Caption: More spring.... and more smoke - can't go wrong with the MLW's on the Ontario Southland Railway. Crossing the 'Hanlon Expressway'. I 'placed' the shot with the Guelph Tool sign at top right. This spur was built in 1955 by the Guelph Junction Railway - the MTO regretted approving the railway across what as then a planned divided highway for a long long time and will finally rectify the problem by placing an overpass at one of these two crossings in the next year. The other crossing will be closed, and a new connection in the far background will be built between both GJR industrial spurs allowing GEXR/OSR continued access to customers. In 1955 GJR (through the City of Guelph) was proactive in seeing the benefit of rail access in an industrial park, and built two spurs despite not having a direct connection to them - which was not rectified until the purchase of the remains of the Guelph and Goderich Railway (from the River Run Centre to end of track) for a few million in 1997. Funny enough, the 'Guelph and Goderich' was re-organized to be under the Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo railway in STLH at the time! It would be nice to see Canadian cities be proactive in building rail access in new industrial parks.. but when was the last time that happened.