Part.
Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior.
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province accounting for 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province in total area. Ontario is fourth-largest in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is also Ontario's provincial capital.
Stupart is on the Canadian National Railway transcontinental main line, and is passed but not served by Via Rail Canadian trains. The next community eastbound is Ruel, served by Ruel railway station; the next community westbound is Westree on Ontario Highway 560A, served by Westree railway station.
Canadian National is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
A transcontinental railroad is a contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad, or over those owned or controlled by multiple railway companies along a continuous route. Although Europe is crisscrossed by railways, the railroads within Europe are usually not considered transcontinental, with the possible exception of the historic Orient Express. Transcontinental railroads helped open up unpopulated interior regions of continents to exploration and settlement that would not otherwise have been feasible. In many cases they also formed the backbones of cross-country passenger and freight transportation networks.
The main line, or mainline in American English, of a railway is a track that is used for through trains or is the principal artery of the system from which branch lines, yards, sidings and spurs are connected. It generally refers to a route between towns, as opposed to a route providing suburban or metro services. For capacity reasons, main lines in many countries have at least a double track and often contain multiple parallel tracks. Main line tracks are typically operated at higher speeds than branch lines and are generally built and maintained to a higher standard than yards and branch lines. Main lines may also be operated under shared access by a number of railway companies, with sidings and branches operated by private companies or single railway companies.
