Comments on: Rolling through Brampton in the afternoon, VIA FPA4 6763 leads train #83 westbound over CN’s Halton Sub at Peel interlocking (Kennedy Road), bound for its next station stop in downtown Brampton. It’s entering single track territory, running the gauntlet between Peel (Kennedy Road) and Brampton East (Queen Street). CN Peel was known for decades as the location where the Peel Village Industrial Lead branched off, built in the early 60′s south to the American Motors (AMC) Brampton Assembly plant at Steeles & Kennedy (next to the surburban Peel Village neighbourhood). Peel had a number of yard, storage and runaround tracks used for storing autoracks and auto parts cars needed by the factory. When the new Bramalea Assembly plant was built in the east end of town during the mid-80′s, and when Chrysler took over AMC, the old Brampton Assembly plant shrunk in importance and was sold off for warehouse use in the early 90′s. Peel interlocking was also relocated west from Kennedy Road to Centre Street in mid-late 2007, when double tracking of the line was underway. Peter Jobe photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide.

Comments on: Rolling through Brampton in the afternoon, VIA FPA4 6763 leads train #83 westbound over CN’s Halton Sub at Peel interlocking (Kennedy Road), bound for its next station stop in downtown Brampton. It’s entering single track territory, running the gauntlet between Peel (Kennedy Road) and Brampton East (Queen Street). CN Peel was known for decades as the location where the Peel Village Industrial Lead branched off, built in the early 60′s south to the American Motors (AMC) Brampton Assembly plant at Steeles & Kennedy (next to the surburban Peel Village neighbourhood). Peel had a number of yard, storage and runaround tracks used for storing autoracks and auto parts cars needed by the factory. When the new Bramalea Assembly plant was built in the east end of town during the mid-80′s, and when Chrysler took over AMC, the old Brampton Assembly plant shrunk in importance and was sold off for warehouse use in the early 90′s. Peel interlocking was also relocated west from Kennedy Road to Centre Street in mid-late 2007, when double tracking of the line was underway. Peter Jobe photo, Dan Dell’Unto collection slide. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Wed, 13 May 2026 13:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1