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. A group of union officials during the last national railway strike in across Canada. Benefits were paid to the occupied the constituency office of the August 1987, it took the government only CCROU until 23:30 because train crews aided minister of transport, Doug Young, in five days to order workers to return. The plan in the orderly shut-down of the railway, Tracadie, New Brunswick, in February, did not work, however; because CP locked taking trains to terminals and tying them up protesting what they saw as a government workers out once rotating strikes began. securely instead of leaving trains out on the bias in the companies' favour. main Kne. One-day information pickets were first The parties set-up by 300 BMWE employees in Northem CN lost an estimated $10-million per day during the shutdown. Some special train The railways involved in the dispute were: Ontario, including Thunder Bay, Kenora, movements were made by supervisors during • CP Rail System - Freight operations Dryden, Ignace, Sudbury, and Schreibei; on the strike in Samia, Brantford, Hamilton, and between British Columbia and Quebec, and March 8. CP retaliated by locking-out the Brockville to move dangerous commodities to contracted operation of passenger trains in workers who had picketed and suspending safety. There were up to 35 trains waiting on B.C., Ontario, and Quebec. benefits for all members of the BMWE, the Grand Trunk Railway in Michigan to • CN North America - Freight operations whether they had picketed or not. Other come into Canada. between British Columbia and Nova Scotia, pickets and lockouts followed in British and contracted operation of passenger trains Columbia and Quebec on March 9, Moose Once the strike at CN started, CP placed in Ontario and Quebec. Jaw on March 11, and Winnipeg on March an embargo on all traffic originating on CP 12. The ranks of locked-out workers rapidly and destined for CN or BC Rail (because CN • VIA Rail Canada - Intercity passenger grew until it was a national lockout. CAW is the intermediate interchange carrier). CP operations between British Columbia and workers were locked-out close behind as operated its trains between Toronto and Nova Scotia. members refused to cross BMWE picket.lmes. Buffalo via Guelph Junction and the Goderich The unions involved in the labour dispute Subdivision because the normal route over CP continued to run trains on many of its were: the CN Oakville Subdivision was closed. main lines. Up to 2000 non-union supervisors • Brotherhood of Maintenance-of-Way continued to inspect and maintain the track,' Employees (BMWE) - In charge of Strike, lockouts, and lay-offs at VIA cars, and locomotives, and CP arranged ways maintenance of roadbed, track, buildings, and The first VIA train affected by the dispute was •for UTU and BLE members to report for work bridges. the Victoria-Courtenay RDC on the without having to cross picket lines. In • United Transportation Union fUTU) - Esquimalt and Nanaimo. It stopped running Toronto, a shuttle train of two engines and brakemen and conductors. on March 9 when CP closed the E&N as part five cabooses ran between remote parking • Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of its "non-core" lines. lots and crew terminals.

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • 3 All but one of the rest of VIA trains were operated special routes. From the east, a Back-to-work legislation terminated on March 18 when the CCROU service ran through Whitby, Ajax, and As had been expected by the unions, the went on strike at both VIA and CN at 14:15. Pickering to the TTC's Scarborough Centre government introduced legislation to force an CAW workers at VIA were laid-off that Station. The TTC ran a special express service end to the shutdown as soon as the CN evening at 23:30. from Rouge Hill GO station to Kennedy system-wide strike began. An attempt by the For stranded passengers, special subway station. government on March 20 to "fast-track"- the arrangements were made with different legislation was unsuccessful when the Other passenger trains affected carriers to accept VIA tickets at par for travel required unanimous approval was not gained STCUM commuter trains between Central to the closest city on the VIA ticket. in the House of Commons. Station in Montreal and Deux-Montagnes Passengers could travel on Air Canada, Bill C-77, the Maintenance of Railway were stopped on the afternoon of March 18. Canadian Airlines and its partners, and Operations Act 1995, was tabled for first Service from Windsor Station to Dorion and Voyageur Colonial, Greyhound, SMT reading on March 21. At that stage it was to Rigaud, on CP track, was not affected. (Eastern), and Orleans Express bus lines. This apply.to aU three railways but would only Amtrak service normally running into offer was in effect until March 24. A number initially apply to CN. For it to affect workers Canada was discontinued on March 18 near of VIA stations remained open rmtfl March 24 at CP or VIA, an Order-m-Coundl would be the borders. The International ended at Port for refunds of tickets, and then all stations required, which takes approximately three Huron, Michigan, the Maple Leaf st Niagara were closed. hours to pass. Falls, New York, the Afonfrea/er at St. Albans, On the day the strike started, passengers The bill extended the terms of aU of the Vermont, and thsAdtondack at Plattsburgh, in the Montreal-Toronto corridor were sent expired collective agreements until new New York. These were also the termini of on buses. VIA 1 club car passengers from agreements come into effect. In addition, these trains for the duration of the strike, Train 64 arrived at Dorval around 22:15 on strikes and lock-outs were prohibited and with the exception of the Adirondack, which Penetang-Midland Coach lines buses which railways could not discipline or fire any operated only as far as Westport, New York. left Toronto- aroimd 17:30. The remaining employee for previously striking. To settle the Two Amtrak trains were stranded in passengers arrived aroimd 23:15 after making disputes, it established mediation/arbitration Canada on March 18. The Niagara Rainbow- stops in Belleville, Kingston, Brockville, and commissions for each bargaining unit to General Brock which had arrived in Toronto Cornwall. Buses for Train 68 were to arrive develop new agreements over a 70-day from New York that morning was not able to after 01:00. period. leave the next afternoon, and Amtrak instead The Sudbury-WhiteRiverRDC continued Amendments were made in later readings made up a consist to run from Niagara Falls, to operate through the stoppage at CN to automatically include workers at CP and New York, to New York. The Montrealer because this train is operated over the CP VIA thus removing the requirement for an which had arrived in Montreal from main line with CP crews, not VIA crews. This Order-in-Council. Washington on March 18 had to remain in train had just returned to its regular tri• The Commons and the Senate sat on the Montreal until the shutdown ended. weekly schedule after shop workers at the weekend of March 25 and 26 to pass the ONR in North Bay returned to work, but Other freight trains affected legislation. Final reading took place around when the CP line east of Sudbury was closed All Montreal traffic on Conrail was rerouted 15:00 on Sunday, March 26, and it received as one of the "non-core" lines, the Budd cars through to CP's Saint-Luc Yard, replacing the Royal Assent at 17:36 that day. A 12-hoiu: returned to a once-per-week schedule. normal trains from Conrail's Selkirk Yard to waiting period is required before a bill CN's Taschereau Yard during the CN closure. becomes law. Most GO Transit trains suspended CSX trains in southern Ontario that So, at 05:36 on Monday morning, CN GO trains were cancelled on the Lakeshore normally operate over the CN Caso began calling train crews back to work and route between Oakville and Pickering on the Subdivision were handled on CP track all other employees were required back at afternoon of March 18. No service was between Buffalo and Windsor with CP pilots. work that morning. provided during the next week on the lines The Goderich-Exeter Railway which has that are operated for GO by CN. The only GO Railway operations resume its only external connection with CN at train service to operate through the CN In anticipation of the legislation, CN sent Stratford, Ontario, closed entirely during the shutdown was the Milton line, which is supervisory crews out to run a number of CN shutdown. operated by CP. trains on Sunday, March 26. These "rust- On March 18 and 19, GO trains which Effects of the shutdown buster" trains were to dean rust from the were laying-over for the weekend at A number of industries were adversely tracks so that crossing protection and signals Georgetown, StouffviUe, and Whitby were affected by the work stoppage. The just-in- would operate properly, and to check the brought into Toronto, and moved to GO's time delivery concept that reduces inventory signal system. Several freight trains which Willowbrook shops for storage. The train-set costs for manufacturers made the effects had been held on March 18 ran, for instance at Bradford stayed there for the next week. almost immediate. from Toronto to BeUevflle and from Samia to Trains on the Milton line continued on Ford Motor Company of Canada closed its Toronto, and in addition two special trains their normal schedules, but were expanded to Grand Marquis and Crown Victoria plant in made up of about 30 freight cars with a 10 cars each, to handle some of the St. Thomas and curtailed operations in its locomotive on each end were operated in the passengers who would normally ride other Windstar minivan plant in Oakville for one Toronto area. (This was the first operation of lines. The trains were stored at GO's Bathurst week. Parts normally shipped from a a freight train on the GO Subdivision.) North Yard during the day, rather than being stamping plant in Buffalo by train were VIA began operating interdty trains after moved over CN lines to Willowbrook, and moved by truck as much as possible, but noon on Monday, March 27, while GO were maintained at Guelph Jet. overnight. shifts were cut in half in Oakville because of Transit and the STCUM needed an extra day The Milton trains were the only trains to use the reduced volume and because additional to begin operations for Tuesday morning. Union Station in Toronto during the time was required for unloading. VlAs transcontinental trains were not to shutdown, and passengers boarded through Grain shipments were also reduced, not begin operation until the Wednesday and the main GO concourse on Tracks 1 to 5, only due to railway slowdowns, but also as a remote operations the following weekend. instead of the usual Track 12. result of striking longshoremen in Vancouvei; With additional information from Peter Luzny, To make up for the lack of service on the who were ordered back to Work by the Tom Box, Rex Rundie, Vernon Erie Ikeda, Sean • Lakeshore line, municipal transit agencies federal government. Robitaille, and Pat Semple.

4 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 TEN YEARS AT FORT EDMONTON PARK The Edmonton Radial Railway Society begins its second decade of operations

In the early hours of September 2, 1951, Car 52 of the which is virtually a twin to ERR 7, the only single-tmck Edmonton Radial Railway made its last journey over the car to operate in Edmonton. High Level Bridge, bringing an end to 43 years of streetcar Regular safety and maintenance checks keep operation operation in the city. All but one of the cars were broken remarkably trouble-free. 5ervice has been provided from up or sold off around the province to serve as chicken 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from mid-May to early fall for the coops, storage, sheds, or summer cottages. past ten years. The 40 members of the ERR5 contribute Car 1 was more fortunate. Edmonton's Archives and 10,000 volunteer hours per year, and the cars travel 6400 Landmarks Committee asked that one of the streetcars be kilometres every season. 5ince the opening of the line in preserved, and No. 1 was set aside. The car sat in the open 1984, well over one million passengers have been carried. at Cromdale bams, enduring the combined ravages of The first ten years of operation have exceeded the weather and vandalism for several years. In 1967, the car expectations of the society. The next decade will see was displayed in the city's Centennial parade. In early several more cars restored. It is hoped to extend the line 1979, a group of volunteers began restoring No. 1 for outside the park, which would involve spanning Whitemud participation in Edmonton's 75th anniversary celebrations. Creek. The CPR bridge over Jasper Avenue has been The car retimned to the rails for the Thanksgiving weekend acquired and disassembled, and rail is being stockpiled for by providing rides over the High Level Bridge, using a the extension. The Osaka and Hannover cars would be mobile dieseI-p)owered generator towed by the car itself. ideal for the extension, as they are double-ended. Determined to maintain the momentum, the Edmonton Operating cars Radial Railway 5ociety was formed in October 1979 by the Edmonton Radial Railway I volimteers responsible for No. I's restoration. The plans for Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company, 1908 the city's Fort Edmonton Park included a streetcar line, Edmonton Radial Railway 42 St. Louis Car Company, 1912 and the society was encouraged to set up streetcar Edmonton Radial Railway 80 Ottawa, 1930 restoration and maintenance facilities inside the park, and Toronto Suburban Railway 24/Canadian National Railways 15702 to eventually operate the line. Preston Car and Coach Company, 1914 The society built a streetcar bam in the park, as a Nankai Electric Railway (Osaka) 247 Umebachi/Sharyo, 1921 Hannover/BC Transit 601 Siemens/Duwag, 1970 working replica of the 1908 structure in 5trathcona. 5ince the ERR5 did not have its own track yet in the park. No. 1 Cars awaiting restoration operated for about forty days in 1981 on the park's steam Edmonton Radial Railway 13 Ottawa, 191 I Edmonton Radial Railway 33, 38 St. Louis, 1912 railway, towing the same portable generator. Mechanical Brandon Municipal Railway 6 problems ended the season until the car could be Niles Car and Manufacturing Company, 1913 overhauled. In the meantime, the street railway layout was Edmonton Radial Railway 31 Preston, 191 I planned, and two kilometres of track were laid. A sub• Edmonton Radial Railway 53, 65, 73 Preston, 1913 station was equipped to supply the required 600 volts DC, Calgary Municipal Railway Ottawa, 1913 and the overhead wire was stmng. Saskatoon Municipal Railway 200 (Sweeper) Ottawa, c.1907 On June 10, 1984, No. 1 broke a ceremonial ribbon to Saskatoon Municipal Railway 202 . . Cincinnati Car Company, 1918 inaugurate streetcar service in Fort Edmonton Park. In the Regina Municipal Railway 42 ... . Canadian Car and Foundry, 1928 intervening years the streetcar operation has become Toronto Transit Commission 4367 CC&E 1948 established as one of the most authentic and well- run Abridged from the Edmonton Radial Railway Society's The Trip Sheet, Vol. 5, displays within the park. Dedicated ERR5 volunteers No. 3. August 1991. Copies arc available from the ERRS for $5.00 plus $2.00 remain responsible for operations, car maintenance, and postage, at P.O. Box '15040. Lansdowne RO., Edmonton, Alberta T6H 5Y1. on-going restoration.

The popularity and usefulness of the streetcar line was • Former Edmonton Radial Railway car 42 rounds a curve at Fort apparent and immediate. With only one car available, Edmonton Park, July 7, 1990. The ERRS carbarn is in the background. crush loads were common, and more cars would be needed —Photo by High Iron Photos to provide better service. The society had already been acquiring old Edmonton streetcar bodies. In the late summer of 1985, a second car had been restored - No. 42, which had been moved from 5ylvan Lake, Alberta, to the carbarn in 1981. Initially it ran on borrowed tmcks, but since 1992, No. 42 has been running on authentic new 5t. Louis tmcks, cast and fabricated by the ERR5 to the original designs. The ERR5's ability to cast its own replica parts and hardware makes it unique among streetcar museums in North America. Work on No. 80, one of five cars purchased by the Edmonton Radial Railway in 1930, has advanced to the point where the car has made trial runs. It was rescued from service as a restaurant near Dawson Creek, B.C. One unique car, not originally from Edmonton, has also been restored by the society. It is Toronto 5uburban Railway 24,

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • THE LITTLE TRAINS OF LONG AGO: GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY PASSENGER TRAINS AT LINDSAY, ONTARIO - JUNE 1893

By Gordon C. Shaw ally competitive, with each having limited traffic and, as a result, financial difficulties. Therefore, their bond-hold• The past 20 years have seen a vast reduction in Ontario ers were pleased to replace their securities with those of railway mileage. Most of the branch lines have gone, while the larger Midland Railway and, in turn, by those of the present studies contemplate consolidating some of the Grand Trunk (Stevens 1960, Volume I, Pages 423 to 454). main lines and the removal of even more track. In effect, While from a retrospective economic viewpoint some of the "rusty raiifans" who enjoy visiting branch lines are these lines should never have been built, they did serve being replaced by the "dusty raiifans." The latter must be their local communities at the time. By 1893, their pas• content with finding an abandoned culvert, a bridge pier, senger services had been integrated to serve the entire a gap between trees, or an old building. While a few such Midland network as opposed the individual lines of each relics remain to mark a former railway location, the rails, predecessor company. Also, as per the June 1893 Havel- even the rusty rails, are gone. lers' Official Guide, the Midland Division comprised the As a result of these abandonments, several Ontario following lines with train services affecting Lindsay. towns, once important railway terminals, are now with• • Main line - Toronto to Blackwater Junction, Manilla Junction, out rails. One such town is Lindsay. In June 1893, it was Lindsay, I^terborough, Miilbrook, and Part Hope - 122.4 miles; the headquarters of the Midland Division of the Grand • 'The Old Road" - Omemee to Miilbrook - 15.5 miles; Think Railway Company of Canada. As such, Lindsay was • 'The Midland Line" - Blackwater Junction to Lorneville Junction, the hub for 479 miles of railway, once owned by the former Orillia, and Midland - 73.8 miles; Midland Railway of Canada, purchased by the Grand Think • 'The Coboconk Branch" - Lindsay to Lorneville Junction, via Camhray, and Coboconk - 37.6 miles; in 1884 and officially absorbed by them in 1893 (Stevens • 'The Halihurton Branch" - Lindsay to Halihurton - 54.8 miles; 1960, Volume 1, Pages 439 and 440). The Midland Rail• • 'The Whitby Branch" - Whitby to Manilla Junction - 32.8 miles. way was, in effect, an amalgamation of several smaller In addition to these 336.9 miles, the Midland Divi• railways, each of which had been promoted by business sion's main line extended from Peterborough to Belleville interests in Toronto, Whitby, Port Hope, Cobourg, and (65.4 miles) and there were branches from StouffviUe to Belleville to encourage trade through their towns and Jackson's Point (26.5 miles), Peterborough to Lakefield pohs. These component railways were somewhat mutu- and to Chemong (22.8 miles), and from North Hastings CNR 4-6-2 5267 switching Train 94 at Lindsay, May 31, 1958 Jimction to Madoc and Eldorado (21.6 mUes). -Alan Crompton In June 1893, a raUfan could stand on the Lindsay

