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BEACH CAR LINES - 120 YEARS 4 RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY 9 FiFTYYEARS OF RAILWAY NEWS 14 ••• The street railway service to 's ••• iron monsters for the 20th century -•• 1946 - CPR station opens Beach district over the iast i 20 years, by ••• Cabeese on the Saint John and Quebec •f 1954 - Details of subway opening Raymond F. Coriey. •f 196! - CNR new colours STATiONS iO THE WABASH BUFFALO DIVISION 6 •f 1969 - UCRS buys CPR Cope Race •f Port Coquitiam, B.C., ••• William L. Reddy writes on the history and • 1978 - CP equipment transferred to VIA his memories of the Wabash operation BOOKS i i 4- 1986- disaster through southern . iNFORMATiON NETWORK i2 -f 1990 - The final runs of the

Fifty years of Rail and Transit Through the name changes and the format UCRS meetings The first issue of the Upper Canada Railway changes, the Newsletter and Rati and Transit At the Toronto meeting on October 20, Bill Society News Letter, the predecessor of Rati have remained the same publication, with McArthur presented the second in a series of atid Transit, was published in September comprehensive news coverage of railways and shows of the Louisville and Nashville and the 1945, fifty years ago. The UCRS had been public transit in Canada and detailed and Southern Railway, and their successors CSX formed in 1941, and for the first four years, scholarly iiistoricai or analytical articles by the and Norfolk Southern, in Corbin and Danville, news of the steam and electric railwajts in the Society's very knowiegabie members. Kentucky, from the early 1980s. On November Toronto area and Society news was combined To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Rati 17, Scott Haskiii showed photos of PCC with the longer articles in the UCRS's series of andTransit, the Transcontinental news section streetcars and other Toronto transit scenes. Bulletuis. In time, the articles were combined this month is replaced by a selection of main• The next meeting will be on Friday, into the monthly Newsletter except for longer line railway, branch-line railway, and street December 15, and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at monographs. railway news as reported in the Newsletter the Toronto Hydro offices, 14 Carlton Street, The first News Letter contained an between 1945 and 1995. Our regular current just east of College subway station. announcement of the Society's new meeting news returns next month. The Hamilton meeting on Friday, schedule, with meetings on Toronto once a December 22, will feature recent news and What's been and gone in the last fifty years month on the third Friday of each month, a members' current and historical slides. The In the news clippings that are reproduced in schedule which continues today, and also meeting will begin at 8:00 p.m. at the the Transcontinental section this month, you'll reports, including train sightings, from several Hamilton Spectator auditorium, 44 Frid see many of the changes in Canadian railways members who were serving with the armed Street, just off Main Street at Highway 403. and transit since the Newsletter began forces in Canada or overseas. reporting on them. Only the fundamentals Cover photos The Newsletter grew in depth, size, and have remained constant - that railways are Our front cover photo this month is from the circulation, so that by the end of the 1960s it meant to move goods and people, that they Paterson-George Collection, taken 50 years was a magazine printed on glossy paper with most often run on steel rails 4'-8V'2" apart, and ago, in the autumn of 1945. CNR 4-8-4 No. many photographs. Publication was reduced that railway finance remains controversial. 6145 is leading train No. 14 away from to six times a year, and the magazine was But I asked Harry Dodsworth, Gordon Toronto, hading for Montreal. This view is renamed Rail and Transit in 1975. During Webster, and Scott Haskiii to help me to looking west on the Toronto Terminals these years. Society news and events were identify a few things which have begun and Railway at Jarvis Street. The trainshed of printed in the Newsletter Informer, a ended during the life of Rail and Transit: Union Station is visible behind the train. publication very similar to the first News • CN's Turbo, Rapido, and . The back cover photo is of one of the Letter. • Two CPR corporate images: script lettering, passenger trains that now operates in Toronto, The name Newsletter was used again from and action red with multimark. the Ontario Northland Northlander. This 1980, when the bi-monthly magazine, which • TTC's Gloucester subway cars and whistles photo by Paul Bioxham, taken on July 14, had come to require huge amounts of to announce that doors are closing. 1994, is of Train 698 hading south on the Bala volunteer labour, was replaced by a more • Modem steam locomotives, curved-side Subdivision in the Don Valley, five miles away austere, but more frequent, p)eriodicai. With passenger cars, and RSD17 8921 on the CPR. from Union Station. ONR GP38-2 1808 leads the help of increasingly powerful home • Ontario Northland's Trans-Europ Express an electric generating unit and a train of computers, the apjjearance of the Newsletter equipment and GO Transit APCUs. coaches rebuilt from GO Transit single-level was enhanced, while the basic quality and • CN railway operations in Newfoundland. commuter cars. depth of information was retained, and the • CNCP Telecommunications and Telex. name Rail and Transit returned in 1992. This issue completed November 27. 1995

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A test train for the re-equipped Montreai- Deux-Montagnes commuter train service, at Grand-Mouiin, the former Deux-Montagnes terminal station. The line re-opened on October 26, and is running on a temporary schedule with limited service until fencing along the line is complete. This photo was taken on October 17 by Michel Beihumeur.

Two of the Toronto Transit Commission's PCC cars amongst the newer CLRVs and ALRVs at Roncesvaiies Carhouse on Novem• ber 12, in this photo by Scott Haskiii. The TTC is considering the retirement of the 19 PCCs except for the two "historic" cars which would remain active for tours.

New TTC T-1 subway car 5001, aboard a CP train at Bartlett Avenue in Toronto. The first six T-1 cars are in Toronto for testing as a complete train before the remainder of the 216-car order is delivered. The photo is by Alec Adams, taken on October 10.

Rail and Transit • September 1995 • 3 BEACH CAR LINES REACH BACK 120 YEARS

By Raymond F. Coriey Passengers, who paid their pennies for the privilege, were but a profitable second-thought on those first vehicles. The 85 minutes it takes the Queen streetcar to thvmder Tracks had been installed along Kingston Road mainly across 15.4 miles of track - from the eastern end of the to haul supplies for the Toronto Gravel Road and Concrete Beach, through the heart of Toronto, to the western limits Co., from the Don River to pits east of Woodbine Avenue. of Metro at Long Branch - has been 120 years in the The tramway was a big step up from the plodding steam making. traction engines that slogged along the dirt road. It was on Jime 9, 1875, in the form of horse-drawn This new Kingston Road Tramway route (along what , that public transit first inched its way towards the is now East, to the racetrack) turned around area that one day would be known as the Beach. at the Benlamond Hotel (on Kingston Road, at what is now Main Street) until 1878, when the line was extended to carry patrons near the new Victoria Park. With annexation of the Riverdale district in 1884 and the Queen "strip" to Maclean Avenue in 1887, the pushed its line across the Don River to Woodbine Park race track. A separate route to Lee Avenue in 1889 gave the Beach two connections to terminals near St. Lawrence Market. The Toronto Railway Co., headed by William Mackenzie, succeeded the TSR in 1891 and one of its first acts was to inaugurate the King route from Lee Avenue to Dufferin Street. Meeting conditions of its charter, the TRC brought electric service to the district by 1893 with a line to Balsam Avenue. Up to 24 passengers sat in the four-wheel cars, built in the TRC's Front Street shops, that were only a little bigger than the horse-drawn vehicles they replaced and less than half the size of the modem streetcar. Winter service was cut back to Lee Avenue in 1893-94, but the line as far as Balsam Avenue was "granted" every second car in 1895-96, the rationale being Balmy Beach was a "cottage colony" with too few year-round residents. The first real controversy involving rail travel in the Beach empted in 1896 when the TRC leased the southern part of the Munro estate in 1896 to create Munro Park. Already operating the Kingston Road line (the Toronto and Scarboro' Electric RaOway Light and Power Co.) to Victoria Park, the transit company wanted to build a Queen line that would bridge the ravine at Neville Park separating the recreational areas. The trouble was, the franchise for Queen east of Maclean belonged to the Kingston Road radial line that was governed by the Village of , which was unhappy with TRC fares. When the TRC moved rails and ties into the section between Maclean Avenue and Beech Avenue, the council organised a "posse" to dump the material in a "nearby ravine" the night of July 20, 1897. The argument was settled and within a year streetcar

Top photo: On June 19, 1941, a year after its delivery to the TTC, A2-class air-electric PCC 4195 is ready to depart from . -TTC Archives photo

Middle photo: All-electric PCC 4556 (ex-Cincinnati Street Railway) lays over at Neville Park in June 1979. The loop was enlarged and realigned in 1966 for PCC multiple-unit operation. —Dove Morgan photo

Bottom photo: Starting out on the TTC's longest streetcar trip, an ALRV destined for Long Branch is seen at Neville Park in November 1995. -Scott Hoski//p/ioto

4 • Rail and Transit • September 1995 This view of the brand-new Neville Park Loop was made on (originally Bingham) on Kingston Road to McCaul. August 14, 1922. An ex- two-truck The Queen route was renamed Kingston Road in 1937, wooden car has just left the loop and is headed west on Queen and the Beach route was renamed Queen and extended to Street. In distance a single-truck car can be seen on the old wye Suimyside, replacing the Lakeshore route. The Beach track on Neville Park Boulevard. -TTC Archives photo designation lingered until 1948 on the rush hour tripper route to York Street, after which the service moved to service, using larger (eight-wheel) stock and popular Kingston Road were it survives in 1995 as 503—Kingston "open" cars in summer, extended to a loop in Mimro Park. Road. The earlier Kingston Road route was renamed Night service started in May of 1899. Downtowner in 1973, operated to Bathurst Station for a Unhappy with the extent of Munro Park, the TRC time, was shortened to McCaul Loop in 1984, and later arranged in 1906 for Dominion Parks Co. to buy the House gained the route number 502. The Queen route goes by of Providence Farm between Maclean and Leuty avenues, number 501, the first number in the TTC's streetcar route and have it operated by the Toronto Park Co. This led to number series. the demise of Victoria Park in 1906 and the subdivision of Small Witt cars, like 2766, operated by one man with Munro Park for housing in 1907. treadle exit doors, were introduced in 1936 on nights, The new Scarboro' Beach Park - a "trolley" park of Simdays, and holidays. From 1937 to 1940, all Witt cars the type popular at the turn of the century — opened in except for trailers were fitted with cushion seats and June 1907. It was accessed by a streetcar loop south on electric heat, replacing coal stoves. PCC cars, what is now Scarboro Beach Boulevard, returning parallel acquired in 1938 and exhibited at the CNF that year, to Maclean to Queen. replaced Small Witts in September 1940 and Large Witts Service to downtown started on an every-other-car in 1941 on Queen. basis from Woodbine, and a shuttle or "stub" service One-man Witts supplemented PCCs in rush-hour service operated on one track to Munro Park and Queen where until all Witts were retired in the early 1960s. the loop had been removed. This state of affairs continued Queen service has been relatively stable since then. for eight seasons before the city stepped in and extended From 1967 until 1977, two-car PCC multiple-unit trains trackage to Neville Park Boulevard, where a wye was btult. operated in the rush-hour, but increased traffic and Balmy Beach residents started getting 24-hour service parking congestion forced the switch to single cars. This direct to downtown on December 24, 1914, although caused an increase in short-turning activity. A Beach issue alternate cars short-turned at Scarboro' Beach. in the 1970s and 1980, it continues to this day, although The TTC took over on September 1, 1921, and within recent improvements have been noted. a year all service went to Neville Park and its new loop. The CLRVs and "bendable" ALRVs made their debuts With the Scarboro' Beach loop gone (though the park on Queen in 1981 and 1989. In 1995, every second car on remained until 1925), the TTC installed a short-turn wye the 501 —Queen route was extended beyond at Maclean that lasted for 40 years. to , replacing the 507—Long Branch In the general rerouting of 1923 the area came into its route, so that customers no longer had to transfer to own with the Beach run from Neville to the Humber. With continue their journey. it came the new Peter Witt cars which also hauled steel The new proof-of-payment fare policy, based on the trailers in the rush hours. The 575 Witt cars bought by the honour system, was introduced on 501—Queen in 1990, TTC in the early 1920s remained in service for 40 years and extended to Lake Shore Boulevard in 1995. POP and the sole surviving example in the TTC fleet, car 2766, eliminated the stationing of TTC employees at the car was on display in the 1995 Beaches Easter Parade. stops on Queen at Yonge to assist with faster loading of In 1937 small changes were made. The Beacli route the cars. had been cut back to the McCaul loop in 1929, All in all, when the TTC looks back during its diamond overlapping the Lakeshore route, which ran from the west jubilee year in 1996, it was quite a trip through the ages. to Mutual Street. In turn, the Beach route was overlapped This onick originally appeared in The Beach Times. Souvenir Centennial by the Queen route which operated from Birchmoimt Edition. Summer 1995.

