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Began photography around 2013 with a few Nikon point and shoot cameras, now using a D3200. Member of the Guelph historical Railway Association

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Running out its final miles, Canadian National Railway 6218 rolls an excursion train eastbound through Madoc Junction on the Campbellford Subdivision returning to Belleville after turning on the wye at Anson Junction. Having just crossed Tuftsville Road, the train passes the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39373>little station</a> and the siding (designation DB32) in the foreground. Note the yellow, wooden derail post. At right lies the Madoc Subdivision. This excursion would be one of five trips out to Anson Junction and back on July 3 with two trips to follow on July 4 to celebrate the retirement of 6218.<br><br>CN’s Campbellford Subdivision was constructed in segments by different railways over almost three decades. The earliest portion of the 86.4 mile long line was constructed by the Port Hope, Lindsay & Beaverton Railway from Omemee north west to Lindsay in 1857. The Grand Junction Railway, originally chartered to build from Belleville to Toronto by looping north through many small communities, was altered to run Belleville to Peterborough with future expansion to Georgian Bay – later cut back to Lindsay. Only the section to Peterborough would be built under this railway. Construction began during the 1870s and was completed after many financial issues in 1880. The final piece of the Campbellford Sub missing at this time was the 13 mile stretch from Peterborough to Omemee, which would be constructed by the Midland Railway of Canada in 1883. At this time, the PHL&B Ry had been renamed the Midland Railway in 1869, though the company would grow to over four times its size in 1882 with the merger of six struggling railways under its name. These would include the Midland Railway of Canada; Grand Junction Railway (of Canada); Belleville & North Hastings Railway (see below); Victoria Railway; Whitby, Port Perry & Lindsay Railway; and the Toronto & Nipissing Railway. The expanded Midland Railway would be leased by the Grand Trunk Railway on January 1, 1884, and finally purchased on April 1, 1893. The line continued service under the Canadian National Railway banner until abandonment in pieces beginning in 1987 by abandoning Corbyville (mile 3.2) and Peterborough (mile 60.6), and finally the section from Peterborough to Lindsay (mile 86.4) in 1989.<br><br>Originally constructed in 1879 by the Belleville and North Hastings Railway from Madoc Junction (mile 0) to Madoc (mile 14.9), the line was leased to the Grand Junction Railway soon after completion, finally coming under control of the Midland Railway of Canada in 1881. The Midland Railway extended the line from Madoc to Eldorado at mile 21.69 in 1887, though would close this portion in 1889 due to low traffic. Service continued after the Midland’s merger with the Grand Trunk and later Canadian National until its last revenue movements in 1979 (5 inbound loads, 12 outbound loads at Madoc) and the line closed to traffic effective January 1980. CN would be paying to truck loads to/from team tracks at Foxboro (mile 6.54 Campbellford Sub – image below) and Belleville.<br><br>For the two days of July 3rd and 4th, 1971, Belleville was crowded with railfans from all over, many from the USA familiar with 6218 trips on Central Vermont and Grand Trunk Western lines. A ceremony was held at Belleville station on the 4th bidding farewell to 6218 before its final departure, well documented in the Upper Canada Railway Society’s July 1971 newsletter (link below).<br><br>An excerpt from the UCRS article:<br>“6218 herself was in pristine condition for her final hours of glory. She had been restored to her World War II appearance, complete with rectangular herald on the tender coal bunker, smoke deflectors (or "elephant ears") around the smokebox, a glossy black paint job complete with white striping on the running boards and cab of the engine and on the tender, and yellow numerals on the cab sides. The wheels and drivers on engine and tender were painted their usual white...The highways and byways from Belleville to Anson Junction were dotted with cars with many United States license plates, as people came from far and near to see 6218 make her last run on this weekend...A stirring eulogy to 6218 was given by Mr. O.S.A. Lavallee of Montreal. At the conclusion of the eulogy, the Duke of Edinburgh Pipe Band played "Auld Lange Syne". There was now a hush in the crowd, as people stood waiting, cameras and tape recorders at the ready. The band played a second time. After what seemed an eternity, out of the east a plume of black smoke arose. 6218 then came screaming down the yard, through the leads and past the station and the assembled crowd, whistle blowing, doing an estimated 60 per. She disappeared into the sun in the west, and it was all over.”<br><br>The full UCRS article covering the final trips of 6218 can <a href=https://railwaypages.com/upper-canada-railway-society-ucrs-and-its-publications>be FOUND HERE</a> in newsletter 306: July 1971.