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Newsletter of the Upper Canada Railway Society Newsletter of the Upper Canada Railway Society THIS MONTH IN RAIL AND TRANSIT 3 SWEDEN'S X2000 VISITS CANADA Gord Webster takes a look at the recent tour of the X2000 in Ontario and Quebec, and the status of high-speed trains in Canada. 8 6060: IRON HORSE ESCAPES ITS CORRAL Photos and details of the recent move of former NUMBER 525-AUGUST 1993 CNR 4-8-2 6060 from Calgary to Edmonton, by Bob Sandusl^. PUBLISHED BY Upper Canada Railway Society 10 P.O. Box 122, Station A RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY Toronto, Ontario M5W IA2 Quebec to P.E.I. READERS' EXCHANGE Just A. Ferronut 12 Dave Savage has announced that the Canadian EDITOR Station News 1994 calendar of the trains and Pat Scrimgeour TRANSCONTINENTAL stations of Canada is now available for $ 16.00, 250 Queens Quay West # 1607 THE RAPIDO CP, CN, and VIA diversions including postage. The calendar has 13 large- Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N2 ...CN lines transferred to ONR, Raikex format colour photos In locations all across the ...GO Transit extension funding E-Mail: [email protected] country. Canadian Station News, P.O. Box THE PANORAMA CP double-stack update 171. Cobourg. Ontario K9A 4K5. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS MOTIVE POWER. CM demonstrators John Carter, Art Clowes, Scott Haskill, IN TRANSIT Victoria and Vancouver plans A CN Conductor's uniform (pre-VIA) and a Don McQueen, Sean Robltaille, ROLLING STOCK. .VIA car rebuilding VIA Conductor's Hat are available to any Gray Scrimgeour, Chris Spinney, THE TRAIN SPOTTERS Cobouig. Kitchener interested member. Please contact Chris John Thompson, Cord Webster FREIGHT CAR STATISTICS Fleet summary Spinney at (416) 281-8211. These are being donated by member Bob Roach of Barrie. ON THE CALENDAR Please send news and short contributions to the addresses shown with each news Friday, September 17 - UCRS Toronto OUR THANKS section. Articles and photos should be sent meeting, at the Toronto Board of Education The UCRS has received a generous donation to the editor at one of the above auditorium, 155 College Street at McCaul. from a member in the amount of $1 000. On addresses. If you are using a computer, Weekend, September 17-19- behalf of the Board and all members, thank please use electronic mail or send a Railphoto '93, sponsored by the Steamtown you. The donor has requested to remain WordPerfert or text file on an IBM- Volunteer Association in Scranton, P.A. A anonymous. compatible (5'/i" or 3'A") disk, along with weekend of excursions and photo opportunities. Ex-CPR Pacific 2317 may be a printed copy. HELEN BRIDGES featured. Phone (717) 346-0660 for details. Helen Bridges, widow of founding member Subscriptions to Rail and Transit are Friday, September 24 - UCRS Hamilton (#4) Charlie Bridges, died August 23. Helen available with membership in the Upper meeting, at the Hamilton Spectator was one of the rare railfans' wives who not auditorium, 44 Frid Street, just off Main Street Canada Railway Society. Membership dues only supported her husband in his hobby, but at Highway 403. The programme will be are $29.00 per year (12 issues) for took an active part. She remained active with recent news and members' current and addresses in Canada, and $32.00 for the UCRS and CRHA even after the death of historical slides. addresses in the U.S. and overseas. Charlie (always Charles to herl). Friday, October 15 - UCRS Toronto Student memberships, for those 17 years meeting, at the Toronto Board of Education SOUTH SIMCOE or younger, are $19.00. Please send auditorium, 155 College Street at McCaul. Just a reminder that the South SImcoe Railway inquiries and changes of address to the will be wrapping up its 1993 season on address at the top of the page. Friday, October 22 - UCRS Hamilton Thanksgiving Monday. Until then, you can ride meeting, at the Hamilton Spectator auditorium, 44 Frid Street. any Sunday from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., as well as UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY the holiday Monday. Advanced reservations DIRECTORS are not mandatory, but highly recommended. COVER PHOTO Rick Eastman, President 494-3412 Phone (416) 936-5815 for further Info and John Carter, VP-Services 690-6651 ABB high-speed train, the X2000 poses in directions to Tottenham. Pat Semple, VP-Administration WA3-9I23 front of Toronto's Union Station prior to Gordon Shaw, Corporate Secretary 889-6972 its media demonstration run to Guelph EARLY NEWSLETTERS Art Clowes SI4 934-5549 Junction and return, on Wednesday July We still need copies (photocopies will do) of Steve Danko 287-2844 28, 1993. The whirlwind tour, sponsored Issues #14,15. and 16 of the UCRS A! Maitland 921-4023 by CP Rail and Asea Brown Boverl (ABB), Newsletter. If you have these, or could suggest George Meek 532-5617 included stops in Windsor, London, someone who may have copies, we would Pat Scrimgeour 260-5652 Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec appreciate It if you could contact us via the City before returning to Amtrak. post box or by calling Chris Spinney at 281 - Completed August 28, 1993 —Photo by John Carter. July 28, 1993 8211. 