Rail and Transit • September 1995 • THE WABASH BUFFALO DIVISION

By William L. Reddy captive. At one time Canadian locomotives could enter the United States but had to be returned within 48 hours or George Gould was a genius in many ways. He built the duty would be charged, and the same applied to U.S. Wabash Railroad in the midwestem United States from a locomotives entering Canada. It also required Canadian number of short lines and regional railways, and he crews to operate the trains in Canada, and worldng established a friendly relationship with the Grand Tnmk agreements were necessary to allow these crews , into the Railway Company of Canada in order to expand into the U.S. Many of the Wabash locomotives were built in the eastern U.S. U.S. and when sent to Canada, became permanent fixtures His decision to enter the eastern markets was well here. known to his contemporaries, and he worked out a deal In order for any service to be operated in Canada, the with his good friend George M. Hays of the Grand Trunk Wabash and the had to iron out Railway, enabling the Wabash to operate overhead many things, including the handling of trains. It was trackage rights on the Grand Tnuik from Windsor to Fort agreed that Wabash would supply- its own operating Erie, Ontario, and from Welland Junction into Niagara crews, but that that all dispatching of trains would be Falls, Ontario. This agreement was signed on January 24, handled by the Grand Tnmk and its dispatchers. Since the 1898, in Detroit, Michigan. The initial operating agreement Wabash did not own any track in Canada, such things as was to endure until January 24, 1919, and then be track maintainance and car maintainance would be considered for renewal. accorded as work of the Grand Trunk. The Wabash woidd The initial agreement with the Grand Trunk called for have such division officials as it was felt necessary, an annual rental fee of $275,000 per yeai; for five years directed from its division office in St. Thomas, the midway ending March 1, 1903, $300,000 per year for the five point on the railroad. Wabash had various clerks and the years ending March 1, 1908, $325,000 per year for the agreement included the possibility of its own crew callers. five years ending March 1, 1913, and $350,000 per year A Wabash ticket agent would be allowed to sell tickets at for the remainder of the term. least in St. Thomas and Windsoi; and the necessary tariffs Another set of agreements was reached with the Erie were filed, allowing for interline ticket sales. At the Railroad at about the same time period, allowing the smaller stations, such as Jarvis and Simcoe, the Grand Wabash trackage rights from Suspension Bridge to Buffalo, Trunk would handle the sale of passenger tickets. New York (25.6 miles), and from Black Rock to The Grand Trunk Railway, and of course after its International Jet., New York (4.8 miles). formation the Canadian National Railways, were Two more supplementary agreements were made: one responsible for making up the various Wabash freight with the New York Central, allowing the Wabash to use trains. The Wabash, howeve:; was allowed to operate such trackage between Black Rock and Exchange Street station trains as necessary between Fort Erie and Niagara Falls. in Buffalo, and the other to use 0.6 miles of Lehigh VaUey One unique aspect of some of these agreements was track at the Wabash freight station on Louisiana Street in that in later years, the Wabash had an arrangement to Buffalo, for which the Wabash paid a fixed sum per car. operate local freight service out of St. Thomas. A good With a fine of railway across southern Ontario, the example was the St. Thomas—Jarvis mixed. Every six Wabash came under the authority of the Canadian months, this job would go from one railway to the othe^ government and was required to meet the requirements of but since the Wabash no longer had any passenger the Board of Railway Commissioners. The motive power equipment in Canada after 1932, the use of a CN combine was considered Canadian and thus was more or less

6 • Rail and Transit • September 1995 was necessary for the passengers riding this train. service via Niagara Falls (Suspension Bridge) over the When the original trackage rights agreement was set Rome, Ogdensburg and Watertown Raflroad, another up, trains were blocked at Detroit and, using one of the division of the NYC. This also involved the New York, three car-ferries, would cross the river to Windsor where Ontario and Western Railroad. One through train was they would be assembled by the Grand Trunk Railway for established via this route, the Chicago Limited. The only their eastbound journeys. The route established by the two bad feature of this route was the slow speed on the O&W carriers remained basically the same for the first 90 or so portion of the route. On many of the westboimd trips, years. East from Windsoi; trains ran on the double tracked lateness of the train became common and it had something main line from Windsor to Glencoe, then continuing on the of a ripple effect on the other two carriers. single track east to St. Thomas. Crews would change at St. The Continental Limited was a different operation. It Thomas and some trains would run east into Niagara Falls came into Buffalo from the west and went east over the and others into Fort Erie, according to the destination of West Shore, with at least one sleeper going east, on the the train. Delaware, Lackawarma and Western Raflroad. While the In recent years, the route has changed in three places. DL&W passenger service was primarily hooked-up with the Trains of the Norfolk Southern, the successor to Wabash, Nickel Plate Road, the Wabash connection gave passengers now run over the former Canada Southern from Windsor an alternative route, as well as a direct route to Detroit. to Fargo, north over CSX Transporation's former Pere As mentioned in a previous paragraphs, certain Wabash Marquette line to Chatham, and rejoin, the original route passenger trains used the Erie Raflroad between Buffalo there. From St. Thomas, NS trains now run north over the and Niagara Falls (Suspension Bridge). Numbers 5 and 6 former London and Port Stanley and east from London on were routed this way as part of the Chicago Limited, and CN's main line, the former Great Western, through they also stopped in Tonawanda, New York, to pick up Hamilton to Niagara Falls. From there, the trains run south and discharge passengers. Trains 8 and 9, the Continental on CN lines parallel to the Welland Canal to Yager, just Limited, were routed via the Intemational Railway bridge, outside Port Colbome, where they rejoin the original route. through Fort Erie and Black Rock. For many years, the Canadian National Railways issued Major changes were made in 1912, as the O&W route a joint timetable for its St. Thomas division and the via Oswego was changed to a joint route with the West Wabash Buffalo Division. Now, many years latei; the Shore, and trains were rerouted via Earlville. This train timetable has been merged into the CN Great Lakes was known as the Chicago Lbrdted. Just exactly what year Division, and the only mention of the current Norfolk this service was discontinued, has not as yet been Southern operations over these fines is the tonnage ratings determined. for various classes of diesel locomotive power. The era of the first world war saw several changes and When all of the trackage rights agreements were finally by the 1921, the Wabash no longer used the NYC in effect, the Wabash came out with advertising for their Exchange Street station in Buffalo. Wabash trains moved new through passenger-train service, between Chicago and over to the DL&W station at the foot of Main Street in New York and between St. Louis, Kansas City and New Buffalo. At that time only one through passenger train York. Several routes were worked out, among which were remained on the Wabash, the Continental Limited. With a through cars to New York, via Buffalo. Some of these direct DL&W coimection, this train was then routed out routes included the New York, West Shore and Buffalo, a the DL&W main fine from Buffalo, to East Buffalo, around division of the New York Central system, and through car the wye at Hallstead Avenue, up the Black Rock branch.

