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May, 1967 - Number 256 Columbia Electric Railway. Published monthly by the Upper Canada Railway June 23rd; (Friday) - UCRS Hamilton Chapter Society, Incorporated, Box 122, Terminal A, regular meeting. Board room, CNR , . James Street Station, Hamilton, Editor James A. Brown Ontario, 8:00 p.m. Authorized as Second Class Matter by July 7th; (Friday) - The Society’s annual the Post Office Department, , Ontario, evening streetcar excursion will and for payment of postage in cash. leave at 8:15 Members are asked to give the Society p.m., and King and Yonge Streets at at least five weeks notice of address changes. 8:35 p.m. The trip will be about 3½ Please address NEWSLETTER hours in length, fare $1.50 by advance contributions to the Editor at 3 Bromley reservation or $2.00 on the car. Crescent, Bramalea, Ontario. No Tickets available from the Trip responsibility is assumed for loss or Committee at the UCRS box number shown non-return of material. above. All other Society business, including July 21st; (Friday) - If sufficient interest membership inquiries, should be addressed to is indicated an informal 8 mm. movie UCRS, Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario. night will be arranged. Contact the Cover Photo: Coleraine, named after their home Entertainment Committee for details. by Nineteenth Century Irish settlers, was the October 6-9; A weekend of steam excursions end of steel for Central in 1877. Nine in Pennsylvania and New York, decades later, one of the last passenger featuring a day’s outing behind CPR trains pauses opposite the station which 4-6-U No. 972. Fare -- including bus doubles as living quarters for an employee’s and all trips -- $50.00 per person. family. See Page 65. Photo by Full details will be released soon. Jim Sandilands. 0256-001.jpg Trip will be limited to 82 persons, Contributors to this Issue so plan now to attend. Dwight Beattie, John Bromley, Bruce READERS’ EXCHANGE Chapman, Bill Coo, Ray Corley, Peter Cox, WANTED to purchase 35 mm colour slides Harlan Creighton, Peter de van der Schueren, of steam locomotives on display anywhere in Tom Henry, Johnny Krause, Omer Lavallee, Bob Ontario. Slide should show side view of McMann, , David Rudyk, Jim engine, with road number & name clearly Sandilands, David Stalford, Charles Vicary, visible. Write Art Wade, 2 Jasper Avenue, Ted Wickson. Apartment 6, Toronto 9, Ontario. Production: John Bromley, Tom Henry, Omer FOR SALE OR TRADE: Photos of Canadian Lavallee. and U.S. street and interurban railways. Distribution: Steve Munro, George Pearce, Want negatives, pre-1940 photos of Quebec John Thompson, Bill Weighill, Ted Wickson. Central, QRL&P (city and interurban), also COMING EVENTS CP 8000, 2850 on Royal Tour. Gerry Burridge, Regular meetings of the Society are 65 Cremazie West, Quebec 6, Quebec. held on the third Friday of each month (except READERS ARE INVITED to place their July and August) at 587 Mt. Pleasant Road, non-commercial advertisements in this Toronto, Ontario. 8:00 p.m. department, free of charge. th June 16 ; (Friday) - Regular meeting, RAILWAY News and Comment featuring a talk on the British CN REDUCES DEFICIT BY 26 PER CENT

UCRS # 256 - 1 CN’s annual report for 1966 revealed operations accounting for $906.1-million of that an operating profit of $40.1-million for the total. Freight revenues were up 9.6% -- the year was turned into a deficit of the highest in CN’s history -- while passenger $24.6-million by “an extremely heavy interest revenues increased by 15.8% to the highest burden”. However the deficit was 26% lower since 1945. The report noted that passenger than in 1965 and the fifth consecutive drop revenues are rising at a faster rate than from the peak loss of $67.3-million recorded expenses, and reiterated CN’s confidence that in 1961. it will be possible to reach an eventual profit Gross revenues fell just $1.4-million position on passenger services; no figures short of the billion dollar mark, with railway were given on CN’s 1966 passenger losses. ONR’S CENTENNIAL PROJECT -- A STEAM ENGINE and cross-Canada travel -- of their The Ontario Northland has announced predecessors. Another possibility would be that a a single daily transcontinental in company diminutive train, hauled by a steam locomotive with increased inter-city runs. “under its own power”, will visit on-line Mr. Richer pointed out that present points during the summer. The locomotive, transcon schedules -- because of their however, will be available for display only, continuous nature -- must arrive at major and it is not planned that it will be used points en route at times totally unacceptable on excursions. for inter-city travel. He doubted that the The locomotive, ex-CN 2164, was railways could successfully compete against repainted as Temiskaming & Northern Ontario the airlines, with their coming jumbo jets, 137 for display several years ago, and was for an appreciable portion of the inspected by excursionists in North Bay during transcontinental passenger market. our weekend steam trip of September, 1963. (The railway does not foresee any Its display train for this summer’s tour will serious loss on these services in 1967, as include an old Centennial travel demands are expected to be caboose and the former restaurant car sufficient to maintain income from this source “Agumik”. at a reasonable level.) The tour is scheduled to begin on June Mr. Richer’s remarks came on the heels 12th at Haileybury, visit Cochrane, Timmins of the new Transportation Act which, over and North Bay the weeks of June 26th, July 3rd eight years, will eliminate $110-million and August 14th respectively, and wind up at annually in operating subsidies to the two Englehart on September 10th. railways and, in turn, grant them