Canada's Railway Magazine Since 1945 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1996
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Canada's Railway Magazine since 1945 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1996 M^^^^^^S^S^I If''-'^'^1^^^^^^ PUBLISHED BY lBlH|lK|n •I^J^^^^B NOVEMBER- upper Canada RaHwaySot T^r^eiWSW^^^^^^ ^"'^^^^ISSN 1193-7971 Features this month Research and Reviews Transcontinental LENVOI. THE TRAIN TO MARIPOSA 3 RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY 10 THE RAPIDO 15 • An excerpt from Leacock's Sunshine Sketches. • Stations in Montreal and the Niagara Peninsula. • More new railways; StL&H train changes. • More on the Gatt and Preston Railway. THE TRAINS TO MARIPOSA 4 THE PANORAMA 18 • Passenger trains north of Toronto in 1996. INFORMATION NETWORK 12 • VIA's plans for additional service to Jasper. • The Casino Rama Express. • GTR opening dates. IN TRANSIT 20 • A short history of the CN Newmarket Sub. STATIONS AND STRUCTURES 13 • Toronto Spadlna streetcar update. • Notes on current operations in Simcoe County • CPR bridge at Outlook, Saskatchewan. MOTIVE POWER 21 and passenger trains in Orillia. DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES 14 THE TRAIN SPOTTERS 23 Larry Partridge Bloxham was not able to make his presenta• to unprocessed film from airport baggage It was with great sadness that we learned of tion as had been planned, but he will in the security equipment being brought into use in the passing on November 3 of one of the new year. the U.S., Israel, and Europe. The company Toronto area's leading streetcar enthusiasts. The next meeting in Toronto will be at which manufactures the CTX-5000 said that Larry Partridge was a long-time member of 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 20, on the the strong X-rays that it uses may fog film. the UCRS. In addition, he was one of the third floor at Metro Hall, on King Street at The column recommends that film not be founding members of the Toronto Trans• John Street, just west of St. Andrew subway packed in checked baggage but should be portation Society in 1973, serving as its first station and a short walk from Union Station. carried on board aircraft in hand luggage. president and also as the first editor of the Art Clowes will show selected slides from a TTS's newslettei; Transfer Points. Larry was trip to the western U.S. in 1984, and you are Cover photos also active in the Canadian Railroad Histori• invited to bring your slides and videos to fill The front cover photo, by Paul Bloxham, cal Association, for which he was editor of the rest of the evening. shows CN SW1200RSS 1361 and 1362 on the Toronto Harbour Commissioners' tracks on the local newsletter; Turnout, and instrumen• The following meeting, also at Metro Queens Quay East, at 12:57 on August 1, tal in seeing that the first new streetcar Hall, will be on Friday January 17. Pat 1995. The crew is heading back to Don Yard bought by the TTC, Peter Witt car No. 2300, Scrimgeour will show slides of some trips in after having switched Redpath Sugat where was preserved. different parts of Canada in 1996. In Febru• they had delivered two CP hoppers and lifted Larry will be remembered by many for ary Peter Jobe will present a photographic the hopper seen here. The crew said that his two books on the street railways of review of the predecessor railways to the Redpath is a CP customet but CN does the Toronto, The Witts and Mind the Doors, present-day Union Pacific, and the March switching. They also said that they usually Please. Larry's interests went beyond rail• meeting will be the annual general meeting. switched Redpath once a week, but had been ways and streetcars, though; he had a great Upcoming Hamilton meetings will be at running every day because business had love for theatre organs and was a member of 8:00 p.m. on Friday December 27, and Fri• been good. In the background are the Victoiy the Toronto Theatre Organ Society. Larry's day, Januaiy 24, both at the Hamilton Spec• Soya Mills, which were being demolished at contributions and overall enthusiasm will tator auditorium, 44 Frid Street, Just off the time. long be remembered by all who knew him. Main Street at Highway 403. The meetings On the back covec the upper photo is by He gave his advice freely and could always will feature recent news and members' cur• Steve Danko, of the northbound Canadian, be counted on when questions needed to be rent and historical slides. answered. He will be sadly missed. VIA Train 9, at Maple, on the CN Newmarket Help wanted for shows Subdivision