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Rail and Transit • September 1995 • 7 we would block trains at the old Lackawanna yard in East WABASH RAILROAD Buffalo, drag them over to Black Rock on puller runs, where we would hand them over to the CN and they CANADIAN DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES would pull them into Fort Erie. The same held true at General Electric 43-ton, 300-horsepower switcher Niagara Falls, where both the Lehigh Valley and Erie NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER YEAR BUILT YEAR RETIRED would bring their own trains into the CN Clifton yard for 51 12496 1939 1959 assembly into westbound Wabash fast freights. During all of these years, howevei; the Wabash General Motors SW8, 800-horsepower switchers WABASH maintained a freight house in Buffalo, located behind the NUMBERS N&W NUMBERS NS NUMBERS SERAL NUMBERS YEAR BUILT YEAR Rt 1 IKED Larkin Terminal on Seneca Street, and as a result for many 122 3122 - Ai45 1951 1979 years ran. a transfer run twice a day between Fort Erie and 123 3123 — A146 1951 1983 Buffalo. These runs generally drew a Wabash "Prairie" 124 3124 - AI47 1951 1983 2-6-2 or on occasion a Wabash "Pacific" 4-6-2. They came ^ 127 3127 3727 A278 1951 1988 over the Intemational Bridge at Fort Erie-Black Rock, onto the Erie Raflroad Intemational branch to Intemational Jet, General Motors GP7, 1500-1 orsepower road-switcher then the Erie's Niagara Falls Branch to JX towei; and then WABASH NUMBER SERIAL NUMBERS YEAR RETIRED N&W NUMBER YEAR BUILT west through the diamond at FW towet; near Seneca 453 3453 AI48 1851 1979 Street and into the freight house. This service was later cancelled when the freight house was closed, and Wabash General Motors F7A, 1500-horsepower Freight cab units trains started running directly into the Erie-Lackawanna ORIGINAL NUMBER FROM NUMBER 196! N&W NUMBER SERAL NUMBERS YEAR BUILT YEAR RETIRED Bison yard in East Buffalo (Sloan). 1 155 657 3657 AI25 1950 1977 At the time period when the Pennsylvania Raflroad was 1 I55A 658 3658 AI26 1950 1976 considering a merger with the New York Central, the PRR 1 156 659 3659 AI27 1950 1975 had a controlling interest in the Wabash Raflroad. One I I56A 660 3660 Ai28 1950 1978 condition that the PRR wanted was that if a merger 1 157 661 3661 AI29 1950 1977 between the Nickel Plate and the Norfolk and Westem IIS7A 662 3662 AI30 1950 1971 occurred, that it must also include the Wabash. So, on i 158 663 - AI3I 1951 1966 October 16, 1964, the name of the Wabash Raflroad 1 I58A 664 - A132 1951 1966 became a fallen flag. 1 159 665 - AI33 1951 1967 By the summer of 1950, it was determined by the II59A 666 3666 A134 1951 1977 Wabash that operation of the entire system should be 1 160 667 3667 AI35 1951 1978 steam locomotives to diesels, and as a result, an order was II60A 668 - A136 1951 1966 placed with in London, for 20 F7A i 1 161 669 - AI37 1951 1967 1500-horsepower road freight 'A' units, one GP7 1500- horsepower road switcher, and three SW8 800-horsepower 1 I6IA 670 - AI38 1951 1966 1 162 671 3671 AI39 1951 1978 switchers. These would be the mainstay of Canadian 1 I62A 672 - AI40 1951 1967 operations for many years. After the Norfolk and Westem 1 163 673 AI4I 1951 1966 takeover; many of these were scrapped, and locomotives - from the U.S. took up the slack. 1 I63A 674 - AI42 1951 1967 1164 675 - AI43 1951 1967 Three of these original Wabash freight units firom 1 I64A 676 - AI44 1951 1967 Canada have been preserved. GE 43-ton 51 is at the Elgin 1 189 725 3725 A487 1953 1979 Couny Railway Museum in St. Thomas, after 35 years of ; 1 I89A 726 3726 A488 1953 1975 industrial service at steel companies in Ontario and Quebec. F7A 671 has been cosmetically restored and ' to the Intemational bridge, and west over the Canadian returned to Wabash colours at the Mad River and Nickel | National. Plate Raflroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. F7A 1189 is at The depression was in full swing in 1929, and all the the Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello, Illinois. . railroads were cutting costs, but somehow or other the Reference materials used for this article: | Continental Lbrdted was able to to keep on running, at • Correspondence, and discussions with the late A. A. Merrilees. i least untiL 1932, when it too fell victim to the depression. • Personal discussions with T. H. Currah, retired road foreman of The New York—Detroit sleeper, however, stayed on using engines for the Wabash, Norfolk and Westem, and Norfolk a different route, via the DL&W and the Michigan Central. Southern, in St. Thomas. This service lasted until about the end of passenger service • Poor's MarMal of Railroads, 1902, 1904, and 1906. on the Michigan Central in the imd-1950s, when it fell • Wabash Railroad timetables, 1902, 1921, and 1929. victim to the airliae industry and interstate highways. • Joint employee timetable, CNR St. Thomas Division and Wabash Buffalo Division, September 1955 The depression also had a vast effect on the overhead • CN Great Lakes Region employee timetable, April 26, 1992. freight business on the Wabash, one result being that the • A Statutory History of Canadian Railways, 1836-1986. trackage rights agreement for service over the Erie • Personal visits to the CN-Wabash facilites in Windsor, St. Raflroad from Suspension Bridge to Buffalo was Thomas, Welland, Fort Erie, and Niagara Falls, Ontario. suspended. CN crews would make up the Wabash trains at • Interviews with retired Erie Railroad and Delaware, Lackawanna i Fort Erie, Niagara Falls, and Windsor. Of note in this and Westem Railroad employees. respect, during my early days as a fireman on the DL&V\ • Equipment information from General Motors records, Locomotives from London, and Extra 2200 South (Issue 90,1990).

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Just A. Ferronut's And before we leave the 11th, it was on ranged from simply undercutting the track Railway Archaeology this date in 1916 that the centre span of the under a grade separation to massive projects Quebec Bridge fell while being hoisted. like CN's new St. Clair Tunnel in Samia. Art Clowes At least a couple of first sods were turned Similar problems faced the Grand Trunk 1625 ouest, boul. de Maisonneuve, Suite 1600 during September. On the 12th, in 1905, Sir Railway as they introduced larger equipment Montreal (Quebec) H3H 2N4 Wilfred Laurier turned the first sod of the to lead them into the twentieth century. E-Mail: 71 [email protected] Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Fort William, Cornwall newspapers published during the Ontario. In 1853, on the 14th, the first sod spring of 1899 a series of items providing the Well! It looks like our clock is a little out of was turned for the European and North pieces for the followmg little story. sync with nature's timepiece. It is hard to American Railway, which would cormect Late in April 1899, the Grand Trunk convince anyone that this is Septembei; when Saint John and Moncton, New Brunswick. announced the completion of the first of a we have had our first snow and most of the Still in the east, it was on September 29, new class of locomotives at its Point St. fall railway shows have been held. I guess 1879, that the Yarmouth and Annapolis Charles shops. It was a 4-6-0, 14 feet 9 this is one of the things that happens in our Railway between Yarmouth and Digby Nova inches high and 64 feet in length, which modem society where business wants to Scotia, later a part of Dominion Atlantic could haul 65 loaded freight cars, or about work on a 30-hour day, but they have not Railway was opened for railway traffic. double the number of cars the older engines changed the clocks or calendars yet. The Canadian Railway and Marine World could handle. The railway was confident that As noted elsewhere, this issue celebrates article on September events finishes with the these locomotives would completely 50 years of the Upper Canada Railway statement that a Toronto newspaper of Sep• revolutionise railroading. Society's publication of a formal newsletter. tember 30, 1856, reported that "Freight is Since these new locomotives were to be Prior to September 1945 your Society had being shipped over the Grand Trunk Railway, assigned to the Belleville division, they had to published a number of news sheets, starting from Toronto to Oshawa, Ontario." get there from Point St. Charles. A report in with its first, in October 1941, following the mid-May states that the new locomotives Society's first meeting on October 17, 1941. The home front would not fit through the covered bridge over While the main theme of this September Here in Montreal, while the modifications the Ottawa River at St. Anne's (at the west 1995 issue is a look at many of the changes continue at Central Station in the area north end of Montreal Island), on account of their over the past fifty years, to me, that is really of the main concourse, changes that impact height. They were taken instead via the south railway archaeology so I will attempt to add the Deux-Montagnes commuter service are shore to Valleyfield, and then across the a few more tidbits. starting to show. The stairway at the very line and bridge to north end of the commuter platforms, about While September 1945 was an important Coteau. date for the Upper Canada Railway Society, under the south side of Boulevard Rene- A week latei; the Grand Trunk Railway other important railway and transit events Levesque (Dorchester Boulevard), was closed announced that it had decided to replace the had also picked September as revealed in the after commuter railway service was suspend• bridge over the Ottawa River at St. Anne's following list from the September 1927 issue ed last spring. A stairway in the main con• with a more modem stmcture. The principal of Canadian Railway and Marine World: course to Tracks 7 and 8 was also closed at reason was to get rid of the low vertical The Canada Atlantic Railway including the same time. clearance of the covered (tubular) bridge. its bridge over St. Lawrence River at Coteau, The Deux-Montagnes commuter traffic is These early through-truss railway bridges Quebec, was transferred to Grand Tmnk now using the two platforms served by tracks were by today's standards rather small. This Railway on September 1, 1905. Nos. 9, 10, 11, and 12. To help with the flow is evident when one considers that the pres• of commuters exiting the platforms, new On September 7, 1815, the steamboat ent Victoria Bridge in Montreal was built in stairways have been constructed farther south Frontenac, the first on the British side of Lake 1898 around the original tubular bridge; the on the platform. These stairways exit on the Ontario, was launched at Emestown, Upper top bracing of the new bridge was placed north side of de la Gauchetiere, east of CN's Canada. entirely over and above the top of the old headquarters building. Toronto's first street railway began oper• tubular bridge. ation on September 11, 1861. The renovations north of the main station It wasn't long before Grand Tmnk's fire• On the same day in 1833, the steamship concourse have reached the point where men were complaining about their big new Royal William, built at Quebec, reached much of the construction hoarding has been engines. Their beef? These engines required Gravesend, England, having left Pictou, Nova removed. This reveals two other sets of exit more work, as the result of their appetite for Scotia, August 18. She was the first ship to stairs from the commuter platforms, just coal to keep up the steam. cross the Atlantic imder her own steam. slightly north of the main concourse. I will We will close our little tale with some September 11th must have been a well now wait until the new shops, etc., in the facts from the news column of May 26,1899. liked-date, for it was on September 11,1904, station area are finished before giving a The new big GTR locomotives assigned to that bandits stole a large amount of money further update on that work. Belleville weighed 277,990 pounds. These from a express train Iron monsters for the twentieth century iron monsters were assigned to mn between at Mission, B.C. Some of the robbers were Near the end of the twentieth century the Belleville and Coteau. Since there were no captiued and convicted, and several years introduction of double-stack container cars tumtables on the line large enough for them, later some of the money was recovered. and trains caused numerous problems requir• they had to be tumed on the wyes at Coteau ing railways to scramble to increase the and Belleville after each trip. vertical clearances on their main lines. These

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While some of the very heavy cars cur• Woodstock, N.B., to Fredericton. You can The Saint John and Quebec Railway was rently in use almost cause the steel rail to imagine my surprise, when about 20 miles incorporated with grand ideas, as its name become plastic, what will railway operation south of Woodstock, I spotted a pair of CN implies. In its earlier days, some believed that be like in another hundred years? cabooses on the west bank of the river. I the Canadian Northern would extend its drove a few more miles to Nackawic, where system eastward, providing a connection into More eastern stories I decided to stop at a grocery store for a cold Quebec. As that fizzled, pressure was applied I mentioned in last month's column parts of drink. Surprise number two of the morning. for the federal government to take over the my eastern summer trip and visit with the Who's there, but the store owner, Ronnie SJ&Q and extend it to connect with the Pratts on Prince Edward Island, and I am Faulkner, a chap that I went to school with. National Transcontinental Railway at Grand going to tell you a few more details this I knew Ronnie was a railfan, but hadn't seen Falls, N.B. In reality, the railway constructed month. While I came back with what I him in years, so we had many things to less than 160 miles. The 89 miles from thought was a fairly finite list of stories I discuss. One question of course was about Fredericton along the west bank of the St. wanted to develop, other people seem to the cabooses I had seen. Ronnie then told me John River to Woodstock and then towards have other ideas. The Pratts have forwarded that he also has one down-river at his place. the American border at Centreville, N.B., was extra material, including an audio tape done I had to tease him about owning a CN van, opened January 1, 1915. Lack of money kept with their folk-singer friend, John Cousins. In since his father was a life-long CPR employee the railway from even reaching its starting addition to a number of stories, this tape has in Woodstock. point in Saint John. In 1920 it connected Mr. Cousins singing the song that Keith Pratt with the CPR at Westfield Beach, and used had written concerning the 1932 EE.I. train Ron defended himself by telling me that their line for the last 14 miles into Saint wreck. he collected mostly CP items, but ended up with the CN caboose mainly because he got John. In 1929, the CNR purchased this line Another eastern project has come in from an all-inclusive deal from CN. He went on to from Westfield Beach to Centreville and our member Peter Shergold of Guelph. He admit that he was pleased that he chose a CN operated it as their Centreville Subdivision. came across a station-like building in Glas- caboose, because the windows are bigger, In the early 1960s a new hydro-electric sville, N.B., and was wondering if this could and the corner windows make for a great power dam was constructed on the St. John be a relocated station. So, a project for the view across the water at his place. River, 14 miles upstream of Fredericton. This next visit east, and we will keep you posted. We talked briefly about these cabooses, resulted in CN abandoning its Centreville A couple of other letters have arrived and I mentioned that all three must be very Subdivision between Fredericton and Wood• reminding me of the number of railway lines close to the alignment of CN's old Centreville stock. CN continued to serve the north end of in eastern Quebec that I haven't written Subdivision. Ronnie told me that the two this line until the early 1980s by operating about yet; more projects for the future! cabooses upriver, owned by Lanslo Owen- over the CPR "Gibson" line from Fredericton Cabeese on the Saint John and Quebec Fekete, an employee of the pulp and paper to Woodstock. This summer, as I often do, I took the east mill in Nackawic, are indeed located on the After discussing the location of Ronnie's side of the St. John River to travel from old roadbed of the Saint John and Quebec. van, we agreed the old roadbed in that area was on the lower interval land that was flooded, and that his van is located a hun• Denis Taylor's and Alex Campbell's dred feet or so from the old railway align• ment. Of course it is the lake that resulted Stations from the Nackawic hydro project that makes it a great scenic location for these cabooses. Ronnie told me that the three cabooses were purchased in October 1994 through Canac, a division of CN. The vans came from Edmonton, and all arrangements for the move, etc., were handled by Canac. They came in by railway to Devon (across the river from Fredericton), and then moved by flatbed to their present locations. Ronnie's van, CN 79423, now lettered RONX, was moved early in December 1994. This van is presently located about four miles north of the former CN Long Creek station (Mile 102.5). I later visited Ron's caboose, which was in the final stages of renovation. The hard• wood floors, clear lacquered cabinets, roll-out beds, and other amenities, would I am cer• tain make its former railway tenants slightly envious. A couple of weeks after I got home, I read that as a goodwill gesture for the area's CPR pensioners reunion, Ron had put as a Port Coquitlam, B.C., West Coast Express - The framework for the new commuter train prize a dinner in his caboose with him and station at Port Coquitlam was taking shape in this Septemlrer 17 view. BC Transit's Mrs. Faulkner, along with a night's stay in Mission-Vancouverservice on CP Rail's Cascade Subdivision began on November 1. Behind the caboose. the framework is the VIA station, built by the CPR in 1965. The VIA station was Mr. Owen-Fekete's cabooses, CN 79750 demolished two weeks after this photo was taken. -Photo by Ian Smith and 79532, now lettered LOFX, were