greater CN MAY ELIMINATE TRANSCONTINENTALS -- RICHER freedom in selecting the services they want Surprising, at least superficially, to maintain. It also follows CN’s 1967 budget was the May 9th statement by CN’s Passenger which forecasts a deficit of only $15-million, vice-president, Jean H. Richer, that the lowest since 1957. This year, CN is railway may eliminate transcontinental predicting a 30% gain in passenger revenues, passenger service within the next two or three to $90-million. years, or at The conventional dining car complete least drastically alter it to suit customer with kitchen will disappear -- likely by 1973 needs. At the same time, he revealed that -- in favour of a scheme of precooked meals. within five or six years the era of meals On short trips, passengers will eat cooked and served on dining cars will be over. pre-prepared airline-style meals at their Elimination of the two seats. On long journeys, it will still be transcontinentals would be accompanied by the necessary to provide dining car comfort for introduction of a series of inter-city trains passengers’ meals, but the food will be cooked to fill one of the two functions -- inter-city at the terminal and simply reheated on the

UCRS # 256 - 2 train. Previews of these meal concepts will * A strike by 20,000 conductors and be afforded passengers on CN’s Turbos and trainmen could tie up 90% of U.S. railroads Southwestern Ontario Hawker Siddeley on June 2nd. The U.S. Congress is already trainsets, later this year. considering action to delay a June 19th strike Photo: Ontario Northland’s “T&NO 137" will by 137,000 members of six shopcraft unions. become a familiar sight to Northern Ontario * The Studebaker-built car to be driven residents during the coming summer.0256-002.jpg by Parnelli Jones in this year’s Indianapolis WORTH NOTING. .... 500 is of particular significance to Canadian * Canadian National Railways will host National. Its engine is an adaption of United the second international symposium on Aircraft’s PT6 aircraft engine, and is the railroad cybernetics, in from same power plant that is now being installed October 1st to 6th. Cybernetics is the science in CN’s TurboTrains at Montreal Locomotive dealing with the control and communications Works. in complex organizations of men and machines, * There is a good possibility that and the relationship between them. Hovercrafts will be in operation in eastern * Metro for Mexico? According to the Canada in the near future. Yarmouth, N.S. Mexican railway magazine “Revista - Bar Harbour, Maine, Digby, N.S - Saint John, Ferronales”, French banks have agreed to N.B. and several Northumberland Strait advance funds to the Mexican government to crossings have been suggested as possible permit construction of a “Metro” in Mexico routes for a pilot project. City. Any bets that it won’t be rubber-tired? * In an effort to reduce express incurred in switching operations. Southern freight loss and damage claims, CN has Pacific is testing 20 units on its cars. introduced “Operation Safe-T-Pack”, a program * R. J. Lewis, new president of the aimed at educating shippers to package and Trucking Association of Canada, has suggested address their shipments correctly and to that railways and truckers should call a ensure that they are undamaged before truce, maintaining that there is plenty of shipment. work for both industries. * Canadian National and Hilton of * Canadian railway carloadings in the Canada are examining the possibilities of first four months of 1967 were down 6.9% from constructing hotels in Toronto and Quebec the 1966 period, to 1,187,868 cars. Showing City. significant decreases were wheat, building * Northern Development Minister sand and lumber. Arthur Laing has announced that the government * CN’s design for its new bridge across is ready to consider new development railways the Second Narrows in Vancouver has come in into the Yukon and Northwest Territories. for much criticism in past weeks, being He suggested that present exploration likened to a product of “a 1910 Meccano Set” activity in the Central Yukon and Mackenzie by local planners. Now, CN President N. J. Valley regions would merit careful MacMillan has agreed that the company will consideration as to their potential for new see what can be done within the framework of transport routes. existing plans to improve the aesthetic * American Bosch has developed a sonic quality of the bridge. device (“Sonicar”) which detects “the closing * The U.S. government is backing a distance between a moving car and the one to project which would have railroads haul urban which it is being coupled, and automatically trash and garbage to remote rural dumping regulates the speed of the car as it approaches grounds. for coupling”. Bosch hopes the device will * Despite a one-month strike in the be instrumental in reducing cargo damage now fall, Pacific Great Eastern cut its deficit

UCRS # 256 - 3 to under $600 in 1966, as compared to headquarters at Winnipeg. $1.74-million in 1965. Gross revenues topped * Did you know that of the 30,000 level $20-million for the first time. Significant crossings in Canada, only 518 have increases in 1967 carloadings (20% in April) automatically controlled gates with flashers? indicate a profit making year for PGE after Just 3,431 are equipped with flashers and decades of red-ink accounting. bells only, while about 400 have manual * Two items of note from CP’s Waltham protection, leaving well over 25,500 Subdivision: Up to 75 cars of stone daily may crossings unprotected. well be the output of the recently-reopened Passenger Notebook gravel pit at Franceschini Pit, mile 49 of CN UP-DATES ITS CAR NAMES the Waltham Subdivision; the stone will be * Effective May 1st, CN introduced new used by a new cement plant at Bells