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Rule 105 Territory - Not to exceed 15 mph on entire trackage.
Mile 19.1 (Feeder East) : Feeder Road, Welland : Feeder East was located on the east end of Feeder Yard at general location known as Feeder. It was probably known as Feeder, because the Feeder Canal during the 1800's passed through this area. The main line between CN Feeder East and CN Feeder West no longer exists. Only the siding and the yard remains these days, though weigh scale has been laid back where the main line was, at the east end of the yard. At Mile 19.1 the west end of CP Brookfield Siding connects to the CP Hamilton Subdivision and connects to the TR Feeder Spur.
Mile 20.9 (Feeder West) : Farr Road, Wainfleet : Feeder West is the limit for trains on the TR Feeder Spur, because the track has been removed from mile 22 westward to Delhi (mile 83). The CN Cayuga Subdivision from Delhi, west, is now the St. Thomas & Eastern Cayuga Spur. CN Feeder West is also the location of mile 0.0 of the TR Canal Spur. These days you with see Trillium's office at CN (TR) Feeder West. How things can change within a few years. {sigh}...
To clarify the name of this trackage, I was initially told it was the TR Cayuga Spur, but a number of years later, I was told it was the TR Feeder Spur. This is something that I had never remembered to change here on my website. This kind of makes sense, because the other end of this line from Delhi to St. Thomas is CN's Cayuga Spur, but as of writing this, CN has their section up for sale or abandonment.
The TR Feeder Spur is partial trackage of the former CN Cayuga Subdivision bypass after the Welland Canal was built ending in 1972. Today, the Feeder Spur starts at the east end at a switch just east of where the old CN Cayuga Subdivision main line was torn out in 1998. It was tied in with the cross over track from the CN Hamilton Subdivision to the old CN Cayuga Subdivision, which east of this switch is now CP Brookfield Siding. CP placed a cross-over switch from the CP Hamilton Subdivision to the CN Cayuga Subdivision in November 2001 when they prepared to takeover the CN Cayuga Subdivision east to 'CN' Brookfield East on the former CN Cayuga Subdivision.
In September 1999 when Trillium took over trackage of the CN Canal Spur, renaming it a 'Line' and the lines in St. Catharines, they also took over operations on the CN Cayuga Subdivision between CN Robbins on the CN Stamford Subdivision and end of track just west of CN Feeder West, but in November 2001, CP was replacing ties on the CN Cayuga Subdivision portion, eastward from this switch by Feeder.
Trillium didn't operate east of Feeder yard because it was just trackage to the CN Stamford Subdivision. They did use this trackage to the CN Stamford Subdivision for a week when the CN Grimsby Subdivision trackage under Merritt St. in St. Catharines was dropped three feet to allow for Intermodal trains to pass under the bridge, after an accident after a train was rerouted onto the CN Grimsby Subdivision, that wasn't allowed to be.
After 1999, the CN local still went as far as WH yard in Dain City on the TR Canal Spur to interchange, but they soon began to interchange at Feeder yard with Trillium and do so to the present. Presently, interchanges on;y happen a few times a week.
There have been times since 2010 that CP yard jobs out of CP Welland yard will head south on the CP Hamilton Subdivision, then pull onto CP Brookfield Siding then back into Feeder yard on this TR Feeder Spur. I believe it's done when there are grain cars destined for the former Robin Hood plant on the TR Harborline in Port Colborne.
Back in November 2001, CP took over ownership of the CN Cayuga Subdivision from CN Brookfield East to mile 19.1 where that new cross-over was placed at Feeder to mile 18.2 on the CP Hamilton Subdivision.
After 1999 CN continued to interchange with Trillium via a CP WORK OCS from Brookfield East on the new CP Hamilton Subdivision as far north as mile 19. The CN local would then back onto CP Brookfield Siding to take the TR Cayuga Spur into TR Feeder yard. I believe they came as far as Feeder to get onto this line and not run the length of the old CN Cayuga Sub, was that the switch off of the CP Hamilton Subdivision would have to be turned to get on the old CN Cayuga Subdivision and couldn't be left in the reverse position, and the fact the line was downgraded to 10mph. So only one end of the siding is track-switched out on. Just less switch walking work.
CN used to interchange with Trillium around 4pm weekdays, if there were cars to move. These days, switching is on;y done a few times a week between CN and Trillium. Back to CP interchanging with Trillium, it is done on a required basis.
Briefly noted above, the history of this line, east of CN (TR) Feeder West, goes back to 1971/1972 when the Welland Canal Relocation Project was completed. The old CN Cayuga Subdivision used to head east from St. Thomas through Delhi and through CN (TR) Feeder West directly into Dain City on what is now the TR Canal Spur and continued across where the backside of Dain City eastward and connected in at old CN Yager West, where that abandoned path runs from the present Welland Canal bypass is. Then this original line crossed Yager Road at Forkes Road and connected in at old CN Yager East and continued onto BlackRock via the trackage of the present CN Stamford Subdivision. That's why things are so confusing.
The CN Cayuga Subdivision was routed through the Townline tunnel next to Penn Central's re-routed main line, which is now the CP Hamilton Subdivision. The CN Cayuga Subdivision continued east towards an area of the country east of Welland called Brookfield (Brookfield Road) and connected into the location of what is CN Robbins on the CN Stamford Subdivision.
TR Feeder yard was built back when the line was built by CN in the early 1970's, long before Trillium ever was around. NS 145/146 trains used to switch Feeder yard pre 1998. CN 105 used to bring cars back to the Dain City Intermodal Facility.
Back in the 1990's, I used to see the local CN Intermodal train from Dain City use this yard to store cars, also. This is also where NS would drop off cars, for Dain City. The odd time there was a train 272 from Buffalo Feeder yard. I saw it once with NS power.
Trillium can be found working in TR Feeder yard around 7:30am Monday to Friday and again around 11am for the return of the Port Colborne job and anytime in the afternoon for the return of the St. Catharines job.
36 photos in gallery
 Mile 19.20 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 19.20 Looking West (1995) |
 Mile 19.30 Looking Northeast (1997) |
 Mile 19.50 Looking Southwest (1997) |
 Mile 19.50 Looking Southwest (1997) |
 Mile 19.90 Looking Northeast (1997) |
 Mile 20.08 Looking Northeast (1998) |
 Mile 20.08 Looking Southwest (1996) |
 Mile 20.08 Looking Southwest (1997) |
 Mile 20.10 Looking Northeast (1995) |
 Mile 20.10 Looking Northeast (1997) |
 Mile 20.10 Looking Northeast (1998) |
 Mile 20.15 Looking Northeast (1997) |
 Mile 20.20 Looking Southwest (1997) |
 Mile 20.47 Looking Northeast (1997) |
 Mile 20.47 Looking Northeast (1998) |
 Mile 20.47 Looking Northeast (2020) |
 Mile 20.47 Looking Southwest (1997) |
 Mile 20.47 Looking Southwest (1997) |
 Mile 20.78 Looking West (1998) |
 Mile 20.82 Looking West (1995) |
 Mile 20.82 Looking West (1995) |
 Mile 20.82 Looking West (1998) |
 Mile 20.86 Looking East (1995) |
 Mile 20.86 Looking East (1995) |
 Mile 20.86 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 20.99 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 20.99 Looking West (1998) |
 Mile 21.51 Looking East (1995) |
 Mile 21.51 Looking West (1995) |
 Mile 21.80 Looking West (1996) |
 Mile 21.97 Looking East (1996) |
 Mile 21.97 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 21.97 Looking West (1996) |
 Mile 21.97 Looking West (1996) |
 Mile 21.97 Looking West (1998) |