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delivered about two weeks after Ronnie's, in isolation and, therefore, the abandonment of While the book is a worthwhile addition the middle of December 1994. These vans are the last portion of The Port Hope, lindsay to the library of any student of Canadian located very near the old CN Temple station and Beaverton Railway, which stiU runs railway history, I do have a several minor that was at Mile 130.7 of the Centreville between the business district and the water• complaints. At the end of Mr. Underwood's Subdivision. front in the town. introduction, I was looking forward to a well- The railway may have abandoned the The second CN abandonment is a short written and researched publication. However Une, but the equipment came back! piece of the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich it only took a few pages before I had to Railway in Fort Erie, Ontario. This removal is question that view. It started when Sandford A Cape Breton puzzle to permit the elimination of some railway Fleming's name was spelled with the "d" in I came across an article in a 1929 newspaper crossings in the community. This section of Sandford missing and a second "m" in about a mine and town in Cape Breton being the BB&G has been used as a spur since the Fleming. If that was the end, I would have sold for $25 000. Not much money even for abandonment of the Dunnville Subdivision blamed it on the author's computer's "spell 1929! This article went on to state that west of Fort Erie in 1987. checker." I was really shaking my head, English capitalists had formed the Broughton Negotiations between CN and the road howevei; when I read ". . . The line which Coal and Railway Company, and sank a coal authorities have also been completed to became Ketchum's classroom had opened shaft at Broughton, Cape Breton, before the remove a little more of CN's BeUeville North with great ceremony in Saint John, Septem• first world wan They had installed expensive Spu:; again to eliminate the need for a ber 14, 1853 ..." To Canadian railway mining machinery streets were laid out, and couple of highway crossings. This line was enthusiasts, as mentioned above, this was the houses were built. The project failed, and by CN's Campbellford Subdivision, and was built date only of the sod turning, not the begin• 1929, Broughton was a deserted "ghost" by the Grand Junction Railway. ning of operations, for the E&NA in Saint town, with a caretaker as its only inhabitant. John. There are at least two or three other The complete town, mine, etc., was sold by An equipment question statements that causes one to ask questions. auction to Hanson Brothers Incorporated, of A while ago, during a discussion about local My other complaint perhaps relates more Montreal for $25 000, on Saturday, July 13, history with a chap in Cornwall, Ontario, he to my style of reading - a few pages at a 1929. asked what I knew about Courtaulds Indus• time.- While many of the narrative-jumps in Broughton is about seven miles south of tries in Cornwall, and their railway oper• the book are needed to put the subjects in Glace Bay, half-way between Glace Bay and ations. I had to admit that my knowledge perspective, a note pad is needed to keep Louisbourg, and about two miles west of the was limited to knowing that they existed, and track as the author zooms to various projects former Sydney and Louisbourg Railway. to a few of the generalities about their rail• and people around the globe. Broughton shows up in our Newsletters way connection in the latter years to Cana• While Mr. Underwood has made limited about I960. In February 1958, there is refer• dian National. He told me that he was inter• reference to construction, the main pluses for ence to a colliery at Broughton acquiring a ested in their history, and wanted to know if this book come from its broader look at the steam engine from the Old Sydney Collieries, I knew what happened to their locomotives. Canadian politics surrounding this project, as the Broughton coRiery had switched from Presently, I have not been able to track down and the comparison -with similar proposed truck to railway to haul its coal. more details beyond the fact that they had projects around the world. Again in December 1962 an article states two Pljonouth ML6s, and that these had been The noted errors on the railway side may that the Four Star Colliery in Broughton has purchased second-hand from the Telephone make me check other dates and facts in the acquired a second engine from the Old City Sand and Gravel Company. Can perhaps book. Howeve:; I believe Mr. Underwood's Sydney CoUieries. The 1962 report concluded some of our equipment specialists tell us book is valuable, since its sets the Chignecto with: "As some switching moves at Broughton what happened to these locomotives? ship railway in the context of the global require the train to negotiate a rather sharp Kamloops restaurant thinking of the time. There is substantial grade in the yard and the sander on the While details are sketchy, I had a note passed content in the book, and this alone makes its locomotive does not function properly, one of to me in early summer that a young couple worth its price to anyone who is interested in the crewmen attends this duty in a rather was opening a new cafe in Kamloops, B.C., the general history of Canadian transporta• unusual way. Equipped with a small nail keg with a railway theme. This new restaurant tion. —Art Ctowes fuU of sand, he positions himself on the front was to be called the Victoria Street Station, footboard of the engine and distributes the Edmonton Railway and operated by a Mr. and Mrs. Bremner. sand on the rails as it is required . . .!" Edmonton Interurban Railway is a name Should anyone go to Kamloops, perhaps they These three articles raise some questions which suggests to Canadian railway histor• can give us an update on this restaurant. that perhaps our readers can help answer. ians a short-lived short-line suburban service First, is the Four Star Colliery the descendent by. self-propelled car north of Edmonton. of the Broughton Coal and Railway Com• Heretofore, there has been a paucity of pub• pany? Secondly was there any- railway oper• Books lished material on the line, but this book ation when the Broughton Coal and Railway nicely fills the void with a detailed text, som6 Ketchum's Folly Company first developed the mine? If so, how sharp interesting photographs, and drawings While at the Keillor Museum last summei; its long did it last, and were there other periods of two types of self-propelled cars. managei; Mrs. Phyllis Stopps, mentioned a of operation prior to 1929? Envisioned as an electric line, the prop• new book on the Chignecto Marine Transport erty could not afford to electrify, and pro• Rumoured abandonments Railway Company Limited, and its chief vided service with a Drake gas-electric cai While no one have given me any written mover and shaken Mr. Henry G. C. Ketchum. with a classic McGuire Cummings wooden confirmation, my spies tell me that three Mrs. Stopps has since sent me a copy of the car body. The line closed due to a carshed pieces of historic track in Ontario are in the book entitled Ketchum's Folly by Jay Under• fire and conditions resulting from the Great process of being abandoned. CN is working wood. The 130-page soft-cover book was War of 1914-1918. The unfortunate short life with the Town of Port Hope to make changes published by Lancelot Press Limited, EO. Box of the railway is recounted in detail. The to John Street imder CN's Port Hope viaduct. 425, Hantsport, N.S. BOP IPO, and is listed reviewer welcomes this publication as a Apparently these changes will result in the at $8.95.

Rail and Transit • September 1995 • i 1 Research and Reviews worthwhile addition to Canadian transporta• Answer from: Pat Scrimgeour Item 64 tion literature. There were five painted streetcars that year. Do you have a story about Yonge Street? Interurban to St. Albert: The Edmonton Three were painted for the city, all dark blue Request from; Ontario Genealogical Society Interurban Railway (ISBN 0-920805-04-3) by with red stripes trimmed in white, two PCC The Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Raymond Coriey and Douglas Parker, pub• cars and one CLRV Two were painted for the Branch, will be publishing a collection of lished by Havelock House, 5211 Lansdowne province, both CLRVs, one in shades of blue articles called Researching Yonge Street in Drive, Edmonton, Alberta T6H 4L2. Soft- and one in shades of yellow. While the city 1996 to honour the 200th anniversary of the bound 11" by 8V2" horizontal format, 40 may have had the more legitimate anniver• opening of Yonge Street. Articles will deal pages, 22 photos, seven diagrams, drawings sary, in my opinion the cars painted for the with Yonge Street history and genealogy, and maps, two time tables, and bibliography. province looked much better. with an emphasis on research sources. Prices: for Canadian residents, $9.95 plus The July 1984 Newsletter has pictures of The OGS have asked if any Rail and $0.70 GST and $1.00 shipping and handling, PCC 4545 and CLRV 4005 (blue, for the Transit readers would like to write an article and for U.S. residents, $9.95 plus $2.00 province). The other cars were CLRV 4000 on railways or street railways and Yonge shipping and handling if paid in Canadian (yellow, for the province), CLRV 4002 (blue, Street. Articles should deal with the portion funds or $9.95 all-inclusive if paid in U.S. for the city), and PCC 4536. The photo of of Yonge Street in Metro Toronto and York funds. D. Knowles 4000, below, is by David Onodera, and was Region (old York County). To discuss your taken on Wellington Street in 1984 as the idea for an article, please contact Sheila New book on telegraph line Insulators Brown at the Ontario Genealogical Society, A detailed reference work on glass and porce• car ran on the 503-Kingston Road Tripper Toronto Branch, Box 518, Station K, Toronto, lain railway telegraph line insulators will be route. Ontario M4P 2G9. Story ideas should be published in November. Canadian Railway Of the two PCCs used, only 4536 is still submitted by January 31, 1995; completed Communications Insulators, 1880-1920, by on the TTC roster today, after being rebuilt in articles are needed by May 10, 1996. Mark Lauckner, will be a 280-page illustrated 1990 and renumbered 4607. study and inventory of the Canadian railway insulators that are known to exist. The book will be an updatable reference, and will identify 275 types of glass and porcelain insulators, familiar now as decorative, collectable, and historic objects, but once a common part of the railway landscape. The volume will include more than 500 photo• graphs and drawings, and will be available in several formats, including spiral-bound, hard• bound, and as a set of raw pages for easy insertion of planned updates. The pre-publication price varies from $32 to $64, depending on format. Inquire with the author for more details: Mark Lauckner, Mayne Island, B.C. VON 2J0, or call 604 539-5937, or fax 604 539-3379.