<br><br>More Campbellford/Madoc Sub images:<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43376>Lindsay, Bruce Lowe, June 1964</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44920>Foxboro, Doug Page, June 1964</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39373>Madoc Junction, Arnold Mooney, July 1976</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29999>Madoc, Arnold Mooney, July 1976</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=15760>Hastings, Steve Danko, May 1977</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14501>Peterborough, Eric May, 1979</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44270>Stirling, Arnold Mooney, July 1979</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45655>Stirling, Arnold Mooney, July 1979</a><br><br><i>James C. Herold Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: James C. Herold Pho…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/03/1971
Location: Madoc Junction
Province: Ontario
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Train 83, led by CNR U-1-f 6071, a 1944 product of MLW, crosses the Desjardins Canal on its journey from Toronto to Niagara Falls. Due into Hamilton James Street station at 1440h, the train will change numbers from 83, the westbound trip from Toronto, to 86 for the eastbound trip to the Falls. 6071 would be scrapped in June 1961.<br><br>Originally constructed as a swing bridge in 1855 by the Great Western Railway, Canada’s third worst railway disaster would occur on this bridge on March 12, 1857, when a Hamilton-bound train with a broken axle tore through the bridge, plunging into the canal below. 59 souls perished. (More information from the Hamilton Public Library <a href=https://lha.hpl.ca/articles/desjardins-canal-disaster?page=0%2C7>HERE.</a>). The bridge would be rebuilt in its current form in 1859, though the solid bridge no longer allowed large ships to access Dundas via the canal, eliminating the town as a port facility. Modifications would come again in 2016 with the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=27384>installation of a third span</a> for Metrolinx expansion into Hamilton’s West Harbour GO station.<br><br>Note the overpass just above the head end cars: Valley Inn Road, which, <a href=https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A71745>as seen in this 1959 aerial,</a> crossed over the CNR “cowpath” and CPR Goderich Sub just south of York Boulevard, joining it just west of the rail lines. Further off to the right near Bayview Junction, the large sign overlooking the scene sits just north of the intersection of Highways 2 and 6, today the intersection of York Boulevard and Plains Road West and can be seen much closer in <a href=https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/51459418_1981139475267565_1808163467631263744_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=0debeb&_nc_ohc=tJjjr1I-AUUAX_hwcaA&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&oh=00_AT9YPZId1g-pWf5e0klut_Iog0VElWXvoUT04w3UClkG_w&oe=62215A61>this circa 1960 shot.</a> “NEILSON’S JERSEY MILK CHOCOLATE, THE BEST MILK CHOCOLATE MADE.”<br><br><i>Robert F. Collins Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Robert F. Collins P…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/10/1954
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 25 Favourites
A VIA Rail SD40-2... not quite. BC Rail 757 has been transformed for the filming of <i>The Narrow Margin</i> along the Squamish Sub and sports an imitation consist for VIA Rail's "Canadian" behind it. The consist included BCOL RCC4 <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=33710>remote control car</a> as the B unit, a baggage car, and a selection of dome cars and coaches from the Roaring Forks Group in Colorado. *Information per Eric Gagnon.<br><br><i>Doug Cummings Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide. Geo-tagged location not exact</i>
Name: Doug Cummings Photo…
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 06/23/1989
Location: Squamish
Province: British Columbia
2 Comments | 23 Favourites
GEXR 583 pulls ahead to clear the switch for work in the Lower Yard.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Goderich-Exeter
Date: 09/24/2021
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
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Canadian National Railway 9104 begins its journey at Saint Eustache sur le lac with train 360 and a consist made up of 4 wooden commuter coaches. Note the truss rods, the tilted 'wafer' logo on the side of the cars, the sagging on the first car, and the two sets of marker lanterns, allowing the motor to run around the train without needing to relocate lanterns. Scheduled 7 days per week, <a href=https://www.traingeek.ca/files/19480620-ett-montreal-16.pdf>as per the 1948 timetable,</a> 360 will depart at 1330h inbound to Montreal.<br><br>The necessity of these locomotives ties directly to the geography of the line. In the early 1910s the Canadian Northern Railway was in need of a direct route into downtown Montreal, aiming to avoid both the competing Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railways in the process. With access from the east, west, and south limited, the railway chose to approach from the north by boring a tunnel beneath Mount Royal. Coming in at approximately 3.1 miles in length, the tunnel would be unsuitable for steam locomotives due to the fumes and smoke, leading to the CNoR looking to GE for electric locomotives.