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Originally Posted by matt602
The only thing that line is used for is servicing the industries in the north end, from their yard at Gage and Lawrence. Don't think theres really any way they could increase usage of it unless more heavy industries located in the north end, which isn't looking likely.
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As it is the line is only used about twice a day, often to shunt locomotives and a few rail cars to and from the north end industrial area. I can't remember seeing a longer train on those tracks (I live two blocks east, so I'm mainly going off what I can hear during the day... the crossing bells don't ring very long when they do)
If it had been planned differently it could have helped solve the problem of GO trains connecting to the Grimsby Subdivision to get to/from Niagara (and there's no way it could have been known that regional rail would become a thing, but imagine if that line had been trenched, and was busier.