Lambton Yard Recent Years

All photographs: R.L.Kennedy

Safety Sign at yard entrance. My slogan.

Track Plan

Lambton Yard Office, built 1976. Old yard office stood where photographer is.

S P Transport, Smiths Falls, vans used by this contractor to move trains crews between points.

OmniTRAX truck. This contractor replaced CPR employees for maintenance of yard units.

Note: Neither of these contractors remains on CPR.

Scarlett Road, looking east, number one track Galt Subdivision.

A quiet Sunday, July 23, 2000. Looking east, track L11 (RoadRailer track).
Engines on dead-end "love track" 1213, 8243, 1594, 8250-8201.

Love tracks, (there were two originally), got their name from their computer designation, LOVS and LOVN. Lambton Old Van Alley South (and North). These were originally located against the St.Clair Ave. fence, dead-ending west of Jane St. with switches near Scarlett Rd. The tracks were removed, but they remained in the computer and when the two short spurs were created during the realignment of the yard leads when the new Runnymede Rd. underpass was built, they needed two new designations and simply used what already existed!

Looking back to the west, RoadRailer tracks L11 straight ahead, L13 to the right,
Triple Crown RoadRailer trailers and FastFrate, L9 to the left, all used by RoadRailer trains.

Same view on another day. Something I had never before seen. A completely empty Lambton yard!
Lambton had long been used for lifts and setoffs with West Toronto for locals and storage.

Looking east, LOV track on the right, West Toronto Lead, LW12 switch in foreground.
Switching on the far right is yard job with Pitch & Catch remote controlled 1013-1578, out of sight.
In the center distance on the diesel spur are, 8252-8240, 8251-8211 and 4657.

Way Freight yard ("the hole") LW8 straight ahead, switch lined for the lead, LW7 to LW1. First track on the left goes to the old Water Track and old Iron Highway. Next, with tank cars on it, old stock yard lead. Far left track goes through the park to CanAmera Foods (formerly, Swift's), Canada Packers is long gone.
Note the old style switch stands, very few of which remain in use.

Former site of Fast Frate shed at Runnymede & St.Clair and once Lambton roundhouse.
Looking south west. Lambton Yard Office at far left.
May 24, 2005 R.L.Kennedy

Looking west to former site of Lambton Roundhouse at the "Big Gate" entrance
on Runnymede Rd. at Ryding Avenue
July 3, 2005 R.L.Kennedy

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