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October, 1967 - Number 261 railroadiana now for the UCRS Auction, Published monthly by the Upper Canada Railway which will be presided over this year Society, Incorporated, Box 122, Terminal A, by Mr. Omer Lavallee. Toronto, Ontario. November 24th; (Friday) - UCRS Hamilton Chapter Editor James A. Brown regular meeting. Board Room, CNR Authorized as Second Class Matter by James Street Station, Hamilton, the Post Office Department, Ottawa, Ontario, Ontario. 8:00 p.m. and for payment of postage in cash. December 1st; (Friday) - A visit to the High Members are asked to give the Society Level Pumping Station at Poplar Plains at least five weeks notice of address changes. Road and Cottingham, 8:00 p.m. A Please address NEWSLETTER vertical steam pumping engine will be contributions to the Editor at 3 Bromley operated for the visitors. Take the Crescent, Bramalea, Ontario. No ANNETTE trolley coach to Dupont and responsibility is assumed for loss or Davenport, and walk north two blocks. non-return of material. December 15th; (Friday) - Regular meeting at All other Society business, including which John Bromley will present slides membership inquiries, should be addressed to taken on his recent European trip. UCRS, Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario. January 19th; (Friday) - The UCRS Annual Cover Photo: Here comes the TurboTrain!! Meeting: Reports of the officers for Fresh from the erecting hall of MLW, red-nosed 1967 and election of directors for P100 tries out the rails of Canadian National’s 1968. Longue Pointe Subdivision on October 27th. Its tubular construction is clearly evident READERS’ EXCHANGE in this view by DOES YOUR TRANSPORTATION INTEREST Jim Sandilands. 0261-001.jpg EXTEND TO .... BUSES?? You should be reading Contributors to this Issue: Keith Anderson, CANADIAN COACH! This modest monthly John F. Bromley, John H. Bromley, Bruce publication will keep you up-to-date with the Chapman, Ray Corley, Peter Cox, Doug Cummings, bus industry in Canada, and provide the Robert Gibson, Dave Haire, Bill Hood, George results of historical research, plus current Homer, Ed Jordan, Omer Lavallee, equipment rosters. Available from B.C. Norm Lowe, Neil McCarten, Bob McMann, John Transit Society at $4.00 per year; ask for Mills, Steve Munro, Doug Page, Gary Pollock, a complimentary copy. Write the secretary, Newt Rossiter, John Rushton, Jim Sandilands, BCTS, 7863 Cartier Street, Vancouver 14, B.C. Dave Stalford, Dave Thompson, Ted Wickson. DOES ANYONE HAVE copies of CANADIAN Production: Peter Cox, Ed Jordan. RAIL issues 118-120, 122-123, 153, 166, 169, Distribution: Charlie Bridges, Dave 172-175, 178, 180, 182-186, 189-191; UCRS Hanbidge, Ed Jordan, Tony Kerr, Bryce Lee, Bulletins 1-20, 23-24, 37; UCRS NEWSLETTERS Steve Munro, John Thompson, Ted Wickson, 176-179, 231, 236? Have 81 issues of RAILROAD George Wilton. Magazine from February, 1934 to September, COMING EVENTS 1954 for sale or trade. Doug Cummings, 529 rd Regular meetings of the Society are West 63 Avenue, Vancouver 14, B.C. held on the third Friday of each month (except WANTED: Kerosene-burning switchman’s July and August) at 587 Mt. Pleasant Road, lanterns, any Canadian line except CN and CP. Toronto, Ontario. 8:00 p.m. Please send details and price to Adam A. November 17th; (Friday) - Sort out your surplus Tymchuk, 660 Manhattan Avenue, Winnipeg 5,

UCRS # 261 - 1 Manitoba. 6213'S A HIT AT THE “EX” UCRS News Toronto’s steam locomotive, Canadian of Secretarial Associates Limited, of National 4-8-4 6213, proved to be a big hit Toronto, who generously and without charge at this year’s Canadian National Exhibition, made available his company’s supplies and thanks to our Preservation Committee. The equipment for its production. The data sheet locomotive’s custodian, Dave Stalford, would was much sought after last year and certainly like to acknowledge the assistance of those well appreciated this year. who helped ready the locomotive for the Hopefully, even more UCRS members will Exhibition and/or helped display it during drop by to visit 6213 at next year’s Ex. And the Ex: Gord Baliner, John Dell, Bill Herbert, hopefully a few of them will be willing to Art Jones, Al Kinsman, Charlie McGoveran, lend a hand in the cleaning and painting that Darrell Phillips and Dave Spaulding. A goes before it. special thanks goes to Shirley Stalford, Dave’s new wife (Congratulations!!), for her RAILWAY News and Comment efforts in supplying moral support and, FACE-LIFTING AHEAD FOR D & H incidentally, painting the numbers and F. C. Dumaine, Jr., new president of statistics on both sides of the cab. the Delaware & Hudson —— a line which Again this year, much of the locomotive directly or through its subsidiary received a fresh coat of paint, and the white Napierville Junction —— has served Montreal trim