CN PAYNES SUBDIVISION

TRACKSIDE GUIDE & PHOTOS

EX-CN CHATHAM SUBDIVISION | EX-NS RUNNING RIGHTS

Present timetable listing for this line:

CN ~ PAYNES SUBDIVISION
NOVEMBER 1998 - Fall 2010

MILE
St. Thomas
(Jct. with CN Talbot Subdivision)
(Jct. with CN Cayuga Spur)
0.0
Southwold2.0
Paynes4.5

Traffic movement on this line:

     Rule 105 Territory - Between Mile 0.0 and Mile 6.0
     OCS Territory - Between Mile 6.0 and Mile 27.3.


Points of interest along this line:

Mile 0.0 (St. Thomas) : St. George Street, St. Thomas :

     Mile 2.0 (Southwold) : Edgeware Road, St. Thomas :

     Mile 4.5 (Paynes) : Lyle Side Road, Southwold Township :

     Mile 14.5 (Thames River) : Broken Front Concession, Southwold Township :

     Mile 27.3 (Glencoe East) : Main Street, Glencoe :


Operations on this line:

     The CN Paynes Subdivision is located between Glencoe and St. Thomas. It is the former CN Chatham Subdivision.
     At Glencoe, the CN Paynes Subdivision Jct.'s with the CN Chatham Subdivision and at St. Thomas, it connects to the CN/TR Cayuga Spur (formerly the CN Cayuga Subdivision).
     The CN Paynes Subdivision was given it's name in the late 1980's when the present trackage of the CN Paynes Subdivision used to be the CN Chatham Subdivision.
     Originally the CN Chatham Subdivision ran between St. Thomas and Windsor, but now it runs between Komoka and Windsor.
     NS used to operate on the CN Paynes Subdivision out of St. Thomas to Glencoe and down the CN Chatham Subdivision to Chatham to the CSX Sarnia Subdivision to the CN Caso Subdivision and west throught the Detroit Windsor Tunnel. The two trains that did this were NS 343 and 344. Last train on the line was likely Norfolk Southern's train 343/344 in early January, 2004, but this could be incorrect.
     NS also operates 328 north out of St. Thomas to London and east to Buffalo after moving cars to and from the Talbotville Ford plant. The counterpart to 328 is 327 which operates from Buffalo to St. Thomas across the same Subdivisions.
     There are two yards on the CN Paynes Subdivision. There is the one in downtown St. Thomas at mile 0.0 and the other is west of St. Thomas at mile 2.6.
     On December 30, 2006, NS 328 headed for Buffalo, NY. for the last time with two light units. Since late 1995 or early 1996, NS ran west out of St. Thomas on the CN Paynes Subdivision, operating NS 328 and 328. The contract to service the Ford plant in Talbotville ended. After about 107 or so years of Wabash, N & W and NS activity in the St. Thomas area, NS ceased to exist in Canada, except for NS 369, which still interchanges with CN at Fort Erie on the CN Stamford Subdivision.
     At the end of July 2010, I heard that the Paynes Subdivision was now in the process of being removed between the western out-skirts of St. Thomas and Glencoe, until Ford closed, and the rest would be removed.      Last word I heard as of the end of October 2010, the line was removed from Glencoe, east to about mile 4.5.


Pictorial view of this line:

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Mile 5.60
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Mile 5.80
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Mile 5.95
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Mile 6.48
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Mile 6.53
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Mile 7.17
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Mile 8.52
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Mile 9.17
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Mile 9.62
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     This photo is of the Ford plant lead off of the Paynes Subdivision in St. Thomas.

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     This photo is of CN St. Thomas yard on the Paynes Subdivision in St. Thomas.

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