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Caption: Port Colborne Harbour Railway 3575 (M-420 W) and 6101 (C-425) make their way up the grade alongside the Welland Canal as they haul a short string of tanks from the interchange at CN 9.49 Grimsby Sub into Thorold. The 3575, x-CN, had a very short-lived time on the PCHR, as it was transferred from St. Thomas & Eastern a couple of weeks previously and left for Kelowna BC in the following spring. The trailing unit, 6101, was the "original" locomotive on the PCHR when it started up in July 1997 and went back Stateside in 2001 and over to the Delaware-Lackawanna in 2007. It now works for that road as #2423. And of course the Canadian operation now combines PCHR and STER, and is known as Trillium.
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i’m glad you uploaded this one! if i tried to upload my few shots, they for sure wouldn’t pass the quality police! (film cameras) but sweet shot, i haven’t shot from here in years.
You had to be patrolling the Welland when most of us were working I’m sure. I have never seen anything on that stretch of track. Once again, Mr. M., Great Stuff!
Arnold, did you take this photo from that little bridge which connects Chapel Street and the Seaway road, up near where the Lock 7 bridge used to be?
Yep. That was the bridge. Biggest problem I had around there was trying to find a quick place to park !! By “Lock 7″ bridge you are referring to the old Bridge 10 RR bridge, I presume? Sad to see it go.
The bridge at Lock 7 was a “single leaf bascule bridge” – whatever that means – for vehicles. It was removed in 1968. If you do a search of Google Images for “Lock 7 Thorold,” you’ll find two photos of that bridge. The better one – in black & white – shows both that bridge, and the RR bridge further south.
Thanks for the information regarding the road-bridge, Joe. I was completely unaware of it. But then, I didn’t start driving until 1967 and when you’re a rookie behind the wheel, the Welland Canal was actually a ‘long’ drive from Burlington.
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