was touched up. With an air compressor since 1875, has announced that a $5 million supplied by Charlie McGoveran and installed modernization programme will be undertaken by Dave Spaulding, 6213 came alive for the by his road. Much of this money will go into Ex this year. The air pressure enabled the new equipment, better service and improved Northern Type to ring its bell, open the passenger facilities, although track and firebox door, blow its communications roadbed improvements also form part of the whistle, show pressure on several cab gauges, plan. operate its power reverse gear, apply and The D&H, in conjunction with New York release its tender brakes and, possibly most Central, operates the only rail service satisfying, produce a continuous hissing between New York City and Montreal, with two sound in the cab —— although unfortunately trains daily in each direction. The road has not all at once. Many youngsters who came already purchased two dome coaches from the through the cab were momentarily startled when Missouri Pacific for use on its daytime trains they placed their hands on one of the brake on this route, which enjoys spectacular valves and found that it would suddenly emit scenery along Lake Champlain and down the a hiss of escaping air. Hudson River valley. On seven evenings during the During the first nine months of 1967, Exhibition period, 6213 was open to the D&H’s Montreal - New York service attracted public, and hosted a total of 5,428 visitors. 153,000 passengers, up 50 per cent from the Many of these were energetic enough to same period last year; a company official clamber into the cab for a attributed much of the increase to Expo let’s-see-how-it-works look. travel. D&H’s new attitude contrasts sharply Club literature and excursion with the approach taken as recently as a year pamphlets plus a special locomotive ago, when the day train appeared certain to information sheet were passed out to the be withdrawn as soon as permission to do so visitors. In connection with the data sheet, could be obtained. the locomotive crew wishes to express its FIRST PGE TRAIN REACHES FORT ST. JAMES appreciation to Mr. Ivan Moffitt, President Pacific Great Eastern’s first train

UCRS # 261 - 2 on its new Fort St. James branch rolled into Newfoundland and substitute a bus operation. that town in northern B.C. on October 18th with CN claims it lost $918,000 last year by 18 cars of assorted freight. Several PGE operating the trans-Island service. officials accompanied the first run. This will be the first hearing held Official opening of the line, however, will under the abandonment provisions of the new not take place until next year, when all phases National Transportation Act, approved by of construction have been completed. parliament last Winter. The new line runs about 70 miles west AAR ADOPTS AUTOMATIC CAR IDENTIFICATION from a connection with the PGE’s Prince George The Association of American Railroads - Dawson Creek section at Summit Lake, some announced in Chicago October 10th the adoption 40 miles north of Prince George. of an industry-wide automatic car NEWFOUNDLAND TRAIN-OFF APPLICATION FILED BY identification system built by Sylvania CN Electric Products Incorporated. All North The Canadian Transport Commission has American railways with cars in interchange called a public hearing at St. John’s, service will work toward the application of Newfoundland, December 11th on a CN application special identification labels on all rolling to drop its passenger train services in stock by 1969 or 1970. The AAR points out that the new system the Lake Superior & Ishpeming and the PRR. will enable instantaneous tracing of any It is estimated that increased car freight car on the continent, by means of utilization as a result of the elimination scanning devices which can read of errors in car reporting could amount to multi-coloured `service stripes’ in the most 10 per cent, equivalent to adding 180,000 cars severe weather conditions and at speeds up to the U.S. fleet alone. Present error rates to 80 m.p.h. The data received from the run between 11 and 13 per cent; ACI can reduce scanners is processed at central computer reporting errors to considerably less than locations. one per cent. Sylvania’s KarTrak system (October WORTH NOTING.... 