6 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 station platform from 05:45 until 20:00 daily except Sun• EXHIBIT 1 day and enjoy the following eleven passenger train arriv• Principal Eastward Schedules als and departures: Midland Division, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, June 1893 • 05:45 - Mixed No. 36, departing for Omemee, Miilbrook via the Mail No. 2 Mixed Express No. 4 Trains 10/17 "Old Road," and Port Hope; Lv Toronto 07:45 A 07:05 H 16:35 B • 09:12 - Express No. 1, arriving from Port Hope and Peterborough Ar Blackwater Jet 10:00 A 11:03 H 18:55 B and then departing at 09:15 for Manilla Junction, Blackwater Junc• Lv Blackwater JcL 10:20 C • 19:10 C tion, and Toronto; Ar Lomeville 11:00 C 19:50 C • 09:55 - Mixed No. 30, arriving from Coboconk via Lorneville Ar Coboconk (21:55 E) Junction and Cambray; Ar Orillia 15:1-5 C 20:58 C • 10:35 - Mail No. 32, arriving from Fenelon I^lls and Halihurton; Ar Midland 13:47 C 22:35 C • 10:50 - Mail No. 2, arriving from Toronto, Blackwater Junction, Lv Midland 06:20 C 14:55 C and Manilla Junction, and then departing at 10:52 for Peterbor• Lv Orillia 07:49 C 16:25 0 ough, Miilbrook, and Port Hope; Lv Coboconk (06:40 E) • 12:00 - Mixed No. 28, arriving from Toronto; Lv Lomeville 09:00 C 17:4-5 C • 13:40 - Mixed No. 36, arriving from Port Hope and Miilbrook via Ar Blackwater JcL 09:40 C 18:25 C the Old Road, and then departing at 13:45 for Toronto; Lv Blackwater JcL 10:10 A 11:04 H 19:05 B • 15:00 - Mall No. 33, departing for Fenelon Falls and Halihurton; Ar Manilla JcL 10:26 A 11:23 H 19:20 B • 18:02 — Mail No. 3, arriving from Port Hope and Iteterborough, Lv Manilla JcL 10:30 D 19:21 D and then departlngat 18:05 for Manilla Junction, Blackwater Junc• Ar Port Fterry 11:25 D 19:59 D tion, and Toronto; Ar Whitby 12:35 D 20:45 D • 18:20 - Mixed No. 31, departing for Coboconk via Cambray and Ar Toronto (22:20) Lomeville Junction; Lv Toronto (07:00- ) (17:30) • 19:55 - Express No. 4, arriving from Toronto, Blackwater Junc• Lv Whitby 08:10 0 16:0-0 D 18:45 tion, and Manilla Junction, and then leaving at 20:00 for Peterbor• Ar Port Perry 09:05 D 17:40 D 19:40 ough, Miilbrook and Port Hope. Ar Manilla JcL 09:35 D 18:25 D That is, besides the freight and work trains, there were Lv Manilla JcL 10:26 A 11:23 H 19:21 B - - three passenger trains each way on the main line plus Ar Lindsay 10:50 A 12:00 H 19:55 B (Via Oshawa) Lv Lindsay 10:52 A 05:45 G 20:00 B two arrivals and departures for each of the Coboconk and - HaHburton branches. Ar Fteterborough 11:40A (Old Road) 20:55 B 20:55 Ar Ftert Hope 12:57 A 09:05 G 22:10 B 19:50 These passenger services were provided by eight train Ar Toronto (16:15) consists with condensed schedules as shown in Exhibits 1 - - - and 2. Note: Leaers after the time designate the consist as described in this artide; parentheses indicate a connecting service. Consist A - Mail No. 2, leaving Toronto at 07:45 via Blackwater Junction, ManUla Junction, Lindsay and Psterborough to Port Hope, arriving there at 12:57; it then returned from Part Hope at 16:00 EXHIBIT 2 as Mail No. 3 and arrived at Toronto at 21:13. Principal Westward Schedules Consist B- Express No. 1, leaving Bart Hope at 07:15 via Peterbor• Midland Division, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, June 1893 ough, lindsay Blackwater Junction, and Manilla Junction to To• Express No. 1 Mixed Mail No. 3 Trains 9/18 ronto, arriving at 12:15; it then returned from Toronto at 16:35 as LvToronto (07:00) (13:10) Express No. 4 and arrived at Part Hope at 22:10. These trains car• Lv Ftert Hope 07:1-5 B 10:20 G 16:00 A 08:0- 5 ried a parlour car between Fteterborough and Toronto, the only Lv Peterborough 08:35 B (Old Road) 17:12 A 07:00 ones in the network to do so. Consists A and B were supplemented Ar Lindsay 09:12 B 13:40 G 18:02 A between Peterborough and Port Hope by a third consist which left Lv Lindsay 09:15 B 13:45 G 18:05 A (Via Oshawa)- Fteterborough at 07:00 for Port Hope, Whitby, and Toronto, and Ar Manilla Jet. 09:42 B 14:21 G 18:34 A then returned to Part Hope and Peterborough in the evening. These Lv Manilla JcL 10:30 D 19:21 D - Consist A and B trains also provided one connection each way a - Ar Ftert Fterry 11:25 D 19:59 D 07:45 day between Lindsay and Belleville. Consist A from Lindsay ar• Ar Whitby 12:35 D 20:45 D 09:05 rived in Fteterborough in time for an early afternoon departure for Ar Toronto (22:20) 10:20 Belleville, while an early-moming train from Belleville arrived in Lv Toronto (07:00- ) Fteterborough in time for Consist B's 08:25 departure for Lindsay. Lv Whitby 08:10 D 16:0-0 0 Consist C-This consist, based at Midland, left there as Express No. Lv Ftert Fterry 09:05 D 17:40 0 6 at 06:20 for Orillia and Lorneville Junction and arrived at Ar Manilla JcL 09:35 D 18:25 D Blackwater Junction at 09:40. Then, after connecting with both Lv Manilla JcL 09:42 B 14:21 G 18:34 A Consist A from Toronto and Consist B from Lindsay Fteterborough, Ar Blackwater Jet. 09:55 B 14:41, G 18:50 A and Port Hope, it left Blackwater Junction at 10:20 as Mail No. 5 to Lv Blackwater JcL 10:20 C 19:10 C arrive at Midland via Orillia at 13:47. Then it again left Midland at Ar Lorneville 11:00 C 19:50 C 14:55 as Mail No. 8 to arrive at Blackwater Junction at 18:25. Ar Coboconk (21:55) Then, after again connecting with .Consists A and B to and from Ar Orillia 12:1-5 C 20:58 C both Toronto .and Lindsay, Peterborough, and Port Hope, Consist C Ar Midland 13:47 C 22:35 C returned to Midland as Express No. 7, leaving Blackwater Junc• Lv Midland 06:20 C 14:55 C tion at-19:10 and arriving at Midland at22:35. Express No. 6 trains Lv Orillia 07:49 C 16:25 C connected each morning at Lomeville Junction with the Mixed Lv Coboconk (06:40) No. 30 which left Coboconk at 06:40 for Lomeville and Lindsay via Lv Lomeville 09:00 C 17:4-5 C Cambray. This connection permitted passengers from Coboconk to Ar Blackwater Jet. 09:40 C 18:25 C go to Blackwater Junction where they would change 'again for To• Lv Blackwater JcL 10:05 B 14:42 G 19:00 A ronto. Similarly, in the evening Express No. 7 again connected at Ar Toronto 12:15 B 17:55 G 21:13 A Lomeville with Mixed No. 31 enroute from Lindsay to Cambray to Coboconk. Note: Letters after the time designate the consist os described in this ortide; parentheses indicate a connecting service.

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • 7 Consist D - This consist, based at Whitby, left there at 08:10 for Hope at 10:20 as Mixed No. 35 and retumed to Lindsay at 13:40, Manilla Junction. After connecting with both eastward and west• again via the "Old Road." This train then left Undsay at 13:45 and ward Consists Aand B, it left Manilla Junction at 10:30 to arrive at ran local to Toronto, arriving there at 17:55. it returned to Undsay Whitby at 12:35. it again left Whitby at 16:00 for Manilla Junc• as Consist H, leaving Toronto at 07:05 the next moming and arriv• tion, where it again connected with both eastward and westward ing in Undsay at 12:00. (it was overtaken around Agincoutt by Consists A and B; it then left Manilla Junction at 19:20 to arrive at eastward Consist A.) For some years, this "Old Road" mixed train Whitby at 20:45. These Consist D services were all mixed trains; was hauled by GTR locomotive GTR 294, a small 4-4-0 built in the southward morning and the northward afternoon trains re• Manchestei; New Hampshire, in 1873 and scrapped in 1915 (Wilkins quired over two hours for the 32.8-mile journey. The 08:10 depar• 1992, Page 35). What a railfan delight! ture from Whitby followed a connection with an 07:00 departure These eight consists permitted a passenger to travel from Toronto and the 20:45 arrival connected at 21:00 for a main between almost any two stations in the Midland Division line train to Toronto. These Consist D trains were supplemented by another consist, based in Part Parry, it left there at 07:45 for a network with a choice of two daily except Sunday depar• direct connection at Whitby for Toronto and returned to Port Fterry tures. While they provided a more thorough coverage of In the. evening, leaving Whitby at 18:45 after an arrival from To• their territory than is available by any means other than ronto. automobile today, they did so with modest average speeds. Co7isist£-This consist, based in Coboconk, left there as Mixed No. For example, a passenger could leave Orillia at 07:49 and 30 at06:40 for Lorneville, to connect with Consist C for Blackwater reach Port Perry at 11:25. This joiuney, of 62.1 mUes, Junction. Consist E then proceeded to Lindsay via Cambray to ar• with an average speed of only 16.5 m.p.h., was broken by rive at 09:55 in time to connect with Consist A leaving at 10:52 for a 30-minute refreshment stop and train change at Peterborough and Part Hope. Consist E returned to Coboconk as Blackwater Junction. Even the 104.5-mile main-hne jour• Mixed No. 31, leaving Lindsay at 18:20 following the arrival of ConsistAfrom ItertHopeand Fteterborough. it again connected at ney from Peterborough to Toronto required 3 h 55 min, Lomeville with northward Consist C and arrived at Coboconk at that is with an average speed of 26.7 m.p.h. Also, since 21:55. these trains made coimections at each of Lorneville, Consist F-This consist, based in Haliburton, left there at 06:30 as Blackwater, and Manilla jimctions, a late train leaving, Mail No. 32 and arrived in Lindsay at 10:35. It then left Lindsay as say, Oiiliia could delay connecting trains and cause late Mail No. 33 at 15:00, arriving at Haliburton at 19:00. arrivals as fax away as Toronto, Whitby, and Port Hope. (I Consists G ondH- Consist G left Undsay at 05:45 as Mixed No. 36 have assumed that all trains waited at each of these junc• for Omemee and then over the "Old Road" through Bethany to tions for their connecting trains to avoid stranding pas• Miilbrook and Port Hope arriving there at 09:05. it then left Ftert sengers.) Therefore, with low average speeds and a mod-

8 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 est on-time perfomiance, a frequent 1893 traveller might and the smaller stations and between the smaller stations. not have enjoyed these trains as much as a modem railfan One exception to this conclusion may have been the pas• would have. (Current schedule theory holds that such slow senger traffic between Toronto, StouffviUe, and Uxbridge; local services are of limited use to anyone; hence, they however, these towns are relatively close to Toronto and soon declined in the automobile age.) could have been served by local trains. In spite of their limitations, these Midland Division In spite of these limitations, the routings and travel trains were an improvement over the earlier stage coach times for the principal Consists A, B, and C, as well as and seasonal steamboat services. They must have been EXHIBITS especially important before the Canadian Pacific line was Comparative Passenger Schedules constructed through Peterborough in the 1880s. However, Toronto-Lindsay Serrices, January 1930 by 1893, it would seem that these Midland Division trains had become "second choices" for serving the major pas• Canadian National Westward senger markets linking Toronto and the larger towns of Lv lindsay 09:25 18:10 Ar Toronto 12:15 20:53 Peterborough, lindsay. Port Perry, OrQIia, and Midland. Minutes of travel 170 163 By this time, OriUia was linked to Toronto by the Grand Trunk's "Northern and Northwestern Division" trains Canadian Pacific Westward through Barrie; these trains were more frequent and faster Lv lindsay 07:40 15:35 21:05 M Ar Burketon 08:25 16:25 22:00 M than those of the Midland Division. Also, one operated Lv Burketon 08:35 16:35 22:10 M daily; this train connected with the Canadian Pacific trans• Ar Toronto 10:25 18:10 01:50 M continental train at North Bay. Therefore, it is probable Minutes of travel 165 155 that most of the passengers between Toronto and either Canadian National Eastward Orillia or Midland travelled via Barrie. LvToronto 07:45 16:50 In Jime 1893, passengers between Port Perry and To• Ar Lindsay 10:45 19:45 ronto had a choice of four daily except Sunday depar• Minutes of travel 180 175 tures, two via Whitby and two via MaruUa Jimction (Ex• Canadian Pacific Eastward hibits 1 and 2). However, the service was both better timed Lv Toronto 09:15 17:10 00:15 M and faster via Whitby; therefore, the 13.8 miles of track Ar Burketon 10:55 19:05 03:05 M north of Port Perry to Manilla Junction would cater mainly Lv Burketon 11:00 19:10 03:15 M to low-volume movements such as that between Orillia Ar lindsay 12:01 19:55 04:15 M or Lindsay and Port Perry. Minutes of travel 166 165 In 1893, the Midland Division trains still enjoyed a M-Mixed train. North Toronto-Lindsqy-Peterhorough supremacy between Lindsay and Toronto; there was no Source: Official Guide of the RaUwcrys, January 1930 alternative to their two trains each way each weekday, Note: This 1930 comparison is to be taken to be representative of the CN-CP even with each requiring three hours for the 68.5-miIe competitoru journey. This supremacy was challenged a few years later when, in 1897, Canadian Pacific biult a branch line from EXHIBIT 4 Burketon, on their Peterborough to Toronto main line, to Comparative Passenger Schedules Lindsay and Bobcaygeon. The CPR then provided twice- Toronto-Peterborough Services, June 1893 daily except Sunday service with slightly shorter travel times than those of the Grand Trunk, albeit with a train Grand Trunk Westward change at Burketon. (Exhibit 3). Lv Fteterborough 07:00 08:25 11:40 17:12 Ar Ftert Hope 08:05 . 12:57 The largest passenger market must have been between Lv Port Hope 08:05 - 13:40 - Toronto and Peterborough, the largest community. How• Ar Lindsay 09:1- 2 18:0- 2 ever, in June 1893, the Grand Trunk train schedules were Lv Undsay - 09:15 - 18:05 inferior to those of Canadian Pacific. At that time, there Ar Toronto 10:2- 0 12:15 16:1- 5 21:13 were four Midland Division trains each way between Pe• Minutes of travel 200 230 275 241 terborough and Toronto, two via lindsay and two via Port Canadian Pacific Westward Hope (Exhibit 4). In contrast, Canadian Pacific only pro• Lv Fteterborough 04:35 * 07:37 06:30 vided two daytime daily except Sunday trains in each di• Ar Toronto 07:00 * 10:25 19:00 rection. The CPR trains were conveniently timed to pro• Minutes of travel 145 168 150 vide "same day return service" from both cities, and the Grand Trunk Eastward slowest of these CPR trains was faster than the fastest Lv Toronto 07:45 13:10 16:35 17:30 GTR train which ran via Port Hope and their main line. Ar Undsay 10:50 19:55 Moreover, Peterborough was also served by CP's daily Lv Undsay 10:52 - 20:00 - Toronto and Montreal overnight train, the eastward such Ar Ftert Hope 15:4- 0 19:4- 5 train providing a convenient late evening departure from Lv Ftert Hope - 16:00 - 19:50 Ar Fteterborough •11:40 17:12 20:55 20:55 Toronto. Therefore, the Midland Division trains through - - Minutes of travel 235 242 260 205 Lindsay must have been irrelevant for most of the To• ronto to Peterborough passengers. Canadian Pacific Eastward Therefore, except for the Lindsay and Toronto mar• LvToronto 08:30 17:10 21:10* Ar Fteterborough 11:43 19:49 23:43* ket, the Midland Division was secondary in 1893 to the Minutes of travel 193 159 153 Canadian Pacific in moving passengers between Toronto and the major stations. So, the typical Midland Division * - Operated daily passengers must have been travelling between Toronto Source: Travelers' Official Guide, June 1893

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • 9 those for the Coboconk and HaHburton services, remained left for Lindsay and overnight. (Probably the best service almost unchanged for 40 years, that is until at least Janu• on this branch existed in 1922 when the "Old Road" mixed ary 1930 (The Official Guide of the Railways, January 1930). train made an afternoon retum trip from Lindsay and The "Old Road" between Omemee and Miilbrook had been Whitby and thus retained the 1893-styie evening retum abandoned in 1927 (Cooper 1972, Page 153) and by 1930 service from Toronto. This eUminated the need to base the mixed trains were gone from the main line. (This "Old locomotives overnight at Whitby and Port Perry as in Road" from MUlbrook to Omemee was the original main 1893.) line of the Midland Railway from Port Hope to Lindsay However, aU good things come to an end! Increased and OriUia and was intended to bring traffic to Port Hope automobUe usage, together with the Great Depression, harbour (Stevens 1960, Page 435). Later, when the Mid• decimated the demand for local raUway passenger travel land RaUway laid raUs from Omemee to Peterborough and everywhere. Also, better cost accounting may have shown provided a direct route to BelleviUe and Montreal, the that these local passenger services, whUe always marginal, "Old Road" became a minor branch serving several small were now very unprofitable. Therefore, in the early 1930s viUages.) Also dropped by 1930 was the fast "same day both raUways "swung the axe." return service" from Peterborough to Toronto; the early Canadian Pacific soon abandoned two Lindsay branch moming train still left for Port Hope but retumed imme• lines, the one between Burketon and Lindsay and the sec• diately. ond between Lindsay and OrUiia. (This latter line was By 1930, service was reduced to twice daUy between buUt around 1907 by the Georgian Bay and Seaboard Whitby and ManUla Junction. Consist D was now based RaUway, a Canadian Pacific subsidiary, to provide a direct at Lindsay; it left there at 05:30 for Whitby and retumed route for moving grain from CP's new facilities at Port to Manilla Junction at 09:50 to interchange passengers McNicoU on Georgian Bay to Montreal via Lindsay and in both directions with Consists A and B. Consist D again Dranoei. In effect, this "Seaboard" line provided Cana• left ManUla Junction at 10:35 for Whitby and then re• dian Pacific with a direct grain route, comparable to Ca• tumed to ManUla Jimction at 18:00. After interchanging nadian National's Midland Division line between Midland, passengers to, but not from, the Consist A and B trains, it Lindsay, and BelleviUe. Both these routings largely be• came obsolete when the fourth WeUand Canal opened in 1934 and it became cheaper to move most of the grain to Blackwater Junction, July 17, 1958 Montreal by water.) After these abandonments, CP con- -Paterson-George Collection

