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Rule 105 Territory.
Mile 0.0 (Jct. with CP Welland Industrial Lead) Plymouth Road, Welland : The CP Page Hersey Spur switch is located here, west of the old WX tower location of the former NYC/MC/PC Mainline. The switch was located
behind the Polish Community Hall.
Mile 0.35 (Welland Pipe) : Ontario Road at Dain Avenue, Welland : This was the entrance to the former Page Hersey Works. It is now Lakeside Steel. It is located at the intersection of Plymouth Road-Dain Avenue and Ontario Road.
The Lakeside Lead is of the same location that the former CP Page Hersey Spur, that was removed in 2003. Lakeside Steel took over the former Stelco Page Hersey, after the turn of the 21st century when Stelco was liquidating property.
For a period of time Lakeside Steel was trucking the pipe to Dain City to be placed on lumber cars to be take out of Niagara.
On July 29, 2009, I was informed that this line was being prepared to be reinstated. A bulldozer travelled the old R.O.W. and there were orange marker-stakes present along the outer limits of the line's old trackage.
I was informed on August 11th 2009, that a CP subcontractor was beginning to relay the ties and rail one by one, and on August 12th 2009 I returned to the scene and they had laid most of the ties and rail but hadn't yet put all of the spikes in.
I followed the progress of the re-installation of the trackage, exactly where it used to lay, but within the plant property, the trackage may have changed. I never exactly knew the entire layout.
I stopped following the progress of the installation in mid September, as it was obscured by pipe laying along the fence along Ontario Road and the buildings had also obscured everything.
In mid August, I went to the local newspaper with information they hadn't learned and was told by one of the reporters to go and take some photos of the progress of the re-installation. On August 15, 2009, my photo showed up in the Welland Tribune.
| Photo of the re-installment of the trackage. |  | August 2009. |
On August 26, 2010, I went down to photograph TR 1859 as expected on the CP Lakeside Lead and noticed something new. Since the re-installation of this line in 2009, the traffic signals weren't tied in with the train being on the Ontario Road/Dain Avenue/Plymouth Road crossing,. Lights continued to cycle through their ways. But, a new key switch had been recently been installed on
the northeast corner of the crossing. I asked and found out that it had been installed around mid August 2010. I have also been told that a key key is turned manually for now, on the post on the approach of the train to the intersection, to force all traffic lights to turn red. When the train has cleared the crossing, the key was put back to the normal direction. I have also been told that they plan to incorporate
the signals back into the bond wire circuit at some point in time, as it used to be with the existence of the former CP Page Hersey Spur.
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