The St. Thomas and Eastern Railway was a

shortline railway :''Short Line is also one of the four railroads in the American version of the popular board game Monopoly, named after the Shore Fast Line, an interurban streetcar line.'' A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that oper ...

division of the

Trillium Railway The Trillium Railway is a Canadian short-line railroad operating in the province of Ontario. Much of its right-of-way in the Niagara area was formerly part of the " Welland Canal Railway" (also known as the Welland Railway) that closely follo ...

, operating near St. Thomas, Ontario,

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. The main commodities transported on the railway were grain, salt, and chemicals. St. Thomas and Eastern connected to

Canadian National The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN ...

at Sarum, east of St Thomas, and

Ontario Southland Railway The Ontario Southland Railway Inc. is an independently held short line operator. The company was founded in 1992 to purchase of track between Tillsonburg and Ingersoll, Ontario from the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 2009, a second line was added, ...

(OSRX) in

Tillsonburg Tillsonburg is a town in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada with a population of 18,615 located about 50 kilometres southeast of London, on Highway 3 at the junction of Highway 19. History Prior to European settlement, the present site of Tills ...

. Total trackage was 33.6 miles. Trillium Railway ceased operations of the STER on December 20, 2013.

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