10 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 tinued a limited passenger service to Lindsay and prompted service reductions. At this time, the first to go Bobcaygeon; in effect their former daily except Sunday were the Peterborough and Port Hope passenger trains Havelock to Lindsay and Port McNicoU mixed train be• with the raUs soon to foUow. For a time. Consist A contin• come a Havelock to Lindsay and Bobcaygeon train. How• ued to provide a daUy except Sunday round trip leaving ever, by the early 1960s, even this service was abandoned Toronto for Peterborough in the morning and returning as were the tracks between Lindsay and Bobcaygeon. Fi- from there in the kte afternoon. However, on October naUy, in the late 1980s, CP persuaded their last freight 25, 1958, both this train and those of Consist C between shippers at Lindsay to use intermodal services at Peter• Lindsay, Blackwater Junction, and Midland made their borough and so permit their removal of the remaining last trips (Cooper 1972, Page 119). By this time, the Lindsay to Dranoei line. WhUe Canadian Pacific served Lindsay to Coboconk and HaUburton mixed trains were Lindsay for over 90 years, the tracing of most of their also gone. FinaUy, in late January 1962, the remaining former rights-of-way now chaUenges the most devoted BeUeviUe, Lindsay, and Toronto trains were dropped, thus and skUlful of dusty raiifans. ending over a century of passenger train service at Lindsay. By December 1933, Canadian National had dropped The abandonment of these passenger services was soon one passenger train between each of: Orillia and foUowed by the removal of the raUs. The former Midland Blackwater Junction, Peterborough and Port Hope, and RaUway main line between Lindsay, Cambray, LomeviUe, Peterborough and BeUeviUe. Similarly, the Coboconk serv• and Orillia as weU as the Coboconk line north of WoodviUe ice was reduced to a mixed train leaving Lindsay on Ihes- were removed in the mid-1960s. Then in the 1980s, the day, Thursday, and Saturday mornings and returning to BeUeviUe and Peterborough line was abandoned, soon to Lindsay that afternoon. WhUe these trains connected with be foUowed by that between Peterborough and lindsay. the main Consist A and B trains at Lindsay, and at Since 1990, the raUs have gone between Lindsay and LomeviUe with Consist C to and from Blackwater Jimc• Uxbridge, and, within recent weeks, permission has been tion and Toronto, the "same day retum service" from given to abandon the Orillia to Midland line. AU that now Coboconk to Toronto was gone. The HaHburton service remains of the Grand Trunk RaUways Midland Division also became thrice weekly with a mixed train leaving of 1893 is the Toronto and Uxbridge mUeage plus a few HaHburton for Lindsay at 05:30 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, mUes of msty raUs north from BeUeviUe to an abandoned and Saturdays, and then returning from Lindsay on these distiUeiy. It is interesting, however, that GO Transit now same days at 11:15 (Folder E, Canadian National RaU• provides commuter service between Toronto and ways, effective December 10, 1933). StouftvUle with the prospect of an eventual extension to Also by this time, the ManUla Junction and Whitby Uxbridge; that is, they are serving the portion of the line branch was served by a twice weekly mixed train leaving seemingly most attractive to passengers a century ago. Port Hope at 10:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays and pro• These "httle trains of long ago" would be anachro• ceeding to Lindsay via the former Canadian Northem nisms if stiU operated today. However, their replacement Ontario RaUways Orono Subdivision to Brinlook Cross• between Toronto and Lindsay in 1995 'is one bus leaving ing and on to Whitby. It then left Lindsay on Thursdays Toronto daUy at 17:00 with a second bus at 07:30 on Fri• and Saturdays at 09:50 and retumed to Port Hope at 18:05 days and Sundays. Both of these buses require 2 h 30 min again via Whitby and Orono. However, this token service for the journey, or shghtly less than the Canadian Pacific. was short-Uved. In 1937, the raUs were lifted between service via Burketon in 1930. WhUe these buses may be ManUla Junction and Port Perry and from there to Whitby aU that can be justified in terms of current traffic, as a around 1941. dusty railfan, it would still be great to have limch at On the main Une, Consist A continued much as it had Blackwater Jimction before exainining the LomevUe wye! in June 1893; it was now Train 92 and left Toronto at 08:25 for Port Hope via Lindsay and Peterborough and Acknowledgements retumed from Port Hope at 16:i5 as Train 95 to arrive at I would Uke to thank Gray Scrimgeour for the continued Toronto at 20:30. Consist B, however, .was now based in loan of his reproduction of the June 1893 TraveZZers' Offi• BeUevUle; it left there as Train 11 at 06:15 for Toronto cial Guide of the Railway and Steam Navigation Lines in and retumed from Toronto at 16:55 as Train 12. (In ef• the United States and Canada. I hope that this article, to• fect, the former Port Hope to Lindsay and Toronto train gether with the that on passenger service at Wallaceburg had become a BeUevUle to Lindsay and Toronto train.) in 1893, in the February 1992 UCRS Newsletter, wUl be Consist C stUl linked Lindsay with Midland, but it was seen as a partial payment for this help. I also appreciate now a "motor train with limited baggage accommoda• the comments of the various referees of this artide. tion." Also, it was now based in Lindsay; it left there at 08:45 for Cambray and LomeviUe to connect with Con• References sists A and B eastward and westward at Blackwater Junc• Travellers' Official Guide of the Railway and Steam Navigation Lines tion. It then proceeded to Midland, arriving there at 13:10. in the United States and Canada; June 1893 edition. Consist C then left Midland at 14:20 for Orillia and The Official Guide of the RaUways; January 1930 edition. Blackwater Junction. After connecting there with both Several Grand Trunk and Canadian National Railways schedules, the evening eastward and westward Consist A and B serv• as noted. ices, it retumed to lindsay via LomevUIe and Cambray. Stevens, G.R., Canadian National Railways, Volume 1, Toronto, This revised Consist C routrng retained a "same day re• Ontario, Clarke Irwin and Company 1960. tum service" with Toronto for the communities between Wilkins, Tayloi; Haliburton by Rail and the IB&O, Lindsay, Ontario, LomevUIe and Blackwater Junction. John Deyell Limited, 1992. These schedules, adopted about 1932, remained, al• Cooper Charles, Narrow Gauge for Us: The Toronto and Nipissing most unchanged tmtU the 1950s when economics again RaUwcy, Erin, Ontario, The Boston Mills Press, 1972.

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • I 1 CN's new St Clair Tunnel

TUNNEL BORING AND LINING The photos on these pages were taken on November 23, 1994, and show the con• struction that was imderway as boring of the new tunnel was nearing completion. The upper picture on this page shows the portal of the original tunnel to the left and that of the new turmel on the right. On the graded right-of-way for the line to the new tunnel is some of the equipment that was used in boring and lining the tun• nel. Near the camera are four mining trains, which carried excavated muck out of the turmel and carried precast concrete lining segments and seahng grout into the tunnel. The silo above the narrow-gauge tracks contained the grout. The crane hoisted buckets of muck to dump trucks which waited on the access road at the right. The crane also lowered lining seg• ments from trucks onto skeleton cars. The lower photo shows a westbound CN train at dusk entering the tunnel, en route to Port Huron, Michigan. The upper photo on Page 13 shows segments being loaded onto the skeleton cars that carried them to the face of the tunnel. The piece that is being loaded in this picture is the key segment, which was the last placed in each ring, at the top. The car beyond the three skeleton cars is a covered hopper to carry grout. The centre photo is looking toward the east inside the tunnel-boring machine, Excalibore, and shows a segment being moved forward from the narrow-gauge train toward the face. The miner working on the segment is installing a bolt that rvill be tightened once the segment is placed to make the ring of segments secure to the previous ring. The lower photo is looking forward to• ward the face, inside the TBM. An arm has picked up a segment and is rotating it to place it in the proper position, tight against the previous ring and the other segments in this ring. To the left of the miners are two hydraulic rams which were used to push the cutting head forward, away from the trailing part of the TBM. The cutting head is beyond the arm, past a watertight barrier, and the excavated clay muck was moved through the TBM as a slurry on an overhead conveyor.

12 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 TUNNEL OPENS/FERRIES MOORED The $200-niilhon relocated St. Clair Tun• nel opened on April 5 at 15:00 when a special display train, designated as Ad• vance 143, left Samia and entered the tun• nel. The train, consisting of double-stack container cars and tri-level autoracks, broke through a barrier of balloons at the portal in Port Huron at 15:15. The last train through the old tunnel was scheduled to be VIA Train 85, the JnternarionaZ, at 12:10. The first revenue train, No. 383, was ex• pected through the timnel one hour after the display train. The opening of the tunnel ended the last railway car ferry operation on the Great Lakes, once home to over 10 different routes. The last ferry, the Phyllis Yorke, was tied up on Hresday, April 4. She and her sister, the Margaret Yorke, made between 5000 and 6000 round-trips a year handling 80 000 cars aimuaUy. Ferry service between Port Huron and Sarnia first operated in the 1850s and lasted until 1891 when the old tunnel opened. Ferry service was restarted on March 10, 1971, to transport newer high- level boxcars and autoracks. Of the nine workers that remained in the ferry service, four have accepted other jobs and the rest took buy-out packages. The fate of the old tunnel is still uncertain, but there are plans to lay a natural gas pipeline through it. Consumers Gas is discussing with CN the possibility of running a new pipeline through the tunnel as a link from Michigan to its Tecumseh Road storage facility in Moore Township, Ontario. Boring of the new 6130-foot tunnel began in September 1993 and took 406 days to complete. The original tunnel took only 421 days to dig. Trains will operate through the new tunnel at 60 m.p.h., compared to only 15 m.p.h. in the old one, and the transit time for dimensional cars is reduced by 12 hours because the ferry connection is removed.

The official opening of the tunnel will be on May 6. Special trains will run from Battle Creek, Michigan (leaving at 07:30, with stops in Lansing and Flint), and Toronto (Train 609, leaving at 08:30, with stops at Brampton, Georgetown, Guelph, Kitchener, Stratford, and London) to Sarnia. The trains will return to Battle Creek at 16:30 and to Toronto (Train 610) at 17:15. GO Transit double-deck trains will shuttle through the tunnel, leaving from Sarnia on the hour and from Port Huron on the half-hour through the day.

-Photos by Gordon Webster and Pat Scrimgeour

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • 13 BOMBARDIER NEW T-l SUBWAY CARS • m m 1

Plan View -Iff 33/8-- No. 1 End No. 2 End 3134 mm Side View

(^^ • i i 69 58 7/8- 495 mr (1 Front View

General data Performance Based upon the design of Toronto's H-6 subvv^y cars, the Maximum design speed 88 km/h 55 m.p.h lightweight aluminum vehicles will incorporate changes and Maximum operating speed 80 km/h 50 m.p.h improvements developed by Bombardier to meet the TTC's needs. Acceleration rate 0.89 m/s^ 2.0 m.p.h.p.s. They represent Toronto's first production order for rapid transit Service braking i .30 m/s^ 2.9 m.p.h.p.s cars using alternating-current propulsion. Emergency braking i.39m/s^ 3.1 m.p.h.p.s. Minimum lateral curve radius 116m 380 Type of vehicle Rapid transit car Minimum vertical curve radius 610 m 2,000 Operator Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Date of order December 1992 Quantity 216 Electrical system Train consist 6-car train (3 married pairs) Power fed by third rail 600 VDC Auxiliary voltage 120/208 VAC Weight and capacity Low voltage 36.5 VDC Interior lighting Fluorescent Car weight (empty) 35 800 kg 78,750 lb Number of passengers per car Seated: 66 Standing: 184 Crush load: 3 15 Miscellaneous Carbody Aluminum and steel Dimensions Propulsion system AC motors Truck type Fabricated truck, M-A-N design Length (over anti-climbers) 22 698 mm 74' 5-5/8" Number of trucks 2 Length (over coupler faces) 22 787 mm 74' 9-1/8" Primary suspension Chevron elastrometric springs Width (over side sheets) 3 134 mm 10' 3-3/8" Secondary suspension Air springs Maximum width 3 150 mm 10' 4" Braking Pneumatic/rheostatic/regenerative Height (rail to roof) 3 658 mm 12' 0" (no brake pipe) Height (rail to top of floor) i 105 mm 43-1/2" Heating Overhead and baseboard heaters Doorway width (side, clear opening) • . i 524 mm 5' 0" Air conditioning Spi'rt system, 12 tons Doorway width (end, clear opening) ... 71 1 mm 28" Wheelchair location i Doorway height (side) i 930 rhm 6' 4" Couplers Automatic Floor to ceiling height (high ceiling) ... 2 i 84 mm 7' 2" Drawbars Between cars of married pair Wheel diameter (new) 711 mm 28" Monitoring system On-board computer with diagnostic Truck wheelbase 2 134 mm 7' 0" Truck centre distance 16 459 mm 54' 0" Track gauge i 495 mm 58-7/8" Diagram, text, and data from Bombardier brochure and TfC.

14 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 Research and Reviews

Just A. Ferronut's Sainte-Monique Lac-Saint-Jean is south of it. also a station on the old Temiscouata Rail• Railway Archaeology However their constmction date didn't seem way about midway between Riviere-du-Loup, to compute, and the map has no date for Quebec, and Edmundston, New Bmnswick. Art Clowes abandonment. So, it was back to the drawing These early writers figured that astonished 1625 ouest, boul. de Maisonneuve, Suite 1600 board! explorers exclaimed "ha! ha!" when they Montreai (Quebec) H3H 2N4 Our member Doug Brown's fathei; Robert found -their route was blocked, and E-Mail: 7! [email protected] R. Brown, had done a lot of research on subsequently named the body of water a many of the smaUer and older railway Unes Final (?) notes on northern Quebec Ha! Ha! of Quebec, and again some of his research Abandonment of the Linton —La Tuque.line You are probably tired by now of the railway has come to my rescue. In his article on the In our January column I indicated that the lines of northem Quebec, but here are a Alma and Jonquieres Railway published by information that I had on exactly what hap• couple of final items before we leave this the CRHA in their February 1950 News pened to the various portions of this 39.6- territory. The ink was barely dry on our col• Report, Mr. Brown stated that in 1929 con• mile line following its abandonment by Cana• umn before CN announced that it was setting struction started on a line from the terminus dian National in 1921 wasn't the greatest. up its remaining lines north of Gameau, of the Alma and Jonquieres RaUway at Isle- Ray Corley has sent along some extra infor• Quebec, as a separate operating entity that Maligne, toward Peribonka. Peribonka is a mation that better details some of the hap• should start operation in May 1995. Under community on the north shore of Lac Saint- penings after 1921. A section of 0.88 miles at this new agreement, reached in just two Jean about three-quarters of the way west of the east or Linton end along with five miles months, 1855 kilometres of track will be set Alma toward Dolbeau. As we mentioned in between Miles 15.53 and 20.53 (Mile 0.0 up as a semi-autonomous profit centre. This our December column, various proposals had was at Linton) was dismantled in 1923. The trackage wUl include the Quebec territory been made for the construction of a railway two remaining sections, as was mentioned in from Gameau north via Hervey Junction to around the north side of Lac Saint-Jean. This January were leased to sports clubs. Ray's Chapais and Chibougamau, including Cham- attempt by the Alma and Jonquieres Railway notes indicate that the lease for the eastern bord to Arvida, in the Lac Saint-Jean area was the one that proceeded the farthest. Mr. section of approximately 15 miles was and west to Matagami, La Sarre, and Noran- Brown went on to point out that in 1930, canceUed effective April 30, 1943, and the da-Rou}m. The westem terminal for this construction on this line was abandoned after track dismantling was completed on Septem• freight operation on the former National about 25 miles was completed. While this ber 22, 1943. Transcontinental Railway will be Mile 100.5 may not completely answer all the questions, The approximately 18 miles of leased just west of La Sarre. The remaining 84 miles such as was there any operation on the line, track in the west appeared to have remained from there west into Cochrane, Ontario, will it at least closes one more gap on northem connected to what became the CN Linton continue to be used only by VIA Rail's pass• Quebec's railway lines. Spup at La Tuque. Ray's information also enger trains. A trip to the Gameau yard late states that 10 miles from Mile 20.53 to MUe last fall revealed a number of track changes Bale des Ha! Ha! 30.53 of this westem section was dismantled underway in preparation for this change. So Whaf s in a name? After a couple of ques• with the work being completed by Jime 29, this is another facet of the changing Cana• tions about this name and its exclamation 1944. These notes further state that the dian railway scene, and I am certain that marks, it was to Alan Raybum's Naming remaining or most westerly eight miles of Gord Webster will keep you posted on the Canada: Stories about Place Names from the leased track continued to be leased to a news of these changes in Tlie Rapido. Canadian Geographic for some answers. First Mr. Raybum points out that Ha! Ha! comes sports club under a new lease until 1949. In Alma and Jonquieres Railway Update from the old French word "haha" that means 1949 the rails and fastenings were sold and After our first column hit the streets, Jim an unexpected barrier or dead end. This word had been removed by December 3, 1949. Gussow of Montreal contacted me about an can be traced back to the 15th century. A While it is not clear how extensive the new abandoned line on the east side of Lac Saint- look at the map in our December issue 1949 leases were, at least this eight-mile Jean, running north from Alma (Isle- reveals how early sailors conaing up the section of the right-of-way was leased to the Maligne), that he had come across in his Riviere Saguenay could have questioned sports club for use as a road. travels. A topographic map that Jim provided which branch was the main river. Howevei; Again, this information fills in a munber shows this line extended from the end of the an eight- or ten-kilometre trip into what we of gaps, but in my mind also leaves a munber A&J at Isle-MaUgne in a line sUghtly east of now caU Baie des Ha! Hal would reveal a of questions. I must stiU question whether due north, roughly paraUeling the county haha or a dead end route. In this case .there there may not have been some type of rail• survey grid for about 12 mUes north and then are ready two small bays or dead ends, hence way traffic over this line during the 20 years tumed 90 degrees west and extended for the plurality. or so that the rails remained in place after about another 12 miles or so to the east bank CN's abandonment. There's no question that Mr. Raybum traces the exclamation • of the Riviere Peribonca just north of Sainte- the rails would have been Ught, probably well marks to an interpretation of the origin of Monique Lac-Saint-Jean. below 80-pound. Howevei; one would envis• the village of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! spread A check of Cooks' map of Qudbec.Rail age considerable problems in establishing any by surveyors, writers, and even the surveyor- Lines 1850-1984 shows this Une as extending type of non-raU roadway with the rails stfll in general and map maker of Lower Canada. to Chute-a-la-Savane, a community about the place, even light ones. This Une traversed Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is a village on a haha same distance north of the abandoned line as good hunting and fishing terrain, including on the west side of Lac Temiscouata, and

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • 15 Research and Reviews its route along the north shore of Lac Waya- 1853 and it was opened for traffic about six- em Counties Railway across the Victoria gamac, and one can expect it was a lure to and-a-half years latep when the first traffic Bridge came to an end on June 19, 1955. many outdoor types at least during the passed over it on December 12, 1859. The Canadian National then imdertook to rebuilt 1920s. Perhaps things slowed down during first passenger train passed over it five days the downstream cantilevers to provide a new the 1930s and one can expect that the 1943 later on December 17, although the tubes wider roadway for highway vehicles. This was and 1944 rail removals could have been covering the 14th and 15th spans had not completed at about the end of 1955. driven by the need for rail in Europe during been finished. This original bridge had a The mid-1950s also saw the start of the the later stages of the second world war. single broad-gauge track. As was the practice most massive change to the Victoria Bridge So, while we'll close this subject for now, of the day, it was test-loaded by operating a since its reconstruction at the tum of the we will keep our eyes open for anything that train over it. The train consisted of 18 plat• century. This of course was caused by the could clarify the status of this trackage over form cars, loaded with stones as heavily as constmction of the new St. Lawrence Sea• the 20 years after CN's abandonment. they would bear; and drawn by two locomo• way. To ensure that both railway and ship tive engines. This test was done on December traffic could be maintained, a railway lift A Canadian first 17, before the first passenger train. bridge was constructed at each end of the In last month's column, we mentioned some In the spring of 1864, a third rail was new Saint-Lambert lock on the seaway. The of the advancements that were affecting laid across the Victoria Bridge, and on July 1, seaway lock starts at the upstream side of the Canadian railways and their construction, 1864, the standard-gauge trains of the original Victoria Bridge and extends almost including the arrangement between Canadian Montreal and Champlain Railroad and the 1200 feet upstream. It was at this upstream Pacific and Laurentide Air Service in the Vermont Central Railroad commenced run• end of the seaway lock that the second lift spring of 1924 for air service from Angliers, ning across the bridge and into Bonaventure bridge was constmcted. From the river side of Quebec. Well, Denis Tayloi; who has been Street Station. this upstream Kit bridge a new railway bridge supplying me with railway material from TIte The next change to the Victoria Bridge with a reverse curve was constmcted towards Cobourg World, just happened to forward an was in the 1870s as the railways converted Montreal. This new trackage connected back article on this subject that appeared in the their locomotives from wood-to coal-burning. to the old Victoria bridge at. the 17th span Thursday, September 4, 1924, issue. The To let the coal smoke and fumes escape from from Montreal. The same track configuration article quotes from T7ie Official Railway the covered Victoria Bridge, a strip of plating was constmcted from the shore side of the Guide: "so far as we are aware, this is the 20 inches wide was removed from the top upstream lift bridge with bridges over the first instance on this continent where inter• centre of the bridge. seaway's spillway and adjacent roads to join change of passenger traffic between railways After about 40 years of service, the great• the main Une near the Saint-Lambert station. and airplanes has been established." ly-increased weights of the more modem The constmction work on this diversion Victoria Bridge facelift locomotives and rolling stock, along with the bridge was imdertaken between 1958 and The recent newspaper advertisement for the increased volume of trains, were overtaxing late I960. It is the details of the completion fabrication of an overhead travelling crane to the original single-track tubular bridge. In of this bridge-work that Doug has been trying permit extensive work on the floor system of 1898, with only minor modifications to the to determine. Since the raUway work was this 96-year-old structure probably belongs in original bridge's masonry piers, the current finished without much fanfare, we are still the news column. But this and a couple of double-track through truss bridge was erected trying to find the date and details of the first questions from Doug Brown are enough to around the old tube structure. Since this train over the diversion spans. cause me to take a quick look at this, the work was carried on span by span with the The next substantial change to the Vic• second bridge on the original stone founda• erection of the new bridge around the old toria Bridge occurred in the mid-1960s when tions that have been a major link in the tubes, only short disruptions in railway ser• the water under the first span at the Mont• Canadian railway network for 134 years. vice wereJfequired to remove the old spans real end was fiUed in to permit the constmc• The first railways of Canada East had and place the rails on the new spans. The tion of the Autoroute Bonaventure under it as relied on ferry boats for the first 23 years of new double-track steel bridge became known part of the preparations for Expo 67. their existence to get to and from Montreal as the "Victoria Jubilee Bridge." A visit to the Victoria Bridge over the last Island. The railway link from Portland, The floor system of the new structure was while wouldmo doubt reveal bridge workers Maine, to Montreal first ended at Longueuil cantilevered out beyond the trusses on both busy with the first phases of the planned and then near Saint-Lambert (both on the sides of the bridge. In 1898, each extension maintenance work. Most of this work has south shore of the St. Lawrence). But as carried a vehicular roadway of 10' 9" wide as been limited to the old bridge between the plans were progressed for a line from Mont• well as a pedestrian 4' 3" sidewalk. start of the diversion bridge and the Saint- real west towards Toronto, the lack of a Friday, November 1, 1909, was an im• Lambert end. Because of the magnitude of bridge across the St. Lawrence would become portant day for the Victoria Bridge as the the required work, it is planned to install a real handicap especially in the winter. Montreal and Southem Counties Railway temporary crane ranways along the insides of An act of the Province of Canada passed started electric railway service between Mont• the trusses. This concept requires the least on March 17, 1853, permitted the Grand real and Saint-Lambert with two passenger amount of time to change between raUway Trunk Railway to construct a general railway cars. This new electric service used the north, operation and working, since the overhead bridge across the St. Lawrence River in the or downstream, roadway on the Victoria crane can remain in place, out of use, while vicinity of Montreal to be known as "The Bridge for.its track. Part of this 1909 trains are nm. So if you are in the Montreal Victoria Bridge." The railway was given changeover included the widening of the area in the next year or so, you may want to authority to receive toUs upon ordinary south, or upstream, side vehicular roadway to travel over the Victoria Jubilee Bridge to see vehicles, animals, and passengers passing 14 feet, and the removal of the pedestrian this facelift in progress. This work wUl let over the bridge. sidewalk. This vehicle roadway was further this historic stmcture have a useful Ufe well Work on this bridge, with its famous widened in 1927 to 16 feet between curbs. into the next century. tubular design, was commenced on July 22, The operation of the Montreal and South-