Corners, terminology for certain types of passenger near Ottawa. And a landmark of the Pontiac equipment on the basis that the names formerly region, Breckenridge station, will be moved used were no longer appropriate for the away by a local farmer sometime this spring; functions the equipment served; more Breckenridge is about 15 miles from the “saleable” terms were needed. Capital. Accordingly, the old Parlour Cars, * Some other Ottawa area notes: Track Buffeterias and Coach Lounges have on the CPR Sussex Street Subdivision north disappeared, to be replaced by Club Cars, of Hurdman and also CN’s Mann Avenue lead was Cafes and Bar Cars. lifted recently; CPR tracks in Hull from St. LOOKING FOR EXPO ACCOMMODATION? Henri Street to the Chateau Laurier Hotel * The Ottawa JOURNAL has this idea for (including the trackage across the beating the Expo 67 accommodation problem: now-disused Alexandra Bridge) is now being “See Expo by day and evening, take the removed; CP s Hull Station has been closed; night train to Toronto with berth or roomette, Tracks have been relocated and switches get a good night’s rest and then take the Rapido installed to meet CP’s new cut-and-tunnel back to Montreal in the morning. It’s trackage which passes under the Rideau Canal supposed to be cheaper, too.” at Carleton University -- ballasting of the One wonders if the JOURNAL’s idea man new line is virtually complete, although it has tried to get Toronto - Montreal will not be placed in service for some time. reservations on any train lately. * CN has consolidated its Winnipeg and U.S. ROADS DROP FARES TO EXPO Assiniboine Areas into a single operating unit to be known as the Assiniboine Area, with * Eastern U.S. railroads have Grand Trunk Western to abandon its overnight authorized special reduced fares to Montreal, Detroit - Chicago service. permitting a grand circle tour of cities in MAIN-LINE HOLDUPS EXPLAINED BY CN the eastern territory within a 30-day period. * CN passengers in the Toronto area Round trip coach fare from Chicago and have been subjected to frequent delays intermediate points in the eastern territory recently as a result of track and signal work is $75. Passengers leaving from Chicago, for brought about by Turbos and GO Transit. To example, might travel first to Montreal, then explain the reasons, the railway posted this to New York and Washington before returning; notice in stations and distributed it in the passengers leaving from intermediate cities affected trains: on the circuit have the same privilege. * * * GTW TRAIN-OFF PROPOSAL BLOCKED WHAT’S THE * A panel of three federal judges HOLDUP? overruled on April 7th an ICC order authorizing What’s the

UCRS # 256 - 4 Holdup? kitchen facilities and a small lounge. The From Pickering to Hamilton is one of interconnecting doors are actuated by the busiest sections of railway track electric eyes for “no-hands” operation by in North America. Keeping the many tray-laden waiters. Two sets are operating freight and passenger trains “on time” on the Bonaventure between Toronto and which run over this track is a Montreal; it is reported that the remaining demanding task every day. sets will cycle in the Panorama between either You don’t have to be a Toronto or Montreal and Winnipeg. railroader to appreciate the fact that (The Pickens Railroad operates 9.3 when you toss in extra signalling and miles of freight-only track from a connection construction work, you’re going to put with the at Easley, S.C. to a crimp in existing service.Well, this Pickens. Apparently these cars were is happening. All for a worthy cause purchased as a speculative venture.) of course. The cause is the extra Numbers of the leased cars are as signalling and track which will follows: accommodate the Ontario Government’s 408-481 489-485 GO Transit trains. 405-478 490-484 We’re proud to run them. Once 407-482 487-483 we get all the extra work out of the CANADIAN PACIFIC COACHES TO MEXICO? way, we’ll be able to eliminate the - From a usually reliable source, it delays that passengers face these is reported that CP is on the verge of selling days. sixty passenger coaches to the National Going across Canada, or taking Railways of Mexico. All are reported to be the commuter train, we’ll get you there of the air-conditioned type in the 2100 and on time. 2200 series. CN CANADIAN NATIONAL MOTIVE POWER NOTES EQUIPMENT Notes - The Montreal press reported recently CANADIAN PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER NOTES that Canadian National placed orders at the - GMD turned over the last two units end of April for a total of 110 new diesel of CP’s current SD-40 order, Nos. 5563 and locomotives. Limited 5564, to the railway on April 28th. will build 68 SD-40 (3,000 h.p.) locomotives, - Units 5563/64 have replaced Nos. probably to be numbered 5008-5075. 5523/32 in CP’s transcontinental wheel test From Montreal Locomotive Works will service (see April NL, page 47). come 42 3,000 h.p. Century 630's, likely DINING CARS LEASED BY CN bearing the numbers 2002-2043. - Canadian National has leased -- No information is available as yet on reportedly for two-year period -- six two-car delivery schedules or proposed assignment of dining car sets from the Pickens Railroad, the new locomotives. Pickens, S.C. The cars were purchased by - Still more locomotives have been Pickens from the New York Central. retired from CN’s roster: th One car of each set contains seating 912 - April 14 ; ) Collision for 68 diners, while the other car contains between #203 920 - April 14th; ) and switcher, 2202 - April 14th - Repairs not September 13, 1966. justified. Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. 2204 - April 14th - Repairs not justified. 1630 - April 14th - Repairs not 2206 - April 14th - Repairs not justified. justified.

