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August, 1967 - Number 259 , . 8:00 p.m. Published monthly by the Upper Canada Railway September 15th; (Friday) - Regular meeting, Society, Incorporated, Box 122, Terminal A, at which J. A. Nanders, will discuss Toronto, Ontario. a recent European trip, with emphasis Editor James A. Brown on rail facilities in Portugal. Authorized as Second Class Matter by September 30th; (Saturday) - STEAM/Diesel the Post Office Department, , Ontario, excursion to Lindsay and Haliburton. and for payment of postage in cash. October 1st; (Sunday) - STEAM excursion to Fort Members are asked to give the Society Erie. Full details on both at least five weeks notice of address changes. excursions may be obtained from UCRS Please address NEWSLETTER at Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto. contributions to the Editor at 3 Bromley NOTICE re “Centennial Steam Tour”: Crescent, Bramalea, Ontario. No Termination of operating arrangements between responsibility is assumed for loss or Rail Tours, Incorporated, and the Maryland non-return of material. & Pennsylvania Railroad has necessitated the All other Society business, including cancellation of the bus tour of Pennsylvania membership inquiries, should be addressed to and New York, originally scheduled for October UCRS, Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario. 6th to 9th. Cover Photo: The scene is one of congestion November 17th; (Friday) - Sort out your surplus at Front and Bathurst on June 22nd, 1931, as railroadiana now for the UCRS Auction, the FLEET route is inaugurated over the which will be presided over this year newly-rebuilt Bathurst Street bridge. Less by Mr. Omer Lavallee, of . than a month later, the route name would be READERS’ EXCHANGE changed to the familiar FORT. Step right up WANTED: Back issues of UCRS NEWSLETTERS prior now! Photo courtesy of TTC. 0259-001.jpg to January, 1964; also Bulletins. David J. Contributors to this Issue: John Bromley, Bill Williams III, Box 686, Ben Franklin Station, Hood, George Horner, Ed Jordan, Omer Lavallee, Washington, D.C., 20044, U.S.A. Norm Lowe, Bob McMann, Steve Munro, Jim CAN ANYONE HELP in locating a photo of the Sandilands, Ted Wickson. CNR station in London, Ontario during the Production: John Bromley. period when the Pere Marquette and L&PS Distribution: Bas Headford, Tony Kerr, George maintained a small depot across from the CN? Meek, Keith Milligan, Steve Munro, Terry A plank platform extended from CN tracks to Thompson, Ted Wickson. the L&PS. Contact Harry Stirling, 39 Maple * * * Street, St. Thomas, Ontario. Have you received a defective copy of WANTED: Railroad dining, lounge and the NEWSLETTER lately? We don’t like to admit sleeping car furnishings, equipment and it, but now and then a page is missed, or accessories, such as china, linen, printed on only one side. If you’ve had a silverware, playing cards, etc. Also problem like this, mail your copy to Box 122. postcards of station and train interiors. (not to the editor, please!) and we’ll gladly Richard B. Shull, c/o Shady Lane Playhouse, replace it. Marengo, Illinois, 60152, U.S.A. COMING EVENTS WILL TRADE copy of 40-page booklet on trolleys Regular meetings of the Society are of Hershey, Pennsylvania for ten trolley held on the third Friday of each month (except postcards of New York State. Also available July and August) at 587 Mt. Pleasant Road, is a booklet on the trolleys of Utica and

UCRS # 259 - 1 Central New York. Booklets are available for U.S.A. sale at $1.25 each. Trolley postcards of Ohio RAILWAY NEWS AND COMMENT and Pennsylvania also wanted. W. R. Gordon, CN CLOSES MANY ONTARIO STATIONS 811 Garson Avenue, Rochester, N.Y., 14609, Canadian National’s Master Agencies immediate consideration of the applications at London and Stratford have enabled the by the BTC, a body which will disappear with railway to close a number of its local agencies the establishment of the Canadian in southwestern Ontario. On June 27th, BTC Transportation Commission. The Prairie approval was given for the closure, effective farmers insist that the new commission is the July 1st, of the stations at Dorchester, only authority entitled to rule on the Thorndale, Ilderton, Centralia, Hyde Park, problem, an opinion which apparently the BTC Kerwood, Mt. Brydges, Newbury and Bothwell. shares since it has decided that its own On August 4th, the depots at Lucan, Ailsa conclusion would be referred to the CTC for Craig, Parkhill, Ripley and Bright closed for a decision. business, while the stations at Tavistock and Thus the matter is really no cleared Shakespeare followed suit a week later. More than before. In theory, the principle of closures are imminent. freedom to compete has been accepted by the BRANCH LINE CUTS IN THE NEWS AGAIN government. Seven months have passed since The Prairie branch line issue and how Parliament passed Bill C-231; yet until the to deal with it has once again become a prime government proceeds with the formation of the topic for editorial writers, farmers and Canadian Transport Commission, it is mockery railwaymen from Saskatoon to Ottawa. to say that the railways are actually being One of the main principles of the allowed to compete. federal Transport Bill, passed into law ECONOMY WAVE SLOWS U.S. HIGH-SPEED earlier this year, was to give the railways EXPERIMENTS increased freedom to compete with other The U.S. Department of Transportation’ transport media; in one respect, this can be s budget of $18.6-million for the current interpreted as a relaxing of the obligation fiscal year, earmarked for the development to operate unprofitable branch lines. The of high-speed ground transportation systems, government has arranged with the railways that has been cut back to $10.3-million by a certain Prairie lines -- about 18,000 miles Congressional economy wave. of them – will be protected against The reduction will not affect the abandonment until January 1st, 1975. highly publicized project to run passenger Left “unprotected” were 1,845 miles trains between Washington and New York at of trackage which could be considered for speeds in excess of 100 m.p.h., starting immediate abandonment. At the