INCORPORATED 1952 NUMBER 488 JUNE 199Q

UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY P.O. BOX 122, STATION "A" TORONTO, ONTARIO 2 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

Upper Canada Railway Society Society Nctices Newsletter Newsletter This month's NEWSLETTER is printed in an experimental format. For now, this Number 488 - June 1990 is a one-month test. Please drop us a post card soon, if you have any comments on the appearance of this NEWSLETTER. Upper Canada Railway Society P.O. Box 122, Station A Flyer insert service Toronto, Ontario M5W 1A2 Now that the NEWSLETTER is mailed in envelopes, we are able to enclose leaflets for commercial and non-profit organisations. The fee for distribution Editorial Group of one page for one month is $95.00, with a discoimt available for non-profit Editor - Stuart I. Westland groups with messages of special interest to the members. AH proposals are Assistant Editor - John D. Thompson subject to the approval of the Society. For information, please write to Steve Activities Editor - Ed Campbell Danko, Corresponding Secretary. Production - Pat Scrimgeour, John Carter Financial Typing The Society is reviewing its accounting and auditing procedures. Would any Art Clowes, Gray Scrimgeour, Chris Spinney member with experience in this field who is wflling to advise or assist with om work please write to Art Clowes, Treasurer. Mailing John Garter, Bill Hood, Don McCartney, Readers' Exchange Dave Scott, Denis Taylor, John Thompson Contributions Dave Savage has advised that the July issue of Canadian Station News has Please send news and short contributions to the been produced. Copies are avaHable for $5.00 by writing to Canadian Station section editors, at the addresses shown above each News, P.O. Box 171, Cobourg, Ontario K9A 4K5. section. Please send articles and longer contributions to the above address. If you are using a computer, please send a plain DOS/ASCII text file on IBM-compatible (SA" or 3%'j, UCRS Calendar Macintosh, or Commodore 64/128 disks, and enclose a printed copy. Friday, June 15 - UCRS Toronto meeting, 7:30 p.m. Peter Jobe will show slides of the resource railways of Quebec: the Quebec North Shore and Upper Canada Railway Society Labrador, Cartier, Riviere Romaine (Quebec Iron and Titanium), and Pat Scrimgeour, President 778-0912 Robervai-Saguenay. Rick Eastman, Vice-President 494-3412 Friday, June 22 - UCRS Hamilton meeting, 8:00 p.m. Art Clowes, Treasurer 980-0083 Sunday, June 24 - CPR 1201 trips in Ottawa. Three two-hour tours through Gordon Shaw, Recording Secretary 889-6972 Steve Danko, Corresponding Secretary 287-2844 Ottawa and Hull leaving from the National Museum of Science and Al Maitland, Membership Secretary 921-4023 Technology at 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m., adults $16, children George Meek, Entertainment Chairman 532-5817 $11. Bytown Railway Society, PC. Box 141, Station A, Ottawa, Ontario, Al Faber, House Committee Chairman 231-7528 KIN 8V1. John Carter, Sales/Publicity Chairman 890-8651 Frid^, July 6, to Sunday, July 8 - UCRS Ottawa Weekend excursion. The trip will include a ride behind CPR 4-6-2 1201, visits to museums at Membership dues for the calendar year 1990 are Kingston, Smiths Fails, and Ottawa, and a look at Ottawa's Transitway. The $22.00 for addresses in Canada, and $24.00 for fare is $180.00. We leave from Toronto Union Station on Friday at 8:00 p.m., addresses In the U.S. and overseas. Student with a pickup at Whitby GO station at 8:45 p.m., and return on Sunday memberships, for those 17 years or younger, are evening. For information, call Rick Eastman at 416/494-3412. For $15.00. Please send inquiries and changes of reservations, send a cheque or money order to UCRS, 5 Vradenberg Drive, address to the above address. Scarborough, Ontario MIT 1M5. Friday, July 20 - UCRS Toronto summer meeting, 7:30 p.m., at the CHP Monthly Meetings Heritage Centre, second floor, Cumberland Terrace, on the east side of Bay Toronto Street north of Bloor Street. Third Friday of each month {September-June), 7:30 p.m., at the Toronto Board of Education, 8th floor Fridey, August 3, to Mondcy, August 6 - UCRS Montrial Weekend auditorium, 155 College Street at McCaul Avenue. excursion. The feature of the weekend will be a special tour of the General Hamilton Electric locomotive plant. The trip also includes a visit to the Canadian Fourth Friday of each month, 8:00 p.m., at the Railway Museum, and train watching on the Mont-Royai electric line. The fare Hamilton Spectator auditorium, 44 Frid Street, just off is $180.00. Information and reservations, as for the Ottawa Weekend, listed Main Street at Highway 403. above. Sunday, August 26 - Raiifan Ramble to visit stations in southwestern COVER PHOTO by Jim Brown Ontario, CNR 5700 at St. Thomas, and Port Stanley Terminal Rail. The van leaves from Toronto Union Station. Fare: $45.00. For details, write to Raiifan On June 5, 1960, Royal Hudson 2857 hauled Rambles, Kingfisher Promotions, P.O. Box 171, Cobourg, Ontario K9A 4K5. the UCRS farewell to CPR steam excursion from Toronto to Port McNicoii. At Fesserton, on Other UCRS excursions - Dates and details to be announced. the Port McNicoii Subdivision, 2857 headed • Day trip to London and Port Stanley. west on an unscheduled runpast. For more • One-day excursion on the New York and Lake Erie to Salamanca reflections on CPR steam, see Page 6. • Toronto city and area tour (December). UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 • 3

Lindsay and Area Subdivision Observations BY NORMAN J. CARDWELL

The weatherman had advised the day before that Saturday railway hobby stuf^ memorabilia, books, raflfare, and everything April, 5, 1990, was to be dear and sunny but slightly chilly. else you can imagine. Taking advantage of this dear weathep Bill Pyke, a fellow We were fortunate to meet one of Lindsay's original UCRS membep and I dedded to take off for Lindsay Ontario, working railroad and musical encydopaedias, Larry Murphy. for a httle railfanniag and to visit the 16th annual Lindsay and Larry and I met many years ago when we were both involved District Model Engineers Show. in the band business. As a matter of fact, Larry was We left Toronto about 8:00 am and headed out Highway instrumental (no pun intended) in producing one of the most 401 east to Highways 35 and 115. progressive and entertaining bands ever to have emerged firom The following is our trip report: the Lindsay area. After reriiing from his musical interests, Larry returned to his railway hobby. Larry kindly invited BiU and me CP Bobcaygeon Subdivision up to the Exhibitor's Lounge where we aU enjoyed a leisurdy Leaving Highway 35, we proceeded east on Highway 7A into lunch and got caught up on all the local railway news. Bethany. The rails were lifted on this sub in March of 1989. Some tidbits: The rails on CbTs CampbeUford Sub were sold This now abandoned right-of-way is comfortable to drive untn to refurbish an American raUroad. . . . The rails on ClTs Fleetwood Creek, just north of the former Fleetwood Station, Lakefidd Spur were sold to a Nevada, U.S-A. concern and where we encountered a large mormd of earth blocking the reportedly were trucked out by Nevada truckers. . . . CP's right-of-way. Further investigation revealed that a short steel Bobcaygeon Sub rails were sold for scrap, the whereabouts girder type bridge had been removed. After taking a few photos, unknown at this time. we backed down to the first concession south and traveled I understand firom taUdng to Larry afterwards that the show approximately one concession west in order to skirt this detoun enjoyed record attendance. This show is highly recommended Heading north again, we were warned by a local sign and Bfll and I are eagerly looking forward to next years edition. which said "WASHOUT AHEAD." Since we were riding in Bill's Around 3:00 pmu we dedded to return to Toronto and to SDAROWS (Super Duper Abandoned Right-Of-Way Scooter), investigate some former railway Unes on the way home. which in reality is actually a four-wheel drive GM Jimmy, we Exiting Lindsay via Highway 7 West; we dedded to take a cleared ah. obstacles until we reached the next concession. This drive down the former Toronto and Nipissing. (Until about three route is not recommended for ordinary vehicles). years ago, part of this line remained from Blackwater Junction Returning to the right-of-way all was dear sailing, or to Woodvflle and was referred to as the Cannington Spur.) should we say dear railing, into Lindsay untn we reached George Street. The right-of-way at this point is completdy CN Cannington Spur (From Highway 7) impassable (you can see the CN CampbeUford Sub overpass Driving soufiibound on this abandoned right-of-way from about half a mile ahead). We backed down to Mary Street and Highway 7 turned out to be a pleasant, semi-scenic drive save then headed north on Logie Street. Just south of Mary Street, for one or two large bumps and some minor washouts. At one can see faint traces of the former Lindsay Junction, where Sunderland, one must detour with a short swing to either the the Burketon and Dranod Sections cormected. east or the west, as a private business now blocks the right-of- As a passing note, at Bethany about one mile north, one way here. Picking up the right-of-way immediatdy south of can also observe the abandoned right-of-way of the former Port Sunderland, aU is dear to the north end of the Blackwater Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton. This right-of-way runs paraUd Junction Wye. Here, one must make a decision to explore the to CP's Bobcaygeon Subdivision for approximatdy two miles. left leg (east) or the right leg (west). Some of the embankments are still in good shape.

CN Campbellford Subdivision (At Logie Street) CN Uxbridge Subdhrision (At Blackwater Junction) Unfortunatdy as we observed this subdivision firom the Logie We dedded to explore the east leg of the wye first. If s a httle Street overpass who did we bump into but The Grim Scrapper. bumpy and, in some sections, extremely overgrown. This part This section of the CampbeUford Sub is now capped we found interesting because the wye starts just before the Une approximatdy one quarter-mile west of this overpass. passes over the Beaverton Rivo; which necessitated an unusual and intriguing piece of bridgework. There isn't any room to Historically with all the rail lines that ran in and out of turn around at this point, so we had to back out very slowly. Lindsay at one time (see Note 2), with the current lifting of Heading down the west leg proved to be a much easier task. the rails on CITs Campbellford Sub, this leaves only one Hve hue into Lindsay CNPs Uxhridge Sub (but probably not for Upon returning home, I immediately referred to Charles long). Coopefs book Narrow Gauge For Us and reviewed his photograph of Blackwater Junction. After perusing this picture, 16th Annual Lindsay and District Model Engineers Shew if s hard to believe that so much has been dismantled and the track that is left (the Uxbridge Sub) looks in such poor We arrived a httle early (the doors open at 11:00 aan. on condition (wayfreight service only once a week to Lindsay). Saturdays), and so dedded to stop for coffee. The show is held in the Victoria Avenue Armoury. After CN Uxbridge Subdivision (At Uxbridge Station) many years of trying to catch this show, we finally made it. We're glad we did. This show is a dass act. The entire centre If s been a few years since Fve passed through Uxbridge, but 1 section of the main floor is devoted entirdy to modd exhibits, must say it is a very pleasant town and surrounding community. while the perimeter entertains sales booths offering all kinds of The station is in smart condition (a fairly recent paint job), but I beheve now in private ownership. Zippo rafl activity here. 4 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

CN Uxbridge Subdivision (At Stouffville Station) Railways, Lindsay to OriUia - 1937 (CP) Arriving at StoufMUe Station we found that two GO trainsets G - The Lindsay Bobcaygeon and Pontypool Railway are stored here for the weekend. (One three-car and one Lindsay to Bobcaygeon - 1959 (CP) five-car bUevel consist). While standing on the station platform, I immediately thought of John Thompson (UCRS's in-house D - The Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway expert of exquisite ctusine), when I spied one of his favourite Lindsay to Beaverton - 1966 (CN) exotic eateries, "Pizza Pizza." Opting for a quick snack, we E - The \dctoria Railway Lindsay to Haliburton - 1981 unfortunately ran out of time and were not able to record the (CN) motive power and car numbers for posterity. After driving over * F — The Georgian Bay and Seaboard and Midland Simcoe the crossing and glancing at the track condition (to me it Railways, Dranoel Junction to Lindsay - 1988 (CN) looked the same as at Blackwater), 1 said to myself "Ifs a wonder that these heavy GO trains make any time at all." G - The Port Hope, Lindsay and Beaverton Railway Omemee Junction to Lindsay - 1989 (CN) All in all, a very enjoyable outing. H - The Whitby Port Perry and Lindsay Railway Manilla Notes: Junction to Lindsay. Currently this section is intact and is 1. Larry Murphy also mentioned that if we were interested in CNs Uxbridge Subdivision which runs from Toronto to a good book covering rail activity around Lindsay and the Lindsay. Abandonment is expected before long, from area, he recommended Railroad Recollections by local author Uxbridge to Lindsay only. (CN) Charles Heels. We stopped at a local bookstore, but I have taken great care in checking the above abandonment wouldn't you know, it was sold out. dates with regard to authenticity.. To keep these dates 2. Railway lines in Lindsay, listed in order of demise: consistent with the article itself, I would like to point out that there is somewhat of a time lag between the "official" A — The Lindsay Bobcaygeon and Pontypool Railway abandonment date and the time when the rails were Burketon Junction to Lindsay Junction - abandoned in 1932 actually lifted. Oast operated by CP) This article was prepared with help from and in consultation B — The Georgian Bay and Seaboard and Midland Simcoe with Bill Pyke, Larry Murphy, Pat Scrimgeour; and Art Clowes. •

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A ride on the new "Canadian" BY BRUCE D, COLE

