Newsletter of the Upper 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 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 , by Bob Sandusl^. PUBLISHED BY Upper Canada Railway Society 10 P.O. Box 122, Station A RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY , 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, . .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 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 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, , , and Quebec appreciate It if you could contact us via the City before returning to . 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. This route was chosen as it is the fastest CP track in Toronto, with a maximum permissible speed of 75 m.p.h. The X2000 reached this top speed as it descended into the Hornby Dip, near Mile 27. The train was hampered by work blocks and slow orders on the line, though, making the trip longer than it could have been. During the trip, staff from the Royal York Hotel catered to guests on the train using CP Hotels china and

The X2000 in Toronto (top) and Guelph Jet. (left) Photos by Ian Sinclair (Optinuim) and John Carter

Rail and Transit • August 1993 silverware. Arrival at Guelph Jet. was at approximately JULy ES: OTTflUfl--BUCK/nGHfln JCT. 11:05, making the average speed of the trip 39 m.p.h. Events planned for Ottawa were identical to the events The train waited at Guelph Jet. while interviews were in Toronto. Two 56-mile round trips, at 10:00 and conducted by local media outside of the train. The train 13:30, were operated from Ottawa to Buckingham Jet., departed for Toronto at approximately 11:15, arriving Quebec, via the EUwood and Lachute Subdivisions. back at Union Station at 12:10, averaging 43 m.p.h. Through Hull, the X2000 was close to some of its older A second excmsion was operated for more guests in cousins on the Hull, Chelsea and Wakefield Railway, the afternoon. It departed from Toronto at 13:11, which is operated using SJ locomotives and coaches. arrived at Guelph Jet. at 14:06 (37 m.p.h average), left The X2000 tour train was reassembled and it there at 14:15, and arrived back at Union Station at departed Ottawa around 20:00. From Ellwood Diamond, 15:00 (52 m.p.h. average). south to Bedell, the train operated with the cab car The rest of the afternoon, ABB and CP held private leading. From Bedell, the train travelled east on the receptions and entertained various guests on the train. Winchester Subdivision with CP 5590 leading again to At 18:30, CP SD40-2 5590 returned to reassemble the Montreal. It arrived at Clen Yard that morning for a train and lead the move to the next stop on the tour, repeat of the events that took place in Toronto and Ottawa. Ottawa. The train departed Toronto Union station at 20:00, with the operator at Cherry Street tower announcing over the TTR address system as far as Don Station for all of the spectators out to see the train that "the train has just left the depot." The train travelled the entire length of the Belleville Subdivision to Smiths Falls, where it was scheduled to change crews at 04:00, and then on to Ottawa via the Winchester Subdivision to Bedell, and then north on the Prescott Subdivision and the CN Beachburg Subdivision to Ottawa Union Station Coach Yard, with arrival scheduled at 08:00.

The X2000 in Montreal (top) and Rigaud (right) Photos by Gord Webster

Rail and Transit • August 1993 • 5 THE XROOO IRfl/n During the trips on the X2000, there were numerous CP and ABB officials to answer any questions. The control cab was left open during both directions on the trips, permitting people to look out the front (or rear) of the train. The train was greeted by railfans at almost every level crossing along the excursion routes and even more people at the turn-around point of the excursions. One company official was amazed at the number of people that waved to the train at crossings, even when the train was deadheading between cities. Most passengers on the trips seemed to enjoy the train, but there were two comments that were heard often. Many people complained about the air- conditioning not cooling the car to a comfortable level. Apparently, the train-set that was used on the North American visit is the only X2000 train that has air- conditioning installed, and the air-conditioning was installed specifically for the tour. Sweden does not have the hot and humid climate of Canada, and so the cooling system was not designed for such weather as on the day the train was in Toronto. The other common question was why CP Rail was getting involved again in the passenger business. During presentations by company officials, CP was clear to point out that ABB approached CP for this tour and that CP was not endorsing the X2000. But CP was sure to fill the media kits with facts, such as that CP has carried "eight hundred million passengers . . . and counting." A booklet included in the media kits talked about CP's more than a century of experience in passenger travel and discussed its current passenger-train contracts, which include Amtrak, VIA, CO, STCUM, Metra, and Great Canadian Railtours. In the book, CP states that they are co-operating with all government initiatives The X2000 in Montreal aimed at making a high-speed train service between Photo courtesy of Optimum Windsor and a commercially-viable operation. The Quebec City-Windsor corridor accounts ;GRUD JULy 30: nonTRERL--R for 85 per cent of VIA's passengers and 70 per cent of its The X2000 train was placed on the loop track on the revenues. This is why CP is interested in operating a south side of Glen Yard, from which round trips to high-speed train; it can be a profitable operation for the Rigaud were operated at 09:45 and 13:30. (On the operator with the proper government funding. return trip in the morning, a CN official on the X2000 pointed to a rail-grinding train on the adjacent CN A $6-million study, paid for by the Ontario, Quebec, Kingston Subdivision, and said that it was "CN's high• and federal governments, is currently being conducted speed train, burning up the tracks!") on the feasibility of a high-speed passenger train. The recommendations from this report are expected in JULy 31: OUEREC--Lfl PERRDE November. CP and Air Canada are currently doing a At the end of the day, the train was cleaned and market study for a high-speed service, outside of the refuelled for a scheduled departure of 22:00 from government-sponsored studies. Montreal to Quebec City. The train arrived in Quebec around 04:00 on July 31 and was spotted on Track 4 of HIGH-SPEED TRfllHS IH CRHRDfl Henri-IV Yard. Only one excursion was operated from CP and ABB claimed that the X2000 was the first high• Quebec, at 10:00, 46 miles to La Perade and then speed train to travel in Canada. The week before it return. The train departed Quebec around 16:00 for its visited our country, it was tested in the U.S. at 172 trip back to Montreal, arriving there around 22:00. m.p.h., a new high speed for the X2000. Its normal operating speed, however, in Sweden is 125 m.p.h. If In Montreal, the train was cleaned, refuelled, re- 125 m.p.h. is high-speed, then what class of train was marshalled (the business cars and sleepers were United Aircraft's Turbo train or Bombardier's LRC train? removed and the baggage car placed behind the two Amtrak F40s) and turned so that the engines were The Turbo train was tested at 140 m.p.h. on April leading. The train left after midnight on August 1, 22, 1976, on a stretch of the CN Kingston Subdivision scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C., at 08:00 on between Cornwall and Prescott (May-June 1976 Rail August 2, where it would then be turned back over to and Transit). An LRC locomotive and coach were tested Amtrak. at 129 m.p.h. earlier that same year.

6 • Rail and Transit • August 1993 Both the Turbo and the LRC were and are limited, LRC. Its purpose, concept, and design are very similar. however, to 95 m.p.h. in regular operation, because of But there have been significant improvements between track conditions and the presence of grade crossings. It the 1970s technology of the tilting and the trucks in the was only a year ago that Transport Canada allowed CN LRC and the 1980s technology in the X2000. to increase the speed of LRC trains to 100 m.p.h. at ABB is promoting the X2000 as attractive for certain locations. If the X2000 were to be placed in business travellers because of its interior design. The service tomorrow on the CN Kingston Subdivision, it train includes such luxuries as 2-1 seating throughout, would not be allowed to operate any faster than 100 with tables or drop-down trays made from Swedish m.p.h. So, have we not already operated two versions of pear-wood, padded side head rests on the wall, high-speed trains in Canada already? electrical and cellular telephone connections, and three What makes the X2000 different from the LRC? The audio channels with programmed music at each seat. LRC, like the X2000, was designed as a higher-speed There are closed conference rooms, a Bistro car for train to run on existing tracks, and the LRC, like the snacks, pay telephones and a fax machine, and lifts, tie- X2000, tilts as it rounds curves. downs, and a washroom for wheelchairs, located on the The first difference is that the train is powered with train. These amenities, of course, could be installed in AC electric propulsion. This provides more power, any type of train, whether X2000, LRC, TCV, or ICE. permits better acceleration, and decreases the weight of The cost of one train is estimated at $15-million, but the train. ABB is, however, currently developing a "light tracks would have to be modified at an estimated cost of and efficient" to be used on the X2000 $2-milIion per mile before the train can be operated at for corridors that do not support enough traffic to justify higher speeds than the Metropolis. Such things as the electrification, and that diesel unit would be similar in signalling systems and crossing protection would need concept to the LRC locomotive. to be changed, and an overhead electrical supply system The second difference between the two is that the installed, before the train could operate on our existing X2000 has self-steering radial trucks which reduce track. ABB has suggested a $3.0-billion proposal for a forces exerted on the rail. These forces, at extreme line from Windsor to Quebec, with the trip between levels, would cause the rail to roll over or the truck to Toronto and Montreal taking about three hours. climb over the rail when going around curves. The Bombardier has suggested it would need $5.3-billion for radial trucks allow the X2000 to travel 30 to 40 per cent a TCV train between Quebec City and Toronto. faster through curves than conventional equipment. The competition for a high-speed line in Canada Both the LRC and the X2000 have a tilting seems to primarily be between ABB and Bombardier, mechanism to reduce centrifugal force on the with perhaps Siemens entering the picture in the near passengers when the train goes around curves at high future with the Cerman InterCity Express train. CP speeds. The computerised hydraulic tilting system on wants to be a primary player in the high-speed plan, but the X2000 operates at sp)eeds greater than 45 m.p.h. It has not committed to any particular technology and the compensates for 70 per cent of the centrifugal force government has yet to decide on anything. But if a high• exerted around curves. Tests have been performed at speed line is constructed in Canada, the X2000 will 100 per cent compensation, but this made some definitely be a competitive candidate. passengers uncomfortable, as they would see the flCKnOULEDGEflEnrS horizon line change but would not feel the motion. A This articie was prepared with additionai information from John Carter, Art big difference between the tilting systems on the LRC Clowes, Scott Hasldll, Pat Scrimgeour, Dave Stowe, Dave Stremes, ABB, and X2000 is the control. The sensor for the tilting Bombardier. CP Rail System, the Financial Post, and the Windsor Star. system on LRC cars is mechanical and is located in each Some of the photos were provided by Optimum, CP and ABB's media car. The tilting on the X2000, however, is controlled by organiser for the tour. a computer which takes readings from the head end of The X2000 on the CP Gait Subdivision west of Toronto the train. The computer calculates how much and when Photo by Gord Webster each car should tilt in the train, increasing comfort and reliability.