moment, CN and October 29th. It will, however, delay CP are asking the Board of Transport indefinitely proposals to carry passengers Commissioners to proceed with 46 pending and their automobiles piggyback on rail cars, applications involving 1,512 miles of and plans for testing wheelless trains, “unprotected” lines – 843 miles on CN and 669 underground guideways, pneumatic tubes, on CP. The annual operating losses on these linear electric motors and so on. lines amount to more than $2,000 per mile; Meanwhile, in Philadelphia on July less than an average of three cars per day 19th, the Budd Company took the wraps off the are delivered to points on the 1,512 mils of first of forty high-speed self-propelled cars track; an average of 36 carloads per day which will be operated by the Pennsylvania originate from points along these lines, in Railroad in the New York - Washington service. three provinces. PRR has sunk $44-million into this project, The railways have been pressing for while the D.O.T. has supplied an additional

UCRS # 259 - 2 $11.5-million. between Glace Bay and Louisburg, was withdrawn CUMBERLAND RAILWAY TO CLOSE LOUISBURG BRANCH on March 1st, 1963. The Board of Transport Commissioners CN’S MARITIME DISPATCHING CONSOLIDATED has OK’d the closing of the Cumberland Without a hitch, CN closed down three Railway’s easternmost trackage, a 13-mile dispatching offices on its Maritime Area on section from Broughton Junction to Louisburg, August 1st, transferring their functions to N.S., after May 1st, 1968. The railway said a single control centre at Moncton, N.B. that it had been losing money on the line for Dispatching previously had been handled from years and faced a capital outlay of $594,000 offices at New Glasgow, Halifax, Moncton and over the next five years to repair four bridges Charlottetown. Heart of the new control and the rock protection on a coastal section. centre is the CTC machine which controls In approving the application despite strong traffic between Moncton and Halifax. civic protest, the BTC noted that Louisburg About 60 trains a day will be handled is adequately served with regular bus and by the new dispatching office, over lines truck schedules. on Prince Edward Island, in Nova Scotia and Until 1962, the Cumberland was known southern New Brunswick. as the Sydney & Louisburg Railway, a name SIX KILLED IN TWO RAIL COLLISIONS familiar to enthusiasts as one of the last Six persons were killed in two separate strongholds of steam operation on a major rail mishaps during August, both involving scale in the east. Cumberland’s last passenger and freight trains. passenger service, a twice-weekly mixed On August 2nd, CN’s Train No. 3, the Photo: A jumble of boxcars virtually hides Toronto section of the westbound Super the passenger train in this view of the D&H Continental, collided head-on with an derailment at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. AP eastbound freight train at Dunrankin, 195 Photo. 0259-002.jpg miles west of Capreol. No explanation was WORTH NOTING. .... given for the mishap, in which all four * The New York Central expects that enginemen lost their lives. Five cars of the the long-delayed NYC-PRR merger w.ll be able passenger train and 26 cars of the 84-car to clear the remaining legal hurdles by early freight left the rails in the pre-dawn next year. Meanwhile, NYC plans to seek ICC collision. The locomotive consists included permission to drop a number of intercity units 6522, 6538 and 4118 on No. 3, and 3694, passenger trains which have lost their mail 3221 and 3204 on the freight; units 6522, 3694 contracts. The Twentieth Century Limited is and 3221 suffered extensive damage. During not on the list -- for the time being. the cleanup operations -- which lasted into * Land negotiations and inclement August 4th -- CN trains were diverted via Algoma weather have delayed CN’s $2.5-million Central and CPR lines between Oba and Sudbury. Oshawa, Ontario yard and station project from In early morning collision between the three to five months. Completion is now Delaware & Hudson’s northbound Montreal planned for early 1968. Limited and a southbound freight train near * A wildcat strike on August 12th idled Saratoga Springs, N.Y. claimed the lives of CN’s ferries on the Nova Scotia - Newfoundland two passengers. The freight train was and Nova Scotia - Maine runs, stranding 3,000 entering a siding when the crash occurred. passengers. A legal strike by CBRT&GW Most of the forty injured passengers were workers scheduled for later in the month would in one of the leading coaches which was split have had even more far-reaching consequences open by jack-knifing freight cars. The in that the Newfoundland coastal steamers Montreal Limited was heavily loaded with would have been tied up as well. The dispute, travellers bound for . over wages, was resolved before the strike

UCRS # 259 - 3 deadline. 18.32%. * Train and station employees on the COMMODITY TRAFFIC RATES RISE ON 15 LINES Long Island Railroad have been prohibited from Increases in some railway freight wearing neckties during the summer months, rates for goods carried within Canada under pending delivery of air-conditioned equipment competitive commodity rates were announced recently ordered by the Metropolitan Commuter August 2nd by the Railway Association of Transportation Authority. Canada. The association, representing * The federal cabinet ministers have Canadian railways, said that the rate indicated that Canadian Pacific will improve adjustments filed with the BTC in Ottawa will service on its Bay of Fundy ferry run, now go into effect on September 5th on 15 Canadian handled by the ‘Princess of Acadia’. lines including CN and CP. * The ICC has granted American About one third of freight traffic railroads a $300-million annual freight rate handled by the railways between points in increase; the hike -- about 3% -- is the first Canada is carried under competitive commodity in seven years. rates, and will be subject to hikes ranging * Washington company has been from ¼ cent to 12 cents per hundred pounds. commissioned to prepared a preliminary Incentives are provided for long-haul feasibility study of proposed 500-mile