{"id":496,"date":"2012-08-20T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/?p=496"},"modified":"2021-02-18T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:25:26","slug":"maps-pchr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/maps-pchr\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps: Port Colborne Harbour Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, the best way of understanding how the Port Colborne Railway was set up was from their parent company website: Trillium Railway. It had maps, photographs and information about the companies who ship via the PCHR. Unfortunately as of 2021, the website has been rebranded and much of the information has disappeared. I was able to make a screen capture of the original maps, focusing on the lower part of the PCHR, where my main interest lies:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-594\" title=\"Southern Part of the Port Colborne Harbour Railway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapPCHR_south.gif\" alt=\"Southern Part of the Port Colborne Harbour Railway\" width=\"558\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapPCHR_south.gif 558w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapPCHR_south-150x141.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-content\/uploads\/mapPCHR_south-300x282.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 85vw, 558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To get a better feel how these are physically located, I&#8217;ve created a Google Map with the key parts of the PCHR marked on it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\/ms?msid=216752650984146906640.00047cce4a936e5c01af5&amp;msa=0&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=42.916791,-79.279178&amp;spn=0.08785,0.075295&amp;output=embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small>View <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps\/ms?msid=216752650984146906640.00047cce4a936e5c01af5&amp;msa=0&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=42.916791,-79.279178&amp;spn=0.08785,0.075295&amp;source=embed\">Port Colborne Harbour Railway &#8211; Trackage Map<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<p>An excellent resource for photos of the PCHR is Paul Duncan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/\">Niagara Rails<\/a> website. Paul has divided his photographs up into two groups: one for the physical plant and one for trains on the physical plant. Here are the direct links for each of the sections of the PCHR (called spurs by the company):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/feeder.phtml\">Cayuga Spur: Track<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/feeder-trains.phtml\">Cayuga Spur: Trains<\/a><br \/>\nCovers Feeder East to Feeder West to End of Steel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/canal.phtml\">Canal Spur: Track<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/canal-trains.phtml\">Canal Spur: Trains<\/a><br \/>\nCovers Feeder West to WH Yard to Forks Jct to Dain and points north<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/portcol.phtml\">Harbour Spur: Track<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/portcol-trains.phtml\">Harbour Spur: Trains<\/a><br \/>\nCovers Forks Jct to Fielden Jct to Macey Yard<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/portcol.phtml\">Government Spur: Track<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararails.com\/gov-trains.phtml\">Government Spur: Trains<\/a><br \/>\nCovers Fielden Jct to End of Steel (ADM and Southpier)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, the best way of understanding how the Port Colborne Railway was set up was from their parent company website: Trillium Railway. It had maps, photographs and information about the companies who ship via the PCHR. Unfortunately as of 2021, the website has been rebranded and much of the information has disappeared. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/maps-pchr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maps: Port Colborne Harbour Railway&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stationstudios.ca\/trains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}