<br><br>Built by General Electric from 1914 through 1917, the six box cab locomotives, <a href=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Canadian_Northern_Railway_electric_locomotive_no._602..._-_La_locomotive_%C3%A9lectrique_no_602_de_la_soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_Canadian_Northern_Railway..._%2818988509200%29.jpg>numbered 600 - 605,</a> were geared for 55mph passenger service under the 2,400 volt DC system running from downtown Montreal to Val Royal station, opening for service October 21, 1918. The electrification would later be extended to Saint Eustache sur le lac in the late 1920s <a href=http://mgvallieres.com/trains/Images/CNStEustacheLac1945a.htm>(see 1945 view of station here).</a> With the nationalization of numerous Canadian railways under the Canadian National Railways banner beginning in 1919, the locomotives would be renumbered to CNR 9100 - 9105 that year. They would retain these numbers until November 1949, when they would lose their 9's, becoming 100 - 105. In February 1969, they would be renumbered a final time to 6710 - 6715.<br><br>With the growth of transit in and around Montreal, commuter operations had been taken over by the Commission de Transport de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal (CTCUM - later STCUM) in 1982, with CN providing equipment, crews, and maintenance. The end for such aged equipment was to come in the mid 1990s <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44393>as new MR90 cars</a> were ordered from Bombardier. Retirement of these and other electric motors serving these lines came on June 2, 1995 as equipment and infrastructure were upgraded, including a new 25kv electrical system, and CTC installation, eliminating the few remaining sections of train order operation in Canada. Agence Métropolitaine de Transport/AMT would fully take over operations on January 1, 1996. Of note, all GE box cabs retained their wooden doors and windows, as seen above on 9104, almost until retirement. They would be upgraded to steel in 1992 (see 6711 photo below).<br><br>Of the original six, four box cabs have been preserved: <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43021>6710 at Deux-Montagnes station(1),</a> <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=46738>6711 at Exporail(2),</a> <a href=http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=640325>6714, former 9104, at the Connecticut Trolley Museum, East Windsor, Connecticut(3),</a> and <a href=http://www.morscher.com/rr/1996/19960721_07.jpg>6715 at the Museum of Science & Technology in Ottawa(4).</a><br><br>It is worth noting CN had other electric power for these commuter operations including Electric Multiple Unit cars which will be detailed in a future post. As for locomotives, CN also rostered three steeple cab units built by GE in 1950, numbered 200 - 202, later 6725 - 6727, and another set of box cabs - nine in total - built by English Electric in Preston, Lancashire, England. These had been built for the Port of Montreal in 1924 - 1926 as the (now old) Port aimed to reduce smoke and fumes present in the area. Like the Mount Royal Tunnel a few years earlier, they too ran a 2,400 volt DC system. Numbered 101 - 109, the <a href=https://railwaymatters.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/ee-co.-boxcab-class-z-4-a.jpg?w=714&h=560>Commissaires du Port de Montreal</a> motors served until 1940 when electric operations were discontinued at the Port due to excessive costs. The motors were exchanged to the CNR, who at the time was looking to increase its roster of electric power for commuter operations. In return, the CNR exchanged handful of 0-6-0 switchers to the Port. Further reading on Port of Montreal electrification <a href=https://twsmedia.co.uk/2019/05/16/from-preston-to-montreal/>can be found here.</a><br><br>CN GE box cabs:<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20232>Through East Junction.</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=22159>CN 6714 (9104) in the noodle scheme.</a><br><br>CN English Electric box cabs:<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20057>At Val Royal.</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=4163>Side Profile at Pointe St. Charles.</a><br><br>CN GE Steeple cabs:<br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=21764>Light power at East Junction.</a><br><a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=39652>Double header at Val Royal.</a><br><br>Information per a number of UCRS and CRHA newsletters.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide Duplicate.</i>
Name: Unknown Photographe…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/13/1948
Location: Saint Eustache sur…
Province: Quebec
2 Comments | 21 Favourites
CN L542 pauses on the Fergus Spur just outside FloChem while the conductor and trainee meet with the yard foreman to discuss spotting the inbound cars. Their 15 minute break allowed plenty of time for a farmer to finish plowing his driveway which crosses both the Fergus Spur main track and the FloChem siding. Shortly, 4732 will cut off from it's train and run ahead to the switch for the crew to sweep it out and start their work.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/17/2022
