Railpictures.ca - Kevin Flood Photo: On a hot afternoon in June 2007, the westbound CP frame train heads towards St. Thomas with empties. I believe its counterpart was CP 142 with loads that usually traversed the CP lines in the morning. From my knowledge, OSR did not acquire this line yet (at the time of the photo) so perhaps CP 141/142 were the only trains on the St. Thomas sub at that time (perhaps one or two other locals?). Currently, this portion of the line at Beachville appears to be a lot more active than back then; there’s usually train cars in the siding and I don’t think there’s as much overgrowth! The train looks like its trundling along a seldom used forgotten spur. Which reminds me, the GEXR Waterloo spur was also a lot overgrown at one point (i.e. 1995) compared to its current state. It’s as if these lines were on the verge of abandonment and got saved! | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

On a hot afternoon in June 2007, the westbound CP frame train heads towards St. Thomas with empties. I believe its counterpart was CP 142 with loads that usually traversed the CP lines in the morning. From my knowledge, OSR did not acquire this line yet (at the time of the photo) so perhaps CP 141/142 were the only trains on the St. Thomas sub at that time (perhaps one or two other locals?). Currently, this portion of the line at Beachville appears to be a lot more active than back then; there's usually train cars in the siding and I don't think there's as much overgrowth! The train looks like its trundling along a seldom used forgotten spur. Which reminds me, the GEXR Waterloo spur was also a lot overgrown at one point (i.e. 1995) compared to its current state. It's as if these lines were on the verge of abandonment and got saved!

Caption: On a hot afternoon in June 2007, the westbound CP frame train heads towards St. Thomas with empties. I believe its counterpart was CP 142 with loads that usually traversed the CP lines in the morning. From my knowledge, OSR did not acquire this line yet (at the time of the photo) so perhaps CP 141/142 were the only trains on the St. Thomas sub at that time (perhaps one or two other locals?). Currently, this portion of the line at Beachville appears to be a lot more active than back then; there's usually train cars in the siding and I don't think there's as much overgrowth! The train looks like its trundling along a seldom used forgotten spur. Which reminds me, the GEXR Waterloo spur was also a lot overgrown at one point (i.e. 1995) compared to its current state. It's as if these lines were on the verge of abandonment and got saved!

Photographer:	Kevin Flood [395] (more) (contact)
Date:	06/02/2007 (search)
Railway:	Canadian Pacific (search)
Reporting Marks:	CP 8220 (search)
Train Symbol:	CP 141 (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	CP St Thomas Sub - Beachville (search)
City/Town:	Beachville (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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3 Comments

Stephen C. Host

February 2, 2016 at 8:35 am

Nice shot Kevin. The St. Thomas sub had four trains a day around this time (four each way)

142 and 141
A day and a night CAMI switcher (St Thomas or Putnam and back depending on need – power based out of Woodstock)

and CN’s CAMI interchange job which ran from the CN/CP interchange at Ingersoll.

Beachville Siding was used as a meeting point, usually 141 would take the siding at Beachville to meet an eastbound Cami job if there was a conflicting movement in OCS, as a result the siding was most often empty.
Stephen C. Host

November 11, 2020 at 9:02 pm

I figured I should correct the record that I wrote in 2016:

The day and night Woodstock jobs were TK12 and TK21 and generally did what OSR does today, running to Putnam or St Thomas with lifts at Cami as required and had two shifts a day. I don’t know if they ran extras to St Thomas or what not, but the TK12 I shot one day went to Putnam only.

I do believe the CNR switched Cami in this timeframe and not sure if CP switched anything other than lifting/setting off their cars.

What I never remember in my time period, same as yours Kevin, is if CP ever switched the CAMI plant and when (ie: switched the loading ramps) in lieu of CN. If the contract went back and forth or not or if CNR simply had the contract for a long time…
Stephen C. Host

November 13, 2020 at 8:00 pm

And I forgot about the once/weekly CN job to Ridgetown/Rodney on the CASO which used the ‘joint track’ rights in St. Thomas to get to the CASO. CN 513..

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=20210

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