At one time Central and Eastern Ontario were covered with a network of railways, feeding each other and into the main trunk lines. This map, adapted from one prepared for the Department of Transport in 1941, shows how the Central Ontario stumbled to a finish at Wallace and narrowly failed to close the gap with J.R. Booth’s east-west line through Algonquin Park. The COR also linked with the Irondale, Bancroft and Ottawa (IB&O) at York River, which in turn joined the Victoria Railway which led to the Midland Railway and Toronto.