Location: Guelph-Eramosa Tow…
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 18 Favourites
Former Canadian Pacific Railway steam locomotives 136 and 1057, now in excursion service lettered for the Credit Valley Railway, are seen outside the TH&B station at Hamilton. Earlier in the day they had run an excursion from Toronto - Guelph Junction - Hamilton, and are taking on coal before their return trip.<br><br><i>Bryce Lee Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Bryce Lee Photo; Ja…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 05/04/1974
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
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<b>The Last Mixed, Part 1.</b> On Saturday, August 4, 1962, four railfans from the Upper Canada Railway Society, including Basil Headford, boarded Canadian Pacific Mixed train M741 at Guelph headed northwest to Goderich on what was the final run of southern Ontario’s last CPR mixed train.<br><br>Seen from combine 3313 spotted near <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/postcards/millbank.jpg>the Millbank station,</a> SW1200RS 8144 coasts down the siding returning to it’s train on the main after spotting two boxcars at Millbank Flour & Feed. Note the boxcars on the other side of the building on their coal siding. The train will continue to Goderich, becoming M742 for the return to Guelph.<br><br>An article detailing the trip appeared in the September 1962 newsletter: <a href=https://drive.google.com/file/d/19w4ofWgh8vTBotAPpeuT6KQeAVDSGr74/view?usp=sharing>found here.</a><br><br>CPR 8144, built by GMD in 1959, rebuilt to CP 1239 in 1981, retired 2012, sold to Independent Diesel Services of Minnesota.<br><br><i>Basil Headford Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Print.</i>
Name: Basil Headford Phot…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 08/04/1962
Location: Millbank
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 24 Favourites
In response to Arnold's <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47633>recent posting of Listowel</a> in 1976, here is the former Wellington, Grey & Bruce/Great Western/Grand Trunk/Canadian National Railway station in Listowel, today in use by the Kinsmen Club and known by the locals as "Kin Station". It was originally constructed in 1871 in the WG&B Kincardine Branch, with service beginning in December 1872. In recent years it has received a metal roof, new deck, wheel chair accessibility, and more.<br><br>Current interior photos available on the Kinsmen Club's <a href=https://www.listowelkinsmen.org/station-rental>Rent the Station</a> page.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/09/2021
Location: Listowel
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 13 Favourites
Long before becoming <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=19070>a well known excursion locomotive,</a> CPR 1057 was just another D10h 4-6-0 working the branch lines of southern Ontario, on this day, handling mixed trains 715/716 on the Walkerton branch. Seen here on arrival from Orangeville approaching the small yard at Walkerton, 1057 will run around the consist and complete any work in town before departure back to Orangeville.<br><br>Canadian Pacific's Walkerton Subdivision originated as the Walkerton & Lucknow Railway, incorporated in 1904, construction would begin in 1906 and be fully completed in 1908, splitting off the Owen Sound Subdivision at <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47318>Saugeen Junction</a> and running west via Durham and Hanover to it's namesake town. The CPR would lease the railway beginning November 1906, and the line would open for service in August 1908. <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/time/walkertontt1909.jpg>Per a 1909 timetable,</a> there were at one time four scheduled passenger trains over the line daily except Sunday, plus other freight movements. During the 1930s, effects of the Great Depression were felt on most branch lines and passenger services were reduced or eliminated. By 1932, the Walkerton branch passenger services were replaced with a daily except Sunday mixed train. Service on the line continued as such until August 3, 1957, when mixed trains 715/716 would be discontinued, leaving the line freight only. Mixed trains 753/756 to Teeswater also ran their last miles on this day. July 1983 saw abandonment of the Walkerton Sub from a point west of Hanover to Walkerton, with the condition that ownership and operations of industrial trackage within Hanover would be transferred to CN. By transferring service to CN, CP would be allowed to abandon the remainder of the Walkerton Sub from Saugeen to Hanover. By 1984, the Walkerton Subdivision would be abandoned, the switches at Saugeen Junction removed by October, and the entire line removed by December of that year. *Information from a number of UCRS Newsletters.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Unknown Photographe…
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 02/16/1950
Location: Walkerton
Province: Ontario
