Comments on: A sunny Spring afternoon finds CCGX 1000 thumping over the interlocking diamond in downtown Brampton, working OBRY’s biweekly interchange run heading south to drop off 9 cars for CP at Streetsville Junction, where it will then lift 5 cars and head back north to Orangeville Yard. The crew would then depart the yard and switch some of the industries at the

By: Colm

Colm — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 02:19:54 +0000

Yeah, farmers/farm supply places out in Essa have been unloading grain cars into trucks there. Hopefully business is growing for them, as the last few times I was by the yard this past summer they had quite a few hoppers waiting.

By: Railfan99

Railfan99 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:19:48 +0000

I seen it i an earlier post in 2016. http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=23698
Really, new rail customers?! That’s quite rare nowadays! Good for them!!

By: Colm

Colm — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:00:24 +0000

Railfan99, just curious, where did you hear that? From everything i‘ve heard, the city has no intention of cutting service. Last thing I heard was that they may be close to securing a few new customers (transload) a couple months ago.

By: Railfan99

Railfan99 — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:15:38 +0000

Amazing shot Dan!! Great Photo location!
From what I have seen it actually seems that 1000 started out operations with the BCRY as a short line operator before moving to the OBRY in 2000 when Orangeville announced the opening of the short line and after that BCRY was given an identical gp9 CCGX 1001 which still operates their line to this day! Nearly two decades 1001 has been on the BCRY while OBRY has gone through nearly half a dozen units now. Wonder how much longer CANDO plans to operate the BCRY?
I have seen some talk off and on about the city of Barrie thinking about discontinuing the BCRY operations completely due to all the expenses but I guess only time will tell.