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Caption: In the west side of Brampton, far away from the industrial areas around Bramalea and Hwy 410, two CN GP9RM's pause south of Nelson Street as crewmembers couple onto a string of boxcars at the Georgia Pacific plant. Built in 1949, the factory at Queen & McMurchy was originally home to the Dixie Cup Company (once sporting a giant Dixie Cup on the roof) and as of 2006, was the last customer in downtown Brampton to use rail service. About a year or two later, the switch to the weed-infested Dixie Cup Spur was removed during triple-tracking for the Georgetown GO expansion and was never reinstalled: after almost 60 years, the last rail customer in downtown Brampton switched to trucks.
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You know how both the Belfeild industrial lead crossing 120 Orenda and Glidden lead crossing at 101 glidden road are not in use. Any idea when the consumers stopped using rail service? Also do you have any pics of a train on any of those spurs before they became not in use? Thanks
Sorry, no idea when they both went out of service, no photos either. CN sometimes leaves the spurs in place for years and years, other times (like the Dixie Cup Spur pictured) they rip them out.
Well the rails are worth something. But it would be nice if they left them in place to entice new industry utilizing rail service. Apparently CN removed the window on the right side of 4119 also