Comments on: During a late February afternoon, the Hamilton Turn is seen switching over Greenfield Road in Ayr, Ontario with GP40-2 4656 and GP9u 8234.

By: Noe

Noe — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:49:49 +0000

@RonaldB- Thank you for the information about the spur from the 80′s. Interesting. I can imagine there wasn’t very much out that way then unlike today.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 03:51:11 +0000

There was no grocery store decades ago & when we had to go back to this location at night, it was just about the darkest place on the railway. On a cloudy night, you could hardly see anything just using the old trainman’s lantern.

By: RonaldB

RonaldB — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 03:47:58 +0000

Looks like the track that we used to call “Maus” stock pens, later Mitchell Park, is being re-furbished and is seeing some traffic in 2021, not sure what product is that they’re moving. Decades ago, the other track to the ‘pit’ was owned by CP and was used to load ballast into ‘air dumps’ for company projects. The last “Ayr Turn” I worked out of London was about 1980 and the fill was used to widen banks on the Windsor Sub, where the new (then) hotbox detectors were being installed.

By: Noe

Noe — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:46:37 +0000

Thanks for the comments nice comments guys.

I could be wrong but I think Lafarge was done a few years ago at least. I remember driving by last summer and thinking it’s been a long while since I’ve seen a car spotted there.

I think I might have got a train on that spur only once or twice since I shot this image in 2007. And before the Foodland grocery store and Tim’s was built there.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:28:31 +0000

When was the last movements out of Lafarge?

I was lucky to shoot a train here a couple of times – I reckon based on my limited observations it was an evening/night train. I managed to find them in daylight in 2013 or so just coming out of FS partners with a good cut of cars..

By: RLK2211

RLK2211 — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 04:33:29 +0000

It’s seasonal traffic to FS Partners, and maybe the odd one here and there for Tampa Hall. The fly ash for LaFarge is done.

Great shot Jason!

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:54:27 +0000

Not much activity on this spur lately eh Jason.

Has there been any activity in the last few months at all?

By: Matthew Whiteley

Matthew Whiteley — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:35:49 +0000

Nice Shot Jason!