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Bruce Lowe — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:12:14 +0000

It would appear that the spur in the foreground, built in 1970 for the Bruce Nuclear Power Development plant at Douglas Point, was reassigned as the Southampton Sub main at some point. Canadian Transportation Commission Order 35400, issued July 25, 1983, authorized the abandonment* of "b) the Southampton Spur, off mileage 48.19 of the Southampton Subdivision, from a point near Port Elgin (mileage 0.90) to Southampton (mileage 5.00), a distance of 4.10 miles." This of course had been the mainline to Southampton.

*CTC Order 35400 authorized the abandonment of the following lines:
a) the Durham Spur, off mileage 1.3 of the Owen Sound Subdivision, from Whites Junction (mileage 0.00) to Durham (mileage 25.72), a distance of 25.72 miles;
b) the Southampton Spur, off mileage 48.19 of the Southampton Subdivision, from a point near Port Elgin (mileage 0.90) to Southampton (mileage 5.00), a distance of 4.10 miles;
c) the Kincardine Subdivision from a point near Listowel (mileage 1.41) to Kincardine (mileage 57.82),La distance of 56.41 miles; and
d) the Fergus Subdivision from a point near Fergus (mileage 47.00) to a point near Palmerston (mileage 72.00), a distance of 25.00 miles.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/1986
Location:	Port Elgin
Province:	Ontario

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Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/1978
Location:	Mosborough
Province:	Ontario

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Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/01/1988
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

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Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/1985
Location:	Owen Sound
Province:	Ontario

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Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/1979
Location:	Galt
Province:	Ontario

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Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/1956
Location:	Lake Bernard
Province:	Ontario

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on it's return that afternoon in the north end of Guelph.

Bruce Lowe Photo, Eric Repaci Collection.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Bruce Lowe Photo; E…
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/05/1974
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

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Federal Wire & Cable Co, later Pirelli Cable off to the right, and an interchange connection with the Guelph Radial Railway at right on Suffolk Street before it was removed in 1929. The Pirelli site is now a housing development, their parking area at left is now a park, and the City Spur was pulled up in 1972.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Goderich-Exeter
Date:	2002
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

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Both 3807 and 3813 are part of CN's small fleet of RS10 units, numbered 3800 - 3814. Built in 1956, they would be retired by 1970. GP9 4326, built 1959, would be rebuilt in 1984 to CN 4111 and retired in 2010. It was sold to Mid-America Locomotive & Car Repair Inc. and lettered MALX 4111. As of 2018 it is assigned to the Evansville Western Railroad in southern Illinois and Indiana.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	June 1964
Location:	Belleville
Province:	Ontario

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James Victor Salmon who also shot this pair on this day. The units would be renumbered to the 9300 series in 1956 and retired during the 1960s.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/1955
Location:	Mimico
Province:	Ontario

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GMD SW900 7206, built 1953, would be renumbered to 7906 very soon, along with the rest of the series, to clear the 7200 series for GP9RM rebuilds, the earliest of which appeared in June 1985.' height='150' width='200' />

Name:	Bruce Lowe; Collect…
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/1985
Location:	Mimico
Province:	Ontario

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this 1954 view.

The short stub siding at right on the east side of the Goderich subdivision mainline served the privately owned freight shed at far right (seen here at centre in 1976). The shed served a number of small cartage firms and rail service was seen sporadically over the years. Behind the train, the rooftop sign of the local Esso station is seen, which today remains an empty lot. Across Woolwich Street, Root Home Centre (part of Home Hardware Stores) can be seen. Now home to the Rexall Pharmacy, the site originally housed a Loblaws Supermarket.

Looming over the whole scene (including the smokestack at left) is the sprawling United Dairy Producer's Co-operative (officially Gay Lea by this time). Originally constructed in 1949 (silos circa 1960), the Co-op was built on farmland owned by Guelph-born Operatic tenor, and later manager of the Metropolitan Opera of New York City, Edward Johnson (1878 - 1959), with the land having been sold in 1947 to the United Co-operative of Ontario. The Co-op would be renamed United Dairy and Poultry Co-operative in 1958, and later the United Dairy Producer's Co-operative in 1967. In 1972, the organization was renamed Gay Lea Foods, which still operates the site today as one of only 5 facilities in Ontario owned by the co-operative of over 1,200 dairy farmers* (*per 2010 Guelph Mercury article). The towering feed mill silos would be demolished in the 1990s and a processing plant built in it's place.

Note the "Danger Bell" sign used at Speedvale Avenue in this 1954 image. The box above the crossbuck would illuminate the word "DANGER" with approaching trains. Another was located at the Concession 11 crossing just south of Corwhin, known by crews as "Danger Bell".

A boxcar is seen on the stub siding in 1954. Note the sign at centre which would be the northern mileboard for Guelph.

Bruce Lowe Photo, Eric Repaci Collection Slide.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe Photo; E…

Railway: Tourist

Date: 04/05/1974

Location: Guelph

Province: Ontario

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The track at lower right is the siding to Guelph Terminal Warehousing (XV32), now long removed. At upper left the original St. Joseph's Hospital can be seen. Opened in 1861, St. Joseph's Hospital on Westmount Road (originally Hospital Street) served the community until operations ceased about 2002, and the new St. Joseph's Health Centre opened on the property just to the north, as a long term care home. A brief history of the site can be found here.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian National

Date: 09/1972

Location: Guelph

Province: Ontario

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recently relocated to its third home in Priory Park. CNR 6060 is now under restoration by the Rocky Mountain Rail Society in Stettler, Alberta.

