Comments on: And here’s the scene at the harbour as cleanup continues, Goderich Elevator & Transit company is in the background, this was the CPR side of the harbour and behind me was the CPR station and all the tracks including a loop. I doubt engines have been seen this far since CP got rid of the line in 1988. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:49:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: RonaldB http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44297#comment-55282 RonaldB Sat, 07 Jan 2023 17:32:59 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RPCA_Goderich_STRSCH_6215.jpg#comment-55282 This brings to mind a similar event on CP in the 1970s. Beyond the bridge on the CP line (now part of the trail) there used to be tracks where empty cars were sometimes stored. There was no derail on the track. One day vandals released the handbrakes on a string of empty covered hoppers intended for salt loading. It was all downhill from there to the harbour. The cars ran through the main track switch and toward the loop track you referred to Stephen, and rolled on their sides, close to where the cars in your photo are. The TH&B big hook was brought from Hamilton to assist in rerailing the cars. There was a ship spending the winter on the "CP side" and there was amusing speculation about how the derailing cars might have sunk the ship had they made if further around the loop before rolling on their sides. For me despite being 35 years since the CP line was abandoned, it seems like yesterday thatit was still operating. This brings to mind a similar event on CP in the 1970s.
Beyond the bridge on the CP line (now part of the trail) there used to be tracks where empty cars were sometimes stored. There was no derail on the track.
One day vandals released the handbrakes on a string of empty covered hoppers intended for salt loading. It was all downhill from there to the harbour.
The cars ran through the main track switch and toward the loop track you referred to Stephen, and rolled on their sides, close to where the cars in your photo are.
The TH&B big hook was brought from Hamilton to assist in rerailing the cars. There was a ship spending the winter on the “CP side” and there was amusing speculation about how the derailing cars might have sunk the ship had they made if further around the loop before rolling on their sides.
For me despite being 35 years since the CP line was abandoned, it seems like yesterday thatit was still operating.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44297#comment-52090 Stephen C. Host Tue, 24 May 2022 23:50:11 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RPCA_Goderich_STRSCH_6215.jpg#comment-52090 Update from Transport Canada/Trains: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/tsb-report-accidental-brake-release-led-to-ontario-short-line-runaway/ They claimed 345 feet. Update from Transport Canada/Trains:

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/tsb-report-accidental-brake-release-led-to-ontario-short-line-runaway/

They claimed 345 feet.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44297#comment-44676 Stephen C. Host Sat, 06 Feb 2021 03:19:23 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RPCA_Goderich_STRSCH_6215.jpg#comment-44676 Based on google earth, where you can measure distances directly on the map, between what I think is the end of track at the elevator and where the 4095 ended up, the train seems to have gone offroading for 400 feet. Based on google earth, where you can measure distances directly on the map, between what I think is the end of track at the elevator and where the 4095 ended up, the train seems to have gone offroading for 400 feet.

]]> By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44297#comment-44675 Stephen C. Host Sat, 06 Feb 2021 03:08:18 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RPCA_Goderich_STRSCH_6215.jpg#comment-44675 Preciously close to the water too. Preciously close to the water too.

]]> By: rsmith http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=44297#comment-44671 rsmith Fri, 05 Feb 2021 22:56:19 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/RPCA_Goderich_STRSCH_6215.jpg#comment-44671 It's impressive how far the train went beyond the end of track! It’s impressive how far the train went beyond the end of track!

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