Where are the tracks?

[DrewG]

While some friends and I chased the Ontario Southland Railway's Guelph Junction Railway Job followed them down to one of the industrial spurs in Guelph, the conductors said that PDI, a big customers for OSR and the city of Guelph, asked them to lift some cars that had been sitting there for close to a year, the crew understandably didn't want to. The tracks have become so full of mud they were hardly visible and where they were visible it looked like more of a creek than a rail. As they, and us suspected the lead axle on the reversing truck jumped the tracks because of ice and they spend 1:30 hours trying to re-rail it but the soupy mud made that impossible, they asked my not to upload any photos of the derailed car so I won't but I thought I'd share what the tracks looked like.




Cleaning the rails


Moving the cars down the line

[DrewG]

Thought I'd share some of the better part of the day as well.








The Goderich and Exeter railway also showed up on it's daily Guelph job sporting another GP9 at the front.