Barrie-Collingwood Railway

The Barrie - Collingwood Railway ( BCRY ) is a Canadian railway company in the province of Ontario.

It operates a 49 km long stretch of Barrie to Collingwood. In the newly constructed rail yard in Utopia is following the Canadian Pacific Railway. Previously the trains were picked up in the large marshalling yard MacMillan Yard of the Canadian National in Toronto.

The BCRY is a joint venture of places Barrie, Collingwood and Cando Contracting Limited, which operates the line. The infrastructure of the line from Utopia to Barrie Barrie belongs to the city, the. The line of Utopia to Collingwood Collingwood the community Its main customers are National Starch & Chemical, Molson Breweries and Bentofix Technologies.

History

The City of Barrie purchased from CN the " Newmarket Subdivision " from Barrie to Bradford. This should come as on the BCRY regional railcars used. However, the range of BCRY will hold only low and the speed is limited to 16 km / h.

The web has a EMD GP9 in use, another is currently turned off.

As the train 200,000 to 400,000 Canadian dollars wrote a year loss, the two communities in February 2011 decided to cease operation on the track. Added to this was that two important industrial companies had ceased their activities and thus slumped most important customers.