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 Post subject: Summit Station
PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:45 pm 

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This is not a restoration or preservation but a re-creation. I have been anticipating the opening. The Loewith family have a large dairy herd. They have now opened their own dairy outlet:
https://www.facebook.com/SummitholmHolsteins/
The farm is literally across the road from the site of the original Summit station, which I will dig around to find a picture. The original was merely a flag stop on the Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Railway's line from Hamilton to Brantford and Waterford. Summit was at the top of a long climb up the Niagara Escarpment. It is about a mile south of Copetown, which is the top of "the Hill" on the CNR's Dundas Sub. main line.
Anyway, it is a lovely set up. I have not tried the whole milk yet, but the chocolate milk is superb - a very sharp, fresh taste.
They did a fine job on the building. I asked the gal if they were going to get anything to sit on that trackage but she didn't know. Congratulations to the Loewith family.
Milk in returnable glass jars - who knew!


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 Post subject: Re: Summit Station
PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:59 pm 

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Here are a few more views
The Loewiths are Jewish folks. The grampa, Joe, got his family out of Europe years ago, and arrived in Canada with almost nothing. They now have one of the largest dairy herds in Ontario. They are hard working people. I sometimes see one of the sons in the local post office. No fancy airs -- he is usually right out of the barn in his work clothes and with the lovely smell of cow sh..!
Way back in the 70s, I think, we (CRHA Toronto & York) ran an excursion using Ontario Rail (ex-CPR) 4-6-0 No. 1057 from Hamilton to Brantford, down to Waterford, then across the Canada Southern to Welland, then up the TH&B main line back to Hamilton. It was an amazing trip. Climbing westbound out of Hamilton in the morning, we encountered some slippery rails. The night train eastbound, had been hauling several car loads of scrap steel. Oil from the steel had found the rail heads. No. 1057 took to slipping with a train of six (I think?) heavyweight coaches. We had to split the train part way up and double the hill, taking half the train to the siding at Summit and return for the rest. Not something that happened very day.
When CP Rail took over the TH&B, it laid welded rail on the Waterford line to carry steel coil trains from the Stelco steel works in Hamilton to the newer Stelco works in Nanticoke, on Lake Erie. A land slide at Brantford along the Grand River put the line out of commission and it was abandoned.


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 Post subject: Re: Summit Station
PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:20 pm 

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Not quickly finding a pic of the original station. Here are the last of the new station. Not sure why one went sideways. If you click on it, it views okay.
Incidentally, the Jerseyville station that was a couple of miles west of Summit is preserved, along with TH&B 2-8-0 No. 103 at the Westfield Heritage Village near Rockton, Ontario.


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 Post subject: Re: Summit Station
PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:24 pm 

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Would there be enough room on that track to display a saved CNR #1533? Just asking.


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 Post subject: Re: Summit Station
PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:49 pm 

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PaulWWoodring wrote:
Would there be enough room on that track to display a saved CNR #1533? Just asking.


I think so! :)
Or perhaps a certain CPR 4-4-4?


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