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Ontario Industrial Diesels NOTE: This page will no longer be updated.
December 2019 London General Motors Added plant switcher 57 still in TH&B paint! Toronto Andrew Merrilees (D) Added (scroll down) AAM 10 70-tonner ex Potasco 10 and photo nee SN 210.
November 2019 Sarnia Esso Polymers Added SSRX 911 ex WLO 2.
October 2019 Dundas. Canada Crushed Stone.
September 2019 Hamilton
August 2019 Cardinal Ingredion (old
CASCO) has yet another MP15 on site. FURX 1552.
Dundas Steetley Dolomite Added (see link in text near top) large view of area and caption data referring to TH&B spur. Paris Consolidated Sand nad Gravel. Added colour photo of 102 a Whitcomb dinky that still exists! PSTR L5. Sarnia Lambton Diesel Novacor Chemicals Added NCLX 2003 a Brookville MP2000D VIP Added links to photos of prior owners of 1511 CV and GTW
Toronto Andrew Merrilees Added (scroll way down) ADFX 0177 nee CO 5244
June 2019 Capreol NRE-Alco Added link to subsequent owners of CP units and others. Dryden Domtar Start new gallery with CCGX 1008 and CITX 3809 inc. prior owners. Falconbridge Glencore (Sudbury Integrated Nickle Operations) Added DESX 1127 and 1910 acquired from DESX (D) nee CN Sault Ste.Marie a.k.a "The SOO" Essar Steel Added 3 photos DESX 55 ex LTEX 2, ex CR 8694 Toronto Andrew Merrilees
May 2019 Paris Consolidated Sand and Gravel added photo of GE 25-tonner switching. It would later become PSTR L-1. (Also, see L-2). Port Robinson Oxy Vinyls Added newly arrived LTEX 1014 replacing LTEX 1001.
March 2019 Universal Resource Recovery New entry to this storied site of many companies.
January 2019 Resolute Forest Products, (formerly Ontario
Paper) Thorold South. Added 1305 nee CN RS1200RS.
October 2018 Terrace Bay Aditya Birla (formerly Kimberley-Clark) Added CCGX 4015 newly transferred from OBRY. August 2018 Clarkson St.Lawrence Cement Added 45-tonner #nil enroute. Dundas Hamilton STELCO Added new gallery of subsequent owners of units. LTEX 81, 803, 925, GATX 0146. Toronto Andrew Merrilees (scroll
down to IREX his US subsidiary.
May 2018 Welland Stelpipe div. of STELCO added # nil 50-tonner.
March 2018 Welland Welded Tube (formerly Shaw Pipe) added photo of leased MPRX 101.
July 2017 Port Maitland ERCO added photo of PSPX 85 GMD Hydraulic on its way Limestone Quarries.
June 2017 Port Robinson Oxy Vinyls Added photo of LTEX 1001 switching the plant. Photo includes view of plant.
April 2017 Aldershot National Sewer Pipe Added new page for this old industry with narrow gauge RR. Cornwall Courtaulds Added ex CP 7096 Alco S-2. Later sold for scrap after plant closed in 1994.
January 2017 Kirkfield Kirkfield
Crushed Stone. Added a nice old colour photo of 0-4-0 mechanical
dinky on standard gauge trackage. Look back too at their narrow
gauge quarry steam operation with an eight colour photo set (scroll
down to Gallery 2) Timmins Kidd Creek Mine Added TGS 052 Best photo of Texas Gulf Sulphur lettering. Toronto CGE Added (scroll way down) photo small self-propelled crane. New contributor Jim Little. Uhthoff Limestone Quarries added Whitcomb 4.
September 2016 Falconbridge Kidd Creek Mine Added photo of Falconbridge Ltd. Kidd Creek Div. 055-054
August 2016 Deeks Started new gallery for Grenville Crushed Rock, a quarry for railway ballast for Dominion Construction.
July 2016 Kingston CLC plant switcher looking derelict. Later re-engined. Peterborough CGE added (link in title) old drawing of plant. Timmins Kidd Creek added much better photos of Kidd 051, 052 RS-23's (different lettering) and GP38-2 054.
May 2016 Uhthoff Limestone Quarries. Added better photo of 3-6902 unique 800 HP GMD diesel-hydraulic
April 2016 Marathon; America Can of Canada # NIL. Point Anne Point Anne Quarry/Thurlow Railway Added photo of 20004 ex CP 6543 Whitby LASCO Added colour photo of 70-tonner 2 still with C-B engine.
