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Caption: My friend, Terry, and I heard that there was some action on the spur line near Thermos Road and Bertrand Avenue in Scarborough. We jumped on our bikes and headed down to inspect. I’m guessing that we were about 14 years-old. The engineer was kind enough to invite us to ride with him as the crew shuffled the train around. This was the first time that I had been in a locomotive – and it was Awesome!
Not surprisingly, I see from the satellite-view that this line has long since been removed.
DS-6m, #6617, was built by MLW in 1959. The locomotive was retired in February, 1982.
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Nice to see some rare industrial trackage shots showing up on this site from you and Tony Bock lately! This would be the ol’ Scarborough Industrial Spur that went down to the Golden Mile to service industries such as Volkswagen, Link-Belt, Canadian General Electric and Canadian General Thermos. There were about a dozen other little industries along it too. Abandoned 1994.
In the early 80′s there was a Rolland Paper plant at Lawrence Ave. that would receive tank cars of kaolin.
An almost forgotten operation down there. I remember the tracks, but never was lucky enough to catch anything moving on the Scarborough Industrial. Really enjoy these shots from another Scarborough hometowner.
A map of the Scarborough Industrial. Though a CP drawing, it is not totally correct as the spur crossed Warden at the north end of the spur at grade, not on a bridge as shown. The Belleville Sub is a bridge, but not the spur.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR_Toronto/map_scarboro_ind_spur.htm
Thanks Mr. Dan, Eric and Mike – I appreciate your encouraging words and excellent supplemental information.
I must confess that it has been good fun resurrecting and sharing my very small shoebox collection of negatives and slides… a real mish-mash of stuff from the mid 70′s. It turns out that it wasn’t very expensive to have them professionally scanned. Kind of funny, but I just realized that I haven’t taken a train photograph in about 35 years… stupid airplanes somehow got in the way!