Ontario Southland Railway

Ontario Southland Railway

OSRX #505, an MLW RS-23, at Guelph in 2009.
Overview
Headquarters	London, Ontario
Reporting mark	OSRX
Locale	Southern Ontario, Canada
Dates of operation	1992–Present
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Other
Website	http://osrinc.ca/

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Legend
St. Thomas Subdivision
mi CPR Galt Subdivision 0.0 Woodstock 0.7 CNR (MP 50.8) 4.0 to CNR Dundas Subdivision 8.9 Ingersoll OSR Port Burwell Subdivision TFT Global CAMI Automotive Sylvite siding 13.8 Highway 401 Belmont Farm Supply 24.8 Belmont Messenger Freight Services A. Schulman Canada Ltd Dowler-Karn Highway 3 32.0 Wabash Transfer 32.3 CNR & Cayuga Spur (MP 117.8) 32.7 end of track 33.6 St. Thomas mi
Port Burwell Subdivision
mi OSR St. Thomas Subdivision 0.0 Ingersoll Highway 401 4.50 OSR Salford Shop Cargill 7.7 Mount Elgin 12.1 Ostrander Kissner 15.2 Tillsonburg Johnson Controls 17.5 Loop Line transfer future transfer siding CNR Cayuga Spur mi

The Ontario Southland Railway Inc. is an independently held short line operator. The company was founded in 1992 to purchase 17 miles (27 km) of track between Tillsonburg and Ingersoll, Ontario from the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 2009, a second line was added, as 32 miles (51 km) of CPR track from Woodstock to St. Thomas, Ontario were integrated into the system. In 2015, Ontario Southland began leasing the ex-Canadian National Cayuga Subdivision between St. Thomas and Delhi, Ontario, which had been abandoned by its former shortline operator the St. Thomas and Eastern Railway in 2013.^[1] The OSR also operated the Guelph Junction Railway until August 28th, 2020, when they ran their last train on the line before transferring operations to the Goderich and Exeter Railway.^[2]

Operations[]

Tillsonburg Operations[]

OSR's Tillsonburg Division operates on the remaining 17.6 miles (28.3 km) of the ex-Canadian Pacific Port Burwell Subdivision between Ingersoll and Tillsonburg, Ontario. Customers served include Future Transfer, Cedar Crest Wood Products, Kissner Group, Johnson Controls, International Beams, and Wellmaster. Traffic destined for Growmark Inc. in Delhi, Ontario, as well as Cargill and Norfolk Co-Op in Courtland, Ontario is also handled.

St. Thomas Operations[]

On December 14, 2009, the OSR began leasing the St. Thomas Subdivision from Canadian Pacific consisting of 33.6 miles (54.1 km) of track from Woodstock to St. Thomas, Ontario. Customers served include Ontario Refrigerated Services, Auto Warehousing Company, Agrium, Belmont Farm Supply, Sylvite, Messenger Freight Services, and Factor Gas Liquids. Interchange with CN at St. Thomas and with CP at Woodstock.

CAMI Automotive Operations[]

OSR does all switching at the CAMI Automotive plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. Approximately 100 multis are switched in and out of the facility each day.

Cayuga Subdivision[]

In November 2015, the OSR and Canadian National Railways announced that the OSR would be overtaking operation of CN's abandoned Cayuga subdivision from St. Thomas to Tillsonburg and further on to Delhi, Ontario, once necessary track maintenance was completed, in order to service a windmill turbine factory which had opened east of Tillsonburg.^[1] Other customers served include two grain elevators in Courtland, Ontario, an ethanol plant in Aylmer, Ontario and a fertilizer plant in Delhi.

Locomotive Roster[]

See also[]

• List of Ontario railways
• Rail transport in Ontario

References[]

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