16 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 Research and Reviews stations difficult, and basically seasonal. Most people Fredericton Jet. and other stations. A number While we haven't touched much on stations who had to travel tried to do it during the of American guests were added at McAdam in the last few months, the interested parties ice-free months of the year when they could and the special train headed back to Fairville. have all kept up with their lengthy processes travel by ship from the various ports in the It was dark when the train arrived in Fairville to achieve their goals. A few more Canadian maritime pro-vinces around and through the and then extra time was needed to travel stations were declared as having heritage Gulf of St. Lawrence and -via the St. Lawrence over the suspension bridge to the E&NA car value earlier this year. The communities of River to Quebec and Montreal. sheds in Saint John where the banquet was Sayabec, Quebec, Newmarket, Ontario, and Winter travel was nigh near impossible, planned. Kamloops, British Columbia, are all in the and thus avoided whenever possible. Th.& Reporter, of Fredericton, in their story process of purchasing the Canadian National Snowshoes and horse-drawn sleighs was of the banquet, outlined how large and la-vish stations in their communities. about the best one could expect during the it was. "The caterer for the occasion was Mr. Keith Pratt pointed me towards an inter• winter months. Cregan of Boston who brought 50 waiters in esting article in last summer's issue of Cana• July 18, 1853, saw the opening of the on the American boat, and is to receive for dian Rail about railway stations on Prince complete railway line from Portland, Maine, his pains some $6,000 - just think of it, Edward Island written by Allan Graham. Mr. to Montreal (Longueuil). This meant one $6,000. As regards the edibles, everything Graham travelled some 3500 kilometres could take a steamer from places like Halifax, was there that the most 'educated appetite' around Prince Edward Island to determine Saint John, and Yarmouth to Portland and could desire, 'fish, flesh, and fowl, and all of what had happened to the province's railway then a train to Montreal. the best,* with entrees, side dishes, and stations. He was able to locate 59 railway The Woodstock Carleton Sentinel in Octo• wines ad libitum." Definitely a day and even• btiildings, mostly stations, but some engine ber 1857 carried an advertisement that one ing to remember! houses, bimkhouses, and tool houses, still could take an overnight steamer from Saint By about this same time E&NA's West• existing or in recycled use on the island. John, arri-ving in Portland the next moming em Extension from Bangoi; to Mattawam- While quite a battle royal raged on Prince in time to connect with the "Day Express keag, Maine, was completed. This portion, Edward Island over what should happen to Train" for Montreal and the west. They were along with the 56 miles from Mattawamkeag the abandoned railway right-of-way, it has even advertising "tourist tickets" to Saratoga • to Vanceboro, was later sold to the Maine been settled by the government in its favour. and Niagara Falls -via the White Mountains! Central. This 56-mile link was completed in Generally the farmers wanted the land While the European and North American 1871 and the line from Saint John, -via retumed to the farms that it severed, mainly Railway opened their line from Saint John McAdam and Mattawamkeag, to Bangor was to avoid mban trespassers and vandals wan• eastward to Moncton on August 1, 1860, officially opened during th week starting on dering around their farms. The government their plans for an extension westward were Monday, October 16, 1871. This opening and the townies (oops; wrong island!) still in the planning stages. The St. John made the E&NA's 1869 opening festi-vities favoured converting the old rights-of-way into River on the westem edge of Saint John was look hke a church picnic. trails for hikers and cyclists. Mr. Graham had and would remain a major block for about 25 The festivities started on Monday Octo• a photo with his article of the paved trail years in the E&NA's plan for its Westem ber 16, 1871, when the first regular train across the Hillsborough River bridge at Extension to Bangoi; Maine. went over the road, conveying a large num• Mount Stewart. A recent article in the Globe It took until 1869 to complete the link ber of in-vited guests and from 80 to 100 and Mail states that 77 kilometres of trail in from Saint John (Fairville, on the west bank ordinary passengers from Saint John to the Mount Stewart-Elmira area in the north• of the river) to the New Brunswick and Bangor. east part of the province has now been paved Canada Railway and Land Company's line at "Bangor put on a gala day attire, and the and is ready for touring by hikers and eye-- McAdam, New Brunswick, and Vanceboro, city was aglow, by day with bunting, decor• lists. Maine, on the U.S. border. ative and commemorative emblems, and by In this month's Tempo Jr., published by McAdam (originally City Camp) had its night, with illuminations and transparencies." the Forest City Railway Society of London, first trains early in 1858 as the New Bmns- The opening ceremonies in Bangor took co-editor George Roth reports changes to the •wick and Canada Railway and Land Company place on October 18, -with about every digni• abandoned CN Dmmbo Subdivision in (pre-viously the St. Andrews and Quebec tary imaginable in attendance including "a Ontario (the Buffalo, Brantford and Railway) extended its line from St. Andrews live President of the United States," President Goderich); north towards Canterbury, Debec, and Rich• Grant. "Has anyone noticed the battle scars mond, New Bmnswick. The party, including President Grant, inflicted upon the quiet village of Dmmbo Regular service over the E&NA's West• travelled to Vanceboro, where on Thursday last summer and fall? Town fathers chose to em Extension connecting Saint John, October 19, "an immense tent had been have sewer and water mains installed village- Fredericton Jet. (the junction with the line erected and a plate, cup and saucer laid for wide - gone are ah those beautiful large from Fredericton), and McAdam started on 1300 persons. The trains bearing the Presi• maples and gone is any trace of the former Wednesday November 17, 1869. This service dent Grant and guests from the west was CN Drumbo , Sub. that crossed the centre of provided access to Woodstock, St. Andrews, welcomed by a salvo of artillery, and there town. The 'gull/ has been filled in, leaving and St. Stephen. were soldiers and bands to give the reception no trace of the former trackage or many The formal opening with an excursion a military impressiveness." overpass crossings." over this section of the Westem Extension The early hours of Friday morning saw Railway was on Wednesday, December 1, the cars carrying President Grant and others McAdam: the original gateway to Canada 1869. The accounts state that the opening leave on a train heading west towards Prior to July 18, 1853, -travel between the was made in a gallant style, thanks to the Bangor. The greater portion of the guests, Maritime Pro-vinces (Nova Scotia, Prince generosity of the contractor E. R. Burpee. An many from New Brunswick, along with about Edward Island, and New Brunswick) and the excursion train ran from Saint John to 100 Americans, took a train east to Saint Canadas (Quebec and Ontario) was slow. McAdam, picking up extra guests at John for the celebrations there. On Friday

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • 17 Research and Reviews evening, the governor general, the provincial miles an hour." able to get back past June 1889, when re• lieutenant-govemoi; and other invited guests This first train was late, as the Carleton porting on the abandonment and sale of the were entertained at dinner at the Victoria Sentinel of Woodstock stated: "Owing to CPR "Short Line." Hotel in Saint John, "at which good feeling, unavoidable circumstances, the schedule time mirth, and a goodly interchange of friendly was not made, and the train was not con• sentiment prevailed." Apparently, the state of nected with the regular New Bmnswick Books Maine must have been in grip of the temper• Express (at McAdam), but went to Saint John ance people, for one reporter states, "the as a special, making the distance from Halifax trolley coaches Maine law was not in force here, and McAdam, 84 miles, in 2Vi hours." Halifax - City of Trolley Coaches, by Paul A. inspiriting, if not reasonable influences were The Fredericton paper completed its story Leger and Loring M. Lawrence is a 116-page at work." by stating that "The train arrived at Saint 872 X 11" softbound book on coated paper Today this week of partying may seem John at 3:15 o'clock, standard on Monday with over 100 photographs, 10 maps, and excessive to celebrate the completion of a aftemoon, June 3rd. The station house and numerous reproductions of tickets, transfers, short length of railway. The big celebration streets in front of it were thronged with advertisements, and cartoons, plus equipment was what the last miles of rah meant: the people, fully 12 or 15 hundred persons being rosters and statistics. Published by the Bus completion of an international link. More collected. As the train rolled across Mill History Association. Canadians can obtain important to Canadians was that with that Street a loud cheer was given. The cars were this thorough study from Bemard Drouillard, first westbound train on October 16, 1871, inspected and then an Intercolonial engine 965 MacEwan, Windsor Ontario N9B 2G1 people in southem New Brunswick could now was hitched on and the joumey to Halifax for $24.00, postpaid. For U.S. orders, send travel year 'round by rahway via McAdam, was begun." $23.00 (U.S.), and for overseas orders by surface mail, $25.00 (U.S.), to Loring M. Bangoi; and Portland to Montreal. This route The Moncton Daily Times, June 4, 1889, Lawrence, 195 Lancelot Drive, Manchester was 582 miles between Saint John and stated that the "C.P.R. fast train" was "about New Hampshire, U.S.A. 03104. Montreal. one hour behind time when handed over to About a year latei; on November 9, 1872, the I.C.R. Between Saint John and Moncton —J. D. Knowles the line from Moncton to Halifax was she made up 27 minutes, and after leaving New local-interest books opened. Moncton ran on schedule time a great part of The following are recent low-key local-inter• The line through McAdam was the only the way. Hot boxes caused some delays, est publications that may be of interest to railway connection between Central Canada howevei; and by the time the train had raiifans and railway book collectors. While and the maritime provinces until June 12, reached Halifax she was again an hour late." we haven't reviewed these publications, 1 am 1876, when the first freight train travelled Hardly the celebrations experienced with going to mention them since I often don't over the Intercolonial Railway between the openings of the European and North hear about local interest books until they are Riviere-du-Loup and Moncton. Passenger American Railway, but it did provide a third no longer available. —Art Chwes train service over the ICR commenced on July and an even shorter link between the parts of 3, 1876. The distance between Saint John what was now Canada. The distance between Greater Winnipeg Water District and Montreal over the Intercolonial route is Montreal and Saint John over the CPR route The first book is The Muskeg Limited, by 745 miles, 163 mhes longer than via Bangor, through Maine was 481 miles, 101 miles Peter Lacey. This new volume is about the first 80 years of the Greater Winnipeg Water Southem New Bmnswick sthl had that shorter than via Bangor and 264 miles District railway in Manitoba. This new book one gap in its railway network, the bridge shorter than by the ICR route. is 94 pages plus covei; 81/2 x IIVT' vertical over the St. John River at Saint John. On Unlike most railways, the CPR Short Line format, hard cover with 89 good black and January 8, 1886, this gap was closed with was opened to passenger traffic first. Accord• the opening of the railway bridge over the ing to the Carleton Sentinel of Saturday, July white photos printed on uncoated stock. Reversing Falls gorge between Saint John and 6, 1889, it was about four weeks later when There are also three track diagrams, five tariff Fairville. "the first through freight from Montreal by charts, three timetables, and one map, as well as one roster of the GWWD's railway Since I haven't yet got more than one C.P.R. reached McAdam on Wednesday equipment. Price for this book is $27.95, plus news chpping, the dates of the following trip moming. Eight car loads." $2.00 postage and handling. The book is over the new CPR Intemational of Maine Intemational passenger service that available from Anvil Crafts, P.O. Box 233, St. "Short line" may have been either Wednes• permitted railway travel between central Vital Station, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2M 4A5. day May 15, or May 22, 1889: Canada and the maritime provinces through "Mr. Van Home, president of the C.P.R., McAdam, was continuous from October 16, Salem and Hillsborough and Mr. R. B. Angus, a director of the com• 1871, to November 14, 1981, when VIA The second publication is a mimeographed pany, left Montreal at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday removed the service. 14-page booklet on the Salem and Hills• night and reached Saint John at 4:00 p.m. After an almost four-year gap, VIA borough Railroad, which they put out in the Thursday, a quick run even for a special." restored its Atlantic service via the state of fall of 1994. It contains a brief history of the 77je Capital, of Fredericton, reported on Maine and McAdam on June 1, 1985. This original railway, followed by a description of Jime 8, 1889, "that several hundred persons daily service lasted until January 15, 1990, the sights as one takes a trip along the S&H. were present in the handsome new C.P.R. when it was reduced to a train each way on The main portion of the booklet describes in Station at Montreal last Sunday evening, three days a week. This lame-duck service reasonable detail the equipment that the S&H June 2nd, to witness the departure of the still averaged over 100,000 passengers a year had. It closes with a preliminary list of their first train on the Short Line for Saint John. until the most recent cut on December 15, equipment lost in the September 16, 1994, Promptly at 8:30, Conductor John Cunning• 1994, when all passenger service through fire. This publication is available at $5.00 ham shouted "all aboard," Engineer James McAdam ceased again. plus $1.00 postage and handling from Pat Wells opened the valves, and the train left Note: I considered I had to write this, and David Othen, 2 Beverley Street, Dart• the station, bowling along at the rate of 45 since most of the press didn't seem to be mouth, Nova Scotia B2X 2K3.

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Stations in Ontario The third book is Directory of Railway Stations of Ontario by Dave Savage. This soft-covered book details the current location of numerous railway stations in the province of Ontario. This book is volume one of a planned two- volume set, with the goal to detail the loca• tion of as many existing railway stations as possible in the province, and where they can be now found. A useful tool, especially to track down relocated depots that may also have been remodelled. This book is available from Canadian Station News, PO. Box 171, Cobourg, Ontario K9A 4K5, and sells for $19.95.

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Item 54 British railbuses in Canada in 1986 Question from: John F. Legg Can anyone help to shed some light on the River bridge was not up for boat traffic. The food item, for the local food bank. British-built railbuses that visited Canada in cars were also tested on the BCR, from North The train consisted of GP38-2 1803, a 1986? Vancouver to Squamish, about June 20, running steam generator cai; 12 coaches, and FP7 I definitely know that a standard two car as Passenger Extra RBIOO. The cars run back-to- 1520 on the rear for the return trip. The train Class 142 "Pacer" built by British Leyland and back and have a cab on each end. Unit 5S640 is travelled about 15 miles west, picked up ERE (British Rail Engineering), painted in equipped with a washroom. Santa Claus, and returned. The entire trip two-tone blue, visited Canada for Expo 86. Item 55 took about two hours. The train then pro• The only modifications made to the unit were CNR steam on the Bala Sub in the 1950s ceeded to Hearst, for a similar venture on the to fit it with ditch lights and a bell. It appar• Request from: And/ Lawrence Sunday, and returned to Cochrane late that ently operated a couple of times on BCR I am searching for pictures taken in the day. Fortunately, my wife acted as a volun• passenger services and did a daily service to 1950s of Canadian National steam locomo• teer hostess, as I wanted to get some shots the Expo 86 site over the B.C. Hydro Rail• tives. I am particularly interested in the for Rail and Transit. She said that it was a way. There is a published photo by Michael 3300-class Mikado or 2600-series Consolida• very happy train and was enjoyed by all Wilkie of the Class 142 unit crossing the tion locomotives on the Bala Subdivision aboard. Serpentine River at Mileage 11.9 on the between South Parry and Toronto. Please Ontario Northland certainly deserves a lot Fraser Ifelley Subdivision of B.C. Hydro. The write to me at 21 Prince Arthur Avenue in of credit for this excellent public-relations photo was taken at 09:45 on June 28, 1986. Richmond Hill, Ontario, or call me at performance. I am certain that a single-car demonstra• 905 773-7811. The photo shows FP7 1520 on the east tor also visited Canada for Expo 86 but can end of the train, as it approaches the station find no real evidence to prove this. If it did, Item 56 at Kapuskasing on its retum trip. this unit was also built by British Leyland and ONR "Santa Claus Express" BRE. I seem to remember seeing a photo• Message from: Richard Rathbone Item 57 graph of it on the BCR in Modern Railways For several years, the Ontario Northland has South Simcoe Rallwa/, 1995 schedule but cannot find the picture now. I believe it had a tradition of supplying a courtesy pass• Message from: South Simcoe Railway was made from Leyland "National" bus body enger train called the "Santa Claus Express." This summer trains leave from Tottenham, and mechanical parts mounted on a two-axle This train departs every Saturday and Sunday Ontario, every hour from 10:00 to 16:00 on underframe, was painted in green and white during the Christmas season from a different the following days: Sundays from May 21 to with "BRE-Leyland Railbus" in large white major community served by the ONR system. October 8; Mondays May 22, August 7, letters on the side, and carried the vehicle The community provides a sponsor who is September 4, and October 9. number RDB977020. responsible for volunteers who maintain Trains leave at 10:30, 11:30, 13:00, coach control, supplies Santa Claus, and Excerpt: UCRS Newsletter, November 1986 14:00, and 15:00 on Saturday, July 1, on supplies any extras such as treats. The B.C. Hydro Railway was running British Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from On December 17,1994, it was Kapuskas- Leyland railbus units comprising cars 55590 and July 3 to August 30, on September 25, 26, ing's tum for the first time since it became 55640 between New Westminster and Abbots- and 27, and on October 2, 3, and 4. ford, B.C. on three round-trips daily during part part of the ONR system a little over a year Fares are $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for of the summer. The set tied up at Huntingdon, ago. The sponsor for Kapuskasing was the seniors and students, $3.00 for children, and three miles east (geographically south) of Ab- Model City Mall Association and they did a $18.00 for families of up to two adults and botsford each night, and made no stops except super job. A total of 1149 children, ten years three children. For reservations, call for Ahbotsford, The retum fare was $8.00 with old or youngei; showed up at the former VIA 905 936-5815 between 13:00 and 15:30 on a mnning time of 90 minutes, although the run station. (No parents are allowed on the trip.) weekdays. The SSR's address is EO. Box 186, could be pierformed in 65 minutes if the Fraser The fare for the trip was one non-perishable Tottenham, Ontario LOG IWO.