Just after the VIA cuts, in the last week in January I booked a crew members and six passengers there. I noticed that they trip on the so-called CANADIAN from Vancouver to Toronto for were running cabooseless freights here. I counted 15 engines in late March. I reserved the drawing room in the PARK Car for the the yard and saw that they srill use half of the old roundhouse. trip. It is not inexpensive — the one way fare with the drawing A freight with SDSOs 5449 and 5437 was ready to travel room is $1064. It had been five years since I was on the behind us. There wasn't much snow on the ground as we northern route. On Saturday March 24th, I flew from Toronto headed for Jaspep and the water in the North Thompson River to Vancouver on Air Canada. The excursion air ticket was only was very low. The Skyline car was not being used, as it was to $468 return (I just didn't use the return portion, as I was only come off in Jasper to be used on the Skeena fdr meal service. going out to Vancouver to ride the train east.) The conductor on this portion of the trip was a real raiifan so After arriving, I proceeded to the VIA station in l^couvej; we talk lots about rail travel. He was selling railway pins, so I even though it was several hours until train departure. I wanted bought a few. to see what equipment was in Vancouver. As I expected, it was Because of car problems, there was a maintenance person very quiet at the station. Since they renovated the station for on board. AU the name plates in the Park car had been taken. Expo 86, it is magnificent. The south area in the station is for At Irvine we met a westbound coal train. Arrival at Blue River sitting, and the north area has the ticket counter and baggage was on time — lots of snow but sriU a great day. They are pickup. There is also a restaurant, which is closed on Saturdays double tracking east of Blue River for four miles. It was not in and Sundays, and a newsstand. use then, but they wiU be working on it again in the spring. The equipment at Vancouver included F40s 6402, 6406, At Lempriere we met a westbound freight with SDSOs 5420 6433, and 6450, CN yard engine 1273, steam generator cars and 5442, a unit train carrying potash. We passed an eastbound 15421, 15435, 15442, 15443, 15451, 15483, and 15494, empty coal train with SD40-2s 5233 and 5292. baggage-dormitory cars 9475, 9477, and 9483, sleepers After a quick lunch, I got some great pictures of Mount ELLERSLIE (in new paint). ENDEAVOUR, ELMIRA, EASTVIEW, EDGSLEY, Robson. There was a rail-grinding car sitting on the Robson ELROE, and ExiEW, and coaches and dayniters 5603, 5701, 5706, Subdivision at Redpass. The westbound CANADIAN was in the 5709, 5713, 5715, 5716, 5717, 5718, 5720, 4721, 5722, and station at Jasper when we arrived, so we couldn't get off. Its 3226. Stainless steel cars that I could see were baggage-dorms equipment was F40s 6400 and 6440, steam generators 15417 606, 610, and 612, coaches 113, 122, and 129, Skjdine cars and 15470, baggage car 9624, baggage-dorm 9481, sleeper 511, 514, and 517, diners KENT, ACADIAN, ALEXANDRA, FRONTENAC, EDENWOLD, Skyline 507, coach 126 from Train. 6 (fiie SKEENA) and LOUISE, MANOR cars BELL, BUTLER, CAMERON, and HEARNE, and going back to Ifeicouver for service, coaches 123, 110, and PARK cars EVANGELINE and YOHO. 5749, Skyline 506, diner CHAMPLAIN, DUFFERIN MANOR, BLAIR The long CANADIAN for the day was on liack 5. The MANOR, BAYFIEID MANOR, and BANFF PARK. equipment was F40s 6401 and 6458, steam generators 15472 The westbound CANADIAN puUed out at 16:05, one hour and 15405, baggage-dorm 609, deadhead baggage-dorm 9479, late, and we backed up into Urack 1. Baggage-dorm 9479, sleeper EDMUNDSTON, Skyhne 501, coach 124 for the Skeena, EDMUNDSTON, Skyline 501, and coach 124 were taken off and coach 119, diner IMPERIAL, HUNTER MANOR, DUNSMUIR MANOR, attached to F40 6455 and steam generator 15400 to make up Buss MANOR, and KOKANEE PARK. From the outside, the cars were the SKEENA, Train 5, for the run to Prince Rupert that night A all clean, with the rear markers present on KOKANEE PARK. clearing crew comes on in Jasper to dean the Skeena cars. I had some dinner near the station before the train was Our eastbound now had two engines, two steam generators, ready. It was nice to walk out with a sweater on, rather than one baggage dorm, one coach, one dinep three sleepers and one a heavy coat. Then it was back to the station. The boarding PARK car. We left Jasper with 50 coach passengers and 42 sign in the station is from the old CANADIAN, but with paper and sleeper passengers. The Skeena had 27 coach passengers. It was tape over the old stops, and the new stops written in. By 20:00, a great day for picture taking — srill no douds in the sky. Out the station was filling up. The service manager was at the desk of Jaspej; there were sheep and elk all along the rail fine, and to coUect the sleeping car rickets, and at 20:40 we boarded. those in the dome saw a rainbow. Irwin, the attendant for car 239, KOKANEE PARK, showed me In the PARK cap they only allow smoking in the lotmge area to the drawing room, showed me how to use everything, and where the bar is, but there was no sign in the large lounge told me the rime for breakfast. I unpacked and went up to the area, so the attendant told those who had fit up to stop. They dome; the windows were dirty. As we pulled out of the station have also eliminated smoking for the last meal sitting. By the five minutes late at 21:05, there were six people in the dome. time we reached the Edson Sub, we had met a couple of grain It was peaceful as we proceeded; not a cloud in the sky lots of and potash unit trains. At Edmonton, we proceeded on the stars, and you could see the ski runs on the mountains lit up. bypass track around Symington Yard then backed about three There were 41 passengers in the coaches and 32 in the sleepers miles down to the station. This is done because the property when we left Vancouver. I stayed up until we were travelling in west of the station has been sold and the tracks removed. While the south part of the Fraser Canyon. backing up, we were beside the Edmonton liansit light rail fine. Next morning, 15 miles from Kamloops North, I was awake. We arrived at the station on time at 22:25. CN business car 93 We arrived 10 minutes early at 05:50, in clear; cold weather; was parked at the station. with steam rising outside the car. CN GP9 7010 was doing yard Because there was no Skyfine cap the PARK car was filled, work beside the train. Beside the train was car 61200, one of and the car attendant gave up on his no smoking order. Out of three CN superintendents' cars similar to cabooses with no Edmonton, there were 73 coach and 41 sleeper passengers. cupola. A freight with SD50s 5418 and 5452 left as we waited. At 7:45 the next morning, 1 opened the blind and saw a When I went up to the diner for breakfast, there were three little snow on the ground with lots of fixKt As I finished 6 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 breakfast, the CANADIAN was slowing down for Saskatoon. There were two GMDls doing some yard work there. The drawing room was made up when I returned from breakfast. Only three New Brunswick - people were in the dome that morning, with the sun shining Steam Recollections from 1960 brightly We were travelling at 70 m.p.h. at this point, and BY JOHN McMILLEN passing lots of grain elevators. We were put into the siding at Zena to meet a freight carrying mixed freight — 110 cars long, with a caboose. It was -10 degrees at Watrous, where SDSOs I now live in Surrey England, but 30 years ago I spent almost 5415 and 5431 were heading west with 97 cars. a year (1959-60) in Montreal, Quebec, where I met Ian Taylor; It was a very busy morning, with three freights going west a UCRS member who now resides in Burlington, Ontario. While in the next 50 minutes. When I stretched for a few minutes at the miles separate us, we have kept in contact all these years the stop at Melville, we were only 30 minutes late, despite all by corresponding and exchangeing notes of various rafiway the freight meets. I soon saw lots of deer on the Rivers Sub. happenings, including those in the NEWSLETTER. With a letter Some freights we met this day were so long that they went from Ian in April, there was enclosed a copy of the $2.00 stamp around us as we sat on the siding. Wheat cars used for showing the station building at McAdam, New Brunswick. Churchill are stored at Mitiiota. When we met the westbound The stamp jogged my memory of the last Canadian Pacific CANADIAN at North Brandon, we were going 70 m.p.h. Railway journey I made, from Montreal, Qudbec, to Saint John, Because we arrived in Wionipeg at 18:00, they offered the New Brunswick, on February 19, I960, to join the "Empress of first sittmg for dinner at 16:30 and the second after we left France" to sail back to the United Kingdom. Winnipeg at 22:30. The VIA maintenance facility is just west of A couple of words to set the picture for those who may be the station there. I saw six steam generator units and three unfamiliar with the part of the world between Montreal and Budd coaches. Stored at the station were F9Bs 6611, 6631, and Saint John and its related train travel: Everything changes as 6632, plus steam generator 15456, CN business car 92, you travel eastward from Montreal towards the International of baggage-dorm 605, STRATHCONA PARK, and baggage car 9670. Maine route and Saint John. The ATLANTIC LIMITED, Train No. 42, We left Winnipeg at 22:15 on time with 50 coach was a overnight train, and in February as you left Montreal it passengers and 40 sleeping car passengers. In the first hour was already dark but at least in Montreal you had the hustle after leaving Winnipeg, we passed three westbound freights. and bustle of the large urban centre to give a feeling of warmth There were lots of stars out as I watched the country changing and being. from prairie to forest. The early evening trip is across the Eastern Townships with It was another beautiful day, as I lifted up my blind the its ever-decreasing number of towns and villages and associated next morning — stmny with lots of snow on the ground.-There lights reflecting on the glistening snow and giving somewhat the were woods, woods, and more woods, as we travelled 65 m.pJi. feeling of heading into exile. Then into the decaying hiUs of the between Ferland and Auden. The people travelling on this train Boundary Mountains of the J^palachians with their timbered were seniors, mothers with young infants, a few Americans, a slopes and frozen streams and ponds, but not much else. couple from Australia and New Zealand, and local passengers Habitation is very sparse in this portion of Northern Maine, going from Point A to B. We met our first morning freight at where the winters of the late 1950s mainly saw only the 09:50 at Kowkas, then came across a work train with two lumbermen and their families. Cold moonht nights in February coaches and two baggage cars all painted light grey with CP 9 can only remind one of some of Robert Service's poems of the 4127 at CaveU. desolate Arctic. The station at Nakina is all boarded up now, as is the CN In the predawn glow, as one approaches the Maine—New bunkhouse. There was a westbound freight picking up cars at Brunswick bordei; one can see the higher hfils have given way Longlac. At Arms we met another westbound freight with two to a more rolling terrain strewn with glader-gouged lakes and engines and 90 cars. There were three freights ready to go west large granite outcrops. and one to go east at Homepayne. Along many portions of the Across the border into New Brunswick we are stfll travelling line here you travel on wooden or cement ties. At Foleyet, there through the wooded terrain with many small streams and must be thousands of cement ties with signs saying not to use ponds. Then with the brilliant huge sun just peeking over the them. We were into Capreol on time at 22:35. The crews were horizon through the snow covered evergreens the train rounds changed and the locomotives filled up. a sweeping curve, the woods stop and ahead is a huge stone At 05:30, I opened the bhnd as we were crossing the building beside a frozen snow covered pond with a rail yard Narrows at Atherly. Between OilLHa and Barrie we travelled 80 and many plumes of steam and smoke drifting upward into the m.p.h. At 06:30, you could get a hght breakfast in the dining frost-laden air This is McAdam, where the overnight train to car or coffee in the PARK car. The run from Barrie to Toronto Saint John makes a 30 minute breakfast stop. was uneventful, and we arrived at Union Station at 07:35. McAdam is a small community at the crossing of two rail Except for the car attendant 1 had from Winnipeg to Toronto, lines in a clearing in the middle of the woods miles from even all other personnel on the train from Vancouver could not have other communities of a similar size. While isolated, the scene is cared less about the people they were serving. There were dirty one of beauty as the clear crisp atmosphere showed every detail cars, poor food quality and no selection in the take-out. I am of the numerous houses with fiieir wood smoke drifting upward sure an outside catering company would be a lot more efficient. from their chimneys. The schedule is lousy covering 2776 miles at an average The smell of wood smoke was mixed with that of coal speed of 31 m.p.h. You go through the best part of the trip — smoke drifting from the rail yards. A paradise for a painter or the Rockies — mainly in the dark in the winter. The fares have photographei; but to me there were far more appetising sights increased. For those passengers going to Montreal, there is a around - CPR Consolidations Nos. 3692, 3725, and 3750, plus 10-minute connection in Toronto if the CANADIAN is on time 6964 were actively switching the yards. In the roundhouse, These passengers wfll have to wait until 11:10 if the CANADIAN 2926 was in steam - was this the last active 4-4-4 worldwide? is late. • Also there were 2598, 2644, 1077, 1097, 1104, 3429, 3701, UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 » 7

