Comments on: The CP Galt Job is viewed slowly crossing the Speed River in Preston, Ontario on the Waterloo Subdivision with 1501 and 8161 hauling 12 cars for Kitchener. They would later meet the CN 15:30 Yard Job at South Junction in Kitchener.

By: Noe

Noe — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:39:10 +0000

@Klaucker- Thank you.

@dhaisell- Thanks for the interesting information on the other Cambridge area properties.

dhaisell — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:52:59 +0000

Did have a fire a couple years ago but not devastating.

And Canmet/Preston Car burned down a year or two after Hedstrom. I remember the plume of smoke that thing let off.

Stephen C. Host — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:49:58 +0000

And the Preston Springs Hotel nearby.. 2021! Not a fire but most certainly neglect.

Klaucker — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:41:06 +0000

Fantastic image …so interesting

dhaisell — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:56:40 +0000

And it’s an awkward-shaped plot of land because of the Clare Brothers office next door, so they haven’t done anything with it yet.

Only four years after the railway shops burned down, too, and six years before Hespeler station burned. Too much demolition by neglect in Cambridge.

Noe — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 22:08:41 +0000

@dhaisell- Yes they could have done something similar like they did in K-W like The Kaufman Lofts.

@Haust- Yes in January 1996, the old Hedstrom plant was badly damaged by a major fire and eventually torn down.

Stephen C. Host — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 19:43:29 +0000

What fire? Is it the hedstrom factory?

dhaisell — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:10:06 +0000

Less than a year to go before the fire. Too bad; would have made a good loft conversion if manufacturing didn’t come back.