Updated: April 27th, 2024.
Updated Front Page.
Updated Bathurst web page.
Added new web page “End of the Line”.
Our Railway Heritage Park is located in the heart of the village of Sharbot Lake, Ontario at the junction of the former Canadian Pacific Railway and Kingston and Pembroke rail lines.
Our caboose is now closed for the season. Thank you for your patronage.
See you next summer!
Our rail park is always open.
Have your picture taken with our cut-out train and conductor!
Check out our static displays!
Completed in 2023, our display case of tool collected over the years.
Speeder with section cart.
Trackmobile.
Tool Display
Motor car – also called a putt-putt.
Turntable motor also called an air motor.
Our new stock pen built last year, whitewashed this year, 2023.
Hours
The caboose is open during the summer months of July and August, every Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on special occasions.
Or, call (613) 279-2777 for an appointment and we’d be happy to show you around!
Click here if you’d like information on the railroad history of Central Frontenac.
Our virtual railway heritage walkway is always open:
Location
In the heart of the beautiful village of Sharbot Lake, Ontario.
From Ottawa, Hwy 417 west then Hwy 7 to Road 38, south to Elizabeth St. – 1 1/2 hours.
From Kingston, Road 38 (Gardners Rd.) north to Elizabeth St. – 1 hour.
The Kick and Push Railway 
Very informative web page.
Thanks.
We’re also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/kickandpushca
Thanks for the update.
What a wonderful repository of stories and images. We are so fortunate to have those among us who care for our past.
Thanks for the note Ken. I’m always on the lookout for intersting stories and photos. There’s more out there. The trick is finding them. The best aren’t on the internet but in private collections.
Gene
Awesome post. My grandfather Alex Drew worked on the Havelock Sub through Sharbot Lake up until 1965 for CP Rail doing maintenance of way work.
Hi Andrew.
Thanks. Long time no see.
Are you open on Saturday, September 3, 2022?
Yes we will be open.
… Gene
Yes it is.
…. Gene
Thank you
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Hello Gene, My wife & I are travelling to Sharbot Lake on Thursday afternoon until Friday (Sept 15 & 16). We will be stopping in to K & P Brewery. I have a particular relationship to the K & P Railway as my great grandfather John Craig was hired on the railway as a waterboy in 1872 and finshed his career as conductor on the railway in 1926, 53 years. You have an article written by Don Gibson, son of Dellerene Gibson, John Craig’s daughter. It was written in 1982. Will you be around during this time.
Hi Bruce.
Thanks for reaching out.
I’m unable to be there on Thursday. Wish I could. I live in Ottawa and make trips there several times a month. Maybe next time you are up.
When I was a younger I used to help Mrs. Gibson with the spring and fall yard cleanup at her place on the island. I took over this job from Frank Dowdall, my great uncle. I have a few connections to the K&P and CPR as well. Uncle Frank was section foreman at Sharbot Lake, my grandfather, William (Scotty) Meldrum was a baggage handler and assistant agent. They probably crossed paths. My grandfather started at Sharbot Lake on the railroad circa 1921.
Talk to you soon, Gene Kirkham
Hello Gene, we are tentatively planning to return to Sharbot Lake this summer, on the week of July 8 to the following weekend. Would be nice for me if we could meet.
Bruce Gibson
Hi Bruce.
Thanks for the note. I’ll put the week of July 8th on my calendar. I hope to see you there!
Will you be around on July 8th at Sharbot Lake?
Hi Bruce.
Thanks for your recent post on the Kick and Push FaceBook page of your grandmother, Mrs. Gibson to me.
looking forward to seeing your place. Do you serve lunch or snacks?
Hi Ann. Thanks for the note. We don’t serve refreshments at the Railway Park. Maybe we should look into that.
There is a grocery store nearby however. Hope to see you there.