5400, and 5452, some of which were stored. Also there was concerns in these days of "just-in-time" dehveries about possible CPR No. 6941, which had been in the dead line at St. Luc for blockage to their high density freight lines by these strange the last six months of 1959 - or did my eyes deceive me? creatures from the past. After feasting on the sight of these steam locomotives, it It must be remembered that railway employees with steam was back on the train for the remaining 85 mile trip to the port knowledge are getting scarce, as noted with the recent fanfare city of Saint John. While we left McAdam with the morning sun from CN when they had their first new steam engineperson in violently reflecting off the snow crystals and sped along through many years qualified. Also, indications are that the railways the forested southwestern part of New Brunswick with its small have become concerned about their public image over piles of villages, farms, and srid-numerous streams and frozen lakes, we rusty metal sitting around in unkempt parks showing then- met one of the reahries of the coastal weathei; fog. This is a corporate name or crest. fact of hfe along coasts like southern New Brunswick where the The Alberta provincial govermnent has owned 6060 since warmer air from over the ocean meets the frigid land air and — 1980, and they have bedecked her with a few western-style presto — fog. Added to the coastal fog were ocean storms that "gizmos," induding a prominent ALBERTA plaque flanged with delayed the sailing of our ship. provindal crests on the front of her frame just above the pilot. This was a blessing to me since it permitted me to visit the An Alberta wild rose adorns the running boards near the front. CPR Bayshore Yard in West Saint John (now the City of This locomotive has also been Canadianized with ditch lights, Lancaster). This yard revealed a dead line of steam locomotives but to her fans she is stfll Bullet-Nosed Betty. that consisted of CPR Nos. 490, 492, 3624, 3682, 3719, 5413, Another modem-age factor that shows up between the lines 5754, and 5755. While these locomotives were on the dead hue, in the newspaper accounts is frnancial. This is the day of a trip down to the harbour trackage in West Saint John found concern for Habflity lawsuits, pubhc image, and possible the switching being undertaken by CPR 2-8-Os Nos. 3641, 3700, requests for bailouts from right public purses. and 3752, while CP Padfrc No. 2628 was at the head of Train However; the Rocky Mountain Rafl Sodety sparked on by No. 101 for its trip to •Vhnceboro, Maine, replacing a failed member CUff Wedgewood, are trying to do everything in their RDC. power (and perhaps beyond) to ensure this engine runs again. Word came that the weather was breaking and it was time They know the effort it has taken to raise the $600,000 that to board the "Empress" and leave Canada. riiey have invested in helping to keep this mechanical marvel Howevej; as we sailed out of the harbour and started down operating. the Bay of Fundy the memories of the Padfics, 1200s, 2400s, The other name synonymous with 6060 is Harry Home, who and Hudsons on the Montreal commuter trains and the scenes has hved to work on this engine. Wedgewood, Home, and the of McAdam and Saint John were stfll dancing in my head and Rocky Mountain Rafl Sodety worfld like to run a train with this I wondered how long wovfld they last. Little did I know that engine to treat thousands more to the thrill and feeling of all of this steam activity would be extinct within two months. riding behind a full-sized main line steam engine. They know they have an uphill battle. Indications are that the province These are my recollections of a great Canadian steam show would like to see a steam train operation in the province but some 30 years ago. I dose, hoping my few words may challenge knowing the money they have also spent to date, are looking others to write their valedictory words on the end of the for someone with a big bankroll that can do a public relations Canadian steam era. • job for the province, preferably at no cost. —ADDITIONAL MEMORIES BY ART CLOWES While many of our readers know the cost and effort to keep the family car going per yeai; try to imagine the costs and efforts that people like Mr. Home have expended to keep a machine the size of this steam locomotive operating. Think of her age and the tangle of regiflations and standards she must comply with. The provindal government appears to be trying to be one of the world's greatest jugglers. As owners, they have sent out requests to various parries induding the Rocky Mountain Rafl Sodety for proposals for operating 6060. Next into the juggling act is the matter of ensuring the right provindal riding gets the train operation. Then, of course, in there is the matter of trying to get a railway to agree to both the right operator and the Steamed Up Over Steam right piece of track. Then, lef s not forget the general taxpayer or, The Future of Middle-Aged Betty who may or may no be a steam enthusiast. The Calgary Herald, in outlining the present quandary She roUed out of the Montreal Locomotive Works in Octobe:; speaks of the frustration of Messrs. Home and Wedgewood and 1944. For the remainder of the main line steam days in Canada, their assodates over what appears to be inaction. One can her wheels polished the rails of Canadian National. This sympathize with the Rocky Mountain Rafl Sodety group and locomotive carried CNR No. 6060, and in later Hfe became their feeling that the government owes them at least a chance known to her fans far and wide as Bullet-Nosed Betty. Today to run 6060. But this is 1990, not the freer rimes of even 10 when she is doser to 50 than 40, she has been through more years ago. Consider one final thought: who would want to be crises than most ladies see in a lifetime, and it looks hke she is the government bureaucrat expected to hand the Minister a facing another. decision that will keep the heat off him. Betty as has been recently mentioned in these pages, is We know there are many mirade workers in the west, so being stored in a warehouse in Calgary while various parries while things may be slow, we are certain Betty wfll steam haggle over her future. Her age, like many of her steam again. • companions, is catching up, as more and more railways have -BASED ON A CALGARY HERALD ARTICLE FROM M.F. JONES, AND EDITORIAUSED IN TORONTO 8 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

To the Lands of the Geniuses - PART 10 BY JOHN A. FLECK

Saturday. April 30 - I woke up around 0600 and my sleeping Then the moment I had waited many years for had finally car attendant came soon to return my sleeping car ticket arrived - I boarded my first (of 11) TGVs! This was the receipt; passport, and Eurailpass. Then I opened my window to Saturdays only and first class only run of 1004 km from Paris videotape my approach to Paris Gare de I'Est on the ARLBERG to Nice - at this time the longest TGV ride possible. My EXPRESS from Innsbruck. This station has 30 platforms and is reserved seat was on the left side facing backwards, but only one of six mainline railway terminals in Paris, making this fortunately this was a first class only train, normally irsed city the "Chicago" of Europe. While threading its interlocldng, during weekday peak periods of business travel, so I easily 1 noticed the dwarf signals which are in horizontally mounted found an unused forward facing seat on the right side with a oval frames each containing two lights — pink and white — fuU window. French trains, hke those in Switzerland and Italy which indicate stop and proceed respectively. Arrival was just run on the left side. a few seconds before the 0648 advertised. Departure was on time at 1041, and 1 knew that the LGV Then I headed through the station and down to the Mdtro (hgne a grande vitesse. High Speed Line) was 29 km and 15 station of the same name to go to Gare de Lyon for my 1041 minutes away so 1 videotaped the first 20 minutes of my ride train a grande vitesse (TGV) to Nice. as well as later segments. After threading the complex Although day passes are available for the Metro, I would interlocking, we accelerated to the PLMs top speed of 161 not be riding it that often in one day to justify them, so I km/h, passing on my right the Conflans Depot where routine bought a 10-ride first class "Garnet" instead. It consists of 10 TGV maintenance and cleaning is done. small yellow tickets which activate the automatic gates and The line has six tracks out to the Vflleneuve coach and there is no time limit on their use. freight yards where the new major TGV maintenance facility This Metro station serves Lines 4, 5, and 7. I followed the was built. Here cranes can hft an entire 200 metre long TGV signs for Line 5 in the direction of Place D'ltalie, the final stop (two power cars and eight passenger cars) off its trucks aU at on this route going south. The trains usually consist of five cars once. After the yards the right-of-way has four tracks through with the first dass car in the middle. Except during rush hours, the \dlleneuve St-Georges station, then the above mentioned it carries first dass passengers only and is usually less crowded. older loop to Corbeil-Essonnes begins. To accommodate the Although the doors are released by the driver at each station, flying jvmcrion at this point, the northbound fast line and the they do not open until a passenger hfts a handle from inside or two commuter lines swing right on a double S-curve, leaving outside. They do dose and latch automatically. Four spring- my southbound fast track completely by itself for over a loaded jump seats are provided in each doorway. kilometre. I rode the train to Bastille where I changed to Line 1, After the four tracks come together again, they nm to the following the signs for Chateau de Vincennes. The Line 1 beginning of the LGV just north of the Lieusaint-Moissy station. Bastille station is most unusual as the line rises to the surface At this junction, all switches on all hnes can be taken at 161 only for this station and then goes underground again. It also km/hi My train, which had been rvmning on 1500 V DC, cut its has the sharpest curves used by passenger trains on the entire powej; prior to switching to 25 000 V AC, 50 Hz (not 60) on Metro system. Unlike Line 5, Line 1 trains nm on rubber tires. the LGV, which is 390 km long and for which only 98 minutes The next stop on this line is Gare de Lyon. are allowed. Once on the AC powei; we accelerated up to the As I would be staying about 30 km from Gare de Lyon at top speed of 270 kmA and it was quite thrilling. On the LCy a YMCA-type fadhty in Evry-Courcouronnes starting on May 2 the No. 68 crossover switches can be taken at 220 kmA (137 on an SNCF commuter line, 1 dedded to ride out there after m.p.h.). They have moving frogs, and the switch blades are so breakfast while awaiting my TGV run. The underground stub- long Aat Aey need several motors to move Aem. end commuter or 'Tjanlieue" station has four tracks and two At Sathonay on the outskirts of Lyon, the LGV ends, and island platforms and here I boarded a stainless-steel single-level seven minutes are allowed for the final 8 km into Lyon Part- emu train for its 0845 run to Corbeil-Essonnes. The price was Dieu Station, opened in June, 1983. In this segment, we passed right — my Eurailpass was accepted. through some tunnels, Aen ran through Lyon St-Clair Station My train ran at high speed on separate commuter lines on the middle of three converging double-track hnes. After parallel to the main Paris Lyon Mediterranean (PLM) line non• crossing the Rhone River on a four-track bridge and rising on stop to the major commuter station of Vlleneuve St-Georges, one of two flyovers built in the early 1980s, we passed the then it turned onto a branch loop which runs along the other platforms and head-house of the old Lyon Brotteaux Station side of the Seine River until it rejoins the PLM Line at Melun. which was closed in Jime, 1983, and whose steel-arA trainshed On this loop is another major commuter station called Juvisy was removed. Thus, two hours are allowed for 427 km (265 where one can transfer to commuter trains on the Reseau miles) between Paris and Lyon, averaging 213 kmA Express Regional Line C into Paris Gare d'AiKterlitz and beyond. (132 m.p.h.). Soon afterwards, we turned onto another loop line 11 km long My train stopped at Part-Dieu a few seconds less Aan two and completed in Decembei; 1975. Electrified and double-track, hours after leaving Paris, Aen, after a four minute stop, left for it was built to serve the new town of Eviy, beyond which it a non-stop run of 419 km m 3 hours and 11 minutes to Toulon, returns to the older loop line at Corbeil-Essonnes. How railway passmg through Valence and Avignon and even by-passing Ae conscious Europe is, when a new town immediately has a new stub-end terminal at Marseille St-Charles on an avoiding line. railway built to serve it! It is beheved Aat no daytime through trains ever by-passed Upon arrival at the new imderground Evry-Courcouroimes Marseille (Ae second or third largest city m France) before Ae station at 0916, I awaited the 0934 nm back to Gare de Lyon through TGV services between Paris and Nice began m Ae at 1010. spring of 1987. Four sections of Ae PLM line, whiA my train UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 • 9 rejoined at Lyon-Guillotiere, a few km souA of Lyon Part-Dieu, took oven They ran on 1500 V DC Paris to Dole, 25 000 V AC were upgraded from 161 km/h to 200 km/h for TGVs between to Vallorbe, 15 000 V AC m Switzerland and 3000 V DC m Lyon and Marseille. Italy. Between Marseille and Nice Ae TGV ran along Ae north Howevei; at Ae time of my trip, Ae use of Aese trains had shore of Ae MeAterranean Sea and Ae resulting scenery was dwinAA to one set on a daily round trip from ZuriA to Milan very enjoyable on this bright and sunny afternoon. After three wiA a 65 minute layover Aere. Also, it was Ae last of Ae more stops beyond Toulon, we pulled mto Nice almost two mtemarional TEE trains as it was convertA to a two-class minutes early, just after 1735, Aus covering 1004 km (624 EuroCity train effective September 25, 1988. irules) m just over 6 hours and 54 minutes, averaging 146 km/h Morion began promptly at 1418 and we followed Ae old (90 m.p.h.). route to Ae Hbf. as describA in Part 8. Immediately upon After walking souA to Ae shore and having dinner across arrival at 1428, a driver boardA at my end to take us out at from Ae station, I returned to await my 2022 overnight train 1434. The ride was fabulous on this sunny afternoon and Ae enroute from Venrimigha, on Ae FrenA-ltalian bordei; to front view was Ae stuff raOfans' Aeams are made of! Geneva. This time, I had reserved a T2 Special smgle room After stoppmg at Zug (1457), we had a 1 hour and 56 whiA was smaller Aan Ae Universal smgle room on Ae minute non-stop run to Belhnzona. It was dry and sunny ARLBERG EXPRESS Ae mght before. Between eaA pair of single entering Ae Gotthard frmnel at GosAenen, but douds and rain rooins are rooms wiA two beds two steps up from Ae hallway were waiting for us at Ae tunnel's souA portal at Airolo." After (like upper duplex roomettes), but wiA Ae beds on eiAer side BeUinzona (1654) and Ae 1721 stop at Lugano, my camcorder raAer Aan one above Ae oAer. A all European sleepmg and capturA our non-stop run through Chiasso where our driver couAette cars, Ae beds are at right angles to Ae direction of pushA buttons and twistA dials to change from Swiss to travel, and no side curtains are needed as Ae beds do not take Italian power. The Como, Italy stop at 1750 was Ae last one up all Ae floor space. before arriving nearly three minutes early on Ae short TraA 2 My train left on time and, as my room was on Ae left side, m Milan Central, just after 1822. I could see Ae mooiAght shining on Ae Sea as we headed west While awaiting my 1930 departure for ZuriA on Ae same towards Marseille. Then it travAed norA on Ae PLM Line to train in Milan Central's first dass waitiag room, I watAA and Avignon and \hlence before turning east to Grenoble and hstenA to Ae videos I shot by playing baA my tapes in Ae Chambery followmg Ae same route to Geneva as my trains on camcorder and usmg its viewfinder whiA is actually a tiny TV ApA 14 as described m Part 2. set. Then I re-boardA Ae train and departure was just before 1931. However attempts to accelerate Ae train to high speeds Sunday May 1 — I awoke during our iSnal stop m France at failA as Acuit breakers apparently opened, cutting off Ae BAegarde before arriving on Ae 0743 advertisA m Geneva. power After stoppmg m Como, we limpA mto Chiasso and After easily clearing Swiss formalities downstairs, I headA for made an unsAedulA stop. While having dinnei; I fdt a shght Ae 0802 Aterdty train for ZuriA and St. GAen, whiA arrivA bump and reahsA that an Re 6/6 was being attaAA to take at 0759 from Ae Geneva Airport. IWo minutes before it arrivA, us to ZuriA. I went up front to verify this and Aen relaxed in anoAer IC train left for ZuriA via NeuAatel, Biel/Bieime, Olten my reservA seat as most of Ae northbound run was in and Aarau to terminate m Romanshom. It would have arrivA darkness anyway. Thank heaven this didn't happen souAbound! in ZuriA at 1053, just four minutes before my train via Arrival was Aerefore 24 minutes late at 2348, and I headA for La.usanne, Fribourg, and Bern. my room in Ae Simplon Hotel. I had breakfast enroute and, upon arrival m Zurich, AeAA For fans of Ae now RABe 1050 series EuroCify trains ("B" into Ae same Simplon Hotel as menrionA m Part 1, before for second dass), Aere is great news. EffecAe wiA Ae summer having Irmch, as I would return to ZuriA from Milan too late 1989 sAAules, Aese trains are making two trips eaA way to catA Ae overnight ARLBERG EXPRESS to Paris. Then I boardA daily between Ae ZuriA area and Milan and two trips eaA Ae 1316 train wiA Swiss Express coaAes whiA had left way daily on Ae Simplon line between Geneva or Lahsanne Luzem at 1210 and arrivA ZuriA at 1259. It ran non-stop to and Milan. The Gotthard Route trains can easily be identifiA in Ae ZuriA Airport, arriving at 1326 — eight minutes before it Ae sAAules as only Aey do not stop m Chiasso, and Ae would leave to return to Luzem. No re-engining is neAed as Simplon Route trains stop m DomAossola for only two minutes, Aey run m pull-puU fashion wiA cab cars. not Ae 15 minutes requirA by conventional trains for changing Soon before 1400, I boardA Ae rear end of Ae classic locomotives. The front view fadhries have been maintainA on pride and flagship of Ae Gotthard line - Ae Trans Europe Aese trains. Express GomRDO from ZuriA Airport to Milan. No, I Ad not lose my marbles — I knew Aat Ae RAe 1050 series train wo Ad Next, Ae EuroCity EARBALETE to Paris, exploring Paris, Ae TGV reverse m Ae ZuriA Hbf. and Aat this woAd become Ae front to Grenoble, and rides to Brussels, Rotterdam, and all Ae way to Milan Central! A free-standing unoccupiA chair Amsterdam. • ^-*<<^ was placA right behind a glass panel separating me from Ae fuH-widA driver's compartment, so I rushA to it and preparA my camcorder eqmpment for lots of front-end shooting m hving colour on Ae Gotthard Line. Five frve-car emu trains (RAe 1051-1055) were built between 1961 and 1967, and Aey eaA had one more coaA addA to AA consists. They were first class oAy TEE trains and Aey had Ae unique capabAty of being able to run on all four European currents (25 000 V AC 50 Hz, 15 000 V AC 16.7 Hz, 1500 V DC, and 3000 V DC). IndeA, Ae run between Paris and Milan entailA all four currents when Aese trains ran as Ae TEE CiSALPEN up imA May 1974, when TEE stainless-steel locomorive-haulA trains 10 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

