allengeorge
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Is there any plan or funding to fix these gaps?
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Orangeville-Brampton Railway (OBRY)
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Northern Light
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The website for the charity working on the Guelph to Goderich Trail is here:
G2G Rail Experience
g2grailtrail.com
They currently have on major project on gap removal underway:
Some upgrades were done on the CP Grey Trail (Orangeville to Owen Sound) last year.
Grey to complete CP Rail Trail upgrade in 2022
Grey County intends to drain a reserve fund and use a government grant to finish a long-running project to resurface its multi-use CP Rail Trail with stone dust.
www.owensoundsuntimes.com
Not sure about the Beeton sub..........but I'll do some digging.
allengeorge
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Thank you so much @Northern Light !
lenaitch
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I was wracking my brain trying to figure out where a "tunnel" would be in that part of the province, that has the topography of the Prairies. Turns out it is a filled-in road underpass. Ya, the county really dropped the ball when they did that.The website for the charity working on the Guelph to Goderich Trail is here:
G2G Rail Experience
They currently have on major project on gap removal underway:
Some upgrades were done on the CP Grey Trail (Orangeville to Owen Sound) last year.
Grey to complete CP Rail Trail upgrade in 2022
Grey County intends to drain a reserve fund and use a government grant to finish a long-running project to resurface its multi-use CP Rail Trail with stone dust.
Not sure about the Beeton sub..........but I'll do some digging.
TRONto
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Same as RBT, I know people who'd bike these rail trails to get to work.
Northern Light
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Took me a bit to find the right Sat. Photos myself.
Below is a shot of the trail, from Blyth Road, just outside Exeter Ontario (road 25). You can see the elevation difference and why there was a once a tunnel there. Filling that in was a very peculiar thing to do.
The filled-in tunnel means scrambling up the embankment, just to the cross the road and go back down it again............
That sandy gravel does not look like it gives particularly good traction either.
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The website for the charity working on the Guelph to Goderich Trail is here:
G2G Rail Experience
They currently have on major project on gap removal underway:
Some upgrades were done on the CP Grey Trail (Orangeville to Owen Sound) last year.
Grey to complete CP Rail Trail upgrade in 2022
Grey County intends to drain a reserve fund and use a government grant to finish a long-running project to resurface its multi-use CP Rail Trail with stone dust.
Not sure about the Beeton sub..........but I'll do some digging.
Between Alimill (Beeton Junction) and Veterans Road the trail is in very good shape - the section closer to Alimill was only improved in the last five years.
There’s a need for Simcoe County and the City of Barrie to install cycling infrastructure on Veterans Road to get into Barrie itself. There’s also a need for a designated cycling route between the end of the Caledon Trailway in Tottenham and Alimill. Most of the ROW not a trail is still in use by SSR and BCRY. It’s also a real shame that Halton Hills never allowed for trail use on its portion of the old Beeton Sub - it’s not an easy ride up and down and up through Glen Willams and Terra Cotta.
Northern Light
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I see an old ROW mostly intact'ish....... interrupted by one private road/driveway until its most southern extent where it vanishes in a subdivision.
If its been sold off, that's a shame, if not, it looks quite practical to reestablish, except for what's out right gone at the southern extent.
NW87
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Looking towards Fraxa Junction.
Tracks still intact in the industrial park area.
Spur off of Tideman Drive.
Customer spur and end of track looking towards C-Line
Customer track off of Robb Boulevard.
Crossing at Broadway paved over and switch removed.
Crossings paved over on Dawson Road and Centre Street.
Tracks still intact in the industrial park area.
Spur off of Tideman Drive.
Customer spur and end of track looking towards C-Line
Customer track off of Robb Boulevard.
Crossing at Broadway paved over and switch removed.
Crossings paved over on Dawson Road and Centre Street.
SaugeenJunction
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Further to your comment here are some pictures of the Grey County portion of the Owen Sound Sub between Dundalk and Owen Sound, which was stone dusted this year. Pictures from Ceylon.
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At the Atwood Lane crossing, near Derry Road in Mississauga, the tracks are blocked with Jersey barriers and the signals have been taken down. The rails remain in place, and though signage says the area is closed, they say “enter at your own risk.”
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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know when they're planning to remove the tracks?
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The only track removed so far is within Orangeville and at Mayfield Road, where there’s a road widening project underway.
I do not know, but I suspect work will start later this year.
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Does CP still do the switching on the lower end of the line? I saw CP crews clearing a switch for a local with some tank cars around 7 Alpha Mills Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1H4
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Yes. CP has always kept control of the first mile or so of the former Orangeville line. That includes customers in Mississauga. The CP-owned line ends north of Highway 401, near the old Derry Road alignment.