shipments and for loadings using the full extension of the Alaska Railroad, north into capacity of freight equipment. the Arctic. In a separate move to simplify freight * The Railroad Association of Michigan billing, CN and CP are proposing the reports that the use of standard highway stop elimination of interswitching charges on signs at certain unprotected railway certain traffic transferred from one line to crossings in the State has reduced accidents the other within a four-mile limit of railway 80%. terminals. * Canadian Pacific’s 1966 Annual The freight rate adjustments are Report notes the significant fact that total expected to produce about $8-million in voting rights of CP shares held in Canada additional revenue over a full year and will reached a new high of 56.82% during the year. help offset higher material prices and labour This is a steady increase in Canadian costs. holdings over the past ten years; in 1958, FIRST PASSENGERS RIDE ALBERTA RESOURCES for example, Canadian holdings in CP were just RAILWAY CN road switcher 4351 did the honours eventually link CN’s mainline with Grande on August 2nd as a five-car train carried Prairie with completion of the 235-mile line Alberta premier E. C. Manning and railway slated for 1969. officers on an inspection tour of the first Provincial Treasurer A. O. Aalborg 81 miles of the Alberta Resources Railway. predicted that there is a strong possibility After a four-hour trip, the special reached the ARR will be extended in the future from end of steel, where a CN crew was laying track Grande Prairie north to Peace River. Such for the Crown-owned railway at the rate of a project would involve building a major 12 feet a minute. bridge over the Peace River, but would provide Twenty-nine miles north of Mile 81 is a direct link between the Great Slave Lake the main reason for the line’s construction Railway and CN’s main line, avoiding lengthy -- the vast Smoky Lake coking coal deposits, detours via the Northern Alberta. leased by McIntyre-Porcupine Mines. The ONR’s “PROJECT 137" rails are expected to reach the coal deposits The Ontario Northland Railway wound during October, ending phase one of the up its Centennial Project on August 22nd. three-part construction program. Rails will During the summer, steam locomotive 137,

UCRS # 259 - 4 formerly No. 2164 of the Canadian National, GO service has created parking problems at visited communities along the entire length a number of GO stations. Plans are now under of the ONR accompanied by a baggage car, way for expansion of these facilities. several coaches, a caboose and the retired * A month’s delay in the delivery of but incredibly well preserved Restaurant Car GO’s nine self-propelled cars from Hawker ‘Agumik’. A static display during the week, Siddeley has resulted in the transit system the leasing two complete trains from Ontario diminutive train was fired up on weekends and Northland to meet the schedule requirements hauled a total of 13,919 Northlanders on of the final step of GO’s phasing in, on little jaunts up and down ONR’s lines. September 5th. Consisting of five cars each, These photos depict 137's activities the ONR trains will have a locomotive at each in the North Bay area on August 19th. The view end, to eliminate runaround moves at above shows the special approaching Trout terminals. Lake, five miles from North Bay yard, with * Two self-propelled cars, Nos. D-700 extra coaches in tow to accommodate large and D-702, were delivered to GO Transit toward numbers of children. the end of August. However, virtually all Photo: O.N.R. 137 tries out the North Bay of the S.P. car fleet is required to meet the diesel shop. Photos by Ted Wickson.0259-003.jpg service additions, and in any event the cars Photo: The special arrives back in North Bay must be pre-served and tested before going for the last time. Photos by Ted Wickson.0259-004.jpginto regular operation. GO Transit expects Photo: O.N.R. 137 with train. Photo to have the self-propelled cars in full courtesy of Ted Wickson. 0259-005.jpg service by October. GO Notes EQUIPMENT Notes * GO Transit’s popularity continues CANADIAN NATIONAL MOTIVE POWER NOTES to boom. With passenger loads increasing by * During August, CN took delivery of about 3% each week, the 15,000-a-day passenger the first of its six-motor, 3,000 h.p. diesel target has been reached, about a month ahead units, as MR-30a class 2000 was received from of schedule. On August 21st, for example, Montreal Locomotive Works. 19,458 persons rode GO trains, 4,000 of these * CN’s leased Norfolk & Western units th to the Canadian National Exhibition. were returned to the N&W about August 15 . * During the CNE period, seven GO The B&LE leased units formerly operating in trains in each direction are stopping at western Canada have been seen with increased Exhibition Station, at the Dufferin Gates. frequency in southern Ontario. (April NL, As might be expected, this service is proving page 46). exceedingly popular, particularly with riders DETAILS OF CP’S CAR SALE TO MEXICO from Metro’s eastern suburbs. * Canadian Pacific is selling 65 * GO Transit officials have dismissed 2100- and 2200-class air-conditioned as premature speculation by Metro officials passenger cars to the National Railways of that GO services would soon be extended in Mexico. Between now and the end of the year, other directions, particularly toward the the cars will be painted at Montreal’s Angus Brampton area. Expansion plans will not be Shops in NdeM colours -- pullman green with will not be made for at least a year, when gold strips -- and numbered in the series 4400 complete analyses will be available of transit - 4464. potential studies begun in 1963. Meanwhile, The CPR cars involved are as follows, Premier Robarts has hinted of possible though not necessarily in the NdeM numbering additional equipment orders. sequence; * The almost unexpected popularity for 2130/31/33/34/35/36/37/38/39/40/41/ 42/45,