Canadian Rolling Stock During 1989 COMPILED BY DON McQUEEN

Notes: Abbreviations are used extensively in this list and are carriers wiA geogrid screening. Built NSC—Hamilton beginning explained in full in italics the first time they are used A question Dec 1989 and continuing mto 1990. Black wiA white markings, mark indicates that information is either unknown at press time or but no multi-marks. that accurate information is not yet available. (For reference, last General American Transit Corporation year's report was published in the April 1989 Newsletter.) GACX 29000-29034. 35. 200-221 39-0? 44-6 LO aluminium New Canadian Freight Cars - 1989 cylindrical hopper 2900 cf. Built NSC-Hamilton beginning Sept 1989. The black mark A, logoless hoppers are m assignA BC Rail rformerly British Columbia Railway) soAum chlorate service.

BCOL 730000-730199. 200 (cars in the series). (Capacity) GE Railcar Services (GERSCO) 196(000 lbs) (inside length in feet-inches) 73-0 (outside length in (manages Ae NorA American Car fleet) feet-inches) 79-10 (AAR designation) FBC centre-beamA NAHX 2900-3065. 164. 200-221 39-0? 44-6 LO aluminium bulkhead flat. Built (by) BC Rail at Squamish, in Ae old cylindrical hopper 2900 cf. Built NSC-Hamilton Jun-Aug RailWest fadhties (RW-SQ), from Korean-made parts, beginning Feb 1989. MarkA BC Rail and paintA dark green wiA white 1989. The black marked, logoless hoppers are in assignA lettering. soAum chlorate service. Procor Tank Car Company CGTX Ac. (formerly CanaAan General Transit Comnany) PROX 24018-?. ? 189-191 60-0 Tank car 21371-21409 ig CGLX 10220-10409, 190. 197-199 62-4? LO cylindrical steel (imperial gallons) Built Procor-Oakvflle (P75) Aug-Oct 1989 hopper 5810 cf (cubic feet). Built NSC-Hamilton (National Steel Lot 40109. Light grey wiA black Procor and markings. Car) Feb—May 1989 and leasA to Novacor. Light grey wiA black markings, no logo. UNPX 123453-123477. 25. 194-198 62-10? LO square-topped nribA coverA hopper 5820 cf. Built Procor-Oakville 6/5) Canadian National Feb-Mar 1989 Lot 40085. LeasA to Petromont. Ivory grey wiA CNIS 412000-412099. 100.194 58-8 XM steel ribbA box wiA a blue Procor logo, black markings. ecc (end-of-car-cushioning) and 10-0 plug door. 5272 cf. Built UNPX 123600-123629. 30. 194-198 62-10? LO square-toppA NSC-Hamilton Nov-Dec 1989. RA oxide wiA white markings. libbA coverA hopper 5810 cf. Built Procor-Oakville (P75) CN 683700-899. 40. Capy? 49-3 FCA five-pac Double Stack Nov-Dec 1989 Lot 40103. Ivory grey wiA a blue PROCOR flats. Bit CN-lAnscona shops (CN-PU) during late 1989. They logo, black markings. were orderA m May 1989 at cost of $11.4-niilHon. EaA car m Ae set gets a consecutive number raAer than a sub-letter (e.g., Second-Hand Furchases - 1989 A, B, C, D). Canadian National CN 6XXXXX-?. 60. Capy? 49-3? FCA five-pac double-staA flats. To be built at Lavalin Trenton Works, Ae former CN 603752-603976. 41.157-163 52-8 56-7 FB Bulkhead Flat. Hawker-Siddeley (HS-T) Eastern Car Company shops, beginning Built HS-T 1973-74 as BCIT 16000s; some subsequently m Feb 1989. Total cost of Ae order was announcA as $17- remunberA mto Ae 816000s (same last digits). ReconArionA mfllion. No sightings have yet been reportA. at CN-PU 12-89. Seton green ends and dark green bcAes, white markings. CN 7XXXXX-?. 90. Capy? 80-4? FA hilevel car transporters especially assignA to General Motors international service. Essex Terminal Railway NSC—Hamilton was to build Ae flat flames and Thrall—Chicago ETH 1601-?. Heights, Ae racks and screening during 1989 at a total cost of 1? 200 29-11 LO squarA-toppA ribbA coverA $10-miLlion. No sightings have yet been reportA. hopper 2604 cf. Built PS-BU (Pullman-Standard-Butlep Pennsylvania) Jun 1965 Lot 9027 for DTI 11100-199 series. CN Sxxxxx-?. 500. Unknown-dimensionA GTS woApulp cars. Mud brown wiA white markings, no logo. AnnouncA as being built by NSC—Hamilton during 1989, but no sightings have been reportA. Ontario Northland

CP Rail ONTA 3000-3015. 14. 154 50-6 XP steel ribbA Box car for paper service 5277 cf. Built CT-PICK (Golden lye-Pickens, CP 3XXXXX-?. 120. Capy? I-L? GT baAtub gondolas wiA self NorA Carolina) 1979 for Dehay Connecting (DC) 3000-3015. steering trucks for coal train service. Ordered Aug 1988 firom Sold Mar 1989. RA brown, white markings, no logo. NSC-Hamilton for Jan-Feb 1989 dAvery at a cost of $8- million. Ill were to be mcorpcratA mto one train set, and Qudbec Iron and Titanium Company nine integratA into existing sets. No sightings have been QfT 343000s and 344000s. ? 171-173 19-10 HMA extended reportA. top ore hoppers 1000-1350 cf. Bit. NSC for CN m 1954 and CP 525000-525099. 100. 106 I-L? FC five-pac Spme cars for 1957. Sold through CANAC from London Reclamation Yard COFC (containers on flat cars) loads. Built NSC-Hamilton Feb during 1989. At least six have been sightA. 1989. Action rA wiA white markings. Continued on Page 19 CPAA 543000-543097? 98. 80 89-4 93-10 FA trilevel auto UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 • 11

The Ferrophiliac Column CONDUCTED BY JUST A. FERRONUT c/o Art Clowes, 50 Alexander Street, Apt. 1708, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1B6