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Item 63 Especially-painted TTC streetcars In 1984 Question from: Calvin Henry-Cotnam Back in 1984, the City of Toronto was cel• ebrating its sesquicentennial and had a street• car painted up mostly blue as part of the celebration. I only recall a dark blue PCC with city hall and some sort of red stripe or something, but I've been having a discussion with someone who recalls also a yellow PCC and a light blue CLRV I do also recall that the province coinci- dentally held a "bicentennial" celebration dur• ing the same year and painted a CLRX which might be the one this person was thinking of. I remember the province's efforts because there really was nothing of significance in Ontario's history 200 years earlier, which is why I put bicentennial in quotes above. So, what TTC vehicles were painted back then?

12 • Rail and Transit • September 1995 Transcontinental Railway and transit news from coast to coast

ator in heavy traffic. Single seats within the The first train was puUed by Pacific 2604, 1946 car have been moved to the right side, with with a baggage car and two coaches as the a continuous line of double seats down the consist; 25 passengers were carried to and CPR OPENS closed side. Centre doors are one window from the city. Sunday service will continue The new and modernistic suburban station space towards the reai; while the wartime on a trial basis until May 25th next, after which the CPR has been constructing for the seating plan of inward-facing seats has been which date it will continue indefinitely if past year at Leaside was opened this month. abandoned. The rear end has been completely warranted by the patronage. -December 1951 It is thoroughly modem throughout, with re-shaped with a vertical back, and more brick and stone construction with fluorescent rounded with larger rear windows and less 1952 lighting and modem interior appurtenances. red paint on the tail of the car There is TORONTO LANDMARK DESTROYED Three large and powerful floodlights mounted ample room for four persons in the rear At about 6:15 a.m. on Saturday, May 17, on sturdy polished steel poles fliuminate the seat. -January 1948 station, grounds, and adjoining tracks, doing 1952, a fire broke out in the Toronto Wholesale Fruit Market, and within a matter away with the traditional platform lights. 1949 Much new excavation work has been done of minutes the venerable stmcture was TEMISCOUATA BECOMES PART OF CNR for the new easy approach for the driveway doomed. The building was originally the The owners of the Temiscouata Railway, an up to the station from Millwood Road. The passenger station of the Great Westem Rail• independent 113-mile line connecting old station building has been demolished. way of Canada, and was in use when this Riviere-du-Loup with Edmundston and Con• railway ran its own trains into Toronto prior -December 1946 nors, N.B., offered the railway for sale by to amalgamation with the Grand Trunk in 1947 auction during October. The only bidder was 1882. the Dominion Government, which upon Demolition of the bumed-out former END OF SERVICE ON THE NS&T acquiring it, will automatically add the line Great Westem station revealed two short Passenger service on the main line of the as one more branch to the giant system of lengths of track at the northeast comer Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto was the Canadian National Railways. It will take complete with bumpers (all tracks stub-ended abandoned Saturday, September 13th; cars over on the first of January 1950. The CN at Scott Street, the east side of the station). 303, 310, and 311 are in use on the Port intends to expend a considerable sum of Each track supported an ancient Grand Tmnk DaUiousie line, having been equipped with money to improve the line, including replac• Railway flat car dating from about the turn electric markers, flag brackets, and 14-foot ing the present rail with a heavier type, and of the century. These cars were imprisoned trolley poles. Nos. 324, 325 and 326 are to reinforcing of bridges. -December 1949 under the floor of the fmit-market for the be sent to the Montreal and Southem many years since its function as a freight Counties shortly. The body of car 50 has 1950 house ceased. The old cars were scrapped on been sold; 107 and 124 are on the scrap list. the spot. -June and July 1952 TH&B ORDERS DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES A late mmour is that car 130 may be offered The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway for sale as an operating car. -September 1947 has ordered eight locomotives from General 1953 1948 Motors Diesel of London, Ontario. The order CANADA TO LOSE US ONLY 2-8-Os; comprises four standard switchers and four TO RECEf/E US FIRST VISTA DOMES NEW TTC PCC CARS 1500-horsepower road switchers. The latter While a locomotive type vanishes (the two On December 22nd, the first of the post-war will be the first locomotives of the type to Berkshire type locomotives, 201 and 202, of all-electric PCC cars arrived at Hillcrest shops operate in Southem Ontario. The TH&B the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway) from Company. expects to be able to dieselise completely its from the Canadian scene, a new type of Numbered 4300, it is the vanguard of a fleet freight and switching operations. —April (950 has been ordered by the Cana• of 100 such cars (4300-4399) ordered by dian Pacific Railway, which will bring the . CLC GETS FIRST DIESEL ORDER the TTC in May of 1946. Inspection of 4300 "Vista Dome," now widely used on westem The Canadian National Railways has placed has revealed that the long wait was well U.S. roads, to Canada for the first time. an order with Canadian Locomotive Com• worth it, as the new cars are substantially Thirty-six observation cars (half of which are pany, the new subsidiary of Fairbanks-Morse improved from the previous PGCs. Practically to be sleeper-lounge-ofrservation), are to be of Beloit, •Wisconsin, for eighteen 1000 horse• aU the standard features of the post-war PCC equipped with the glass sightseeing domes. power opposed-piston diesel road-switcher have been incorporated, including standee These 36 cars are but a small part of a large locomotives. This is the first order for the windows, more-closely-spaced window posts order for 155 all-stainless-steel passenger cars FM-CLC combination. (opposite the seat backs), complete elimin• recently placed by the CPR and destined for -November 1950 ation of the use of compressed ai^ with 1954 delivery. The balance of the order doors, windshield wipei; and defroster electri• comprises 30 coaches, 18 dining cars, and 71 195 cally operated. Brake shoes are absent and sleeping cars. —July 1953 the air brakes of the previous design have CPR REINSTATES TRAIN been replaced by a dmm brake. Power shut- Sunday passenger service between 1954 off is cushioned, which feature will reduce Fredericton and Fredericton Junction was the jerkiness produced on older PCCs with re• DETAILS OF SUBWAY OPENING resumed after a lapse of 18 years by the peated application and shut-off of the acceler• On Tuesday, March 30th, an extensive series Canadian Pacific Railway on November 4th. of changes will take place throughout the

Rail and Transit • September 1995 • 13 Transcontinental Railway and transit news from coast to coast course of the day in the routing system of the The recent CPR orders are as follows: billion tons. The railway wfll be a subsidiary Toronto Transit Commission. The focal point November: of the Wabush Iron Company, and has of all of these changes will be the inception 12 MLW 1600 horsepower (SC) 8557-8568 already been granted a franchise and a right- of a medium of transport heretofore 13 MLW 1600 horsepower (SC) 8569-8581 of-way by the Newfoundland government. unknown in this country. Indeed, true rapid 6 CLC 2400 horsepower 8901-8906 Engineering and survey work is expected to transit exists in only four American cities, 4 CLC 2400 horsepower (SC) . 8907-8910 start immediately. although the Cleveland Transit System has a 10 CLC 2400 horsepower 8911-8920 Quebec- Company lengthy line under construction. Toronto, January: A much longer line than the Wabush Lake nevertheless, will be the fifth city in North 19 MLW 1600 horsepower . . . 8582-8600 project will be the Quebec-Cartier Railway, America to join the rather exclusive ranks of 10 CLC 1600 horsepower 8601-8610 an affiliated project of the Quelrec-Cartier those communities which enjoy the most Mining Company. This line wfll generally highly-developed form of urban passenger The current General Motors strike in Canada parallel the Quebec, North Shore and transit - the off-street rail rapid transit line. is reflected in the fact that no locomotives were ordered firom the GMD London plant. starting from Shelter Bay, on the The subway will be opened to the public -February 1956 St. Lawrence River some 40 miles west of at 1:30 p.m. although concise opening cere• Seven Islands, and running initially some 193 monies will take place some time earlier at 1957 miles northerly to Lac-Jeannine. . A platform is to be erected The Quebec-Cartier Mining Company, a on the north side of Chaplin Crescent oppo• TTC OPENS QUEEN EXTENSION wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. Steel site Davisville Station and the street closed at The long-awaited relocation of Queen and Corporation, was incorporated under Quebec 10:00 a.m. At 11:00 a.m. with civic, provin• Long Branch car service from Lake Shore provincial charter in 1957. In addition to the cial, transit, and other official persons pres• Road to the new central mall car tracks on railway it plans deep harbour and loading ent, the opening ceremonies will commence. Queen Street West extension was accom• facilities at Port-Cartier (Shelter Bay), con- They will be concluded by 11:25 a.m., when plished in the early hours of Sunday, July straction of a hydro-electric power plant on the guests wiU descend to platform level to 21st. The final touches to the new route were the Hart Jaune River; 20 miles from Lac- take the official first subway ride to Union made during the week preceding the 21st, Jeannine, a mine site development, a Station. Immediately following this, trains culminating almost two years of heavy con• concentrator and two town sites (one at each will be brought into service to provide a full struction. end of the railway). Production is expected to subway headway by the time the gates are On Friday, June 19th, PCC car 4104, get under way in 1951 at an annual rate of 8 opened to the public. —Morcfi / 954 carrying TTC officials and invited guests, million tons of concentrates. Two hundred made a special run from Roncesvaiies car- million tons of concentrating ore is thought 1955 house westerly over the new trackage to the to be in the ore body at Lac-Jeannine. Queen route loop and return, stopping, for BCER ABANDONS LAST CITY CARS Construction time for the entire line is inspection purposes at numerous points. Regular car service on Vancouver's Hastings estimated as two years, with the first train to -August /957 East carHne ground to a halt after the oper• operate between end terminals in November ation of Friday, April 22nd. A "Rails-to- 1958 1950. A tote road has already been con• Rubber" celebration was held on Sunday, the structed over the full length of the right-of- 24th, with street cars running on the line ST. CLAIR TUNNEL COMPANY way. —February 1959 between 1:00 and 5:00 p.m., carrying passen• ELECTRIFICATION ABANDONED gers free. AH passengers received a souvenir The Canadian National Railways' electric I960 certificate. BCER president Crauer presented operation through the tunnel between Samia, NEW CNR HEAD OFFICE BUILDING the controller handle from an old car to the Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan under the "Friday the 13th" was a significant day for city archives at the ceremonies in the Exhibi• St. Clair River was completely discontinued the Canadian National Railways, as May 13, tion grounds at 3:00 p.m. ST DE deck roof effective 8:00 a.m. on September 28th. For 1960, marked the completion of steel-work car 53 (a service car since 1916) was some time past diesel locomotives (Grand construction on its new 17-floor head office restored to its original appearance during Trunk Westem 4900 series road switchers) building, which wfll form part of the develop• recent weeks and was on display at the had been handling passenger movements ment plan for the area surrounding Central grounds. The car is to be presented to the through the single track tunnel, with the box Station in Montreal. -June I960 PCE Boosters (the local railfan group), and cab electric motors still doing duty on freight will be maintained by them at the PNE trains. -October 1958 CNR BUYS TRUCKING FIRMS grounds. The last car off the streets was PCC Following in the footsteps of the CPR which 415 at 6:15 p.m. on the 24th. The 36 PCCs 1959 recently obtained a controlling interest in the still have no buyer. They were'offered to and Canadian operations of the huge Smith NEW QUEBEC RAILWAYS TAKING SHAPE rejected by the TTC recently. -Moy 1955 Transport highway truck system, the Cana• Company dian National has purchased several smaller Four major steel companies are letting initial highway trucking firms. In the Maritime 1956 contracts for a new 33.5-mile railway, in the Provinces are Sydney Transfer and Storage CPR ORDERS TWENTY TRAINMASTERS southwestem portion.of Labrado:^ which wiU Limited, and Eastern Transport Limited, while The Canadian Pacific Railway has recently in effect form a branch line to the Quebec, in Westem Canada are Empire Freightways ordered 74 diesel road-switching locomotives, North Shore and Labrador Railway. The new Limited and East-West Transport Limited. An of which 20 will be 2400-horsepower Cana• line will proceed westerly from Emeril Siding option has been taken on Midland-Superior dian Locomotive Company (F-M) "Train• (Mile 224 on the QNS&L) to the Wabush Express Limited in Central Canada. masters." There are at present only two Lake area, terminating at a point very close locomotives of this type in the country, one to the Quebec-Labrador boundary, where the -August I960 company-owned test unit on each of the Wabush Iron Company will develop low major railwa}^. grade iron ore reserves estimated to exceed a

