Comments on: Today 147 years of Ontario railroading tradition came to a close as the final train operated between St. Thomas and Tillsonburg, Ont., on the Canada Air Line. In less than an hour’s time, Operating Bulletin 518 will see this historic line Out of Service from Mile 114.55 to Mile 87.22, with Mile 80-87.22 now abandoned. While the abandonment of a railway is always a sombre occasion, leave it to the boys at the Ontario Southland Railway to go out in style.

By: Aaron Skillings

Aaron Skillings — Fri, 01 May 2020 16:11:25 +0000

Wonder if a rail train would go all the way to Delhi at all? That would be interesting

By: craigandru

craigandru — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:09:59 +0000

Fantastic shot, Ryan!

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Fri, 01 May 2020 06:02:38 +0000

There is a couple dozen miles of welded rail still on the line. Lift by rail train. For the rest see how the CASO was ripped out in 2012, vids are online

By: Aaron Skillings

Aaron Skillings — Fri, 01 May 2020 05:54:16 +0000

I kinda wonder how they would go about ripping the line up, i wondered if they would just do what they did with the LE&N in Brantford and go at it with some equipment, or for this line, if a full scale rail train is going to be used

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Fri, 01 May 2020 05:50:20 +0000

The last train is highly likely to be a CN Rail train in some months ripping it out.

It was nice for OSR to pause the train for the photographers here.

Nice work!

By: Todd Steinman

Todd Steinman — Fri, 01 May 2020 04:11:53 +0000

First the ‘fab four’, now a bit of an aerial photo…geez, well done!

By: Peter Newman

Peter Newman — Fri, 01 May 2020 03:59:52 +0000

Outstanding, Ryan!

By: Aaron Skillings

Aaron Skillings — Fri, 01 May 2020 03:40:04 +0000

Nice that they pulled out the matching F’s for the occasion! Glad i got to chase em today