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March-April 1995 This Month in Rail and Transit MARCH-APRIL 1995 THIS MONTH IN RAIL AND TRANSIT 3 THE RAILWAY SHUTDOWN OF 1995 Strikes, lockouts, and lay-offs at CP, CN, and VIA 5 TEN YEARS AT FORT EDMONTON PARK The Edmonton Rstdial Railway Society 6 THE LITTLE TRAINS OF LONG AGO NUMBER 543 - MARCH-APRIL 1995 Gordon Shaw reviews the GTR passenger trains at Lindsay, Ontario, in June 1893 12 PUBLISHED BY CN's NEW ST. CLAIRTUNNEL Upper Canada Railway Society Photos of construction, and a report of the 'Hemfett&i RO. Box 122, Station A opening, by Gordon Webster and Pat Scrimgeour Toronto, Ontario M5W IA2 14 ANOTHER BUSY MONTH TTC's NEW T-1 SUBWAY CARS In the January Rati and Transit, we pointed EDITOR Diagrams and technical data out how many changes were happening on Pat Scrimgeour 15 Canadian railways. The changes continue, and 250 Queens Quay West #1607 RESEARCH AND REVIEWS 1995 is shaping up to be one of the most im• Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N2 RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY... portant of recent years. E-Mail: 73 I [email protected] ... More notes on the railways of northem Quebec The federal budget and the strikes and lockouts in March put railways in the news, ... McAdam: the original gateway to Canada CONTRIBUTING EDITORS and made the future of freight railways a BOOKS ... John Carter, Art Clowes, matter of public discussion such as we have ... Halifax trolley coaches and local-interest books Scott Haskill, Don McQueen, not seen for some time. INFORMATION NETWORK... Sean Robitaille, Gray Scrimgeour, Just in the last few weeks, an agreement ... British railbuses in Canada in 1986 Chris Spinney, Gordon Webster was reached for an "internal shortline" on CN's ... Ontario Northland's "Santa Claus Express" lines in northem Quebec, the strikes and lock• 20 outs were ended with legislation (and raiifans TRANSCONTINENTAL Please send news and short contributions to enjoyed the sight of strange "mst-buster" THE RAPIDO Deux-Montagnes update the addresses shown with each news section. trains), the new St. Clair River tunnel was THE PANORAMA Grain subsidy to end Articles and photos should be sent to the opened, and the last train ran on Prince IN TRANSIT Low-floor buses on test editor at one of the above addresses, if you Edward County in Ontario. MOTIVE POWER CP's MK rebuilds arrive are using a computer, please use electronic The federal government now proposes to mail or send a WordPerfect, Word, or text file ON THE CALENDAR sell "The People's Railway" into private hands, on an IBM-compatible (SW or 3'A") disk, and the new tunnel may make the rumours Friday, April 21 - UCRS Toronto meeting, 7:30 along with a printed copy. of U.S. railways' interest in access to Montreal p.m., at the Metro Archives theatre, Spadina and Halifax come tme after ail these years. Road at MacPherson, just north of Dupont Whether a commereiaiiy-financed CNwiii act Subscriptions to Rail and Transit are available subwaystation. Bill McArthur will show slides as a competitor or a collaborator with CP in of the Louisville and Nashville and the South- with membership in the Upper Canada Rail• the east remains to be seen. em Railway in Corbin and Danville, Kentucky way Society. Membership dues are $29.00 per A new passenger train service is expected from 1976 to 1981. year (12 issues) for addresses in Canada, and to begin this summer on the Societe des $35.00 (or $27.00 in U.S. funds) for addresses Friday, April 28 - UCRS Hamilton meeting, chemins de fer du Quebec from Quebec City in the U.S. and overseas. Student member• 8:00 p.m., at the Hamilton Spectator audito• to the casino at Pointe-au-Pic, the ancient and ships, for those 17 years or younger, are rium, 44 Frid Street, just off Main Street at venerable electric equipment on the Deux- $19.00. Please send inquiries and changes of Highway 403. The programme will be recent Montagnes line will be finally replaced this address to the address at the top of the page. news and members' current and historical summer, and new commuter trains are set to slides. begin from Mission to Vancouver in the fail. Friday, May 19 - UCRS Toronto monthly More short line railways may yet be cre• UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY meeting, 7:30 p.m. ated this year - the Waterioo-St. Jacobs seems DIRECTORS Friday, May 26 - UCRS Hamilton monthly nearest to formation, but CP continues to deal John Carter, VP-Services 4 i 6 690-6651 meeting, 8:00 p.m. away Its lines southeast of Montreal. Pat Semple, VP-Administration 416 923-9123 The field of motive power is no less ac• Scott Haskill, Secretary 416 604-2071 COVER PHOTO tive, with new SD70Is to arrive for CN and Art Clowes 514 934-5549 AC4400CWS for CP in both cases bringing the Rick Eastman 416 494-3412 FP7 1987 leads former Trans-Europ Express MLW