UCRS # 259 - 5 2147/48/50/51/52/53/54/55/56/57/58/ at 1745 EDT except Sundays. Dubbed the Expo 59/60, Extra, the new train utilizes the coach, 2161/62/63/64/65/66/67/68/69/70/71/ lounge and dining car equipment of the 72/73, Lakeshore, through increased utilization. 2174/75/76/77/78, The all-reserved-seat, all-coach 2204/06/07/08/10/11/12, train runs on Rapido’s four hour, 59 minute 2214/15/17/20/21/23/24/25/29/30/31/ schedule, with stops to detrain passengers 32/33, at Guildwood westbound and Dorval eastbound. 2234. It made its first runs on June 23rd. Photo: CN’s first six-motor 3,000 h.p. unit, MORE CANADIAN NATIONAL PASSENGER CUTS Century 630 No. 2000 dwarfs sister C-424 3212 * As well as the P.E.I. mixed train at Toronto Yard on one of its first trips. withdrawals already reported (June NL, page The big unit is equipped with Dofasco 82), the BTC has authorized the removal of Hi-adhesion trucks, Canadian standard for the mixed train services between Charlottetown Century 630; this truck has no bolster or and Georgetown, P.E.I. centre plate, the carbody being supported from * The last vestige of CN’s Montreal the truck by four load-bearing rubber units, - New York service, a nightly round trip and guided by a non-load-bearing centre pin. between Montreal and Cantic, Quebec, may be Photo by J. A. Brown. 0259-006.jpg discontinued by the railway on 20 days notice PASSENGER NOTEBOOK to the BTC. Notice of the cancellation must NFLD. PASSENGERS STILL DECLINING be posted in stations along the route. * The travelling public continues to * CN has BTC authorization to provide Canadian National with its strongest discontinue argument for the withdrawal of passenger trains 942, 943, 944 and 945 operating between services on the narrow gauge Newfoundland Montreal and St. Gertrude (Montreal North) lines. During the first six months of 1967, at any time after August 31st. 43,585 persons rode the trains, as compared SPEEDUP ON MONTREAL - GASPE TRAIN with 54,513 in 1966 and 83,744 in 1965 during * Trackwork changes at Matapedia, the same period. Quebec have resulted in reductions of up to During 1966, CN lost an even million an hour in the schedule of CN’s Chaleur between dollars on the Newfoundland passenger Montreal and Gaspe points. services. This is almost exactly the amount The Chaleur, which previously which will be required to purchase 16 buses operated between Campbellton and Montreal, of 40-passenger capacity; the buses will be had its run extended to Gaspe on June 1st. air-conditioned (which the trains are not) However, the track arrangement at Matapedia and will boast reclining seats and bathroom -- junction with the Gaspe branch -- was such facilities. Target date for introduction of that the train continued 13 miles to the bus services is June 1st, 1968. Campbellton to wye and make its passenger Although no plans for disposal of the stop, then returned to Matapedia to continue narrow gauge passenger equipment have been the journey to Gaspe. However, starting made, CN intends to retain seven coaches which August 20th, the Chaleur will simply drop its will be available in the event that highway Campbellton cars at Matapedia and continue traffic is paralysed by heavy snow. directly through to Gaspe. EXPO EXTRA PINCH HITS FOR TURBO TURBO STARTUP DELAYED AGAIN * Filling the gap created by the * No new starting date has been set not-yet-delivered TurboTrains on the Toronto for the introduction of TurboTrain service - Montreal run is a second section of the between Toronto and Montreal following a afternoon Rapido, departing the two cities recent CN announcement postponing the

UCRS # 259 - 6 previous October 29th startup date. CN said exhaustive performance testing. CN plans to that the delay is a result of “continuing use the winter off-season for extended procurement problems and production delays operational testing. experienced throughout the aircraft industry CN NOTES MILLIONTH TORONTO - MONTREAL RIDER in North America.” These have forced United * The millionth passenger to ride CN’s Aircraft Corporation to revise its delivery Expo Year Toronto - Montreal trains stepped schedules. off the morning Rapido on August 7th and was The first Canadian-built Turbo, to be presented with a set of luggage to commemorate completed at Montreal Locomotive Works by the the event. Last year’s No. 1,000,000 was not end of August, will be taken to United recorded until early November. Aircraft’s Providence, Rhode Island plant for Expo-goers are credited with boosting CP’s Hochelaga Yard on April 26th, and from travel on the Toronto - Montreal line by 31% there to St. Luc the following day. Still this year. On the Montreal - Quebec service, free-wheeled, it was transferred from St. Luc the increase is 147%, while the Montreal - to Delson on the morning of April 28th. Vancouver trains are running 15% ahead of last No. 60010 was built at Doncaster Works year. in 1937, to the design of Sir Nigel Gresley. BRITAIN - Comes to the Rail Museums One of 35 streamlined engines of the A4 class By Omer Lavallee of the former London & North Eastern Railway, The month of April saw the port of its original number was 4489, and when Montreal play host to two consignments of outshopped it bore the name ‘Woodcock’. In British railway equipment -- comprising no the summer of 1937, the LNER introduced a new less than three locomotives and a passenger non-stop express service running the 400 miles car -- bound for North American museums. between London and Edinburgh in six hours, One locomotive, British Railways No. and in keeping with the spirit of the 60010, an A4 4-6-2 named “Dominion of Coronation Year of King George VI, named the Canada”, arrived aboard the Canadian Pacific train Coronation and the locomotives assigned steamer ‘Beaveroak’ on April 24th, bound for to it after major constituents of the British the at Delson, Quebec. Commonwealth. Accordingly, ‘Woodcock’ was Stowed in one of the ship’s holds, it was taken back into the shops and refinished in not off-loaded until Wednesday, April 26th. the now-famous garter blue livery adopted for The A4, newly painted at Crewe Works this train. The new nameplates, bearing the in BR’s standard green livery, was accompanied inscription “Dominion of Canada”, were by a foreign corridor tender, that of another unveiled at Kings Cross station in London by A4 - ‘Miles Beevor’ -- recently withdrawn; this the Honourable Vincent Massey (then High substitution