1965 NL, page 175, August 1966 NL, page 126) * A coroner’s jury in Hanley, competed against a Saskatchewan, blamed freak high winds for the number of similar ACI systems for AAR July 24th collision between a CN Saskatoon - blessing. It consists of three components: Regina RDC and a hopper car in which 42 were — Standard, reflective colour-coded injured and one died. The hopper car had been labels fixed to the side of a car in ladder standing on a spur at Dundurn, Saskatchewan, fashion to form a code unique to that car. without its handbrake set since the siding Twelve strips make up each car’s graded up to the main line. The jury found identification `number’. that a freak wind blew the car up the grade — An unmanned, weatherproof, and through a closed switch onto the main track tamperproof optical trackside scanner which where the collision occurred. `reads’ the car labels as the train passes * The Ontario Municipal Board is by sweeping a beam of white light over each investigating the actions of the town of marking from bottom to top and receiving Aurora in seeking to establish a railway coloured light back from the strips. museum with the equipment originally — A data conversion and transmission accumulated for the provincial Centennial unit, which converts what the scanner `sees’ Centre. The probe came at the insistence of into electrical impulses and transmits this town Reeve Jim Murray, who is opposed to the data unlimited distances to readout devices $224,800 project. as required. * Canadian Pacific is proceeding with KarTrak is already in use by the DM&IR, a $3.5 million development on the site of the

UCRS # 261 - 3 old West Toronto shops on Keele Street south * The second excursion of the Scotian of St. Clair Avenue. To be known as Keele Model Railroad Society, of Halifax, turned Centre, the project comprises two 2-storey out to be a big success. Marking the 100th buildings for warehousing and light year of rail service between Halifax and industrial use, as well as a central mall with Pictou County, the October 1st special carried banking and restaurant facilities. 300 persons and was sold out four days in * CN president N. J. MacMillan has advance. The consist included reportedly declined an offer of the British oil-lamp-and-stove combine 7381 and coach government to take over the chairmanship of 4275, plus three a-c coaches. the British Railways Board. * In a move to reduce highway costs and * A special CN train composed of improve rail finances, the West German livestock cars and specially-equipped express government has announced that heavy trucks cars carried a total of 418 head of beef and will be banned from German highways after dairy cattle, swine, sheep and horses from July, 1970. Prairie centres to the Royal Winter Fair in * CN has received permission to close early November. its stations at Musquodoboit Harbour and * A representative of a Toronto Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. engineering firm has suggested that the Expo GO NOTES Express equipment could be utilized in a * Faced with a meteoric rise in service linking Toronto with the CNE, Toronto popularity of their new commuter service, GO Airport, Bramalea and Brampton. Transit officials are taking steps to boost * CN’s side-loading ferry `Patrick its capacity. Morris’ will be converted to stern-loading Now under way are projects to enlarge this winter in preparation for handling the parking lots at six stations; Pickering, standard gauge railway cars from North Sydney, Guildwood, Eglinton, Port Credit, Clarkson N.S. to the new marine terminal nearing and Oakville. Paving of these new lots should completion at Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. be complete by the end of November. To augment the capacity of existing two centennial medallions on September 14th trains, 14 new coaches have been ordered from to Mrs. Rose Mary Carlson of Toronto, the one Hawker Siddeley Canada Limited, at a cost of millionth GO Transit passenger. Mrs. $1.8 million. They will be delivered in the Carlson, a regular commuter, also received spring. Meanwhile, the nine self-propelled a travel bag from D. V. Gonder, vice president cars are undergoing final checks and should of Canadian National, which operates the $15 be ready for service soon; the supplementary million, 60-mile system for the provincial Ontario Northland trainsets are still in government. operation. * W. T. Howard, manager of GO Transit, A total of 331,800 persons rode GO announced recently that a new transformer trains in October, an increase of 12 per cent station will be installed next year at the over the previous month. The average number service’s Willowbrook Maintenance Depot in of riders during the business week was 14,000, Mimico. The new equipment will enable the and expectations now are that winter commuting locomotive-hauled trains to be `plugged in’, will push that total to 20,000 daily, 30 per deriving power for lighting, heating and air cent more than originally projected. During conditioning from the wayside source. At the weekday rush periods (0800-0900, present, power needs for trains under 1630-1730), GO Transit carries 77 per cent maintenance are met by operating the auxiliary of its passengers. engines in the locomotives, a situation which * Ontario Premier John Robarts has prompted several complaints about noise presented a scroll, a bouquet of flowers and from nearby residents.

