While the rail and the ties on this portion of a once region-wide transit system have been removed, the old NS&T (Niagara, St. Catharines, and Toronto) line has found a new use as a recreational path in a series of quiet residential areas parallel and in close proximity to the present Welland Canal.  This trail was actually known as a section of the Lake Shore Division of the NS&T Electric railway system.  From 1913 to 1931, passengers were carried between St. Catharines and Niagara-on- the-Lake along its route, including numerous Canadian Soldiers on route to a Niagara-on-the-Lake military camp during the First World War.  The rail line was taken over by Canadian National Railway in 1960 for dieselized freight service.   

During the 1950-1960s growth of residential neighbourhoods in the once-agricultural region that surrounded the NS & T Port Weller Spur, some of the favourite past times of youth included squashing pennies on the rail, feeling the vibrations of oncoming trains with their ears,  and using the track as a short-cut, claims local baby-boomer.