of tenders was made during the Commissioner for Canada in London, and later exterior restoration and painting of the past Canada’s first native-born Governor General) th winter. The original name plates of the on June 15 , 1937. No. 4489 was also fitted locomotive had apparently been disposed of, with a Canadian locomotive bell and whistle, since new-nameplates of wood were mounted on and bore the coat of arms of Canada on the the engine. While it is usual for a cab side below the engine number. locomotive’s main rods to be removed for dead The A4 class attained a measure of movement, curiously, all of 60010's side rods distinction when one of its class No. 4468 had been taken down as well, the rods and ‘Mallard’, attained a speed of 126 m.p.h. on rd motion being crated and stored separately July 3 , 1938. This is the highest aboard ship. officially-authenticated speed ever attained The locomotive was moved from the foot by a steam locomotive. Fittingly, ‘Mallard’ of McGill Street (where it was unloaded) to itself is preserved in the Clapham Museum in

UCRS # 259 - 7 London. Several other A4's are also on April 28th. Destined for Nelson Blount’s preserved, including another on this Steamtown museum at Bellows Falls, Vermont, continent, at Green Bay, Wisconsin. were British Railways No. 30926 ‘Repton’ -- Photo: ‘Dominion of Canada’ being lowered a Schools class 4-4-0 -- and M7 0-4-4T No. onto the deck of NHB crane from CPSS 30053, accompanied by ‘Beaveroak’ on April 26th. Photo by Jim first-third-brake-corridor passenger car No. Sandilands. 0259-007.jpg 6705. Photo: ‘Repton’, as it appeared on display The subject of the Southern Railway’s at Track 10, Windsor Station, on May 10th, 1967. famous three-cylinder Schools class 4-4-0's Photo courtesy of Canadian Pacific.0259-008.jpg was treated in detail by Mr. R. F. Corley in In 1946, LNER underwent a major the September, 1963 NEWSLETTER. These renumbering and No. 4489 emerged as No. 10, compact and well-balanced locomotives were to become the now-familiar 60010 two years designed by R.E.L. Maunsell, and built between later when, after nationalization, 60000 was 1930 and 1935 at Eastleigh Works; forty were added to the numbers of all ex-LNER motive built in all, each named after a British public power. The locomotive was retired several school. No. 926, ‘Repton’, was outshopped in years ago and was stored at Darlington prior 1934. Built particularly to accommodate the to removal to Crewe. tight clearances of the Hastings line of the The second consignment of British former South Eastern & Chatham Railway, these equipment arrived as deck cargo on board the engines -- Southern Railway class ‘V’ -- were Ulster Steamship Company’s ‘Roonagh Head’ -- reputed to be the most powerful 4-4-0's in chartered to Canadian Pacific Steamships -- Europe. The advent of nationalization saw in London suburban service, but were gradually 30000 added to the numbers of former SR displaced as the LSWR lines in the vicinity engines, and ‘Repton’ became No. 30926 of of the capital were electrified. They British Railways. Attempts to bring it to eventually ended up on rural branch lines or North America began about 1963 when Mr. Edgar in shunting duties. The Steamtown 0-4-4T was Meade of New York obtained an option on it; SR No. 53 until nationalization in 1948. No. it was finally acquired by Mr. Nelson Blount 30053 remains in British Railways lined black for the Steamtown Museum at Bellows Falls, livery and is reported in operating condition. Vermont, along with the second locomotive and The third component of this shipment, car. ‘Repton’ was fully restored to Southern Great Western Railway Railway livery prior to shipment from first-third-brake-corridor No. 6705, was also Liverpool on April 18th and is accompanied by fully restored -- in pre-war Great Western the tender of SR No. 726, a Maunsell 2-6-0. chocolate-and-cream livery with GWR monograms Two other Schools class locomotives have been -- prior to shipment to North America. preserved, both in Britain. The Steamtown-bound equipment was Photo: ‘Repton’, GWR coach and No. 30053, unloaded on April 28th. The next day, a coupled into a special CPR transfer, climb special transfer headed by 1,000 h.p. National Hochelaga Hill, just above the Sherbrooke Harbours Board switcher D-4 pulled the two Street overpass, Montreal, on April 29th. engines and car, headed and trailed by two Photo by Jim Sandilands. 0259-009.jpg specially-equipped Canadian Pacific The 0-4-4T, No. 30053, is one of a flatcars, along the Montreal waterfront to series of 55 such engines designed by Dugald the CPR interchange under the Jacques Cartier Drummond for the London & South Western Bridge. Here, a Canadian Pacific transfer, Railway in 1897. These locomotives, class including road switcher No. 8030 and a number M7 of the Southern Railway after that system of empty boxcars for brake ballast, coupled absorbed the LSWR in 1923, were used primarily on and pulled ‘Repton’ and its companions in

UCRS # 259 - 8 a special move around to Glen Yard, where they to Newport on the 12th and to Wells River on were stored in the former roundhouse for the 13th, arriving at Steamtown on May 15th. safekeeping. The flatcars were returned to Montreal that Mr. Blount had previously asked week, and ‘Repton’ left on May 23rd, arriving Canadian Pacific to exhibit ‘Repton’ for one in Bellows Falls on May 27th. (It is day at Windsor Station to publicize Steamtown interesting to note that the wayfreight in and its new acquisitions, and this request which the M7 and coach travelled over the was acceded to. Thus it was that on Lyndonville Subdivision on May 13th was CP’s Wednesday, May 10th, ‘Repton’ was stationed on veteran DRS-15a No. 8400, the first road Track 10 and played host to about four thousand diesel ever to be used in the Montreal area, visitors. back in 1949.) Following the Windsor Station Physical dimensions of the three display, the Steamtown-bound rolling stock British locomotives covered in these notes was sent to Bellows Falls on its own wheels are given in the diagrams reproduced below: in two batches. For this rail journey, Mr. Diagram: Side view of A4 Class.0259-010.jpg Blount had