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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 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 2006, 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 over 25 miles of rail has already been
removed. 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 2.6 gigabytes of timetables, maps,
paper items and photos on the site and I'm adding more items become
available and as time permits. If you are primarily looking for NYC
related items - I suggest that you visit the "SITEMAP"
to search out the items that interest you.
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Last
updated on October 29th, 2006 |
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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
return to the previous screen.
Photos
on this site have been kindly provided by the following people: Bob
Bowes, Richard Burg, Gary Crowther, Jeff Hands, Al Howlett, Terry
Link, Michael McIlwaine, William Orchard, Terry Pond, Helmut
Ostermann, Keith Sirman, Rob Sterne, Richard L. Stoving (Edward L.May
collection), Art Taylor.
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 Helmut Ostermann are available for purchase from him at
various shows in Southern Ontario. Photos provided by Richard Burg
can be purchased from him at various shows in Michigan.
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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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YORK CENTRAL MAILING LIST
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here to visit my Guestbook
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If
you have any comments or questions concerning this site, please email
me.
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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SOUTHERN RAILWAY