Comments on: And just down the spur is the Fibreglass facility, this was an angle I didn’t get back in 2014 – a year or two later Fibreglass stopped using rail service. But in 2020 fibreglass came back to rail – and what’s changed is their formerly white cars are now orange due to lot of rust on the exterior but not much has changed. RS23 505 kicks in good with a puff of smoke as the crossing for York Rd is protected and the train accelerates to depart the plant, where the crew will close the gates, throw the derail and head to the north end of town. This facility is now serviced by GEXR.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 14:37:22 +0000

Thanks man! I’ll share a sunny shot later tho. Took a while to get that.. timing wasn’t right most of the time. Which is why Noe’s shot of the CP MLW was so good, it was doable only late afternoon in sun..

By: craigandru

craigandru — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 03:41:53 +0000

Fantastic photo

By: Noe

Noe — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:11:55 +0000

Great scene.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 19:00:14 +0000

Another interesting note is this spur once had CNR service, back before 1933 when the Guelph Street Railway operated. The york road streetcar line handled freight traffic and there was a spur off the street line it to bring CNR cars down to this part of Guelph from the CNR/Guelph Streetcar interhcange. Back in 1933 this area would have looked much different and a number of smaller industries were located beside the river here, eventually being closed/swallowed by Owens Corning leaving what we have today. Owens Corning sold off half their business to NGF (Japanese firm) that operates the south end of the plant while the north half still makes Fibreglass products.