Ontario Southland Railway

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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/

v t e Ontario Southland Railway
Legend
St. Thomas Subdivision
mi CPKC Galt Subdivision 0.0 Woodstock 0.7 CN Dundas Subdivision (MP 50.8) 4.0 Beachville to CNR Dundas Subdivision 8.9 Ingersoll OSR Port Burwell Subdivision TFT Global CAMI Automotive Sylvite siding 13.8 Putnam 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 CN Talbot Subdivision & 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 CN Cayuga Spur mi

The Ontario Southland Railway, Inc. is an independently held short line operator. The company was founded in 1992 to purchase 27 kilometres (17 mi) of track between Tillsonburg and Ingersoll, Ontario from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). In 2009, a second line was added, as 51 kilometres (32 mi) 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]

OSR also operated the Guelph Junction Railway until 28 August 2020 when operations were transferred to the Goderich–Exeter Railway.^[2]

OSR's Tillsonburg Division operates on the remaining 28.3 kilometres (17.6 mi) of the ex-CPR 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.

On 14 December 2009, the OSR began leasing the St. Thomas Subdivision from CPR consisting of 54.1 kilometres (33.6 mi) 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.

OSR performs switching at the CAMI Automotive plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. The facility experiences an approximate daily influx and outflow of 100 multis.

In November 2015, OSR and Canadian National (CN) Railways made a joint announcement regarding the transfer of operations on CN's disused Cayuga subdivision. The responsibility of managing the St. Thomas–Tillsonburg segment (and extending to Delhi, Ontario) was handed over to OSR. However, this transition would commence after essential track maintenance was carried out, aiming to facilitate the transportation needs of a newly established windmill turbine factory situated 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.

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