Railpictures.ca - Craig Allen Photo: CCGX 1001 leans to one side as it slowly shoves empty dimensional car WDLX 1001 along the overgrown Western Mechanical Spur north of Tiffin St in Barrie. This is a rare move as Western Mechanical only requires service a handful of times per year. Earlier that morning I had driven over this spur while running errands in town and noticed a crew armed with pickaxes clearing ice from the rails at Brock St. I guessed that something was up so I abandoned my errands (my wife calls this being irresponsible) and chased down the BCRY train in Innisfil where I found their train consisting of WDLX 1001 along with an empty centrebeam for Tarpin Lumber and a tank car for Comet Chemicals. With my suspicions confirmed I played the waiting game until they had finished their work in Innisfil and was able to get this shot when they made their return trip through Barrie. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

CCGX 1001 leans to one side as it slowly shoves empty dimensional car WDLX 1001 along the overgrown Western Mechanical Spur north of Tiffin St in Barrie. This is a rare move as Western Mechanical only requires service a handful of times per year. Earlier that morning I had driven over this spur while running errands in town and noticed a crew armed with pickaxes clearing ice from the rails at Brock St. I guessed that something was up so I abandoned my errands (my wife calls this being irresponsible) and chased down the BCRY train in Innisfil where I found their train consisting of WDLX 1001 along with an empty centrebeam for Tarpin Lumber and a tank car for Comet Chemicals. With my suspicions confirmed I played the waiting game until they had finished their work in Innisfil and was able to get this shot when they made their return trip through Barrie.

Caption: CCGX 1001 leans to one side as it slowly shoves empty dimensional car WDLX 1001 along the overgrown Western Mechanical Spur north of Tiffin St in Barrie. This is a rare move as Western Mechanical only requires service a handful of times per year. Earlier that morning I had driven over this spur while running errands in town and noticed a crew armed with pickaxes clearing ice from the rails at Brock St. I guessed that something was up so I abandoned my errands (my wife calls this being irresponsible) and chased down the BCRY train in Innisfil where I found their train consisting of WDLX 1001 along with an empty centrebeam for Tarpin Lumber and a tank car for Comet Chemicals. With my suspicions confirmed I played the waiting game until they had finished their work in Innisfil and was able to get this shot when they made their return trip through Barrie.

Photographer:	Craig Allen [149] (more) (contact)
Date:	03/18/2019 (search)
Railway:	Cando (search)
Reporting Marks:	CCGX 1001 (search)
Train Symbol:	Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS:	BCRY Western Mechanical Spur (search)
City/Town:	Barrie (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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8 Comments

Driver8666

March 21, 2019 at 11:11 am

Looks like it’s going to tip over.
jknott86

March 21, 2019 at 12:01 pm

Interesting. I saw WDLX 1001 sitting empty at Stuart Street in May 2017 but couldn’t figure out much about it, including its reporting mark. Nice to close the loop on that one.
Stuart Streit

March 21, 2019 at 1:24 pm

So where’s the photo of WDLX 1001??!!
DaveA

March 22, 2019 at 12:07 am

I call that responsible railfanning!
craigandru

March 22, 2019 at 2:54 pm

Thanks for the comments everyone

Driver8666 – when taking the photo I didn’t fully realize how uneven the tracks were.

Jamie – glad this closes a loop for you.

Stuart – you can see photos of WDLX 1001 at Western Dimensional’s website http://www.westdim.com and browse through their projects section. I didn’t personally get a decent photo of it and the image I took wouldn’t have met the standards of this database.

Dave – I fully agree but unfortunately don’t think my wife will change her opinion.
Jakob Mueller

March 23, 2019 at 8:53 am

This has a Maumee & Western feel to it.
Railfan99

April 29, 2020 at 3:51 pm

Great Story Craig and honestly, I bet almost everyone else would’ve Done the same thing, especially if something rare was possible to happen!

Had a quick question for you also, just of curiosity do you or anyone else here happen to know how often Western Machanics happens to receive service from BCRY on average? Is it as less as just once a month or is it usually even be more infrequent averaging to be somewhere around half a dozen times a year? Just a curious thought I had.
And with the other 3 BCRY customers, is my list accurate with the fact that Comet Chemicals seems to be the biggest customer of them all getting serviced to almost twice a week while the other 2 (Tarpin Lumber and Tag Environmental) aren’t all too far behind and get serviced about once a week on average but that’s can always vary for them too based off of ‘Production Wise’ of the buisness’s?
craigandru

April 29, 2020 at 10:59 pm

Graydon, thank for the comments.

I don’t think Western Mechanical sees much rail service and I’ve only observed the spur in use this one time. If I were to guess I’d say the BCRY visits a few times a year, if that.

Comet Chemicals, Tarpin Lumber (now called United Truss) and Tag Environmental are all pretty similar in terms of frequency of service and are visited 1-2 times a week. Number of carloads is higher for both Tag and Comet than for United Truss.

BCRY also has transloading services at their yard in Utopia and it seems to be utilized frequently.

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