March 2016 Blenheim W G Thompson Their tiny Plymouth went to tiny Village of Crivitz, Wisconsin. Cambridge (Galt) Babcock & Wilcox Added OSR nil (ex L4) 70-tonner . Kapuskasing Spruce Falls Power & Paper 108 in old paint scheme.
February 2016 Toronto Andrew Merrilees (D) Added
link in 2 captions to EL 357 to represent EL 353 the biggest diesel
acquired by that time.
This one is unidentified, a 45-tonner. Summer 2000 Can you help? Contact us.
January 2016 Burlington Penvidic Contracting. Added better photo of hydraulic 2034 ex CP 19. Whitby LASCO Added photos of 1,
2, 3 and 7. New contributor Darrell Lupson. Windsor Zalev Brothers Added another GE center cab unit. Possibly 80-tonner. Can you identify it? CONTACT US
December 2015 L'Orignal IVACO Restored missing thumbnail and link to page showing 5 units including just added S-3 with homebuilt cab! . Uhthoff Limestone Quarries Added newer photo of rare Whitcomb 65-tonner. Also, newer photo of SF-1.
October 2015 Vaughan (Concord) CN Rail Transfer facility 150 cars. G.A.Foss operator of facility.
September 2015 Thorold Ontario Paper Added photo of OPC-1 newly acquired from CN enroute.
August 2015 Thunder Bay Cargill Added another photo of 1217 showing the elevator. Welland Welland Pipe (Stelco) Added older photo back when things bright ahead.
July 2015 Whitby LASCO Added photo of 70-tonner after re-engining and repainted but no yet letterred and numbered.
June 2015 Ottawa National Research Council Added 1003 an old Lehigh Valley SW8. New contributor Peter Scholtens.
March 2015 Cardinal Canada Starch Added many photos of diesels, aerial view of plant etc. (steam go here) Courtesy of long-time CASCO employee Olie Mc.Kee Dundas Canada Crushed Stone.
major addition to long-closed unique quarry operation including very
early photos courtesy of Sandra Kiemele, archivist, Dundas Historical
Museum.
February 2015 Cornwall Courtaulds Added colour photo of box motor 26. London General Motors Added plant switcher 1 in its new 50th anniversary paint scheme. Port Robinson Oxy Vinyls
Added HBIX 9359 in new paint job also LTEX 1001 likely a replacement
for 9359. Sault Ste. Marie Algoma Tube Corp. "nil" (un-numbered) 50-tonner added.
January 2015 Thunder Bay Cargill Added old
photo of old long scrapped MLW S3 as well as SW8 14 long gone for trade-in.
December 2014 Dundas Canada Crushed Stone. Added 4 more colour photos of this unique electric quarry operation. Hamilton Arcelor-Mittal Added 410 another 700 hp genset loco. New contributor Dave Stowe. November 2014 Toronto Andrew Merrilees (Dealer) Added No.3 ex NHB 80-tonner. October 2014 Port Colborne Inco renamed to VALE and
added two recent photos of newly repainted 50-tonner at this location
since new in 1953. Smooth Rock Falls Tembec. Added Rouge Steel 1518 enroute to Detroit. Later CANX 1518 used at Tembec.
August 2014 Blenheim Thompsons Added
80-tonner nee Normetal Mining. A Canadian loco comes home! July 2014 Welland Atlas Speciality Steel added
better photo of 9 (1st.) apparently an ex CP S3. Do you know its number?
May 2014 Copper Cliff C-I-L new page started with photo of 144 (ex Western Maryland) at CPR roundhouse for some repair work. Had been sold 1984 INCO 203. This unit still exists. Hamilton STELCO Replaced small black and white photo with bigger colour photo of 50 their first diesel a GE demonstrator. Thorold South Ontario Paper added another photo of 4. Welland Union Carbide Electro-Metallurgical Div. Added EM Co 9 GE 65-tonner ex US military. April 2014 Pembroke Link Town
advertisement 1918. February 2014 Iroquois Falls. Abitibi Replaced photo of MLW S-4 80 with a better quality colour image. Port Credit St.Lawrence Starch. Added two aerial views including one of 1935 which includes the recently abandoned radial. New contributor Heritage Mississauga courtesy of Matthew Wilkinson. Hamilton US Steel Hamilton Works. Added 84. New contributor Jay Brooks December 2013 Hamilton National Steel Car. Article all about the plant in great detail, 1916. November 2013 Hamilton
Bunge (ex CanAmera). October 2013 Cardinal;
Ingredion is the new name for CASCO. Added photo
of 1105 in their new paint scheme. September 2013 Cornwall
Courtaulds mill added three photos of their
box cab electric loco. August 2013 Sault Ste.Marie St.Mary's Paper 80-tonner long stored after closure of the mill in 2010. July 2013 Thunder Bay Cargill Added a very sad looking RS-1 soon to be scrapped. June 2013 Hamilton
STELCO added 53 one of two 80-tonner acquired
new in January 1951. Terrace Bay AV Terrace Bay added two photos of CCGX 1006. Windsor Zalev Bros. added a great down-on view into the scrap yard with 45-tonner at work. May 2013 London
GMD (now closed) added three photos of plant switchers. 102 before/after
repainted and 113. Also, one-of-a-kind "kit" diesel hydraulic
switcher. None were sold. It finally went to GM's McKinnon auto parts
plant. April 2013 Dundas Added old 1911 article about Doolittle & Wilcox early owner of Canada Crushed Stone. January 2013 Iroquois Falls Resolute Forest Products (formerly Abitibi) 1305 two views before and after overhaul by DES. October 2012 Cardinal CASCO added photo of 1105 now looking very crappy! Covered in oil and peeling cheap paint job. Falconbridge: Falconbridge Nickle Mines added photo of 80-ton 106 at new owner and S-1 103 as originally ERIE 306. New contributors Whit Wardell and Chuck Zeiler. September 2012 Cardinal.