On the same day of the X2000 Montreal excursion, I also rode the VIA Metropolis from Montreal to Toronto. Now, granted the Metropolis travels at 100 m.p.h. and the X2000 only travelled at 75 m.p.h., but there was a noticeable difference in the tilting. There seems to be a slight delay in the tilting on the LRC when entering curves, causing a lurch to the side in the transition into the curve. Likewise, there is a similar lurch when the car over-compensates when exiting a curve. There was no evidence of this on the X2000, making the ride much smoother. Another difference in the ride was that the X2000 was much quieter. When travelling at 75 m.p.h. in the X2000, it felt like the train was only travelling at about 45 miles hour. So, the X2000 is not a quantum step beyond the

Rail and Transit • August 1993 • 7 By Bob Sandusky

For over three years Canadian National 4-8-2 6060 has receiving restoration work, until July 1993. been quietly ensconced behind the fences of In mid-July, a short article appeared in the Calgary Consolidated Mining and Smelting's Cominco Fertilizer Sun describing the dream of having 6060 bring a Crey plant at Heritage Drive and Railway Street in southeast Cup train to Calgary from Edmonton in November. This Calgary. (Appropriate intersection name, don't you dream had the backing of the Cup Festival chairman. think?) The engine had been presented by CN to the The next day, an advertisement appeared by the Rocky Province of in 1980 for their 75th anniversary Mountain Rail Society thanking all of the members and and subsequent to that had various well-documented companies who had made the restoration of 6060 assignments in both and Alberta. possible. As the 1980s ended, so did the good times for 6060, On July 26, the chain-link corral began to stir with and the search for a temporary home finally led down activity. It appeared that tentative approval had been the McLeod Industrial Branch in the CN Calgary obtained to move 6060 to Edmonton via CP and CN Terminal area to the CM&S plant. While there, rails. I leave it to someone behind the scenes to ownership of 6060 switched from the Province to the document how this was brought about. On July 26 and Rocky Mountain Rail Society for one dollar. 27, steam was raised and much activity was seen Meanwhile, Cominco's plans to phase-out their around 6060 and its auxiliary tender, 6060B. Some Calgary plant by 1994 moved ahead as demolition of water-logged fuel had to be disposed of and full steam some buildings began in March 1992. (The production was raised after that. Depjarture details were sketchy of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was being moved to while references to insurance haggling were being Carseland, Alberta, rather than upgrade the old in-city heard. plant to meet future air-quality standards.) Clearly, the On the morning of July 28, all appeared to be days of the iron horse at this location were numbered, resolved as 6060 sat under full steam with CTV News though the location behind guarded fences was secure. folk buzzing around doing interviews and filming. The search for new quarters was not easy. CN was Auxiliary tender 6060B had been coupled to the front not keen to move 6060 back out their deteriorating end, which made the whole assembly vaguely spur. In 1992, they embargoed the spur, and by October reminiscent of a Beyer-Carratt. At 10:00 a.m., railway 1992, a contractor had removed all rails from the people in white and blue hard hats, plus CP police, Heritage Drive CP interchange to just north of the 46th appeared on the scene just as CP CP9 1527 and Avenue trestle at Mile 0.4, as well as the trestle itself. 434428 appeared from the north via the CP "J Lead" Meanwhile, CP was said to have misgivings about the access from the McLeod Subdivision. By 10:20, 6060 condition of 6060's brass (not bronze) bearings and steamed across Heritage Drive as it left CM&S for the their tolerances if any move was made on their lines. At last time and the gate closed behind it. Now began the any rate, 6060 remained in its wire-mesh corral. adventure of this rather large engine navigating various

8 • Rail and Transit * August 1993 Calgary Terminal lines to reach CN's Sarcee Yard. CP 1527 did not couple onto 6060, but ran ahead as a pilot. The pair moved slowly north uphill to the first crisis point, the sharp left curve at 48th Avenue and 11th Street S.W. At MUe 2.4 of J Lead, 6060 stopped and the crew from a traihng section car moved up to inspect the track. A track gauge was laid down to check for true. Then, driver Harry Home eased 6060 forward, inches at a time, as the periodic clunk of steel sliding on steel, accompanied by the creaking of crossties, reported the gradual progress of eight-coupled drivers around the curve. This sizzling and shiny mass of metal produced quite a stir in the back yards of the many industries along 48th Avenue. With the curve behind, 1527 and 6060 were ushered over the crossing of six-lane Blackfoot Trail at Mile 0.93 by the watchful CP police. At Mile 0.09, they paused on a short curve while a northbound headed by SD40-2 5829 glided past on the McLeod Subdivision. At 11:15, the entourage was onto the McLeod Sub., heading for Alyth Yard. Soon, it passed under the now-abandoned bridge which carried the former Canadian Northern into Calgary. (Rails on that were lifted this spring back to Blackfoot Trail.) There was one rumour that the CN hand-off would be via what CP calls the Canada Packers Spur and CN calls the East Industrial Branch. Whatever it is called, it is a marginal piece of track at 11th Street and 26th Avenue, and it was wisely by-passed. At 11th Street, 1527 coupled onto 6060, pulled it up past 12th Street tower into Alyth Yard, and on to the east end of Alyth Yard. Here, once the pull-downs had cleared, a movement was made across the Bow River, then back again to the CN interchange on the northeast side of the yard. The CTP Industrial Branch exists as an interchange and as a connection to PDS Railcar Services. (It now ends just past the 9th Avenue level crossing.) Here, a pair of CN CMDls, 1154 and 1167, were waiting. With 1154 and 1167 coupled on, 6060 was pulled across the Bow River again, this time on "home" rails and by 13:50, had crossed Barlow Trail and entered Sarcee Yard. The one-track engine house there has water connections, so 6060 was uncoupled and parked by the north wall for a long drink. Meanwhile, the CMDls spotted tender 6060B for later recoupling behind the regular tender and disappeared to resume their other duties. • CNR 6060 leaves the Cominco fertilizer plant, crossing Heritage Drive The afternoon grain train (Train 809 with grain • CNR 6060 and CP 1527 moving upgrade, northbound on the CP J-lead from Drumheller) was being held for 6060 in the yard, • CN Train 809 with 5560, 5101. 5507, and 6060 curving out of Sarcee Yard so when watering was complete, the engine moved over Three Hills, a local machine shop came to the rescue to couple up to 6060B and then backed down to the and the delay was less than an hour. Then, when no waiting train and coupled onto the first grain hopper. arrangements had been made for supper, Shawn Smith The regular units, SD60 5560, SD40 5101, and SD60 5507, attached themselves to the front of 6060. of the Canadian Northern Society arranged a delivery of food to the train somewhere en route. The train passed At 15:45, Train 809 moved out (after waiting 45 Mirror around 22:00 and arrived in Calder Yard in minutes for some level crossing work to be completed at Edmonton around 01:45. There, 6060 spent the night 50th Avenue). The route onto the Three Hills on the caboose track. Later that morning, way freight Subdivision begins westbound and involves a 586 to Crand Centre took it out (backwards) up the 135-degree turn to the northeast across 50th Avenue. (No track inspection was required this time.) Vegreville and Coronado subdivisions and delivered it to the Alberta Pioneer Railway Association at Namao A few problems en route got resolved in their turn. around noon. It was still under steam when it nosed When the coupling between 6060 and 6060B broke at into the . •

Rail and Transit • August 1993 • 9 1906 ICR fire in Moncton One of the items on my search-list was the newspaper articles of the Saturday February 24,1906, fire at the Shops in downtown Moncton. The ICR shops at that time were in the area of the present yard in front of the VIA station. The fire burned the paint shop, freight car repair shop, boiler shop, boiler room, and part of the car shop. The shops built to replace these were the John Street Shops that were closed in 1988. The 1906 news article stated that ". . . some fourteen locomotives, including the new ones recently received by the railway were hned up in trains with steam up in readiness to be Just A. Ferronut's nm out in case the &e spread to the round houses." Amherst, Nova Scotia, Tourist Bureau The next morning, I decided to take a side trip down to the Railway Archaeology Amherst and Parrsboro areas of Nova Scotia. Road construction Art Clowes had traffic detouring through Amherst via a different exit than I 1625 ouest, boul. de Maisonneuve, Suite 1600 normally xise. As I travelled up LaPlanche Street, I spotted an Montreal (Quebec) H3H 2N4 orange railway car beside the street. The last time I saw this car E-Mail: 71 [email protected] was in December 1989, at the Amherst station, and it was known