UCRS # 256 - 5 2214 - April 14th - Repairs not Sundays and No. 4 on other days, made their justified. last runs, terminating passenger service on 2215 - April 14th - Repairs not the QCR after ninety-two and a half years. justified. The appearance of the train was a far cry 2217 - April 14th - Repairs not from not-so-distant times when it included justified. a neat G-2 Pacific with QC’s own cars -- as 3032 - April 14th - Repairs not distinct from relettered Canadian Pacific justified. ones. Then, through passenger connections 3035 - April 14th - Repairs not were made south of to Newport, justified. linking Quebec with New York and 9426 - April 14th - Repairs not directly. justified. We paced No. 1 through the rolling 3806 - April 20th - Repairs not countryside on April 22nd, as it maintained justified. a punctual schedule through a predominantly 3819 - April 20th - Repairs not French-speaking area whose towns bear justified. strikingly English names -- East Angus, 3822 - April 20th - Repairs not Bishopton, Disraeli, Coleraine, Leeds and justified. Tring Junction, to name but a few. The names Photo: CN’s latest leased equipment is a series themselves spring from the organization of of dining cars like these, acquired from the Lower Canada in 1791, when the area of what Pickens Railroad. Photo by Tom Henry.0256-003.jpg is now Quebec lying in the triangle east of Photo: CN 3884, modified with an elongated Montreal formed by the United States boundary short hood to accommodate headend power and the Saint Lawrence River was organized equipment, is now operating out of Toronto into counties and townships, all with English on express freight trains. The unit, names. Here were to be found together with five others, will ultimately Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire, be renumbered and repainted for Southwestern Oxfordshire and many others -- in an attempt Ontario service. (April NL, page 46). Photo to transplant some of the atmosphere of the Tom Henry. 0256-004.jpg homeland to British military men and their AT THE ABANDONMENT OF PASSENGER SERVICE..... families, who had retired from the business A Glimpse at The History of Quebec Central of making war to settle and prosper. These By O. S. A. Lavallee counties were again divided into townships, Considering its timetable designation such as Ely, Ham, Upton, Abbotsford, Bagot, by the coveted initial digit, Train No. 1 of etc. Coexisting side-by-side with the new the Quebec Central Railway looked English settlers were older French-speaking particularly inauspicious on April 22nd, 1967, families, whose organization was based on the as it made its way northward through the ecclesiastical unit, the parish. Since the rolling countryside of Quebec’s Eastern range of popular parish names was Townships. In fact, its consist was an comparatively limited, such French-named irreducible minimum, RDC-1 car No. 9058. To communities designated themselves by the make matters worse in the eyes of a historian, English-named township in which they were No. 9058 wasn’t even lettered for the Quebec situated, resulting in those distinctive Central but carried the familiar maroon band treatments for place names which survive to with the words “Canadian Pacific”, QCR’s this day, and which are unique to “La Belle parent company. Province”. A good map will show such villages Scarcely a week later, on Saturday, as Enfant-Jesus-d’Ely; St. Guillaume d’Upton; April 29th to be exact, Train No. 1 and its St. Paul d’Abbotsford; St. Etienne-de-Bolton; corresponding southward services, No. 2 on or (take a deep breath),

UCRS # 256 - 6 Notre-dame-l’Auxiliatrice-de-Buckland! typical of the undulating main line of the Photo: CLEAR BOARD! .... But Train No. 1 stops QC. Photo by anyway to let down two passengers at Jim Sandilands. 0256-005.jpg Bishopton, 26.3 miles from Sherbrooke. The Map: System map of the QCR. 0256-006.jpg short but steep grade in the background is This countryside was first served when speechmaking, the SET&KR was opened for the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Rail Road was traffic between Sherbrooke and Westbury, a constructed through it between 1848 and 1853. distance of 13.7 miles. Completion in July of the latter year, Photo: “Opening of the Sherbrooke, Eastern linking Montreal with Portland, Maine, by way Townships and Kennebec Railroad, Sherbrooke of St. Hyacinthe, Richmond and Sherbrooke, to Westbury, October 22nd, 1874.”0256-007.jpg coincided with the integration of this pioneer Photo: “A Quebec Central Passenger Train About overland railway into the newly-formed Grand 1880.” From the author’s collection.0256-008.jpg Trunk Railway of Canada. In 1854, a GTR QUEBEC CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY branch bisected the Eastern Townships, In order to enhance the company’s image linking the main line at Richmond with Levis, and permit it to raise mortgage capital in opposite Quebec. By 1867, just a hundred Great Britain, it was reorganized on February years ago, the citizens of Sherbrooke and 23rd, 1875, changing its name to Quebec Central those localities lying east of this Sherbrooke Railway Company. The president and the - Richmond -Levis configuration, headed by general manager of the previous company, the Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, one of the Fathers Honourable J. G. Robertson and James R. of Confederation and at that time Member of Woodward, respectively, continued in the same Parliament for Sherbrooke, held a public capacities in the new organization. Capital meeting to solicit support for a railway was forthcoming and additional stages put into through the townships east of the GTR. operation as follows: SHERBROOKE, EASTERN TOWNSHIPS & KENNEBEC Year Location Miles from RAILWAY COMPANY Sherbrooke The outcome of this was the 1875 Weedon 37 incorporation on April 5th, 1869, of the 1877 Coleraine 58 Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships and Kennebec 1878 Thetford Mines 67 Railway Company, which was planned to use the 1879 East Broughton 84 Hulbert wooden rail principle, then enjoying The rails reached Vallee Jonction and a certain vogue for its alleged cheapness of a connection with the Levis & Kennebec Railway construction. It was planned to construct in November, 1880. in a northeasterly direction from Sherbrooke LEVIS AND KENNEBEC RAILWAY COMPANY to the Chaudiere, there to connect with As noted earlier, the Levis and another new line up the Chaudiere from Levis Kennebec had been incorporated in 1869 to -- also chartered in that year -- the Levis build southeasterly up the Chaudiere valley and Kennebec Railway Company. Wooden rails to the frontier of Maine, connecting at that were purchased and construction of the roadbed point with a projected United States line began the next year, but the unfavourable which would lay rail to the Atlantic coast experience of two other Hulbert wooden-railed at Wiscasset, about 230 miles. (It is not lines (one in the immediate vicinity) caused pertinent to our story but interesting to note the contractors to change to conventional iron that this connection, the Wiscasset & Quebec rail construction before track had been put Railway Company, was actually begun later, down. While the panic of 1873 impeded but to the two-foot gauge; it never extended investment and slowed progress, at last, on further than about forty miles from October 22nd, 1874, with great celebration and Wiscasset.) The original station in Levis

