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A Rail and Transit Gallery THIS MONTH IN RAIL AND TRANSIT 3 RAILROADED INTO A CAREER David Kwechansky's experience as the first passenger on the CN Rapido in 1965 launched his research career. 6 ART GALLERY A Roil ond Transit Gallery: NUMBER 534 - JUNE 1994 Photos of Kenora, Ontario. 8 PUBLISHED BY CAR-FLOAT OPERATION ENDS Upper Canada Railway Society ON THE DETROIT RIVER RO. Box 122, Station A The history, operations, and demise of the Toronto, Ontario M5W IA2 Norfolk Southern service between Windsor EDITOR'S NOTES and Detroit, by Gordon Webster. I'll start by admitting two mistakes last 10 month. On the front cover of the May issue, EDITOR RESEARCH AND REVIEWS the number 9015 can be clearly seen on John Pat Scrimgeour RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY . Carter's photo in the Thompson Canyon, but 250 Queens Quay West #1607 . More in the Eastern Townships not clearly enough that 1 could get the num• Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N2 . Prescott show ber right in the photo caption inside. 1 missed E-Mail: 731 [email protected] BOOKS Kaslo and Slocan on another of John's photos at the top of the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 13 Transcontinental section by inadvertently John Carter, Art Clowes, TRANSCONTINENTAL deleting his name from the description on Scott Haskill, Don McQueen, THE RAPIDO Newco and CAR updates Page 10. Sorry, John. Sean Robitaille, Cray Scrimgeour, . Amtrak overnight train to Toronto Now that winter is over - 1 know it is, Chris Spinney, Gordon Webster THE PANORAMA Decision on E&N the last hockey game just ended - railfan . Vancouver commuter train season is beginning. Highlights for this sum• IN TRANSIT Vancouver improvements mer are the VIA trains to Prince Rupert, Please send news and short contributions to . Toronto "chime trains" Courtenay Sarnia, Niagara Falls, Jonquiere, MOTIVE POWER Second-hand power the addresses shown with each news section. and Gaspe, which may not still be running . DD flies a new unit to Ireland Articles and photos should be sent to the next summer; the CP line in the Ottawa TOURIST RAILWAYS AND MUSEUMS . editor at one of the above addresses. If you Valley, which may soon become a branch line . Station preservation are using a computer, please use electronic of the "OVR;" and the dirty rainbow of col• THE TRAIN SPOTTERS All over Ontario mail or send a WordPerfect or text file on an ours of the leased locomotives on CP and CN. IBM-compatible (ST." or 3/j") disk, along with It will be an important year to ride on ON THE CALENDAR a printed copy. VIA trains, as there are several places that we - UCRS Toronto meeting, Friday, June 17 will not Ite able to ride again. I'm starting 7:30 p.m., at the Metro Archives theatre, with a quick trip from Toronto to Gaspe in a Subscriptions to Rail and Transit are available Spadina Road at MacPheison, just north of couple of days - a four-day weekend, with with membership in the Upper Canada Rail• Dupont subway station. John Thompson an overnight trip there, just over a day to way Society. Membership dues are $29.00 per will make a presentation on traction 20 to look around, and an overnight trip back, with year (i 2 issues) for addresses In Canada, and 30 years ago in the U.S. and Canada. some time in Montreal in both directions. $32.00 for addresses in the U.S. and overseas. Friday, June 24 - UCRS Hamilton meeting, Short trips to Jonquiere and Senneterre are Student memberships, for those 17 years or 8:00 p.m., at the Hamilton Spectator audi• also possible on extended weekends. younger, are $ 19,00. Please send Inquiries and torium, 44 Frid Street, just off Main Street After this summer, we'll be into the last changes of address to the address at the top at Highway 403. The programme will be year of the old electric operation on the of the page. recent news and memlters' current and Deux-Montagnes line, before the new MU historical slides. equipment makes the operation as dull (but Friday, July 15 - UCRS Toronto monthly as reliable and comfortable) as GO Transit. UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY meeting, 7:30 p.m. Diesel Division continues to export as DIRECTORS Friday, July 22 - UCRS Hamilton monthly many locomotives as ever, by land, sea, and Rick Eastman, President 416 494-34 i 2 meeting, 8:00 p.m. air. The QNS&L's new GEs and rebuilt SDs John Carter, VP - Services 416 690-66SI Pat Sempie, VP-Administration 416 923-9123 Sunday, August 28 - Railway Heritage and Budd cars are