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Caption: Port Colborne Harbour's (now Trillium) 308, smokes it up while working CN Merritton yard at mile 9.49 Grimsby Sub. This alco S-1 switcher was built way back in 1946. It served on PCHR only a short time, being shipped off to the New York & Lake Erie RR in 2003. Originally it was Erie-Lackawanna 308, then worked Case International (International Harvester in Hamilton) for a number of years. It is see here in CASE IH colours. Behind this consist the Merritton CN station once stood, destroyed by fire in late 1994.
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What a coincidence we uploaded a Trillium photo at the same time from the same location…this is a great photo. I remember seeing this engine briefly on the Townline
That’s the steeple of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church we see behind the first boxcar. That church closed its doors in 2012. St. James – on the corner of Merritt Street and Oakdale Avenue – is doing the same shortly.
The Merritt Street bridge we see on the left has been replaced with a concrete structure.
The bridge that had a CN Intermodel train smash into it
I wish this was still here
How the M-Town yard has changed. Why did they even rip out that portion in the first place?
In New York State a number of years ago when CP took over the D&H (approx.1990)they went in a feverish frenzy pulling up track and tearing down structures everywhere they went. NY state taxes the physical plant……….all trackage and buildings subjected to tax, so the less there was, the less tax to pay. It would be interesting that someone on the group explain how railroads are taxed in Ontariowe & across the country. That might explain why so much track is pulled and none saved in case it could be used in future.