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What does a School Crossing Guard do on a ‘PD’ or Professional Activity Day? If a raifan, seize the opportunity to take a trackside ‘Photo Day’ of course! While chasing the Trillium Railway’s Friday solo powered freight northbound from Dain City on the Canal and Thorold Spurs to Merritton, I observed several intriguing trackage configerations, couple of neat switching moves and an abundance of Seaway traffic on the Welland Canal. The most time consuming and complex move of the day goes to the tick-tack-toe 4-point switching maneuver required to cross the double tracked Grimsby Sub both northbound from Thorold to Merriton & St Catharines and then vice-versa when southbound back home to Dain City. The “PD’ or photo of day goes to Ontario’s Trillium 1859 and four clean box cars parading diagonally and boldly across Merritt & Seymour to pose briefly with Tim Horton’s impressive Canadian, Maple-leaf billboard. I can’t think of a more fitting image for a proud Canuk coffee loving railfan from Ontario enjoying a sunny, trackside ‘PD’ holiday?
KUDOS to Trillium Railway Co. LTD., a short line railway founded in 1997, currently operate the Port Colborne Harbour Railway (PCHR) serving 19 customers on its 50KM long network located in the Niagara Region providing interchange with both CN and CPR.
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I’ve shot as this crossing quite a few times…nice photo