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Caption: With a Saturday agenda that didn't include photographing Trillium Railway, we were surprised when we arrived at Feeder and found no locomotives parked. We had seen JLCX 3502 switching the east end of WH Yard, but expected to find TRRY 1859 and LDSX 8920 at Feeder. We opted for a wild goose chase north to St. Catharines hoping to come across something and luckily, upon arrival at Merriton, TRRY 1859 and train were just getting on to the CN. They had lifted two empty boxcars from WP Warehousing and six new NS coil cars from Steelcon (formerly Trenergy Inc.?), where the coil covers are fabricated and installed. We followed the train back south, where they would lift more completed steel coil cars from a siding in Welland. At WH Yard, where this photo was taken, they had to sort out hoppers from the south siding before calling it a day. The old MLW sounded great sorting the cars. It got me thinking: Is TRRY 1859 the last regularly-operated MLW in Ontario? TRRY 108 was parked at the former Martech site, and OSR still has some RS-23 and RS-18u, but they aren't regularly used.
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OSR 182 (RS-18) is still operated fairly frequently in freight service. Most recently it has been running paired with a GP9.
I guess it depends on the definition of regular haha. 108 would be used twice a week.
There’s at least one at the Kidd Mine too I believe but I’m no expert in Northern ON.
I wasn’t aware OSR 182 was out and about paired with a GP9 recently, so thank you for that. Yes James, I suppose twice a week counts.
I also forgot about the RS-23s at Kidd.
Trillium is running Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday of late to Trenergy in St Catharines with coil steel cars from NSC to have hoods installed.
Good to know. Thanks Mike.
It’s always nice to see the 1859 running around.