added CASCO 8 and 9 and relocated existing photo
of 8 after sold, to Ennis-Paikin (D). August 2012 Toronto New page for Lantic sugar in New Toronto and added to Redpath sugar both using Rail King mover. June 2012 Sarnia Lambton Diesel added 1201 SW1200RS ex SOR 1201 which became VIP 1201. May 2012 Kapuskasing
Tembec added TLCX 1065 one of a fleet of newsprint
box cars for predecessor Spruce Falls Power & Paper. These were
the only interchange cars ever operated. April 2012 Sault
St Marie Algoma Steel added colour photo
of 80-tonner 30. January 2012 Sault St Marie Algoma Steel added 80-tonner 36 and new page added for rolling stock used in intra-plant use. December 2011 Opasatika Agrium added photo of 7731 switching the mine near Kapuskasing. November 2011 Hamilton
ArcelorMittal Dofasco added 418 rebuilt into
new genset. New contributor Mike Garza. October 2011 Created
an Index for railway equipment dealers,
brokers, contract shops, lease units etc. including: September 2011 Hamilton National Steel Car added a recent photo of 12 switching new well cars. August 2011 Cornwall Locweld un-numbered Brookville dinky. New contributor Russ Lees. March 2011 Hamilton Stelco added a better old photo of gas-electric locomotive 24. January 2011 Midland
new page for Century Coal a long-gone
company which operated a coal dock for CSL. December 2010 Nanticoke
added US Steel 93 enroute from Hamilton. New contributor Joseph Bishop. November 2010 Sarnia
added VIP 1201 an SW1200RS acquired
from Rail America, (Hamilton) nee CN 1335. August 2010 Red Rock the closed Domtar mill had a variety of secondhand units over the years. Here are three of them. April 2010 Cardinal
CASCO added two photos of 1105 a GMD1 which
replaced the old RS-3 scrapped on site. March 2010 Cardinal CASCO added old photo of CR 9934 same model. New contributor Jim Gavin. February 2010 Toronto Andrew Merrilees added IREX 204 an RS-3 ex St.Johnsbury & Lamoille County 204, nee Lehigh & Hudson River 4. December 2009 New
pages created for Great Lakes Paper
in Thunder Bay photo of 231 ex CP HS-12. November 2009 Added 1966 photo of Andrew Merrilees yard at West Toronto showing units for sale including SLSF 70-tonner and DL&W SW1. October 2009 Sarnia
added three photos of units at VIP
1511 and 1007 also LDS
0179. May 2009 Final days of Marathon Pulp. After more than half of a century, it is all over. February 2009 New unit CANX 8701 (nee QNS&L) of switching contractor Savage (formerly Canac) at Marathon Pulp. October 2008 Added
Lake Erie Works 459 returning from a rebuild
in the US from new contributor Robert Smith. September 2008 Added Terrace Bay Pulp M-19923. First photos I have seen of this unit which has been at the former Kimberly-Clark mill for 20 years! Its remote location in Northern Ontario and being industrial accounts for the lack of interest by railfans. August 2008 Added VIP inc. a warehousing and rail car storage facility in Sarnia along with another shot of Esso Chemical 7920 plus in Hamilton added Stelco SW900 92 shown at Fort Erie going to unknown point. It returned as Lake Erie Works 459 by which time Stelco had been acquired by U.S. Steel. New contributor Don Janes. May 2008 Canada Crushed Stone added motor 10. April 2008 Acton Limestone Quarries new entry started with ex Lehigh Valley 44-tonner from new contributor John Vincent. October 2007 Algoma Steel had two unique 87 1/2 ton narrow gauge (36") industrial locomotives one of which is now on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge tourist railroad in Colorado. "Big" narrow gauge diesels are hard to come by in North America, most are on the White Pass hauling tourists, so this was a good find for them to use switching in the yard to cut down on smoke complaints. June 2007 St.Mary's Cement a very old photo of Plymouth dinky in quarry. Also, another of large steam shovel. May 2007 CVRD Inco a new name for an old company in Port Colborne as well as a new photo of an old locomotive un-numbered 50-tonner from new contributor Colleen Mills. James River Marathon added 17-102 ex CP 7024 Alco S-2. Also, CGE Peterborough Works No.1 23-tonner. Algoma Steel in "The Sault" 80-tonner 34 and 115-tonner 61. and in Windsor Zalev Bros. 1 GE 45-tonner. April 2007