UCRS # 256 - 7 was located in the Upper Town and by the end undesirable from a traffic point of view, and of 1873, some thirty miles of route, as far the QCR immediately undertook corrective as Scott, had been graded and seven miles of steps in the form of a “deep water extension” rail laid as far as St. Fereole. In the by building a new line from St. Henri Village, ensuing seven years, the L&K had also raised eleven miles short of Levis on the old line, funds in England, though not with the same to a connection with the success as the Quebec Central, with the result at Harlaka Junction near Lauzon, a new mileage that the end of 1880 saw its rails at Vallee of nine; eventually, the portion from St. Jonction, but at the cost of bankruptcy of Henri to the upper town station in Levis was the company. The ensuing sheriff’s sale, in abandoned. The year 1881 also saw the first March 1881, saw the Levis & Kennebec purchased section of the Chaudiere branch completed five by the Quebec Central and added to that system; miles from Vallee Jonction to St. Joseph. through train service was begun between It was extended a further nine miles to Sherbrooke and Levis on May 23rd, 1881. Beauceville in 1886. The location of the old L&K station BRITISH CONTROL in the Levis “haute ville” was very Under the reorganization of 1875, the over this line jointly with the Quebec mortgage bonds of the QCR were held in England Central, and in competition with the Grand and the common stock in Canada, with the Board Trunk via Island Pond. The route was a very of Directors being located in Sherbrooke. popular one as the White Mountain resorts In 1886, a special act of the Quebec around Crawford Notch were then at the peak Legislature vested control of the Company in of popularity. Appropriately; the point at the income bondholders; a provisional board which the Lime Ridge / Beecher’s Falls branch was elected on November 14th, 1887 with Mr. joined the Maine Central main line near R. N. Hall, M.P., a Sherbrooke lawyer, being Littleton was called Quebec Junction. appointed Managing Director in Canada, EXPANSION replacing Mr. Woodward. On June 4th, 1888, With the tenure of Mr. Grund, the QCR’s a permanent board was established in London, prospects turned very much for the better; England, with Edward Dent as President. In in 1894, construction of the Megantic the autumn of that year, Mr. Frank Grundy, Subdivision was undertaken from Tring General Manager of the Mid-Wales Railway Junction to Megantic (59 miles) to connect Company, was sent out from England to make with a proposed Maine Central extension to an inspection and report to the bondholders. Megantic which never materialized. The line In March 1889, the London directors appointed fully justified itself, however, by opening Mr. Grundy to the post of Managing Director up new areas and generating increased traffic. and General Manager, inaugurating a period Subsequently, further extensions were made of British control which was to last until to the Chaudiere branch with the intention 1913. of effecting connection with the Temiscouata HEREFORD RAILWAY Railway at Cabano, along the ridge of the Notre In 1890, the Hereford Railway was Dame Mountains. This route was eventually completed between a connection with the Maine largely followed by the National Central at Beecher’s Falls, and Lime Transcontinental between Quebec and Ridge, Quebec, crossing the Quebec Central Edmundston, and while the Quebec Central was at Dudswell, about 25 miles from Sherbrooke. extended from Beauceville to St. Georges in The Hereford, a subsidiary of the MEC, thus 1907, it never extended beyond Lac Frontiere, offered direct connections from Quebec 79 miles from Vallee Jonction, which was through the White Mountains to Portland. A attained in 1915. through sleeping car service was inaugurated CANADIAN PACIFIC CONTROL

UCRS # 256 - 8 In the interim, control of the Quebec Railway Company was subleased by the Boston Central Railway through stock ownership was & Maine Railroad to the QC. This line, built gradually obtained by the Canadian Pacific in 1870, extended from Lennoxville to the Railway Company and on January 1st, 1913, the International boundary, 32 miles, with a QCR was leased to CP for a period of 999 years. branch from Beebe Junction to Rock Island, Unlike many other leases, however, this one 2½ miles. A further five miles from the provided for the maintenance of a separate boundary to Newport, Vermont, were leased by identity for the Quebec Central for traffic Canadian Pacific from Boston & Maine in and legal reasons; this arrangement is still connection with the lease of the whole in existence at the present time, though the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad in Company some years ago ceased to separately Vermont. In 1946, Canadian Pacific purchased identify its motive power and rolling stock. the C&FRRR and its subsidiary Massawippi The 1913 lease effected return of the control Valley from the B&M, and turned the Newport of the railway to Canada, and since that time, - Lennoxville section over to the Quebec presidents of the Quebec Central have been Central for operation. vice-presidents of Canadian Pacific. Photo: No. 13 of the Quebec Central was used Extension did not cease under the in mixed train service between Levis and Canadian Pacific regime. Arrangements were Megantic, Quebec. This 1904 view was taken made with the federal government for the use at Sainte Marie de Beauce station. Canadian of the Quebec Bridge by QCR trains; in 1920, Pacific Photo. 0256-009.jpg a 22-mile branch was completed from Scott to Notice: An 1880 Notice announcing the Diamond, near Charny, where connection was abandonment of passenger rail service between made with Canadian National. On October 2nd, Garthby and their end of rails.0256-010.jpg 1920, QCR inaugurated through service from Photo: QC Train No. 1 rates a G-2 from parent Sherbrooke to Quebec, via Diamond, Charny and Canadian Pacific as it storms out of Cap Rouge. CP Quebec Subdivision rails were Sherbrooke in January, 1957. Beneath the used from west of Cadorna into Quebec’s Palais bridge are the rails of CN’s Sherbrooke Station. Subdivision, linking Richmond, Quebec with The last extension of Quebec Central Island Pond, Vermont. Photo by Johnny came about in 1926 when the Massawippi Valley Krause. 