UCRS # 261 - 4 Standby power facilities are already 1.2 of the subdivision, which begins at a in use on the self-propelled car maintenance connection with the l’Assomption Subdivision tracks, to the north of the new shop at at Pointe-aux-Trembles station. The train Willowbrook. was tested on the spur and later returned to Photo: the MLW plant. Canadian Pacific’s Expo Limited westbound at Its most striking feature is its Banff, Alberta, September 6th, 1967. crimson nose (which promptly suggested the W. H. N. Rossiter. 0261-002.jpg nickname `Rudolph’); its long, low lines HERE COMES TURBO ! combined with the engineman’s cab at the Observations By Omer Lavallee forward end of the dome suggested, very The first TurboTrain to be produced slightly, the Union Pacific’s articulated by Montreal Locomotive Works Limited for streamlined trains of the 1930's. The United Aircraft, destined for the announced turbine engines sound not unlike huge Canadian National four-hour Toronto - air-conditioning units. Montreal passenger service, was tested The prototype train underwent brief recently on Canadian National rails. testing in the Montreal area prior to its Following tests in MLW’s yard in the east end departure for United Aircraft’s Providence, of Montreal late in October, the first Rhode Island, plant where it will be put seven-car train, comprising units P100 / T100 through a rigorous series of performance / T202 / T201 / T300 / T200 / P200 (in that tests. It is expected to return to Canada order), was moved out onto Canadian National’s toward the end of the year for an assessment Longue Pointe Subdivision about 2:30 on the of its cold weather performance. Turbo afternoon of Friday, October 27th. service between Toronto and Montreal will The event was witnessed by CN and MLW probably begin in the spring. personnel, as well as members of the news media Photo: Trailing shot of Turbo Unit P200 and who had been alerted to the fact that the train train. Photo by Jim Sandilands.0261-003.jpg would leave the builder’s works for the first Photo: The TurboTrain leaves Montreal time on that day. Jim Sandilands and I Locomotive Work.’ yard for the first time. watched from the vantage point of Dickson The MLW shop switcher stands by at right as Street overpass as P100 and its train moved the white train, trimmed in black and red, very slowly through the MLW yard escorted by edges slowly out onto CN’s Longue Pointe the Works’ 44-ton switcher. The switcher Subdivision. Photo by moved aside at the siding gate, allowing the Jim Sandilands. 0261-004.jpg TurboTrain to move onto Canadian National EQUIPMENT Notes rails for the first time. CANADIAN PACIFIC MOTIVE POWER NOTES The TurboTrain proceeded for about six * The five B&LE units being stored at miles east of MLW at a cautious 20 or 30 miles St. Luc (September NL, page 137) have now been per hour, due to short level-crossing flasher returned to the U.S.A. circuits. It elicited a considerable amount * CP SD-40's have made demonstration of attention and comment from motorists and trips on the Pacific Great Eastern, a line pedestrians along the way. The goal of the which so far has eschewed General Motors first run was the Rifle Range Spur at mileage locomotives. * Reports from Nelson and Calgary be the last Canadian stand for CLC’s 2,400 indicate that CP’s CLC/FM units are nearly h.p. Trainmaster; CP’s 8900, 8904 and 8905 all back in service after a several-week are maintained there, but normally work the layoff in September. Units 4052, 4053, 4065, stiffly-graded line from Tadanac to Warfield, 4449 and 4455 are presently in serviceable near Trail, where a Cominco fertilizer plant storage at Nelson, B.C. Nelson appears to is located.