Algoma Steel 50 still at work after more than half
a century of hard service. New contributor Tim Gobeil. October 1, 2006 Amherstburg: Hearn added link to ETR 101. Blenheim: W G Thompson added ex GWWD 101 relocated to Kent Bridge elevator by new contributor Peter Mumby. Sarnia Lambton Diesel Service added their Car Mover. September
1, 2006 London: GMD Added two recent
views of ex TH&B 57 at the Electro Motive plant in Mc.Cook, IL. August 1, 2006 Added an old colour photo from the collection of Joseph Testagrose of Des Moines & Central Iowa 600 a secondhand GE 70-tonner that went on to have an interesting Canadian history after its acquisition by Andrew Merrilees (D) including on the Canmore Mines non-common carrier railway in Alberta. Also, brand new photo of Cargill 1217 in Thunder Bay. July 1, 2006 Smooth Rock Falls added to Tembec switching contractor Canac unit 1518 by Mike Robin. June 1, 2006 Welland added to Atlas Steel page an old image of one of their two ex US Army Whitcomb 65-tonners. April 11, 2006 Hamilton added to Dofasco roster their only Alco's two second-hand Nickle Plate S-4's and only SW1200 a new GMD unit number 14 (there was no 13). Another photo their last Whitcomb 65-tonner at the end of its use. March 1, 2006 Sarnia area added: Esso Chemical 7920; Novacor 40 getting its prime mover overhauled; Royal Polymers 8620 formerly a Lambton Diesel lease unit and 0178 a "new" leaser unit acquired by Lambton Diesel from Andrew Merrilees Ltd. (Dealer) All from Shaun Hinz. February
1, 2006 Dofasco added photo of 414 Dofasco's
only SW1200, both it and ladle 638 at Platinum Car Co. December 1, 2005 Dofasco added colour photo of 12 in 1969, 416 (ex Mc.Kinnon) recently repainted by Railcare, a contract shop in Hamilton; also their latest acquistion, 410 a well-travelled SW8 overhauled by Rail Trusts Equipment, a small contract shop in Florida. November
1, 2005 Babcox & Wilcox finally sprung for
some paint for their tiny Plymouth. Gerry Ferns October 1, 2005 added two units to Andrew Merrilees (Dealer) IREX 5 SW1 ex EL/DL&W and FDDMS 411 70-tonner. August 1, 2005 added a great aerial view of the Steel Car in Hamilton recently taken by railfan student pilot David Graham. July 1, 2005 An old Pettibone car mover at Korex (old Lever Bros.) soap plant in downtown Toronto, next to Keating Yard. June 1, 2005 Marathon Pulp Inc. added a series of four new images by Chris Wilson of switching contractor at work showing this large plant. Cooksville Brick & Tile an old gas mechical unit, long-gone. May 1, 2005 Novacor Chemical 902 a spare unit for a number of plants in Sarnia area. March 1, 2005 LASCO Whitby add PGE 556 c.1955 in Lilloette, BC from The Sirman Collection this is presently STCR 10. Siemens-Westinghouse in Hamilton, a recent view of the same old Westinghouse CLC unit from new contributor Michael Taylor. GMDH-3 275 once used by Mc.Kinnon Industries, preserved in Michigan. February 1, 2005 Barry's Bay: J.P.Conway once had a tiny Vulcan Iron Works dinky. Port Maitland IMC had a unique Davenport 0-4-0M inherited from Sherbrooke Metallurgical and once at General Motor's Frigidaire plant in Scarborough. Scenic shortline type view of CASCO train on the 2 mile run between Cardinal and the CNR mainline comes the Late Dave More, one of many photographs just acquired from his estate. December 31, 2004 Colour images of RS-3 units similar to CASCO 1548 before and after re-engine with EMD prime mover. These from new contributors Geo. Hamlin and Andy Koenigsberg. Un-identified GE 23-tonner at CLN Industries (D) back in 1998. Kimberley-Clark MLW S-3 6546 ex CPR. Two old black and white scans of Spruce Falls Power and Paper GE 70-tonners 106 and 107. Wendell Lemon and Ron W.Layton October 19, 2004