I know we all talk about how politidans get Aeir feet in Aeir • The VIA abbreviation for Niagara Falls was changA from mouths wiAout trying too hard. Well, Em no pohtidan, but 1 NIAC to NFON when Ae MAPLE LEAF began operation - think I got boA feet m my mouA wiA my comments about this was probably done to allow NFNY to he. addA. abbreviations in Ae April NEWSLETTER. Being a bit ancient and • The abbreviation usA by Amtrak (and Aerefore by Passenger following Ae conservative thmking of my legal friends, I guess Train Journal) for Montreal is MTR, not MTL, which was I forgot aU about Ae modem hep approaA to Ae use of Ae describA as sensAle m Ae April NEWSLETTER. English language. When Rick Jelfs raised his questions about • One more VIA abbreviation that MiAe sent along was for his abbreviations, I immeAately startA to thiiik of Ae formal hometown of CoAurg, CBRC. approaA as one would Aid m Oxford. Howevet; Ae stack of comments Eve receivA makes it quite dear that my conservative Pat Scrimgeour; like Jack Knowles, commentA on Ae confusion approaA doesn't comdde wiA Ae current practice that takes of Ae standard abbreviations for airports, such as YYZ—Toronto Ae definition of abbreviation, "to abridge," very literally. and YVR—Vancouver. So, lefs open Ae discussion on abbreviations wiA some Of course, where do you stop? There are Ae Post Office comments from J.D. Knowles ... "A careful perusal of assignA abbreviations and Ae AAR "company cAes" as I telephone bocks reveals a wA-developA system of mentionA m April. abbreviations. The airlines have extensive placename As one Ags farAer into Ae subject and uses Ae most abbreviations, or codes, conspicuous to Ae pubhc on baggage HAral views on English, Aen it is possAle to envisage tags, but also usA extensively throughout AA systems. numerous abbreviations for any word. This is particularly true "I never heard "TO." usA m conversation to mean Toronto if one concAes that cAes, "system of signals for before World War U, yet it was usA constantly by World War communication," and abbreviations, "a shortenA form," are n (WW n — anoAer abbreviation) servicemen. The source of synonymous. this abbreviation seems to have been official raAer than slang. This is one I think 1 will concAe defeat on and wonder ' The Royal CanaAan Air Force had two-letter allocation cAes why I Adn't learn a more stable language like French raAer markA on all of its automotive vehides and Ae cAe for than Ae continually changing English. Thanks to all of our Toronto was TO. writers for Aeir input and don't he afraid to add furAer "The general public m noiAeastem Ontario universally comments. recognizes "Kap" for Kapuskasing, while locals use "K.L." for Station uAate Kirkland Lake. But New Liskeard is known conversationally as This is a simpler topic to handle, I hope. NA McCarten sends "Liskeard," perhaps becatise that was its original name ("New" some goA news aAut Ae missmg Otterville Station (December was addA afterward.) I have seen GEO'TOWN on preprintA small 1989 NEWSLETTER). Well, NA has found it ahve as wA perAps cards attaAA to railway freight cars. even headA for some restoration, since it is now sitting on a "Cmdnnalf has been abbreviatA various ways by new foundation and Ae bAding has been straightenA. It has hobbyists, wiA reference to Ae curve-sidA hghtweight trolley been movA to Ae west side of Otterville, next to Ae cars once built Aere. CINTI appearA m large letters on Ae main Woodlawn Adult Community Centre whiA is locatA on Main casting of Ae staffless handbrakes on Aese street cars usA by Street West, Oxford County Road 19. CNR m St. Catharines and Niagara Falls, Ontario. This, While we found one lost station, Ross Cray of Lindsay Aerefore, was Ae buildAs abbreviation, but it is not usA by sends news about Ae loss of anoAer. The Janetville station, trolleyfans." locatA at \dew Lake (ApA 1990 NEWSLETTER) was burnt for Mflne Hall of Cobourg, along wiA a couple of oAers, wrote practice by Ae local fee fighters on Earth Day late m ApA. The about Amtrak"s use of three letter abbreviations or cAes. These volunteer &e fighters from JanetvAe and Caesama usA this same writers also advisA of Ae confusion VIA creates since it long-abandonA structure to get some special training on fee uses four letter abbreviations or cAes. The following is a list fighting techniques. Having been a journeyman carpenter at one of Ae VIA and Amtrak abbreviations for some stations servA by time (no, J.P., I Adn't bAd Ae ark), and having seen Ae AA. conAtion of Ae structure a few weeks earliei; I woAd consider; it woAd have been mgh near impossible to have restorA this Station VIA Amtrak station. This, especially for a small community wiA limitA Brantford, Ont. BRTF BTF funds, no doubt. I woAd hke to see all stations savA but I do Burlington West, Ont. BURL BTW consider I am enough of a realist to know this is impossible. Hamilton, Ont. HAML HML London, Ont. LNDN LOT AnoAer station that is still m existence but harAy recognisable is Ae TH&B station at Jerseyville, Ontario. This Montreal (Que.) MTRL MTR station was locatA at Mile 52.6 on Ae TH&B's former Niagara Falls, Ont. NFON NFS Oakville, Ont. OAKV OKL Waterford SubAvision. This rail line from Hamilton to Brantford has been abandonA and Ae rails and ties removA from Samia, Ont. SARN SIA Brantford to somewhere east of Jerseyvflle. The station was St. CaAarines, Ont. SCAT SCA apparently movA from Ae station site sometime between Toronto, Ont. TRTO TWO JAy 2, 1957, and 1963 by a Mn Black. It was movA about \Aicouvei; B.C. VCVR VAC 500 metres down Ae road to. Ae main tee intersection in Ae village and was convertA for use as a store. It is stfll being 12 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 used as a general store and Post Office in Jerseyville. Its roof longer usA.) line from the west and Ae tongue and groovA sheathing on CPR passenger service through B AeviUe commenced m Ae some of Ae eaves gives it away. summer of 1914 on Ae Toronto—Montreal "Lake Ontario Shore 1 don't know wheAer I shoAd mclude this or not; smce it line," and usA Ae CNoR station. will show just how big Ae minus sign is in. front of my IQ. Last CanaAan NorAem was absorbA mto CanaAan National October; Neil McCarten forwardA me a note that a friend of m January 1923, and Ae Brighton-Cobourg section of Ae his, Ian Folkard, had sent him a slide of Ae former CNoR CNoR smgle traA Deseronto SubAvision between old Solina station between Oshawa and BowmanvAe, Ontario. I Mile 72.31 (west of Ae Cobourg, Peterborough and Marmora) have to adrmt it took me three Aps over Ae last six months to and old Mile 95.57 (east of Brighton station) was taken out of spot this pink and white station still m its originA location on service Aat year. Most of this section was dismantlA m 1924. Ae norA side of Ae right-of-way and very visible from Ae The ex-CNoR trackage from Ae east end of Trenton to road. I was looking in Ae wrong place. This statdon-cum-house Belleville and Deseronto, mcludmg 0.23 rrules of BofQ traA m Aat has just been sold is located on Ae east side of Ae Solina Ae west end of Deseronto, was taken out of service and liftA Road whiA is Ae second norA-souA road east of Courtice during 1931. CN Plan K16C-51-132, datA January 7, 1932, Road on Ae old CNoR right-of-way whiA is about two states "Operation of dismantlA portions was discontinuA and Mometres norA of Highway 2 at this jxrmt. Ae dismantling of same completA December 1931." The CNoR from Brighton to about two miles west of Trenton had What started as an iAormation searA on Ae Port Dover operations discontinued MarA 4, 1932. stations has tumA mto a continuing saga of railfanning. Port This CNoR abandonment and tra A removA meant Aat Ae Dover was mcludA m my fcst colmnn (May 1989 NEWSLETTER) "SouA Station" was oAy being usA by Ae CPR. This station and Aen became a centre of more researA to tmderstand was later purchasA by CPR. RiAard asks wheAer anyone railroading m this commumty. knows Ae date of this sAe. One Ap mcludA a visit to Ae Port Dover Harbour The ex-CNoR bridge over Ae Moira River (Ae souA span), Museum and a discussion wiA Sylvia Crossland, Ae curator. just west of Ae station was tAen out after Ae "Creat FloA" This discussion sparkA questions from Sylvia, that because of of 1936. (A few traces of this stmcture remain.) my limitA knowlAge of Ae area I had to come to you for The SouA Station was last usA as a passenger train depot help. Amongst Ae replies came an offer from Ross Cray to m October; 1965. in Ae mid-1970s, it was briefly used as a supply some photographs of rail activities m Ae area. I was Voyageur ColoniA Bus TerminA while Ae regAar agency just down to see Sylvia a few days ago and between comments from aroimd Ae comer; was bemg renovatA. The station was razed Ross and herself came an mteresting story Aat may help Ae m December 1976. museum. Richard continues by asking a question about Ae CNoR Ross's photographs sparkA mterest m Ae Museum's station in B Aevrlle. He writes that according to a photocopy of directors and now Aere have been a couple of stories m Ae Ae 1926 "GOAD Insurance Atlas," Ae inner (platform) traA at local newspaper about Ae museum and Aese photographs. Ae station was Ae Cp while Ae outer track was Ae CN (ex- Sylvia was telling me that this gesture of kindness from Ross CNoR). Now, smce Ae CP line was Ae second buflt through has now resultA m a couple of local people coming forward to this station, how Ad Aey get Ae preferrA location? A guess on talk about old photographs Aey have of Ae early days around my part woAd be that smce Ae station was built on Ae noiA Ae harbour. Again, this outeide support appears to be a key m side of Ae CNoR, and smce Ae CP alignment was on Ae north plans to tape an mterview wiA an elderly local resident on of Ae CNoR from just east of Brighton to Sharmonville where stories of her faAep who was a conductor on Ae old Port Ae CP swings towards Smiths Falls, it made more economic Dover Cranny when it ran from Port Dover to Jarvis and sense to relocate Ae CNoR track souAwards away from Ae Hamilton. station raAer than to cross Ae CNoR twice. Can anyone shA Lastly Sylvia was commenting on a land problem Aey are any facts or oAerwise about my guess? having trying to get a new museum building and Aeir review As a postscript RiAard comments about Ae BAeviUe- of some of Ae old railway plans Aat have been forwardA to Trenton local "jitney" service that was providA in Ae 1950s by Aem. As I leave this subject, don't forget Ae local museums Ae RaAbrm Bus Service. like this, even suA small gifts are greatly appreciatA by Aese groups struggling to preserve knowlAge and artifacts of our -While talking of this part of Ae cormtry and of Ae RaAbuns, past. I must comment on my promise last monA to get on wiA Ae Bay of Quinte Railway m Ae Napanee area. 1 am going to beg RiAard Carroll sends along a few notes on Ae old CNoR your indulgence to leave it for one more monA. I want to Belleville station and its relatA service. This station was often include a map of Napanee, but I am not happy wiA my first referred to as Ae "SouA Station" to distinguish it from Ae computer-generatA one. (Imagine me drawing maps on a older Crand Tirunk station to Ae north. computer. I grew up thinking a battery operatA crystal radio This brlA station was constructA by Ae CanaAan receiver was about as far as things could go.) Anyway, I hope NorAem Ontario Railway and was openA m Ae fall of 1911, a new computer program I have wfll help me get an acceptable when Ae CNoR service between Toronto and BAevflle map. ^ commencA. , Late in 1913, through CNoR Toronto-Ottawa service began However; basA on some data from Daniel McConnachie through Ae station. The Railway usA RaAbun's Bay of Quinte and oAers, I recently made a whirlwind trip along most of Ae Railway trackage from Deseronto through Napanee to Bay of Quinte Railway line, mcludmg Napanee. in Napanee 1 SydeAam. (Incidentally, to provide a "short hne" access to was trying to locate as many of Ae pomts on Ae ground as I Kingston, Ae BofQ acquired running rights over Ae CPR — i.e., could from Ae map Aat Ray Corley sent me a couple of Ae K&P — from HarrowsmiA to Kingston, Aus completing a months ago. direct route BannoAbum—Yarker—Kingston. Fm not sure if this I startA at Deseronto Junction (off Highway 401 at exit lasted through Ae CNoR and mto Ae CanaAan NationA era — 570 and souA on Hastings Cormty Road 10 to Ae CNTs in mid-1929, it was still shown m Ae CN timetable, but no Kingston Subdivision). Finding Ae existing remnants of Ae UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 » 13

actual junction is going to take a closer survey of Ae site. Westwards towards. TweA. I was able to piA up Ae old However; a couple of faiins souA of Ae junction, it is no roadbA in spots where it is near County Road 13. This road •problem to see Ae old roadbed a stone's throw east of Ae appears to be on Ae old right-of-way as you cross Ae East county road. Channel at Stoco, but just north of Ae road west of Ae The two concrete bridge piers and abutments are stfll pretty Channel is Ae fourA station of similar design that I had wA intact where this hne crossA Selby (SuAer) CreA. encounterA smce leaving TamworA. This one has also been Concrete is an mteresting material for bridge foimdations of this convertA into a weU kept residence. early peri A. Daniel, m his notes, gives a very go A explanation. WiAout knowing muA of Ae details on this hne in Tweed, While this portion of Ae line was open A for traffic Mar A 21, I Adn't spend any time looking. A Tweed, while Ae tracks are 1881, no doubt Ae first bridge at this location was timber wiA gone, Ae old CP (O&Q) station stfll stands on Ae east side of a permanent bridge coming later. The hne norA of TamworA Colbome Street; souA of Jameson. Some Aanges have been to Marlbank and beyond was openA m late 1889. Marlbank, made to this brown insulbriA-coverA stmcture, now usA for as its name implies, was a source of marl, which was usA to offices, but Ae tram order mast still stands. make cement. So no doubt it was cement from Ae Marlbank Stfll westward, but this time on Cormty Road 38 to marl Aat was usA in this bridge. Highway 62 and Aen northward to have a fast look at Madoc. Deseronto keeps turning up more and more material on I am qmte certain that I spottA a segment of Ae old BofQ eaA trip. Again, basA on a map Daniel suppHA, I would be roadbA m Madoc on Ae old spur line Aat came in from of Ae opinion Aat Ae house m Ae norAwest comer of Centre Actinohte, but I need a more detailed map to confirm this. The and Dundas is Ae F.S. RaAbun residence Aat has been old CN station, alAough qmte baAy damagA by Ae, stfll convertA mto a tenement house. The house just west of it no stands m Ae norAwest part of to'wn. doubt is Ae former residence of H.B. RaAbun. At this pomt I consider A I was running out of time for one After a bit of scouting around Deseronto and Napanee, I day and had better head back to home base m Toronto. This headA northward along Lermox and Addington County Road 1 outing was to reconnoitre this rafl line so 1 can now home in towards Yarker. About a kflometre souA of County Road 16, on specific areas to cany out more detailA trips. This trip also whiA leads mto StraAcona, on Ae east side of County Road 1 strengAenA my belief that many of Ae lines that were is what appears to be Ae old freight shA from StraAcona, stfll abandonA early have left more stmctures than Aose that have wiA its name board m place. This stmcture is just across Ae been abandoned m more recent times. road from a large briA house -wiA a mailbox showing Ae name I have done enough rambling for one monA but keep Ae Courval. tidbits and questions coming for 1 am sure someone out Aere There was not muA outstanding unA 1 rea A A Yarker. The can answer Aem. UnA next monA Aeers. • high cut limestone abutments and pier for Ae bridge on Ae BofQ line to TWeA and BannoAbum stfll stand majestically a few metres north of Ae present CN bridge Aat spans Ae Napanee River. MuA of Ae embankment and road crossmg on The Train Spotters Ae west side has been removed. RECENT SIGHTINGS BY UCRS MEMBERS From Yarker I traveUA on County Road 6 to Colebrook and Aen Moscow. At Moscow, concrete foundations west of County Toronto area (Ben Mills) Road 6 lookA like Aey were of railway origin, but thaf s no At GO Wfllowbrook m early May out of service and storA: guarantee. Onward to Enterprise and Aen on Ae baA roads to GP40-2 706, GP40 725, and APCUs 902 and 905. near Ae site of Ae crossing of Ae CPR. I had no luA m locating any of Ae old roadbA. At CN MacMillan Yard on May 7A: BCR Dash8-40CMs 4618 From Rogers Road at Ae souA end of TamworA up and 4619. through that village is a different story. The roadbA is very VIA trains at Toronto. March 29. 1990 (Don Brown) visible as it crosses Rogers Road a few metres east of County Train 81 - 6445/54501/3507/3511/3501/3503 Road 15, Aen Ae hne crosses County Road 15 and heads for Train 60 - 6421/3457/3352/3371 Salmon River. Here, not only are Ae limestone abutments stfll Train 40 - 6422/3462/3345/3356/3373 in place, but Ae steel for Ae deA plate girder span is stfll Train 71 - 6425/3470/3305/3360 intact. A few metres norAwest of Ae river on Ae west side is Train 97 - Amtrak 375/21210/28301/21811/44849/21081 Ae station. It has been coatA m sAcco and convertA into a Train 62 - 6452/15460/3201/5511/5584/3213/MT. ROYAL house. Perhaps Ms. Clarke's Aoice of colour is not quite up to CLUB-653/615 rafljoad specification, but it is goA to see stmctures hke this Train 42 - 6423/3332/3338/3456 being recyclA and put to furAer use. Train 121 - CNR 1986/A/B/C The day was stfll yoimg enough to keep going along this Trains 80/64 - 6416/3472/3313/3319 hne. Just souA of Erinvflle on Ae east side of Highway 41 Train 73 - 6506/3207/5442/3251/5581 almost on Ae beaA of Beaver LAe is Ae Erinvflle station, Train 66 - 6412/3359/3317/3467 apparently convertA mto use by Ae local Lions Club. It is of Train 75 - 6923/6903/15410/YORK CLUB-659/5531/3342/ Ae same design as TamworA. It was now west on County 3247/5458/5537 Road 13 to Marlbank. I was able to follow Ae hne out of Trains 72/68 - 6413/3325/3375/3311/3463 Erinvflle unA it crossA over Ae Cotmty Road. Howevei; it •Rain 636 - 6414/3455/3348/3350 crossed baA over -wiAout telhng me, so Aere I was looking in Train 61 - 3301/3368/3464/6415 Ae wrong area m MarlbaA. It was a goA thing Aere is stfll (Trains 636 and 61 combined to form consist of Train 77 — a station Aere - it is similar to Ae last two 1 had spotted. The 6414 . . . 6415) station is now a house, wlA numerous trees arormd it. It is on Trains 41/46 - 6436/3453/3358/3341/3329 Ae east side of Hastings County Road 32 at Ae jimction of Trains 43/645 - 6451/3454/3306/3320/3312 County Road 13. The concrete station platform is stfll in place Trains 65/87 - 6419/3466/3364/3369/3300 along Ae souA side of this stmcture. 14 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

