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I can see Collingwood days were challenging for light… I regret not doing anything to Collingwood of course. How busy was Stayner?
It’s also amazing the line is basically still in place except a small segment by the Distillery in Collingwood… which kind of makes me wonder, why is it even there if not for just bureaucratic indifference? I’d like to see a large customer locate on the line and make it worthwhile.. but.. would probably happen on the active section instead.
Steve, FS Partners in Stayner was the only rail customer there during the BCRY days and also the only other rail customer the BCRY served before the 2 plants in Collingwood (Canadian Mist & Nacan) back in ‘98 so back when the BCRY first opened there were always only 3 Rail customers along the Collingwood half of the BCRY and always served twice a week: Tuesdays and Thursdays.
You or others may note through that several sites do say the Pilkington Glass Plant was also a rail customer in Collingwood back when BCRY first opened but if you look at the past ‘98 Satalight map view on the Simcoe site, sure enough the spur tracks were already removed from P-G plants property itself and stored at the end of the P-G spur for a very long time just outside of the Pilkington Glass Plant were the 3 CN box cars owned by the township of Collingwood which will eventually find a permanent home at the Collingwood Rail Museum on St Paul Street.
So odds are P-G was still using the rail back when the township was in negotiations with CN on purchasing the line as the town did purchase the line with an intention that they’d still be using it for the foreseeable future and hopes that more Buisness’s will be added within the years to help continue to grow the town economically but guess that just wasn’t the case in the end and odds are P-G likley quit using rail a year or 2 before BCRY came to town.
The FS Partners in Stayner was always only a ‘seasonal’ rail customer so only really around springtime I think is when they received the covered hoppers off the BCRY (rest of the year any covered hopper seen on BCRY when they ran on the Collingwood half of the line was always for the Canadian Mist as they also received the occasional covered hopper from time to time along with their normal tanker cars).
The line also saw some loads of watermain pipe when the pipeline to Alliston was built adjacent to the line down towards Angus.