acquired two extra sets of buffers Diagram: Side view of V Class.0259-011.jpg and hook couplings and Canadian Pacific Diagram: Side view of M7 Class.0259-012.jpg applied these to the flat cars in place of 75 Years of Traction - A GLIMPSE OF the wooden blocks used when the equipment TORONTO’S TROLLEY CAR HISTORY .... arrived. By Bob McMann The 0-4-4T and the coach left Montreal first. They travelled to Farnham on May 11th; Seventy-five years ago this month, replace the horse cars of the Toronto Street public transportation in the City of Toronto Railway through city streets. entered a new era. August 15th, 1892 saw the In other parts of Ontario, there were inauguration of the first electric street car halting attempts at electric street car line through city streets, the CHURCH route, operation. In 1886, a Van Depoele by the then newly-incorporated Toronto installation of electric cars opened in Railway Company. Citizens of Toronto were Windsor over 1½ miles of track and the St. not unfamiliar with the new mode of transit Catharines city system, together with the using electricity as the motive force, for seven mile intercity route to Thorold, was each year prior to 1892 an experimental electrified in October, 1887. This was also electric line operated from Strachan Avenue a Van Depoele venture and had a roster of to the Canadian National Exhibition grounds twelve cars. Both of these early services during the short period the annual fair was used the troller system with two wires, one in progress. The line had been built in 1884 for current collection, the other for return. by Charles J. Van Depoele and was one of the In 1889, the Metropolitan Street Railway first successful electric transport Company line on between Price installations in Canada. During its first Street, the City Limit, and Eglinton Avenue year of operation, the route utilized a motor was electrified. car towing three small open passenger cars, Photo: Single-truck car 324 poses at collecting current via a conduit set between Lansdowne Carhouse in 1921. Note the Watson the rails. The following year, the conduit fender, common on TRC equipment prior to the was replaced by overhead wire and trolley TTC era. Photo courtesy of TTC.0259-013.jpg pole. The operation was considered Photo: Its advertising sign proclaiming the successful and favourable comment was made inauguration of Canadian Northern’s new night in the Toronto newspapers, but it was not train to Ottawa, TRC 440 stands on suggested that electric cars would ever near George, in 1913. Photo by TTC.0259-014.jpg

UCRS # 259 - 9 The thirty year franchise of the speechmaking. Car 270, the second electric Toronto Street Railway Company expired in car constructed by the TRC, was the lead car August, 1891, and operation of the horse car in the opening procession, which also included system was assumed by the City of Toronto. former horse cars 6 and 10. Negotiations began almost immediately with The moved a new company to take over the former TSR quickly to fulfil the terms of its franchise, system. The Toronto Railway Company was and the YONGE and KING routes were the next officially incorporated on April 14th, 1892 to be electrified. The former, from Front and obtained a thirty year franchise from the Street to Price Street, was completed by city, effective September 1st, 1891. Under October 10th, 1892, and the latter from George the terms of the franchise the TRC was to Street to Roncesvalles Avenue just eighteen introduce operation of electric cars within days later. Other routes followed during one year, with electrification to be completed 1893 and 1894, and the last horse cars were within three years. withdrawn from the McCAUL route on August 31st, The TRC began feverish preparations 1894, to meet franchise requirements. to convert the horse car system to electric The following years saw expansion of operation, and this required that the entire the TRC network and new and heavier cars were system be rebuilt to heavier standards. introduced as traffic increased. Double Trackwork was standardized to a great extent, truck cars were first used on the YONGE line with Dick Kerr girder rail in 69# and 73# in 1894, and the TRC constructed lines into weight being used. The former stable of the newer parts of the city not served by the TSR at Front and Frederick Streets was former horse car routes, but not beyond the remodelled into a power generating facility city limits of 1891. The zenith of the TRC for the TRC, but until it was ready power was operation was reached in the years immediately purchased from the Toronto Electric Light preceding the First World War; in 1912 the Company. New electric cars with 18-foot TRC carried nearly 136 million revenue bodies, of a design resembling Boston passengers and operated 130.7 miles of single equipment of the same period, were built in track. Efforts by the City to force TRC the former TSR carbuilding shops on Front expansion into newly -- annexed areas met with Street, and a number of horse cars were rebuilt frustration, the Company adopting the for electric operation. position that their franchise required only The first route chosen for that they provide service within the city electrification was the CHURCH line, boundaries of 1891. In 1911, the Toronto operating from Union Station via Front, Civic Railway was formed as a city department Church, Bloor and Sherbourne Streets to South to build and operate street car lines in these Drive in exclusive Rosedale. The line was areas, and five routes were eventually built rebuilt and overhead installed through the -- DANFORTH, ST. CLAIR, GERRARD, BLOOR WEST summer of 1892, local papers following the and LANSDOWNE. progress with great interest. The EVENING The TRC went into decline during the TELEGRAM was violently opposed to the electric First World War; the entire system was wearing cars, fearing accidents, and instead out and no modernization program was being advocated a cable car system. During early undertaken, as the TRC suspected their August, 1892, electric cars appeared on the franchise would not be renewed. The TRC had route for training purposes, and on a warm, built all of its own cars locally, except for sunny August 15th, electric cars were formally a few purchased in 1893, and all were of inaugurated with appropriate ceremony and obsolete design. In 1921, the TRC franchise expired and Commission to amalgamate the TRC, Civic and the City formed the Toronto Transportation radial properties within the city boundaries

