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Rule 105 Territory - Not to exceed 15 mph on entire trackage.
No trackage exists between St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the Lake.
Mile 0.0 : The TR Lakeshore Spur heads east off of the TR Grantham Spur at Yale Cres.
Mile 0.8 : The line heads north under the QEW overpass. The line heads north then crosses Bunting Road heading west.
Mile 1.35 : The former Ferranti Packard plant used to be located here. They once made transformers.
Mile 1.56 : This is the end of the TR Lakeshore Spur these days. A bumper used to be located here, but it was relocated to the line just west of Bunting Road at mile 0.6.
The TR Lakeshore Spur is part of the old NS&T trackage within St. Catharines, and once going to Port Weller and I believe Niagara-on-The Lake. The Niagara-on-the Lake part I believe was torn out in 1931.
The Lakeshore Spur rand ran (runs - will explain)off of south end of Eastchester yard on the Grantham Spur at the two track diamonds and headed and still does head east along Eastchester Avenue, then across Bunting Avenue then under the QEW skyway then back across Bunting Avenue then headed north several streets to Lakeshore Road and then headed east across the shared train and vehicle bridge at bridge 1 in Port Weller. .
Since the early 1960's it ran all the way up to the Port Weller dry docks in Port Weller at Lake Ontario. But prior to 1930, this line went all the way to Niagara On-the-lake.
The Lakeshore Spur wasn't opened until 1913 to NOTL making it the last major addition to the NS&T system. The original Lakeshore Spur came off the line at Niagara Street and went north down Niagara Street and crossed the QEW on the original Niagara Street overpass and then headed down Facer Street and headed north east of Grantham Avenue.
It was at this point where it turned north that newly constructed Lakeshore Spur connected. This would have been 1961 or 1962.
For years, CN service this line, going to a plant called Ferranti Packard, Foster Wheeler (now Trenergy because Foster Wheeler left Canada during the 1990's so a portion broke free independently and kept going here. There was is a place by Eastchester Avenue and Bunting Road called Canadian Erectors. I never saw CN service them, bur have seen Trillium in the industry.
This line was left in after the NS&T days to serve a few of the north end industries, mainly to serve the Port Weller Dry Docks. Around 1993, the CN Lakeshore Spur was removed north of Welland Avenue.
Like other CN trackage, Trillium also took over switching operations in September 1999.
This line existed as far as Ferranti Packard as everyone knew the building as, but the original company was long gone. I'm not at all sure what the company built.
For a few years, up until I'm guessing maybe 2006, Trillium serviced the Ferranti Packard pant because they were building locomotives for overseas. This only lasted a few years. There was a minor train derailment under the Skyway because of the architecture of the curve in the rail. I don't think it was major. May have been something like a 6 axle unit was too tight for the curve in trackage.
Shortly after, the plant closed and I believe it reopened east of Welland at the former Shaw Pipe plant. The business is long gone now, but they make pipe again at the Shaw Pipe plant.
During mid 2007, Trillium tore out the TR Lakeshore Spur from mile 0.77 northward across the two Bunting Road crossings.
The line these days, connects to the TR Grantham Spur at Yale Crescent at Eastchester Avenue. Since the Ferranti Packard plant closed in 2007 or so, the Lakeshore Spur was torn out across both crossing of Bunting Road and a bumper was first put in at the end of Eastchester Ave at Bunting Road, but I believe the bumper was shortly moved more westward and installed at mile 0.6.
In 2006, noee mentioned above, Trillium gained a new customer along the TR Lakeshore Spur at mile 0.5. The industry is TIW Steel Plateworks.
Trenergy as mentioned makes boilers that are shipped worldwide. They are shipped out on depressed flatcars.
108 photos in gallery
 Mile 0.00 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.00 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Northwest (2006) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Northwest (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Northwest (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Northeast (1997) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Northeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Northeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Southeast (2006) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Southeast (2006) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.01 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.02 Looking Northeast (1997) |
 Mile 0.03 Looking Northwest (2013) |
 Mile 0.05 Looking Northwest (2006) |
 Mile 0.05 Looking Northwest (2013) |
 Mile 0.12 Looking Southeast (2006) |
 Mile 0.12 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.12 Looking Southeast (2013) |
 Mile 0.14 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.14 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.16 Looking North (2013) |
 Mile 0.16 Looking East (2005) |
 Mile 0.16 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 0.16 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.16 Looking West (2005) |
 Mile 0.16 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 0.16 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.18 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.18 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.18 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.18 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.27 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.27 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.30 Looking East (2005) |
 Mile 0.30 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 0.30 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.30 Looking West (2005) |
 Mile 0.30 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 0.30 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.30 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.33 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.33 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.33 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.33 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.40 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.40 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.44 Looking Northeast (2014) |
 Mile 0.44 Looking East (2005) |
 Mile 0.44 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 0.44 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.44 Looking West (2005) |
 Mile 0.44 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 0.44 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.48 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.48 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.53 Looking Northeast (2014) |
 Mile 0.53 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.53 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.53 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.53 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.53 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.56 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.57 Looking Northeast (2014) |
 Mile 0.57 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 0.57 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.57 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.57 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 0.57 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.57 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.58 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.58 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.60 Looking Northeast (2014) |
 Mile 0.66 Looking Northwest (2012) |
 Mile 0.66 Looking North (2012) |
 Mile 0.66 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 0.66 Looking East (2013) |
 Mile 0.66 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 0.66 Looking West (2012) |
 Mile 0.66 Looking West (2013) |
 Mile 0.72 Looking Northeast (2006) |
 Mile 0.72 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 0.72 Looking West (1998) |
 Mile 0.72 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 0.86 Looking North (1997) |
 Mile 0.86 Looking North (2006) |
 Mile 0.86 Looking North (2006) |
 Mile 0.86 Looking South (1997) |
 Mile 0.86 Looking South (2006) |
 Mile 0.95 Looking North (2008) |
 Mile 1.18 Looking North (2006) |
 Mile 1.18 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 1.18 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 1.18 Looking West (1998) |
 Mile 1.18 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 1.56 Looking North (1998) |
 Mile 2.84 Looking North (1998) |
 Mile 2.84 Looking South (1998) |
 Mile 4.00 Looking North (1998) |
 Mile 4.00 Looking South (1998) |
 Mile 4.56 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 4.56 Looking West (1998) |
 Mile 4.65 Looking East (2001) |
 Mile 4.65 Looking West (2001) |
 Mile 4.90 Looking East (2001) |
 Mile 4.90 Looking West (2001) |
These photos are of Trenergy lead just west of Grantham Avenue.
2 photos in gallery
 Looking North (2013) |
 Looking Southwest (2013) |