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water and may not be removed. Two cars of SCO EXPANSION sodium chlorate broke open contaminating A short line in the U.S. was dosed and the the lake water. The line was blocked until assets split between the owning railways, Soo March 4 and Amtrak's Adirondack service and BN, which each had a 50 percent stake. was affected. During the closure CP traffic Last February the U.S. ICC approved the divi• was detoured to Toronto and then south to sion of the 45-mile long Davenport, Rock the U.S. During the clean-up, the CN Auxili• Island and North Westem Railway, located in ^«TERN CANADA ary crane from Taschereau Yard was used the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa. and had three LMS units for motive power. Both BN and Soo operated their trains over Gordon Webster — Toronto Star, Press-Republican, the line. In the division: Soo receives full 78 Scarboro Beach Boulevard Al Tuner, Richard Bojman ownership of 32 miles of track on the west Toronto, Ontario M4E 2X1 side of the Mississippi River between Daven• CAST ACQUISITION APPROVED E-Mail: [email protected] port and Clinton, Iowa, as well as exclusive The NTA has approved the purchase by CP of ownership of track that Soo owned jointly the CAST Group Ltd.'s container business. CN CP RAIL SYSTEM with BN in the Clinton area. Soo gained its has filed with the Federal Court of Appeal to DERAILMENTS stake in the DRl in the 1985 bankruptcy sale overturn the NTA's ruling, which included a Twenty people were forced from their homes of the Milwaukee Road. The new arrange• 30-day period in which appeals could be after a CP freight train derailed near Bonfield, ment eliminates the need for having a third filed. CP's Canada Maritime shipping along Ontario, on the evening of February 9. Nine carrier providing service to on-line customers with CAST would give CP control of 80 cars on the 31-car train derailed along the that the two larger railways can serve direct• percent of container traffic through the Port shore of Lake Nosbonsing, one mile south• ly. Both carriers retain the right to operate on of Montreal. CP now must await the approval west of Bonfield. Two of the derailed cars former lines of the DRI, through trackage of the Canadian Competition Bureau. which rolled on their sides contained rights or reciprocal switching. -La Presse via Rex Rundie anhydrous ammonia but there were no leaks. —Journal of Commerce On February 9, 13 of 126 cars on CP INTERMODAL DETOURS ABANDONMENT Train 200 (Superior, Wisconsin-Chicago) A labour dispute involving longshoremen in The St. Marys Subdivision in southwestern derailed at Dodge, Wisconsin. Some of the Montreal greatly affected CP's intermodal Ontario was abandoned effective March 6 derailed cars struck cars on Train 615 (Chica• operations. Longshoremen were locked-out between Miles 5.5 (near Zorra) and 23.6 (St. go-Pecten, Alberta) waiting in the siding for from their jobs from March 7 to March 23, Marys). The remainder of the line between 200 to pass. shutting the port down during that time. Miles 4.3 and 5.5 will be considered other Thirty of 112 cars from Train 556 (Mont• Numerous trains were detoured to Halifax than main track. CP will compete for busi• real-Washington) derailed beside Lake over CN lines its labour troubles began, and ness at St. Marys under interswitching provi• Champlain at Port Henry, New York, on Trains 501, 502, and 508 were frequently sions under the National Transportation Act. March 1. Two cars of cement fell into the operated to Quebec. Trains 928 and 929 Abandonment was approved December 5, lake and a car of sodium chlorate dropped were not operated during the closure of the 1994. Traffic on the line in 1993 averaged into a pond on the opposite side of the track. port. When the port closed, there were five fewer than five freight carloads per week. The two cement cars fell into 25-foot-deep container ships waiting to load or unload in the port. A CAST ship was diverted to Quebec QUEBEC NETWORK FOR SALE to complete its unloading, while four Canada CP is renewing talks to sell its network in Maritime ships were diverted to Halifax. CP i NEW STCUM EMUs southern Quebec and Vermont, hoping to gave one leased until to CN to operate on Several pairs of Bombardier electric multiple-unit complete the sale by the end of the year. The detoured trains. When work stopped at CN, cars for the refitted Montreal - Deux-Montagnes lines for sale include the Adirondack and five units were stranded on CN's lines. line at the new yards in Saint-Eustache, Quebec. Sherbrooke subdivisions between Saint-Jean -Photo by Ted Wickson, February 27. 1995

20 • Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 Transcontinental Railway and transit news from coast to coast and Lennoxville, Quebec, the Saint-Guillaume group of investors led by a Florida-based MONTREAL DEVELOPMENTS Subdivision between Famham and Sainte- hotel management company. The consortium CP is currently working on a number of Rosalie Junction, the Stanbridge Subdivision is comprised of Ocean Properties Limited, of development proposals for unused yards in between Famham and Stanbridge, and the Boynton Beach, Florida, and the Montreal the Montreal area: Newport and Lyndonville subdivisions extend• Real Estate group Thibault, Messiei; Savard • Outremont Yard — Plans are for a $525- ing from Brookport to Wells Rive^ Vermont. (yes, Serge Savard, the General Manager of le miUion housing project in the northem part These lines serve 50 customers and a traffic club de hockey Canadien that will be playing at of the city bordering Montreal. It is plaimed base of about 10 000 originating and termin• Windsor Station next season) et Associes Inc. to constmct 1900 housing units as well as ating carloads of freight annually. An addi• The 600-room hotel was built for Montreal's commercial buildings and greenspace on the tional 25 000 carloads of overhead traffic are Expo 67 and recently underwent $3-million existing yard. Many consultation meetings are handled to the CDAC at Sherbrooke, destined in renovations. CP Hotels also operates the being held with the public informing them of for the Atlantic provinces and Maine. Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal and when the progress of the project. Prospective purchasers that earlier it had both hotels, had 27 percent of all hotel • Angus shops - CP will tum over two expressed serious interest in the operation rooms in Montreal, -la Presse via Rex Pundle million square feet of land to a local econ• have been contacted with detailed informa• WINDSOR STATION RESTORATION omic development group to develop an indus• tion so that proposals cn be prepared. The A consortium of architects has been selected trial park. The Corporation deDeveloppement finalist for negotiations is expected to be by CP to oversee the renovation and restora• EconomiqueCommunautaireRosemont-Petite chosen this summer and the sale should be tion of Windsor Station in Montreal. The Patrie wfll use the westem part of the land finished by the end of the year. Any sale must work, estimated to cost between $8- and for light industry. The eastem part of the be first approved by the NTA and the U.S. $10-million, is part of the new Montreal land will be sold to developers who will build ICC. Forum development project, and work to the hundreds of residential buildings. The first QCR UPDATE station is expected to be finished by February phase is expected to begin in 1997. The There is still hope for the abandoned Quebec 1996. The consortium is comprised of shops closed in 1992 after almost 100 years Central Railway. CP agreed not to dismantle Anderson Architects, Louis Joseph Papineau of activity. Architects, and Thomas Robert Reiner Archi• the line before April 22 to allow organisers to • Westmount - After six years of negoti• tects. This team's experience includes work consider the acquisition of the railway. The ations, CP has abandoned its proposed devel• on: Montreal's St-George's Church, the QCR's last train was on November 10 when opment project for Glen Yard. The project masonry of StTMatthias' Church in West- CP RSI8 1859 and a van made the trip to included plans for a residential development mount, the conversion of the Macaulay Build• Thedford Mines to pick up two empty cars. on seven hectares (17 acres) of land at the ing (formerly St-Andrew's Church) for West- -Le Soleif southem extremity of the city. CP and the mounds Selwyn House School, la Maison SHUTTLE TRAIN city could not agree on housing density for Alcan in Montreal, les Terrasses de la Chau- During labour disruptions on CP, the com• the site. The yard will continue to be used for diere in Hull, Winnipeg Square, the Expo 67 pany operated a shuttle train service for all railway operations for now. Quebec Pavillion, and the Peel Metro station employees to report for work without having on Montreal's subway system. One architect —Montreal Gazette and Jacques Messier to cross picket lines. The service began in took the restoration and renovation of SNOWMOBILE COLLISIONS Toronto on March 19 and operated east from Windsor Station as her thesis project. This past winter saw a number of people Toronto Yard to Whitby making stops at Changes to the station that have been Brock Street and Whites Road. West from killed when snowmachines they were driving approved by the Historic Sites and Monument Toronto Yard, it made stops at Agincourt, collided with trains. Near Barrie, a 21-year- Board by an Order-in-Council on January 28, Leaside, and Yonge Street. Six runs were old student was killed when he drove his 1993, include: made each day in each direction at four-hour machine into the side of a CP freight train on headways. This service lasted until the mom• • Restoration of the de la Gauchetiere Street Febmary 7 at a railway crossing on a snow• ing of March 24. There was also a bus shuttle carriageway by reopening its traditional mobile trail. Police say the southbound train service operated in Toronto until March 25. entrances and the removal of the metal was travelling about 60 m.p.h. and was canopy; Former CNR coaches were brought in stirring up clouds of snow when late that • Restoration of the concourse including the from the Green Mountain Railroad with night two snowmobiles drove into the side of replacement of the skylight windows; TVBX 5046, 4990, and 4989 in Toronto, and the train. The second driver received serious • Opening of the north vaults as part of the in Montreal TVBX 6608, 5805, and 4980. injuries and a third driver was able to stop in underground link to the new Montreal Forum They were to be used for shuttle service but time. The collision broke a brake hose on the as well as the Metro entrance on de la Gau• they were not used in Toronto. Instead, four train which forced an emergency stop. The chetiere; or five vans were used in Toronto and motive coroner has not yet decided whether to call • The restoration of the grand staircase power was normally two GP9s, one on each an inquest. which links the public entrance at the comer end. One day, however two VIA F40PHs A 14-year-old boy was killed near Bal- of Peel and Saint-Antoine Streets, to the con• were substituted for the GP9s. Boarding cars gonie, Saskatchewan, when his machine were also dispatched to Toronto and Mont• course; collided with a freight train at a level cross• real in case employees needed to be housed • Two original entrances, one on de la Gau• ing. This accident occurred Febmary 12 at within the yards. At Toronto, meals were chetiere Street and one on Peel Street, will around 14:00. provided free on the cars so that employees be refurbished; Another snowmobiler was struck and did not have to cross picket lines to buy any • The restoration of the westem facade of killed by the Ocean on the CN in Beresford, meals. -ftjt Semp/e the Maxwell wing, following the removal in 1993 of the Mud Hut. New Brunswick, on Febmary 7, delaying the HOTEL TO BE SOLD Work will be under way in September eastbound train for three hours. A Sudbury CP sold its Chateau Champlain Hotel in and completed in Febmary 1996. man hit a CN train 19 rrules south of Sud• Montreal for a reported $18-million to a —Daily Commera'ol News and Construction Record bury on March 8. —Toronto Star and Tom Box

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1994 PROFIT. in northwestem London derailing two loco• Noranda, Quebec, to BeUedune, New Bruns• Canadian Pacific Limited posted a profit of motives and six cars. Train 308 (Samia— wick, left the tracks. Two derailed cars lost $393-million for 1994 after suffering a $191- Dartmouth), which was 12 cars long, was all of their contents and five others lost half million loss the year before. High natural gas stopped waiting for a signal to proceed on their load before being plugged that night. An prices and tourism helped boost profits. The the south track at Mile 4.2 on the Strathroy eighth car was at the bottom of the lake and most improved businesses were PanCanadian Subdivision when it was rear-ended by Train it took divers more than a day to locate it. Petroleum, CP Rail System, and CP Ships. 272 (Pontiac—Toronto) which was foUowing The pH level of the water dropped to 2.7, The railway had an operating income of behind at more than 30 m.p.h. The two loco• which is more addic than vinegap wiping out $277-miILion last yeai; up from $245-inillion motives (CN HR616 2105 and LMS the fish population in the lake and rivei: in 1993, attributed to higher traffic levels in Dash 8-40CW 723) along with the first two Lime was dumped into the waterway by tmck Canada, but also offset by a strike on the Soo cars of the 41-car Train 272 derailed, and the and helicopter to neutralise the add but ice Line. CP Ships had an operating income of last four cars on Train 308 also derailed, near prevented it from being effectively spread. $86-milIion, up from $55-iniUion in 1993 the Hyde Road overpass in London. Two of The cause of the derailment was a broken with more container carryings and improved the derailed cars were empty two carried rail which was not detected by a test engine rates. PanCanadian Petroleum had an operat• grain, and two were loaded with auto parts. that preceded the add train by 15 minutes. ing income of $407-milliorL, compared with The derailment damaged more than 300 feet About 2000 feet of track was damaged and . $308-nullion in 1993. CP Hotels and Resorts of track and closed the line imtfl that even• the line was reopened on the evening of had income of $73-million, up from $57- ing. The north track was reopened at 23:40 Monday, January 23. miUion in 1993. -G/ofce and Mail via Rex Rundie that night and the south track was reopened Around 11:00 on January 29, the 15th at 18:30 Friday evening after the locomotives and 16th cars on 119-car CN Train 382 (Flat PLANS IN 1995 were rerafled. Train 392 (Samia-Toronto) Rock—Toronto) derailed at Dorchestei; Rob Ritchie, CP Rail's new chief executive was the first train through the derailment Ontario, on the Dundas Subdivision. The officer says the company wants to abandon, site. derailment was caused by a bumt joumal on sell, or create internal shortline companies on The engineer on Train 272 suffered a one of the derailed boxcars, which also 994 miles of track in Eastem Canada this fractured leg and was in hospital ovemight ignited some bagged rice in the cat The line year and abandon 684 miles of track in and a second crew member suffered cuts and was closed down resulting in a number of Westem Canada rmder pending reforms to bmises and was released Thursday night. trains being detoured over the Guelph Subdi• the Westem Grain Transportation Act. He During the closure of the line, VIA pass• vision through Stratford and Kitchener also says CP wfll pursue expansion into the engers travelling between London and Samia Included in the detoured trains were Trains U.S. in 1995 through possible alliances with or Windsor were carried by bus around the 73, 144, 383, and '385. The track was U.S. carriers. He refused to say if the com• derailment. reopened by the end of the day. pany will attempt to acquire any U.S. rail• Media reports incorrectly identified a Six cars on a CN switching assignment ways. The railway is also spending $500- third train being involved in the accident. derailed February 13 at a factory west of million this year on intermodal terminal Train 208 was stopped ahead of Train 308, Kingston. The accident occurred around expansion, new locomotives, freight cars, and also travelling eastbound and waiting for a 09:00 at the Celanese Canada polyester fibre computers. —Financial Post signal to proceed, but it was not involved. production plant in Mfllhaven. The six cars SHORTS There were also erroneous reports that one of left the track, slamming into a plant building, CP Hotels is opening a new global reservation the trains involved was a VIA train, but there severing a power line, and spilling some non• centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. The are no passenger trains that operate in this toxic powered acid. There were no injuries centre wfll handle calls from around the area at that time of moming. reported. world for CP's 26 Canadian resorts and —London Free Press via Rex Pundle One car derafled on a yard assignment on hotels. CP is also contributing $1.2-mfllion February 26 inside the old St. Clair River WEEKEND FROM HELL towards a $5.7-million retrofit of the Tunnel. The crew was not immediately aware The weekend of January 28 and 29 were not Assumption Place complex in Moncton. of the situation and the car was dragged pleasant days for CN in southem Ontario. To —Globe and Mail some distance, damaging ties and a water start the day off on Simday an intermodal pump inside the tunnel, causing a high water crane at the Brampton Intermodal Terminal CN NORTH AMERICA condition. VIA Trains 685 (Amtrak 367) and was destroyed by a fire. Then there was the 688 (Amtrak 366) were terminated in Port derailment in Dorchester followed by a COLLISIONS Huron and Sarnia and passengers were taken collision in near Welland that evening. In all Southbound CN Train 333 (Toronto-Buffalo) by bus between the trains. Westboimd pass• that weekend, there were three minor derail• ran into the rear of roadswitcher Train 551 engers were delayed over two hours and ments, in Oshawa Yard, a three-car derail• which was stopped on the tracks near Wel- eastbotmd ones about an bout ment in the GM Oshawa South plant, a two- land around 19:00 on January 29. AU three car derailment in Hamilton, a two-car derail• Twenty-six cars on 89-car CN Train 422 locomotives (9421,2113, and 2114) and two ment in Toronto's MacMfllan Yard, and an (Senneterre-Gameau) derafled at Mile 98.8, grain cars from 333 derailed along with the electrical fire in a locomotive at the MacMfl• La Tuque Subdivision, at Lac-Chat at 17:25 caboose on 551. The accident took place in lan Yard diesel shop. on March 3. Most of the derailed cars carried Southem Yard at Mile 17.0 on the Stamford cut lumber destined for Kruger. The derail• Subdivision. Three crew members from 333 DERAILMENTS ment was caused by damaged track from a were taken to hospital and were released. A freight train derailment on Saturday, Jan• derailed car on Train 421 (Montreal-Senne- Traffic was detoured through the yard while uary 21, caused 226 000 litres of sulphuric terre) going the other direction. The damaged crews cleaned up. The line was restored to add to leak into the confluence of le Petit track broke when Train 422 passed over it. full service on Febmary 2 and damage was Lac Masketsi and la Riviere Towachiche in a Employees worked for 56 hours to reopen the estimated at a half-million dollars. remote area near Hervey Quebec. The wreck line by 21:00 March 5. There were no One CN freight train rear-ended a second occurred just after 10:00 when 28 cars on injuries to the three crew members on the freight train at 03:55, Thursday, Febmary 16, the 44-car unit add train travelling from train but a cottage beside the tracks did