0256-011.jpg Traffic over the Hereford declined 1890, shortly after Mr. Grundy took office, after Quebec Central subleased the Massawippi to a peak of nearly $3.5-million in 1928. Valley line between Lennoxville and Newport, In any discussion of the Quebec Central as QC traffic was then routed via the parent Railway, mention should be made in particular Canadian Pacific route to St. Johnsbury where of its asbestos traffic, originating in the it was turned over to the Maine Central. Almost Thetford Mines area. When the railway was all of the Hereford Railway was abandoned in under construction in this region in 1878, 1927 except for two sections: one from outcroppings of what was then known as “cotton Cookshire to Malvina, which Canadian Pacific rock” were noticed, but were considered to purchased and operated for some time as a have little commercial potential and were not branch, and another, 4.4 miles long, extending exploited. Eventually, as much as 90% of the from Dudswell Junction to Lime Ridge which world’s supply of asbestos was produced here, is still operated as a private industrial as the mine tailings at Thetford and Black railway by the Dominion Lime Company Limited, Lake amply testify. Thetford Mines has a feeding the Quebec Central. population of over 21,000 and Black Lake an Financially, the Quebec Central has additional 5,000. Nearly 4,000 inhabitants been relatively prosperous. Its annual of the two towns are employed in the asbestos earnings increased from about $275,000 in industry which has a daily production of about

UCRS # 256 - 9 1,100 tons, with an annual value of autobuses at Sherbrooke (CP) station in 1946. $35-million. Photo courtesy of Canadian Pacific.0256-014.jpg At one time, the Quebec Central had Timetable: Timetable No. 5, April 24, 1966, its own back shops and terminal at Newington, for the Quebec Subdivision. 0256-015.jpg 1.4 miles from Sherbrooke on the east bank SUMMER TIMETABLE REVIEW of the St. Francis River, but this facility By Harlan Creighton was closed in 1939. In 1954, an 8½-mile Expo 67 and Centennial activities diversion was made in the main line of the elsewhere are two big reasons why Canada’s Quebec Subdivision between Black Lake and transport facilities are geared to what will Thetford Mines enabling Asbestos Corporation undoubtedly be a summer of record peacetime Limited and Bell Asbestos Mines to expand travel. On the railways, equipment their open-pit mining operations. utilizations are reaching new heights of HIGHWAY TRANSPORT efficiency, schedules have been modified and In reviewing passenger traffic, which new trains added in order to meet the demand. has now come to an end, it is worth noting CN that Quebec Central was a pioneer in the use Some of the most significant passenger of motor coaches on parallel highways service changes on CN have been made in the originally to supplement, and later to Maritimes. A completely new Montreal - replace, train services. A subsidiary, Sydney train, the Cabot, enters service on Quebec Central Transportation Company was June 1st; boasting reserved-seat coaches and incorporated in August 1931, and an initial sleeping cars, the Cabot will ease space service started in that year between Levis demands on the popular Ocean and Scotian and Morisset on the Lac Frontiere branch. trains, as well as eliminating the need for Initially, service was provided only in a change of trains at Truro for travellers summer, but eventually all-year-round highway for Sydney and Newfoundland. With the service was the order of the day and it introduction of the Cabot, a number of local paralleled all the rail lines. About two trains will be discontinued, including the years ago, the QCR divested itself of this tri-weekly Moncton - Edmundston train and the operation, selling it to private interests. Halifax - Sydney overnight service. The With the termination of passenger morning RDC run from Halifax to Sydney will trains on Quebec Central, Centennial Year thus be replaced by a Railiner operating between marks the end of a service first proposed in Halifax and Truro only, connecting at the Confederation year, 1867. latter point with the Cabot in both Photo: Quebec Central’s 10-wheeler No. 42 was directions. In Newfoundland, as was the case built in 1913 for the Quebec Central and last year, the trans-island Caribou will differs from standard CPR 10-wheelers. operate -- likely for its last season -- daily Canadian Pacific. 0256-012.jpg from mid-June to mid-September, while the Photo: Quebec Central Pacific 2588 emits a ferry “Leif Eiriksson” will supplement the voluminous plume of smoke as it rambles along regular North Sydney - Port aux Basques with a way freight near Sherbrooke. service of the “William Carson”. Beginning Johnny Krause. 0256-013.jpg on June 1st, the Caribou’s schedule will be Photo: A Quebec Central passenger train and altered to provide connections with the Cabot. Elsewhere in the East, the Scotian now extension will be the removal of the present joins the Ocean as an all-reserved train. RDC and mixed train service between The Chaleur, which began year-round operation Campbellton and Gaspe. The first of June will between Montreal and Campbellton only a few also see the removal of the present Montreal years ago, will be extended to Gaspe, - Moncton local trains 17 and 18; however, effective June 1st; coincident with this between Campbellton and Charny, a new RDC

UCRS # 256 - 10 service will be introduced, connecting at the Winnipeg and Edmonton has been discontinued latter point with new noon-day Rapido between for the summer. Montreal and Quebec. The combination of Expo travel will have the greatest these two new services will cut more than three impact on CN’s Toronto - Montreal route, and hours from present daytime schedules between several important changes have been made to Montreal and Campbellton. this service. All through passengers now Incidentally, the new Rapido just require reservations for both sleeping car mentioned is one of two new Rapidos to be and coach accommodation on all trains; introduced between Montreal and however, several cars are operating on the on June 1st, making a total of four fast trains Lakeshore, Bonaventure and Cavalier on a daily between the two cities; just one year non-reserved basis for local passengers. ago, CN had just one train in this service With the introduction of TurboTrains -- now (discounting the Railiner run from Richmond) expected