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Tlie Cover Called from Roacesvalles Division to do battle with an evening snowfall, TIC sweeper S-39 poses on Dufferin Street in front of the gaily decorated Canadian General Electric plant on December 28th, 1966. newsletter John D. Thompson. hi! Nttmber 287 December, 1969. COming EVeiltS ml Published monthly by the d| Upper Canada Railway Society, Inc., Regular meetings of the Society are held on the third Friday of Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto 116, Ont. each month (except July and August) at 589 Mt. Pleasant Road, PQ Toronto, Ontario. 8.00 p.m. Robert D. McMann, Editor. Mar. 20: Regular meeting. The UCRS Annual Auction night. Guest Auctioneers Messrs. Jim Brown, Ray Cor ley, and Omer (Tri.) me Lavallee. Contributions to the Newsletter are solicited. No Auction Rules: c| responsibility can be assumed for loss or non-return of Objects to be auctioned should he brought in hy 7:30 material, although every care will be exercised when p.m. to allow for necessary bookkeeping. return is requested. ag All types of railway objects are acceptable, books, ti pictures, magazines, timetables, tickets, artifacts,etc sj Persons bringing several objects should supply a list To avoid delay, please address Newsletter items dir• of the objects to assist the recorder, I ectly to the appropriate address: A tag label or pencil note containing a code and number TB for each object corresponding to the list will greatly EDITOR: Robert D. McMann assist the auction recorder to get the proceeds to the H 80 Bannockburn Avenue proper party. Toronto 380, Ontario 15% of the selling price will go to the Society and the ol remaining 85% to the seller. ASSOCIATE EDITOR: James A. Brown 5% Provincial Sales Tax will be collected from the pur• TB 3 Bromley Crescent (Railway news. Equipment notes) chaser on the selling price. Note that timetables, ti Bramalea, Ontario albums, catalogs and manufacturers' literature are tax• ol able. Magazines and some books are exempt. ce ASSISTANT EDITOR: J. A. (Alf) Nanders Reserve bids will be allowed of five dollars and over. in (Traction Topics) 7475 Homeside Gardens If the object is not sold, fifty cents will be collect• ce Malton, Ontario ed from the would-be seller for the Society. gS All Society correspondence, including membership The auctioneer's decision on who bid and how much is dS inquiries, should be addressed to: UCRS, Box 122, final. m| Terminal A, Toronto 116, Ont. Mar. 27: Hamilton Chapter meeting, 8:00 p.m. in the CN Station Members are asked to give the Society at least five weeks notice °s (rri.) Board Room, James St. N., Hamilton. on of address changes. TB Apt. 17: Regular meeting. Ross Hoover "Railways of Manitoba." fc (Fri.) Illustrated by slides. se aq Contributors: o3 Production: J. Bryce Lee ij Harlan Creighton WANTED: UCRS Newsletters, no.'s 1 to 13, 40,48,63,67,69,73,75, •89, sc Ron Cooper John Thompson 90,93,97,105,107,108,109,117,128,136,139,140,141,145,153,158, 167, wB 169,170,,171. Also wanted UCRS. Bulletins 1 to 14 inc., 16 to 18 tu Doug Cummings Dave More inc., 23,31,37,43. W. E. Miller, 75 Rose St., Gait, Ontario. is George Atkinson Harold McMann Jr. WANTED: Information and photos on the Standard Power Company at Fuller, Ontario. I heard that at one time this company used ex- John Thompson Ron Tanner GT 0-6-OT 2578. Is this firm still in business and what type of power do they use? Bill Hood Distribution: George Meek Also wanted: Information concerning Che Manitoba Sugar Company at Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wanted particularly information on ex-GWWD George Homer Bill Miller 2-6-0 No. 5, used by the company, ie., when scrapped, and what type of power the company uses today. J. Bryce Lee John Thompson Edward Emery, 398 Runnymede Road, Toronto 160, Ontario. Andrew Merrilees Don McCartney FOR SALE: Steam locomotive, narrow gauge, runs on 3^5" track. Full information on the same. F. Birch, Box 34, Essex, Ontario. W. D. Short Wayne McNaughton WANTED: Information on the Tillsonburg Car Company, background information on the company, date of incorporation, etc. Also needed are photographs of KE4LS and DP&T cars built by the company (preferably in service shots). Bill Houston, 53 Halliwell Drive, Kitchener, Ontario. ATTENTION TROLLEY COACH FANS! Hamilton Street Railway trolley WANTED: Information and photographs of historical nature relating coach fan trip, Sunday, April 5th, sponsored hy the Ontario & Erie to construction and operation of the Brandon, Saskatchewan and Shoreline Division of the North American Trackless Trolley Assn. Hudson Bay Railway, a Great Northern subsidiary between Sc. John, Tickets are $3.50 before the day of the trip, and are available North Dakota and Brandon, Manitoba. K. Gordon