UCRS # 261 - 5 Photo: The subject of a CN Mechanical storage at Calder (Edmonton), Alberta. Department test is this moulded plastic number * GR-17z units 4341 and 4352, permanent board, applied to an MLW passenger unit. The fixtures on the Great Slave Lake Railway in black figures on a white ground are enjoying recent months, have been painted GSLR yellow, wide acceptance south of the border. Photo with the road name in block letters along the by J. A. Brown. 0261-005.jpg running board on the short-hood end. Both Photo: Brand-new GP-40's 4013 and 4012 roar units operate with the short hood leading, through Maitland, Ontario, with train 492. and are fully automated with Wabco equipment, Photo courtesy of by J. A. Brown.0261-006.jpg carrying only an `observer’ in the cab. No CANADIAN NATIONAL MOTIVE POWER NOTES further details are available at present. * General Motors Diesel Limited has WEST COAST EQUIPMENT NOTES delivered all six units of CN’s recent GP-40 * PGE is converting the last of its order; classed GR-30b, their delivery dates ex-Milwaukee Road coaches into work cars by are as follows; completely stripping the interiors, blanking 4012 - October 10th. out windows where necessary, adding interior 4013 - October 10th. partitions and fittings as necessary and 4014 - October 18th. applying a cupola to the roof. PGE’s only 4015 - October 18th. remaining non-RDC passenger equipment, aside 4016 - October 20th. from its two business cars, is heater car 730. 4017 - October 20th. * BC Hydro has taken delivery of several More SD-4O’s are also appearing on CN depressed-centre flatcars, numbered in the lines; 5008 - October 29th. 200-series, from National Steel Car 5009 - October 29th. Corporation, of Hamilton, Ontario. Manley * A recent check of CN facilities at Shipyards, of New Westminster, B.C., will soon London, Ontario, revealed the following deliver a new caboose to BC Hydro. CLC/FM units awaiting scrapping; * Railway Appliance Research Shay 115 2201/02/03/04/05/06/07/09/10/11/14 will soon be back on the job in North Vancouver 2215/16/17; 9300/01/02/04/05/06/08 after extensive boiler work which commenced 9318/20/28/38/42. in September and included renewal of tubes Noteworthy is the appearance of 9302 and tube sheets. Sister Shay 114 carried on in the scrap line, leaving 9314 as the sole alone during this period. survivor of this class. The official CN RETURNS LEASED PASSENGER EQUIPMENT retirement date of 9302 is not yet available. * A number of leased passenger cars (February NL, page 18). employed in CN service during the past months * Brand-new SD-40's 5000 and 5004 have been returned to their owners, including; encountered a landslide near Albreda, B.C. — Four Atlantic Coast Line dining cars on October 30th and were completely derailed. (Naples, Tarboro, Greenville and Fitzgerald) Damage, however, was superficial. whose ownership changed during their CN visit * CN has reassigned the remaining GR-15 when ACL merged with Seaboard Air Line to form class units in the 4800-4824 series to Calder the new Seaboard Coast Line (June NL, page from Vancouver. Replacing the 4800's at 83); Vancouver are Nos. 4100-4125, class GR-17p. — Twenty-six Canadian Pacific coaches, * RDC D-354 is being modified to include some of which are destined for Mexico a 30-foot RPO section, for use in Toronto - (December 1966 NL, page 176; August 1967 NL, North Bay trains 673/676. Pending its page 122); completion, a conventional train, including — Six N&W sleepers (Blue Gazelle, Blue an RPO car, is handling the service. Skies, Blue Knight, Blue Horizon, Blue Cloud * CN’s GE 44-tonners 5 and 6 are in and Blue Boy) which operated regularly for

UCRS # 261 - 6 over a year on the Toronto - Montreal Cavalier. CANADIAN PACIFIC ORDERS 600 HOPPER CARS (April 1966 NL, page 64). * Work is expected to begin by Christmas GE 70-tonners have been the order of the day. at the Trenton, N.S. works of Hawker Siddeley A new enginehouse/office building is Canada Limited, on a $9-million order for 600 nearing completion at Morristown, Vermont, cylindrical covered hopper cars for CPR. The and apparently several of the line’ s order is scheduled for completion in mid-fall picturesque covered bridges will be rebuilt of 1968, and will provide employment for about or replaced to accommodate the GP-9's. 1,600 men. On their way to the StJ&LC, the PE units L&PS EQUIPMENT PRESENTED TO OTTAWA MUSEUM passed through Ontario via CN, giving rise * A collection of rolling