I am back after a great week in the east, including the trip to then as Discovery Train car No. 220. Now, it was marked as the Prince Edward Island that I had planned for last year. It has been town's tourist biueau. several years since I had been on the Island, so there are As I walked towards the car; I noted the plaque stating that numerous changes, especially the lack of an operating railway. it was the car Alexandria. Upon entering the car and being Before I start, I should point out that this will be a general greeted by the two young receptionists, I startled them when I article for a couple of reasons. The main one is that, at several of said that I had been reading about them the night before. With the locations, I was able to locate considerable local material, their faces still showing puzzlement, I explained that I had read including some photos. I want to use some of this material, and how this car had been saved from the burning shops on a cold since it is going to take some time to get things organised, I am winter night in Moncton some 87 years ago. saving many of the details to combine with this local material. The Moncton newspaper article had stated that both the car I made a sort of a dash from Montreal to the New Brunswick and paint shops were fuU of cars imdergoing repairs and that boundary meeting a couple of trains where CN's DrummondviUe very few were saved. The article continued, "... In addition to Subdivision parallels the Autoroute west of Quebec, and the those in the shops, some ten or twelve cars or more, coal and usual assortment of piggyback and double-stack trains on the box, loaded, were destroyed in the yard. In the shop being Montmagny and PeUetier subdivisions. My timing was right to repaired was the Governor General's private car; ftie Alexandria, photograph an eastbound with CN GP40.-2 9671 and M636 2334 and (ICR's) General manager Pottingetis private car No. 75. The about 22 miles west of Edmimdston at Lac-Bakeq New former was hauled out, but the latter was burned and its frame Brunswick. Soon, I was in the territory of the Temiscouata stands in ruins with several other expensive coaches. Railway that I mentioned in the May 1993 column. "The Governor General's car was only saved by a great Starting at Mile 11.6 of the PeUetier Subdivision, near Baker effort. A car of coal stood against the end of the Alexandria and Brook, I again looked for more details of the long-abandoned a crowd of men, which included officials and clerks of the roadbed of this regional railway. Since the tight was good and railway hauled the coal car out of the way and then by great the train was getting close, it was time for another photograph, exertion ptdled the official car from the rapidly-burning so I stopped at an open road crossing east of Saint-Hilaire. A building." closer look at the area between the railway and the main The ladies were quite interested in this information and highway there revealed the roadbed, abandoned in 1940, of the provided me with a copy of the area's tourist guide with its write- Temiscouata. With this reference, one can spot the alignment of up reading, ". . . The Centennial Coach Cai; once named this line in the area. Alexandria, No. 119, was built in 1905 by Rhodes and Curry The Temiscouata Railway originally extended to Connors, Company (of Amherst) for the Canadian Government Railways as New Brunswick, some 32 miles northwest of Edmundston. While a sleeping car. nothing is visible in the Connors yard, a short section of "In Jime of 1989, the coach car was declared as surplus to embankment is still visible just south of the yard. The Connors' the collection of the National Museum of Canada, and Pioneer Musetom, located in a converted general store, is just arrangements were made to return it to Amherst in across the street from the Temiscouata yard. This endeavour has commemoration of the town's Centennial year. two benches from the Temiscouata Railway on display. These "This unit is completely self-contained with its own heating benches have cast-metal frame end supports with a wooden-slat and refrigeration systems, washrooms, air conditioning, and seat and back. From Connors south through Saint-Franqois-de- galley. Although it has been renovated numerous times over the Madawaska to Claii; portions of the roadbed are visible. past 85 years, much of the woodwork is original. The reception From Edmundston, I continued my trip towards P.E.I, and area is a beautiful example of the car's elite past with a panelled stayed overnight in Moncton. tongue-and-groove oak ceiling, brass tables, club chairs, and

10* Rail and Transit • August 1993 velvet curtains. Being one of the most tmusual totiiist btueaus in flag station, two mUes east of the Tignish station. It was 02:00 the maritimes, the car has a long and elaborate history of service on Sunday February 21, 1932, when Train No. 211 with 27 to Canada. snow shoveUers in a baggage car and coach staUed in a snow "The coach car is permanently displayed on LaPlanche Street drift at Harper's. Out of tiie storm came westbound Train No. 53, (Exit 2), so come and take a walk through it. . . ." led by two engines, and pushing a plough. No. 53 hit the staUed This cat; as indicated above, started life in Amherst and after No. 211, and four men were kUled in the crash. going through nttmerotts hands including government service, the From Tignish, it was back to Alberton for a look around the Canadian. Government Railways, Canadian National Railways, the area and at their beach stone station. The people at the Alberton Discovery Train, and the National Museum of Science and Museum were very friendly and helpful in showing me some Technology, the car has returned to Amherst. scrap books of various raUway cHppings. The Moncton ICR shop fire article mentions other equipment Then, it was a few mUes over to Bloomfield Station to spend destroyed with some prices to compare with today's. the afternoon with Keith Pratt to reminisce about raflways. Rsith ". . . Among the passenger coaches known to have been spent a substantial part of his early Ufe near the station and next destroyed were the dining car Yamaska, worth about $17 000; to the tracks. FoUowing the close of raUway service, Keith rigged the sleeping car Cascapedia, worth about $18 000; first-class cars a bicycle with a third wheel to permit him to travel over the Nos. 100, 102, and 133, each worth about $11 000; second-class rusting raUs. Since 1 had not got to the Island in time for a trip cars 488 and 531; two baggage cars, Nos. 478 and 479; colonist on his bike before the rails were lifted, we took a car ride over car No. 526; and postal car No. 634. Mr. Pottinger's car was about seven miles of the abandoned line. worth about $20 000. First-class coaches are valued at about We started at Joe Smoke's crossing, about a mUe west of $10 000 or $11 000, second class, $5000, and baggage $3000." Bloomfield Station. This crossing near PiusviUe was named for an adjacent home-owner who was known for his fiddling to permit Parrsboro, Nova Scotia his guests to dance a reel or jig. We headed east, passing the old The second goal for the day was Parrsboro on Minas Basin and siding and station site at Bloomfield. the former terminal of the Spring Hill and Parrsborough Coal and You could visualise people standing on the station platform Railway Company. This line was the Cumberland Railway and at twUight in near-freezing weather on December 6,1938, as the Coal Company which joined with the CNR at SprmghiU Jet., Mile headUght of locomotive No. 1112, leading the westbound just 59.6 of the Spiinghill Subdivision. came into view a couple of mUes east of the station. It stayed in After picking up an order of fried clams, I arrived at the view for a short period, only to disappear about a mUe east of jtmction shortly before the time for the eastbound Ocean to the station. The rain had softened the roadbed and the weight of arrive. VIA has a small modem station at SpringhiU Jet., on the the locomotive forced the embankment to one side and the north side of the tracks, east of the old CN freight shed. VIA engine ploughed into the ditch, filUng the cab with mud, and F40PHS 6435 and 6436, with a dozen cars, arrived at 12:30 to burying the driver up to about the waist. He was badly scalded pick up four or five passengers. by boiling water and steam from broken pipes, but survived. As dome cea Banff Park disappeared around the curve, I was Eastward, near the area of this derailment, just east of Trout ready to drive along the old roadbed to the main road and head Brook, was the foundation of the water tank that had been for SpringhiLl. Not knowing the status of the old station at constructed in 1926. The site of the old sawituU is now grown up SpringhiU, but knowing it had been only a metal-dad buUding, with woods. I didn't look for it, but headed for Parrsboro. The frame station Another story of this area was of a local resident, Archie (the second one, buUt about 1925) is stiU being used by a local Doucet, who was struck by a train just east of the water tank. business, although it is missing part of the wide roof overhang at The train crew didn't realise that they had hit someone, and Mr. the south end. While the former coal-loading wharves are not Doucef s body was thrown into the ditch. His body wasn't found there today part of a trestle and portions of the roadbed are for a couple of days, but the story continues that a resident quite visible. spotted some sectionmen about twilight pushing a push car A trip to the tourist bureau got me in touch with a local across the crossing at Bloomfield Station. The push car had historian, where I spent considerable time drooling over some of something covered with a tarp, but as the resident approached his photo coUection, as weU as keeping both ears open to his the crossing, everything vanished. The next day the same thing stories. On my trip aroimd town, I spotted the station. The happened, but this time the resident saw the ghost sectionmen present owneq a very Mendly gentleman, told me about his pushing the body of Archie Doucet to the station. family busiuess and offered me a tour of the building. Two miles east of Bloomfield was Duvai; a flag stop with a It is a combined station and frdght shed, with the floor in shelter located at the crossroad. This crossing and station was the freight portion raised to car height. The adjacent restamrant well known in the earlier days, as a nearby house was the local was on the site of the original station and it had several railway- source of Island moonshine. Between Duvar and the next flag related photos on display. I was able to spot long portions of the stop, Howlan, two miles east, there was the Mill River Siding, abandoned roadbed on my way back to SpringhiU. which served Haywood's mill. The ancient shelter from Howlan's Prince Edward Island still sits in a farmer's field near its original site. Early the next morning, I was off to catch a boat for the Island. We drove east about another two miles on the old roadbed Once on Prince Edward Island, it was a drive west to Tignish. to Gaspe Road on the outskirts of O'Leary. Here, we got back on The several former level crossings on the main highway are stiU the public blacktop and looped into O'Leary where the former easily-spotted. Tignish was the west end of track, and it stopped station has been converted into Linda's Lrmch Bar. on the east side (raUway direction) of Chapel Street. The Then, it was back to Keith's, where his wife served a community is slowly buUding over the former raUway property. fantastic maritime fish supper. As we sat around enjoying supper The rails may be gone from Prince Edward Island, but there and talking trains, my only complaint was that I had eaten too are stiU many vivid raUway memories around the Island including much for lunch. In early evening, I left to spend the night at probably their worst accident, which occurred at the Harper's Charlottetown and the next day on the eastern half of the island.