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sustain heavy damage from flying lumber. could not locate the vehicle and leamed later currently work. The 106 workers not required Trains 419 and 420 (between Montreal and that the accident took place on railway for the new operation wfll be offered early Rouyn-Noranda) were detoured over the ONR tracks. CN was notified and the police were retirement packages, severance packages, or and CN Ottawa Valley lines. told that there were no trains on that track transfers. Workers remaining on the short Seven cars on 65-car long GTW Train and it was safe to remove the car. A tow line maintain their seniority rights and bene• 385 derailed March 19 in Lansing, Michigan. tmck was backing down the line to remove fits which was more attractive to the workers The derailment closed both main tracks and the car when eastboimd VIA Train 88 came than selling the line to an independent short- forced the Amtrak Intemational to terminate down the tracks around 19:40. The train was line operator or abandonment. Employees at Battle Creek and Port Hiuon with passen• moving slow enough for police and the tow- wfll also be given profit-sharing incentives gers carried by bus between trains. truck to clear the line in time. The matter is and trains crews will be to swap trains so At 11:35 on March 31, 13 cars on Train being investigated by CN. A previous incident that they car retum home at night, similar to 211 (Toronto-Wirmipeg) derailed at Mile of miscommunication resulted in a CN freight operations on other short Unes. 146 on the Bala Subdivision at Falding when train derailing and damaging a bridge near The new short Une wiU start on May 1 it was exiting the siding. AU of the derailed Causapscal, Quebec (see January Rail and using CN equipment and infrastmcture. A CN cars were empty except for two containing Transit). —Kitchener-Waterloo Record spokesman said that almost one third of CN's automobiles and one carrying steel bars. The Unes east of Winnipeg could be candidates PRIVATISATION mobile crane from MacMUlan Yard was sent for similar agreements, and similar deals may The government says it plans to name the to dear the wreck. Trains were detoured over be reached after the eUmination of grain lead underwriter in April for the public offer• through North Bay and along the Newmarket subsidies in the west. Two other candidates ing of a privatised CN. The offering is Subdivision between Washago and Capreol to for similar agreements are CN's Une to Gaspe expected to take place this October in the by-pass the wreck. Train 114 (Calgary- and its Une between Bathurst and CampbeU• biggest single transaction in Canadian his• Brampton), that was at Drocourt, was forced ton, New Bmnswick. The idea has also drawn tory. The offer is expected to be worth to retum to Capreol to take the detour. There interest from CP and CSXT. ' between $1.5- and $2.5-billion. The percen• were no injuries in the derailment and the —Financial Post, Art Clowes, and Sean Robitaille tage of CN to be sold remains undetermined line was reopened that same day.. and will be based on market conditions at CV BECOMES NEV/ ENGLAND CENTRAL Vandals were the cause of a derailment the time of the offer. No ownership restric• Another Canadian-owned railway operation near the Talbotville Yard causing a CN tions, whether foreign or on competitor CP, evolved to an American-owned one when engine to derail April 3 around 15:30. None have yet been decided yet. RailTex's New England Central Railroad of the three crew members was injured when —Toronto Star via Pick Eastman and Rex Rundie Company began the operations of what had the light engine move jiunped the rails and been the Central Vermont Railway on Febm• came to rest on the adjacent track. Three NEW INTERNAL SHORTLINE ary 4. In preparation for the change, NECR other switches in the yard were also found to CN has reached an agreement with four units had started arriving in Palmei; Massa• be vandalised. The damage was estimated to unions in northem Quebec to reduce labour chusetts, late in January where they were be between $7000 and $10 000. costs by 35 percent for the creation of a new stored at the Three Rivers siding on the Mass internal shortline operation. The five-year WhUe entering the siding at Napadogan, Central Railroad. Five units were also placed agreement, reached with the Canadian Coun• New Brunswick, at Mile 106.6 on the Napa• at St. Albans, Vermont. (See Motive Power for cil of Railway Operating Unions, the Brother• dogan Subdivision, Train 306 (Toronto- information on the NECR roster.) Moncton) derailed its first eight cars on April hood of Maintenance of Way Employees and The last CV train to operate was Train 6 at 17:12. Two of the derailed cars con• the Intemational Brotherhood of Electrical 323 from Palmer which terminated in St. tained sodium hydroxide but there were no Workers, provides for flexible work mles, Albans on Febmary 4. This train had headed leaks. Approximately 300 feet of main-line hourly wages instead of traditional pay by south as Train 324 from St. Albans to Palmer track and 500 feet of the siding was dam• mileage for operating crews, profit-sharing, the day before. The last trip to New London aged. The mobile crane from CampbeUton and a guarantee that the line will not be sold began Febmary 2 when Train 554 headed and the auxiliary crane from Moncton were during the five-year period. About 60 shop- south from Palmer and retumed the follow• used in the clean-up. The main track was craft workers at Senneterre, members of the ing day as Train 555. reopened at 08:50 the next moming. During CAW, have recently expressed an interest in the closure. Train 106 was held at Deersdale, joining the agreement as weU. The first NECR trains also began Febmary 4 with a train from Pahner to New London. • Train 108 at Edmimdston, and Trains 132, The shortline wfll be comprised of these During its trip, the crew spotted one unit at 130, 305, and 133 were detoured via the 1855 kilometres of track: Mont-Joli and Newcastle subdivisions. Trains Willimantic, Connecticut, and another at New • Chapais Subdivision, Barraute-Franquet and 107 and 131 were held at Moncton. London, Connecticut, with the remaining Chapais—Chibougamau power returning to Palmer on the moming of —Jim Hay, Doug Page, Louis C. Laframboise, • Cran Subdivision, Triquet—Faribault Febmary 5. Later that day, GTW GP38s 5802 Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Glenn Courtney, Al • La Tuque Subdivision, Hervey—Fitzpatrick and 5806 were moved to Palmer by NECR, Tuner, Le Soleil, London Free Press • Lac Saint-Jean Subdivision, Garneau—Arvida where four units were Ufted and they aU • Matagami Subdivision, Franquet—Matagami NEAR MISS travelled Ught to St. Albans, arriving later • Roberval Subdivision, Chambord—Dolbeau A second incident of miscommunication with that evening in Montreal. • Saint-Maurice Subdivision, Fitzpatrick— a CN raU traffic control office nearly resulted Senneterre On Monday, two runs operated which in the collision between a tow-tmck and a • Taschereau Subdivision, Senneterre—La Sarre were called the State Line Tum and the New VIA train. On the evening of Febmary 10, a • Val d'Or Subdivision, Senneterre-Noranda London Tum travelling between Palmer and pickup tmck was driven along the CN Guelph New London. The first NECR train to Brattle- These lines generated 10 000 carloads of Subdivision near Glasgow Street in Kitchener boro and Palmer from St. Albans departed on freight in 1994 with revenues of $123.4- and was rolled off of the tracks. The driver Monday for a Tuesday retum. mfllion. went to a nearby house for help and was Only 223 employees wfll be required for Currently, CN now only carries traffic taken to hospital. When police arrived they the new operation, on which 329 employees bormd to destinations on the NECR to St.

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Albans for interchange. Other traffic that was Montreal) rerouted over the Bala and York state that two major developments are to be previously bridged over the CV is mostly now Subdivisions, resulting in a 2 h 37 min delay announced this year. CN can abandon the handled by Conrail connections from Mont• and a 1 h 37 min delay respectively. GO line between Stratford and Harriston effective real. Amtrak Montrealer service was operated separate trains between Pickering May 3. The appeUants want a restriction to unchanged on the NECR until service cut• and Danforth and between Union Station and prevent CN from seUing the land or rail for backs luirelated to the change in CV owner• Oakville during the closure. —Sean Robitaille an extra yean The developers, Canadian Agra ship took effect. and Integrated Energy Development Corpor• LAST PICTON TRAIN All non-management positions on the ation, say the projects wfll boost traffic on The last revenue train operated on the CN railway are paid on an hourly rate. They the Une to 25 000 cars a year. CN only Marmora Subdivision from Picton to BeUe• range from $9.00 (U.S.) per horn for a trans• requires 16 000 carloads a year for the Une vflle on the night of April 6. Two engines, portation specialist apprentice (train crew) or to be viable. Canadian Agra had been 4123 and 4119, with van 79567, departed signal maintainer apprentice, to $14.80 per planning to start the Stratford, Huron and Trenton Jet. at 20:00 and ran Ught as Train hour for a train director Bruce railway in conjunction with RailTex, B518 to the Essroc cement plant near Picton Operation on the Kne is as follows: but abandoned the plan. to pick up at least eight covered hoppers. The • On the south end, the Willimantic Tum line from Mile 0.0 in Picton to Mile 30.2 at REORGANISATION (formerly CV Train 558) begins at 07:00 the south end of Trenton was abandoned on The U.S. ICC wiU issue its decision April 19 Monday to Saturday running from Williman• April 8. Rail trains wiU operate on the Une on the application by CN to consoUdate the tic to New London and retum. when dismantlement begins. This Une was Grand Trunk Westem Railroad Inc. and the • On Sunday to Friday, the Palmer Tum (for• the only railway on Prince Edward County. Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Com• merly CV Train 559) starts at 14:00 and pany into CN. This consoUdation would operates the WiUimantic-to-Palmer segment. 1994 PROFIT eUminate 639 positions, which is 25 percent • Switching jobs are maintained at Palmer CN achieved its best financial results since of the workforce on the two railways. Along (formerly CV Train 562) at 09:00 Sunday to 1988 last yea^ eaming $245-mflUon. The with CN's merger appUcation, GTW is seeking Friday and St. Albans at 07:00 and 15:00 railway also claimed an unprecedented eight reduced train crew agreements with its Monday to Friday. percent improvement in productivity. CN lost unions. GTW is the last major U.S. railway $79-minion in 1993 and was only marginally • At the north end. Train 324 leaves St. operating with fuU crews. Albans at 09:00 Sunday to Friday and returns profitable in 1990, the only other year the If the appUcation is approved, CN will as Train 323 Sunday to Friday nights. company has not lost money since 1988. close some yards and maintenance faciUties, • A wood-chip train is also running regularly Improvements are attributed to the improving create new home terininals and modify terri• from St. Albans to the Vermont Railway economy and cost-cutting measures taken tory limits for operating crews, which wfll interchange at Burlington via the Winooski over the last two years. have crews run across the U.S.-Canadian Subdivision. —George Chiasson —Toronto Star via Rex Rundie border. —Ken Lanovidi BRIDGE REPLACEMENT ONTARIO TO PURCHASE LINE HAMILTON YARD RELOCATION CN workers began replacing a bridge span The Ontario government is negotiating with The City of Hamilton has conducted a feasi• Febmary 25 that was shoved off of its sup• CN for the purchase of the Newmarket Subdi• bility study for its harbourfront which ports in a derailment in December (see Jan• vision between Bradford and Barrie. The included a proposal for the relocation of CN's uary Rail and Itansit) near Causapscal. Ontario ministry of transportation expects to Hamilton Yard to Aldershot. Details of the Workers removed a temporary culvert that reach a deal in principle by May. CN is not so report were not made public because it dealt replaced the old span and also removed the optimistic, however; as the railway also with land acquisition which is necessary for old span that was still in the water. The line wants to sell the Meaford Subdivision which the redevelopment of the harbourfront prop• through the Matapedia Valley was shut down runs from Barrie to ColUngwood. The prov• erty. at 04:00 on Sunday, Febmary 26, and the ince is purchasing the Une into Barrie to The estimated cost of the relocation, line was reopened on March 1. During the aUow possible future GO train service. CN which would include the construction of 26 closure, aU freight and passenger traffic does not want to sever the line to CoUing- new tracks at Aldershot, is $100-milUon - through the area was detoured over the NTR wood from the line to Barrie. '$70-miIUon for new tracks and $30-mflUon through Edmundston. The Chaleur also oper• . N.B. LINES SOLD ^ for three new grade separations. CN says it ated to Edmundston where buses bridged The New Brunswick government and NB Tel wfll not consider the move unless someone passengers to Matapedia where they met are purchasing more than 1978 acres of pays for it, but CN does own 50 acres of land another consist for the trip to Gaspe. abandoned CN rights-of-way in the province east of Waterdown Road which can accom• LINE CLOSED for $1.5-milUon. The province will use the modate the new yard. Hamilton wiU not pay CN's busiest track in the Toronto area was land for recreation trail and NB Tel wiU have for the move on its own and is looking to the closed March 7 when a municipal sewer the right to install libre-optic telecommunica• Hamilton Harbour Commission and the coUapsed under the roadway under the CN tion Unes underneath. NB Tel is purchasing federal and provincial governments for assist• Kingston Subdivision on Coxwell Avenue, the Unes for $1.5-million, and then the prov• ance. —Hamilton Spectator via Doug Page which is just west of CN Danforth. Trains ince wfll piurchase them from NB Tel for $1- ABANDONMENTS were halted for three hours beginning at mflUon. The Unes are located near Stanley The NTA is reconsidering CN's appUcation to 10:30 while the road coUapse was investi• Minto, Caraquet, Shippagan, St. Jacques, and abandon the Sorel Subdivision from Tracy to gated. Once the bridge supports were Cape Tormentine. -Canadian Press Sorel, Quebec. CN appUed to abandon the inspected, train operations were permitted ABANDONMENT APPEAL Une in 1989 but was denied permission to over the bridge around 14:00 with a CN Proponents of development projects at the abandon between Miles 45.5 and 48.2 (see employee remaining on the site during the Bruce Energy Centre near Kincardine are October 1992 Rail and Ttanst'). sewer repairs. appealing an NTA decision permitting CN to CN has received permission to abandon VIA operations were affected with Trains abandon its Unes north out of Stratford. They the remainder of its Midland Subdivision, 10 42 (Toronto-Ottawa) and 60 (Toronto-

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miles between Uhthoff and Orillia, Ontario. passengers or one crew member in the Park beginning AprU 2. There is also new Amtrak The last train to Midland was October 8, car at the time. The cause of the derailment bus service connecting the Vermonter with 1994, and this remaining portion of the Hne is still under investigation. —Montreal Gazette Montreal. was abandoned March 10. Losses on the hne —A/ Timer, Bob Scheurle, Gordon DeFoe TRAVELLERS STRANDED have been more than $750 000 since 1991. A shortage of VIA engineers in the Toronto AMTRAK BUSES TO TORONTO There has been much confusion as to the area resulted in passengers being stranded in Beginning in March, Amtrak introduced buses status of CN's' Graham Subdivision in North• March. Passengers .in Toronto, Niagara Falls, connecting Toronto with its trains to New em Ontario. CN received permission to aban• and St. Catherines took to buses on the York at Buffalo. A bus runs to Buffalo in the don the line between Conmee and Superior evening of March 14 and moming of March Jet. Reports in February stated that CN began moming, and one runs from Buffalo in the 15 when 'VIA engineers refused to work preparing the line for dismantlement after late evening. The buses are operated for overtime and there were no replacements there were no deals from shortUne operators Amtrak -by Trentway-Waga^ a bus company available. The first cancelled trip was the for its purchase. Then on March 1, there with several scheduled runs each day General Brock from Toronto to Niagara Falls were reports that the line would not be between Toronto and Buffalo; on March 14. Passengers were transferred to dismantled immediately. The foUowing day, • The southbound bus leaves from the GO two buses. The retum trip the next morning both CN and the government said the reports bus stop in front of Union Station in Toronto was also canceUed because the equipment of a reprieve were false. Well, later that same at 05:35 daily, and arrives at Exchange Street was not in place in Niagara FaDs. Passengers day officials from the office of the minister Station in Buffalo at 07:45, where it connects made the trip on five buses that moming, of transport and CN admitted that the Une with Amtrak Train 286, which leaves at arriving an hour behind scheduler Toronto Stor will not be dismantled immediately. No 08:10 and arrives at Perm Station in New reason has been given for the deferment of MORE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS York at 16:15. abandonment. Improvements continue in the safety on 'VIA • Amtrak Train 283 departs from New York Permission was granted to CN to abandon trains as a result of the fire on a Montreal- daily at 13:40, and arrives in Buffalo at 47 miles of the Nashwaak Subdivision from bound VIA train in Brighton last November. 21:29. The horthboimd bus departs from McGivney to South Devon and the Oromocto Pamphlets providing information on emerg• Buffalo at 21:40, makes stops at St. subdivision from Camp Gagetown to South ency procedures and equipment have been • Catharines and Grimsby, and arrives in Devon, both in central New Brunswick. CN placed in the seat pockets of 'VIAs LRC Toronto at 00:20. lost nearly $140 000 on the subdivisions in coaches. The cards indicate the location of During March, the times were sUghtly 1993 and $354 000 in 1991. The railway did emergency tools, fire extinguishers, first aid different and there were two northbound make a profit of $188 000 on the Unes in kits, emergency exit windows, emergency buses, until the Amtrak schedules changed at handles to open the powered coach doors, 1992. No customers opposed the abandon• the beginning of AprU. With these new bus and escape routes. Conductors also make an• ment or expressed a need for railway service. connections, there are two trains connecting nouncements asking passengers to read the The abandonment is effective April 28, 1995. Toronto with New York each day and three cards. —Toronto Star CN filed an appUcation to abandon the on Fridays and Suiidays. Chatham Subdivision between Bloomfield AMTRAK MONTREALER and Tecumseh late in January. CN delayed its Amtrak's Montrealer train that operates COMMUTER TRAINS appUcation while it negotiated with 'VIA for between Montreal and Washington, D.C., STCUM DEUX-MONTAGNES LINE the purchase of the Une but no agreement became the Vemionter on April 2, with a new Work is progressing on the CN Deux-Monta• could be reached. There is no regular freight northem terminus of St. Albans, Vermont. service on this Une, which has lost $2.5- gnes line for the faU start of new service. The State of Vermont is paying Amtrak a milUon over the last three years. VIA would Service will end with the existing equipment minimum of $561 000 and a maximum of reroute its trains to the CN Windsor South at the beginning of June. $750 000 (U.S.) annually to continue the station on the Caso Subdivision. The route to New equipment continues to arrive at the only Amtrak operation in the state for at this station has not yet been finalised. new shop at Saint-Eustache, north of Deux- least another year. The train, which operates —Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal Montagnes. There are three types of cars: over RailTex's newly acquired New England • "M" cars, with even numbers from 400 to TELEVISION ADS Central for a portion of the joumey, is the 456 (29 cars in all), are motorised cars with • A television advertising campaign for CN first regular Amtrak train on any RailTex line. a cab at one end; North America caUed "On a New Course for The new trains, now numlrered 55 and 56, • "R" cars, with odd numbers from 401 to the Future" began on March 20 during the operate during the day, leaving Washington 449 (25 cars), are unpowered trailer cars CTV national news and during the Academy at 08:15, arriving at St. Albans at 22:15, and with no cab; Awards on March 27, during the CN labour southbound departing at 09:00 and arriving • "E" cars, with odd ntunbers from 481 to shutdown. The ads are also shown during at 22:15. On the Northeast Corridor; Train 487 (four cars), are tmpowered trailer cars NHL hockey broadcasts on Radio-Canada. 55 is combined with 175 southbound and wit)} a cab at one end. The special-effect images are to describe the Train 56 is combined with 172 northbound. The cars are planned to be deUvered in CN of today and how it is preparing for The train is also now routed through Spring• the following pairs: tomorrow. field, Massachusetts. As part of the deal with the state of Vermont, ticket prices were 400-485, 408-487, 401-404, 4O3-4I0, 405-412, VIA RAIL CANADA increased by an average of $5.00. The last 406-481, 407-414, 409-416, 402-483 , 413-420, 415-422, 411-418, 417-424, 419-426, 421-428, DERAILMENT running of the Montrealer, Amtrak Trains 60 423-430, 425-432, 427-434, 429-436, 431-438, The last car on Train 15, the westbound and 61, was March 31 northbound and April 433-440, 435-442, 437-444, 439-446, 441-448, Ocean; derailed February 23 and struck a 1 southbormd. 443-450, 445-452, 447-454, and 449-456. stationary boxcar on the adjacent siding near In conjunction with this change, the By Febmary 27, 28 cars had been deUvered Saint-Frangois-de-Montagny Quebec. The Adirondack Montreal service has been to the carhouse at Saint-Eustache. 04:45 accident did not injtue any of the six extended from New York to Washington,