stock of the to rumours that they had again been leased now-defunct London & Port Stanley Railway was by the railway. officially presented to the National Museum PGE STEAMER DISPLAYED AT SQUAMISH of Science and Technology by Canadian National * B.C. Premier W.A.C. Bennett presented in a brief ceremony at London, Ontario, on 2-6-2T No. 2 of the Pacific Great Eastern October 19th. Headed by locomotive L1, the Railway to the town of Squamish on November little train included a hopper car, flanger 3rd, for display in a local park. auxiliary, snow plough, line car and caboose; Built by Baldwin in 1910 as a included with the equipment were sufficient tenderless 2-6-2T, No. 2 was sold in 1920 to towers, hardware and line to set up a sample the Comox Logging & Railway Company, as their section of overhead. No. 7. Earlier this year, PGE bought the The equipment was moved on its own little engine back from CL&R and during the wheels from London to Ottawa over the weekend summer the work of restoration was carried of October 20th. It will be displayed outside on at Squamish. the buildings of the museum, which is Photo: In a partially-stripped-down state, scheduled to open on November 15th. PGE No. 2 awaits restoration at Squamish, CANADIAN NATIONAL PASSENGER CAR WITHDRAWALS B.C., in July, 1967. Photo by Keith Anderson. * During recent months a number of pieces 0261-007.jpg of CN passenger equipment have been removed MATTAGAMI MOGUL GOES ON DISPLAY from service for conversion or dismantling. * Diminutive 2-6-0 No. 100 of the These include; Mattagami Railroad —— once known as North Cafeteria Car; 497 Americas’s shortest standard gauge common Dining Cars; 1244, 1290 carrier —— was presented to the town of Parlour Car; Lake Wayagamak Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario, on September 29th. Sleeping Cars; Lambert, The locomotive, originally built by MLW in Westgate, 1915 for the Greater Winnipeg Water District, Chinook Cove, is now permanently mounted in front of the Kings Cove. town’s hotel. Coaches; 5158, 5252, Incorporated in April 1927, the 5420. Mattagami Railroad extends from the town three PRECISION ENGINEERING UNITS TO StJ&LC miles to Smooth Rock Falls Junction, a point * The two Precision Engineering Company on the former National Transcontinental main GP-9's recently used on CN lines, Nos. 5960 line (now CN) between Cochrane and and 5962, have been sold to the St. Johnsbury Kapuskasing; the line is now owned by the & Lamoille County, a 96-mile-long Vermont Abitibi Paper Company. Once a passenger short line. Considerable upgrading will be hauler —— handling in its 40 years of required of the StJ&LC’s roadbed to operation an estimated 250,000 passengers on accommodate the `new’ units, for until now a ten-minute trip that cost 15 cents —— the

UCRS # 261 - 7 Mattagami now handles freight traffic only By Ed Jordan with a single industrial diesel. October 29th, 1967 marked the Photo: Mattagami 100 and its venerable combine occurrence of two not necessarily provided passenger service to Smooth Rock interrelated events —— the closing of Expo’s Falls, Ontario for many years. gates for good, and the introduction of the Norm Lowe Photo. 0261-008.jpg Fall and Winter schedules on the railways. A LOOK AT THE WINTER TIMETABLES Going the way of Expo were CP’s winter-only mixed trains on Prince Edward transcontinental Expo Limited and CN’s Island, for which BTC abandonment approval Toronto - Montreal Expo Extra. Examination was granted during the summer. of other consists reveals abbreviated train On the mainland, the Cabot name has lengths in keeping with the reduced travel vanished but its service is maintained by a demand to and from Montreal. One such example revised Ocean which splits at Truro into is Canadian National’s morning Rapido which Halifax and Sydney sections. In the same way, carried two club cars and up to ten coaches the Chaleur continues to serve Gaspe while during Expo, but which now operates with a extending its eastern terminus to Moncton; single club car and about five coaches. the sections diverge at Matapedia, and through CN sleepers are carried to both terminals. With The new CN timetable borrows a cover both the Scotian and the Chaleur following idea from Canadian Pacific, showing the Intercolonial route via Campbellton, the changing-seasons scenes in full colour Ocean now uses the NTR route via Edmundston, beneath a bright red heading. It is a few as did the Cabot during the