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FAMILY DAY SPECIALS Tdmiscaming Subdivision. Both of these lines CP Toronto Division operated two passenger wfll fall under the ownership of the partner• extras to Toronto Yard from Oshawa and ship, along with the abandoned CP right-of- Lambton on August 15, with GO equipment way. The trackage to be used by the part• stored for the weekend at Guelph Jet. The nership through North Bay wfll be over the trains were scheduled to depart from Lamb- CP North Bay Subdivision to YeUek, Mfle ton at 10:00 and Oshawa at 09:30 for 233.4 on the CN Newmarket Subdivision, to Toronto Yard, and both trains were 15 min• the west of North Bay CAFMADA utes late getting into the yard due to a leak• —The Financial Post via J. A Ferronut Gord Webster ing car carrying dangerous commodities. ICC INVESTIGATION RO. Box 17, Station H A tank car was being switched by the The U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission is Toronto, Ontario M4C 5H7 pull-down assignment when a leak developed laitnching an investigation into CP's applica• ^ E-Mail: [email protected] in a car carrying srdphuric add. The Scar• tion to abandon its Moosehead and Matta- borough fire department was called in to con• wamkeag subdivisions through the state of CANADIAN PACIFIC tain the spfll and no trains were allowed in Maine. These lines are part of CP's main line TRACK CLOSURE the yard while this was taking place. between Sherbrooke, Qudbec, and Saint CP was forced to close its Nipigon Subdivi• The trains were scheduled to depart from John, New Brunswick. The investigation will sion after heavy rainfall on July 28 that the yard at 15:30 for the return trip, but the include oral hearings allowing people to washed out the line or made the trackbed Oshawa-bound train was again delayed after present their objections or support. The NTA unstable near culverts in a number of loca• the Cobourg Turn derailed 10 cars because a has already held similar hearings for the tions. Most of the track problems occurred worn flange on a car spUt a switch. The GO portions of the line in Canada and its near Schreibe^ with the longest washout 400 train had to back up out of the yard at Mc- decision is expected this month. The ICC has feet long. The Una was reopened by August 2. Cowan and then proceed east on the main• 255 days to render a decision, which may not CP detoured eastboimds via Portal or line to Oshawa. be given until later next year RaflTex is Emerson, over the Soo line to Chicago, over ABANDONMENT APPLICATION negotiating for the pmchase of the Hue east Soo running rights to Detroit, and then via CP Rail filed applications with the National of Lennoxvflle. —Chbe and Mail via John Carter Conrail to Buffalo. Most westbounds followed Transportation Agency on July 27 for the the reverse route, but four were detoured via JOHN STREET ROUNDHOUSE abandonment of most of the Chalk River the Wisconsin Central because the trains left CP subsidiary Marathon Realty is currently Subdivision and a large portion of the North Toronto before the washouts were discovered. performing $1-million of work on the John Bat Subdivision, in cormection with the These trains were powered with four-axle Street roundhouse in Toronto. The work is to proposed CNCP Ottawa Valley Partnership. units due to the weight restriction over the stabilise the building, and will include the The lines that CP has applied to abandon international bridge at Sault Ste. Marie. replacement of 60 to 70 beams and a new are between Smiths Falls, Mile 0.4, and roof deck and covering. Windows wfll also be ADJUSTMENTS TO TRAIN TIMES Pembroke, Mile 95.6, and between Camspm covered with plywood to prevent vandals Mile 105.0, and Chalk Rivej; Mfle 115.3, on CP adjusted, effective May 26, the times of from breaking the remaining glass. At the the Chalk River Subdivision; and between its northbound 400-series trains departing end of the yeap the roundhouse wfll be Chalk Rive^ Mile 0.0, and Mattawa, Mfle Toronto, to improve train performance. The tmned over to the City of Toronto. UCRS Car 72.3, on the North Bay Subdivision. new times for the trains between Toronto 13, Cape Race, is inside the rotmdhouse. Yard and Vaughan Intermodal Terminal are The remaining line between Pembroke as shown in the table below. For the remain• and Camspur is to serve the Canadian Forces CANADIAN NATIONAL der of these schedules, see the February 1992 base at Petawawa and the North Bay Subdi• Newsletter. vision east to Mattawa is to reach the CP LINE TRANSFER TO ONR The CN Kapuskasing Subdivision, which runs from Cochrane to Hearst, with a spur beyond CP RAIL SYSTEM - NEW TIMES FOR NORTHBOUND TRAINS FROM TORONTO there to Calstock, has been transferred to the Train 401 407 403 405 409 411 Ontario Northland. The transfer took place at Toronto Yard 00:15 02:15 04:15 06:15 12:30 00:15 00:01 on August 15, 1993. As part of the Arrive P-6 00:45 - 04:45 '06:45 transfer agreement, the 30 CN employees Depart P-6 01:15 - 05:15 07:15 affected were given the opportunity to trans• Arrive Ray Avenue - 02:55 - - 13:15 - fer to the ONR. Of the eligible employees, 18 Depart Ray Avenue .... - 03:20 - - 13:45 - transferred to the ONR and the other 12 Arrive Vaughan 02:00 04:00 06:00 08:00 - 02:00 chose to remain with CN. A brief ceremony Depart Vaughan 03:30 05:00 07:30 09:00 14:30 03:00 was held by the ONR in Cochrane in the Notes: morning of August 16 and then the first train • P-6 is a service track on the North Toronto Subdivision at Bathurst Street. departed from Cochrane at 08:30 for Hearst. • Ray Avenue is a service track on the MacTier Subdivision north of Egiinton Avenue. The ONR interchanges traffic with CN in • Trains 401 and 407 operate Tuesday to Saturday. North Bay and Noranda and with CP in North • Train 403 operates Tuesday to Sunday. Bay and they wfll now be able to inter• • Train 405 operates when required. change with the in • Train 411 operates Sunday and any other day when there is insufficient traffic to operate Train 401, Hearst. —J. A Ferronut 403, or 407.

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BRIDGEWORK AT PARIS injuries in the deraflment. The cause of the CN will be replacing the deck on the bridge deraflment was given as "track faflure" in the over the Grand River at Mile 34.0 of the crossover The crossovers at Dorchester were CANADA Dundas Subdivision, in Paris, beginning on not replaced after the deraflment. CARIBANA SPECIALS September 13. This wfll result in a number of VIA operated a ntunber of extra trains to YARD COLLISION changes in the operation of VIA and CN Toronto on the Civic Holiday long weekend The two night hump assignments at MacMil• trains over the following days. CN wfll be in August for Caiibana and the Detroit- lan Yard collided at 01:45 on Jdy 11, derail• detouring its freight trains over the Guelph Toronto baseball series. ing all four of the hump units, induding Subdivision, through Stratford, dtuing the At 03:00 on Jtdy 30, Second 79 departed GP38-2 7500 and HBU-4 512, and six cars. day and has also made arrangements to from Toronto for Windsor •with two F40s, All of the cars and locomotives remained detour trains over CP between London and seven blue coaches, and three snack cars upright, with the exception of two empty cars Toronto, if necessary The foUowing are tenta• (6457-6454-5522-3240-5616-5446-3200- and 7500, which roUed on their sides. The tive changes to train schedules for VIA trains 5499-5578-3246-5471-5558). This train coUision disrupted operation of the dual between London and Toronto: arrived back in Toronto as Second 70 at hump for at least three days. A regdated 12:30 the next day (6454-6457 and above • September 13 — Normal operation, with commodity was contained in one of the consist reversed). some delays expected to 70-series GVindsor- derailed cars, which was re-rafled at 05:50 Then, on August 1, this train set departed Toronto) trains. The Dundas Subdivision wfll after being inspected by a special commodity at 15:00 as Second 73 (same consist as 279- be reduced to single-track operation at the officer The collision occurred when one 30). This train was combined in Windsor bridge. assignment crossed over onto a track on •with the first section of Train 73 (6447- • September 14 — No service wfll be pro• which the other assignment was reversing. 6444-653-3220-5531-5590-3251-5448-3222- vided between London and Toronto on the —Toronto Stor and Toronto Sun 5537-3207-5584) forthe return movement to Dtmdas Subdivision. Trains 71, 76, and 51 Toronto as Second 78, arriving at 00:25 on wfll be cancelled. Train 70 wfll operate TRACK WASHED OLTT August 2 •with four F40PHs (6447-6444- coupled to the rear of Train 80 via Stratford. A heavy rainstorm in Northern Ontario on 6457-6454) and 20 cars. Trains 50, 72, 73, 75, and 78 wfll operate Jtfly 28 washed out a number of culverts on -.David Stremes non-stop between Toronto and London via the Redditt Subdivision, between Mfle 116.7 RIDERSHIP UP Stratford. Train 79 wfll operate coupled to (west of Farlane) and Mfle 125.3 (west of Train ridership increased in the second quar• the rear of Train 87 via Stratford. Train 87 Redditt). The line was closed that evening ter of this year after a decflne in the first wfll be held in Toronto to depart on the and was not reopened until 22:00 on August quarter The number of passengers carried in scheduled time of Train 79. 2. Most CN trains, including the VIA Cana• the first half of this year was 1.3 percent dian, were diverted over the Kinghorn, Kasha- • September 15 - The same as on Sep• greater than the number carried in the first tember 14, plus the cancellation of Train 50. bowie, Fort Frances, .and Sprague Subdivi• half of last year The biggest increase was on sions through Thunder Bay and Atikokan. • September 16 - The same as on Sep• the Canadian, where the passenger level tember 15, with two changes. Trains 51 and Trains 302-28 and 302-29 were diverted increased by 10 percent. Revenue was also 77 wfll operate non-stop from Toronto to through Minneapolis over Burlington North• up, by 7.5 percent, to $72.5-mfllion. ern track. —J.A Ferronut London with one- to one-and-a-half-hoiir —Toronto Stor via Rex Rundle delays. Train 77 wfll operate late to London. TUNNEL BORING MACHINE MOVED POTENTIALLY-DANGEROUS MISHAP • September 17 - Normal operation, with CN and Lovat Tunnel Equipment have moved On August 10, the head-end crew of VIA delays due to single track operation at the the tunnel boring machine for the new St. Train 12, the Atlantic, noticed the west bridge. Clair River Tunnel. The name chosen in the switch at Moosehom siding, Mfle 57.2 on the • September 18 — Normal operation on contest to name the TBM was "Excalibore." Stissex Subdivision in New Brunswick, was in both tracks of the Dimdas Subdivision. The TBM was shipped in two movements. the reversed position. The brakes were placed DERAILMENT The first movement was on August 15 on a in emergency and the train entered the siding Samia-Toronto Train 410 derailed its trail• number of flat cars and accompanied by CN at approximately 55 m.p.h. Both imits and ing locomotive and first four cars while it ofiicial car Sandford Fleming. The cars were nine passenger cars entered the siding before was going through the crossover at Dorchest- picked up at the Lovat plant in Etobicoke and the train came to a stop. Fortunately there ei; Mfle 68.7 on the Dundas Subdivision, at assembled atMalportYard. The movement to were no injtrries nor damage to track or 10:20 on Jtdy 8. The train consisted of 32 Sarnia was ordered for 07:30 and was being equipment. —Gory Murray via FidoNet loaded cars and 14 empty cars. moved as Advance 411. The rest of the SHORTS The derailed locomotive was M636 2308 machine was shipped on August 22 in the Terry Ivany former president of Marine and the derailed cars were loaded with same manner Atlantic (the cro^wn corporation which runs oranges, rice, and plastic. AU of the cars SHORTS the former CN and CP east-coast ferries), was remained upright after the derailment. The following station names have been named as the new chief executive officer of Eqmpment used to dean up the deraflment removed from the Dundas Subdivision: Dun• VIA. • CN has received permission from included the TalbotviUe road repair truck, the das (Mile 4.7), Beachville (Mfle 54.3), and Transport Canada to continue operating IRC- MacMillan Yard hi-rafl and a private contrac• Dorchester (Mile 68.7). Crossovers have been eqmpped VIA trains at 100 m.p.h. over desig• tor's 250-ton crane. removed from all of these locations. • Two nated track between Toronto and Qudbec. The crossover track was damaged and new private sidings have recently been placed 225 feet of the north track and 150 feet of in service by CN: Stepan Canada (Track GO TRANSIT the south track were also damaged. The NP36, 437 feet long) at Mfle 0.04 of track HAMILTON GO TRANSIT CENTRE south track reopened at 06:00 the next morn• NP34, Mfle 93.33, near Longford, on the Hamilton City Cotmcfl intends to designate ing, in time for the VIA trains. During the Newmarket Sub.; and Nestld Canada Ltd. the former Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo dosure of the fine, trains were detotired over (Track G786, 1451 feet long) at Mfle 0.58, Hunter Street station as a property of historic the Guelph Subdivision through Stratford, Domtar Leac^ off Mfle 16.41, Weston Sub. Kitchenei; and Guelph. There were no and architectural •value imder the Ontario