UCRS # 259 - 10 of 1921 into one unified transit enterprise. world. Seventy-five years of electric Progressively minded, the TTC rebuilt, railway history in Toronto have seen many reorganized and modernized the street car changes -- from the single truck closed and system, introduced 575 new steel motor and open bench cars of 1892 to the all-electric trailer cars of the Peter Witt design, and PCC cars of the surface system to the made several important route extensions aluminum-skinned lightweight rapid transit during the 1920's. The Toronto electric trains of the modern underground system. railway system was transformed into an What the future will bring for the transit efficient operation that became the envy of system of Toronto in new forms of service and many Canadian and American cities, a lofty equipment only time will tell. position in the transit industry which it Photo: Cars 1042 (L) and 952 meet at Dundas still enjoys to this day. In 1938, the TTC and Roncesvalles on April 28th, 1913, in a scene introduced the President’s Conference whose surroundings have changed remarkably Committee (PCC) street car to Canada with its little to this day. Note the characteristic first order for 140 of the modern high narrow profile of the cars. Photo streamliners, the largest single order for courtesy of TTC. 0259-015.jpg PCC cars ever made on either side of the Photo: TRC convertible car 1266 is shown at Atlantic. This type of equipment eventually Front Street yard in 1915, the year operation made up a fleet of 744 cars, more than were of this type of car was banned on Toronto owned by any other system, and 539 remain in streets. For winter operation, the open service in 1967, still forming the backbone right side was enclosed and the seating of the TTC surface system. rearranged in longitudinal fashion. TTC As is to be expected, other forms of photo. 0259-016.jpg surface transportation have eroded the TRACTION TOPICS once-prominent position of the electric car Edited by John F. Bromley in Toronto. The TTC continues to be * In the absence of your editor, who progressive, and in 1954 the first subway in will be vacationing in Europe, Bob McMann and Canada was opened to replace the Steve Munro will contribute the Traction extremely-heavy YONGE car line. The Topics columns for September and October. underground system was extended with the * During the height of the evening rush opening of the UNIVERSITY line in 1963 and hour on July 18th, westbound QUEEN car 4414 the BLOOR - DANFORTH line in 1966. Toronto’s entered an open switch at Queen and Church subway lines have been replacements for the and struck eastbound car 4257. heaviest street car lines. A new era begins The latter was heavily damaged and repairs early in 1968 with the opening of two are unlikely, in view of impending equipment extensions of over six miles which will take surpluses in 1968. The mishap occurred at the BLOOR - DANFORTH line into the suburban 4:55 p.m., delaying service for about areas of Etobicoke and Scarborough, giving forty-five minutes. Eastbound cars were the Toronto area over twenty miles of rapid diverted via Church, King and Parliament, and transit line with more than fifty miles of westbound cars ran via Parliament, King, track, including yards. The extension of the Church, Richmond and Victoria. YONGE line into will begin in 1968, In another mishap, about which no adding another four miles of line by 1972. details are available, ex-Cincinnati car 4595 This, together with proposed routes on the received extensive front end damage and may Spadina Expressway and , become the first of its class to be scrapped. tentatively scheduled for 1976 and 1980, will Car 4661, westbound as a QUEEN Night keep Toronto to the forefront in public Car, derailed at the Don Bridge at 4:45 a.m. transportation in Canada and the western July 17th. The car left the rails completely,

UCRS # 259 - 11 but came to rest in such a position at the during the 24-minute delay in service. intersection of Queen and King that no tracks * Street car services to the Canadian were blocked. The car was re-railed facing National Exhibition are unchanged from 1966 west on the eastbound track and (see map in August, 1966 NL, page 128). KING towed backwards to Russell. - EXHIBITION requires 18 cars, of which runs Finally, a large truck struck the 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 13 originate at Russell trolley bus overhead on Weston Road at the Division. The balance of the service is made McCormack underpass July 21st, cutting off up from scheduled trippers from other routes, power on the west end of the ST. CLAIR route as follows: and stranding four cars at Keele Loop. Two other cars were short-turned at Townsley RUN ORIGINALLY LEAVING operate over the normal route, with extra 2 83 QUEEN from Sunnyside 8:11 AM cars. 5 36 KING from Dundas West Station 8:14 AM 8 25 KINGSTON ROAD from McCaul 8.52 AM As in past years, BATHURST and KING 10 29 KINGSTON ROAD from McCaul 7.50 AM cars will undoubtably be interchanged on such 12 9 DANFORTH from Luttrell 9.10 AM occasions as service delays, resulting in 4500 14 74 QUEEN from Sunnyside 7.47 AM cars to Woodbine Loop and a virtual 15 64 KINGSTON ROAD from Roncesv’s 7.50 AM 16 65 KINGSTON ROAD from Roncesv’s 7.55 AM “hodge-podge” of car types to Bathurst 17 53 KING from Dundas West Station 9.01 AM Station. 18 66 KINGSTON ROAD from Roncesv’s 8.00 AM Photo: Neville Loop, recently modified for In 1966, 9-DANFORTH changed signs for m-u QUEEN service, looked, like this during service on KING - EXHIBITION before leaving its original construction, forty-five years Luttrell Loop, providing interesting ago. photographs between that point and Coxwell TTC photo. 