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July, 1967 - Number 258 details. Published monthly by the Upper Railway August 17th; (Thursday) - CBC re-telecast of Society, Incorporated, Box 122, Terminal A, “The Canadian Menu” in which “Nova , . Scotia” plays a part. (April NL, page Editor James A. Brown 49) 9:00 p.m. EDT. Authorized as Second Class Matter by August 18th; (Friday) - Summer social evening the Post Office Department, , Ontario, at 587 Mt. Pleasant Road, at which and for payment of postage in cash. professional 16 mm. films will be shown Members are asked to give the Society and refreshments served. Ladies are at least five weeks notice of address changes. welcome. 8:00 p.m. Please address NEWSLETTER September 15th; (Friday) - Regular meeting, contributions to the Editor at 3 Bromley at which J. A. Nanders, will discuss Crescent, Bramalea, Ontario. No a recent European trip, with emphasis responsibility is assumed for loss or on rail facilities in Portugal. non-return of material. COMING THIS FALL! The ever-popular All other Society business, including railroadianna auction, two Steam membership inquiries, should be addressed to trips on the weekend of September 30th, UCRS, Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario. and the annual UCRS banquet. Details Cover Photo: This month’s cover -- in colour soon. to commemorate the NEWSLETTER’s Centennial READERS’ EXCHANGE Issue -- depicts Canada’s Confederation Train CANADIAN TIMETABLES WANTED to buy or trade. winding through Campbellville, Ontario, on What have you in the way of pre-1950 public the Canadian Pacific. The date: June 7th, or employee’s timetables from any Canadian 1967. line? James A. Brown, 3 Bromley Crescent, Tom Henry. 0258-001.jpg Bramalea, Ontario. Contributors to this Issue: John Bromley, Reg MEMBERS WANTED: The Railway Preservation Button, Dick George, Tom Henry, Ed Jordan, Society of Ireland is seeking new members to) John Knowles, Omer Lavallee, Ian MacDonald, support its ambitious plans to acquire, Bob McMann, Dave More, Steve Munro, Newt maintain and operate a number of Irish steam Rossiter, Jim Sandilands, Ted Wickson, Doug locomotives and other equipment. The Society Wingfield. already owns three operable locomotives. Production: John Bromley, Tom Henry. annual adult membership at $3.00 brings a Distribution: Charles Bridges, K. McCutcheon, semi-annual illustrated journal. For G. Meek, Bill Miller, Steve Munro, John further details, contract Mr. J. Richardson, Thompson, Ted Wickson. 50 COMING EVENTS Ormiston Crescent, Belfast 4, Northern Regular meetings of the Society are Ireland. held on the third Friday of each month (except HELP!! Does anyone have stream artifacts such July and August) at 587 Mt. Pleasant Road, as pressure gauges, water glasses, Toronto, Ontario. 8:00 p.m. headlights, etc., that he would sell, donate, August 13th; (Sunday) - The Society will loan or rent to enhance the decor of Toronto’s operate a special street car excursion “Boiler Room” Restaurant? Contact Ruel to mark the 75th anniversary of electric Bramer, The Boiler Room, 59 Wellington Street street car operation in Toronto. West, Toronto, Ontario. Please see TRACTION TOPICS, for THE TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY is anxious to

UCRS # 258 - 1 obtain the following back issue of the rolled out of the Copper Cliff works of NEWSLETTER for binding; Nos. 26 (1948), 45 Canadian Industries Limited on July 11th to (1949), 99 (1954), 125 (1956), 226 (November inaugurate Canada’s first 1964) and 235 (August 1965). Please contract regularly-scheduled “unit train” movement of William Halfpenny, 55 Ellerslie Avenue, a single chemical commodity. Bound for CIL’s Apartment 1112, Willowdale, Ontario. ammonia and fertilizer complex at Courtright, RAILWAY NEWS AND COMMENT Ontario, the train travels over CP lines to CPR - CIL UNIT TRAIN NOW A REALITY Chatham, Ontario, thence via Chesapeake & Ohio A 37-car Canadian Pacific train, to its destination. loaded with 3,700 tons of sulphuric acid, Freight rates for the new “train operations scattered throughout Toronto will pipeline” are based on 37 or 56-car lots, with be consolidated at the new site. precise schedules for loading and unloading Photo: The first eight units of a GMD order times; this approach was made possible for for 34 locomotives for New Zealand are swung the first time by the National Transportation aboard the MV Piran, at Hamilton on June 12th. Act which became law earlier this year; The model G-12 units boast 1310 h.p. each. earlier laws prohibited Canadian lines from Reg Button Photo. 0258-002.jpg setting freight rates on any basis other than GO TRANSIT IS GOING TO THE DOGS single carloads. What is it that makes the Ontario Initially, the train will make the government’s new rapid transit GO trains so Copper Cliff - Courtright run twice weekly, attractive to commuters? There are new but it is expected that the system will be passengers joining the crowds daily at the expanded to include 56-car trains operating stations between Oakville and Pickering. between Copper Cliff and various destinations One unknown commuter who could only in Ontario and , and moving in excess be distinguished by an unusual abundance of of 300,000 tons of sulphuric acid annually. hair got on at Port Credit early in the morning CN OPENS TORONTO YARD EXPRESS TERMINAL of July 6, made himself comfortable on the Metro chairman William R. Allen seat next to a Metro business type and officially opened CN’s huge express freight travelled as far as Union Station before the complex at Toronto Yard on June 29th. Built thought to ask him his destination entered at a cost of $8-million, the new facility can anyone’s head. sort and handle up to 9,000 packages per hour. Although fellow commuters found him A fleet of 2,000 automated carts operating to be quite a wag on the way up, he was on a 20,000 feet towveyor system is capable speechless when they asked him -- awe struck of transferring 3,000,000 pounds a day from at the GO system’s speed and efficiency, they trucks to trains, trains to trucks and from assumed. So they decided to transfer him back trucks to other trucks. to his point of embarkation on the next All men involved in the new operation, westbound train. Back at the starting point from supervisors to warehousemen, were he wagged and was gone. trained on a working scale model of the Anyone in Port Credit who owns a terminal and later in terminal operations at wire-haired terrier who was absent for about the site. an hour that morning should know his pet was The Toronto facility, acting as the conducting a personal study into this new core for Ontario express shipments, will rapid transit GO system. That person should radiate improvements in express operations also know that he owes one return fare to the for a large surrounding area. It will be system. fully operational on August 8th when express, (The foregoing appeared in the July less-than-carload freight and piggyback 12th edition of the Mississauga NEWS. And the