summer. pages thinner, too, by a reduction in Significant equipment changes in this area advertising, the elimination of duplicate include deletion of the Skyview cars from the tables and the abbreviation of some tables Ocean and the use of the leased B&O dome by deleting the names of stations where trains sleepers on the Scotian, for superb daylight do not stop. Inside, it’s a lot brighter, viewing of the Matapedia valley. printed in red and blue on glossy paper, with In the Montreal area, several trains such niceties as red and blue shading on the have been withdrawn. The late evening fare tables to distinguish `Red, White and Rapidos, Nos. 26 and 27, between Montreal and Blue’ fares, and a much-simplified airline Quebec, and Nos. 32 and 37 between Montreal style map in place of the frequently-amended and Ottawa have followed Expo into limbo. Rand McNally and Poole Brothers epics dating However, the Super Continental now carries from the 1920's. All connecting railways and a coach, club car and dining car for Ottawa ferries, equipment lists and most mixed trains only. On the same route, the names Laurier are grouped together in the last few pages and Bytowner, but not the trains, have of the book for handy reference. disappeared from the timetables. Examining the schedules in detail, we By virtue of the need for find the major changes to be few but standardization of equipment on the Montreal significant. - Quebec route, southern Ontario inherits the On Newfoundland, the Caribou operates Champlain train (ex-Reading Crusader), but thrice- weekly again —— probably for its not the name, which has been carefully buffed last winter off. Perhaps as a taste of the soon-to-come —— but retains its summer schedule. The southwestern Ontario trainsets, it runs on 31-hour trans-Island mixed is shown as once trains 151/150, the Huron, between Toronto a week, but just may carry passengers on other and Sarnia. days as well. The morning Rapidos now boast a later Missing from the new folder are the (1100) departure for better connections at

UCRS # 261 - 8 their destinations, Toronto and Montreal, and encourage passengers with “Red, White and no longer operate on Sundays. However, an Blue” fares and a new five hour and 40 minute extra evening Rapido on Fridays, Sundays and evening train between Detroit and Chicago. holiday periods should help to accommodate However, the overnight locals between weekend travel. An oddity in this timetable Detroit/Port Huron and Durand and Chicago have is a Brampton - Windsor train, Nos. 219 and been dropped, leaving the International as 220, which in reality consists of a coach on GTW’s only overnight service to the Windy City. an express-freight train that operates in and Toronto - North Bay RDC’s 675/674 no out of Toronto Yard, rather than Union longer appear on the trainsheets, with their Station. And would you believe an RDC on the long-haul passengers riding the Northland. unadvertised, one-way-only Markham Trains 83 and 84 on this run now use the Budds, commuter?? and have been renumbered 673/676. Across the border, GTW continues to Thrice-weekly trains 194/195 between Canadian Pacific Capreol and Foleyet have been cancelled in On Canadian Pacific, several changes favour of a few more local stops for the revolve around the demise of the Expo Limited. Panorama, which no longer can be considered The tri-weekly Sudbury - White River RDC is a transcontinental train. Now running as two back, and the Sudbury - Soo RDC now connects completely separate trains Toronto/Montreal with the Canadian at Sudbury, necessitating to Winnipeg, and Winnipeg to Vancouver, a nocturnal Budd ride in place of a comfortable Panorama offers the transcontinental sleeper for passengers destined for Sault Ste. passenger a five- to eight-hour stopover at Marie. At the same time, the Canadian’s Winnipeg and a change of car to boot. schedule has been lengthened by up to 35 However, the popular Super Continental minutes overall. remains available to the through passenger, CP’s Montreal - Quebec City services and inter-city passengers both east and west are somewhat rearranged, with the Frontenac of Winnipeg will find the Panorama’s new and Viger names being associated with timings much more convenient. (This different train numbers but on much the same innovation recalls the statement made some schedules. Between Montreal and Ottawa, No. months ago by CN’s Passenger vice president, 232 now runs daily, compensating for the