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Seen looking east from the Lemonville Road bridge, CN 333 pulls back onto the main after working in Aldershot Yard. In the consist today is CN 9657 and 9653 bracketing a pair of EMDX GP40-3 lease locomotives, 200, 201. Both are former GO Transit GP40-2s, numbered <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=14341>GO 725</a> and GO 726, originally straight GP40s built for the Rock Island Railroad.<br><br>Shot by multiple photographers, some other views of this train:<br>Before departure from Mac Yard, <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43475>by David Parker</a><br>Working Aldershot Yard, <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43744>by Reg Button</a><br><br><i>Karl Bury Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Karl Bury Photo, Ja…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 02/27/1994
Location: Aldershot
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 22 Favourites
After setting off a cut of cars from Mabe, the crew of 580 takes lunch in the yard office while waiting for 382, 148, and 397 to pass. Afterwards they will depart with 3 loaded centre beams for Rembos on the Hagersville Sub.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 01/03/2022
Location: Brantford
Province: Ontario
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Snapped at the Glace Bay roundhouse, DEVCO 20, one of only 11 EMC Model 40 300hp locomotives constructed. Built in August 1940, serial number 1134. Originally EMC #10, used at Plant #2, South Chicago, for use as their <a href=http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/emd1134a.jpg>shop switcher and demonstrator,</a> it made it's way to Canada in May 1951 as McKinnon Industries #10 at the St. Catharine's plant, now GM. The loco would be sold to dealer Andrew Merrilees in 1963 where it would briefly be leased to Lake Ontario Steel in 1965. After which it would head east to the Four Star Colliery at Broughton, Nova Scotia as their #10. It would finish its career with Devco as #20 starting 1969, and finally to the <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/shortline/Devco_20P.jpg>Museum of Industry in Stellarton, NS,</a> in 1991. Information per Colin Churcher’s archives.<br><br>A 1976 shot of 20 still wearing its <a href=http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/devc20.jpg>McKinnon Industries paint scheme.</a><br><br><i>John C. Benson Photo, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: John C. Benson Phot…
Railway: Sydney Coal Railwa…
Date: 07/17/1981
Location: Glace Bay
Province: Nova Scotia
1 Comments | 15 Favourites
The CN Guelph yard power is seen parked in track XW41, the southernmost track across from <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=47517>CN's Guelph station.</a> Power is CN 7169, an 800hp GMD SW8 built in 1951, originally one of the 34 SW8s numbered in the 8500 - 8533 series prior to 1956 renumbering to 7150 - 7183. All would be off the roster by 1989.<br><br>Behind the unit sits two buildings, an older wood and timber structure at right at 72 Farquhar Street, and the brick factory on the left at 76 Farquhar Street, both part of Guelph's textile and agriculture history. The "medium" structure at centre was an addition during the 1920s to connect the two main buildings. At right, Guelph's Drill Hall built 1866 served the military for practicing various drills until the 1890s. <a href=https://www.historicplaces.ca/hpimages/Thumbnails/70544_Large.jpg>The armoury</a> would not be built until 1906, directly across the street and still in use today. The site first became part of Guelph's textile manufacturing sector in the early 1890s as part of the shirt making company, Williams, Green & Rome, per an 1892 fire insurance map. By the early 1900s the factory at left had been built and the full site was in use as the Guelph Cotton Mills per a 1907 fire insurance map, and by 1908, taken over by the Louden Machinery Company (the word "Louden" barely visible <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/155/201484416.jpg>in this 1908 photo</a>) for the manufacturing of agricultural equipment. The Aspinwall Manufacturing Company would assume operation of the site in 1912 as their only Canadian plant <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/091/2009321996.jpg>(seen here circa 1915)</a> making equipment for potato farmers, including their automated potato planters, sprayers, cutters, sorters, and weeders. Some examples <a href=https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/91737493_1504970392986148_3226917549207715840_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=2nN2XysgxDQAX_UgwhA&_nc_oc=AQnFxjwNN1a4bhF5-7t-bU4C5P4Kqvd9mTo6-yK0V4MPyk9t-R2VUShIa78zB8Gpofo&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&oh=00_AT_uWrdIHK5pJ1gySdSnMa0eTfTh0E7IpYXpxbVH9cK0nA&oe=61F528B3>of their equipment seen here.</a> Per a 1929 fire insurance map, the properties were once again in the textile industry under the Regent Knitting Company, and later by Zephyr Looms and Textiles Inc. in the late 1930s. Zephyr Looms & Textiles worked through the Second World War handling military contracts for uniform articles and other small items. Emerging from the war, the company would rebrand as Textile Industries Ltd. in December 1945, which it would operate as until closing for good in December of 1980. At some point during the 1970s a slight change in the name recognized their location in Guelph on Wyndham Street, as they became known as <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_51/061/199228190.jpg>Wyndham Textile Industries Limited.</a><br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Unknown Photographe…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 06/1978