UCRS # 258 - 2 story doesn’t end there. According to various rail which pierced the floor of the first car Toronto news media, the canine commuter was (5213) just ahead of the rear truck, passing so impressed with his adventure that several through the closed vestibule door and coming times since, he has been at Port Credit station to rest just inside the next coach. The waiting for his morning train.) passing siding was pulled several feet out NO SERIOUS INJURIES IN FREAK TRUCK-TRAIN of alignment by the derailed equipment. CRASH Auxiliaries from Toronto Yard and Belleville A good argument for facing point locks cleared the line by the following morning. on turnouts near grade crossings was The special train was carrying some demonstrated on June 15th when an empty gravel 400 children to a summer camp near Haliburton; truck collided with a CN passenger extra in their journey continued in a fleet of buses the village of Goodwood, northeast of Toronto. expeditiously arranged by the railway. Following the impact, the truck body removed Photo: CN’s road switcher 4154 rests at an the adjacent passing track switch stand, awkward angle after collision with a gravel causing the points to spring open and truck at Goodwood, Ontario. The unit derailing the rear truck of the locomotive suffered superficial damage on its left side. and the first four cars of the seven-car train. Photo by Tom Henry. 0258-003.jpg Miraculously, no one was seriously injured, WORTH NOTING. .... either by the impact itself or by an errant * The Steel Company of Canada recently to close the wound. took delivery of the first of seven hot metal * Rainfall in June in Southern Ontario cars from Marine Industries Limited, of Sorel. far exceeded the normal for the month. During To be used to transfer molten iron from one particularly heavy storm on June 12th, CN’s Stelco’s new blast furnace to open hearth Newmarket Subdivision was under water in seven furnaces at its Hamilton works, the cars are places between Aurora and Bradford, delaying capable of carrying 245 tons of hot metal. three passenger trains up to an hour and a The fully-loaded weight of one of these cars half. is more than 390 tons. * CN has accepted delivery of fifty * CP plans to establish customer new refrigerated piggyback trailers which are service centres at Regina and Toronto Yard capable of maintaining any required load this year. The centres will be patterned temperature from -10F to 70F. after a similar prototype operation at * A water-bombing Canso aircraft saved Lethbridge, Alberta. All railway, airline the day for CN on June 16th, when it doused and telecommunications customer contacts are a blaze on a 300-foot trestle near Mataqui, handled by the system which co-ordinates a 45 miles east of Vancouver on the main line. toll-free telephone network for the district, The plane was on the scene within 35 minutes telecommunications circuits, data processing and made six drops of more than 800 gallons machinery, computers and mobile each, scooping water from the Fraser River. representatives. Repairs were quickly made and service * Canadian Pacific plans a major continued uninterrupted. reballasting program this year between * A lawyer and former member Calgary and Red Deer, Alberta. The project of CN’s legal staff, Pierre Taschereau, has involves 74 miles of line and will cost an been appointed estimated $650.000. vice president of the new Canadian Transport * The hazards of train service!! A Commission. He is the first to be named to CN trainman was bitten, then stabbed by a the new agency which will take over the duties passenger who didn’t want to get off a train now handled by the Board of Transport in Sarnia on July 4th. It took four stitches Commissioners, the Air Transport Board and

UCRS # 258 - 3 the Canadian Maritime Commission. CN line took place. An interesting sidelight * Grand Trunk Western is modernizing was the appearance of a makeup train set for its passenger coaches at Port Huron shops. the westbound Expo Limited leaving Montreal A total of seven cars will be renovated. July 10th; the incoming equipment on No. 6 which * CN’s new concrete and brick station would normally have made the run was 13 hours at Dorval was officially opened July 11th. late, and impossible connection. The makeup The old wooden station which stood on the train had a usual assortment of coach and alignment of CN’s old line through Lachine sleeper equipment, but carried a Skyline dome was demolished to make way for the new car in place of the dining car, and one of structure. the ex-NYC “View” observation cars replaced * The pulp mill at Clarke City, Quebec the customary “Park” dome observation. owned by Gulf Pulp & Paper Company is to cease Photo: While an impressive gallery of sidewalk production because there are no prospects of superintendents look on, a crane removes the operating it profitably. Gulf Pulp & Paper last girders of the pedestrian footbridge at Company earned distinction as one of the last Sunnyside station. Photo by Bob McMann.0258-004.jpg Canadian operators of steam locomotives in EQUIPMENT Notes regular service; its two 0-6-0's were still CANADIAN NATIONAL MOTIVE POWER NOTES going strong at the end of 1963. (January, * CN’s last remaining CR-16 unit, 2203, 1964 NL, page 9) was damaged by fire near Tillsonburg, Ontario, CPR TRAINS COLLIDE -- 19 INJURED on June 9th. Nineteen persons received minor * Bottom of the barrel department: injuries when CP’s westbound Canadian CN has leased two GP-9's from Precision collided at slow speed with an eastbound Engineering Company, a Mt. Vernon, Illinois freight train at Struthers, near Marathon, crankshaft manufacturer and dealer in used Ontario, on July 9th. Although only two diesel equipment. Formerly NYC, the units are units and three cars of the freight train were numbered 5960 and 5962 and are finished in derailed, a total of five engines -- 1104, red and grey primer respectively. They are 4200, 4469, 8752 and 8780 -- were returned being used as trailing units only, in trains to Angus Shops for repairs. running north and west from Toronto. The CPR main line was blocked for about * Four more units have been deleted 17 hours, during which some detouring over from the CN roster as follows: 4 -- May 11th; Sold to the Steel 3120 - 3129 from Spadina to Montreal Company of Canada, Yard Edmonton, Alberta. 3655 - 3670 from Montreal Yard to 9406 -- June 22nd; Repairs not Moncton 3845 - 3849 from Montreal Yard justified. to Moncton 4800 -- June 23rd; (Wrecked 4126 - 4133 from Symington to Spadina February 6th, 4147 - 4156 from Symington to Spadina 1967 4330 - 4339 from Montreal Yard to 4808 -- June 23rd; in rockslide, Calder mile 40.7 4400 - 4404 from Montreal Yard to Skeena Calder Subdivision. 4451 - 4470 from Montreal Yard to * CN has recently completed an Symington extensive reassignment of locomotives for 6500 - 6504 from Pt. St. Charles to maintenance purposes, as follows: Symington 3100 - 3109 from Spadina to Montreal 6600 - 6604 from Pt. St. Charles to Yard Symington