a reason to travel there. Scott Haskill, Secretary 416 604-2071 in Thomas, 10:00 .m. to 5:00 The CB&CNS is attracting railfans from all Day St. a Art Clowes SI4 934-SS49 p.m. Information, 519 631-0936. over to see the same six-axle MLWs that we Al Maltiand 416 921-4023 all ignored before they were repainted. George Meek 416 532-5617 It's a summer as interesting as ever beside COVER PHOTO Pat Scrimgeour 416 260-S6S2 the tracks, and, like every year, there will Chris Spinney 416 281-8211 In the Esqulmalt and Nanaimo (CP Rail) yard never be another like it. Enjoy the sun, watch in Victoria, British Columbia. trains, take pictures, and tell us all about it Scrimgeour —Pfxjto by Rob when you're back indoors! -PS Completed June 15, 1994 2 • Rail and Transit • June 1994 RAILROADED INTO A CAREER By David N. Kwechansky Photos by the author and from the author's collection Many of us have one day we can look back on as our personal turning point. Not like the day you got your driver's license or could finally program your VCR on the first shot, however gratifying those doubtless were, but a day so big it changed everything that came after. Mine was Sunday, October 31, 1965. The photos by Jim Appleby and the caption by Richard Carroll in the February-March issue of Rail and Transit showed that that was a big day in modern Canadian rail passenger history in its own right. But « family milestones aside, it was also the biggest day of all in my own history. It took some years for the full magnitude of it to be evident, but this turned out to be the day that launched my career. The Saturday of this watershed weekend marked the end of the CN/CP pxjol train marriage. Depression-shot- gunned in 1933. On the 31st, each line started running its own trains, reflecting radically diverging passenger outlooks, with Montreal-Toronto the prime route. CN, the buoyant idealist, pulled out all the stops - in the words of their ads - and was set to inaugurate the Rapido on a record, non-stop, 4 h 59 min timing. CP the glum realist, was hardly about to develop a corporate ulcer over being unable to match that. Their eastbound Chateau Champlain and westbound Royal York seemed intended to self-destruct, doomed by a fast-for-CP but uncompetitive 5 h 45 min timing and higher-than-CN fares. They were gone before 1966 was a month old. At the time, I was working in accounting at CP's Montreal headquarters, my first job after graduating from university with a business degree that spring, and ON vice-president D. V. Gonder presents David with a gold the lowest-paying one among the three offered by campus recruiters. As a railfan, I took it because a engineman's watch at Toronto Union Station, October 31, 1965. railway was where I wanted to work. As a railfan, sightseeing. No dice, said the lady behind the counter. though, I also had to go and be part of that historic The minimum age was 25, and I was three years shy. weekend. Besides, I'd never been to Toronto. Neither Hastily-hatched Plan B was to leave our bags in a locker had my younger brother Alex, at best a semi-fan on a and explore what we could on foot, though not much good day, but he thought it might be fun and decided to was open in Toronto on Sundays in that era. We got back come along. We booked DBR D in Car 2130 on CP's last- to the station about 3:30, well ahead of time. Besides ever overnight on the route. Train 21-33 leaving West- needing to rest our dogs, I wanted to get trainside as mount at 10:22 on the 30th, and parlour seats 20 and 21 early as possible. It was the first day of standard time, so in Car 3003 on the first Rapido, leaving Union at 4:45. it might be too dark for good pictures close to departure. Politically, I should have planned to ride CP's first Track 1 was dressed for some pageantry with Chateau Champlain, but only one new train-had Stardust floodlighting, flower arrangements, and suitable on its shoulders, and my intent was to rub shoulders inaugural bunting and signs. A crowd gradually with the best. gathered, a combination of first-run passengers like us No. 21-33's former New York Central stainless-steel and assorted hangers-on. About 4:00, some dignitaries observation car Eastview had been a congenial place for took their places by the gate, all smiles and handshakes a snack the previous evening. I took a picture of it upon for the photographer. The show looked about to begin. arriving at Union, possibly the only arrival shot of that Before it did, though, a gateman came forward last run.
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