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Caption: A rare photo of a spur that hasn't been photographed all that much: CN SW1200RS 1326 works the CN Simcoe Street South Lead in Oshawa, switching some CP & CN auto parts boxcars at the A.G. Simpson plant along Simcoe Street South near Wolfe Street (the covered hoppers might have just been along for the ride).
Not to be confused with the rest of the Oshawa Railway track that served GM's North Plant in Oshawa, this short spur was originally part of another old Oshawa Railway line that once ran down Simcoe Street south from Rossland Rd. to the Port of Oshawa, where Lakeview Park Beach is today. Most of this line was abandoned sometime before the 1960's, save for a short section of streetrunning that branched off from the Kingston Sub at Mile 300.6 and ran 0.6 miles down Simcoe Street South to access the A.G. Simpson plant (makers of automotive components such as bumpers, now AGS Automotive Systems) and another unknown customer across the street. The exact history is somewhat hard to find, but presumably this spur was removed in the mid-late 90's with the rest of the Oshawa Railway trackage.
Keith Hansen photo, Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.
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Amazing piece of Canadian industrial history…in today’s tariff fight…more reason to stand up for what remains..thanks for posting Dan
It’s great to see these industrial scenes of the past.
Great shot and a few memories. Robson-Lang Tannery was across the street. A friend and former railway colleague related to me how “ripe” the hides and the ‘juice” running out the drain holes of the gons could be, and the flies. I’m told the covered hoppers were destined for Lantic Sugar. My connection to this trackage was as a Signal Foreman in 1983, my gang installed a single crossing signal cantilever warning Simcoe St. S. southbound traffic where the tracks transitioned to street running.
Thanks for the note about Robson-Lang Terry, I had trouble finding any car control maps that showed this trackage or the customers. It was just a small line or two in the timetable below all the main Oshawa Railway trackage.
It makes me wonder if they hauled much traffic from the port area back in the day, and when all the trackage to the south was abandoned (a map shows it gone by 1961).