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Canadian Rail the MAGAZINE of CANADA's RAILWAY HISTORY No. 452 Canadian Rail THE MAGAZINE OF CANADA'S RAILWAY HISTORY MAY - JUNE 1996 .:: 1971 --- AMTRAK IN CANADA DURING THE LAST 2S YEARS --- 1996 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHL Y BY THE CANADIAN RAILROAD HlSTORICAL ASSOCIATION PUBLIE TOUS LES DEUX MOIS PAR L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D'HISTOIRE FERROVIAIRE CANADIAN RAIL ISSN 0008-4875 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE CANADIAN RAILROAD HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION TABLE OF CONTENTS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AIVITRAK IN CANADA ................................... FRED F. ANGUS ...................... 63 THE NORTHWEST TALGO ...................................................................... JOHN GODFREy ..................... 74 THE CENTENNIAL OF THE POiNT ELLICE BRIDGE DiSASTER ........... FRED F. ANGUS ...................... 76 A BAD DAY FOR THE GRAND TRUNK - MONDAY JUNE 41906 .......... STEVE THORNING .................. 82 CP RAIL SYSTEM DONATES AN M-630 TO THE CRHA ......................... LEN THIBEAUL T.. ................... 86 THE BUSINESS CAR ................................ ;................................................................................................. 87 FRONT COliER.' During a promotional tour of .wme major centres ill Ontario and Quebec, EDITOR: Fred F. Angus ABB's "X2000" made a one-day stopover il1 Ottawa on July 28, 1993. Besides being on public display, the "X2000" made two short trips to Masson, Que. to el1lertain dignilaries and CO-EDITOR: Douglas N.w. Smith members of the public. Since the train was not able to operate under its own power (there being ASSOCIATE EDITOR (Motive Power): 110 electrified overhead) all Amtrak F40PH was used to provide the necessary power. Hugues W. Bonin Photo by Pierre Ozo r6k. DISTRIBUTION: Gerard Frechette LAYOUT: Fred F. Angus For your membership in the CRHA, which The CRHA has a number of local divisions across the eounlry. Many hold regular meetings and issue Printing: Procel Printing includes a subscription to Canadian Rail, newsletters. Further information may be obtained by writing to the division. write to: DIRECTORS OF THE C.R.H.A. NEW BRUNSWICK DIVISION CRHA, 120 Rue St-Pierre, St. Constant, Que. P.O. Box 1162 PRESIDENT: Walter J. Bedbrook J5A 2G9 Saini John N.B. E2L 4G7 VICE PRES.: David W. Johnson DIVISION VALLEE·JONCTION BEAUCE TREASURER: A. Stephen Walbridge Membership Dues for 1996: 397 Blvd. Rousseau Vallee -Jonelion Que GOS 3JO SECRETARY: Bernard Martin In Canada: $35.00 (including GST). Frederick F. Angus ST LAWRENCE VALLEY DIVISION United States: $30.00 in U.S . funds. P.O. Box 22, Slation "'B" Doug Battrum Other Countries: $35.00 in U.S. funds. Monlreal P.Q. H3B 3J5 Barry Biglow RIDEAU VALLEY DIVISION James Bouchard P.O. Box 962 Canadian Rail is continually in need of news, Smilh's Falls, Onl. K7A 5A5 Gerard Frechette stories, historical data, photos, maps and KINGSTON DIVISION FranGois Gaudette P.O. Box 1714 other material. Please send all contributions Kingston, Onl. K7L 5V6 Dean Handley J. Christopher Kyle to the editor: Fred F. Angus, 3021 Trafalgar TORONTO & YORK DIVISION Ave. Montreal , P.Q. H3Y 1H3 . No payment P.O. Box 5849, Terminal "A" Robert V.V. Nicholls Toronto,Ont. M5W I P3 can be made for contributions, but the con­ Andrew W. Panko NIAGARA DIVISION tributer will be given credit for material sub­ P.O. Box 20311 Granlham Postal Ou tlet Len Thibeault mitted. Material will be returned to the con­ SI. Calharines, Onl. L2M 7W7 William Thomson tributor if requested. Remember "Knowl­ CALGARY & SOUTH WESTERN DIVISI ON Michael Westren c/o Rick Connery, Seerelary edge is of little value unless it is shared with 95 Bennell Creseenl N.W. LlASON REPRESENTATIVES others". Calgary, Alberta T2L 1 R2 SELKIRK DIVISION WESTERN P.O. Box 2561 D. Walter Edgar Revelstoke, B.C. VOE 2S0 As part of its activities, the CRHA operates 4515 Dalhart Road N.w. CROWSNEST & KETTLE VALLEY DIVISION the Canadian Railway Museum at Delson I P.O. Box 400 Calgary, AB T3A 1B9 St. Constant, Que. which is about 14 miles Cranbrook, B.C. VI C 4H9 Phone: (403) 286-2189 (23 Km.) from downtown Montreal. It is open NELSON ELECTRIC TRAMWAY SOCIETY CENTRAL 123 Vi ew Street from late May to early October (daily until Nelson, B.C. VI L 2V8 Christopher Kyle Labour Day). Members, and their immediate PRINCE GEORGE-NECHAKO·FRASER DIVISION 49 - 77 Wellesley St. East families, are admitted free of charge. P.O. Box 2408 Toronto, ON M4Y 1 H7 Prince George, B.C. V2N 2S6 Phone: (416) 962-1880 PACIFIC COAST DIVISION MARITIME THE GOAL OF THE ASSOCIATION IS THE P.O. Box 1006, Station "A" Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Pl Richard E. Viberg COLLECTION, PRESERVATION AND DIS­ ESQUIMAL T AND NANAIMO DIVISION 172 Main SI. SEMINATION OF ITEMS RELATING TO 1148 Balmoral Road Hillsborough, NB EOA 1 XO THE HISTORY OF CANADIAN RAILWAYS Vieloria, B.C. V8T I Bl Phone: 506 734-3467 MAY - JUNE 1996 63 CANADIAN