in July 1987. The only passenger -Dove Morgon Al Maitland is looking for a volunteer or two trains through Maple now are GO trains UCRS meetings to help him with the UCRS's displays at between Bradford and Toronto. The date given in the last issue for the heritage shows in the Toronto area. You can The lower photo, by Ron Lipsett, is of December meeting in Hamilton was wrong. look forward to free admittance into the two CN trains meeting at Washago in 1984. This meeting will be on the fourth Friday as shows, and a lively discussion of history as it The southbound train, led by GP40-2 9622, usual, which will be December 27. was lived with the other people who attend. is on the main track of the Bala Subdivision, At the November meeting in Toronto, Please call Al at 416 921-4023. and the northbound, led by GP40-2 9645, is Scott Haskill and Peter Jobe showed slides of on the Bala Sub. siding. Film at risk from X-rays their recent trips and recent local events, and Ray Corley has forwarded a column from we enjoyed a commercial video of Amtrak TYains magazine which warns of the danger This issue completed on December 16, 1996 operations on their Northeast Corridor. Paul Editor Contributing Editors Subscriptions Directors Pat Scrimgeour John Carter, Art Clowes, Scott Haskill, Subscriptions to Roi/ onJ Tranat are available Scott Haskill, President 604-2071 250 Queens Quay West #1607 Sean Robitaille, Gray Scrimgeour, with membership in the Upper Canada Paul Bloxham 905770-6916 Toronto, Ontario MS] 2N2 Chris Spinney, Gordon Webster. Railway Society. Membership dues are Art Clowes 924-9428 E-Mail: [email protected] j x $29.00 per year for addresses in Canada; Calvin Henry-Cotnam 287-9396 p, . ^ ... Correspondents $35.00 (or $27.00 in U.S. funds) tor AIMaWand 921-4023 Kkase send nev« items to the address p,u| Bloxham, Tom Box, Alex Campbell. addresses in the U.S. and overseas. Please George Meek. 532-5617 Shown with Mch news secuon Articles and i^hard Carroll. Calvin Henry-Cotnam, send Inquiries and changes of address to the Pat Scrimgeour 260-5652 photos should be sem to the editor. Bill McCuire, Don McQueen, John Reay. address at the top of thb page, PatSemple .WA3-9I23 Denis Taylor. Chris Spinney 281 -82 (I L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa It leaves the city every day about five o'clock red piush (how gorgeous it once seemedi) hard to its home! Don't tell me that the speed in the evening, the train for Mariposa. and with a box stove set up in one end of it? is only twenty-five miles an hour, i don't care Strange that you did not know if it, though The stove is burning furiously at its sticks this what it is. i tell you, and you can prove it for you come from the little town - or did, long autumn evening, for the air sets in chili as you yourself if you will, that that train of mingled years ago. get clear away from the city and are rising up fiat cars and coaches that goes tearing into Odd that you never knew, in all these to the higher ground of the country of the the night, its engine whistle shrieking out its years, that the train was there every pines and the lakes. warning into the silent woods and echoing afternoon, puffing up steam in the city station, Look from the window as you go. The city over the dull stiii lake, is the fastest train in the and that you might have boarded it any day is far behind now and right and left of you whole world. and gone home. there are trim farms with elms and maples Yes, and the best, too - the most near them and with tail windmills beside the comfortable, the most reliable, the most Naturally you don't know of the Mariposa train barns that you can stiii see in the gathering luxurious and the speediest train that ever now. Years ago, when you first came to the city dusk. There is a dull red light from the windows turned a wheel. as a boy with your way to make, you knew of it of the farmstead, it must be comfortable there And the most genial, the most sociable well enough, only too well. The price of a ticket after the roar and clatter of the city, and only too. See how the passengers ail turn and talk counted in those days, and though you knew think of the stiii quiet of it. to one another now as they get nearer and of the train you couldn't take it, but sometimes nearer to the little town. That dull reserve that from sheer homesickness you used to wander it is almost night now. You can stiii see the seemed to hold the passengers in the electric down to the station on a Friday afternoon after trees and the fences and the farmsteads, but suburban has clean vanished and gone.