CN ELM STREET SPUR

TRACKSIDE GUIDE & PHOTOS

EX-NS&T WELLAND DIVISION
NON-EXISTENT TRACKAGE

Past timetable listings for this line:

NS&T ~ WELLAND DIVISION 1908 - 1959	MILE
Substation Junction	0.00
Dixons	2.67
Seburns	4.45
Hillrust	5.43
Fonthill	6.72
Scanlans	8.59
Electric Park	9.79
Welland	11.02
Dainesville	14.12
Uptergroves	16.03
Humberstone	17.40
Port Colborne (Jct. with CN Dunnville Subdivision)	18.32

CN ~ ELM ST. SPUR 1960 - 1985	MILE
Jct. with CN Dunnville Subdivision	0.0
Killaly Street	0.5
Main Street	1.0
Sherwood Forest	1.35
End Of Steel	1.8

Map of the CN Elm St. Spur

Traffic movement on this line:

No trackage exists on this line, except north of Sherwood Yard at Robin Hood Multi-Foods.

Points of interest along this line:

Operations on this line:

     The CN Elm St. Spur was former trackage of the NS&T Welland Division in Port Colborne. It led off of the CN Dunnville Subdivision until 1985. It's purpose was to supply rail service to Robin Hood.
     The Robin Hood plant still exists today but Robin Hood hasn't owned the plant since I'm guessing the late 1990's. Smucker's took it over than the plant was just used as a transload center by a new owner or 2 over the years.
     The CN Elm Street Spur was left in and wasn't torn out with the rest of what needed to be removed of the old NS&T Welland Division, because the line continued to provide service to Robin Hood, which was located on Sherwood Forest lane.
     I think with times changing, it was safer to remove rail traffic off of street running so it was in 1985 that CN rebuilt on part of the old NS&T Welland Division south from Forks Road in Dain City to mile 1.9 , which is already bending off of the old NS&T Welland Division ROW. The line headed east to the tree line along the Welland Canal and turned south and connected in from the north by Robin Hood. At this point the CN Elm Street Spur was torn out. This new rail line from the north was now the CN Port Colborne Spur. Never a Subdivision.
     There is presently a yard by Robin Hood. Main line plus a siding on both sides. I don't know if this yard was here in the NS&T days.
     Part of the old CN Elm Street Spur that wasn't on Elm Street existed until 1997. It ran out of the south end of this yard and curved west and ended at Elm Street. There was a ramp there. Something for the use of maybe unloading boxcars by hand or something without using heavy equipment. This was torn out in 1997, when the TR Harborline was built extending the CN Port Colborne Spur south of Sherwood Forest Lane, to connect in with the old CN Dunnville Subdivision at the old location of bridge 20, by the former CN train station.
     The line now at Robin Hood is now part of the Trillium Harborline.

Pictorial view of this line:

22 photos in gallery

Mile 0.00 Looking East (2000)	Mile 0.50 Looking North (2000)	Mile 0.50 Looking South (2000)	Mile 1.00 Looking North (2000)	Mile 1.00 Looking South (2000)
Mile 1.30 Looking North (2000)	Mile 1.30 Looking South (2000)	Mile 1.35 Looking East (2012)	Mile 1.40 Looking Northeast (2009)	Mile 1.40 Looking East (1997)
Mile 1.40 Looking East (1997)	Mile 1.40 Looking East (2000)	Mile 1.40 Looking East (2009)	Mile 1.40 Looking East (2009)	Mile 1.40 Looking West (2009)
Mile 1.45 Looking East (1997)	Mile 1.45 Looking East (2012)	Mile 1.45 Looking West (2012)	Mile 1.45 Looking West (2013)	Mile 1.50 Looking North (2001)
Mile 1.50 Looking West (2000)	Mile 1.80 Looking South (2001)