The Tank Farm
Since 1858, Hiram Walker and Sons Distillery has produced Canadian Club whiskey for the world in Walkerville. Walkerville was a classic factory town with employee row housing (still standing on Monmouth Street), their own post office, train station, schools etc. Hiram Walker even built his own railroad, the Lake Erie & Detroit River RY. It ran from Walkerville to Kingsville and eventually was purchased by the Pere Marquette, whom extended it to St Thomas. The location pictured here was the parallel mainlines of the Pere Marquette and Grand Trunk. The PM had that aforementioned depot and a small yard several hundred feet to the right out of frame, and the Grand Trunk had several tracks leading down to the riverfront where their yard, depot, roundhouse and ferry slips were located. At one time, one could see the C&O (later CSX albeit for a short period), CN, and Wabash (later N&W) all at this location. When I was a kid, CN still had a single track that went behind and out of frame to the big grain silos that are still on the river. I have a vivid memory from when I was 5 or 6 seeing a CN GP9 slug set working at the same spot 107 is at in this photo, which was the only time I ever saw CN here as a kid. At some point Hiram Walker's switched to trucks for their inbound grains, and for one reason or another CN gave up the tank car side of things. I'm not sure how it went down at the time, but ETR stepped in and began servicing the tank car facility. I believe they had to reinstall some switches to be able to access this location, but they don't have a direct connection to VIA. They switch this infrequently, and it was one of those things that had always eluded me until I got lucky on a Sunday morning. I'll add a link here to a David J Parker photo of an N&W freight heading towards to the waterfront from this spot.
www.railpictures.ca/upload/nw-nd-91-passes-the-walker-roa...
Train: ETR 0900 job with ETL 107 (SW1500).
ETR Sub
Windsor (Walkerville), ON
The Tank Farm
Since 1858, Hiram Walker and Sons Distillery has produced Canadian Club whiskey for the world in Walkerville. Walkerville was a classic factory town with employee row housing (still standing on Monmouth Street), their own post office, train station, schools etc. Hiram Walker even built his own railroad, the Lake Erie & Detroit River RY. It ran from Walkerville to Kingsville and eventually was purchased by the Pere Marquette, whom extended it to St Thomas. The location pictured here was the parallel mainlines of the Pere Marquette and Grand Trunk. The PM had that aforementioned depot and a small yard several hundred feet to the right out of frame, and the Grand Trunk had several tracks leading down to the riverfront where their yard, depot, roundhouse and ferry slips were located. At one time, one could see the C&O (later CSX albeit for a short period), CN, and Wabash (later N&W) all at this location. When I was a kid, CN still had a single track that went behind and out of frame to the big grain silos that are still on the river. I have a vivid memory from when I was 5 or 6 seeing a CN GP9 slug set working at the same spot 107 is at in this photo, which was the only time I ever saw CN here as a kid. At some point Hiram Walker's switched to trucks for their inbound grains, and for one reason or another CN gave up the tank car side of things. I'm not sure how it went down at the time, but ETR stepped in and began servicing the tank car facility. I believe they had to reinstall some switches to be able to access this location, but they don't have a direct connection to VIA. They switch this infrequently, and it was one of those things that had always eluded me until I got lucky on a Sunday morning. I'll add a link here to a David J Parker photo of an N&W freight heading towards to the waterfront from this spot.
www.railpictures.ca/upload/nw-nd-91-passes-the-walker-roa...
Train: ETR 0900 job with ETL 107 (SW1500).
ETR Sub
Windsor (Walkerville), ON