Comments on: CP train 510 is departing Woodstock, Ontario after lifting 14 cars from the yard. The consist included SD40 5549, M-636 4738, SD40 5562, HATX GP40 520 and SD40-2 762. The train would meet a westbound at Blandford, before continuing its journey to Toronto on the Galt Subdivision. Later that same month, M-636 4738 would be retired for good on May 24 and eventually scrapped.

By: Noe

Noe — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:36:10 +0000

Thanks Ron for the additional information on the weigh scales and the Kelsey-Hayes facility as well as the former CN Hickson line.

I remember in 1996 photographing a Southern boxcar on the spur outside Kelsey-Hayes. I remember the trackage being very tight in there as well.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:19:12 +0000

the post above has a couple of minor typos. It should read ” …was accessed OFF the yard passing track NEAR Oxford Street.”

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:15:49 +0000

With regard to Arcelor Mitta, I think that is what we used to call Kelsey-Hayes? If so, we used to spot cars in there. The former CN Hickson line was reconfigured so it was accessed of the yard passing track neat Oxford Street. We always received the Kelsey-Hayes cars off the CN transfer at what the now call Carew. The empties returned the same way. If the plant is Kelsey Hayes, I believe it’s been torn down.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:10:48 +0000

Years ago, Woodstock had weigh scales next to the shop tracks. Cars coming for Beachville Lime had to be weighed before being shipped. One time years back, the scale was being repaired & re-calibrated, so the powers that be decided cars from Beachville were to be weighed while going over the hump at Toronto Yard, which had a scale. I was working the 1830 Woodstock roadswitcher at the time (1974) and among our jobs was switching the yard, going to Ingersoll & back on the St. Thomas Sub and weighing the Beachille lime cars upon arrival.
One day, one of the Beachville cars was over weight, so it was sent back to Woodstock. We had to place it over the hopper in what was then track 6. A truck came and they unloaded what they thought was enough so the car wouldn’t be overweight. Well it wasn’t and the car came back a second time for another try. The car was billed to Spragge which is up Sudbury way. I think it made as many miles coming back to Woodstock two times as it would of if they just let it continue on its way. You can’t make this stuff up, a lot of crazy things happened over the years & probably still do.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:44:16 +0000

And a hopper transload in the pit too.. they did that into the 2000′s…

But yeah all that industry is almost gone, Arcelor Mittal is still there, but for how much longer in the world of Tariffs.

Assuming all those plants used rail service once upon a time.. I do enjoy how one is off the CN Spur you can see in the distance.. now removed.

By: awmooney

awmooney — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:16:51 +0000

All along the roadway on the right hand side, it was sock-full of industry. How the times have changed.

By: NiagaraMike11

NiagaraMike11 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:04:42 +0000

Nice catch!