2 • Rail and Transit • August 1993 By Gord Webster The Swedish X2000 train made a promotional trip JULy ^S. X^OOO RRR/PES ID CRnRDfl through Ontario and Quebec in the last week of July. The X2000 train entered Canada through Niagara Falls, The promoters, CP Rail System and Asea Brown Boveri after it was brought to Buffalo on the Bridgeline (ABB) called it "the first high-speed train ever to travel Division (Delaware and Hudson) of CP Rail. The train in Canada," and said it was here to "familiarise was being moved behind two Amtrak F40PHs, 351 and members of the government, the transportation sector, 380, and an Amtrak baggage car, 1241. The train was and the media with this unique high speed train ordered with a Canadian crew for 21:00 on July 26, in technology." Buffalo, New York. From Buffalo, the train made its way The X2000 demonstrator train-set was brought to to London via Hamilton and Guelph Jet., passing the U.S. in October 1992 by the U.S. National Railroad through Bayview at around 04:00. When the train Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), with the cooperation arrived at Guelph Jet., it was turned east on the wye so of ABB, the builder, the Swedish State Railways (SJ, the that the locomotives were at the east end of the train. owner of the train), and the U.S. Federal Railroad The train then carried on to London with the X2000 Administration. Amtrak tested the train in its Northeast cab-car leading. Corridor to aid in the development of specifications for JULy El: Lonuon RUD uinosoR a future contract for 26 high-speed train-sets. After The train arrived in London around 08:00 on July 27, testing, the train was used in revenue service where it was allowed to operate at speeds of up to 135 m.p.h., where it was refuelled and re-marshalled, so that which was the fastest scheduled passenger service ever Amtrak 380 was coupled and MLPd to the X2000 power in North America. Subsequently, it went on a 20 000- car, and the baggage car and 351 were to the east of mile, 85-city tour throughout the United States, and 380. It departed around 15:00 for Windsor, arriving then came to Canada. there for 18:00. That evening in Windsor, there was a reception for media, politicians, and other guests, There has been a lot of discussion about the X2000 followed by the train going through a paper banner and in various other publications, and to prevent being a demonstration of the tilting mechanism while the repetitive, the technical aspects of the train will not be train was stationary. discussed in any great detail here. The itinerary of the A local newspaper in Windsor had reported earlier Canadian tour will be provided, followed by comments that day that the train would be on display and there on the trip, and some other observations on "high• would be public tours. The location of the display site speed" passenger trains in Canada. and the expected arrival time of the train were given. A Rail and Transit • August 1993 • 3 number of people showed up to have a tour of the train, JULy ^8: TOROrfTO-GUELPH JET. but they were turned away. The train arrived at Toronto Union Station at 05:00 on For the tour, three Chicago and North Western Wednesday, July 28. The X2000 train with Amtrak 380 sleepers. Lake Geneva, Lake Forest, and Lake Bluff, were was placed on Track 13, the southernmost station track, brought to Canada to accommodate ABB personnel, and and the support cars were spotted on CP Express Track two CP business cars. Mount Royal and Lacombe, were 3 (the southernmost track in the CP Express shed at the used by CP personnel. Before the train left Windsor, the northeast comer of Union Station). CP business cars and CStNW sleeper cars were switched By 08:30, the train was ready to receive media into the train and CP SD40-2 5590 was added to the representatives. After a photo opportunity of the train head end. The train departed around 22:00 for Toronto, tilting and passing through a paper banner, stopping in London for a crew change at 01:20. presentations were made on the train by personnel from ABB and CP. At 09:30, other guests boarded the train for a 10:00 departure of the first Canadian excursion of the X2000. Actual departure of the train was at 10:05, travelling 39 miles on the Calt Subdivision to Cuelph Jet., the same route over which Milton CO trains operate every day.
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