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Heritage Act. The station is to become the Shore and Chicago Railroad. Seven of the last along the Hne, but RaflTex plans to operate Hamilton GO Transit Centre, handling all eight cars of the train derailed there. the Hne with only 52 non-unionised workers. Hamilton GO trains and GO and local bus Two locomotives and the first 19 cars of A CN spokesman said the workers who wfll services. The station was built between 1931 CSX Train 321 (Buffalo to Detroit via the CN not be working for RaflTex wfll be relocated and 1933 by the TH&B, serving as a freight Case Subdivision) derailed at 15:45 on Fri• to other locations on CN or wfll take early and passenger terminal and headquarters for day August 13. The deraflment was at Mile retirement. the railway The station was designated as an 227 of the Caso Sub., just west of the west The operation wfll be called the Cape historic station, protected under the Heritage portal of the Detroit River tunnel. AU of the Breton and Central Railway Stations Protection Act, in 1991. cars and locomotives remained upright, but limited, and RaflTex hopes to begin oper• —Doug ftige the Hue was completely closed, as the other ation by the begirming of October RaflTex track through the double tunnel is under con• has earmarked $1.7-miUion for maintenance EXTENSION FUNDING APPROVED struction to increase clearances. work that it wants to carry out before winter Despite recent service cutbacks to meet a A number of CP trains were held in This is more than four times the amount of reduction in GO Transif s operating budget, Detroit; London, and Toronto imtfl the line money that CN spent on the Hne in the past GO Transit approved this month $19.4-mil- was reopened. There were at least seven east- year. The provincial Minister of Transport lion in capital spending for expansion pro• boimd and eight westboimd freights held, said the province wfll bring in a railway act jects on the Lakeshore, Richmond Hill, including 270, 500-13, 502-12, 502-13, when the legislature resumes, to ensure that Georgetown, and StouffviUe hnes. Included in 2-503-13, 504, 507-13, 508-13, and 509-13. the same safety regrflations and standards are the approval are: Trains 510 and 516 (Detroit to Toronto) in place as for the federaUy-regiflated CN. • $12.1-million for the eastern extension of were also cancelled Friday night. Train The Hne currently carries about 23 000 the GO Subdivision from Whitby to Oshawa. 500-12 was the last eastbound CP train to carloads of freight annuaUy with coal and • $2.4-mi[lion for road improvements in get through the tunnel. Track repair was gypsum being common commodities. Since Durham Region near the Oshawa station. completed at 17:10 on August 14, and the the Hne is currently only marginaUy profitable • $1.4-inillion for planning of extensions on first train through was CP 502-12 at 18:40. for CN, its sale was inevitable, as the prov• the Richmond Hill, Stoiiffville, and George• —Fred Ochs via UseNet (Hartford accident), GW ince is currently completing the twinning of town hnes, and improvements to accessibflity Highway 104 between Truro and Cape for passengers with disabhities. Breton, and wfll be removing highway tolls at • $533 000 for construction on the new RAILTEX the Canso Causeway This wfll decrease the Hamilton GO Centre in the former TH&B TRURO-SYDNEY SALE APPROVED cost for trucks traveUing to Cape Breton, Hunter Street station, to be completed in The NTA approved on July 27 the $20-infl- increasing the competition with the railway 1994 and 1995. Uon sale of the CN Hopewell and Sydney Also included in the purchase of the Hne • $3.0-miUion to CN for prehminary design Subdivisions, which run between Truro and are shops in Sydney, where the CB&CNS wfll for expansion of GO service between Toronto Sydney, Nova Scotia, to RaflTex of San Anto• maintain their motive power. and Bramalea. Plans call for the addition of nio, Texas. The Hue consists of 230 miles of —Journal of Commerce, Halifax Daily News, and 14 trains to the existing eight daily trains. main-line track and a nmnber of spur tracks. Since CN announced the planned sale of Globe and Mail, via J,A Ferronut and John Carter GO TRAIN FOR KIDS the hne in September 1992, there has been GEXR SHORTS A special GO train was operated on Friday, strong opposition from a number of groups, Over 300 turned out for the first aiuiiveisary July 16, as part of the Toronto "KidSummer" including shippers and politicians. The NTA open house in Goderich in April. • The gen• programme. The train operated from Union approved the sale, despite the opposition that eral manager of the GEXR recently completed Station to Oakville West and return. On the was raised at hearings, stating that it could hazardous material training in Pueblo, way to Oakville West, the train went through not find enough evidence to conclude that Colorado. • GEXR has installed no-trespass• Wiilowbrook Yard and included a trip the sale would not be in the pubflc interest. ing signs along its tracks in towns. The GEXR through the car wash with everyone on the The NTA said in its decision that "busi• has had trouble with children playing along train. KidSummer also had a special day at ness prospects for the Truro-Sydney Hne the railway tracks. the South Simcoe Railway and wfll have a appear to be favourable, based on the proven special day at the Halton Cormty Radial record of profitabflity of RaflTex and its RAILWAY CUSTOMERS Railway in Rockwood. subsidiaries, and the abflity of RaflTex to LEVACK MINE CLOSED —CaMn Henry-Cotnam via UseNet market its other short lines successfully" Inco announced in June that the Levack mine The deal is not final, howevep until it is CSX TRANSPORTATION was closing at the beginning of the summer approved by the federal cabinet. Senator Al shutdown on July 5. The Levack mine, which ABANDONMENT APPROVAL Graham, an opponent of the sale, said he wfll opened in 1929, has produced a total of 65- CSX has received approval from the NTA to lobby to ensure it is not given. Graham wants mfllion tons of nickel-copper ore. The mine abandon 6.11 miles of its Blenheim Subdi• a firm commitment from CN that it will take was the most expensive to operate of aU of vision. Permission was granted to abandon over the fine shoifld RaflTex stop operating it. the Sudbuiy-area mines and Inco determined the track between Amep Mfle 27.68, and CN president Paul TeUier has written to that any further mining was not economical Ruthven, Mfle 33.79, effective May 7. Premier John Savage confirming continued at current metal prices. Other mines in the service, but Graham says the one-line letter is DERAILMENTS IN MICHIGAN Levack area (McCreedy West and Coleman) inadequate. Graham wants the government to CP Train 504 derailed while traveUing on are remaining in operation and the McCreedy put the sale on hold for at least a year to CSX near Hartford, Michigan, on August 11. East mine is soon to be opened. allow a proper transportation poHcy to be A deraflment occurred when a car near the One hundred employees have been trans• adopted. end of the train had a hot-box, which ferred to projects at the Copper CHff South Within a month, RaflTex officials wfll be derailed the cat The car travelled off of the and North mines, Stobie, Crean Hfll and in Sydney and points along the line to give rails for 1.5 miles before derafling at the Creighton mines, and to the Carson mine, details of what positions will be available. CN junction switch with the Kalamazoo Lake which reopened in March and is scheduled to currently employs 110 full-time workers begin production next spring. The remaining

