Uhthoff (ghost town)

I was in the area on Friday and stopped to check out the old train car. Too bad the weather is still not great or I would have really gone exploring! The quarry looks like it would make for a very interesting walk in the summer as well.

I copied that from this article a pretty good read http://www.okthepk.ca/dataCprSiding/cprNews/cpNews60/89010100.htm

Sometimes we meet with combinations of names. Trying to solve the origin of the name UHTHOFF (Ontario) on the Port McNicoll subdivision some years ago, I found that it was named after one of the London bankers of the parallel Midland Railway (now Canadian National). He was in partnership (Fesser, Uhthoff & Co.) with another banker who gave his name to FESSERTON on the same line.

There was another old box car about 60 feet west of that one, the lunch room/office for CN employees working at the quarry. Both were former freight cars modified for work train service and finally here. The other car has been removed to a property near Uptergrove.

I worked at Uhthoff as a CN car mechanic in the late 70s and late 80s inspecting and servicing railway stone cars. We only used that car for storeage of wood excelsior for packing hopper doors and slope sheets of cars to prevent fine crushed stone particles from leaking out of the loaded cars.

Stopped for photos of the "crazy building", it's actually a long abandoned railway car which began life as a boxcar and was converted for work train service (often done by railways with obsolete equipment), it is visible from Thorburn Rd located on the site of former CN railway yard at Uthoff Quarry. The quarry itself is still active although railway operations ceased in the early 1990's.