Trains 63/79 - 6408/15459/9636/UNION CLUB-661/3204/5628/ Monday May 21, 1990 5582/3220 At Brampton: Train 1 - 6403/6454/15416/15478/15481/9673/123/505/ 10:29 CN 393 - 5280/5052/2035/2427/2401/5340 OsLER MANOR/BROCK MANOR/DOUGLAS MANOR/KOOTENAY PARK 10:33 CN 238 - 9649/9663/9655 Toronto and East (Danko, Danko, Danko, and Danko) 10:43 VIA 80 - 6413 Feb. 3 11:33 CN Cuildwood - VIA 62 - 6912/6917/ At HAwest: 15410/15459/5621/5467/3248/5618/ 11:30 Slag Train (Picking up cars at PeA) - 9618/4124 ST. JAMES CLUB/610 At MAport: Feb. 10 11:15 CP Cherrywood - CP 505 - 5730/4502/ 11:31 CN Slag Train - 9515/9599 4569/containers/no van/No HVM! At BramAea: Feb. 11 ,12:35 CP Cbenywood - CP X West - 4702/1686 13:01 CN 381 - 5293/5061/9314 dead/4217 13:14 CN Ballast Undercutter 50554 Feb. 11 16:20 CN Liverpool - CN 307 - 9536/2104/ 13:54 CN 382 - 9407/5357/9312/5356 2118/nuxA freight St. Thomas. ApA 28. 1990 (Alex Simins) March 4 12:45 CP Cherrywood - CP 503 -5558/5550/ • NS 4607 (ex-EMD CP59 Demonstrator EMD 6) and NS 8607 4731/containers/no van (CE C39-8) ApA 13 12:35 CP Cherrywood - CP 503 - 5409/5543/ • NS 8526 (CE C36-7) and NS 6193 (SD40-2) 5518/containers/no van May 19 13:15 CP Port Hope - CP X East - 5678/5731/ mixA freight/caboose! Alert rail workers rescue senior. May 19 14:00 CP Spicer - CP X East - 4553/4550/4705/ containers/no van who waved at trains May 19 14:10 Mfle 258, CN Kingston Sub - CN 318 - 9627/5034/4532/mixA freight/van Almost daily for decades, Cunhild Nelson, 79, has watchA and May 19 15:00 Mile 258, CN Kingston Sub - Maintenance wavA at Ae trainmen as Aey flashA through Ae small town eqmpment storA on souA main. T.O.E of Whitemouth, Mamtoba. At mght, she blinks her porch lights issued, clearance given unA 09:00, May and Ae engineers respond wiA a whistle. 20. (So much for ClTs claim Aat Ae But on ApA 20, 1990, Ae crew Aat passA through Toronto-MontreA mainline is too busy WhitemouA knew something was wrong. Not oAy was Nelson to hanAe more passenger trains.) absent from her usuA post, but Aey noticA flames from a May 21 18:30 CN CuildwoA - VIA 168 - VIA 6453/ nearby grass Ae hcking up Ae side of her home, situatA about 15459/3218/5503/5616/3217/CLUB 40 metres from Ae track. Knowing Nelson was confinA to a wheAchafr Aey fearA Ae worst. Immediately Ae engineer LAURIER/9639 raAoA Ae local crew members, who racA to Nelson's home. St-AgaAe Subdivision (Cerard Therrien, Jr.) "By Ae time we got Aere, Ae fee was dimbing up Ae RieAay, May 1, 1990 - CP Trains 79 and 80, MontrAL- stairs already" Harry Ceiing, a WhitemouA trackman, said. St-Therese-Ste-AgaAe and return, wiA CP RS18 1831. Was "She was sitting by Ae doop where she always watAes Ae this Ae last Ste-AgaAe SubAvision train? trains go by." Nelson recalls waking from an afternoon nap and smelling Toronto and West (MatAew Horin) Ae smoke. "The CPR guys come in and said, 'Mrs. Nelson, don't ApA 28, 1990 get scarA; we're taking you out of here'," she said. "But it At Niagara Falls: happenA so fasi; 1 wasn't even scarA." VIA Tiain 99 - Amtrak 381 "When we grabbA her and came outside, you couldn't see Niagara Falls yard switcher - 4127/4381 anything, Aere was so muA smoke," Cering said. "I still think At Menitton: if we hadn't gotten Aere on time, I don't know what wofed CN 333 (eb) - 9650/9303/9414 have happenA to her." CN 334 (wb) - 9502/9642/BGR 4613/4614/4615 Nelson's home was savA by local volunteer feAghteis, May 19, 1990 who arrivA a short time later. But Nelson remains grateful to On CP NorA Toronto Sub., at Howland (BaAurst Street): Ae trainmen she waves to any chance she gets. And Ae CP 923 - 4562/4505/8223 trainmen, in turn, took great pride in coming to Ae rescue of X East - SRS 119 Aeir favorite resident here. The unique relationship between CP 409 - 5562/5572/5604 Nelson and Ae passmg trainmen goes back more Aan 45 years. CP 925 - 5403/4732/4219 In facti Nelson claims that last Friday's incident markA Ae 1st Oakville - 5516/5408 third time a freight train whistle has helpA save her life. In May 19, 1990 1943, Nelson and her son Clarence, 7, were asleep when a train VIA Train 80 was rerouted from Georgetown to Burlington whistle blarA in Ae middle of Ae night. When Aey awoke, on Ae HAton Sub due to trackwork between Georgetown Aey formd Aeir roof ablaze and escapA before the house and Brampton. Passengers to Brampton were taken by bus. btunA to Ae grormd. Train ran London/Ceorgetown/Burlington/Toronto. Ibain 42 Almost Ae identical situation occurrA in 1973, when to Ottawa was held for connections. F40PH-2 6412 lA Ae Nelson's log home, locatA on Ae same spot as her current train into Georgetown, and LRC 6907 lA Ae train west house, was levAA by fee. 'At that time, Ae freight train came from Georgetown, souA to Burlington, and east (around along and woke me up again." Ae wye) to Toronto. -BY RANDY TURNER, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FORWARDED BY ERIC CAGNON UCRS Newsletter * June 1990 ' 15

Motive Power and Operations EDITED BY PAT SCRIMGEOUR 22 Prust Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4L 2M8

Contributors Canadian National

Don Brown, Toronto Disputes m P.E.I, and Alberta over CN rAuctions John Cartel; Toronto The province of Prince Edward Island is appealing Ae decision Steve Danko, Scarborough of Ae National Transportation Agency to allow CN to abandon Rick Jelfs, Toronto Ae its railway on Ae Island. The last tram was run earlier this M.R Jones, Calgary- yeap and all rails have now been removA. Mike Lindsay Burlington The construction of Ae Prince Edward Island Railway Chris Martin, London placA Ae province m debt, and P.E.I. jomA ConfAeration Pat Scrimgeoui; Toronto partly m exAange for Ae takeover by Ae f Aeral government Alex Simins, Weston of Ae railway and Ae debt. (See also Ae May NEWSLETTER, Cerard Therrien, Jr, Montreal p. 13.) The PEIR was made part of Ae Canadian Covemment Cord Webstei; Toronto Railways, whiA are now operatA by Ae CNR. Sandy Worthen, Toronto The province is now arguing before Ae FAeral Court of Appeal Aat Ae f Aeral government has an obhgation to operate Bytown Railway Society "Branchline" Ae railway. The province's largest asset was turned over to SouA Simcoe Railway Heritage Corportation "The Ajector" Canada, and when that asset was no longer profitable, it was closA, -wiA no compensation (except for Ae assumption of Ae Montreal - Transports Quebec original debt) to Ae province. When Ae NewfoimAand Railway was closed, Newfoundland was given $800-million for road The M6TROPOUTRAIN improvements necessary to replace Ae railway. Prince Edward As an alternative during Ae reconstruction of Ae Boulevard Island was offerrA no similar compensation. MdtropoUtain, Ae major east-west expressway m Montreal, Ae But Ae terms of union require Aat Ae federal government Ministere des transports du Quebec CMTQ) is operating special take responsibflity for Ae railway and do not state Aat it must commuter trains on CN from May ISA unA October ISA. A be operatA. The fAeral government, CN, and Ae NTA agree Ae morning rush houi; two trains nm west from Charlemagne- Aat Ae railway company was able to close Ae operation and Repentigny (Le Cardeur) and one from Pomte-aux-Trembles (Ae dispose of Ae assets. CN furAer argues that Ae railway became same trainset as Ae first train from Le Cardeur). The same unsuccessful directly as a result of provincial trucking pohcy pattern is follow A eastbound m Ae afternoon. The western whiA encouraged goods (primarily potatoes) to be movA by terminus for Ae trains is Ae du College Metro station. road. CN has previously suggestA, Aough, that tmcldng MTQ has boirowA STCUM FP7s 1303 and 1306, and 18 potatoes became more attractive because of Ae rAucA cars, mduding BombarAer cab car 800. The trains use Ae CN transportation time and Ae resultant improvA quality and St-Laurent SubAvision (Miles 142.6 to 127.8) and Joliette freshness of Ae potatoes at market. SubAvision (Miles 127.8 to 117.4). There is no fare AargA for The court has reservA judgement. Ae train, and parking is free at four of Ae stations. Several STCUM bus routes have been been modifiA to connect -wiA Ae Residents of Haima, Alberta, are dismayA at a decision by CN train service. to remove Ae crew-Aange pomt Aere. From August llA trains will move wiA one crew from Calgary to Kindersley New commuter trains SaskatAewan. CN engineering employees basA m Hanna -wiU The "Mdtropolitrain" remain. May 15 to October 15, 1990, Monday to Friday A Hanna, 21 jobs will be relocatA to Calgary; anoAer 16 AM - Westbound jobs wfll be relocatA away from nearby Mirror CN and Ae Charlemagne-Repentigny (Le Gardeur) 06:30 07:20 employees have agreA on relocation arrangements, to cover Pointe-aux-Trembles 06:37 07:27 some of Ae costs of moving to a larger dty. Families from Riyi^re-des-Prairies 06:49 07:39 08:15 Hanna, who are accustomed to Ae pace of hfe Aere (and Ae Lacordaire 07:00 07:50 08:26 cost of housmg) are not looking forward to hving m Calgary. Sauv6 (Ahuntsic) 07:09 07:59 08:35 The effect on Ae town is significant. The loss of an du Gollfege (St-Laurent) 07:20 08:10 08:45 estimatA 25 families from a town of 3000 was compaxA to Ae PM - Easttxxind loss of 30 000 people from a dty Ae size of Calgary. The loss du College (St-Laurent) 16:26 17:00 17:50 of the population is a setback m Hanna's efforts to attract new Sauvd (Ahuntsic) 16:34 17:09 17:59 busmesses. A ad Ation, positions now held by Ae spouses of CN Lacordaire 16:45 17:20 18:10 employees will be vacant if Ae families move to Calgary. Riyi6re-des-Prairies 16:57 17:31 18:21 -CLOBE AND MAIL VIA RJ, CALGARY HERALD VIA MFJ Pointe-aux-Trembles 17:40 18:30 Locomotive (and generator car) work Charlemagne-Repentigny (Le Gardeur) 17:55 18:45 CMDl 1191, formerly 1091, out of Transcona on Mar 27A -CERARD THERRIEN, JR. CP9 7249, formerly 4255, out of PoAte St-Charles on Apr llA CP9 7250, formerly 4258, out of PoAte St-Charles on Apr 16A Slug 242, formerly CP9 4460, out of Pte St-Charles on Apr llA 16 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

