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Welcome
to the Canada Southern Railway - Hope you enjoy your journey.
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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 large selection of photos taking us back in time when
the CASO was a vibrant fast paced railroad serving Southern Ontario.
Through the years, very little of the equipment was 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 control. Unfortunately for
many of us, the end was clearly in sight when the line was sold to
Canadian National and Canadian Pacific in 1985. 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 of near non-existance.
Now,
in the year 2009, 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 5.7
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.
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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:
CASO
Forum
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All
photos on main pages are thumbnails. To view larger images of all
photos, click on the photo. Use the back button on your browser to
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Photos
and other
material
on this site have been kindly provided by the following people: Jeff
Bird, Bob Bowes, Larry Broadbent, Richard Burg, Gary Crowther, Jeff
Hands, Al Howlett, James Hurley, Mark Hymers, Ken Jones, Randy
Largent, Malcolm Laughlin, Paul Laurence, Gerry
Lee, Dr. Richard Leonard, Terry
Link, John Martin, Michael McIlwaine, Gus Milazzo, William Orchard,
Mark Palcso, Jim Parker, Terry Pond, Helmut Ostermann, John Scheffel,
WIlliam Sharpe,
Keith
Sirman, Rob Sterne, Richard L. Stoving (Edward L.May collection),
Art Taylor,
Adiran Telizyn, Jim Walton 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
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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. Also
- my web host provides me with far more web space than I can use. If
you need a small or large amount of webspace to host your own
railroad photo site - I am willing to host pages on my server. Please
contact me for details.
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. Contents of this site are for personal -
non-commercial use only.
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