|
|
|
Welcome Visitor. First time here? Like what you see? Bookmark us for when you are bored, and check out 'top shots' and 'fantastic (editors choice)' in the menu above, you won't be dissapointed. Join our community! click here to sign up for an account today. Sick of this message? Get rid of it by logging-in here.
Likely had good use “back in the day”. Imperial Tobacco was a busy place, with both boxcars and TOFC business (cigars, cigarettes).
This guy looks to have 1 load for Smurfit; 1 empty for Metro; between 1 and 5 for Traxxside; and the rest for Willsie’s Gang.
Just off to the right was Guelph Warehouses. Used to get boxcars spotted there. The building is there, this side covered in sheet metal and only trucks using the other side. Switch was just south of the laneway near where you were standing for this shot. Occasionally the Ringling Brothers/ Barnum & Bailey Circus train was parked in the main siding here while the troupe performed in Kitchener (no room for the entire train there). Off to the right there was also a farm equipment company (name slips my mind but it was in the lot where the gym is and the other building), but I don’t know if they had rail service.
Interesting – so perhaps this ‘siding’ was more of a run-around for local industry switching then? In theory this may have been used by the downtown Guelph train also before the City spur was pulled up in ’74 or so, but there was the XV yard..
Back in the day it was used for the passenger trains to meet, probably back in the steam days but perhaps when the Rail-liners ran too. Apparently they’d meet here to avoid congestion of rail traffic all at one time infront of the Guelph station.
Anyone know how many trains were through Guelph in the ’60′s/70′s? There was still 3 platforms at the station, plus a handful of sidings for Textile Industries Ltd. (and possibly another industry) and a team track or two where 6167 used to be located.
Thanks for the replies all.
Jacob and CN parked a unit for local service right at the station in one of those service tracks. The old yard office was the small hut-like protrusion at the Guelph Station – it was left ‘as is’ until the recent renovations… still had CN bulletins from ’77 posted inside and a CN lock protecting the door.
Jacob I’d advise you to check an old CN timetable from the 40′s or 50′s, would list the passenger trains and possibly a freight or two.. I don’t have any older then ’70.
Related article:
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/9023574-cn-police-returning-to-guelph/
Nice photo Steve. It would make a great Christmas postcard scene.
Eastern Farm Machinery was the company I mentioned; appears they did have rail service.