Orangeville Brampton Railway (OBRY)

plants and insects can be a nuisance in the summer in the overgrown areas.

Most of the current OBRY route was built in the 1870s by the Credit Valley Railway (CVR), with construction completed to Orangeville (with a branch to Elora) in 1879. The CVR was purchased by the CPR in 1883,[6] which joined the tracks of the CVR with a former rival, the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway (TGB), at Orangeville, in effect extending the line north from Orangeville to the TGB's terminus in Owen Sound.

Scheduled passenger service between Toronto and Owen Sound via Brampton and Orangeville ended in 1970, the Elora branch was abandoned in 1987, and the Orangeville-Owen Sound trackage was abandoned in 1995.

The Town of Orangeville purchased the Mississauga-Orangeville trackage between Mile 2.2 to Mile 34.6 of the Owen Sound Subdivision from the CPR on September 29, 2000, to ensure the line's continued existence. The line was then managed by the Orangeville Brampton Rail Development Corporation.

In early 2018, it was announced that after years of operation for the town, Cando would be discontinuing its contract to operate the line effective at the end of June 2018, and as a result, a new operator was sought by the town to operate the line. Facing an uncertain future, the Credit Valley Explorer made its final runs in February 2018, and the three passenger cars were sold off to the Waterloo Central Railway. After the final freight runs by Cando in late June 2018, new contractor Trillium Railway (later known as GIO Railways Corporation) commenced freight operations on the OBRY, starting in July 2018 with a leased locomotive.

A decision made by Orangeville Brampton Rail Access Group resulted in the termination of service on the line effective December 31, 2021. The last leader of the line would be Trillium Rail, and Orangeville mayor Sandy Brown suggested the line may become a recreational trail. The last train out of Orangeville was December 17, 2021