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200 employees will be transferred by the end REMOTE-CONTROL TRAIN WATCHING? of the year to these mines or to the new How many watched the CBC television cover• McCreedy East mine. age of the Canada Games just to watch for CP operation to Levack will not be CP trains in Kamloops over Steve Armitage's affected, as the other mines in the area will shoulder? We saw an eastbormd coal train still generate traffic. -Inco Press Release and several westboimd grain trains in the first few days. -GS ADM STREETSVILLE MILL McCarthy Milling in StreetsviUe has a small Whiting trackmobile for switching. It is the Gray Scrimgeour BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY first "motive power" that has been used at #570-188 Douglas Street STRIKE CONTINUES the mill. The spur from the CP Gait Subdivi• Victoria, B.C. V8V2Pi The strike of BCR workers that started on sion has been refurbished and the track E-maii: [email protected] Monday, July 19, has lasted over three layout increased to three spttrs to handle the weeks. The railway's 1600 unionised workers increase in traffic to the mill. (See the Infor• CANADIAN PACIFIC left the job one month after they were in a mation Network, in the February 1993 Rail DOUBLE-STACK UPDATE legal position to strike. The railway estimates and Hansit, for more mformation.) Over the past couple of years, CP has been that it is losing $800,000 revenue each day. —Bob Sandusky working to improve track clearances to per• —Various sources, including Canadian Sailings mit the operation of double-stack container via Colleen Eastman ST. LAWRENCE STARCH CLOSED cars on most of its fines. Effective June 21, St. Lawrence Starch Co. in Port Credit has the operation of cars loaded with two nine- BURLINGTON NORTHERN now closed its railway operation and their foot, six-inch high containeis is permitted AMTRAK SERVICE TO RETURN? trackmobile has been removed. The faciKty between the following locations: The Washington State legislature has was served by a spur from the CN OakviUe • Vancouver and Alyth — via Revelstoke, Mac- approved fimding totalling $40.2-mfllion for Subdivision at Mile 12.7. The plant property Donald, and Field, with the exception of the both Amtrak and commuter rail service. is mostly up for redevelopment now. Connaught Track through Rogers Pass About three-quarters of the funds are for —Bob Sandusky • Macaulay and Mile 6.9, Westminster Subdivision track improvements for trains between Port• • Alyth and South Edmonton — via Red Deer land, Seattle, and Vancouver; B.C., with the OTHER RAILWAY NEWS and Leduc subdivisions remainder for stations. The Amtrak service PASSENGER TRAIN CONFERENCE • Golden and Dunmore — via Fort Steele, stfll needs approval and financial support Transport 2000 is sponsoring the National Crowsnest, and Lethbridge from several other jurisdictions before it can Passenger Trains Conference to be held in • Alyth and Coutts — via Aldersyde Subdivision be implemented. -Pacific Rail News, GW Ottawa on August 19 and 20. The goal of the • Wetaskiwin and Portage La Prairie — via conference is to achieve an understanding of Saskatoon SCHEDULE CHANGE the roles for passenger trains in Canada, • Alyth and Winnipeg — via Regina and BN freight train No. 632, from Everett to focusing on how modem trains can be a part Medicine Hat Wncouvei; has retumed to its previous • Pasqua and North Portal — via Weybum of a future transportation system. Representa• schedule of departure, leaving from Everett at Subdivision tives from raflways, mantifacturers, govern• 23:59. -Northwest Raitfan • Regina and Lanigan — via Lanigan Subdivision ments, unions, political parties, environ• • Winnipeg and Emerson — via Emerson mental groups, communities, traveUeis, and CANADIAN NATIONAL Subdivision various "grass-roots" associations wfll be at • Winnipeg and Toronto* — via Sudbury and FATAL ACCIDENT the conference. Three VIA vice-presidents wfll MacTier A train-car collision Sunday, July 17, at a be speaking. -Dove LejboH and VIA Latest News • Smiths Falls and Brockville - via Brockville crossing on the CN near Tofield, Alberta, claimed the fives of two people in the can SYDNEY STEEL Subdivision The Cormty of Beaver says it applied early The government of Nova Scotia may have to • Romford and Montr6aH via Cartier, North Bay, Chalk River, and Winchester subdivisions this year to have warning lights placed on the absorb more than SlOO-mfllion of Sydney • Montr6al-t- and Toronto* — via Winchester crossing. An RCMP spokesman says if the Steel Company's debt to attract a buyer The and Belleville subdivisions fights had been at the crossing, the accident company lost $20-inillion on $71-nifllion of might not have happened. revenue in 1992 and the company expects to Notes: • — Toronto includes Obico and Vaughan lose $15-mfllion this year. Of the loss, $13- OAKVILLE DERAILMENT DISCUSSION Intermodal Terminals miUion is interest on loans. Residents of Oakvflle, , were kept + - Montreal includes Montreal Wharf and The government is trying to sell the from their homes longer than they should Lachine Intermodal Terminal company after having spent nearly $2-bfllion have been following the train deraflment last in subsidies to the mfll over the past 25 DERAILMENT ON PORT ALBERNI SUB. Christmas, a report coimnissioned by CN Rail years. The government is considering "all Four pulp-cairying cars of a 17-car E&N train says. The report said that the decision to options," which includes closing the company en route from Port Albemi to Nanaimo begin evacuation was made without input down. A $45-mfllion loan comes due in derailed east of Cameron Lake on the Port from CN or the cherrucal companies whose November and the government has promised Albemi Subdivision on Thursday lught, products were inside the derailed cars. a decision before the end of the yean August 5. Two cars left the track but Despite backing from Transport Canada, Sysco currently has orders for rail from remained upright; the other two were partly CN could not convince the provincial gov- CN, China, Mexico, and Mauritania. The CN off the tracks. No one was injured. The enunent to end the evacuation of the town order is worth $40-mfllion and is the planf s deraflment was tmiKual in that it was the four days after the deraflment (the evacu• largest in seven years. The foreign orders first in memory on the Albemi fine for the CP ation lasted 22 days). A municipal politician leave Httle margin for profit, the government spokesman. (This line carries the most freight who authorised the evacuation said informa• claims. -Globe and Mail, Halifax Daily News for CP on T^couver Island.) tion from CN was considered seriously but he —Victoria Jimes-Cohnist

Rail and Transit • August 1993 • 15 TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY AND TRANSIT NEWS said his actions were based on advice from On its return trip. No. 9503 arrived in government officials that there was a danger Toronto behind two six-axle MLWs and then TOURIST RAILWAYS —Canadian Press moved west from Toronto on Train 558 on August 11, destined for interchange to CHURCHILL UNE AND MUSEUMS CANADIAN MUSEUM OF RAIL TRAVEL Conrail in Buffalo. CN worfld not accept the The president of the Hudson Bay Route Heritage Canada has awarded the Cranbrook unit at Canpa, because of its size, so CP Association, which lobbies for use of the Port Railway Museum its prestigious Achievement instead took the unit to Guelph Jet. for move• of Churchill, continues to be hopeful that Award. Heritage Canada describes the ment down the Goderich Subdivision to more grain wiU be piped through the port. TPans- train at the museum as an Hamfltom It sat at Guelph Jet. all day on Louis Wolkowski of Canora, Saskatchewan, Canada Limited outstanding symbol of Canadian railway August 12 and most of the next day until says problems arranging grain credits for heritage. Museum director Garry Anderson picked up by Train 270 that afternoon. Russia was one of the stumbling blocks was scheduled to receive the award in Jime limiting the flow of grain through the north- in Quesnel at the Heritage Society of British em Manitoba port this year CP RAIL SYSTEM Columbia annual conference. A new name NEW PAINT SCHEME VIA RAIL CANADA has been given to the museum: the Canadian The following units are known to have been Museum of Rail Travel. -Telegraph Lines repainted into the CP Rail System "dual-flag" MALAHAT ACCIDENTS CONTINUE paint scheme: Troubles have continued for the Budd cars on MINIATURE TRAIN DERAILMENT the E&N. On July 1, a woman was injured Officials at Edmonton Northlands are investi• SD40 740, 741 (Soo) when a car she was driving collided with the gating a mishap that shut down one of their SD40-2S 777-779 (Soo) VIA train at Minetown Road south of Nanai• midway rides during Klondike days on July GP9 IS2S GP38-2 4404, 4406 (Soo) mo. On Monday July 12, the southbound 26. A crossing gate accidentally swung in SD40-2 5415 (ex-KCS) train collided with a logging truck 30 km front of a miniature train, derafling the SD40-2 5475-5483 (ex-NS) south of Couitenay at a private crossing in engine. There were 22 people aboard the ride SD40 .. 5508,5514,5517,5520 Mud Bay. The driver of the truck was charged but none were hurt. SD40-2 . 5877, 5878, 6000, 6034 by the RCMP with ignoring a stop sign. There REVELSTOKE MUSEUM OPENS SD40 6404 (Soo, ex-KCS) were no serious injuries to passengers or crew The official opening of the Revelstoke Rail• SD40A 6407 (Soo, ex-ICG) on the train in either incident. way Museum took place on June 16, hosted SD40-2 6603, 6607 (Soo) Transport Canada railway safety inspec• by president Ernie Ottewell. Former CPR SD40-2F 9000 tors spent three days in late July checking 2-8-2 No. 5468, delayed at White Rive^ grade crossings on the E&N. They recom• Ontario, while CP replaced the rear trailing mended that gates be installed at Coldstream truck with one fi:om M640 4744, finally and Jacldin roads in Greater Victoria and arrived in Revelstoke in late April. IN T clearing of vegetation at 30 crossings. A gate -PCD The Sandhouse for Jinglepot Road north of Nanaimo had already been recommended. The raRway now has only one crossing gate, at Catherine Street in Victoria, but a MOTIY iWER second gate will be installed at Bowen Road Scott Haskill in north Nanaimo by the end of August. 15-2520 Bloor Street West —Victoria Times-Colonist Toronto, Ontario M6S 1R8 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES SURVEY E-Mail: 72154.133 I @compuserve.com The commissioner of official languages is conducting a survey this summer and fall in John Carter VICTORIA 45 stations across the VIA system and on the 126 Willow Avenue STREETCAR PROPOSAL Winnipeg-Churchfll, Victoria-Couttenay Toronto, Ontario M4E 3K3 A feasibility study of the proposed downtown Jasper-Prince Rupert, and The Pas-Lynn E-Mail: [email protected] streetcar loop for Victoria has been delayed Lake services to measure the need to offer because of difficulties in testing the quality of service in both official languages. CM DEMONSTRATOR UNITS roadbeds under Government and Douglas The Official Languages Act and regula• SD70Ms ON CN streets. Tests have shown that the concrete tions state that bilingual service must be General Motors SD70M demonstrators 7000 under Government Street is sound, but that provided where the call for service in the and 7001, in the maroon and grey colours, it worfld cost $4-mfllion more to lay the same second official language reaches five percent tested on the CN in July based in Montreal. track on Douglas Street than on Government. or more of the total demand. The two arrived on CN on July 12, and were The streetcar loop from the north end of Ticket-office personnel wfll ask each cus• retumed to EMD in La Grange, lUinois, via downtown to the south end is seen as the tomer that purchases a ticket to complete a Flat Rock, Michigan, on July 26. first leg of a light-rail link to Saanich and the form. Where the survey finds that the Westem Communities. It was proposed in a demand meets the requirements for services SD60MAa ON CP major downtown redevelopment plan. If in both official languages, measures must be GM SD60MAC demonstrators 9500 and built, it wfll move shoppers, commuters, and taken by December 1993 to provide such 9503, in Burlington Northern coloius, tested tourists, as well as government workers to service. The survey results wfll be valid for on the CP in early August. No. 9500 was offices near the legislature buildings. A report the next ten years. operating mainly on the Heavy Haul and HH- in 1990 formd the idea of a streetcar line to Currently, bflingual service is compulsory US divisions, while 9503 moved to Saint-Luc be a marginal proposition, and only viable if in 43 stations and on all trains except the for testing between Montreal and Smiths there were a significant increase in popula• four western services listed above. Falls. tion in the Westem Coimnunities.

