Railfanning Downtown Brampton & showcasing the Abandoned OBRY Line on April 30 2022

On Saturday April 30 2022 I made a trip to Downtown Brampton hoping to see a few Halton Sub Trains & also to film/showcase the Abandoned OBRY Line which I’m pretty sure will be coming up pretty soon in that area regarding how eager the city seems to be with getting started on the redevelopment project over them 5 acres of land stretching from Railroad st to Queen st.

I’d say I got rather lucky today as the Saturday sure did yield a decent amount of freight activity on the Halton Sub between 10:30am-3:30pm and actually at the point when you see EB CN 148 & VIA 84 use the crossovers to switch from Track 2 onto Track 1 just before the diamond… that’s because another EB manifest outlawed on Track 1 maybe half a km from the diamond probably due to running out of time. One other WB manifest also snuck by me while I was filming by the old Dixie Cup Spur, hence I wasn’t able to get it on film. So yes the freights seemed to quickly get lined one after the other today

Anyhow just thought a handful of you would enjoy this spring of 2022 film showcasing the Abandoned OBRY line which many are almost forsure… will be gone from this spot at least by the summers-end.

Also talked just a little about somewhat recent history of Downtown Brampton where I showcased the area in which the old CN Dixie Cup Railway Spur once ran for many decades as well as the old Downtown Brampton Little Train Shoppe which resides in the old Downtown Building at the corner of Mill & Railroad st up until they sadly had to close in 2009 after the building was sold to the developer who is working on the new condos there now. Hope you enjoy!

*if you remember The Little Train Shoppe much or have any stories I’d love to hear in the comments below? And also regarding the old CN Dixie Cup Spur, if anyone ever took any pics of the area at the time the Spur was torn up (late 2012 I think) or shortly after (2013) I sure would love to see if you’d be kind enough to share? Think I’d even be willing to pay to obtain a print if you want to go that route? And same deal of course if you ever managed any pics of CN actually on the Spur servicing GP before service was discontinued?