More from this day:
Nortbound at Harrisburg by Bryce Lee.
Photo runby near Guelph by Bruce Lowe.
At CN Guelph Junction by Bill Thomson.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian National

Date: 09/21/1975

Location: Guelph

Province: Ontario

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one spur on the property. CN 7170 sits clear of the South Industrial main on the lead to National Standard; today Traxx 5 and 6; the Traxxside glass tracks. Both locomotives would be off the roster by 1986. The facility pictured behind is Court Galvanizing Ltd.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian Pacific

Date: 04/1980

Location: Guelph

Province: Ontario

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“Railroad yards--Ontario—Toronto” where I came across this image… Pretty similar, taken a bit further left. It seems this was James Victor Salmon, born in 1911, who was a well-established Toronto photographer, historian, and a designer for the Toronto Hydro Electric System for thirty years. His collection of Toronto photography contains over 15,000 images and culminated in his writing of Rails to the Junction: The Story of the Toronto Suburban Railway, which, after his death in 1958 at the age of 47, would be posthumously published by his wife, Jean, in 1970. Much of his work can be found on this Urban Toronto page and through the Toronto Public Libraries archives.

Here, Bruce captures James alongside CNR 6244, a U-2-h 4-8-4 Confederation type, the tenth built in an order of 30 (6235 – 6264) by Montreal Locomotive Works in September, 1943. It would be scrapped in April, 1960. Note the difference in appearance of this U-2-h locomotive to other classes of CNR Northerns in the lack or relocation of the Elesco feedwater heater from just ahead of the smokestack. The double headed eastbound freight is seen approaching the Strachan Avenue underpass on the Oakville Sub. In the background at right is the John Inglis plant.

From it’s beginning in 1859, John Inglis and Company has gone through many changes. Founded by Thomas Mair, John Inglis, and Francis Evatt on July 27, 1859, the company began as small machine shop under the name Mair, Inglis, and Evatt in Guelph producing milling machinery before moving to the Strachan Avenue location in Toronto in 1881 becoming John Inglis and Sons. The company went through multiple name changes to the John Inglis Company Limited in 1913, John Inglis and Company in 1937, Inglis Limited in 1973 and finally Whirlpool Canada in 2001. The famous blue and white billboard overlooking the Gardiner Expressway would go up in 1975 with many messages displayed to motorists over the years. After discontinuing milling equipment in 1903 the company shifted to the industrial market making stationary and marine steam engines, pump house engines, shells for use by allied troops during WWI, turbines, and weaponry and munitions used in WWII, before moving to consumer products. These included fishing tackle, house trailers, heaters and stoves, wringer washers, and later fully automatic ones, electric and gas driers and dishwashers. Inglis would launch it’s Whirlpool brand of washers after selling it’s 1 millionth automatic washer in 1972. As the company slowly moved operations to Mississauga beginning in 1981, the Toronto location was sold off piece by piece. By the early to mid 2000’s, gentrification and condo development had begun. The final piece of Inglis, the billboard, would be dimmed and demolished during the last week of July, 2014.

More CNR 6244:
Bill Thomson: Freshly stored at Mimico, 1959
Don Ross: Cold and dead at Mimico, Dec. 1959

The old Inglis Sign: March, 2004.

A series of Salmon’s images taken at Strachan avenue in 1955 from the Toronto Railway Historical Association: Railfanning Liberty Village in 1955.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian National

Date: 05/1955

Location: Toronto

Province: Ontario

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last run on September 27, 1964. Donated to the City of Guelph in September, 1967, the locomotive sat on display for many years at the East end of Carden Street at the end of the CN/VIA Rail station platform. Various groups have maintained the locomotive with great care over the years, most recently the major cosmetic restoration completed by the 6167 restoration Committee, of which Bruce was a member. June 15 and 16, 2010 saw 6167 moved to the south side of the Guelph Sub, and placed closer to the 1911 GTR station. After spending the last decade at this location, 6167 is on the move again to a more permanent site, almost 1/4 mile east near the River Run Centre alongside the Guelph Junction Railway line. The move will be undertaken tomorrow; Saturday, November 14, 2020, and can be live streamed from the Guelph Museums Facebook Page beginning around 10:00am. As noted in this article from Metrolinx, the locomotive is being moved to make way for GO Transit's south platform at Guelph Central Station.

Thanks to Dave Spiegelman for help with the location.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian National

Date: 06/20/1964

Location: Lindsay

Province: Ontario

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UCRS November/December, 1974 newsletter, the train would be followed from Allandale to Meaford by a pair of GP9s; 4511, 4503, to switch out the consist for the return trip, as well as to help the heavy train up the hill out of town. The plan was to cut off the geeps at Allandale, but as no RS18s were facing south, the geeps were kept on the lead; five first generation units hauling 15 cars back to Toronto. Consist is noted as the following: Power 3101, 3103, 3118, steam generator 15478, coaches 5413, 5285, 5228, 5423, cafe lounge 752, coaches 5203, 5185, 5214, cafe lounge 753, coaches 5285, 5183, 5210, U.C.R.S. 13, CN 94.

This would be the second large passenger consist to pass through Collingwood in 1974, as on June 15, the 17-car "Journey to History" excursion was run to celebrate the christening of the new ferry, "Chi-Cheemaun", and Meaford's centenary.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian National

Date: 10/12/1974

Location: Collingwood

Province: Ontario

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Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian National

Date: 06/1965

Location: Belleville

Province: Ontario

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their number 83. B-unit 4466, built 1953, is just a few years away from retirement in 1976. It will meet the scrapper's torch shortly after.' height='150' width='200' />

Name: Bruce Lowe; Collect…

Railway: Canadian Pacific

Date: 1973

Location: Kelso

Province: Ontario

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