Caption: Essex Terminal Railway GP9 102 approaches the Texas Road crossing as it departs Amherstburg, Ontario on the ETR Subdivision with cars from industries that are now long gone. During January 2005 the bankruptcy of General Chemical had ended rail shipments of calcium chloride and Don Hearn & Sons, which had a contract to bag soda ash for Allied Chemical eventually ceased using rail. Also, in 2014 Honeywell had officially closed their Amherstburg facility. However presently, Diageo Canada receives regular rail service by ETR from Windsor.
GP9 102 was built for the Algoma Central Railway in August 1963 and was the last GP9 ever constructed at London’s General Motors plant. It was eventually purchased by ETR where it worked until it was acquired by the Ontario Southland Railway in 2016.