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CANADA SOUTHERN RAILWAY

 

Welcome to the Canada Southern Railway - Hope you enjoy your journey.

 

Thanks to the many people who took the time to take photographs along the Canada Southern division of the New York Central over the years, we can offer this selection of photos taking us back in time when the CASO was a vibrant fast paced railroad serving Southern Ontario. Through the years, most of the equipment was not lettered for the Canada Southern, instead, equipment was lettered for it's largest shareholder of the day. The Michigan Central, then the New York Central, which later on became Penn Central and finally passed onto Conrail.

The glory years of this once great line definitely was under the New York Central oval. However, the long slow decline started in 1960 when the NYC started to divert freight traffic south of Lake Erie and continued under Penn Central and Conrail. Unfortunately for many of us, the end was clearly in sight when the line was sold to Canadian National and Canadian Pacific. We all knew that neither railroad wanted it or even had any real intent on continued usage, so it declined further into it's current state.

Now, in the year 2008, there is little left in operation. 2001 saw the removal of the last remaining branch from Comber to Leamington. At the end of 2001 saw the removal of the mainline through downtown Niagara Falls. In 2003 CN removed the trackage from E&O to St.Thomas. Effective March 28, 2006 at 23:59, the St. Thomas to Fargo section was Embargoed and the rail has since been removed and it's possible most of what remains may disappear as well. The only truly active portion of the line is from Detroit/Windsor to Fargo and even that is barely in use, nothing like it was many years ago. The Canada Southern is no longer one continuous line.

Though originally this site dealt with the Canada Southern only, it has evolved into much more with tons of New York Central photos and factual information. Connecting railroads such as the L&PS, TH&B, PM/C&O/Chessie, Wabash, Essex Terminal are also represented with some photos. Look in the "Other Stuff" section for various items including New York Central accident reports, system public timetables, the employee magazine "Headlight", fairly complete NYC freight and passenger car rosters, freight schedules and much more. There is currently over 5.8 gigabytes of timetables, maps, paper items and photos on the site and I'm adding more items as they become available and as time permits. If you are primarily looking for NYC related items - I suggest that you visit the "NEW YORK CENTRAL RESOURCE PAGE" to search out the items that interest you.

 

Last updated on June 13th, 2008

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NYCSHS 2007 BUFFALO CONVENTION PHOTOS

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Photos on this site have been kindly provided by the following people: Jeff Bird, Bob Bowes, Richard Burg, Gary Crowther, Jeff Hands, Al Howlett, Gerry Lee, Terry Link, Michael McIlwaine, William Orchard, Mark Palcso, Terry Pond, Helmut Ostermann, Keith Sirman, Rob Sterne, Richard L. Stoving (Edward L.May collection), Art Taylor and Jay Williams.

Photos provided by Keith Sirman are available for purchase. Contact him for details.

Photos provided by Al Paterson are available for purchase. Contact him for details.

Photos provided by Richard Stoving can be purchased from him. Contact him for details.

Photos provided by Jay Williams can be purchased from him. Contact him for details.

Photos provided by Helmut Ostermann are available for purchase from him at various shows in Southern Ontario.

Photos provided by Richard Burg can be purchased from him. Cinderandeight@aol.com

 

Also, I having two email mailing lists that may be of interest to some of you. The first one deals specifically with the Canada Southern. The second one deals with the New York Central in general. Some interesting conversations have been enjoyed by the members of these mailing lists. For information on how to subscribe to these lists, please click on the one that interests you:

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If you have any comments or questions concerning this site, please email me at caso1 @ canadasouthern.com. Also, if you have any photos or other New York Central/Canada Southern related items that can be used on this site, please email them to me as well. Please note that replies are made as time permits, which can mean a week or two.

Thanks for visiting,

Terry Link

 

All photos used with permission have appropriate credit given with each photo. All rights remain with their original owner. Photos with no credit line are photos that I purchased from various places over the years that have no credit attached to them or are my own. If you find a photo that has no credit line and you legally hold title to the photo, please advise me. I can either add a credit line or remove the photo if you wish.

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