0259-017.jpg & Queen. Similar situations are likely in * The starting date of multiple unit 1967. service on QUEEN has been announced as October Additional Saturday and Labour Day 2nd, 1967. By this date, operator training, service will operate on KING between already partially completed, will have Exhibition and Church Street, and air cars finished, all equipment checked and truck will be on many KING runs to the CNE on weekdays revisions completed. The rebuilding of the as well. east end of the trailer yard at Russell was Most DUNDAS - EXHIBITION cars enter completed, except for overhead, by August 5th, service from the regular DUNDAS routes, and the new loop at Neville was installed although run 4 comes from 24-KING at Dundas between August 8th and 13th, opening on the West Station at 9.22 a.m. and operates to latter date at about 6:00 a.m., just in time Runnymede. Destination signs for the latter for a “shake-down” run by UCRS Chartered Car point may be carried from Broadview Station. 4599 that afternoon. Revisions at Humber are DUNDAS - EXHIBITION run #4 later becomes expected to begin in the latter part of August. DUNDAS run #55 during the p.m. rush hour, and Multiple unit electric switches were #4 is replaced after the rush period by run installed both ways at Queen and Broadview 59-KING at Dundas West Station at 6:34 p.m. on August 4th, and revisions to the three SR Operation is similar to the morning route switches at the entrance of Roncesvalles change. Twelve cars will handle DUNDAS - Carhouse on the Queensway are also complete. EXHIBITION, although evening service will Work is still to be done at the following include runs 13 and 14 in place of 2 and 11, locations: Connaught at Queen; Russell which become DUNDAS regulars during the p.m. Trailer Yard, W to SW and E to NE; McCaul rush hour. Street, W to N; Shaw Street, W to S; Dufferin BATHURST - EXHIBITION service will Street, W to S; Roncesvalles & Queen, E to

UCRS # 259 - 12 N and S to W; Sunnyside Loop and both switches, numbers involved are listed on page 84 of the including the one yet to be installed, at June, 1967 NEWSLETTER, and all were moved to Humber Loop. The diagram of Humber in the Pier 35 on August 11th for loading aboard the July NL should show a standard NA switch at S.S. Mitera Maria. Car 4586 was used as a the N to NE position joining the LONG BRANCH shunter to move the cars about the yards at route to the QUEEN route. Danforth. The fate of the other 147 cars A test train, comprising cars 4440 and still in Toronto remains in doubt. 4481, was operated during the small hours of * Readers in the Toronto area should the morning of July 9th, testing electric make it a point to visit the TTC Exhibit at switches revised as of that date. The train the Canadian National Exhibition, open from operated for three hours from 2:00 a.m., August 18th to September 4th. The exhibit will generally between Church Street and Woodbine be found in the old electrical building, just Loop, with at least one trip up Kingston Road south and east of the eastern street car to Bingham. terminal, or directly on your right as you * No sooner had we stated that it enter the Prince’s Gates. Open bench car 327 appeared that no more PCC cars would be shipped and Horse Car 16 will be on view as will the to Alexandria when the Arabs arranged a Letter TTC’s first bus a double-deck vehicle built of Credit in New York to cover the payment in 1921. of $24,000 for a group of sixteen cars. The SHORT TURN Class H-1 subway cars 5496-5497 have (excluding class A-14), and recent received an experimental paint job, assignments of low-4400's, 4600's and 4700's consisting of red from the roofline to to BLOOR and DUNDAS resulted. .... the latest approximately the middle of the car and Boston - Toronto talks for 50 street cars have separated from the aluminum fluting by a fallen through. .... the track renewal job yellow stripe. The edges of the front and scheduled for St. Clair Avenue from Yonge to rear windows continue to be surrounded by Mt. Pleasant has been revised to the short aluminum, and the roof remains as before. .... section from Yonge to the St. Clair Station cars 5350 and 5443 have been returned to exit, and delayed, probably until next year. Hawker-Siddeley for modifications. .... W-8 Rail replacement will take place on Queen made a trip to Broadview Station in the early from Shaw to Dufferin in the fall. .... car morning hours of August 12th in order to paint 4572 now has red dashlights, while 4570, which clearance lines on the pavement, and was similarly equipped, has been repainted. previously handled the same chore at King & This leaves 4567 as the junkiest-looking Bathurst and at King & Dufferin. .... cars all-electric car on the system. .... 4710 and 4712 are now being rewired at apparently the City of New York is now Hillcrest after storage for over a year. .... examining the Expo-Express cars for possible 4407 was recently moved to St. Clair for body use on the Staten Island Railroad. .... W-28 overhaul and paint and will shortly return has been working St. Clair Avenue from to service. .... Harbord, Riverdale, Carlaw Wychwood to Moore Park recently. .... overhead and Coxwell (above Fairford) were recently preparations for the JUNCTION trolley bus paved, and Spadina and Lansdowne will shortly route are well under way along . follow suit. .... air cars to receive body .... 4305 was trapped in the King Street subway overhaul and a paint job recently include during a recent storm which flooded the 4222, 4228, 4261, 4575 and 4589, while 4277 underpass and is now at Hillcrest for received paint without first having a body rewiring. .... a recent news item in the overhaul. .... destination signs for Main Pittsburgh Press states that a trolley car Station, as well as other recent additions, on the Philadelphia Suburban struck a bear are being placed in all types of all-electrics in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, which had

UCRS # 259 - 13 apparently been electrocuted after contacting a . .... a TROLLEY CAR?. .... The item undoubtably should refer to one of the famous Red Arrow “Bullet” cars. (Editor’s Note: Upper Darby, Pennsylvania is just five miles from downtown Philadelphia). .... MBTA’s WATERTOWN line will be replaced by buses effective Saturday, September 9th.

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