UCRS # 258 - 4 8192 - 8193 from Toronto Yard to Pacific’s third president (1899-1909), first Neebing chairman and president (1910-1918) and second * CN has leased the following units chairman (1918-1923). The car had once been to other railways: used by Sir Edward W. Beatty, G.B.E., the (a) To the Great Slave Lake Railway; Company’s fourth president, and was named 850/53, 1256/77/80/82/83, after his birthplace, Thorold, Ontario. 4344/48/53. The newly-named “Shaughnessy” joins (b) To the Northern Alberta Railways; three other CP business cars already carrying 852/54. names of individuals now legendary in the (c) To the Alberta Resources Railway; history of the Company -- “Strathcona”, “Mount 1369/81. Stephen” and “Van Horne”. O.S.A.L. In addition, unit 1654 is leased to Photo: Minus handrails and looking somewhat the Minto Coal Company, New Brunswick. the worse for wear, CP’s SD-40 5519 was * The last C-424 of the 1966 order to photographed at Alyth shops on June 10th, after be delivered, No. 3240 was received by CN on an affair with a mud slide. Photo by Doug May 26th, 1967. Wingfield. 0258-006.jpg Photo: CN mechanics give Precision Photo: The first unit of a fleet of 150 Engineering (ex-NYC) 5962 a once-over cabooses to be put in CN service this summer dispatching it in CN freight service. has been making a get-acquainted tour of the J. A. Brown. 0258-005.jpg road’s eastern lines. The new vans boast CANADIAN PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER NOTES axle-driven generators, roller bearings and * To facilitate repairs to its damaged cushion underframes. In Truro the caboose was CLC cab unit 4054, CP recently purchased the inspected by an official party which included carbody of retired CN unit 9344, a locomotive Maritime Area manager J. G. Davis, at left. that was removed from CN records on February J. A. Brown photo. 0258-007.jpg 15th, 1966. Apparently the innards of 4054 Photo: The interiors are finished in bright, are to be installed in the carbody of 9344 contemporary colours. CNR photo.0258-008.jpg and the resultant unit will assume the CANADA’S COMING TO YOU - Confederation identity of CP 4054. The work will be done Train at CP’s Ogden Shops in Calgary. It’s mid-year, and by now Canada’s * Canadian Pacific returned all of its Confederation Train has passed the halfway leased Boston & Maine units to the B&M at the mark in its coast-to-coast itinerary. When end of May. the train closes its doors for the last time CP Business CAR GETS A NEW NAME on December 5th, in Montreal, it will have * A new name appeared in the ranks of completed a total of 83 exhibit stops at 63 Canadian Pacific business cars during May, cities in nine provinces. The largest city 1967. It is visited by the train is Montreal, with a “Shaughnessy”, a name recently applied to the population of over two million, while Jasper, former car “Thorold”, currently assigned to Alberta, with 3,000 inhabitants, is the the Freight Traffic Manager at Vancouver. smallest. It honours Thomas G. Shaughnessy, later Baron Shaughnessy, G.C.V.O., who was Canadian The Confederation Train was conceived odour and multi-dimensional visual exhibits to bring to the people of Canada a vivid to tell the story beginning one million years recreation of the country’s history as well ago when Canada was a tropical land. as a unique conception of what its future may Just what is the Confederation Train? hold. The train provides a living experience Let’s take a closer look: for visitors as it makes use of sound, light, Fifteen pieces of equipment comprise

UCRS # 258 - 5 the Confederation train, all of it supplied dignitaries inspected the exhibits. This is by the two national railways. The six air a portion of the railway display.0258-012.jpg conditioned display cars, of course, are the Photo: Imagination played a large part in raison d’etre of the Confederation Train, the establishment of the displays aboard the while seven service cars provide sleeping, Confederation Train. Here, for example, a dining, luggage and power facilities for the section of a coal mine tunnel has been created permanent train staff and railway personnel as a setting for a display on the uses of metals accompanying it. Motive power is provided found in Canada. All photos courtesy of The by two GMD units. Centennial The train is permanently staffed by Commission. 0258-013.jpg 22 men. Under the supervision of the Train Photo: Confederation Train, engine 1867 (CPR Manager and his assistant, they include 1411) and train. 0258-014.jpg exhibit superintendents, electricians, CONSIST OF THE CONFEDERATION TRAIN mechanics and other specialists qualified to Locomotive 1867 CPR 1411 deal with problems which might develop in the Locomotive 1967 CNR 6509 display cars. Railroad personnel from the Steam Generator Unit CNR 15463 region in which the train is operating also Baggage Car CPR 4224 accompany it, to oversee the handling of the Sleeping Car CPR Oak Grove train and to keep close watch on its mechanical Dining Car CNR 1303 and electrical equipment. Train security is Sleeping Car CPR Ash Grove the responsibility of a seven-man RCMP Sleeping Car CPR Fir Grove contingent. Electrical Generator Car CPR 4731 Display sites for the train have been Display Car No. 1* ex-CPR 2298 established by the federal Centennial Display Car No. 2* ex-CPR 2285 Commission, working in conjunction with the Display Car No. 3* ex-CPR 2266 railways and local Centennial committees. Display Car No. 4* ex-CPR 2258 Population was the deciding factor in Display Car No. 5* ex-CPR 2240 determining the duration of exhibition in any Display Car No. 6* ex-CPR 2236 given community or region; for example, 98 * Display cars are owned by the days are scheduled for the Ontario portion Government of Canada. of the tour, while Prince Edward Island will The designers and technicians, play host for just five days. artists and craftsmen who had a part in the Photo: During the British Columbia portion creation of the Confederation Train have done of its tour, the Confederation Train’s lead a superb job. Externally, the train is unit acquired a pair of standard CN ditch finished in two-tone purple with grey roof lights, for improved night visibility. Photo and black underbody and trim. On a basic by Canadian Kodak. 0258-009.jpg white ground, the display cars carry an Photo: Crowds like this have greeted the abstract geometric representation of the Confederation Train all along ita route. train’s story line; inside, the exhibit themes This was the scene at Victoria, B.C., on are arranged as we briefly describe here: opening day, January 9th, 1967. 0258-010.jpg CAR ONE: Photo: Secretary of State Judy LaMarah Here the land is born. The visitor removes the seal which had been placed there experiences Canada of the ice age and the early eight days before in Ottawa by Madame Vanier. Indian civilizations which followed it. He This act officially opened the Confederation is reminded that the very discovery of the Train to Canada’s new world was brought about by a European public. 0258-011.jpg desire for the riches of the Orient, and he Photo: After the official opening, realizes that this new land which lay in the

UCRS # 258 - 6 path of the explorers had bountiful riches CAR TWO: of its own. The visitor becomes an explorer, as of June. Here, the two units idle side by he stands on the deck of a Viking ship and side in CN’s Spadina round-house. listens to the sounds of a wild sea. Courses Photo by J. A. Brown. 0258-015.jpg of the adventurers Cabot, Cartier and Photo: The June servicing stop was a time Champlain and others are traced -- by map and to restore the train to like-new condition. artifact -- to Canada’s first settlements. Scrubbing and polishing was the order of the A disturbingly realistic diorama portrays day. steerage conditions on an early sailing ship, J. A. Brown. 0258-016.jpg experienced by early immigrants to Canada. Photo: On its way to exhibitions in London CAR THREE: and Windsor, the Confederation Train climbs Ancient and modern tools and machines toward Junction on Canadian Pacific -- the means of settlement -- contrast the rails. This location is also shown on this life of early 19th century French Canada with month’s cover. J. A. Brown. 0258-017.jpg that of the present. The confused state of MAN AND HIS TRAINS pre-Confederation colonies moves toward By Omer Lavallee. stability in the Confederation Chamber, 1867. All photos by James Sandilands. CAR FOUR: Map: Map of Expo67 site and part of Montreal. The visitor travels through the final Considering that the theme of years of the 19th century as more provinces at Montreal is “Man and His World” -- a join Confederation. Photographs and portrayal of man’s accomplishments and his artifacts recall the North West Mounted Police aspirations both in a terrestrial environment the Riel Rebellion, the Klondike gold rush. as well as in outer space -- comparatively .... and the completion of the Canadian little room is given over to slow progress Pacific Railway. in transportation, more particularly the CAR FIVE: subject which interests railway hobbyists. Canadian troops go to war for the first Contrary, nonetheless, to a statement time for her allies, first in the Boer War, attributed to the writer which appeared then in the Great War which is brought home recently in a United States periodical, Expo with terrible reality by a replica of a 67 is not, by any means, totally devoid of sandbagged trench. Then on to the roaring rail exhibits, for those who wish to seek them twenties, the sad thirties and finally, in out, though it should be said that followers 1939, war again. of the marine industry will find rather more CAR SIX: to interest them, than those whose hobby is World War II wages abroad while at railways or trains. home, Canada’s industry turns out equipment Reference to rail transportation at needed for the war effort. The atomic bomb Expo may be found in several ways: (a) as terminates the fighting and casts a question three-dimensional exhibits; (b) in the visual mark on the world’s future. Canada’s media such as films and slides; (c) in peacetime contributions in science, politics, practical use as part of the primary and medicine, industry, the arts and secondary transit systems. We will consider international affairs blend with images of them in this order. the future to suggest that even greater things THREE DIMENSIONAL EXHIBITS are in store for Canada. The Canadian pavilion gives a nod of Photo: In the first half of its tour, the acknowledgement to the part which the railways Confederation Train enjoyed just one extended have played in the evolution of Canada by pause for servicing -- at Toronto, at the end incorporating certain recognizable artifacts