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FARE INCREASE/SERVICE EXPANSION inaction on traffic growth was not an option, for four-metre high ceilings, compared to Bus fares on BC Transit increased in Greater as all major bridges wfll have to be twiimed three metres on older stations. This wfll make Victoria, effective July 1. The new fares are and highways widened or parallel routes built the station appear larger reduce the claustro• (with old fares in parentheses): regular one- to cope with likely car numbers. The report phobic feeling at busy times, and make over• zone $1.35 ($1.25); regular two-zone $2.00 wants Greater Vncouver to accept worsening head signs easier to read. The columns that ($1.75); monthly pass $45.00 ($40.00); day congestion for lightly-loaded cars prevented punctuate the centre-platform stations wfll be pass $4.00 (imchanged). The increased fares from using reserved HOV lanes. The overall spaced six metres apart, wider than the will help fund a five-year service expansion package of incentives and congestion corfld current standard. This wfll also open up the that is to start in September Also providing push up transit ridership by 25 percent and platform, allow better circulation of cus• increased funding for the service improve• decrease the total number of car trips by 10 tomers, and provide fewer hiding places. ments is a 1.5-cent-per-litre tax on gasoline, percent. , The most strildng change wfll be the which began on May 1. Transit projects are proposed, but not of adoption of platform-edge doors on the two The improvements will be concentrated the magnitude of the first $844-mflfion in• new subway lines, Sheppard and Egiinton. on rush hours, and wfll add 14 more buses to stalment of SkyTrain. Dedicated rights-of-way These wfll be combined with automated train service at the busiest times. The five-year for buses cotfld be an option, along with rail control, similar to that used on the Scar• plan predicts that transit ridership wfll service, for new rapid transit routes. borough RT and Vancouver Skytrain. Plat• increase by 29 percent to 21.6-million trips a —Vancouver Province via Gray Scrimgeour form-edge doors have been used in Europe on year by 1998. Bus service is plaimed to grow similar automated transit systems, and con• at about three times the rate of population ATELIER MONTREAL FACILITY sist of a continuous wall of doors at the edge of the passenger platform. Arriving trains fine growth over the five years, with the goal of AMF GETS GOING IN THE BUS BUSINESS up with the sliding doors at the platform, and cutting roadway congestion, pollution, and The White Bus Company delivered the last of the train and platform doors open simulta• the need for highway expansions. its buses to AMF, CN's railway equipment neously. The usual safety features are built —Victoria Times-Coionist via Gray Saimgeour maintenance facflity at Pointe Saint-Charles into the platform doors to prevent customers in Montreal, in January for a number of from being trapped. If the train is not aligned VANCOUVER mechanical modifications. AMF has thus with the doors, customers departing the train PLAN TARGETS CAR COMMUTERS taken charge of the last of the contracts of can stfll do so because the alternate panels of Significant costs and controls are being advo• the U.S. company CAP A BUS. The bus re- the platform edge wall open outward from cated to check automobile commuters in builder's assets and technology were pur• the track side as emergency doors. British Columbia's Lower Mainland. The only chased by AMF in December 1992. solace the authors of a new long-range trans• In May the first bus repaired by AMF was Platform-edge doors eliminate the possi• portation plan for Greater Vancouver offer is delivered. The modifications made to the bus bility of people faUing or jumping onto the that tolls and other penalties for motorists include modifications to the brake system, track, reduce train noise and wind effects, wfll be commonplace in most major large the axle, and the transmission; installation of and allow heating and air conditioning of the cities by the year 2021. That is how far a new Detroit Diesel six-cylinder 330-horse- platforms. Automatic train control, while ahead Transport 2021, the planning team power engine; and changes to the appearance justifiable on its own because of greater with the Greater \hncouver Regional District, of the bus. refiabflity and the possibility of staffing reduc• tions, is necessary with platform-edge doors is looking. AMF's reasons for taking on this job are to achieve the required stopping accuracy. No Greater "Vancouver is expected to double threefold: to have a nearly completed product decision has been made on whether subway its population to 3-mfllion people in the next on site; to evaluate the quality of the latest crew sizes wfll be reduced, and the new 28 years. Transport 2021 wants to stop a CAP A BUS product; and to establish con• platform-edge doors will not be installed on similar doubling in car numbers to 2-million tracts with potential customers. AMF con• the other extensions. vehicles. Bridge finks to the downtown penin• siders the experience a success: the bus sula are seen as a first fine of defence, with a division has so far dismantled three buses proposal for $2.00 toUs on cars at peak and completed two demonstrators. In just six MISSISSAUGA periods and restrictions on lightly-loaded cars. months, the bus division has succeeded in NEW FLYER ARTICS IN SERVICE Buses would gain priority over other traffic attracting interest within the industry and The first of a 21-bus order for 60-foot articu• and special lanes woifld be created for uses several potential customers have toured the lated diesel buses from Winnipeg's New Flyer and other HOVs (high-occupancy vehicles). facflities. -Mif Point to the Future Industries has entered service with Missis- The report notes that today's car commuters sauga Transit. The buses are mostly for are being subsidised by up to 30 percent in TORONTO expanded service, although some older GM their use of roads. 35-foot buses have been retired, as Missis- NEW LOOK FOR NEW STATIONS sauga Transit moves towards a standardised The report also suggests that fuel costs The new subway stations to be build on the 40- and 60-foot bus fleet. The new artics should be increased by 50 percent, as should extensions to the TTC rapid transit system have had some teething problems, including all-day parking charges in the downtown wfll have higher ceilings, and platforms wfll a tendency to catch unsuspecting passengers' "Vancouver core, and in suburban centres. be more open and uncluttered. The TTC's heels in the turntable at the articulation There is concern that the freeways are be• earlier stations, on the older parts of the joint, and to drip water on customers from coming clogged with commuters, and toll Yonge, University, and Bloor-Danforth sub• the roof-mounted air conditioners. The buses charges and traffic signals are called for at ways, are considered small, confined, drab, are notable for having two'pairs of seats on-off ramps to discourage people making and cluttered. The Spadina Subway, on the mounted directly in the articulation joint. local trips. The provincial government is other hand, built in the 1970s, has larger and This is the first Mississauga Transit bus order asked to consider other steps, left unspecified, more individual stations, along the lines of to go to a manufacturer other than the home• to see that trucks and other long-distance the Montr&l Metro. These stations can be town Ontario Bus Industries in more than vehicles are not forced to a crawl by com• more expensive, because they are each de• five years. muters crowding the freeways. signed separately. Transport 2021 had earlier warned that New standards adopted by the TTC caU

