Comments on: Inspired by Arnold’s earlier photo and Steve’s comment, here’s a photo of the LAST street running in the Niagara region. TRRY 110 is seen trundling along Townline Road on their way to switch Interlake Paper. Unfortunately some knucklehead set fire to a wood trestle on the line and TRRY didn’t have the cash to repair it so the line was abandoned. I wonder if it would still be in service today if it weren’t for the vandalism?

By: rsmith

rsmith — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:47:04 +0000

It looks like it did; the track continued its trajectory and leads to a large roll-up door. I only photographed the operation a few times when Trillium operated it.

By: rtalukdar

rtalukdar — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 02:14:53 +0000

Hi Rob, thanks for the background. Do you know if the middle track ever reached to the building itself? It appears as though it might have at one time run between the office and the loading building. Curious whether they ever received incoming raw material that way, perhaps in CN days?

By: rsmith

rsmith — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:30:36 +0000

There were two NDYX gondolas; I believe they were lifted from the scrap yard in Merritton. They were brought up to the paper mill and placed on the track closest to the road while the loading dock was switched. When the work was done, they picked up the gons and brought them back down the hill with them. I assume this was done to minimise switching moves at Merritton. They lifted two 50′ boxcars and a high cube 60′ boxcar. It looks like only the loading dock track (inside) and the track parallel to Merritt St. were used on this day.

By: rtalukdar

rtalukdar — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:23:40 +0000

Curious about that gon behind the boxcars. Were there other customers along the line at this time that would have use for this car type? Did Interlake take any other car types besides the 50 footers? Were either of the other two tracks at the facility in use? Thinking of modeling this and looking to understand the traffic possibilities.

By: liberty

liberty — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:44:54 +0000

Where does Interlake transload at? I am assuming the facility on the old Cadbury Schweppes site iin St. Catharines. There was initial talks if I remember correctly about building a connection off the Canal sub just east of Glendale Ave. Seeing as how Trillium didn’t have the cash to repair the bridge, it was unlikely money was there for building the new spur connection from either direction. As for a Pine St. extension, I can’t see how that would be possible. The tracks stub ended at the north end of the old paper mill on the west side and the topography and housing density in the area(not to mention the second Welland canal is buried in that area)would make a relocation plan extremely expensive.

By: headtailgrep

headtailgrep — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 23:32:26 +0000

They could connect Interlake Paper via the Pine St. Spur- at the end of the spur (where that one industry is) hook it over to Front St along the existing walkway to connect to the existing Townline spur… would the City go for it though?

By: DoctaPinklaces

DoctaPinklaces — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 03:59:28 +0000

The tracks are still in place…they could connect it to the canal spur somehow…

By: headtailgrep

headtailgrep — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:26:33 +0000

Thanks for sharing Rob, I went here three times looking to get a shot – missed them all three times.

By: Marcus Stevens

Marcus Stevens — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 02:52:44 +0000

Great shot, sad that it is now gone.

By: rsmith

rsmith — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:46:36 +0000

Makes you wonder why Interlake didn’t help out with the bridge repair cost then…