Comments on: WILD TIMES IN BRECHIN! Upon my last visit, the former CP station hues a Wild Wings restaurant. Heavily altered, you can still make out where the right of way was. Also note the two boxcars, one being that of the CN…probably serving as refrigerators for all those wings. You can also make out the bay window, where the station agent’s office would have been. Anyone know what subdivision this would have been for the Canadian Pacific? Also, rumour has it that the former CN Brechin East station still exists as a residence in the town. Any information would be helpful.

By: Eric May

Eric May — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 03:49:36 +0000

Orilla to Lindsay was abandoned around 1930.

By: Todd Steinman

Todd Steinman — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:27:58 +0000

@ awmooney and Mike Lockwood…eother of you know if the CN station still exists? It was a brick structure…if that helps?

By: BradKetchen

BradKetchen — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:28:01 +0000

Interesting article by Gerhard Wetzel about the Port McNicholl sub here: http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/844/54520/december-1986-page-22
I guess it was abandoned beyond the Uhtoff Quarry. This depot would be just off CN Bala sub no?

By: awmooney

awmooney — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:50:06 +0000

Altered, yes, but still so very obviously a depot.

By: Mike Lockwood

Mike Lockwood — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:27:53 +0000

Port McNicoll Sub, built under the Georgian Bay & Seaboard charter, and at one time a very busy grain line. The section through Brechin was abandoned in 1937 iirc.