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Caption: A sunny Spring afternoon finds CCGX 1000 thumping over the interlocking diamond in downtown Brampton, working OBRY's biweekly interchange run heading south to drop off 9 cars for CP at Streetsville Junction, where it will then lift 5 cars and head back north to Orangeville Yard. The crew would then depart the yard and switch some of the industries at the north end of town before calling it a day.
Built in 1957 for the Quebec, North Shore & Labrador and looking a little worse for wear, the aging 1000 was the sole power holding down the OBRY's operations since the line's takeover from CP in 2000. Next month, GP9RM 4009 (a rebuilt ex-CN unit that was formerly used on Cando's Athabasca Northern operation) would arrive to "take over" operations. Both units were used on the line (sometimes together) for the next little bit, but eventually 1000 was sent east to Cando's switching operation in Bath, and at last check had been forwarded to Cando's Winnipeg shop. OBRY went through a few different GP9 units in the years that followed (4009, 4015, then 4014) before Cando pulled out and Trillium took over operation of the line.
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Amazing shot Dan!! Great Photo location!
From what I have seen it actually seems that 1000 started out operations with the BCRY as a short line operator before moving to the OBRY in 2000 when Orangeville announced the opening of the short line and after that BCRY was given an identical gp9 CCGX 1001 which still operates their line to this day! Nearly two decades 1001 has been on the BCRY while OBRY has gone through nearly half a dozen units now. Wonder how much longer CANDO plans to operate the BCRY?
I have seen some talk off and on about the city of Barrie thinking about discontinuing the BCRY operations completely due to all the expenses but I guess only time will tell.
Railfan99, just curious, where did you hear that? From everything i‘ve heard, the city has no intention of cutting service. Last thing I heard was that they may be close to securing a few new customers (transload) a couple months ago.
I seen it i an earlier post in 2016. http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=23698
Really, new rail customers?! That’s quite rare nowadays! Good for them!!
Yeah, farmers/farm supply places out in Essa have been unloading grain cars into trucks there. Hopefully business is growing for them, as the last few times I was by the yard this past summer they had quite a few hoppers waiting.