Location: Guelph
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 20 Favourites
Westbound by Georgetown, CNR U-2-g 4-8-4 6233 (MLW, 1943) heads up Monday - Friday train 11 from Toronto to London, due into Georgetown at 1757h. The foreground track curving of to the left is the northern section of the Milton Subdivision, running Georgetown to Allandale. This would become the Beeton Subdivision in 1965 with the creation of the Halton Subdivision.<br><br>In the distance at left is the former <a href=https://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/EHS/ehs00156.jpg>Georgetown Coated Paper Mills Ltd.</a> building which had rail service. Built in 1910, it would later become Alliance Paper Mills in 1928 before being purchased by Domtar in 1959. It would carry the name Howard Smith Papers before becoming Domtar Fine Papers Ltd. until closing it's doors in 1978*. The building survives today by as A-Plus Canada Inc Self-Storage and Applied Wiring Assemblies. This Bill Thomson shot from 1965 shows the <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=18497>spur to the mill at right.</a> <br><br>*Information from the Esquesing Historical Society.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection.</i>
Name: Al Chione Duplicate…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 07/23/1958
Location: Georgetown
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 29 Favourites
NS&T interurban car 80 has just pulled away from the Port Colborne station (just across King Street) and traffic flow is getting back to normal as the wig wag stops it's sway. Must be a warm day with the windows and door open to get a breeze.<br><br>Port Colborne Station, <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44470>steam power in 1955.</a><br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Al Chione Duplicate…
Railway: Niagara St. Cathar…
Date: Circa 1955
Location: Port Colborne
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 12 Favourites
The first train to the south end of Tilsonburg since <a href=http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=43993>April 2020</a> is seen arriving in town about to cross Highway 19/Vienna Road as it enters the Tilsonburg Yard. It will tie down just east of the crossing.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: GIO Rail
Date: 12/24/2021
Location: Tilsonburg
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 22 Favourites
Power for GIO Rail's new Cayuga Subdivision operation arrived in St. Thomas during the night in the form of LDSX 1597, a former CP GP9u that has had some work done, including a new GIO Rail paintjob, by LDS, and it would appear the unit is being leased long term from LDS. Making it's first run east today, the engine is seen approaching the village of Corinth east of Aylmer headed for Tilsonburg where it will down down at the yard.<br><br>This portion of the Cayuga has seen a lot of work by GIO over the last few months, including thousands of new ties and ongoing work on crossing protection systems for increased speed, requiring most crossings today to be flagged by GIO personnel.<br><br>Built as CPR 8687 in 1957, rebuilt to 1597 in 1985, to <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_diesel/LTEX_1597_1585_DSSR.jpg>Larry's Truck and Electric in 2015,</a> leased to the Delta Southern Railroad and <a href=http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_diesel/DSRR_1597.jpg>later purchased and repainted in 2017,</a> and finally to LDS.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: GIO Rail
Date: 12/24/2021
Location: Corinth
Province: Ontario
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With helper 3509 tied on, CNR Extra 6217 west departs Bayview Junction taking the switch to the Dundas Subdivision. The consist includes a number of outside braced wooden boxcars and Pacific Fruit Express reefers (some empty with open hatches).<br><br>CNR S-1-g, 2-8-2 Mikado 3509 was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company of Kingston in 1917 for the Grand Trunk as 489. It would receive the number 3509 during the 1923 consolidation under the Canadian National Railway, and would be scrapped in March 1960. CNR U-2-g, 4-8-4 Northern 6217 built by MLW in September 1942 and would be scrapped in July 1961.<br><br><i>Original Photographer Unknown, Al Chione Duplicate, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.</i>
Name: Al Chione Duplicate…
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 05/17/1958
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
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TH11 makes a few moves around National Steel Car gathering up a few cuts of new CP grain hoppers. They'll be on their way soon and the two NSC yards crews will be back to work.
Name: Jacob Patterson
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 12/20/2021
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
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