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the components new for these cars. Modifica• tamers wfll enter service in November and ROLLINTS^OCK tions wfll be made to the structure of some •wfll be used for a number of different ship• cars, such as relocating •windows to make the ments, including oranges, bee^ dairy prod• cars look as similar as possible. The final step ucts, intravenous medical solutions, batteries, of the contract is to finish the interior of the and baby food. This purchase brings CN's ^ \rJ:^A^O^ cars •with an appearance much like those of fleet of temperature-controlled containers to the refurbished LRC cars. more than 1000. —Toronto Star AMF's work began in May. Eight coaches Don McQueen CP - DERAILMENT-PRONE CARS stfll have to be stripped by HMC; the first 38 Lloyd Manor Crescent CP has been experiencing problems •with its complete consist is expected to be in service London, Ontario N6H 3Z3 new double-stack cars, built by National Steel next yeap with all cars complete in 1996. Car in Hamilton, in the 524100-524269 -AMF VIA RAIL CANADA Point to the Future, ViA Latest News series. These cars consist of three stand-alone platforms that are connected •with a rigid LRC-1 PROGRAMME CANCELLED CARS SOLD drawbar (AU three platforms on the car carry VIA has cancelled its plan to refurbish ten VIA has sold three of its retired sleeper-buffet- the same numbet; •with the exception of the LRG-1 coaches to current fleet standards. VIA lounge cars to the Adrian and Blissfield Rail• prototype ca:^ which has a different number reviewed its fleet distribution needs and road in Adrian, Michigan, where they wiU be on each platform.) found that these cars were not required at used in excursion service for the Vfllage Rail the present time. The coaches, which were Excursion service. The cars that were sold A number of derailments have occurred at the first-generation LRC cars, originally used were Albreda, Fitzwilliam, and Resplendent, the frog point when reverse movements are by Amtrak, were last used on the VIA/Amtrak numbered 1090 to 1092, and all built in made through tinnouts in the facing point International. The coaches will be stored rmtR 1954 by Puflman Standard. The cars were direction 'with empty cars against tonnage. originaRy built as Mounf-series sleepers and a need is identified. -VIA totest News Crews have been advised not to exceed were converted to sleeper-buffet-lormge cars 5 m.p.h. and to take extreme care when HEP PROGRAMME REVIVED in 1982 for service on the Ocean. making movements under such conditions, VIA has awarded a contract to AMF to com• Before their sale, the cars had been with• except on main track siding and crossover plete the renovation of the remaining 10 drawn from service and were in storage at switches. stainless-steel coaches that were to be rebuilt the Ottawa station. Before the cars were CP conducted tests at Saint-Luc in June by Septa Rail, but were left uncompleted removed, VIA markings were painted-out and with one of these double-stack cars, four when Septa went bankrupt. they were renumbered as ABRR 1090 to SD40s, and mechaiucal test car No. 66. Septa Rail sought baitkruptcy protection 1092. The cars were removed on June 24. FoUowing these tests, NSC is now modifying after having lost a large amount of money on -Dove Stremes and Chris Haii via FidoNet the cars. its contract to refurbish 24 second-hand Another problem that CP has had with stainless-steel cars for VIA Septa employed FREIGHT EQUIPMENT these cars is that the wheels on the middle 200 people at its plant in Coteau-du-Lac and platform are wearing. It was determined that BC RAIL - NEW CARS 20 at its Lachine facility. At the time of its when crews had released the hand brakes on BCR has awarded a $6-mfllion contract to closure. Septa had completed six baggage these cars, they had only released them at Trenton Works for 100 freight cars. The cars, cars and eight coaches for VIA. the ends, not realising that each platform has 24 metres long with a load capacity of 100 AMF began working on the 10 cars at the its own handbrake. As a result, the cars were tonnes, wfll be •used mostly for lumber. Work end of July and it is expected that five will be travelling with the hand brakes applied to the begins in Novembei; for delivery in March completed by the end of the year. The other middle platform, causing the wheels to shell. 1994. five should be completed by March 1994. AMF is also nearing the completion of the CN WESTRAY CARS RETURN EAST PCS EQUIPMENT HEP I programme, which included 157 cars. The fleet of CN Westray Coal hoppers PLOUGHS AND The last ca^ MacDonald Manor-8334, has C347000-374036) retumed to Nova Scotia CN plough No. 55408, based at Kitchenei; just entered the shop. from operation last winter in Alberta and B.C. was seen on a plough train to Elmira on (see the January Rail and TFansit). Most of HEP II CONTRACT March 9, and was also seen working on the cars moved east on successive days' As mentioned in the May Rail and Jlansit, March 15. • CP Rail's last wooden caboose, versions of Train 302 in the first week of VIA awarded the HEP IT contract to AMF. The No. 437251, has been reported as cut-up at April. The words "Westray Coal" have been contract is for 33 cars and an option for up Mandak Metals in Selkirk, Manitoba. • painted-over in blue. to 13 additional cars. The 33 cars are com• CEXR's ex-CN plough. No. 55437, was also prised of 13 different series, induding 26 —John Carter, Dave Stremes busy doing its thing on March 15, and the coaches and seven dub cars. The cars wrR CN - NEW POTASH HOPPER train had the usual fim time at Mustard's arrive at AMF after being completely stripped CN 299000 is another new hopper car for Cut, OUT oiflookers teU us. by VIAs Halifax Maintenance Centre. potash (see the May 1993 Rail and IFansit DISPOSING OF BUSINESS CARS The work to be done on the cars is simi• about CP's new three-imit ca^ CPLX CN, through its subsidiary Ganac Interna• lar to the HEP I contract with the exception 130000). It is a 138-ton articulated ca^ with tional, is disposing of two of its business cars, of the car exteriors. The cars induded in this two separate hoppers riding on three trucks. Nos. 91 and 92. No. 91 was built in 1956 by contract are former U.S.-raflroad cars and the The car was built for use by Canpotex by CN Canadian Car and Foundry as Coach 5554, side fluting is attached directly to the wall at Transcona. and was later named Bonaventure. Car 92 structure. The VIA cars in the HEP 1 pro• CN - INSULATED CONTAINER ORDER was built in 1959 by National Steel Car as gramme, ex-CP cars, have the fluting CN has ordered 100 temperature-controlled Official Car 92. The cars were last assigned attached to a retainep which is attached to containers at a cost of $4.5-mfllion, to meet to the •vice-presidents on the St. Lawrence the wan. increased shipper demand. The new con- Region and Prairie Region, respectively. AMF wiR also have to make almost all of

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FREIGHT CAR STATISTICS SPOTTERS This summary table of freight car fleet sizes is excepted from the April 1993 issue of Sean Robltaille Progressive Railroading. The top 10 fleets in 371 Wakefield Place North America are listed, followed by ofhei; Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 6P3 smaller Canadian car fleets. Private Cars 1 TTXCo 98 777 COBOURG May I-May 28 Denis Taylor TTX - 84 455 May 1, 12:40 • CP W/B with 5741-4709 and two Soo line units Railbox - 13 147 May 7, 17:50 • CP W/B with 8209-8226 and eight cars Railgon - I 175 May 9, 18:25 • CP E/B with 4708-4221-4230 and 88 cars 2 General Electric Railcar 68 164 18:25 • On back track, CP Van 422997 (ex-434587). Crane 2503 14, and 3 General American Transp. Co. . . 55 063 flat car 421011 GATX- 53 560 May 15, 10:20 • CN W/B with 9536-9495-2004 and 39 cars GATX/GLC - 883 May 16, 13:18 • CN W/B with 5329-5334 and 105 cars GATX Capital - 620 May 17, 14:30 • CN Train 518 with 4119-4120 4 Union Tank Car 45 567 14:36 • CP E/B with 8226-8249 5 ACF Industries 45 068 May 25, 14:11 • CN Train 518 with 4121-4120 and van 6 Canadian Wheat Board ... 16 858 14:11 • VIA Train 63 with 6407-8622-3471-3331-3366-3356-3318 7 Procor 15 114 May 28, 18:10 • CN W/B with 5024-5362 and 105 cars 8 Greenbrier Leasing 8 858 18:30 • CN W/B with 2100-2319-2320 and 119 cars 9 ADM Transportation 8 232 PETERBOROUGH May 27 David Hales 10 CGTX 8 224 CP Rail 1852 and 3125 were in town. The 1852, in need of a paint job, was parked on a siding 47 Himont Canada Inc 1 459 in the yard by the river whRe 3125 was doing the switching. At that moment, though, 3125 52 CANAC International I 392 was sitting on the Quaker Oats lead whRe the crew was probably in Peterborough Square 65 The Alberta Government. 992 having a bite to eat, as they were nowhere to be seen. The 1852 was not dead, but was idling. 86 CPLX Leasing . 739 I 13 Ontario Hydro 517 VIA TRAIN 198, THE MAIAHAT May 29 Gray Scrimgeour 140 Du Pont Canada 382 At Qualicum Beach, 14:15 - 6148-6133. The water tower is stfll standing at Parksvflle, but 216 Kimberly-Clark ISO there has been a fire at the south end of the roof of the Parksvflle station. Railway Car Ownership FREDERICTON june 3 Gordon Shaw 1 Norfolk Southern 114 823 While in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on June 3, I spotted CP RS23s 8019 (painted for 2 CSXJ IDS 007 Canadian Atlantic Railway) and 8026 (painted CP Rail), with Caboose 434924. They appeared 3 Union Pacific 73 309 to be tied-up for the night at the bunkhouse just south of the former York Street Station; their UP - 40 634 train of several freight cars was further south where the line comes off the CN bridge from MP - 32 675 South Devon and Maiysvflle. 4 Conrail 70 570 KITCHENER . . May 7—june 25 •. Sean Robltaille 5 CN North America 64 376 May 7, 22:25 • CN Train 421 with 9312-2109, 69 cars, and Van 79693 CN - 57 339 May 8, 05:20 CN Train 422 with 9312-2109, 90 cars, and Van 79694 GTW - 7 037 May 14, 05:10 CN Train 422 with 3533-CTW 6204-CN 9566-4100, 101 cars, and a van CV-223 May 28, 21:35 CN Train 421 with 9473-5144, 47 cars, and Vans 79565 and 79770 6 Burlington Northern 56 153 May 29, 07:00 CN Train 422 with 9473-5144-4101-1387, 76 cars, Van 79895, 19 cars, 7 CP Rail System 45 030 and Van 79660 CP - 30 441 June 4, 18:55 CN Train 421 with 9677-2109, 48 cars, and Van 79660 D&H - 1 427 June 11, 20:30 CN Train 421 with 9455-5052, 63 cars, and Van 79707 (Train arrived at Soo - 13 162 19:18 and was held for VIA Trains 87 and 88.) Quebec Central - I 898 June 12, 05:00 CN Train 422 with 9455-5052, 40 cars. Van 76605, 16 cars, \^n 79889 8 Southern Pacific 43 840 June 17, 18:30 CN Train 421 with 9499-2035, 44 cars, and Van 79917 SP - 24 912 June 18, 19:15 CN Train 421 with 5303-2324-CO 725-726, 67 cars, and l^n 78139 (The D&RGW - 9 779 CO units were lacking bells, and had plastic sheeting covering the radiator SLSW - 9 149 intakes.) 9 FNM 41 839 10 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe . . 31 256 June 25, 18:30 - CN Train 421 with 9638-5040, 52 cars, and Van 79660 13 BC Rail Ltd 10 160 TRURO-SYDNEY TRAINS August 8-13 Gerry Salsig via RdoNet 54 Algoma Central 934 • August 2, 18:47 - VIA Train 12, the Atlantic, from Montreal, with F40PH-2s 6434 and 64 Ontario Northland 675 6431, baggage car 8622, coaches 8139 and 8136, Skyline 8514, coaches 8144 and 8116, 78 Southern Ry. of British Columbia . . 506 diner Louise, sleepers CMteau LAvis, Ch&teau Radisson, Chdteau Lauzon, Ch&teau Closse, Chdteau Lascdle, and dome-observation Banff Park. • August 8, 18:43 - CN westbound at Auld Cove, Nova Scotia, with 3576-3524-3527-2320 BACK COVER - A MANITOBA MINUTE and 31 cars of mixed freight. Two photos a short distance from Winnipeg: • August 9, 07:58 - CN eastbound at lona. Nova Scotia, with 2116-2023-2305 and 60 cars the Prairie Dog Central (photo by Chris Spin• of mixed freight. ney, June 1983) and a northbound train for • August 13, 14:13 - CN eastbormd departing Cordon Yard, Moncton, for the SpringhiU Gimll on the CP Winnipeg Beach Subdivision Subdivision and on to Sydney with 3556-3588-3506-3586 and 30 cars of mixed freight. (photo by Pat Scrimgeour, Oaober 1989).

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