Slug 243, formerly GP9 4497, out of Pte St-Charles on Apr 16A Ae east (IFS) have not transiAtted Ae one-second tone and Ae familiar "s3^tem operatmg" message as Ae traA approaAes. STCUM ECU 602, ex-15503/15401, out Pte St-Charles Mar 27 This makes Aem similar to detectors A Ae west (HHS) and STCUM ECU 604, ex-SCU 15428, out of Pte St-Charles Mar 8 on CN, where messages are oAy Aansmitted after Ae tram has STCUM ECU 605, ex-SCU 15432, out of Pte St-Charles Mar 8 passed. • SW8s 6702 and 6710 were reAed on ApA 16A • Safety statistics An open house at St-Luc Yard A Montrdal on June 2nd was to Statistics compilA by Ae U.S. FAeral Railroad Administration have Aduded a ride behmd CPR 4-6-2 1201. show Aat CP and CN have Ae fewest accidents of Class I -CORD WEBSTER, CERARD THERRIEN, JR. railways. A accidents per milhon locomotive miles, Ae figures are: CP - 1.93, CN - 2.21, ATSF - 2.37, NS - 2.87, Conrafl VIA Rail Canada - 3.24, BN - 4.11, CSX - 5.91, C&NW - 6.79, UP - 8.16. Eqmpment for sale -CN "KEEPING TRACKI' CANAC has completed Ae pridng of Ae surplus VIA motive Canadian Pacific power and car eqmpment, and has disAbuted price lists to potentiA customers. The list has been distributed first withA Canada, before sAes are soHdted from Ae U.S. or overseas. CP agrees (once more) to purAase Ae D&H The locomotives are stored mostly A Montreal, Ae RDCs A Canadian Pacific has reaAA an agreement wiA Ae trustee for Halifax and Toronto, Ae steam generator umts (SCUs) A Ae bankrupt Delaware and Hudson Railway to purAase Ae MontrdA, Toronto, WAApeg, and Vancouver and Ae coaAes D&H. The price of $25-iniIlion (U.S.) is a rAuction firom Ae A Hahfax, MonAdA, Ottawa, and Toronto. previous bid of $35-iniUion (U.S.). The earlier bid mcluded D&H SAes are being conducted by CANAC AtemarionA Ac, trackage rights over Conrail to near WashAgton, D.C. Conrafl 1100 Umversity Monttdal, Qudbec H3B 3W7, 1-800-361-0161. and CP could not agree on Ae Ature of Aose rights. The present purAase is subj'ect to CP readung agreement A summary of Ae price list follows: wiA Ae D&H workers, and subject to Ae approval of Ae 6500-series FP9s (15) $58 000 to 98 600 bankruptcy court and Ae U.S. Aterstate Commerce Commission 6600-serles F9Bs (31) $23 200 to 81 200 (Ae U.S. counterpart to Ae NTA). 6700-series FPA4s (28) $23 200 to 52 200 -MKE LINDSAY, SANDY WORTHEN/JM SHAUGHNESSY 6800-series FPB4s (12) $23 200 to 40 600 Trainmg begins for CROR 6000-series RDC-9s (5) $37 500 to 200 000 The new Canadian Railway Operating RAes wfll come Ato 6100-series RDC-ls (35) $85 000 to 200 000 effect on December 9th, repladng Ae Uniform CAe of 6200-serles RDC-2s (9) $100 000 to 200 000 Operating RAes. All operating employees must be tramA A Ae 1540G-series CC&F SGUs (13) $8100 to 34800 provisions of Ae new rulebook. 15480-series NSC SGUs (9) $11 600 to 40 600 AAut 8000 operatmg employees — engmeers, conductors, Battery charger 15205 (1) $23 200 traA crew members, dispatAers, and oAers — wfll attend a 9300-serles Baggage Coach (4) $84 000 to 102 000 tAee to four day course, and maAtenance-of-way workers wfll 9475-serles Baggage Dormitory (3) $24 000 to 40 000 recdve one to two days of trainmg. The trainAg wfll AgA A 2500-series Gafd Bar Lounge (3) $114 000 to 120 000 September -CP RAIL NEWS 3024-serles Cafd Coach Lounge (2) $90 000 to 96 000 3200-series Cafe Coach (5) $84 000 to 96 000 Locomotive work at Angus shops 4886-series EM Coach-2 vestibules (1) $54 000 SD40 5511 at Angus on ApA 9A to A rebuilt as an SD40-2 5437-series EM Coach-1 vestibule (10) $84 000 to 96 000 SD40 5550 at Angus on May 1st to A rebuilt as an SD40-2 5700-series Dayntter (20) $30 000 to 96 000 SD40 5552 A Angus on ApA 14A to A rebuilt as an SD40-2 350-series Tempo cars (4) To be announced SD40 5564 at Angus on May 9A to A rebuilt as an SD40-2 1090-series Sleeper Lounge (2) $108 000 Soo CP9s 7320, 7355, 7349, 7393, and 7405 are now at Angus 11l6-series "E" sleepers (6) $66 000 to 72 000 for possible rebufldmg. CP CP9 1632, Ae most recent yard unit 1162-series "Green" sleepers (7) $88 000 to 102 000 rebuilt, was also moved Aere on May 3rd for comparison. 2022-series "Bay" sleepers (1) $108 000 2125-series "River" sleepers (3) $42 000 to 54 000 CP and CN operations A Ottawa 1337-series Diner (2) $84 000 to 108 000 The CP operators at Ottawa SAtion all took AA pension on ApA 25A wiA Ae aAlition of Ae joA Aere. A courier now Totals: 86 locomotives, 49 RDCs, 23 SGUs/charger, 75 cars. brings Ae Daily Operatmg Bulletins for Ae CN-VIA trains from Ae CN at WalMey Yard. First rebuilt tram completed There is no longer a CN operator at Walkley; a derk takes A late May Ae first atl-rebuflt consist was assembled at CN Ae D.CB.'s off Ae fax machAe firom MonA^al. The CN PoAte St-Charles shops. The tram was made up of coaA 8120, dispatAers' desks at Ottawa are being moved to Montreal on SkylAe 8515, ELGIN MANOR-8325, FAIRHOLME-8409, CHATEAU JAy 15A. The dispatAers bemg transferred to MonAeA, uAess L6VIS-8216, and TREMBLANT PARK-8715. Soon, Ae cars will be Aey reAe, and are being sent to Ae Umversity of Ottawa for tested on Ae road, wiA eaA to run about 8000 km. trainmg A FrenA before movAg to MontrdA. -VIA ONTARIO NEWSLETTER

Notes The Diet Pepsi CANADIAN The Bolton, Ontario, station was torn down A late MarA or A new commerciA for Diet Pepsi began airmg approximatAy early April. Bolton is Ae norA end of CTC on Ae MacRer Sub., Jime 4A. The ad promotes Ae soft drink, of course, but Pepsi and traA orders were issued to aU trains Aere unA MBS was has decided to take its message to Ae consumer a HAe put A place. There were efforts to move Ae station to differently this year. They are tourmg Ae cotmtry by train, and mumdpA or private land, but Aose efforts obviously fA Ae tram is shown A Ae finA few seconds of Ae ad. It is an tAough. • Smce ApA 30th, CP "talker" hotbox detectors A aeriA shot of Ae tram sldrting Moose Lake A British Columbia, UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 • 17 wiA Yellowhead Highway 16 m Ae background. (This This Aange has been made to allow better visAAty by Ae particular scene is somewhere between mileage 37 and 40 of engineer of crew members on Ae locomotive steps. The new Ae CN Albreda SubAvision.) cab design wfll be used on Ae BN order whiA starts dAveiy The train consist itself is VIA F40PH-2 6400, painted for in December. Diet Pepsi, five flat cars eaA carrying four Isuzu Troopers A ApA, DD produced three CLlSBs for Algeria, 10 painted m a spedA Diet Pepsi colour sAeme, and five ex-CP CT18LC-2S for MAaysia, and 19 CP60s for SouAem Pacific - CANADIAN cars, Ae fifA being a Park car. 32 units m all. The sAedAe for May was nine CP60s for Sp 15 The promotionA train begins its tour at Vancouver on June CP60Ms for ATSF, three CP60s for Rio Crande (D&RCW), and 6A and travels to Edmonton (June 9), Saskatoon (June 11), one CP60 for Texas-Mexican — 28 units. Winmpeg (June 13), Toronto (Jvme 16), Ottawa (June 18), Smce January 1990, no furAer orders have used Ae MontrdA (June 20), Qudbec City (June 22), and Halifax C-series of order numbers. This may make Ae ATSF CP60Ms, (June 24). -JOHN CARTER, BRS "BRANCHLINE" contract C-498, Ae last of that series. The 14 CO F59PHs due later m Ae year are order 896704, Ae first CanaAan umts The Manufacturers under Ae EMD series of numbers. -PAT SCRIMGEOUR, CHRIS MARTIN, ALEX SIMINS, DON MCQUEEN CenerA Electric MonongahAa Super 7-23Bs 2309 and 2310 ran on test on CN Industrial Operations between MontrdA and Richmond, Quebec, on MarA 16A. They were dAvered to Conrail on MarA 21st for shipment to CE at A Samia. Ontario Erie, Pennsylvania. • RobervA—Saguenay turned over CECX • Dupont Canada has acquired Houston Bdt TerminA 2002 to CN on April ISA for return to CE. SWIOOO No. 40. • Umon Carbide (Nova), at Corunna, has a former Umon CE has received 51 umts m MontrdA: Raflroad CM switAep numberer 417A. • 10 U30CS from MILW - 5651, 5652, 5653, 5654, 5655, 5656, 5658, 5800, 5802, 5803 • 1 U30B from WP - 3069 Tourist Railways and Museums • 4 U23BS (on FB2 trucks) from UP/MP - 546, 565, 568, 570 • 9 U23BS (on GM trucks) from WP - 2252, 2253, 2254, 2255, RoyA Ontario Museum 2258, 2260, 2261, 2262, 2264 The ROM, A Toronto, has on display a collection of 65 origmA • 5 U33CS from D&H - 652, 654, 658, 659, 662 colour posters from Ae CPR. The exhibit wfll be shown from • 6 U23BS from ATSF - 6325, 6329, 6335, 6337, 6338, 6345 June 1st unA January 6A. The posters, over a span of 80 years, advertise railway service, cAturA exAbirions, re• • 16 B36-7S from ATSF - 7484 to 7499 unification of famflies, Ae war effort, and tourism. The exhibit BombarAer is at Ae Sigmund Samuel Bufldmg, 14 Queen's Park Crescent. BombarAer continues its work on Ae MBIA (Boston) F40PHs For details, caU 416/586-5549. -CLOBE AND MAIL m its area of Ae CE plant m MontrdA. MBTA 1003 arrived on MarA 21st. Completed 1012 was returned to MBTA on MarA Murals from THE CANADIAN 20A and 1010 was returned on ApA 6A. The well-known exAbit of murAs from Ae PARK cars of THE CANADIAN is on display this summer at Ae Welland HistoricA Can-Car - UTDC Museum. The pamtings are on loan from Ae NarionA Museum CP is delivering Ae 60 new double-deA cars m Ae 2300-series of Science and Technology. The exhibit is on view from May from Thunder Bay to CO Transit m Toronto. 17A unA September 9A at 65 Hooker Street, Welland, phone number 416/732-2215. Admission is $3.00 for adAts. CenerA Motors CM has completed Ae first of Ae CP60Ms for Santa Fe (ATSF). -CLOBE AND MAIL The first one was completed and photographed on May 19A. SouA Simcoe prepares for operation On May 31st, 105 and 106 were at CP Qudbec Street yard m The SouA Simcoe Railway has embarked on a concerted plan London. The rniits have a CN-style nose (wiA Ae front door on to gain auAority for operation on its line. The Ontario Ae opposite side and headlights that appear to be off-centre), MunidpA Board, regAator of provindally-mcorporated railways, F45-style windshiAd windows, and AtA Hghts. They are will hear an application for auAority to operate once Ae painted m Ae red-and-silver warbonnet sAeme wiA a large applicant certifies that Ae railway is "suffidently completed for red "Santa Fe" on Ae sides. Ae sAe carriage of traffic and ready for inspection." It has been reported that two (?) ATSF F45s will be For this conAtion to be true, SouA Simcoe wfll certify that brought to London for Ae DiesA Division open house on June Ae track, mduding road crossmgs, at least one locomotive and 16A The F45s woAd jom Ae new SD60Ms and sAected CN one passenger cap passenger boarding facfliries, and operating and CP power Aere. procedures are m place and meet acceptable standards. The locomotive wfll be Aesd No. 22, and Ae car wfll be coaA No. 821. Some work remains to be done on Ae track and right-of-way. The nfle book is being drafted and operating personnd are being trained and examined. Work on Ae station site is continuing. SouA Simcoe has retained a consAting engineer to produce V J a report on his inspection of Ae railway to be attaAed to Ae affidavit certifying that Ae conAtions have been met. That The second order of Burlington NorAem SD60Ms will be shoAd be complete by mid-June, and if Ae 0MB is able to deA built wiA a different design of cab. The cab will have two F45- wiA Ae application qAckly revenue operation coAd begin this style windows, as on Ae ATSF CP60Ms, and a tapered short year. -SOUTH SIMCOE "THE INJECTOR" hood (perhaps similar to Ae nose on Ae UP CE Dash 8-40Cs). 18 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