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Stations on the reconstructed line will be: Kennedy Road to provide a better connection MONTREAL EXPANSION UPDATE • Montreal Gare Centrale to the TTC's Bloor-Danforth line. No decisions on an expanded commuter train • Canora (the present Portal Heights) These plans will cost the province an network for Montreal wfll be made before the • Mont-Royal extra $125-mflLlion on top of the $85-mfllion fall. A law creating this new service will be • Montpellier (the present Vertu) annually it pays for GO's capital costs. Also presented to the National Assembly before • du Ruisseau (replacing Monkland) included in the announcement were reports the summer replacing the existing MetropoH- • Bois-Franc (replacing Val-Royal) that negotiations for the province of Ontario tan Council. The government wants to hold • Sunnybrooke (replacing A-Ma-Baie) to purchase Toronto Union Station along a discussion where interested parties can • Roxboro-Pierrofonds (replacing Roxboro) with its ownej; the Toronto Terminal Rail• review all commuter rail proposals!-Lo Presse • fle-B!gras way, are on again. The premier said the • Sainte-Dorothee (replacing the present Sainte- province plans to make the station the hub OTHER NEWS Doroth6e, Laval-Links, and Laval-sur-le-Lac) for regional transit for both the TTC and GO CDAC PURCHASE FINALISED • Grand-Moulin (the present Deux-Montagnes) Transit in Toronto. Iron Road Railways Inc. completed its acqui• • Deux-Montagnes (new station) —Toronto Star and Hamilton Spectator sition of the Canadian American Railroad There will also be provision for a future via Doug Page and Rex Rundie CCDAC) and the Bangor and Aroostook Rail• station named Bois-de-Liesse, at Autoroute HALIFAX PROPOSAL road CB&A) from Fieldcrest Caimon Inc. on 13, between Bois-Franc and Sunnybrooke. A proposal to start commuter service in Nova March 17 for $28-mflHon (VS.'). The B&A is STCUM has annotmced that there wfll be Scotia between Windsor Jet. and Halifax a 420-infle regional railway located entirely no weekend service from April 22, no off- coifld have trains running before the G-7 in Maine and has an annual revenue of $27- peak service beyond Roxboro from May 1, no summit in June. Led by a group of Bedford mflUon, 300 employees, 38 locomotives, and off-peak service at aU. from May 22, and a business people, the new train service would 3000 freight cars. complete closure from June 5. The last ser• operate in conjrmction with Halifax's Metro The CDAC is 178 miles long and was a vice will thus be the aftemoon rush hour on Transit system. Negotiations are under way part of the CP Canadian Atlantic Railway. It June 2. Rush-hour service will resume with with CN, whose crews would operate the connects with the B&A at Brownvflle Junc• on August 28, and ftfll service wfll begin on train, with VIA, who would sell and maintain tion, Maine, and CP at Sherbrooke, Quebec. September 18. six RDCs for the service and provide the use It also operates on the Irving-owned Eastem -Ted Wcfcson, Art Clowes, Bob Scheurk of its Halifax station, and Metro Transit, for Maine Railroad to McAdam, New Brunswick. TRAIN MISSED STOP adjustments to its bus service. CDAC has a harflage agreement with CP to A Montreal STCUM commuter train missed The initial cost of the proposal tumed out Montreal with the option for trackage rights. its stop at the Pointe-Claire station on Jan• to be more than expected, so different DERAILMENT uary 16. The train that departed CP's options are being examined. The mayors of The Chemin de fer Carder suffered its third Windsor Station at 17:18 destined for Rigaud Truro, Stewiacke, Kentvflle, Windsor Hants- derailment since November when 19 ore cars did npt make its scheduled stop at Pointe- port, and Wolfville met with CN and VIA derafled from a 150-car train aroimd 10:00 Claire, forcing 150 commuters to detrain at officials last month to determine if extending on February 4. The train was on its way from the next station, a mile to the west. CP is the proposed service to Tnuro and the Anna• the mine at Mont-Wright, near Fermont, to conducting an investigation into the matten polis Valley would be feasible and would Port-Cartier. The Hne was closed until Febm• —West Island Chronicle generate more revenue. -Halifax Daily News ary 9. The cause of the derailment has not GO PLANS OTTAWA UPDATE been released. In a pre-election announcement, the premier CP has scaled-down its proposal for com• Other derailments occurred November 30 of Ontario announced service improvements muter service in the Ottawa-Hull region. The when 10 cars of diesel fuel derafled, and for GO Transit for this fall and plans for GO latest proposal is for service between Gati- December 27 when 23 cars of mineral oil over the next 25 years. The first change wfll neau and Ottawa, omitting the Hne to Ayhner derafled. The second derailment was at the be the restoration of aU-day and weekend and saving $18-mflHon. As well, the number same location as this most recent one. The service on the Lakeshore line to Burlington of trains has been cut from 58 to 20, and the first derailment was due to a mechanical and Oshawa which was curtailed in the number of stations has been reduced from 17 problem and the second was caused by . the summer of 1993. Other future expansion to 10, with five in each province including build-up of ice on the rail. The first two plans are contingent on better agreements LeBreton, CarHng Avenue, Carleton Univer• derailments cost the company $3-mflHon to clean up and repair equipment. The damage with the CN and CP to operate the trains. sity, Confederation Heights, and Hunt Club in due to the latest derailment is estimated to CP's charge to run commuter trains on the Ottawa. The scaled-down system would carry be around $500 000. -Le Soleil Milton line is apparently seven to eight times an estimated 6000 daily riders and cost $25- higher those charged by railways in the U.S., mfllioh to start. The initial response from ACR APPEAL costing GO an extra $3- to $4-mflKQn a year. Outaouais council is favourable. A harbour company in Sault Ste. Marie asked CN's charges are also higher than U.S. car• The Quebec ministry of transport rejected the NTA to review its decision aUowing riers but not as bad as CP's; the plan, and instead is conducting an eight- Wisconsin Central to purchase the Algoma Future plans include: month study of the plan. The ministry said Central Railway. LandSU Mining Limited, • Train service thrdugh North Toronto on CP's plan is too costly and is not useful to which bought the Michipicoten Harbour CP's North Toronfo Subdivision, with stops at commuters. Other options that wfll be exam• facflity in April 1994, does not want the sale the Dupont and Summerhfll subway stations, ined are bi-modal buses that can travel on to be denied, but rather to make the sale Leaside, and Agincourt. highways and railways. One proponent of comply with certain legal obHgations. When • An Exhibition shuttle to run between Union CP's plan called the bus idea a "pie-in-the-sky the harbour was purchased from Algoma Station and the Canadian National Exhibition rail-bus dream." The Quebec side has asked Central Corp., an agreement was signed grounds during special events. the Ottawa-Carleton regional government and between the companies preventing Algoma • New GO stations to link up with the TTC's the National Capital Commission to help pay Central and its successors from diverting new subways and the existing subway at for the study. —Ottawa Otizen

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freight from the harbour. The harbour is NEW RAILWAY POLICY served by a branch line from Hawk Jimction The government says that changes to the THE PANORAMA on the ACR main line and its main customer eight-year-old National Transportation Act is Algoma Steel Inc.'s Wawa Ore Division. wfll be tabled in Parliament before June. The WC says it would encourage the ore changes are to bring about further deregula• division to bypass the harbour by offering tion of the railways which, among other "competitive" rates. WC feels that the agree• things, wfll ease the disposal of marginal ment does not apply to them because they branchflnes to shott-Une operators. :ANADA are not a successor of Algoma Central Corp. Gray Scrimgeour MORE ACCIDENTS because only a portion of the corporation's #570-188 Douglas Street There were more railway-related accidents in assets were purchased, namely the railway. Victoria, B.C. V8V 2PI 1994 than the year before the Transportation WC says that had no knowledge of the non• E-Mail: [email protected] competition agreement until attorneys filed Safety Board reports. In 1994, there were an appeal asking for a stay of sale on January 646 reported train coUisions and derailments, GRAIN TRANSPORTATION 25. Landfill is also threatening to sue for about a third of which occurred on mainlines. CROW'S NEST SUBSIDY ENDS breach of contract if WC goes ahead with its Accidents reported in yards and branch lines Several changes are being made to govem• plan to compete for freight. -Canadian Press were up 35 percent over 1993, while main• line incidents increased by 22 percent. ment subsidies for grain transportation in TOURIST RAILWAY westem Canada. The 1995 federal budget Changes to reporting criteria swayed the A new Ontario tourist short-line railway is announced the elimination by August 1 of numbers slightly, because until this yeai; only proposed for the CN Waterloo Spur between the Westem Grain Transportation Act subsidy accidents on main line track or involving Kitchener and Elmira, Ontario. The Waterloo- (the successor to the so-called Crow's Nest dangerous goods or injury had to be reported. St. Jacobs Railway Company has sighed a Rate), worth $560-million. annually to The number of people killed in railway acci• conditional agreement for the purchase of the farmers. To soften the blow, prairie farm dents declined slightly to 114. Fewer boats 11.8-mile long line and plans to begin operat• owners will be compensated $1.6-bfllion — sank and fewer planes crashed last year. ing diesel-powered tourist trains by the sum• about $19 500 per person — for the drop in mer. Initial operations wfll be three trains —Canadian Press land value that wfll be caused by the daily between Waterloo and St. Jacobs. ONR SERVICE RETURNS increased freight costs. Another $300-miUion Approval must first be obtained from the NTA wiU. be provided over several years to make Locked-out workers at the Ontario Northland and the Ontario Municipal Board before the grain transportation system more cost- Railway ratified a new contract and retumed operations can begin. Under the agreement, efficient. to work on February 27. Members of the CN wfll continue to serve any freight cus• Associated Shop Unions voted to accept the Overall, transportation subsidies are to tomers on the line. The WSJR has acquired contract after being off work for 87 days. The plummet to an annual $19-mfllion in 1997- its first piece of equipment, former CN track 1998 from $696-million this year. work stoppage affected Northlander passenger geometry car 15000, which is now lettered With elimination of the railway subsidy service and VIA's White River-Sudbury ser• WSJR. farmers wfll probably consider other options vice. Freight service on the railway was not There is strong opposition to the plan for grain transportation. Those in Manitoba, affected. The first Northlander arrived in from residents in St. Jacobs who feel the area nearest to Thunder Bay, wfll have the option Toronto on February 27. can not cope with additional totuists. The of the use of tmcks. Trains wfll probably stfll main proponent in this plan was also • HERITAGE STATIONS be the most economical delivery means for involved in the failed Waterford and Northem The Federal govemment announced in Febm• those in the central and westem prairies. It Railway that was to operate on abandoned ary the addition of 16 more stations in has been suggested that more grain wfll be Lake Erie and Northem and Toronto, Ontario and Quebec to be added to the list of shipped south to the U.S. for their consump• Hamilton and Buffalo lines. protected heritage railway stations. There are tion. There may be losses in the overseas shipments through Vancouver and Prince MORE QUEBEC SHORTLINES now a total of 147 stations protected under Rupert, with Seattle and Portland handling A Montreal-based consortium called Railmont the Heritage Railway Station Protection Act. more Canadian grain. The SSOO-million fund had hoped to purchase four branch lines in The most recent additions included: CP's wfll be spent over six years on improvements Quebec. The lines sought were CN lines to stations in Farnham, Rigaud, Saint-Jerome, to railway service. Part of it . will be used to Gaspe, Abitibi, and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, and Westmount, upgrade the port at and the railway line to and the CP line between Montreal and Sher• and CN stations in Matapedia and New- ChurchiU, Manitoba. brooke, which comprise about a third of the Carlisle. railway lines in the province. The group is In addition, the House of Commons is CAR INSPECTOR KILLED formed by Canadian, U.S., and European considering a bill that would eliminate sub• An American railway car inspector was killed businesses. Their spokesman estimated the sidies for shipment of grain to Mexico. The purchase price to be in excess of $100-mil- March 28 while he was inspecting the Mexican govemment has threatened to lion. An earlier attempt by some from the interior of a tank car that had carried sulphur impose a duty on Canadian wheat, thus group to pmchase the abandoned CP Sainte- on its last trip. The car was at a private firm cutting sales, if the transportation subsidy is Agathe subdivision failed; it was purchased east of Montreal that specialises in the stor• not removed. by the province for for use as a linear park. age and maintenance of tank cars. The in• Until this yeai; Ottawa has paid about The lines in northern Quebec that they were spection was being made before the car hah" the cost (about $15 a toime) of export interested in are now part of an internal travelled to the U.S. No one has been able to grain shipment costs. Now, farmers wfll have short-line at CN and wfll not be sold, for at explain why an experienced inspector would to pay the full cost of freight haulage to ports least five years. The group has said they are enter the car without an oxygen mask. Six or inland tterminals. Railway branch lines and stfll interested in other lines that may stfll be rescuers were also injured by fumes while the grain elevators in prairie towns may avaflable. . -U Soleil trying to save the man. —Journal de Montreal disappear as more road transport and larger

Rail and Transit • March-April 1995 • 27 Transcontinental RaUway and transit news from coast to coast concrete silos on main lines take over the reached Mile 111 of the 137-mile trip. Until then business. CANADIAN NATIONAL the joumey had been uneventful. Directiy across The Atlantic Region Freight Assistance the lake from the train, in the tiny hamlet of Act (AHFAA) and the Maritime Freight Rates CABOOSELESS OPERATION Boswell, retired carpenter Jim Robertson was Act (MFRA) cost $99-million per year and CN's Okanagan Division began cabooseless making a cup of coffee when a bright flash of will be eliminated July 1, 1995. For five operation between Vernon and Karrfloops on orange lit up the side of the mountain on the years, a $326-miIlion transportation adjust• February 27. Crews wfll call a taxi to meet opposite shore. Using binoculars, he could see ment program will be paid to regions current• them at Campbell Creek, the junction of the that a train had stopped, but he couldn't see ly receiving these two subsidies. These pro• Okanagan Subdivision with the CP Rail anything amiss. grams wfll allow provinces to target assist• Shuswap Subdivision. After the switches are Mr. Robertson phoned the RCMP in Creston ance to meet local shippers' adjustment needs hned, trains wfll move a short distance to a and was told that if he wanted to be a "good and to provide for improved infrastrucfure, or designated location. The conductor wfll re- Samaritan" he could take his fishing boat across in other words, better highways. Hne the switches and take the taxi back to the lake to see if there was a problem. He arrived to find only the nose of the third unit Feed-Freight Assistance subsidies wfll also the head end of the train. At Armstrong Jet., poking out of the water. Two open cars of zinc be terminated with transitional funding where the line joins the CP Okanagan Sub., sulphide were also in the lake. The entire area provided over the next ten years. CP wfll authorise leaving the switch lined and was saturated with fuel oil. The rocky bank, —Various newspapers and on-line sources locked in the reverse position. -Deon Ogle also soaked with hundreds of gallons of diesel PASSENGER TRAINS DERAILMENTS from ripped-open fuel tanks, was already ablaze. On Sunday March 5, CN Train 453 en route White and black smoke filled the moming air. GO TRAINS IN SEATTLE to Edmonton from Winnipeg derafled near Venturing within 20 feet of the half-sub• The commuter-train demonstration in the Chipman, Alberta, briefly closing a section of merged unit, Mr. Robertson called out several Seattle, Washington, area, with equipment Highway 15. There were no injuries in the times before being forced to withdraw when the from GO Transit, went well. Burlington 22-car derailment. oil-soaked cab caught fire. By then police and Northem crews operated the trains, and CP-hired helicopters were swooping over the CN's main hne to Vancouver was closed Amtrak crews shuttled the equipment to and scene and the scope of the accident was becom• after a 13-car derailment Thursday night, from Seattle's King Street Yard, where the ing apparent. February 10, 10 km west of Hope. Neither trains were kept when not in use. It was police who found Rines walking crew member of the 100-car freight was The demonstration was advertising before down the track away from the wreck. He had injured. the March 14 election, in which an initiative climbed out of the locomotive, clambered up the was on the ballot to raise the state sales tax About 5000 litres of diesel fuel was bank, and stmck off in search of help. He was and the gasoline tax to pay for an ambitious spilled after a CN engine jumped the tracks flown to hospital in Nelson and later released. commuter-train and light-rail plan. The and mptured a fuel tank in Prince George Nelson RCMP Corporal Bob Yaskiw says demonstration ended shortly before the yard on Febmary 14. that as soon as they realised that two crewmen election, and the GO Transit equipment has A rock slide closed the CN main hne near were missing they began assembling divers. Just since retumed to Toronto, via Vancouver. Boston Bar on Sunday moming, February 19. before nightfall, two constables who do double The electorate voted 53 percent "no" on The line was cleared by 8:00 p.m. but crews duty as divers discovered the bodies. Both were the commuter-train initiative, but there is refused to work, citing unsafe conditions found in the cab of the lead unit, which had word that there could be another vote taken from rocks falling near the tracks. come to rest 50 feet below the surface of the as early as this fall. —Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, Canadian Press lake. Because the slide was on a sharp tum, it is —Russell Bates via CompuServe: CFAX Radio unlikely the men even saw the six-foot-deep pile CANADIAN PACIFIC of mbble on the track until it was too late. The AMTRAK TO VANCOUVER speed limit on that section is just 25 miles an The Vancouver-Seattle Mt. Baker Interna• KOOTENAY LAKE DERAILMENT hour, but even at that slow rate it would have tional service that is starting on May 26 will Bob Sandusky has forwarded an interesting taken up to one-third of a mile to stop. Twelve use the Talgo train set that currently is nm- article from Alberta Report about the January hours earlier, Train 984 had come through the ning between Portland and Seattle. The one• 20 fatal derailment of CP Train 981, area without Incident. way running time wfll be 4 h 35 min, but exceiqited below: In recent news related to the derailment, a after track improvements are completed A minor illness undoubtedly saved Ken Rines' Vancouver company will try to recover the between Seattle and Everett, Washington, the life. The 31-year-old conductor wasn't feeling two CP freight cars that plunged into Kooten• running time wfll be 3 h 55 min. well so he left the lead locomotive during the ay Lake. Can-Dive Marine Services has won a The northbound train wfll leave Seattle at night mn through the Kootenays. He made his contract to pull the freight cars from the 07:15 daily and arrive in Vancouver at 11:50. way back to the third locomotive, intending to lake; work was expected to begin in mid- The southbound train wfll leave Vancouver at rest and use the washroom. He left engineer Febmary. Environment officials gave Kooten• 18:00 and arrive in Seattle at 22:35. Pete Whitehead, 35, and brakeman Trevor ay Lake a clean bfll of health after the derail• —Russell Bates and Robert Rynerson via Hogg, 32, in the lead unit. As the train rounded CompuServe, Northwest Railfan a sharp tum, the 196-ton lead engine hit a ment. Petroleum products and lead concen• rockslide, left the track, and plunged 125 feet trate were also spflled into the lake. Environ• BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY into the icy waters of Kootenay Lake. Mr. Rines ment ministry staff have now finished exam• miraculously walked away from the devastating ining microscopic life, waterfowl, and fish DERAILMENT crash but his colleagues, entombed in the lead stocks in the lake. The tests show Eighteen freight cars left the tracks in a locomotive under 50 feet of water, were not so contaminants are within acceptable standards narrow canyon and up to eight toppled down lucky. and no negative effects were fotmd. CP is an embankment, blocking the BCR line north The 49-car freight train had left Cranbrook also carrying out a beach-washing and oil- of Whistler early Monday, March 6. The train bound for Nelson shortly after 1:30 a.m. on recovery program near the crash site. was carrying Itunber and other wood prod• Friday, January 20. At 8:10 a.m.. Train 981 had ucts. There were no injuries. -Canadian Press —Canadian Press