Tembec Inc. at Smooth Rock Falls has a new switching
contractor CANAC unit CANX 1518. October 8, 2004 Railcare a new car repair facility in Hamilton 45-tonner September
9, 2004 OxyVinyls 65-tonner
and PolyOne 25-tonner plus views of both plants
which are related to each other. Oxy Vinyls, LP ("OxyVinyls"), is a
joint venture company between Occidental Chemical Corporation Lambton Diesel Service 8620 in new paint scheme. August 5, 2004 CGE Davenport works Toronto 25-tonner in colour May 28, 2004 National Steel Car 10 nee RCAF 50-tonner April 11, 2004 Dofasco shot of 416 enroute to outside shop for work. Stelco 51 65-tonner. February 21, 2004 Casco, Cardinal. CNJ 1543 same as 1548. Stelco, Hamilton Additions of diesel and steam. January 19, 2004 CGE Peterborough colour slide of 23 tonner. GMD London colour slide of 1001 with export buffers. January 5, 2004 Consolidated Sand &Gravel, Paris pit. 0-4-0 mechanical also 0-4-0T steam engine. December
11, 2003 Another Hamilton industry, Westinghouse
CLC 50-tonner. December 1, 2003 Canada Crushed Stone several colour slides by Al Howlett of this long-gone unique electric operation. November
14, 2003 Hamilton industries Dofasco 6 when
first acquired and 416 a "lost" engine, "found" by Julius
Olajos and identified by Rob Archer. See also steam
industrial for International Harvester and CIL additions. November 1, 2003 Hamilton industries DOFASCO, International Harvester, NSC, STELCO have all had additions. August 10,2003 Atlas Steel 9 as CACV 3051 a D&H look alike. July 11, 2003 Algoma Steel narrow gauge 55 tonner at East Broad Top. June 2, 2003 Stelpipe NIL (un-numbered) GE 45-tonner about to leave plant in Welland. May 28, 2003 Kapuskasing Tembec 108 acquired new by predecessor SFP&P, 168 ex Mattagami RR/Algoma Central May 23, 2003 Toronto (+ Mississauga) Znidar Bros. (D) GE 45-ton for sale, former Praxair 161. Iroquois Falls: Abitibi-Consolidated 1305 Sudbury Area Mining Railways, including INCO and Falco
April 1, 2003 Prior to this date a number of additions and corrections were made to the gallery. These are most easily identified by new in the thumbnail, or on the actual page. Additions include: Dundas, Canada Crushed Stone, electrics added. Hamilton; Dofasco, 2 units added. London; GMD additions. Paris, CS&G additions. St.Catharines, Mc.Kinnon Industries unit added. Toronto; CGE Davenport, battery loco added. Welland; Atlas loco crane added. NOTE: New Galleries created for Ontario Industrial Steam Locomotives, also Construction and contractors locos. There have been many additions to these already. April 3 Welland: Atlas Steel unique sled pusher engine added, also CN 8190 in old paint, similar to Atlas 8. Thorold South: Ontario Paper, added CN 8116 in old paint, similar to OP unit. Sarnia: Lambton Diesel, new listing, 8620. April
6 Iroquois Falls: Abitibi ex ONR 1203 in two different
paint schemes of different corporate names. April 9 Timmins: Kidd Creek Mine added. Also, Amherstburg: B&O 9114 sister engine to Allied Chemical 3A April 10 London:
GMD Blue Goose 1001, three images added. Welland:
Atlas Steel un-identified MLW yard engine added. April 14 Island Falls: Abitibi; Iroquois Falls: ONR 1203 added; Timmins new entry for Kidd Creek Mines; Soo: new entry for St.Marys Paper; Algoma Steel inc. Tube Div. many colour photos added various models/makes.(deleted seven B&W duplicate models) Port Colborne: new entry for Canadian Furnace Div. of Algoma Steel. April 27 Timmins Kidd Creek Flanger 100060 added. Sarnia Novacor Rock Island 907 added, similar unit to 912. See also Construction gallery (Queenston Hydro and Welland Canal) and steam industrial gallery for additions.
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