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engines and the cross-bench open cars, as a 1961 passenger-carrying tourist attraction. It is 1966 hoped that operations will begin by the end CNR NEW COLOURS of this summer. —May 1963 EMD DEMONSTRATORS SHOW OFF The CNR is experimenting with various bright Electro-Motive SD-40 demonstrator units colour combinations for its rolling stock. A 1964 434C and 434D are cmrently showing their test train left Montreal February 12th for capabilities to Canada's railroads. CPR TORONTO YARD Vancouver with various types of equipment For three weeks in February, the units With the opening of the Canadian Pacific's painted in various types of design and colour were on test for Canadian Pacific, bearing Agmcourt Hump Yard on April 26, 1964, the to test for durability and visibility. Two road road numbers 7000 and 7001. Carrying CP's pattern of rail operations in the Toronto diesel units have bright vermilion noses and dynamometer car 62, business car Mount area has been drastically revised. All track black and white diagonal striped sides. The Stephen, sleeper Glengamock, and a borrowed across the north end of the city, from High• road-switcher has the same red nose but is CN steam generator unit with them wherever way 27 on the west to Agincourt on the east otherwise black with a broad white horizon• they went, the units hauled piggyback is under the control of CTC, with the panel tal stripe. The passenger coaches have a wide between Toronto and • Montreal, made two located in Union Station. Freight trains from horizontal blue stripe bordered with white trips to westem Canada, and found time for the north and west which formerly termin• stripes. All have the new CNR herald, which a side trip to Famham from Montreal. On ated in West Toronto and Lambton Yards resembles either a sleeping "3" or a jagged one of their westem trips, they broke from now cross the city through squirt of toothpaste, according to taste. the prearranged test program me and oper• and Leaside to reach Agincourt Yard. Trains -hAarch 1961 ated west of Calgary over CP's mountainous to the east via Trenton now move over the main line; reaction to the performance of the 1.5-mile Staines Subdivision, linking Tapscott 1962 six-motor units over this territory was report• on the Havelock Subdivision with Staines on ed to be most enthusiastic. MONTREAL SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION the Belleville Subdivision. At the same time, As 434C and 434D, the demonstrators are UNDER WAY Lambton engine terminal has been closed, now testing on CN lines between Montreal/ Actual construction on the first contract, the and all motive power operates out of Agin• Toronto and Edmonton, in company with CN north end of the Berri Street line, began court, although the local freight yards will Dynamometer Car 69, Test Car 15015 and a during the third week of May, to the accom• probably see continuing usage. Steam Generator unit. paniment of the followmg exultant editorial For the convenience of their employees, It is understood that at least one other in the Montreal Star: the CP is operating an RDC shuttle service Canadian road, the Algoma Central, is inter• "So now we have finally got started on from Keele Street yard office to the new yard, ested in having a look at the SD-40s. the subway project. There were many times with the one-way trip scheduled at 40 min• -March 1966 over the years when it seemed a pretty for• utes. A passenger stop is made at North lorn hope that anything but talk would ever Toronto station, and certain trips call at the 1967 develop despite the self-strangulation which east yard office and the diesel shop at Agin• the metropolis encouraged by refusal to act. court. Fares for the service are eight tickets THE CONFEDERATION TRAIN But when the first drills started on their for $1.00, with tickets sold only at city sta• Locomotive 1867 CPR 1411 shuddering way at the intersection of Jarry tions on presentation of an employee's pass Locomotive 1967 CNR 6509 and Berri streets this morning, a new era or authorisation. -June 1964 Steam Generator Unit CNR 15463 began. Baggage Car CPR 4221 "A long time wfll elapse before we are 1965 CPR Oak Grove able to speed under still-congested streets on CNR 1303 NEW "SCENERAMIC" CARS our long overdue Metro. But no matter how Sleeping Car CPR Hs/i Grove Two ex-Milwaukee Road full-length dome much worse things may become along the Sleeping Car CPR Fir Grove cars have joined the four presently operating routes involved we wfll have the satisfaction Electrical Generator Car CPR 4731 on CN's Mountain Region. Named Qu'Appelle of knowing that, in the end, the improvement Display Car No. 1* ex-CPR 2298 (2404) and Foothills (2405), the new addi• in our traffic pattern wfll be almost immeasu• Display Car No. 2-" ex-CPR 2285 tions are undergoing interior renovations at rable." -June (962 Display Car No. 3* ... . ex-CPR 2266 Winnipeg's Transcona Shops. Exterior paint• Display Car No. 4* ex-CPR 2258 ing was performed immediately the cars were 1963 Display Car No. 5* . . ex-CPR 2210 received, and Qu'Appelle set out on a promo• H&LB ROLLING STOCK SOLD tional tour for the benefit of travel agents Display Car No. 6* ex-CPR 2236 It is reported that the rolling stock and rail and members of the press. "- - Display cars are owned by the Govern• from the Huntsvflle and Lake of Bays Railway For the time being, it is likely these cars ment of Canada. -July 1967 between North and South Portage in the will remain in their present cycles (Edmonton HERE COMES THE TURBO Muskoka area has been sold. The buyer; Mr. and Jasper to Vancouver) while they are The fust Turbo Train to be produced by Percy Broadbeai; a CP engineer of London, taken two at a time to Transcona for com• Montreal Locomotive Works Limited for Ontario, has moved the smaller; 18-ton plete overhauling. Next summer could see United Aircraft was tested recently on CN locomotive to London, where it is undergoing "Sceneramics" operating as far east as Saska• rails. Following tests in MLWs yard in the major overhaul at a boiler repair shop. When toon. east end of Montreal late in Octobei; the first this is completed, the larger engine will be The big domes have been operating seven-car train, comprising unitsPlOO/TlOO/ moved to London and similarly treated. Both throughout the winter except for a week in T202/T201/T300/T200/P200 (in that engines are 0-4-bSTs built by MLW. The final January when danger of rock and snow slides order), was moved out onto CN's Longue resting place for the engines wfll be Pinafore west of Jasper precluded this. —March 1965 Pointe Subdivision about 2:30 on the after• Park in St. Thomas, Ontario, where Mr. noon of Friday October 27th. Broadbear and his son wfll operate the

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PI 00 and its train moved very slowly And thus, not without some sentimental high) over Nelson Creek. When completed, through the MLW yard escorted by the reluctance. Nova Scotia has been retired by the tunnel will be 16 feet wide and 22 feet 6 Works' 44-ton switcher. The switcher moved UCRS and sold to the London and Middlesex inches above base of the rail. aside at the siding gate, allowing the Turbo- Historical Society for stationary preservation The present trestle wfll be replaced with Train to move onto Canadian National rails at London, Ontario. a concrete arch ciflvert. Excavation from the for the first time. Gar 13 is the former Buffet Compartment tunnel will be used to construct the railway The TurboTrain proceeded for about six Lounge car Cape Race, built in 1929 by grade from the tunnel portal across the miles east of MLW at a cautious 20 or 30 Canadian Pacific at Angus Shops. It measures Nelson Creek valley over the culvert to miles per houi; due to short level-crossing 84 feet over couplers (compared with Nova connect with the existing railway grade at the flasher circuits. The goal of the first run was Scotia's 68-foot-length), and is of all-steel south end of the Nelson Creek Bridge. To the Rifle Range Spur at mileage 1.2 of the construction. The lounge and solarium (with protect a water line serving residents of West subdivision, which begins at a connection large rear-facing windows for all-weather Vancouver it wiU be encased in an 18-inch with the I'Assomption Subdivision at Pointe- observation) taken together create an area diameter steel pipe. aux-Trembles station. The train was tested on nine feet wide by 31 feet long, excellent as a Rock formation in the trmnel area indi• the spur and later returned to the MLW meeting place. Car 13 is air conditioned, and cates that no steel Supporting arches or plant. -October 1967 weighs 96 tons "on the hoof." —March 1969 concrete lining will be necessary. Howevei; specifications now being drawn allow for 1968 1970 handling any unsound areas which may be encountered. NEW UNIT TRAIN SERVES DOFASCO TROLLEY COACH NOTES Mr. Wakely estimates that 70 000 cubic A CN/ONR unit train - first in Canada to The city council of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, yards of material will be excavated from the employ rolling stock specifically designed for has approved a tender call for 22 new diesel tunnel of which 50 000 will be used to con• unit train service made its inaugural run to buses and will scrap 29 trolley coaches. • struct railway embankment rising over and Hamilton, Ontario, on March 27th, carrying TTC "new look" troRey coach 9020 has been each side of the culvert. The embankment, the first iron pellets from Ontario's newest returned to Westem Flyer in Winnipeg for a which will rise to a height of 54 feet, will be mine. refitting — a new four-piece windshield 20 feet wide at the top, broadening to 120 Three 35-car train sets make up the similar to TTC 7500-7509 and improve• feet at the base. The remaining 20 000 cubic operation. They run continuously on 72-hour ments to steering. • Add troUey coaches yards will be crushed to produce ballast for cycles between an automatic loading dock at 9002, 9071, and 9128 to the list of vehicles track construction after the timnel has been the stiU-unfinished Sherman Mine near Tema- scrapped for salvage of electrical parts. No. completed. It is estimated that construction gami and an elevated unloading track over 9128 is the first TTC Marmon-Herrington to win be completed by the end of January the blast furnace bins at Dominion Foundries go. -May \970 1973. -July 1971 and Steel in Hamilton. Loading and unloading hatches on the 1971 1973 cars open and close automatically — actuated CN TAKES OVER CSRL&P WITT CAR TOUR by the "brake wheel" devices atop each car. A Canadian National has picked up the option For the first time in ten years, Torontonians 35-car train can be loaded at Temagami in to purchase the switching facilities of the will see the sight of a Peter Witt car rumbling two horurs. Although each car can discharge Cornwall Street Railway Light and Power through the downtown canyons of the city its load in 60 seconds, the Dofasco mill Company, which serves about.25 industries this summer. On February 6, the Toronto consumes just 12 car-loads per shift, or a in Cornwall, Ontario. The option to purchase Transit Commission approved the expenditure train load each 24 hours, seven days a week. was taken over from CP Rail and will be of $33,000 for the renovation and operation CN owns 85 of the stubby ore cars, while exercised before December 31st of this year. of~tv*o small Witt cars in sightseeing service Ontario Northland contributes the remaining The purchase covers the physical assets of on a large loop routing through the down• 35 cars. A surplus of 15 cars over normal, the CSRL&P which includes 10 electric loco• town. The service will start on June 24 and requirements is available for a scheduled motives, maintenance of way equipment, 16 run to September 1. Service will be offered maintenance program. -April 1968 miles of track and one building. This acquisi• from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. to tion wfll enable CN to remove its tracks 9:00 p.m. weekdays, and from 10:00 a.m. to 1969 between McConnell and York streets in 9:00 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays, and hoUdays, UCRS BUYS CPR CAPE RACE Cornwall. Connection between GSR and CN on a large loop bounded by Church, King, The Upper Canada Railway Society purchased will then be via the former NYC right-of-way Spadina, Queen. The two cars to be used in Canadian Pacific business car 13 in March to since switching operations between east and the service are 2766 and 2894. Both cars will replace the familiar Nova Scotia, which has west Comwall will be performed over a be extensively renovated by the commission, served us well for five years as an excursion portion of the CN Montreal-Toronto main with possible restoration to the old hair-stripe car. Unfortunately Nova Scotia's all-wood line. As a result, the CSR will be fully diesel- paint livery of the 1930s. -Februaiy 1973 construction, while being a point of historical ised before the end of 1971. -January 1971 significance, is the prime reason for its 1974 demise. The car has always had to be 1972 handled at the rear of trains because of its SHORTCLTT INCREASES SPEEDS BCR'S WEST VAN TUNNEL PROJECT lack of a steel centre siU, and its general Work is well under way on a $2-mfllion pro• Work has started on the British Columbia structural condition is now somewhat poorer ject in Kingston, Ontario, which will result in Railway's long tunnel in West Vancouver. than when the . car came to UCRS in 1964. the realignment of a severe mile-long curve Mike Wakely Chief Engineer for BCR, cal• Furthermore, the small rooms into which in the main line which has a restricted speed culates that the 4650-foot long timnel will Nova Scotia's interior is divided are hardly of 30 m.p.h. This wfll also mean the opening reduce the rail route by almost 6000 feet. It conducive to gatherings of club members - of a modem passenger station with expanded will also eliminate four existing curves and a one of the intended uses of a UCRS car. facilities three miles west of the former sta- timber trestle (310 feet long and 54 feet