UCRS # 258 - 7 into a highly stylized setting in the anyone who wishes to spend some time examining transportation and communications wing of the whole exhibit minutely. that pavilion. A transport mobile at the Canadian National’s TurboTrain forms centre of the display includes a pair of 69" the subject of a wall illustration and another or 70" driving wheels from an actual exhibit portraying piggyback transportation locomotive; the wheels themselves are incorporates about two-fifths of a full-sized stationary. Adjacent to the wheels and flatcar lettered C.R. (for ‘Canadian Railways’ arranged in a geometric pattern are main and perhaps?) and numbered 101967. A display of side rods; on a nearby panel appear valve gear heavy rail mounted vertically is intended to parts. A cursory examination suggests that symbolize the building of the at least some of these objects come from a transcontinental between Montreal and Port Canadian Pacific locomotive -- one of the rods Moody; individual rails are inscribed with bears markings which look like ‘2659'. the year in which various sections were Positive identification of some of these opened; several of the dates are inaccurate, pieces would form an interesting project for incidentally. The only full-sized complete piece of the fact that India, possessing only railway motive power of a historical nature one-fortieth of the world’s land area, at Expo is a feature of the pavilion of the supports nearly one-seventh of its German Federal Republic. From the point of population; to service this mass of humanity, view of size, this exhibit is not particularly Indian railways operate daily some 100,000 imposing, but it possesses great historical trains, hauling six million passengers and significance. It is a small, perhaps 60-cm some 600,000 tons of goods. At the pavilion, gauge, electric locomotive, which was used there is a model of the first electric to haul passengers beginning May 31, 1879 on locomotive built in India, in about ½” scale, an intramural railway at the Berlin Exposition situated next to an alabaster model of the in that year. Collecting current from a Taj Mahal; thus do the constructional skills centre , this unit is claimed to of modern India stand in stark contrast to be the first practical application of those of her storied past! electricity to transport the public by rail. In another section of the pavilion, Elsewhere, on an upper level, the German there are five more scale models (these in pavilion features a whimsical HO model about 1" scale) showing another electric railway, evidently intended as a ‘spoof’ on locomotive, a diesel-electric locomotive and German technology. three passenger cars, the latter with roofs Another complete, full-sized railway open showing fully detailed interiors object is a standard-gauge ingot car as used including both European and ‘native’ toilets! in steel mill; this unit is placed in front The railway theme is continued on the of the steel industries’ exhibit on Ile Notre exterior of the pavilion with a pair of Dame. Nearby, the pavilion of the U.S.S.R. broad-gauge wheels mounted on a short section exhibits a number of models of industrial of steel-tied track, an automatic coupler plants incorporating railway models, some in adapted for use with hook-and-screw quite large scale, which illustrate equipment, and -- of all things! -- a cylinder contemporary Russian diesel-electric saddle for a steam locomotive built in India. locomotives and cars; several trains operate In the Congo exhibit, at Africa Place, on a multi-track oval. there are models of a steam locomotive and The pavilion of India gives a fair of a diesel-electric. Great Britain’s amount of space to railways, considering the pavilion offers token recognition to that part that this mode of surface transportation nation as the birthplace of the steam plays in that nation. Statistics point to locomotive with a 1" scale model of

UCRS # 258 - 8 Stephenson’s “Rocket”. And the list goes on. It has not been possible, to date, to Photo: A train passes a switch, monitor all film and slide presentation at whose position can be changed by rotating the Expo, but references to this medium are found curved segment (below the car) into at many of the pavilions. The French pavilion operating position. 0258-018.jpg for example features scenes taken along the

Photo: This tiny, wood-jacketed German “Bo” route of French express trains, while the film electric locomotive thrilled another at the Swiss pavilion includes a memorable generation of exposition-goers eighty-eight sequence of a metre-gauge Rhätische-Bahn years ago. 0258-019.jpg train curving across the oft-photographed VISUAL MEDIA stone viaduct near Filisur, in the Grisons. Graphic references to railways are to TRANSIT SYSTEMS be found in many of the films and slide If exhibit references to railways are programs featured at the different exhibits. rather sparse, the transit enthusiast will Contrary to what one might expect, the be more than compensated by the primary and films shown at the Canadian National and secondary transit systems at Expo. Canadian Pacific -- Cominco pavilions are not The selection of a mid-river site for basically related to transportation. the Montreal exhibition automatically Canadian National’s film theme is ‘Motion’ and eliminated, at the outset, any prospect of the rail-minded viewer is rewarded by allowing direct access by the public by glimpses, here and there, of CN’s private automobile. In view of expected distinctively-painted locomotives and cars. attendances exceeding half a million visitors Canadian Pacific’s film is entitled “We Are per day, the designers did not hesitate to Young” and relates to youth; it contains no have recourse to rapid transit principles to corporate identification whatsoever, but transport the public between the exhibition there is a brief sequence taken of the Fraser site and the adjoining mainland areas. Canyon from a gasoline track car. Expo Express The primary transit system is a 3½ supplement the rapid transit system, between -mile, standard-gauge, 550-volt, double track Place d’Accueil and Ile Notre Dame. route drawing current from a third rail, and The rapid transit system is known as employing eight six-car rapid transit trains “Expo Express” and is a fully-automated rail constructed by Hawker Siddeley at Fort service controlled from a centre at Place William, Ontario. The accompanying map will d’Accueil, which is on view to the public. show the route of this system, which begins The trains operate according to coded at Place d’Accueil near the Montreal end of circuits, and though there is an operator in the Victoria railway/highway bridge, and the control cab of each train, his sole duty extends to a terminal at the La Ronde amusement is the operation of the doors. There is voice area in the shadow of the Jacques Cartier communication between both ends of each of Bridge, with intermediate stations at Place the eight trains and the control centre. It des Nations and Ile Notre Dame. A fifth is possible for an operator to take over station, installed for trains in the outward control of a train and operate it manually direction only at near Place by controller, if necessary. All operating d’Accueil, was closed a few days after the and maintenance personnel are on loan from opening of Expo, so that the rail system could the Montreal Transportation Commission. concentrate on the heavy demand for Train and platform staff wear MTC uniforms. transportation between the mainland and the Photo: An Expo Express train at La Ronde island stations. The Habitat area is now station, showing the ‘pod’ in which the control serviced by an auxiliary MTC autobus service cab is situated, blazoned with the device of which it was found necessary to instal, to “Man and His World”. Photo by Jim Sandiland.