Younger, 267 Ver• from Tom Gascoigne, P. 0. Box 565, Oshawa, Ontario. Pickup (for non Road, Winnipeg 12, Manitoba. those going to Hamilton hy CN) will he at the comer of Barton & Hughson Sts. at 10:40 a.m., h block from the CN Station. For WHITBY ARTS INCORPORATED is seeking information on the CN Whitby those travelling by auto, a pickup will be made at Civic Centre Station, recently purchased by the foundation for use as an art Loop at 10:50 a.m. (If coming in via the Chedoke Expressway, exit gallery. Specifically needed are details on a lawsuit between the at the Main St. interchange to the Civic Centre parking lot.) No Town of Whitby and the Grand Trunk over the station at the turn of refunds one week before the date of the trip; enclose self-addres• the century, names of former station masters, and any other detail sed stamped envelope for ticket return; make all remittances pay• of n<5te pertaining to the past history of the station. Contact able to Tom J. Gascoigne. 50? surcharge on tickets bought on the Brian Winter of the Whitby Historical Society, 500 King Street, day of the crip. Whitby, Ontario. 122 DECEMBER, 1969 RAILWAY NEWS AND COMMENT OTTAWA TO REVAMP DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT CN TEMPO WRECK IN WESTON KILLS ONE PERSON An imaginative and wide ranging reorganization of the CN's Tempo trains are certainly a set of hard-luck huge federal Transport Department will begin early in trains. They have been involved in three wrecks the new year. This unwieldy department, which some since their introduction, each one claiming a life. ministers in the past felt should be made into two The most recent wreck occurred on the evening of departments, will be turned into a Ministry of Trans• January 7th, in Weston, when the Sarnia-bound Tempo port with agencies for air, land and maritime trans• was derailed at a facing switch Into a siding at the port responsible to it. Face-eiie plant. The locomotives and the first truck of the first coach passed safely over the switch, the Under the scheme as discussed in cabinet, the St. rear truck derailing, and the remaining three coaches Lawrence Seaway Authority and the National Harbors ending up in the premises of the plant and along the Board will be placed more directly under the depart• right-of-way, one of the coaches coming to rest near mental wing in the Maritime Transport Agency. an 80,000 gallon fuel tank and a propane storage tank. Canadian National Railways and Air Canada will cont• Fourteen people were injured, four seriously; one inue as separate crown corporations responsible to girl dying of her injuries In hospital twenty days the ministry, while the federal transport regulatory later. agency, the Canadian Transport Commission, will con• tinue to report to the ministry although it is under• Subsequent investigation into the cause of the wreck stood that its jurisdiction may be more closely cir• traced the cause to the failure of an eight inch cumscribed. steel holt, one of three controlling the movement of the switch. The Minister of Transport, Don Jaraieson, has accepted the main features of the task force report and most While the wreck was being cleaned up, trains were of the major changes proposed by cabinet diverted over the Newmarket and Haiton Subdivisions, Wednesday night, and part of Thursday. The Minister of Transport, Don Jamleson, has accepted the main features of the task force report and most of the major changes proposed have been approved by cabinet. It will probably take many months to phase- in the proposed new set-up. The ministry will he a central core organization with the appended agencies given a more autonomous role than are the various divisions at present. Aside from the air, land and maritime agencies, there would be a Transport Devel• opment Agency to handle research in transport econ• omics of the various agencies. The present Department of Transport is responsible for government railways and airlines, canals, marine services, nautical services including the coast guard, air services including airport operations and meter- ologicai services as well as federal land transport. Its services involve so many types of tvork and cover so much of Canada that it has been debated for years whether the department ought not to be broken up into two or three departments, or, at least have an assoc• iate minister to help the full minister. How not to enter the Face-elle plant I; Three of the Sarnia bplind Tempo cars derailed on the siding adjacent to the * * * plant in Weston, Ontario. — James A. Brown. CN's Toronto Yard crane 50397 waiting for work to begin CW linemen hard at work removing downed communications lines rerailing of of the derailed cars. from around one of the derailed cars.
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