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tion, which had a convenient downtown construction and rail maintenance. Principal location. Elimination of the curve wfll allow 1976 dimensions of the locomotive are: length, operation of the Turbo at 80 m.p.h., conven• 12.8 m; width, 3 m; height, 3.5 m; weight, tional passenger trains at 70 m.p.h., and VIA lAUNCHED, SPEED RECORD SET 45 000 kg. The locomotive was designed by through freights at 60 m.p.h. As we departed Toronto Union Station, the the Tvnbel Corporation of Houston, Texas, and The present station, built in 1895, is event seemed like departing from the past major assembly was completed in the located about mid-point in the curve. The and heading towards the future of Canadian Toronto area. -November-December 1977 federal government has asked CN to preserve railway passenger travel. At the press confer• the station because of its "national, historical, ence in the rear of the train with CN presi• 1978 and architectural significance." The new dent Robert Bandeen and Garth Campbell, CP EQUIPMENT TRANSFERRED TO VIA station will provide 3000 square feet of vice-president of passenger marketing, CN's As of September 28, CP Rail power was sold waiting room space compared with the pres• whole new future image was explained in full to VIA in preparation for the VIA take-over of ent 2000 square feet, and will increase seat• detail. A whole new company working within transcontinental service. The resulting ing capacity from 38 to 108. It will incorpor• the CNR had been formed, solely in charge of changes saw the ex-CP Canadian running on ate separate eastbound and westbound plat• passenger services - VIA. CN tracks from Toronto to Parry Sound via forms connected by an underground pedes• After the press conference and a delicious Barrie and Orillia and the ex-CN Super Conti• trian tunnel. Baggage facilities are also being meal, we arrived at Kingston (now a regular nental running on CP tracks from Dorval to expanded and space will be available for 200 stop for the Turbos), where the majority of North Bay. The Super then becomes an ONR automobiles, as well as taxis and city buses. the Toronto reporters disembarked on their train for about a mile before regaining CN -September-October 1974 way back home to meet news deadlines. tracks. Winnipeg facilities have also been Kingston and Montreal press people boarded rationalised with all trains now calling at the 1975 the train at the new station here, less than old Union (now CN) station. They then set two years old. We were then moved up to the BOMBARDIER-MLW A WORLD LEADER? out for Portage La Prairie on CN tracks. front end of the train, where a closed circuit Bombardier-MLW of Montreal considers itself TV system had been installed to show every• With the introduction of the new time• to have grown to become a world leader in one the speedometer reading. Approaching table, there is no longer the splitting oper• transportation manufacturing in recent times. Mile 104 on the Kingston Subdivision, I ations at Sudbury and Capreol. Consequently, Bombardier entered the field of manufactur• moved to the front observation deck as we in the week prior to the change CP Rail ing public transit vehicles in May of 1974 increased speed tremendously. There was an moved most of the Budd-built equipment with a $118-mfllion contract to build 423 aura of excitement everywhere with all the from Montreal to Toronto, filling John Street subway cars for the Montreal Metro. Accord• switches spiked closed and every level cross• yard with stainless steel "varnish." ing to the group's president, MLW is the third ing personally guarded. Passenger Extra 153 —November-December 1978 most important manufacturer of railway East reached a Canadian railway speed record locomotives in the world, preceded only by of 140.6 miles per hour. What a feeling! As 1979 General Motors and General Electric. More- the Turbo's velocity slowly eased down to its LAST RUN ON THE WPP&L ovei; MLW is the only Canadian manufac• normal 95 m.p.h., Norman Depoe, in the Mid-December saw the last run on the turer of diesel locomotive engines and is one excitement which followed, knowing all Whitby Town Spur. The 107-year-old line of Canada's largest exporters. aboard were now part of Canadian history was the last remaining portion of the Port After a slump in the sales of snowmo• stated "If Cod had intended man to fly, he Whitby and Port Perry Railway. The original biles, Bombardiei; manufacturer of the wouldn't have given us the railroad." line was built from Whitby Harbour to Port famous Ski-Doo and Moto-Ski machines, Perry, a distance of 19 miles, in 1871. The decided to enter the big transportation busi• -Moy-June /976 line was extended another 45 miles to Lind• ness. Bombardier then collaborated with the- 1977 say in 1877. French firm GMT Lorraine to get the The original was laid out as the Port Montreal subway contract. Bombardier's TTC SUBWAY LOCOMOTIVE ARRIVES Whitby and Port Perry Railway, became the Valcourt plant was enlarged and the one at In May, the TTC took delivery of its second Whitby, Port Perry, and Lindsay was La Pocatiere completely modernised to permit subway locomotive, RT-18. Unlike the first absorbed by the Midland Railway of Canada, the construction of the subway cars. But the locomotive which has been in service since which in turn was amalgamated with the company wfll also be able to handle the 1968 and operates on batteries or power Grand Trunk Railway system, and came to production of 85-foot long railway passenger from the subway's third rail, the new loco• the Canadian National in 1923. During the cars, so Hawker Siddeley look out! motive is powered by dual diesel engines and war most of the line was abandoned and the The subsequent acquisition of MLW- has a hydro-mechanical transmission. These rails melted down for scrap. Only the town Worthington formed the base.for the foun• features enable the locomotive to operate in spur remained, running from the north end of dation of the new division of transportation the subway independent of the third-rail Whitby and the CPR, across Highway 401 marketing. Although the two firms may as power system. In the event of a major power and the Kingston Subdivision to the harbour. yet not be fully unified, about 60 people are failure or de-activation of the third rail Following the last run over the spu^ a presently employed in the marketing division. because of a disabled subway train or emerg• symbolic spike-pulling ceremony followed. Bombardier-MLW hopes in the futrue to be ency this facility is particularly important. Among the participants was Ray Williams, able to export its diesel engines for use in The vehicle is capable of maintaining line vice-president of the Great Lakes Region. ships and other forms of heavy transport, to speeds (90 km/h) during regular subway —January-February 1979 expand their agreements with other countries hours and its two diesel engines can produce who manufacture MLW locomotives under a maximum of 700 horsepowei; enough to 1980 license and to export more spare parts for haul a disabled subway train with relative various types of transport equipment. ease. The new locomotive will also be used to CN BECOMES SOLE OWNER OF NAR -November-December 1975 haul the two-car wall-washing vehicle and In an agreement with CP Rail, Canadian heavy equipment associated with subway National Railways has assumed full own-

