According to John Hardy’s Rusty Rails, the yard was used to store, then load the ties from the removed Southampton Sub after that lines removal in 1989. He has a couple shots of movements passing the station including one fron 1992 of a pair of units with a pair of hoppers (destined for Harriston) and caboose backing up to lift some cars loaded with ties. The odd transformer was also loaded onto flatcars in this time frame which came down from Douglas Point.

there was no reason to go into the yard unless they were storing cars here, or as in this case, running around the train, or if they needed to wye something. So unless a local had to run around or wye there was no reason to come into the yard. South of here there was no customers as the Fergus was abandoned? (how far south?)

The question is – how often did anything go in here in the years leading up to this?

@Todd Steinman- Thanks. Yes it was great to photograph a train in the town but obviously sad at the same time knowing it was the final time an actual train would be there.

@Haust- Thank you.

@David Young- Thank you. At the time we didn’t know they were going to do the run-around until we got there. The moves in the yard actually went fairly quickly if I remember correctly as the crew had assistance from the CN foremen on the ground as well.

The group in Palmerston has done a great job restoring the station. Hard to believe the station survived from being in such a derelict condition for so long.