Doughnut Car... Bob and Doug McKenzie would love it... ok eh?

[Miningman]

Big Company... remember well the huge plant in Simcoe, serving SW Ontario and it's incredibly rich farmland and produce production. The factory was a very large and very unique Art Deco structure with beautiful architecture... closed in the 80's, falling into severe disrepair it was torn down after a failed attempt of using some of the facade for retirement condos. 

It was the largest employer in Simcoe. I will never forget that building...and of course all the tracks were ripped up going to it, then all the tracks in town, CNR, Wabash, Pere Marquette, and the Lake Erie and Northern. Then all the stations, then the CASO, then all the mainlines. Nothing left .. nothing. 

The once proud, very prosperous and beautiful town, a centre for mixed farming and tobacco never recovered and remains in a very depressed state. 

[wanswheel]

Miningman

Continental Can

http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/115077.aspx

[NKP guy]

   When I first read the headline I thought that this was Congress' idea of what might replace dining cars.

   However, I'd be much more interested in a boxcar full of the finished product than in a hopper full of dough ingredients.

[Deggesty]

"Cheap defective junk"--Recently I bought, by mail order, a clock that was advertised as having a loud alarm. WHen it came to me, it was nothing but Chinese junk--it would not run and it would not alarm. Worst of all, it had on it the name "Bulova." I sent it back.

[Miningman]

Overmod-- You must have been to either Dartmouth or Mahone Bay at some point to know about Nova Scotia Black Tea . A home spun wool turtleneck and slickers outdoors by the sea adds to the taste. 

Anyone click on that CNR Trenton ( formerly Canadian Northern) track plan? ( at the very top of the first picture )

What is striking is all the industry... in addition to Canadian Doughnut there is a Quaker Oats plant, a Stokley Van Camp plant, Continental Can plant, a stockyard, storage track for 45 car ore train, presumably for the docks on Lake Ontario, a railway yard, roundhouse and machine shop. Trenton is a smallish medium size kind of town. 

Like a great deal of the Great Lakes Port cities and into the New England area, rust belt, upper New York State, Ohio Valley and so on and on into Missouri and beyond so much is now gone. 

Todays map would read : local unemployment office, welfare office, local government marijuana and liquor store, casino, and the addiction treatment centre. The railroads roundhouse is long gone,  has a 2 track mainline and does not stop at all hauling containers from Mexico and China full of cheap defective junk that you can sell 3 years later for .50 cents at a garage sale. 

That's progress baby. 

 

 

[Norm48327]

I have nothing against doughnuts but is it OK If I prefer Cinamon rolls with my morning coffee? There is a local bakery that makes Cinamon Rolls that are out of this world delicious.

Look out fat belly, here they come.

[Overmod]

Deggesty

Overmod

 But I don't chew my coffee, I drink it.

ChuckCobleigh

So, not to be picky, but where is the coffee car?

 Ask and ye shall receive.

 

Chuck: watch the video; the 'coffee car' is a container that presumably has a proper liner, and any intermodal vehicle becomes the coffee car 'proper'.  Far cheaper, perhaps especially with a relative glut of containers suitable for less intensively trafficked markets, than a purpose-built car for relatively low "tonnage" of product to a particular destination at a particular time.

 

Likely that containers will move quicker, aiding in keeping the product in good condition, and it should be relatively easy to implement environmental control of various things in a container.

 

 

Johnny: I like my coffee to be like Tina Turner.  Can I say I would not like to have to chew that Starbuck sludge, metaphorically, on a family-friendly forum?  And I further don't like Starbucks because Tina would not be as good as she is if she were reduced to a 'krispy kritter'.

 

The Canadians, more particularly the Nova Scotians, introduce us to the proper, unsung Canadian alternative to 'black coffee', black tea.  Brewed until opaque and black, that is.

 

And that I will happily chew, bitter though it be, because it's the one thing better than black-bean soup with sherry to warm you up under almost any conditions with just one sip.

[rdamon]

Not a Tim Horton's ...

https://news.starbucks.com/news/all-aboard-the-first-starbucks-on-a-train-with-sbb

[tatans]

Hey, eh? you Hosers making fun of us Canuckleheads up here in Canadaland??

[Deggesty]

Overmod

 But I don't chew my coffee, I drink it.

 

ChuckCobleigh

So, not to be picky, but where is the coffee car?

 

 

Ask and ye shall receive.

 

[Overmod]

ChuckCobleigh

So, not to be picky, but where is the coffee car?

Ask and ye shall receive.

[ChuckCobleigh]

So, not to be picky, but where is the coffee car?

[Miningman]

Map CNR (formerly CNoR) Trenton Yard
Last Trains From Lindsay by Keith Hansen. 

Canadian Doughnut began in Toronto in 1935-36 and opened a large plant in Trenton in 1938 and another in Montreal 1948. 

GACX 42594 General American Airslide 70-ton covered hopper 2600 cu.ft. built 3/1956 

 

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CANFOR