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Caption: Take what you can get - I like many others largely ignored the STER while OSR stole the show at Salford and Woodstock over the years. I can get it later, right? Wrong. A sudden and unexpected shutdown of the Railway was rumoured, then made real by the press in early December with only about a week and a half to go to the December 20 2013 shutdown date. On the 10th I heard they were running, booked the rest of the day off work and made tracks to Aylmer as fast as I could. In this scene, the codeline wires dangle long neglected and an old coal tower stands - built in 1943/44 by CN at the request of the Wabash who wished to reduce the refueling points from two to one on the Buffalo NY to Windsor runs. Seven years later, the Wabash dieselized however the joint CN/Wabash mixed passenger train may have refueled here until 1959. It was certainly possible to shoot an engine going under the tower until 2013, this siding was still active
Taking what I could get, I'm quite happy with the results. What railway do you regret not shooting? Add in the comments below.
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Excellent composition! If I regret not shooting a railway I would say it was this one.
I cannot really regret not shooting the CASO as it isn’t physically possible for me…but if there is one that I wish I could shoot now the CASO it would be it.
For me it’s not so much railroads as era’s. I wish I’d caught more of the CN SD40-2w’s and everything else running around in that time.
I had a chance to photograph the ST&E at Tillsonburg and Aylmer but no trains were running. I actually modeled an Ethanol plant on my model railroad based on the IGPC plant at Aylmer only to rip up the tracks to downsize the layout. Kind of indicative of the status of the ST&E. Anyone know if OSR is servicing the plant now and the Future Transfer facility at Tillsonburg?
There are so many lines nelly up in my short time on this earth that I have trouble narrowing down what I regret focusing on the most. I guess I’d say the TH&B running to Brantford and then south to Nanticoke I miss the most. I was out, but not enough. Funny though, I keep forgetting I had to WORK for a living, and that hurt.
Oh so many….get this: until last year – when I drove by this location for the second time – the first time I saw this tower I was riding the baggage car on the UCRS excursion to / from St. Thomas, powered by: Northern type 6218
No doubt not encough CASO shots in my collection!
I would have loved to have shot TH&B at Brantford down by the station. Perhaps the CN running down the Burford spur too. The latter, which I did shoot the station with no train. Of course the track is no longer, now just East using a trackmobile of some sort for Ingenia. And there was a Yard there next to the station!