UCRS # 258 - 9 0258-020.jpg Car No. Name Province The sheds and maintenance depot for A13 St. Michel Quebec the Expo Express are situated under the B14 Pointe Claire Quebec Jacques-Cartier Bridge at the La Ronde end C15 St. Lambert Quebec of the line beyond the terminal station at D16 Anjou Quebec that point. The line is laid throughout with A31 Town of Mount Royal Quebec heavy rail and power switches, but in view B32 Burnaby British Columbia of its temporary nature, the ties are not C33 Cornwall Ontario creosoted and the superstructures of the D34 Metropolitan Toronto Ontario stations at Habitat 67, Place des Nations, E35 Pointe-aux-Trembles Quebec Ile Notre Dame and La Ronde are made up of F36 Richmond British Columbia brightly-coloured awnings, guyed with steel Expo Express charges no fare; it is rods and cable. free to all visitors to Expo who may embark The equipment was originally on it and ride it at will, as often as they marshalled in eight trains, as follows: wish and for as long a journey as desired. Train Car Numbers Metro 1 A01/B02/C03/D04/E05/F06 Visitors may also travel direct to the 2 A07/B08/C09/D10/E11/F12 heart of Expo 67 by means of Line No. 4 of 3 A13/B14/C15/D16/E17/F18 the , whose station is situated 4 A19/B20/C21/D22/E23/F24 on Ile Saint Helene near the pavilion of the 5 A25/B26/C27/D28/E29/F30 United States. The normal Montreal transit 6 A31/B32/C33/D34/E35/F36 fare of 30¢ cash, or four tickets for $1.00, 7 A37/B38/C39/D40/E41/F42 is payable. 8 A43/B44/C45/D46/E47/F48 SECONDARY TRANSIT SYSTEM As minor repairs have become necessary There are three circuits of a secondary on individual units, some of these transit system which nominally supplement the arrangements are periodically disrupted. Expo Express, but whose routes and itinerary All cars are motored, though only the ‘A’ and make them more practical for sight-seeing ‘F’ series cars have control cabs. These cabs rather than transportation as such. This are mounted in a wedge-shaped “pod” at the system is a supported miniature monorail -- non-train end of each control car. All cars hence its Expo term “Minirail” -- and, like are air-conditioned and feature rather larger Expo Express is under programmed automatic windows than are usually found in transit control. There are however, no operating equipment, as a concession to the tourist personnel on board the individual trains, aspects of the system. which were built by Habegger A.G., of Thun, A number of the Expo Express cars have Switzerland. Trains stop automatically at been ‘sponsored’ by individual Canadian cities all stations, and the platform personnel give and towns, and are named and numbered as the starting impulse when loading has been follows: completed. The longest circuit, the Ile Notre Dame Dame, crossing the LeMoyne Channel between Minirail, is serviced by larger-capacity Ile Sainte Helene and Ile Notre Dame by the vehicles than the other two routes, on the Cosmos Walk footbridge. There are two western end of Ile Sainte Helene and at La intermediate stations, ‘Theme’ and Ronde, respectively. It extends from the ‘Agriculture’, which are served in both Metro station on Ile Sainte Helene (the directions but by different routes. The minirail station is called ‘Metro’ and also one-way fare is 50¢, and passengers must serves the Ste. Helene circuit) as has a disembark at ‘Metro’ and ‘Canada, stations. ‘Canada’ station at the west end of Ile Notre Continuous riding over a whole circuit is

UCRS # 258 - 10 not permitted, in the interest of Kniewasser. In the rear of the same car were accommodating as many passengers as possible. the Prime Minister and the Duke of Edinburgh. The other two circuits each serve two The only reported incident concerned stations only. The trains are composed of a driver of a gondola in one of the many canals. smaller-capacity cars than the Ile Notre Dame Passing under the minirail structure, he line, and are also known technically as suddenly realized that the Queen was in the “telecanopies” to distinguish them from the train above him, and crashed his craft into larger “minirail”, though signs and guides a pier! refer to all three circuits as “minirails”. CONCLUSION The Ile Sainte Helene circuit extends from In any assessment of Expo 67 from a ‘Metro’ to ‘Place des Nations’ at the Expo rail amateur’s point of view, it should be Express station of the same name. The fare stressed that this is an exhibition of is 25¢. cultural and technical progress, and not a The La Ronde circuit extends from “trade fair”. Some of the participating ‘Pioneerland’ station adjacent to the Expo nations have, unfortunately, missed the Express station to ‘Le Village’ on the opposite point, and have placed strong emphasis on side of Dolphin Lake; the fare is also 25¢. export products rather than on the lives and Again, passengers may not ride the full conditions of the inhabitants and their arts circuit on the two shorter routes, without and crafts. Such exceptions are few, disembarking at the opposite station and however. paying an additional fare. I would suggest, then, that a visit Speed on the minirail systems is low, to Expo 67 by anyone residing’ outside of the not more than four or five miles per hour, immediate area of Montreal, for the sole and there are frequent curves and grades. purpose of viewing the transportation The Ile Notre Dame route has a yard with material, is unquestionably a waste of time. transfer table (and even an “interlocking If, however, the visitor is an individual tower”!) near the ‘Man the Provider’ area; this having interests of a broader nature, he will provides storage and maintenance facilities. find the event completely fascinating and The two smaller circuits also have less engrossing, and quite unlike anything ever elaborate facilities of their own. staged previously on this continent. HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II RIDES THE ILE Expo 67, in the first two months of NOTRE DAME MINIRAIL its six-month run, has been a remarkable In the course of the Royal Visit of social success. Seventeen million visitors Her had passed through its turnstiles by July 1st, Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh the 100th anniversary of Canadian to the pavilion of Great Britain, and the Confederation. Canadian pavilions, on July 3rd, the official Since it is unlikely that the rate of party was afforded a 50-minute ride attendance will diminish in the concluding over the complete circuit (no change!) of the four months, it is obvious that the Ile Notre Dame Minirail. The unscheduled originally-postulated total attendance of 30 trip, which gave police and security officers million will be very considerably exceeded, some anxious moments, was said to have been if not doubled, by the time that Expo 67 closes arranged by the Prime Minister after the Duke its gates at the end of October. of Edinburgh had complained about rigid For a once-in-a-lifetime experience, formality elsewhere on the tour. Queen we heartily recommend that all readers visit Elizabeth rode in the fourth car of a train “Man and His World” -- Expo 67! accompanied by Commissioner-General Pierre OTTAWA’S TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM RECEIVES ITS Dupuy and Expo General Manager Andrew RAIL COLLECTION