after August 15th -- CN plans to use -- the Champlain, whose name has disappeared the Rapidos, Turbos and the Cavalier for completely from current timetables. through passengers, while intermediate The evening Montreal - Sherbrooke RDC passengers only will be carried on the and its Richmond - Charny connection have been Lakeshore and Bonaventure. The morning rescheduled to a late evening (22:00) Rapido now has the more convenient departure departure for the convenience of Expo goers. hour of 09:00, while the afternoon Bonaventure And for yet another season, a Saturday-only has been rescheduled to a 15:35 departure, special will make seven round trips between so that it now completes its journey ahead Montreal and Portland (Maine), during the of the afternoon Rapido; the latter train, period July 1st to August 12th. incidentally, now operates daily. Again this summer, the Super The afternoon Toronto - Ottawa service Continental will run as two separate trains is now handled by a separate train instead from Toronto and Montreal to the west during of being carried in the Bonaventure to the June 1st - September 30th period; however, Brockville, as has been done to date; the new the Toronto and Montreal sections of the Ottawa train continues to run via Brockville, Panorama (and the Super during off-peak and not via Napanee as had been expected. periods) will continue to be consolidated at A new Expoliner RDC service has been Capreol. During mid-summer, the local stops instituted between Belleville and Montreal, made by the westbound Panorama between Capreol providing early-morning service eastbound and and Winnipeg will be eliminated, resulting mid-evening service westbound; an early in schedule reduction of one hour; a coach success, this train often requires as many on express-freight train 203 will serve the as five RDC’s. local stops. Late afternoon Montreal - A boom to the CN traveller who lives Ottawa passengers will no longer be carried in Toronto’s eastern suburbs is the on the Super, but will be accommodated on a establishment of a passenger stop at Guildwood new, non-stop train which departs Montreal for all Toronto - Montreal trains except the at 17:10; the return move leaves Ottawa in Turbos. The CN station at Guildwood is mid-morning. actually a house trailer, appropriately Sceneramic Lounge cars operate on the fitted out for its railroad duties and Panorama and the Montreal section of the Super situated across the track from the new Continental between Edmonton and Vancouver, shelters of GO Transit. while the leased B&O dome-sleepers may be Advertisement: A CN advertisement for their found on the Toronto section of the Super new Guildwood Station. 0256-016.jpg between the same points. The operation of Southwestern Ontario schedules remain Sceneramic carson the Panorama between essentially unaltered. Train numbers have

UCRS # 256 - 11 been prefixed by a “1", in preparation for other southwestern Ontario trains will have the Hawker Siddeley trainsets which will to wait until mid-afternoon for a train to likely be in operation before the next Montreal, or use a later train to Toronto. timetable change. Now, only trains 156 (from Express-freight trains 219/220 will lose Chicago) and 108 (from Niagara Falls) make their local Toronto - Windsor coach on July connections with morning Montreal trains. 1st, when CN’s express operations are moved Until Turbo services start, passengers from to Toronto Yard. Elsewhere on CN, the Calgary - Edmonton the Sudbury - Sault Ste. Marie Dayliner has Railiner run would appear to be on shaky been rescheduled to make a daytime round trip footings since the new table shows for the from Sudbury, connecting there with the Expo first time a ticket-honouring agreement with Limited. The new transcontinental also Greyhound Bus Lines over this route; serves local Sudbury - White River passengers, travellers can now choose between six daily and the RDC which formerly handled this run buses and the RDC. Capreol - Foleyet service has been discontinued. has been augmented by a regular passenger Few other changes are evident in the train operating thrice-weekly in addition to new CP timetable (which continues to be the usual mixed service. published in Standard time). Sunday-only The Canadian National - Ontario Ottawa - Montreal train 236 has been Northland service between Toronto and North rescheduled from late evening to mid-day, Bay / Timmins / Kapuskasing will undergo a probably because of Expo travel. The St. Paul major improvement on July 1st, with the removal - Winnipeg service via the Soo Line has now of local express and mail from the Northland; been discontinued. Reference is made in the schedules will be improved by one hour table to the imminent termination of the southbound and ninety minutes northbound. Toronto - Detroit Dayliners at Windsor. A new merchandise train from Toronto Yard will Finally, the tri-weekly northbound Toronto be introduced to handle express traffic to - Owen Sound train now departs later so as and from North Bay and ONR points. to connect with the inbound Canadian which, In addition to the Northland speedup incidentally, has been receiving considerable noted earlier, ONR is planning a twice-weekly promotion by CP in recent months. schedule for its popular one-day Cochrane - Photo: Canadian Pacific’s Expo Limited at Moosonee excursions; the specials will run Woodbridge, Ontario. on Wednesdays and Sundays during July and J. A. Brown photo. 0256-017.jpg August. Some improvement in the regular Traction Topics service to Moosonee is also anticipated. Edited by John F. Bromley Complete details of these services may be had * Multiple unit service is now from ONR offices in Toronto and North Bay. scheduled to begin at the commencement of the Canadian Pacific October period, subject to all conversion work Expo 67 means a new transcontinental and operator instruction being completed by passenger train for Canadian Pacific. September. Some of the overhead wiring for Operating on a schedule similar to that of locking and unlocking contactors at electric the Dominion during its last days of switches has been installed, and special work operation, the Expo Limited is being billed and curves for Neville Loop are being as CP’s contribution to the success of Canada’s completed at Hillcrest. Rebuilding at Centennial celebrations. The Expo Limited Neville will consist of installation of offers full dome service between Montreal and tangent rail in the loop itself to allow Vancouver, while the Toronto section carries coupling and uncoupling to be carried out here only coaches and sleeping cars; it will after the evening rush hour, and the removal th operate until October 28 . For the summer, of the exit curves to Nursewood Road.

