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Rule 105 Territory - Not to exceed 15 mph on entire trackage.
Closed to rail traffic between Mile 6.6 and Mile 2.1
Trackage between Mile 2.1 and 0.0 is now under CN control as Rule 105 under CTC Territory.
Mile 0.0 (Fort Erie) : Niagara Blvd, Fort Erie : This used to be CP Fort Erie. There are now CN/CP trains running on the former CP Fort Erie Subdivision between 0.0 and 2.1. The track is designated as EE99 (Track 99). Many trains used to refer it as Gretzky Siding.... hehehe... The first time I heard that was from CP train 167.
Mile 12.0 (Koable) : (South) Brookfield Road, Niagara Falls : At mile 12 is Station Name Sign Koable. Koable doesn't serve any purpose, other than it is where there is a siding between Koable Road and South Brookfield Road. Koable is just east of South Brookfield Road.
Mile 13.7 (Brookfield - area) : Stauth Road, Welland : Mile 13.7 of the CP Stevensville Spur is where it connects to the CP Montrose Subdivision. This general area is known as Brookfield because SNS Brookfield was relocated to mile 16.1 of the CP Hamilton Subdivision. You are very lucky these days to get a picture of a train on the CP Stevensville Spur. Servicing is done so sporadically.
The CP Stevensville Spur runs from mile 13.4 of the CP Montrose Subdivision to mile 6.6 east of Stevensville. The line has been closed for years between Fort Erie and Stevensville (mile 0 - 6).
This line has had some changes done to it due to the Welland Canal Relocation Project during the early 1970's. This line was part of the old Canada Southern, MC, NYC and Penn Central line to Fort Erie.
The line... remembering that things have changed, once passed under Miller Road and then it used to go directly east to Fort Erie. Miller Road had originally been a grade crossing, but an overpass was built because this became the number one location in the area for train-car accidents.
The line until it was torn out in 2001 or 2002 went under Miller Road, but took a sharp turn south across the 'new' part of Netherby Road. A.k.a. Townline Road, closer to the Welland Canal. (Not the Netherby Road that the CN Stamford Subdivision grade crossing is located on. That is what I like to call old Netherby Road.
When required, a Welland yard Job services Graphics printing place and the windmill manufacturer in Stevensville, from their CP Welland yard on the CP Hamilton Subdivision.
The CP Fort Erie Subdivision is out of service from mile 6.6, east towards Fort Erie. The unused section of the line just sits among high weeds in places during the summer as that is the time when vegetation grows abundant.
In November 2001, the CP Fort Erie Subdivision was reconnected to the CN Stamford Subdivision, after several years of being free of any CN connection. I guess CP, when they took over Conrail's territory in Niagara, decided to use the Niagara Falls line, thus ignoring their option to use their predecessors running rights on the line.
Shortly before the connection to the CN Stamford Subdivision was put back in, CP handed over the CP Fort Erie Subdivision at Fort Erie to CN.
At Fort Erie the CP Fort Erie Subdivision was upgraded and only the south track of the two CP tracks was upgraded to allow trains on it.
CN Stamford Subdivision just east of the CN Duff interlocking, meaning there is no CTC for this old CP track I guess.... Also CN put a switch in at the International bridge at the east end of track 99.
CP's December 2001 timetable shows the CP Fort Erie Subdivision becoming abandoned from mile 6.6 to around Pettit Road in Fort Erie, where CN owns the line east to the bridge.
There is about a mile long siding around mile 12 of the CP Fort Erie Subdivision. This siding is often used to store rail cars that aren't needed at that particular time.
These days there are two industries on this line. One is a newsprint printer and the other is a windmill industry. Both are
This trackage is now owned by CN.
 Mile 0.0 Looking West (1999) |
 Mile 0.0 Looking East (1999) |
 Mile 0.0 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 0.25 Looking West (2001) |
 Mile 0.25 Looking East (2001) |
 Mile 1.0 Looking West (1999) |
 Mile 1.0 Looking East (1999) |
 Mile 1.36 Looking West (2001) |
 Mile 1.36 Looking East (2001) |
 Mile 2.1 Looking West (2002) |
 Mile 2.1 Looking Northwest (2002) |
 Mile 2.69 Looking West (1999) |
 Mile 2.69 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 2.69 Looking East (1999) |
 Mile 2.69 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 2.8 Looking West (2005) |
 Mile 2.8 Looking East (2005) |
 Mile 3.31 Looking West (1997) |
 Mile 3.31 Looking East (1997) |
 Mile 4.64 Looking West (1997) |
 Mile 4.64 Looking East (1997) |
 Mile 4.64 Looking East (2000) |
 Mile 5.89 Looking West (2001) |
 Mile 5.89 Looking East (2001) |
 Mile 6.57 Looking West (2006) |
 Mile 6.57 Looking East (2006) |
 Mile 6.97 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 6.97 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 7.24 Looking West (1997) |
 Mile 7.24 Looking West (2001) |
 Mile 7.24 Looking East (1997) |
 Mile 7.24 Looking East (2000) |
 Mile 8.0 Looking West (1997) |
 Mile 8.0 Looking East (1997) |
 Mile 9.3 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 9.3 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 10.0 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 10.0 Looking West (2001) |
 Mile 10.0 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 10.75 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 10.75 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 11.39 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 11.39 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 11.39 Looking East (2002) |
 Mile 12.05 Looking West (1992) |
 Mile 12.2 Looking East (2002) |
 Mile 12.68 Looking West (2002) |
 Mile 12.68 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 12.68 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 12.68 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 12.68 Looking South (2006) |
 Mile 12.68 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 12.68 Looking East (1998) |
 Mile 13.0 Looking West (1998) |
 Mile 13.0 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 13.0 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 13.0 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 13.4 Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 13.5 Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 13.7 Looking East (1997) |
 Straight Through Trees At Bend Looking East (2003) |
 At Netherby Road Looking West (2003) |
 At Netherby Road Looking East (2003) |
 Through Trees Towards CP Montrose Subdivision Looking West (2003) |
 Mile 13 CP Stevensville Spur Looking East (2003) |
 Mile 8.0 ish Looking East (1992) |
 Mile 10.0 Looking East (1992) |
 Mile 5.0 Looking East (1992) |
 Mile 5ish Looking East |
 Mile 2.0 Looking West |
 Mile 0.0 Looking East |
 Mile 3.31 Looking East (1988) |
 Mile 0.0 Looking East (1988) |