UCRS # 258 - 11 A Report by Tom Henry railway’s Museum Train ‘home’ on July 16th. Canadian National’s 6218 brought the In an evening ceremony at the site of are 4-8-4 No. 6200 and a combination car the new transportation exhibit of the National belonging to the Museum Train. The 4-8-4 is Museum of Canada, CN president N. J. MacMillan not yet restored, and this project has been officially presented the train and five steam undertaken by the Ottawa branch of the CRHA. locomotives to the federal government. Close The combination car houses a significant to a thousand people were gathered at the artifact -- the Beardmore four-cylinder museum to watch 6218, with Mr. MacMillan at engine which powered oil-electric car 15820 the throttle, slowly run the last hundred on its record-breaking Montreal - Vancouver yards into the site, hauling 4-4-0 No. 40 and run in 1925. Both of these pieces of a 19th century baggage car. As 6218's whistle equipment are stored at Ottawa West. blasted, the HMCS Carleton band struck up ‘O’ Canadian Pacific’s contribution to the Canada’. exhibit, 4-6-0 No. 926, 4-6-2 No. 1201, 4-6-4 When the abbreviated train reached the No. 2858 and 4-8-4 No. 3100, appeared at the official stand, it was met by Secretary of museum site a few days after the CN State Judy LaMarsh and Transport Minister presentation. These locomotives will also Pickersgill, representing the federal be on permanent display when the museum opens government. Mr. MacMillan made the formal next month. (April NL, page 54) presentation and then presented Miss LaMarsh Photo: CN 6218 dwarfs the Portland 4-4-0 as and Mr. Pickersgill with engineers’ togs, it steams toward the museum site for the announcing that Miss LaMarsh would act as presentation ceremony. Photo by Tom Henry. honourary engineer and Mr. Pickersgill as 0258-021.jpg honourary fireman for the journey down the Photo: Two locomotives of the CP collection, last 75 feet of the museum spur. Miss LaMarsh Nos. 3100 and 2858, wait outside the museum said she was thrilled to be appointed engineer for removal to their final display location. of ‘this charming black monster’ but suggested Photo courtesy of the Canadian Pacific the appointment could cause one small problem. Railways. 0258-022.jpg “In the days when this engine was Photo: Enjoying a laugh after the ceremony built, Canadians weren’t quite so well fed,” are, from left, Miss LaMarsh; Mr. Pickeragill; she said. “The door is only 18 inches wide J. A. McDonald, CN St. Lawrence Region vice and I’ve had a suggestion that I had better president; Mr. MacMillan. Photo courtesy of go in sideways.” Canadian National. 0258-023.jpg Although the museum proper will not Photo: The public surges in to have a look be opened to the public until August, the CN at the vintage equipment after the ceremony. equipment was displayed temporarily following Tom Henry. 0258-024.jpg the presentation and all the following day. TRAVELLING IN STYLE -- 1967 Canadian National’s exhibits at the Observations by Ian MacDonald museum include 4-8-4 No. 6400, 4-6-4 No. 5700 It’s not every year that a country and the Museum train equipment including No. celebrates a significant milestone in its 40, 0-6-0T No. 247, 2-6-0 No. 713, an 1859 history and hosts a World Exposition. So it’s coach, a dining car built in 1875, a not surprising that Canada’s Centennial Year 1904-vintage sleeping car and a is seeing an unprecedented number of official turn-of-the-century baggage car. (Not visitors from other lands, taking in Expo 67 included was the still-active 6218 which was and calling at Ottawa, as guests of the merely playing a supporting role in the Canadian government. proceedings.) The standard pattern for the tours Still to be added to the CN collection takes the visiting dignitary first to the

UCRS # 258 - 12 Nation’s Capital and then to Expo, usually trains have operated to date to suggest a on his country’s national day. The airport typical pattern: at Ottawa is apparently not well suited to A head of state (or his representative) many of the world’s larger aircraft, so that arrives at Dorval by air and is welcomed by the most common arrival point is Dorval, just Canada’s official greeter, Lionel Chevrier. west of Montreal. With such a clearly defined A motorcade then whisks him to a downtown need for good transportation between the two Montreal hotel for the night. Shortly after cities, the noon the next day his special train leaves body responsible for organizing the visits Central Station for a non-stop run to Ottawa. -- the Office of the Commissioner General for Returning from Ottawa, the dignitary Visits of Heads of State, Montreal, 1967 -- arrives at Central Station early in the selected rail transport as the preferred mode. evening of the following day. His special And so it is that, under contract to train pulls into one of the tracks which this office, Canadian National is operating ultimately will be used for TurboTrain about sixty special trains this summer to servicing, and stops with his exit door convey visiting dignitaries from Montreal to precisely lined up with a red carpet and dais; Ottawa and return. here, he is officially welcomed to the Expo Although tight security surrounds the city. details of each special train, sufficient CN’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel enjoys the Ian MacDonald. 0258-026.jpg distinction of being the Montreal residence On at least one occasion, that of the for visiting heads of state. Direct access visit of Dr. Heinrich Luebke of West Germany, to any floor of the hotel is possible from the leading unit carried a standard associated the V.I.P. platform in Central Station, via with the visitor in addition to its usual white a conveniently located private elevator. And ‘extra’ flags. so the bustling crowds in the station’s With so many countries sending concourse are never aware of the distinguished representatives it is obvious that at times visitor so nearly in their midst. there will be more than one visitor in the The V.I.P. trains usually consist of country -- although officially there will be three or four cars, often including Official only one such visitor in Ottawa at any given Cars 1 and 2 (recently completed by CN’s Point time. For this reason provision has been made St. Charles shops from shells provided by for additional hotel accommodation at Hawker Siddeley) or 3 and 4 (the former Canadian Pacific’s magnificent new Chateau Governor-General cars), Business cars such Champlain, and for an additional V.I.P. as 92 and 96, and a lounge car such as Lake special, again with three or four cars as Nipissing or Carnaval. Abundant power is described earlier. provided for the specials in the form of a Not all state visitors have required pair of MLW cab units; engines 6774, 6777, special trains. Neither Queen Elizabeth nor 6778 and 6781 have been frequently seen on President Johnson used trains; Emperor Haile the specials. Selassie of Ethiopia and Dr. Luebke of West Photo: Special V.I.P. train between Montreal Germany both arrived in Ottawa from Western and Toronto. Canada and so required special trains in one 0258-025.jpg direction only. Photo: Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Chevrier formally The hand-picked crew of porters, greet the delegation representing the chefs, trainmen and conductors will surely president of South Korea. This party is be having a fascinating summer meeting world boarding the V.I.P. train at Dorval station. personalities on what must be Canada’s most Photo by lavish -- if intermittent -- rail shuttle