UCRS # 256 - 12 * is scheduled to be inadvertent operation. S.M., J.F.B. rebuilt to include a passing track with a * Two diversions of street car service three-car capacity, and perhaps a two-car dead occurred during the past month. On March 29th, end spur. Work at will at 7:09 a.m., car 4311, entering KING service, include installation of an exit track onto split the switch, west to north, at Queen and eastbound from the trailer yard Broadview, blocking traffic in three and the relocation of the westbound entrance directions for twenty-five minutes. KING, into the trailer yard to a position slightly QUEEN, DUNDAS and both of the KINGSTON ROAD to the west of the existing track. Several services were affected with the usual short intersections along Queen Street are turn arrangements in effect. receiving minor repair to insure smooth * A section of fallen overhead at passage for two-car trains. College and University on April 25th at 9:08 * A test train, consisting of a.m. resulted in westbound CARLTON cars being 4493-4691, was operated on March 30th between diverted via Bay, City Hall Loop, Bay, Dundas 1:38 a.m. and 4:44 a.m. on Queen Street and and McCaul Streets for twenty-two minutes. Kingston Road, accompanied by emergency crews S.M. and with electric switches plugged to avoid * The EARLSCOURT route will become a SHORT TURN “rush-hours-only” operation effective with Danforth Division became the TTC’s the beginning of summer schedules, on an newest bus garage effective April 23rd, experimental basis. As a result of the operating all services formerly based at change, headways on St. Clair Avenue between Sherbourne and some from Birchmount. Unlike Lansdowne and the Subway are to be increased the former occupants, the buses face east. from 3 to 4½ minutes, while headways on the A large number of street cars, both rotation balance of the ST. CLAIR route are reduced and dead storage, remain at the south end of from 6 to 4½ minutes. The change is being the yard. .... latest word on the A1 and A2 made to aid inspectors in keeping ST. CLAIR class cars not going to Alexandria is that service on a more even keel; under the present they will be scrapped, and all are being arrangement, inspectors cannot pull shifted gradually to storage at St. Clair EARLSCOURT cars off of their runs to fill in Division. Most are in poor shape, as the cars for late ST. CLAIR cars as this would upset were not washed after being retired and salt the schedules for the former service. It is has taken its toll. .... shipping of cars to hoped that the new arrangement will result Alexandria will resume shortly. .... rail was in better service on a overall basis for the removed from Viaduct Loop prior to April 14th, ST. CLAIR route. and tenders have been called by the city for * There is a possibility that the 1967 resurfacing of Harbord Street, Ossington KING - EXHIBITION service will be rerouted Avenue and Dovercourt Road. Davenport Road, via either Parliament or Broadview and over from Dupont to Bay Street, is also scheduled the CARLTON route to Main Station. S.M., for resurfacing in 1967. .... work is R.M., J.F.B., T.W. virtually completed on the rail renewal Photos: One of the cars now preserved by the program on St. Clair Avenue. Work on O.E.R.H.A. at its Rockwood, Ontario museum , Queen to Dundas, has been is TTC large Witt car 2424. Its present postponed until 1968. .... the last remaining appearance is considerably better than that street car overhead has been removed from of April 6th, 1929), when it came out second Lansdowne Avenue and Lansdowne Carhouse. .... best in an altercation with car 2444. TTC odd assignments noted recently include 4596 Photos. 0256-018.jpg on DANFORTH, 4601 on LONG BRANCH and 4426 on 0256-019.jpg KING WEST. .... the north bound track in the

UCRS # 256 - 13 YONGE subway between Rosedale and St. Clair Stations is to be renewed during the summer. .... Overhauled and painted air cars during the past month were 4199, 4220, 4239, 4247, 4250, 4253, 4586, 4589, 4593 and 4599. .... 4431 has returned to service, and 4407 is expected shortly. Also back in service after 18 months is 4721, which is also the first car to be equipped with a destination sign for “Main Station”. .... 4538 and 4664 are undergoing repair for collision damage. .... Crane C-2 was at St. Clair Shop in late April for several new wheels. .... 4553 and 4300 exchanged divisions between April 21st and April 25th. .... RT-4 was badly damaged by fire north of Ellis Portal on May 6th at 2:25 a.m. RT-4 had just been overhauled, and may not be repaired as it will be replaced by a new car now under construction in Japan. .... the TTC will spend over $60,000 to re-body two as yet unidentified trolley buses, in an effort to avoid bus replacement on the trackless lines. .... how many readers are aware of the fact that all wheel and axle maintenance for the PCC cars of the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit is performed at Hillcrest Shops? .... new bus arrivals are being numbered in the 7000 series. The 6000 series was unavailable for bus numbering as this series is reserved for use on subway - surface cars. Subway - surface cars? .... W-26 has joined C-1 in dead storage at the far northwest corner of Hillcrest Shops, in the company of London & Port Stanley cars 4 and 8 and several PCC cars stored for Alexandria. Storage of PCC cars, facing east-west on the Hillcrest soccer field has been discontinued, although the cars facing north remain in position for the time being. .... J.F.B., S.M., R.M., T.W.

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