RAIL - 452 Twenty-Five Years of Amtrak in Canada Amtrak's 25th Anniversary: 1971 - May 1 - 1996 By Fred F. Angus May 1, 1996 marks a quarter century since the formation of Amtrak. Some purists may say that the title of this article is a misnomer since Amtrak trains did not run in Canada until September 1972, which is not even 24 years ago, let alone 25: However they have run in Canada during at least a palt of every year from 1972 to 1996 inclusive which, as simple arithmetic will show, is 25 calendar years. Besides, the logical time for the commemoration is the silver jubilee of the corporation; hence the title, and the article. Twenty-five years ago - May 1 1971, the National Railroad Railway traffic across the border between Canada and the Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, began business in United States began on September 41851 with the opening of the the United States. Its purpose was to take over the operation of extension of the Champlain & St. Lawrence Rail Road from St. intercity passenger trains, thereby relieving the various railroads John's, Canada East (now Quebec), to Rouse's Point, New York. of the burden of running trains that were carrying fewer and fewer The Montreal Gazette, in its issue of September 6 1851, rightly passengers and losing more and more money. Ever since soon after predicted that this would be "the precursor of a traffic of which the World War II, passenger service in the U.S., and to a lesser extent extent is incalculable". Ironically, the date of that alticle was the in Canada, had been declining year by year and, by the late 1960s date of the death of Jason C. Peirce, one of the major promoters of was seriously threatened with extinction. It was in an attempt to Canada's first railway. On September 17th, 18th and 19th 1851, salvage the service and preserve a national passenger train system the city of Boston held a huge "Railroad Jubilee" to commemorate that an act of the U.S. Congress was passed to establish the NRPC. the opening of rail communication with Canada. At first the tentative name "Rail pax" was used for the proposed "Railroad fever" was in the air in the early 1850s, and two new system, and it was not until a matter of days before the more international lines were already under construction. The first implementation date of May 1 that it was announced that the new to be completed was the Montreal & New York and the Plattsburgh corporation would trade under the name "Amtrak". & Montreal which met at the border north of Mooers, N.Y. on the When the schedules for the new services were announced evening of Thursday, September II 1852. Full tluough passenger it was quickly realized that more than half of the long distance service between Montreal and Plattsburgh (including a ferry boat passenger trains in the U.S. would disappear the night of April 30, across the St. Lawrence river) began on Monday, September 27 1971. It was the single biggest cutback in American history and 1852, thus creating a rival to the C&StL. Then on July 18, 1853 the was analogous to what Canadians would experience on January 15, combined St. Lawrence & Atlantic and Atlantic & St. Lawrence 1990. Among the discontinued trains were all U.S. trains which (which by then had become part of the newly-incorporated Grand crossed the border into Canada. Gone were the "Laurentian" and Trunk) was completed from Montreal to Portland Maine when the "Montreal Limited" of the Delaware & Hudson, the "International" last spike was driven at Island Pond, Vermont. A commemorative of the recently-formed Burlington Northern, as well as trains plaque at Island Pond still proclaims that this was the first connecting Ontario with the midwest states. While there was hope international railway line in AmeJica! As we have seen, however, that Amtrak might one day reinstate some of these services, in the this is incorrect; the line was actually the third. spring of 1971 no one could be sure. As the years went on, more and more international railway This does not mean, of course, that all international lines were built. From the eastern end of the Maine - New passenger trains had stopped running. Canadian railways still Brunswick border between Calais and St. Stephen, all the way to operated some trains that crossed the border. The Toronto Hamilton the west coast, tracks were laid between the two countries. The & Buffalo offered a service, with Budd RDCs, between Toronto most remote was the White Pass & Yukon Route which, in 1899, and Buffalo, while both CN and CP ran trains that crossed the reached the international border at the sununit of the White Pass. border twice in their runs between Canadian points. CN's was the There were even international street car lines, such as the Calais - train from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg via the old Canadian Northern St. Stephen system, the lines in the Niagara area, and the physically­ line that passed through a part of Minnesota, while CP ran a train separated system serving the two Sault Ste.
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