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News photos: Guelph Junction Railway lands new customer

By Trains Staff | September 8, 2022

| Last updated on February 19, 2024


Siding supports new transload operation

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Orange locomotive passes construction equipment at work
Work is under way on a new siding for the Guelph Junction Railway in June 2022. (Stephen C. Host)

The city-owned Guelph Junction Railway has added a new customer, Flash Freight Systems, constructing a siding on the city’s north end near Woodlawn Avenue and Edinburgh Road. Flash Freight, headquartered 8 miles north of Guelph in Ariss, Ontario, will be using the siding to transload cement, potato flakes, peas, and lumber. The siding was constructed in June 2022, with the first few hundred feet going into service later that month. It has now been extended to nearly 1,000 feet to meet the transload needs of multiple customers. The siding is located on a former Canadian National right-of-way that once ran north to Fergus and Palmerston.

The railroad also built an additional siding in May 2022 to support industries in the south end of Guelph.

Train led by orange locomotive passes maintenance equipment working on new siding
A Guelph Junction Railway train passes the new siding for Flash Freight transload business, extended to 1,000 feet this month. (Stephen C. Host)

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