NS&T - The Niagara, St. Catharines, & Toronto Railway - The Little System that Could

The N S & T had Steamships, passenger & freight operations local & interurban street cars, buses & even an amusement park making it one of the most diversified systems in Canada.
Scenes include all three subdivisions. As well as scenes of Lakeside Park, Thorold, Fonthill, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, and more.
More information available on the interurban system on the CPTDB website
cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Niaga...
www.trainweb.org/elso/nst.htm
(Narrated by Ray Neilson, Comments by John Mills, Jack Knowles, Al Kerr, Bill Hood (60 min). For the 2010 edition of this video, the majority of the film shown was replaced with newly captured footage from John Mill's original film.
Original Production work by Ray Neilson. Video Editing and DVD Authoring for 2010 edition by Michael Proszynski. Contains film, slides, and narration from John Mills, Jack Knowles, Al Kerr, and Bill Hood. Copyright 1990 / 2010 GPS Video
John Mills, who's film is shown in this presentation, has authored two books on the NS&T.
Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway
by John M. Mills. Published in 2006.
ISBN 978-1-897190-27-2
dcbooks.ca/NS&T.html
Available on Amazon
www.amazon.ca/Niagara-St-Cath...

[@nigelturl3988]

A fascinating history. Thank you!

[@WeazelJaguar]

Earlier this very morning, a gave this signed first addition book to a friend of mine, as a late christmas present! Boy would I love to have this system up and running again. Thanks for posting! I asked the Beamsville Library to buy this for general use and viewing, still no deal.

[@jackdough8164]

It’s horrendous we don’t have anything like this anymore. Like I love my car but if we had options like this to get so many places there’s is many many times I’d rather hop on a small train and take that where I’m going

[@trainrover]

motoring urban-transit naysings' make me wonder whether their stubborness stem from their naysayers' unconscious recollections of wholesale eliminations of public transport from the past; they must bear mistrust towards the day's ruses claiming eliminations of road congestion...

[@trainrover]

Spent a few months commuting along a coastal-interior Andalusian interurban...the FLEETS being SO numerous were SO organic-like 🍸

[@billsalton8660]

For those watching, the last of the NS&T trackage in Thorold and St. Catharines has become abandoned as of March 1st, 2024. Trillium Railway placed the red flag at the southern end of the Thorold Sub, meaning the only rail movements north of there are the CN Mainline

[@screwdriver5181]

What an incredible inter urban. Pity it gave way to the mighty tyre. 100 mph running ! People would be screaming for a service like that today.

[@trainrover]

to my then-six year old self, living near to some COMPREHENSIVE Iberian inter-urban system had felt like an eternity...its countless variety of old-time cars or consists, its incredibly lively settings outdid either the Metro or the Expo-Express (heavy duty subway trains plying ginormous Man & His World fairgrounds enveloped by the mighty St Lawrence) 🍸

[@josephforest7605]

The saddest thing in Niagara is, going around places where rail tracks use to be .I wish the TH&B passenger service between Buffalo,Fort Erie , Welland ,Smithville ,Hamilton and Toronto still existed .

[@carolshore366]

Sad to see our city spelled wrong in so much of this video. St.Catharines

[@chip270]

pound-for-pound, the NS&T was still FAR more efficient, reliable and had better service than the regional bus system the Niagara Region has in the fall of 2023

[@yaroslavyatsyk6475]

Was it possible to ride on the interurban in standing settings during the rush hour?