Rail and Transit • September i 995 • 17 Transcontinental Railway and transit news from coast to coast eisMp of the Northern. Alberta Railways tainers will be placed on S'-B" gauge flats at VIA's use of the Spadina Coach Yard, while Company. Negotiations on the sale of the Port Aux Basques and hauled by Terra Trans• the Montreal installation wfll supplant the NAB. were initiated late last year and an port to one of three container terminals in temporary facility which commenced operat• agreement was reached in early June. Final Newfoundland, at Comer Brook, Grand Falls ing in February, 1983 in a former Canadian approval from the appropriate regulatory and St. John's. At these terminals the con• Car and Foundry plant. While ownership and agencies is now being sought. Plans are to tainers will be transferred to highway trailers management of the centres will be with VIA, designate the NAR as CN's Peace River Divi• for final destination. —June 1982 it is expected that the labour pool will be sion. The sale allows Canadian Pacific to supplied by CN under contract. retain the right to solicit traffic over the 1983 -February 1984 former NAR system through Edmonton. The QUEBEC PALAIS STATION TO REOPEN 1985 decision to allow CP to retain those rights It is going to cost VIA $24-million to bring means that customers on the NAR will retain back to the centre of Quebec City the passen• THE END OF CONRAILS OPERATION all of their current options of rates and ger trains which were forced out of Palais OF THE CANADA SOUTHERN routings. The change in ovmership should Station in 1976. Part of the special program 117 years of U.S. influence and ownership of allow for a more efficient operation and an for promoting the economy, put forward by the Canada Southem came to an end on opportunity to eliminate duplications of the Federal Government in the last budget by April 30, 1985. It was a very quiet and un• service. Plans are to integrate the activities of Finance Minister Marc Lalonde, this return of remarked affair; only the train crews and NAR with the CN system as quickly as poss• trains to the downtown area involves major three railfans "celebrated" the changeover at ible. -August 1980 construction, commencing January 1, 1984. St. Thomas in the evening of April 30. And, if the work schedule is followed, the Most mns out of St. Thomas in the last 1981 first passengers wfll once again be able to use few weeks of operation were powered by NEW TTC COLOURS the concourse of the old station by the end of CP9s 7432 and 7438 and CP7 5822. The last Red and cream on the way out: It is now 1985. "normal" Montrose Turn (WQST-02) was on official that the red, black, grey and white The plan to reintroduce rail service to the Sunday, April 28, leaving St. Thomas about livery used on the CLRVs will become the heart of Quebec City includes the reconstmc- 10:15 (7432 leading) and returning at 14:00 standard TTC paint scheme for surface tion of an access track 5.4 miles long (7438 leading) — two units, seven cars and vehicles. On April 7th the Commission between Allenby and Palais Station, the van 21535. The April 29 and 30 runs to adopted a staff recommendation that all building of four new tracks in the station, Windsor (WQST-04) used 7438 westward buses and trolley coaches be progressively and the restoration of the building, which and 7432 eastward and vans 21535 and repainted in the new colours, which were dates from 1916. Included in all the works, 21541 respectively. The last WQST-04 to originally approved in July, 1975 for applica• which will generate 400 jobs a yeai; is also Windsor and retum arrived in St. Thomas tion to the new street cars. The red and the improvement of the heating and plumb• about 20:30, whereas the last Conrail train cream basic colour combination, which in ing systems and the redevelopment of the on the CASO was a Montrose Turn, leaving Toronto dates from the delivery of the first concourse and ticket office. AU of this will be Montrose at 22:35 on April 30 and arriving Peter Witts in August, 1921 (and which was done in a way that will preserve the historical in St. Thomas at 01:00 on May 1, 1985. at one time used by many transit systems), character of the building. —July 1983 Consist on this train was CP7 5824 and CP9 has thus been terminated after 60 years. To 7434 towing CP7s 5821 and 5827, with van many transit fans, the TTC will simply no 1984 21535 bringing up the markers. longer be the same system under any other NEW VA MAINTENANCE CENTRES Early in the evening of the 30th, CN, the livery. Howevei; as long as PCC cars continue On the basis of a December allocation by the new ownei; sent from London replacement to operate there wfll be a reminder of the old Federal Government of $306-million for the power for the Conrail crews to operate the ordei; as the decision to adopt the new col• purpose, VIA has put in gear plans for new next day: GP9s 4374 and 4385, vans 76647 our scheme includes an explicit exception in equipment maintenance facilities, with (for Leamington) and 79920. No additional relation to these cars. —Moy 198/ Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, and Halifax as CN power is needed in Windsor nor is any their locations. power needed at Montrose under TH&B operation. —June 1985 1982 The new shops wfll be designed and NEWFOUNDLAND CONTAINERISATION equipped to handle both conventional and CN intends to convert the main line service in LRC equipment. The latter requires special 1986 Newfoundland to all-container within two side and centre inspection pits to permit VA RAIL DISASTER years. The system will use two basic sizes of access to below floor components. The pres• On Saturday morning, February 8, 1986, containers, i.e., 20-foot and 40-foot. For the ent necessity of performing certain main• VIAs 11-car combined Skeena and Super eastbound haul, loaded containers will be tenance tasks outdoors in all weather condi• Continental, Train 4, rumbled through Hin- moved by truck to the Conpoit facility tions will be eliminated, and work will be ton, Alberta (Mile 184.6 west of Edmonton), (Toronto) or Montport (Montreal) for carried on in a climate controlled clean air eastbound on CN Rail's Edson Subdivision, a mounting on container flat cars. There will environment, these conditions being moni• little late. A few minutes later CN freight No. be same day departure out of Toronto and tored by a system of exhaust fans and inlet 413 westbound, with three units and 118 following day departure from Montreal, with ducts. Taking a page out of CO Transit's cars, eased past the CTC signal and through the mainland rail haul ending at North book, VIA will service entire coupled train- the west switch of the long passing track at Sydney, Nova Scotia. The containers will at sets indoors, permitting their release for Dalehurst, Mile 173.0,11.6 miles to the east. that point be placed on special chassis for service as integral units, saving time and For some reason,'unexplained at the time shipment on any of the three CN Marine switching costs. of writing, but said to be due to human erroi; ships which serve Newfoundland on a daily The Toronto facility, which wfll be "on the freight did not stop at the signal, but basis, by contrast with the single car ferry the other side of the tracks" from CO Tran• pulled out onto the main line in the face of now on the Port Aux Basques run. The con• sit's Willowbrook Shop, will of course replace •VIA Train 4. In the ensuing catastrophic

18 • Rail and Transit • September 1995 TranSCOnttflSntal Railway and transit news from coast to coast collision, which reportedly occurred at 08:40, federal land, and that no one is allowed to be 225 feet west of the passing track's west 1989 on the property. CN is waiting to hear from switch, 23 passengers and crew were lolled. the province of any plans for the bridges and The accident was subsequently described as EDMONTON CITY YARD CLOSING culverts on the line. —February 1991 the second-worst Canadian railway accident On July 15th, the interchange in Edmonton of this century and the third most serious in between CN and CP was moved from the 104 1992 Avenue and 110 Street location out to East the history of Canada's railways. TROLLEY COACHES Edmonton. Since that date, CN has been Of the 21 crew members on the two Trolley coach service has resumed on the gradually closing the city yard with a view to trains, seven were still missing on Monday 6-Bay and 4-Annette routes. The official meeting the September 1st target for com• morning, five from the passenger train and change-over date was Sunday September 6, plete shutdown. The main line Edson Sub. two from the freight. Fire departments, disas• the beginning of a new TTC scheduling will be abandoned between mileages 0.0 and ter crews, and emergency medical teams period, but the leased Edmonton trolley 1.24, thus cutting the loop which passenger worked around the clock rescuing survivors coaches were actually phased into service trains use to make a through run to the city and putting out "hot spots" in the 300-foot beginning on Friday, September 4. On the passenger station. by 150-foot mass of twisted, smouldering preceding Wednesday, coach 9183 was oper• The VIA passenger trains will have to wreckage. Railway crews removed undam• ated not-in-service over the two routes after make a backup move to serve the city sta• aged freight cars and bulldozed a path the afternoon rush houi; to check on the tion. No. 3 will head in as at present, then through the line-side bush around the wreck• condition of the overhead wire. Several TTC will have to back out of Edmonton to East age for a detour track. Until service could be equipment and plant employees were on Jet., before proceeding through Calder Yard restored, trains using CN's main line from board, and the coach was followed by three to the Edson Sub to Jasper. No. 4 will reverse Edmonton to Kamloops, B.C. were routed on service trucks, in case of trouble. Headed the process, continuing through Calder to CP Rail. -Morcfi 1986 north on Bay street near Front Street in the East Jet. before backing into the downtown dusk, the coach trailed a fountain of sparks station. -September 1989 1987 from the oxidised overhead wire, unused for about eight months. —September 1992 AFTER THE TORNADO 1990 The staff of Edmonton Transit worked through miserable weather conditions THE FINAL RUNS OF THE CANADIAN 1993 VIA #1, from Montreal, January 14: between 16:00 Friday, July 31, and 16:45 NEW CP PAINT SCHEME- F40PH-2 6409, steam generator 15417, Sunday August 2, to repair damage caused CP has confirmed that its new paint scheme baggage car 9664, cafe-lounge 755, coaches by the tornado and storm that hit the area on will be unveiled in late March or early April. 3232, 5503. the 31st. The extent of damage was great, The new colour is candy-apple red, darker causing the collapse of a major sewer in the VIA #9/1, from Toronto, January 14: than the present action red, and the same as northeast Edmonton area that overloaded the 6453, 6410,15429,15478, baggage car 615, the newer red Soo Line units. The letters storm sewer in the area of the LRT tunnel at coaches 110, 119, Skyline 507, sleeping cars "CP" are applied to the nose of the unit, and 66 Street. The resulting water backup caused Chdteau Iberville, Bliss Manor, Brock Manor, the "CP Rail System" lettering and flag are on manhole covers to pop up and the torrents of dining room car Champlain, Chdteau Bruld, the side. The side sill of the walkway along water washed out 100 feet of track bed. The Lome Manor, Franklin Manor, Banff Park. the side of the imits wUl have white reflective tunnel area is lower than the storm sewer VIA #2, Sudbury to Montreal, January 14: tape applied to it. The first units to be and filled quickly with water to a depth of 6443, 15444, 9632, 754, 3213, 5478. painted in the new scheme will be SD40-2s five feet. Many ETS staff, including personnel VIA #2/10, from Vancouver, January 14: 5415, 5478, and 6607. -tAarch 1993 called in from vacation, worked through the 6457, 6407, 15477, 511 (carried deadhead weekend. The results of the effort were that from Calgary to Winnipeg), 607, 102, 125, 1994 limited LRT service was restored by 16:00 505, Comwall Manor, Dmmmond Manor, Saturday just in time for the football game LACHINE CANAL BRIDGE WORK Thompson Manor, Alexandra, Bell Manor, service, and full LRT service was restored at Dismantling of CN's Saint-Henri bridge, 16:45 Sunday. LRT operation was in place to Sherwood Manor, Allan Manor, Strathcona carrying its Montreal Subdivision over the provide full scheduled service for Monday Park. -February 1990 remains of the Lachine Canal at Mile 2.86, morning. -October 1987 and replacing it with a new five-span bridge, 1991 required the line to be closed on October 15 1988 LAST RAIL TAKEN UP FROM NR LINE and 16, and until 10:00 on October 17. The The last section of rail on the Newfoundland bridge was also restricted to one track on ROGERS PASS Railway was taken up in mid-November at October 14 in preparation for the closure. CP Rail expects to begin testing trains on the Bishop's Falls. The general manager for CN in The work consisted of the removal of the new Rogers Pass second main line before the Newfoundland, Bren Everhard, described the existing through-truss bridge (formerly a end of November. The new line is the biggest occasion as a sad day which one would swing bridge), and replacement with five new project on the CP main line since it was built: rather not see, and particularly disappointing through-deck-plate-girder spans on each 33 kilometres of track, with two tunnels, one for the track maintenance workers who spent track. Piles and concrete caps were installed 1.8 and the other 14.6 kilometres long. The their time repairing the track, and then had ahead of time. The least amount of dismem• new line, with its lower grades, will be used to take it up. berment was done to the truss bridge, as it is for the heavy westbound trains. The east- Municipal councils in central Newfound• being stored for possible future use. bound trains, which are usually empty bulk land have expressed concern about the state During the track closure, VIA trains from commodity trains or lightweight imported of the abandoned right-of-way. The railway Ottawa and Toronto ended at Dorval. CN manufactured goods, will use the present line ties that have been left behind are a hazard freight trains were detoured over a number of through the Connaught tunnel. for people now using the land, such as snow- routes. -October 1994 -October 1988 mobilers. CN replied that the line is still

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