Essex Terminal Railway

[ ] Essex Terminal Railway

00.00 mi Connection to reach Hiram Walker Distillery 00.25 mi Ford yard 01.00 mi Walker Yard 01.50 mi Windsor (Lincoln Rd. - Yard Office; Main Office; Enginehouse) 01.75 mi Lincoln yard 02.00 mi Tecumseh Rd. East 02.67 mi Crossing with CP Rail Windsor Subdivision (yard lead) --.- mi Ouellette Avenue overpass 03.00 mi Interchange to CN Rail VanDeWater yard via CP Windsor Sub. 03.60 mi Tecumseh Rd. West 03.80 mi Interchange yard with CP Rail; connection to CP Windsor yard 05.05 mi CP railway tunnel to Detroit, Mi ; (ex-CN Rail/Conrail/Michigan Central) 06.05 mi Huron Church Road 07.40 mi Westward spur to Hearn Trucking, K-Scrap, Windsor Salt (brine operation) 07.90 mi Ojibway Parkway 08.25 mi Ojibway Yard - start --.- mi Spur to ADM and Morton Terminal via Ojibway Yard 09.05 mi Ojibway Yard - end 09.50 mi Windsor Salt mine - no longer served by railroad; car storage only 09.90 mi Ojibway Parkway 15.00 mi River Canard (two bridges) 08.00 mi Texas yard 19.00 mi Yard Amherstburg 19.00 mi Eastward spur to Honeywell/Lasalle Packaging 19.00 mi Westward spur to Honeywell (ex-General/Allied Chemical) 19.50 mi Westward Spur to Diageo Canada; via wye 19.50 mi End of track

Essex Terminal Railway (reporting mark ETL) is a Canadian shortline terminal railroad, running from the City of Windsor, Ontario through La Salle, to the Town of Amherstburg, Ontario, for a distance of approximately 21 miles (34 km). The ETR has direct connections to Canadian Pacific Railway, and Canadian National Railway. The railway is owned by Essex Morterm Holdings.

The railway was founded in 1902 as a western connection of the Grand Trunk Railway (now present-day Canadian National Railway) to factories in the eastern end of Windsor. Construction of the line took place between 1902 and 1918. During World War II, the trains hauled military and industrial equipment (i.e. Bren Gun carriers, and trucks) from Ford Windsor and other industries, to interchanges with Canadian National, Canadian Pacific. New York Central, Pere Marquette, and Wabash Railways. Its four-stall enginehouse, and main offices are on Lincoln Road in Windsor. Due to heavy development along much of the mainline, Essex Terminal runs its trains at a maximum of 12 miles per hour (19 km/h) in the city, and 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) in the county. (There is currently (2013) a slow order in the River Canard area.)

As a part of the urban renewal of Windsor, the railway sold several kilometers of spur line (The Factory Branch) in central Windsor to the City of Windsor and various developers in 1998, allowing new homes and businesses to be built along the former rail RoW. The Mainline was generally unchanged but the ETR became more dependent on down river traffic.

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