era closer to an end. (And in CP's case, AIMaitland 416 921-4023 equipment on Train 122, the southbound On• the third end for the 4500s and 4700s.) George Meek 416 532-5617 tario Northland Northlander at Huntsville, on The busy month, along with nagging colds Pat Scrimgeour 416 260-5652 the CN Newmarket Subdivision. which plagued at least three of the editors, Chris Spinney 416 281-821! -Photo by John Corter, 14:49 on May 23, 1983 has caused this to be a combined, but ex• panded, March-April issue. Completed April 13, 1995 2 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 STRIKES, LOCKOUTS, AND LAY-OFFS AT CP, CN, AND VIA THE RAILWAY SHUTDOWN OF 1995 Disputes between the major railways in (BLE) - locomotive engineers, and, more But most CP branch lines and secondary Canada and many of their workers led to recently rail traffic controllers at CN. main Unes were closed. Immediately large-scale disruptions in railway service in • Canadian Council of Railway Operating foUowing the first action in Ontario, CP March. CP Rail System operated a skeleton Unions CCCROU) - a federation of the UTU placed an embargo on its Ottawa Valley line service over only its busiest main lines for and the BLE, in a legal strike position at CN and rerouted aU traffic through Toronto. As almost three weeks. CN North America and and VIA only. well, non-core rail Unes' in Southern British VIA Rail Canada were closed almost entirely • Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) - carmen, Columbia and on Vancouver Island were for just over a week. The disputes affected clerks, ticket agents, diesel maintainers, and closed. By the time of the national CN strike, intercity passengers, commuters, shippers, many other positions. CP had placed embargoes on 75 branch hues. and manufacturers across the coimtry. Other unions at CP which were negotiating There were a few reported cases of The impasse with the company but were not in a legal vandalism to hot box detectors and other equipment across the coimtry and pickets Eleven unions at CN, CP, and VIA had been strike position included members of the BLE remained relatively peaceful. Court without a contract since their last one and UTU, the Canadian Pacific Police injunctions were obtained by CP to prevent expired in December 1993 and on-again-off- Association (representing 100 police officers the CAW and BMWE from delaying truck again attempts since had left the issues and investigators). Transportation traffic at its intermodal terminals. Picket lines tmresolved. The biggest tmresolved issue was Communications International Union (TCU, had delayed truck traffic for up to four hours that of employment security CES) clauses that representing 2100 clerical workers). at the Vaughan and Obico intermodal the railways agreed to in 1985. International Brotherhood of Electrical terminals in Toronto and at other locations Under the ES agreements, workers with Workers (IBEW, representing 530 signal across the country. more than eight years' seniority who are laid- maintainers), and the Rail Canada Traffic Controllers (RCTC, representing 250 RTCs at off because of non-economic reasons, stich as System-wide strike and lockouts at CN CP). Workers in the TCU, IBEW, and RCTC changes in technology or reorganisation of At 09:10 on March 18, the BMWE notified reached a tentative agreement with CP on the railway continue to be paid their full CN that they would be walking out and March 12, to last until 1995. wages tmtil their jobs return, tmtil similar striking CN across Canada at 09:15. CN had part-time jobs arise, or tmtil they retire. Rotating strikes and lockouts at CP originally planned to maintain operations on Federal mediator Allan Hope prepared a Work disruptions involving unions were main lines with management-level workers report which was submitted to the minister of different at CN, CP, and VIA. The CAWs performing track maintenance, as CP was human resottrces development, Lloyd plan, shared initially with the BMWE, was to continuing to do. But at 14:15 that same Axworthy in February. Ten days after that take job action against CP to reach a new day, the CCROU went on strike at both CN report was released, effective March 2, agreement and then use this new contract as and VIA. This forced CN to close the railway railway unions were in a legal strike position a base for negotiations with CN and VIA. The and it locked-out the CAW workers at 23:30 and companies were in a legal lockout unions thought a national strike undesirable that evening, laid-off other union staff not in position. Members of aR of the unions that as it could prompt the federal government to a legal strike position, and placed an were involved voted strongly in favour of impose an agreement through legislation - embargo on the acceptance of freight traffic strike action.
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