UCRS # 258 - 13 service. Montreal’s Central Station on June 13th. Note WHAT ABOUT CANINE DIGNITARIES? the German Standard just behind the cab door. Commenting on a recent Ian MacDonald. 0258-028.jpg transcontinental V.I.P. tour, the Edmonton Photo: Inside, the new official cars are Journal said in part; luxuriously appointed. Interior furnishings “Lulu, the delightful dog of Ethiopian were applied at CN’s Point St. Charles Shop. Emperor Haile Selassie, is the darling of CNR C.N.R. 0258-029.jpg porters from coast to coast. The dog, which 1867 - CONFEDERATION and the Railways - accompanied the Emperor on a recent nine-day 1967 - By Omer Lavallee tour across Canada, had a tendency for fast, Measured in terms of physical fast relief of internal pressures. .... Every accomplishment, the year 1867 was a rather time Lulu answered nature’s call, a train sparse one for Canada’s railways. The initial porter received a $20 tip for keeping the train boom of railway building of the 1850's was corridors clean.” spent, ushered to an early death by the panic “In Winnipeg, Lulu missed the train of 1857, but not before the aggregate route because he (that’s right, he) was busy leaving mileage in the three provinces of Canada, New signs all over the station. When the Emperor Brunswick and Nova Scotia had totalled 2,000 missed his pet, the emergency cord was pulled miles. and the train’s transcontinental voyage was Confederation provided that impetus halted while a courier was dispatched back which was to usher in the second expansion to Winnipeg to get the dog.” phase beginning about 1870; the British North Photo: Displaying the now-familiar riveted America Act was replete with provisions which aluminum construction of Hawker Siddeley, would bring this expansion about, notably the brand new Official Cars 1 & 2 stand at Ottawa legislation providing for the construction station. of the Intercolonial Railway between Tom Henry. 0258-027.jpg Riviere-du-Loup and Halifax. Photo: MLW units bring the special train of West Germany’s Dr. Heinrich Luebke into One of the more far-reaching operation on July 1st, 1867, the railway net consequences of the Act was the vesting in would double itself by 1875, and attain more the new federal government of the two railway than 10,000 miles by the end of 1885, with systems which had been built by the provinces rails stretching from sea to sea. The year of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the European 1867 saw the Great Western Railway make the & North American Railway and the Nova Scotia first assault on the false philosophy of the Railway respectively. Thus, the broad gauge then in use on the great majority nationally-owned rail system had its birth of Canadian railways, by laying a third rail on the first day of Confederation; its role for United States systems’ standard-gauge has gradually assumed larger and larger cars in its main line between the Niagara and proportions in the ensuing century because Michigan frontier’s. of the need to maintain an extensive railway An examination of newspaper accounts network for a comparatively small population. of activities surrounding DAY ONE of Seventy-three miles of new railway Confederation, July 1st, 1867, reveals that line were opened in 1867, comprising fifty-one the railways did not plan a conspicuous part miles of the Nova Scotia Railway extending in the festivities other than to arrange from Truro to Pictou Landing, and twenty-two excursions to take the public to various miles of the Brockville & Ottawa between points for the celebrations. There was one Almonte and Sand Point, Ontario. From a total notable exception: in New Brunswick, a sense of slightly less than 2,300 route miles in of selflessness noteworthy in a

UCRS # 258 - 14 government-owned railway prompted the reported in the Toronto Globe under the European & North American to announce that headline “EXPLOSION ON THE NORTHERN RAILWAY”, it would carry passengers free of charge on and which read, in part, as follows: July 1st, 1867. No one seemed to have “Early yesterday morning, July 1st, a remembered that on the day itself, the railway terrible accident occurred on the would no longer be the property of the province Northern Railway, about, a mile north of New Brunswick but would belong to Canada! of Richmond Hill Station, by the (With difficulty we refrained from writing bursting of the boiler of the engine to Mr. MacMillan to suggest a comparable of an empty timber train going north, gesture on the part of Canadian National on resulting in very serious injuries to July 1st, 1967, to mark the centennial of the the engineman, fireman and a national railway system. O.S.A.L.) brakesman. The train .... had The enthusiasm of the New Brunswickers proceeded as far as indicated safely, for the new Dominion was hardly shared by a when all at once the boiler exploded, surprisingly large number of Nova Scotians. throwing the engineer Philip Warren, Their spokesman, the Halifax Morning and the fireman named Bradley, some Chronicle carried the following ‘obituary’ on twenty feet to the side of the track. July 1st: The body of the engine itself was also “DIED. Last night, at twelve o’clock, displaced from the rails and lay buried the free and enlightened Province of in a sandhill at the side of the road. Nova Scotia. Deceased was the The track in the vicinity of the offspring of old English stock, and accident was torn up a distance of promised to have proved an honour and several yards, and travel was impeded support to her parents in their for some time. declining years. Her death was .... The immediate cause of the occasioned by unnatural treatment accident is said to have been a received at the hands of some of her defective plate in the boiler.” ungrateful sons, who, taking It was just not the Northern’s week. advantage of the position she had On Saturday, the 5th of July, the Newmarket afforded them, betrayed her to the Era reported another incident on the NRC line: enemy. Funeral will take place from “ON THE TRACK. On Saturday morning the Grand Parade this day, Monday, at last, (June 29) as the up train was 9:00 o’clock. Friends are requested approaching Allandale the engine not to attend, as her enemies, with driver noticed some object on the track becoming scorn, intend to insult the and succeeded in stopping the train occasion with rejoicing.” in time to save the life of an In other parts of the new nation, unfortunate girl, who had placed fireworks were the order of the day, with herself in that position in order to “flights of aerial rockets” and exploding be run over. She was taken on board, devices spelling out such sentiments as handed over to a constable and placed “Success to Confederation”: The Northern in the Gaol here. She is evidently Railway of Canada managed to have a ‘big bang’ deranged.” of its own, quite unintentioned, which was Thus was Confederation ushered in on transportation are also in the ascendent. Canada’s railways. Its Centennial sees them New techniques and new challenges will make playing an even more important role than they the second century of Confederation very enjoyed in 1867, even though competing exciting for Canada and its railways. philosophies such as highway, water and air Photo: This photograph, taken about 110

