Mitch Gault
A Little Dose of Nostalgia
As of midnight on April 30th 2020 the CN Cayuga sub is now officially out of service between mile 114.55 (New Sarum) and mile 87.22 (Tillsonburg), with mile 87.22 to 80 (End of Steel in Delhi) seeing abandonment. Originally build by the Great Western Railway 147 years ago as a connection between Buffalo and the ferries in Windsor this line has seen many different owners over its existence to the likes of Wabash, N&W and CN. CN operated through trains up until roughly 1998 with NS through traffic (327, 328, 145 & 146) up until 1995. After 98 the future of the entire line was uncertain. From Delhi to Buffalo fell to the fate of abandonment and was torn up. In 2013 the St Thomas and Eastern (Trillium) ceased service over the still CN owned line to service the industries between St Thomas and Tillsonburg. After years of operation they did not find it profitable and OSR took over the business. Now after less then 4 years of running it, OSR too has found in not economically reasonable to continue service. With the few industries along the line, the fate of the Canada Air Line falls into the hands of CN.
Here we see OSR's pair of matching F units roll out of Tillsonburg past the manufacturing facility of Shaw's Ice Cream.
OSR 1401 - EMD FP9A
OSR 6508 - EMD FP9A
Tillsonburg ON.
CN Cayuga Spur
A Little Dose of Nostalgia
As of midnight on April 30th 2020 the CN Cayuga sub is now officially out of service between mile 114.55 (New Sarum) and mile 87.22 (Tillsonburg), with mile 87.22 to 80 (End of Steel in Delhi) seeing abandonment. Originally build by the Great Western Railway 147 years ago as a connection between Buffalo and the ferries in Windsor this line has seen many different owners over its existence to the likes of Wabash, N&W and CN. CN operated through trains up until roughly 1998 with NS through traffic (327, 328, 145 & 146) up until 1995. After 98 the future of the entire line was uncertain. From Delhi to Buffalo fell to the fate of abandonment and was torn up. In 2013 the St Thomas and Eastern (Trillium) ceased service over the still CN owned line to service the industries between St Thomas and Tillsonburg. After years of operation they did not find it profitable and OSR took over the business. Now after less then 4 years of running it, OSR too has found in not economically reasonable to continue service. With the few industries along the line, the fate of the Canada Air Line falls into the hands of CN.
Here we see OSR's pair of matching F units roll out of Tillsonburg past the manufacturing facility of Shaw's Ice Cream.
OSR 1401 - EMD FP9A
OSR 6508 - EMD FP9A
Tillsonburg ON.
CN Cayuga Spur