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on the Bloor-Danforth and Yonge-University- The two systems traded their buses num• IN TRAN Spadina subway. It was only in the TTC's bered 9201. In Kitchener Transit's case. No. next issue of The Rocket Rider, distributed on 9201 is a 1992 New Flyer D40LF low floor buses, streetcars, and subway trains a few bus. Ottawa's No. 9201 is a New Flyer D40 weeks latei; that the record was set straight conventional bus. While in Ottawa, the by mentioning that the 3 6-car M-1 class Kitchener bus sported fleet number 92011, to subway fleet are not chime-equipped, were keep it separate in the computer from the never included in the chime train pro• "real" OCT 9201. While in the other city, Scott Haskill gramme, and wfll continue to use whistles. each bus carried temporary markings for the Ashford Hall, 2520 Bloor Street West #15 The Montreal cars are the oldest active cars, host S3^em. The swap was to last for up to normally used only in rush hours. They are 60 days. Toronto, Ontario M6S IR8 due for replacement in 1996 when the first E-Mail: 72154.133 1 ©compuserve.com —Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation Bulletin T-l cars are put in service. TORONTO FARE FREEZE . NEV/ PAINT SCHEME UPDATE The Ottawa-Carleton regional coimcil TESTING NEW BUSES The simplified paint scheme for TTC buses approved $4-mfllion additional funding for Both New Flyer and. Ontario Bus Industries has debuted on GM New Look 8942, assigned OC Transpo in early January, which wfll will have their low-floor buses at the TTC to Birchmount Di'vision. The first version of enable it to keep a Hd on fare increases in over the next few weeks, for testing that wfll the new scheme was completed at Harvey 1995. include use in regular service. Shops on February 22. All grey has been —Ottowo Gtizen, Darrell Richards via Internet New Flyer has sent a D40LF TUF 40-foot eliminated from the lower sides, and has diesel bus for BVi weeks of operation out of been replaced by white. The thick red stripe VANCOUVER " on the side has been retained, as has the Lansdowne Garage, beginning around April 3. STREETCAR REVVAL narrow red stripe over the windows. The area The bus arrived at the TTC on March 29, Dozens of Vancouverites tumed out on March around the windows is stfll black. from a transit industry conference in Texas, 12 at a rally for streetcars and a desire to stfll with transfers from Dallas in the transfer A few weeks later; the same bus emerged revive the city's historic street railway system. •cutter. Lansdowne Garage is currently not in a revised version of the simplified scheme. Organisers for Trolleys and CityScapes have using the TTC's on-board CIS automatic The position of the large red side stripe on asked the city to work out a deal with CP vehicle location system, but has instead gone the first version resulted in the TTC crest on Rail for its abandoned line that runs parallel back to on-street supervision, as part of a t^t the side of the bus straddling the red stripe to West 6th Avenue between Main Street and and the white area above it. The revised of the effectiveness of CIS. Because the bor• the Granvflle Bridge. version, which has now appeared on at least rowed TUF bus -will not be equipped with CIS The group is making a pitch to city coun• one other 8900-series bus, has the red side equipment, operation on Lansdowne Division cil for streetcars to run on the CP right-of- stripe lowered so that the TTC crest fits routes is thus simplified. The bus wfll be used way. CP wants to see highiise towers built at entirely on the first white band below the on very busy, crowded routes, such as Cambie and Granvflle streets and a row of windows. By March 22, 8942 was in service 77_-SPADINA and 63-OSSINGTON, to see how three-storey condominimns on the stretch in at Birchmount Garage. —Dove hAorgan well the low floor affects customer circulation between, said a local community activist. within the bus, and to determine if the design TROLLEY COACH TO BE SAVED The streetcar group is opposed to pro• results in faster passenger loading and rm- At least one of the TTC's Westem Flyer 700E posals to remove an existing zoned traffic loading. TTC has numbered the bus as 2001. trolley coaches will be preserved. Coach corridor and replace it with housing. CP has The second demonstration wfll be with 9240, which has been stored outside at been reported as wanting to sell its land to OBTs Orion VI engineering test bus. This may Birchmount Garage since early 1992, has the city for $23-million, which the city can't the closest to a production Orion VI that the been acquired by the Electric Vehicle Society afford. Two city councillors and a Vancouver troubled bus maker has completed, and of Canada. The coach wfll be moved to the MIA are supporting the efforts to preserve differs in several details from the Orion Vis Warden Avenue campus of Centennial Col• the right of way. that the TTC has on order. The bus has three lege in Scarborough, where it will be restored City council has a number of options for doors, front and centre as with current buses, by the automotive class there. It presently has re-viving streetcars on old railway Unes. The and at the rea^ behind the rear wheels. The "SAVE" written in black paint on the front of False Creek corridor has a practical advan• bus was at the TTC's Hfllcrest complex on the coach, to ensure it isn't sold for scrap by tage for moving large numbers of people February 22, for a brief visit. Because it is mistake. The same organisation is attempting around, and woifld Knk many neighbour• CNG-fuelled, the bus wfll operate from to acquire a Hamilton Street Railway dual- hoods around False Creek. The city also owns Wilson Garage, which has the TTC's only mode Flyer E800 trolley coaches. land on either side of the CP property and natural gas fueUing facility. The arrival date —Dove tAorgan, Ted Wickson could use it for a right-of-way, if necessary. of the Orion VI has not been set. Several restored streetcars aroimd the Lower CHIME TRAINS OTTAWA Mainland could be used on the Une. TRACS founder Alan Herbert, a past The last "whistle train" ceremony took place LOW-FLOOR BUS SWAP chairman of the city's planning commission, on February 21 at Kennedy Station, not the OC Transpo and Kitchener Transit traded said he looks forward to the day a streetcar day before, as was pre'viously planned (Febru• buses in January to give Ottawa a chance to Une runs from Vanier Park in Kitsflano Point ary Rail and Uansit). Much media attention conduct some cold weather testing on behalf around False Creek to Science World, was attracted for the event, and all reports of the Canadian Urban Transit Association. through Gastown, along Burrard Inlet to concentrated on the absolute, final, and very The test also allowed OC Transpo to gauge Canada Harbour Place, and ending at a loop last door-closing whistle, and the new elec• reaction to the low-floor design in service in in Stanley Park. -Vancouver Province tronic chimes that now replace the whistles Ottawa.

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STREETCAR REMNANTS used buses in relatively good condition from While reconfiguring the approaches to Granv• U.S. sources has now improved because MOTIVE POWER ille Island under the high-level GranviUe tariffs have been reduced, and the practise Street Bridge, workers came across the orig• may increase, if municipal fimding can be 111 z LL) inal tracks of the old Fairview Belt Line. The used. —CUTA Forum 1 t4 rails are set in the original cobblestones, and EDMONTON TCs TO DAYTON? m were probably just covered with asphalt when As many as 16 1982-buflt trolley coaches the Bridge was built in the mid-1950s. may be on their way south from Edmonton The Granville Street line was one of the Transit to the Miami Valley Regional Transit John Carter first tracks to be put in place when the B.C. Authority in Dayton, Ohio. Dayton wants the 2400 Queen Street East #204 Electric Railway Co. started the system in the trolley coaches to help tide them over while Scarborough, Ontario MIN IA2 1890s, just a few years after Vancouver was they await new Skoda trolley coaches now on E-Mail: [email protected] founded. order. The system currently operates a fleet When one of the engineers on the project of late 1970s-vintage Flyer E800 trolley CP RAIL SYSTEM realised what had been foimd, it was decided coaches, some of which are out of service. If FIRST M-K REBUILDS ARRIVE to preserve the site. By going to the south sold to Dayton, the Edmonton BBC trolley CP began to take delivery of its 10 SD40M-2s side of 4th Avenue, and proceeding rmder the coaches wfll be fitted with roof-mormted air from Morrison-Knudsen in mid-March. (CP Bridge, you'U see what they've done: pre• conditioning units. Forty coaches from the also has options on another 30 rebuilt SD40s served a double row of tracks and aU the sur- same Edmonton fleet were leased to Toronto from Morrison-Knudsen.) The first, 5490, was rormding stonework — an almost ghostly from 1989 to 1993, and were considered for received from the Union Pacific at Kingsgate, echo of a city long gone. They nm directly purchase by Hamilton. B.C., on March 18, followed by 5491 and into a pier supporting the mammoth bridge —Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation Bulletin 5492 on March 29, and then 5493 and 5494 above. If s a piece of urban archaeology thaf s on April 4. These units were originally as fol• MONTREAL NOTES become a piece of public art. lows: Metro trains now sport flashy-looking colour- —Gordon Price via Internet 5490 - Southern Pacific SD45 903 1 built 3-69 coded destination signs in each end-cab wind• 5491 - Union Pacific SD40 3022 built 3-66 "SURFINC" ON SKYTRAIN shield. • March's monthly STCUM pass is a 5492 - Chesapeake and Ohio SD40 7530 built 3-71 A young Vancouver man was taken to hospi• seemingly endlessly-reusable rebate coupon at 5493 - D&RGW SD45 5333 built 7-69 tal in critical condition on February 22 after McDonald's restaurants. 5494 - D&RGW SD45 53 16 built 1-67 performing what thriU-seekeis call "SkyTrain —Marc Dufour via internet 5495 - D&RGW SD45 53 18 built 1-67 surfing." Police said the youth climbed on top 5496 - D&RGW SD45 5330 built 4-68 of a SkyTrain car that was leaving Stadium INDUSTRY NEWS 5497 - D&RGW SD45 5336 built 4-68 5498 - St Louis Southwestern SD45 9055 built 2-69 Station. He failed to allow for clearance in OBI DEAL FALLS THROUGH 5499 - Union Pacific SD40 3004 built 3-66 the turmel leading to Burrard Station and The proposed deal to sell Ontario Bus Indus• There has been specrflation that Bombardier was knocked off the car onto the station tries to GFI Industries fell through on Febru• is interested in purchasing Morrison- platform. —Victoria Times-Colonist ary 24, when GFI's backers, Devtek and Knudsen's financially-troubled MK Rail divi• Stewart and Stevenson, pulled out after sion. Bombardier's only competitor in build• OTHER CITIES failing to reach satisfactory terms with the ing passenger cars in North America. NEW ORGANISATION IN GUELPH Province of Ontario, owner of OBI since mid- Effective December 1, 1994, the old Guelph 1994. Lou Parsons, formerly the chairman of MLWs DOWN FOR THE COUNT Transportation Commission was dissolved as GO Transit, is heading up OBI for the time The days of six-axle MLW power are coming an operating body. In its place, the new being, and has a mandate to sell off as much closer to an end (again). CP has placed a Guelph Transit system came into being as an as the company as possible. Bus manufac• ceiling of $30 000 on repairs to any of the operating department under the direct control turers such as Nova BUS may be interested in big Alcos. As of the first of April only 13 units of the City of Guelph council. aU or part of OBI. This latest development were active: The new agency has received approval to leaves the status of the many OBI orders in M630 4570 4572 4573 purchase up to seven used Fbdble buses from continuing limbo. M636 4710 4713 4718 4721 4723 the U.S., with fuH funding being provided by —Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation Bulletin 4730 4736 4738 4742 4743 the city. The first five are now on hand and NOVA BUS ACQUIRES TMC LEASE FLEET CHANGES are being prepared for service in Guelph. The Nova BUS Corporation has acquired the CP has leased more power from Conrail, 14 buses wfll be operated as an interim measure assets of Transportation Manufacturing Cor• Dash 8-40CS which are based in Winnipeg as a result of the difficulties in obtaining new poration, successor to General Motors as and are to be -used to familiarise crews with low-floor buses, because of the problems at builder of the RTS transit bus, common in the operation of GE locomotives. The units Ontario Bus Industries. Niagara Falls and the U.S. but rare in Canada. At the same are: 6025, 6031-6036, 6039, 6042, 6044- Hamilton have also acquired similar used time. Bombardier has purchased a further 25- 6045, 6047-6049. Fbdble buses. percent stake in Nova BUS, which plans to Other new additions to the lease fleet are: In the U.S., federal transit funding rules use its new TMC assets and its Bombardier HLCX GP40 4406 (ex-HLCX 651, ex-CR 3088) allow operators to replace buses at 12 years backing to become a major player in the HLCX GP40 4407 (ex-HLCX 654, ex-CR 3083) of age. The Province of Ontario wfll only North American market. The company has its HLCX GP40 4408 (ex-HLCX 657, ex-CR 3227) fimd replacements for 18-year-old buses, and own plant in Sainte-Eustache, Quebec (for• HLCX GP40 4409 (ex-HLCX 658, ex-CR 3229) wfll only fund fully-accessible buses with lifts merly Les Autobus MCI, and before that GM (The above have all been rebuilt vdth Woodward or low floors. The availability of inexpensive Diesel Division), and now the TMC facility in miaoprocessors and are termed GF40-3s.) Roswell, New Mexico. -CUTA Forum HLCX SD40-2 6202 (ex-QNS&L 219)

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Illinois Central SD40s 6013, 6015, 6054, and 5382, 5384, 5377, and 5386. 6058 were aU retumed to IC on or about LEASED FLEET CHANGES THE MANUFACTURERS March 1. Howevei; 6016 was active on HH- HATX SD45-2S 900-910 ended lease service US in mid-March, and 6014 (paying-off NEW ORDERS FROM GM . on CN at the end of March and were for• horsepower-hours owed) was interchanged Santa Fe has added an additional 26 units to warded for lease to the Illinois Central. from IC on February 22 and has been seeing its order for 25 SD75Ms, which are currently The end of April should see the retum to regular service on HH-US in Iowa since. being delivered. While the majority of the Conrail of the LMS Dash 9-40CWs that have Santa Fe order has headed west in prime:; at Some of CP's Helm Leasing units have been on CN since early November. These least three of the units have gone to AMF in been renumbered. HLCX 301 has become units were originally only being used by CN Montreal for painting. ATSF 216 was in HLCX 4003, and HLCX 3006 has become as trailing units, but many have been leading Toronto enroute to AMF on April 4, and 218 HLCX 5011. trains through February and March. The LMS and 219 went to Montreal on April 9. units on lease to Union Pacific were retumed TWO 4200s TO BE CAB CARS GM has been awarded an order for 23 to Conrail at the end of March. C424 4236 has been renumbered 1100 and "new technology" DE30AC AC-traction loco• mated to SD40-2 6043 as an impowered cab motives for the Long Island Rail Road. These control car in RoadRailer service between EASTERN LINES will be dual-power locomotives, with 12-710 Toronto and Detroit. It had been retired on CANADAN AMERICAN RAILROAD engines as in the F59s and third-rail power February 24. No. 4213, which was retired on The CDAC has leased 10 GP40s, five from collection. The order is valued at $70-million, March 13, is expected to become a control Helm Leasing, numbered 652, 655, 660, including a 15-year spare-parts supply, and car as well. 4413, and 4415, and five from Morrison- an option for up to 23 more units. The order RECENT RETIREMENTS Knudsen, numbered 4301 to 4305. CDAC will be assembled at the old Alco locomotive January 19: runs trains as far west as Montreal over CP plant in Schenectady New York, and is M636 '4712 and as far east as McAdam, New Brunswick, scheduled to begin delivery in early 1997. over the Eastem Maine Railroad. CDAC also January 30: NOW BEING BUILT AT GM uses power from its parent railway the M630 4567 Current production at GM Diesel Division in Bangor and Aroostook. February 6: London includes the ATSF SD75Ms noted C4245 . . . 4202 4203 4224 4232 4246 4247 NEW BRUNSWICK SOUTHERN above, continuing work on BN SD70MACs, M630s 4559 4563 The N.B. Southem has received from Centex SD60Is for Conrail, and the completion of 25 M636s 4709 4716 .4739 Raillink in Texas two GP7s with the reporting SD70MS for the EMD lease fleet. NYSW RS23s 8013 8015 8016 8018 8043 8045 marks CTEX 4270 and 4280. These are 4050, the first of three SD70s for Susquehan• February 24: former Chicago and North Westem units, na, was en route on April 11 from London to M636s 4704 4715 4729 which were moved by CP from Chicago. N.B. VMV in Paducah, Kentucky, for painting. March 7: Southem also has a number of CP units on TRENTON WORKS SOLD M630 4503 . lease. (CP also moved CTEX 4282 and 4463 The sale of Trenton Works Inc. to Greenbrier to the to the Great Westem Rail Road at CP MOTIVE POWER NOTES Companies of Oswego, Oregon, was com• MechanicsvUle, New York.) With its 80 AC4400CWS now on order from pleted in March. Greenbrier is the fourth GE, CP wfll receive an additional three units NEW ENGLAND CENTRAL largest railway car leasing company in the on a pro-rated lease basis, depending upon The New. England Central Railroad (the U.S. The federal govemment paid $5O-miUion fleet availability of the GE units. If the fleet railway formerly known as the Central Ver• into'Trenton Works over an eight-year period. availability falls below a certain point, CP mont) has begun operations with a fleet of The company, renamed Trenton Works Ltd., will not pay or will pay a reduced rate on 19 locomotives: recently signed a $15-mfllion deal to sell the additional leased units. The 83 units are 317 — GP38 via Conrail Leasing railway cars to Indonesia and with American to be numbered as CP 9500 to 9582. 344 — GP40 via Conrail Leasing ownership, the market in the U.S. is expected CP is planning to do cab upgrades on 70 345 - GP40 via Conrail Leasing to open up. locomotives this year The upgrades will be 1500 - SWI500 via Conrail Leasing Motive Power news sources: BRS Branchline, CP done at Ogden (Calgary), Weston (Winni• 2185 - GP30 via Conrail Leasing Rail System, Detroit Free Press, Scott Haskill, Ed peg), and Saint-Luc (Montreal). • RSD17 2230 - GP30 via Conrail Leasing Lauzon, Earl Roberts, Andrew Ibppan, Paul R. 8921 has been relegated to transfer service in 3078 - GP40 (ex-BN) via MidAmerican Leasing Tupaczewski, Union Pacifc, and Gordon Webster. Montreal because of worn trucks. • 5405 — GPS via Conrail Leasing SW1200RS 1213 is on lease to Inco at Sud• 9510 - GP38ACex-IC95IO 9521 - GP38 ex-IC 9521 (originally GM&O 702) bury Ontario. • RS23 8015 was sold to BACK COVER - TOP 9523 - GP38 ex-IC 9523 (originally GM&O 704) Sheritt Gordon in Fort Saskatchewan, "I was so Impressed by seeing another Alco In 9527 - GP38 ex-IC 9527 (originally GM&O 708) Alberta. It was moved from Calgary to South Calgary that 1 took this photo. There have been 9529 - GP38 ex-IC 9529 (originally GM&O 710) Edmonton on March 13. one or two others in this year. Both the ones 9530 - GP38 ex-IC 9530 (originally GM&O 712) I've seen have been grubby but still sound 9531 - GP38 ex-IC 953 I CN NORTH AMERICA good." CN M636 2323 at Sarcee Yard in 9535 - GP38 ex-IC 9535 Calgary, in from Saskatoon. REBUILDS AND OVERHAULS 9536 - GP38 ex-IC 9536 (originally GM&O 717) SD40 6019 was released from AMF on March 9543 - GP38 ex-IC 9543 -Bob Sandusky, March II, 1995 7, the former 5076. • SD40s 5039, 5114, 9549 - GP38AC ex-IC 9549 (originally GM&O 730) BACK COVER - BOTTOM and 5226 are at AMF for rebuilding in the NECR is expected to receive Conrail Leasing Eastbound CPR Train 2, The Canadian, led by 6000-series. • Former Union Pacific SD40-2s GP38s 318-324 and 335-341, which is to FP9 1406, entering Kenora. Notice the three U- 6093, 6104, 6110, 6112, and 6113 are at replace the Conrail Leasing power listed series tourist sleepers ahead of the Skyline car. AMF for overhaul and upgrading to CN stan• above. —ftiterson-George collection. Summer 1956 dards. They are to be renumbered 5383,

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