UCRS # 258 - 15 years ago, shows a Great Western Railway blue, white and silver livery. The only broad-gauge passenger train at Suspension difference noted in recent photographs, as Bridge, Ontario, prior to departure for compared with that on page 169 of the November, Hamilton. The locomotive, No. 15 “Essex”, 1966 NL, is that the bumpers are now being was a 4-4-0 built by the Lowell Machine Shop painted black instead of silver. MT also in 1853; it was scrapped about 1867. Author’s indicates a report of proposed “back-to-back” Collection. 0258-030.jpg operation of PCC cars (standard practice on TRACTION TOPICS older equipment) although this would involve Edited by John F. Bromley the addition of left side doors. This can * It is rapidly becoming clear that be done, as was demonstrated on 4216 in 1965 the total number of street cars to make the when there was a possibility of a sale of PCC long journey to Alexandria will not exceed cars to Vera Cruz. the 47 shipped during 1966. The recent Middle Several Toronto newspapers recently East War has left the Egyptian’s economy revealed the price of each car sold to be staggering. The TTC recently delivered 8 $1,500. J.F.B. cars to Pier 24, ostensibly to be loaded aboard * There are still about 20 seats a Greek freighter. The captain refused to available for the August 13 fantrip being load the cars as the Egyptians wanted them operated to celebrate 75 years of electric moved on credit, and all were trucked back operation in Toronto. We regret having to to Danforth Carhouse. The TTC recently announce, however, that Open Bench Car 327 stated that they seriously doubted the sale is being moved to the Exhibition for display would be completed and that the cars may have in mid-July and will not be available at to be scrapped. A recent report by the Hillcrest. Operation of Peter Witt car 2766 British Press indicated that several is planned in its place. Fare is $3.00 in Alexandria street cars were destroyed by advance from the Trip Committee, or $3.50 on Israeli shelling. How many of these were the car. The trip begins at Russell Carhouse, ex-TTC cars is unknown. The report is at Queen & Connaught, at 9:30 a.m. ORDER NOW! unconfirmed. Photo: Ex-TTC PCC, 4262, now car 908 of the The July, 1967 issue of MODERN TRAMWAY Alexandria, Egypt transit system was caught reports that 16 PCC cars (901-916) were in on March 10 in its new service. service on the RAMLEH (interurban) route in Modern Tramway. 0258-031.jpg Alexandria in mid-March, all painted in the SHORT TURN The TTC recently announced that subway year. .... Car 4490 has been rebuilt with a stations on the BLOOR - DANFORTH extensions 4625 -- type rubber-mounted windshield, and will be of different design than existing was the car used on the annual UCRS night stations and that the “bathroom” design of fantrip. .... car stops on Queen at Brookmount station on YONGE and BLOOR is on the way out. and Caroline, both eastbound, will be rebuilt New facilities will be spacious and in the near future, judging from recent eye-pleasing. The golf club pro shop in activities of TTC crews in removing asphalt Victoria Park Station is already open. .... at both stops and replacing it with Two interesting rumours have been monitored cobblestones. .... KING - EXHIBITION for 1967 in Toronto. One is that the Expo-Express cars will operate over the 1966 route to Woodbine will be purchased for use in the Mount Royal Loop, contrary to a rumour that it would run Tunnel in Montreal, and the second is that to Main Station. .... Car 4600 rear-ended 4643 the TTC has an option to purchase fifty trolley at Queen and Brookmount on June 3, and 4595 buses from an operator in Western Canada. rear-ended 4703 at Gerrard and Woodbine on If this is true it will justify all the extra June 20. All except 4595, which suffered overhead installed at Lansdowne earlier this extensive damage, are undergoing repair and

UCRS # 258 - 16 4643 is already back in service. .... QUEEN from the Danforth Avenue exit, north to west car 4381 was recently spotted at Broadview only. The switch at Gerrard and Coxwell was Station. .... BATHURST runs 12 and 17, cars welded for the curve and the electric (SR) 4536 and 4509 respectively, operated to Main switch disconnected. Access to Danforth Station on July 7 during evening rush, signed Division is now via Gerrard, Main and BATHURST in both directions. .... W-26 and Danforth. Shortturn CARLTON cars now operate C-1 were removed (from the far corner of to Coxwell - Queen Loop, sometimes delaying Hillcrest on June 27, the former for scrapping COXWELL buses. Paving tenders were recently and the latter for storage for the OERHA, who called for the abandoned section of Coxwell, wish to purchase the car. .... unused rail and for Spadina (College to Bloor) and Weston from the former Frederick Loop was removed Road (Keele to Northland). Paving work will by city crews between June 6-11. .... overhead begin soon on Lansdowne Avenue, and some track was finally removed from Parliament Loop on is being removed by TTC crews in the vicinity June 15. .... Recent air cars receiving paint of Lansdowne Division. When the overhead jobs are 4275 and 4290, while 4212 and 4227 from the abandoned section of Coxwell is received touch-ups. .... Grinder W-28 is removed, it will be re-strung on Dundas for currently working Queen Street east of the JUNCTION trolley bus (# 40); overhead for Russell. W-27 is still in the subway, but the trolley buses is already in place at has not been used since last year. .... Runnymede Loop, and steel poles are being J.F.B., S.M., T.W., R.M. installed at various points on Dundas to * Preparations for multiple-unit support the extra load. S.M., T.W., R.M., service on the QUEEN route are proceeding J.F.B. rapidly. Trackwork required for the * Diversions of street car service were rebuilding of Neville Loop and Russell Trailer many and varied during the latter part of June Yard is now assembled, and installation may and the first week of July. Between June begin at any time. New rail for the new 19-22, QUEEN Night cars were operated via tangent track at Humber Loop is now being Church and King to Sunnyside, both ways, to assembled, while overhead for this permit the city to perform sewer work. It installation was put up on June 19-20. was shortly discovered that the city was not Diagrams of the new trackage arrangements are doing the work, and as a result QUEEN cars below. were diverted on June 25-26, eastbound only, Map: Map of TTC loops. 0258-032.jpg via King and Shaw between 2:00 - 3:47 a.m. * Work commenced in July on conversion and via Spadina, Adelaide and York from 3:47 of electric switches for MU trains, as to 3:00 a.m. Monday. Cars were then diverted follows; Queen and Church, both ways, on July both ways for another 22½ hours via Spadina, 3; Woodbine Loop and Kingston Road & Queen King and Parliament. on July 4; all three entrances to Russell During Centennial celebrations on Carhouse on July 4 (but not the exit on July 1, QUEEN cars were diverted three times. Connaught Avenue); Queen and Parliament, both The eastbound routing in all cases was via ways, on July 5; Queen and Coxwell, east to Spadina, Adelaide and Victoria. The first north, on July 6 and Don Bridge on July 6-7. west-bound diversion was via Church, King and The second half of the diamonds at Queen and Spadina, with the remaining two using Victoria were replaced during the week of July Victoria, Richmond and York. A few CARLTON 3. S.M., J.F.B. cars were wyed at McCaul during the parade, * Coxwell Avenue, from Upper Gerrard and at least one car was stored on Church at to Danforth, was closed to street car traffic Carlton the same day for a rock show at Maple at 7:36 p.m. on June 15. Overhead was Leaf Gardens. immediately removed from Danforth Loop and During the rebuilding of the south to

UCRS # 258 - 17 east curve at Parliament and Gerrard on June 5, CARLTON Night car 4717 derailed at 3:20 a.m., blocking service for 2½ hours. Cars were wyed at the intersection while buses handled the eastern end of the route. At 6:35 a.m., car 4635 derailed on the same curve blocking service for 45 minutes. As the day service was coming out in full force, cars were diverted both ways via Broadview, Queen, King and Church Streets. On June 11, CARLTON cars were diverted westbound via Broadview, Dundas and Parliament due to sewer work. S.M, R.M.

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