In Transit

Toronto-Rapid Transit this project. The line is also seen as reducing overcrowding on Ae Yonge Subway by attracting more people to Ae under-used Further to Ae "Lef s Move" announcement by Ontario Minister Spadina line, and eliminating Ae previously-proposed $80- of Transportation William Wiye concerning rapid transit nuhion rebuilding of Wilson and FinA Teiimnals to achieve construction m Toronto (ApA NEWSLETTER), Ae TTC and Ae reduced headways. Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto have produced a joint The Scarborough RT woAd be extended to Ae intersection response and implementation study 'Tef s Do It." The report of Markham Road and Sheppard Avenue, three kilometres from recommends that: its present terimmus at McCowan Road. Presumably Ae • Ae Commision and Metro endorse Ae province's plan, abandoned Canadian NorAem right-of-way woAd be fohowed • a strategy be developed for Ae financing of Ae Sheppard in part; where feasAle. A new yard site is required, as Ae Subway and Ae oAer projects, existing yard lacks sufficient space for expansion. At one time • Ae TTC and Metro work wiA Ae province to reduce delays it was proposed to extend this hne to FinA Avenue, howevei; caused by Ae required environmentA assessment, no recent mention has been made of this. • TTC staff undertake a finacciA anAysis of Ae net impact of A conclusion, Ae report states that it is assumed that all Ae proposed projects on 1990-1999 operating costs, and projects wiU be underway concurrently and that Ae first • TTC and Metro staff report on Ae impact of Ae projects on projects through Ae approval process will be Ae first ones on Ae Metro capitA works program. whiA construction wfll begin. The province is anxious to have an implementation plan m place by this fall, and for all projects The report notes Aat Metro and TTC staff shoAd be directed to be completed by Ae end of Ae decade. Given Ae pohtical to complete all of Ae necessary planning and environmentA and financial wfll, this seems possible, if local co-operation and assessment stuAes needed to commence engineering and design a streamlined environmental assessment process are within 12 months. forAcoming. -JOHN D. THOMPSON The estimated cost of Ae projects is $4.3-biIlion, wiA Metro paying 25 percent and Queens Park 75 percent, as is standard practice. Property costs are not mcluded, AAough Vancouver - SkyTrain 'vehicles are: 156 subway cars, 28 Scarborough RT cars, and 138 ALRVs, at a totA cost of $810-miLHon. The locations of three BC Transit SkyTrain stations for Whalley Town Centre m Surrey all funded by local developers and Sone concern is expressed at Ae abAty of car suppliers busmesses, were recently announced. The stations are part of (presently limited to Canadian manufacturers) to provide Ae Ae province's billion-dollar SkyRain extension project for Ae required rolhng stock m time. The possibAty of refurbishmg Ae Lower Mainland. Ml and HI cars (of 1962 and 1965 vmtage) is touAed upon. "The concept m Ae billion-dollar programme was that The top priority contmues to be given to Ae Sheppard private enterprise would be mvited to make major financial Subway extendmg 14 km from Yonge Street to Ae contributions to Ae cost of Ae stations," said Rita Johnson, Scarborough City Centre. The section between \dctoria Park minister responsible for transit. and Ae Scarborough City Centre is shown as a separate project. "A number of private developers put proposals to The estimated cost of Ae Spadma LRT (not mcludmg cars) BC Transit and we find Aese are generally acceptable. Now, is $50-miAon, muA of it due to plans for an underground BC Ransit is m Ae process of fine tuning Ae proposals." parkmg garage beneaA Spadma Avenue to replace Ae present angled street parkmg, and an underground loop at Bloor Street. One station, to be located at 108A Avenue and King Currently Ae environmentA assessment is nearing completion, George Highway, wfll be part of Ae large urban development functionA planmng is done, but engmeermg and design work project planned by Atrawest Development Corporation. is not. Currently this "Gateway" project is A an advanced sAte of design. The 13 km Eghnton West rapid transit Ime is an mtrigmng AnoAer sAtion, at Ae souAem terminal of Ae SkyTraA project. The TTC has assumed, for discussion, that it woAd be lAe, wfll span Kmg George Highway servmg developmenA on a Hght rail hne, but Ae cities of York and Etobicoke are askmg boA sides of Ae Aghway but prmdpally Ae project planned for a heavy subway hne. The LRT woAd be underground from by Ae KAg George Development Corporation to Ae east and Eghnton West Station to Weston Road, Aen at grade and Surrey Place Mall to Ae west. elevated from Aere to RenforA Drive. A yard site woAd be needed, AAer at RenforA or at a reopened St. Clair Carhouse. Atrawest and Ae KAg George Development Corporation St. Clair has been used oAy for testmg and dead storage smce are fully fundAg Aese stations. ApA 1978. (A track connection from Eghnton to St. Clair The third station wfll serve and be part of Ae new Town Avenue coAd be via Oakwood Avenue, wAA last saw streetcars Square, recently announced by Surrey municipality as part of m I960 — I wonder if Ae tracks are stiLl beneaA Ae asphAt?) Ae new Whalley Town Centre. Located on 135A Street near 102nd Avenue, Ae station wfll flank Ae existing Whalley The extension of Ae Harbourfront LRT east and west is Ransit Exchange and Ae Whalley Recreation Centre. It wfll probably dependent on Ae redevAopment of Ae ONE and Ae provide access to Surrey Place Mall plus existing and proposed Port of Toronto lands. These woAd be tied to Ae Toronto bids developmente A Ae area. for Ae 1996 Olympics and Expo 2000. The Yonge—Umversity—Spadina subway loop is seen by Ae The 102nd Avenue Station is a partaersAp of BC Ransiq province as providing a vAuable function m serving commuters Ae muAdpahty of Surrey Markborough Properties coming from north of Metro, by bo A bus and car. Howeva; Ae Acorporated, and two major department stores. BoA Ae sAtion TTC/Metro report seems to be Aplomaticahy lukewarm about and Ae accompanymg bus loop will be located on mumdpA UCRS Newsletter • June 1990 • 19 property. Canadian Rolling Stock During 1990 "The cost of biulding SkyTrain between Scott Road and Whalley is budgeted at $127-million, but Ae economic value to >- Continued from Page 10 Ae souA side of Ae Fraser will be infinitely more," said Ae minister. "AU m aU, we are talking about SkyTrain linking Rebuilt Equipment - 1989 developments m WhaUey Town Centre that have an estimated value of between $l-billion and $2-bilLion. BC RaU (formerly BriAh Columbia RaUway) "SkyTrain operates m one of Ae fastest-growing BCOL 52650-52801. 152. 157-163 52-8 61-10 FBC development corridors m NorA America," said Ae minister. centerbeam bulkhead flat. BuUt RW-SQ 1976 as FB BCIT "Now Ae foundations for Aat economic corridor are bemg laid 17000s (same numbers). RebuUt BC-SQ 1989. Dark green, m WhaUey Town Centre." white markings, BC Rafl logo. Formal design of Ae SkyTrain extension to WhaUey BCOL 55000-55097.152.156-157 55-0 62-5 FBC centerbeam mduding Ae three stations, wUl be started by mid-June, wiA bulkhead flat. Built RW-SQ 1976 as FB BCIT 17000s (same completion m 1993. numbers). Rebuilt BC-SQ 1989. Dark green, wAte markmgs, -FROM PASSENGER TRANSPORT BC Rafl logo.

U.S. Transit Notes CanaAan National CN 874000-874199. 200. 150-153 51-7 55-6 CTS sted ribbed Buffalo's NFIA shuts down temporarily wood chip car 5644—5658 A Built MIL-S (Maime Adustries Transit operations in Buffalo, New York, shut down on Sunday limited-Sord, Quebec) m 1966 as CN 613100 series FB ApA 1, wiA no furAer foding. Service resumed two days late^ bulkhead flats. Rebuilt CN-PU Jun 1989 mto woodsAp cars after Erie County agreed to provide funds from sales tax wiA 11-4 inside walls on Ae fiames of Ae FBs. Oxide red wiA revenues. The NFTA is Ae state agency responsible for pubhc wAte logo and markmgs. • transportation (transit, airport, port) m Erie and Niagara counties. From 1967, NFTA was kept busy buying up private A look into the past bus lines. In 1971, NFTA began planning Ae Light Rail Rapid Transit Une, wAA opened in late 1986. Items from the Uxbridge Times-Journal: The operation of Ae LRRT has proved a dram on NFTAs 68 Years Ago — Febmaiy 16, 1922: Uxbridge town counA budget. (NFTA receives about 39 percent of its revenues firom signed a petition askmg Aat Ae MiAand Division of Ae Crand Ae farebox; Ae TTC by contrast, coUects over 68 percent.) The Trunk Railway be electrified, and its roadway strAghtened. counties have unA now decUned to partidpate m fundmg, because of differences between Ae inner dty where poorer 43 Years Ago - Febmary 13, 1947: The up tram from Toronto residents ;ise transit, and Ae suburbs, where riAer people do (No. 94) was staUed m a tremendous drift one and a half miles not. A adArion, Ae NFTA has had a poor image, because of north of Stouffvflle and a large crew of men was put to work Ae LRRT) seen as a "wAte elephant," and scandals in Ae shovelUng. The north tram (No. 95) had to wAt here organisation. (Uxbridge) unA Ae track was deared about 2:00 a.m. The The operation has resumed for Ae present, but Ae poUricA SAvarion Army assisted by severaUocA women stavmg off Ae problems remam. Ttansit m many U.S. dties is not considered himger of Ae 150 passengers by servmg tea and sandwiAes. important as oAer than a social service for Ae young, Ae old, -FORWARDED BY CEORGE W HORNER and Ae poor. Even Ae presence of Ae LRRTj wiA many midAe-mcome riders, hasn't elimmated this conception. OAy NS&T oar trucks to see new service anoAer gasoUne shortage, coupled wiA improved NFTA service to Ae suburbs, wfll correct this situation to any degree. The trucks from Niagara, St. Catharmes and Toronto Railway -JOHN D. THOMPSON Preston-buflt (1915) wood mterurban 130 have been obtamed by Ae Seashore TroUey Museum of Kennebunkpo A Mame, firom CaUfomia right rafl opemngs the defunct RaU City Museum of Sandy Pomt (near Watertown), • On June 30, San Diego TroUey wfll open its Bayside extension New York. of Ae El Cajon Une, about five kUometres long, wiA two The trucks wfll be used m Ae restoration of New York stations at Ae Convention Centre and Caslands. The SAte Railways 113, a 12-wmdow deck roof suburban car extension is a loop north Aough downtown from Ae (Jackson and Sharp, 1899), wAA was previously NYSR 94 and present end of Ae Une to 12A and ImperiA, Ae junction originaUy Rochester and Sodus Bay Railway 94. The body of between Ae east and souA lines. SDT now has 71 DiiWag this cai; wAA was sted-sheaAed later m ite career; had been cars. used as a cottage at Webstep New York, smce Ae 1930s. On • The first section of Ae new Los Angdes-Long BeaA hne wffl September 20, 1989, Ae car body arrived at Seashore. be opened. BoA end sections of Ae hne — Ae subway m -"THE DISPATCH," SEASHORE TROLLEY MUSEUM Los Angdes and Ae downtown Long BeaA section — wA be opened later m Ae year. Buses of Ae SouAem Cabooses as "eyesores" or affordable housing? CaUforAa Rapid Transit District wA cover Ae Los Angdes subway and buses of Long BeaA Transit wA cover Ae CP has dedded that, except for providmg some to museums Long BeaA end of Ae Une, unA completion. For Ae most and railway assodations, ite 651 cabooses wfll be scrapped. CP part, Ae Une foUows Ae old Padfic ElecAc right-of-way. wfll not seU vans to Ae generA pubUc, "so that Aey don't end By March, about half of Ae hue's 54 cars had arrived. up as eyesores." • TTC PCC 4472 (May NEWSLETTER, Page 8) has arrived in San CN says, 'An eyesore is in Ae eye of Ae beholden" CN wfll Francisco. seU ite cabooses through CANAC. This yeai; 154 wfll be offered -CEORGE CEYER for sAe, deUvered to Ae nearest CN station. Next year; several himAed more wfll be available. —CLOBE AND MAIL 20 • UCRS Newsletter • June 1990

On Wednesday, May 23, 1990, the TTC operated the first streetcar over the Harbourfront LRT line. Rebuilt PCC 4500 Is seen here at the Spadina Loop with TTC personnel involved in the project. Several UCRS members, including Ray Corley (seen here under the mirror), rode the car on this occasion, in the Society tradition of being on hand for first runs. -TTC photo by Ted Wickson

STCUM GP9 1313, formerly ON 4309, poses at Dorion (Vaudreuil), Quebec, on May 11, 1990. Four CNR GP9s have been rebuilt at Pointe St-Charles shops for the STCUM commuter service from Montreal to Dorion and Rigaud. Behind the locomotive is one of seven electric generator units, rebuilt from VIA steam generator cars. -Photo by Ted Wickson