loss J. H. Richer, to the effect that future success of the former Sunday-only No. 236. The for passenger travel on the transcontinental NYC-locomotive-towing the-RDC move through route could well lie in providing a series the Windsor-Detroit tunnel has been of convenient inter-city trains rather than discontinued and CP’s Toronto to western a single continuous run whose intermediate Ontario RDC’s now terminate at Windsor; No. timings tended by their inconvenience to 337 now departs Toronto two hours earlier than discourage the inter-city western traveller.) before. Full-length ‘Sceneramic’ domes are now In all, CP’s folder lists just 12 carried on the Panorama for the entire locomotive-hauled train and 57 RDC runs in Winnipeg - Vancouver journey, passing through winter service. the Rockies in daylight. Photo: Grand Trunk units whip through the In western Canada, the daily Regina empty acreage of Mimico Yard with train 150, - Saskatoon RDC’s 683/684 have been dropped, the Huron, newly-equipped with the train-set and the former 685 renumbered to 683. of the former Champlain. Northern Alberta’s Edmonton to Waterways Photo by J. A. Brown. 0261-009.jpg mixed now runs only twice weekly, and requires The O. E. R. H. A. Story an overnight layover at Lac La Biche in both J. M. Mills directions. Photo: M&SC 107, Mackayville, Quebec, May 1,

UCRS # 261 - 9 1955. Photo by Bill Hood. 0261-010.jpg of available resources. We also hope to show Since its founding late in 1953, the not only what was done but also how it was Ontario Electric Railway Historical best done. This policy has had the practical Association has progressed, slowly at first effect of making for apparently slower but lately with increasing speed, towards its construction of the railway itself than might goal of creating Canada’s first operating otherwise have been the case, and the electric railway museum, to be known as the Association Directors have at times been Halton County Radial Railway. The original criticized for this by comparisons with other idea of the founders was a small museum similar museums. As an example of this policy involving not more than a half dozen cars and in practice, one might note the fact that we half a mile of track. The first organization have on hand a considerable quantity of 60-lb. was informal, and our methods primitive, but rail which is not being used in the main line, almost the only money available was provided where we have standardized on 85-lb. rail; 3 by the small interested group itself. A 3 /4 also our substation which, although costly, acre block of land was purchased in 1954 and is designed and built to professional two Toronto cars delivered; a further car standards and represents the best practice arrived in 1956, and there expansion largely for non-electronic installations. stopped until 1959-60. Nevertheless, a list of The year 1959 marked the end of the accomplishments since reorganization in 1961 last Canadian interurban passenger service is quite impressive: 3 and also the end of regular use of steam 1. Land available increased from 3 /4 to locomotives on the railways. In retrospect 27 acres; it seems that the time and energy previously 2. Rail vehicles increased from three to spent in several years of “last-chance” ten, plus five assorted section cars; railway chasing, now became available to an 3. Carhouse tripled in size, aluminum increasing extent for museum purposes, and roofed and mostly closed in; the effect was soon apparent. An influx of 4. Permanent track increased from none younger members with ambitious ideas quickly to 450 feet in carhouse and yard outgrew the informal structure of the museum, (60-lb.) plus 1900 feet main line and the Association was therefore completely (85-lb.); reorganized. The newer members have largely 5. Concrete-block substation, 16 x 30 x assumed managerial responsibilities in the 18 feet high, on poured concrete new organization, but there has never been foundation, constructed; any change in the basic philosophy which has 6. 500-kw. motor-generator set always been to create the highest-quality purchased, overhauled and installed; museum-railway possible, within the bounds 7. All necessary overhead line materials standard to TTC gauge; 3 (including about /4 mile of catenary) 11. Two highway trucks acquired and purchased; overhauled, plus a third for spare 8. Columbia car hoist and several sundry parts; woodworking machines acquired for 12. Heavy body overhauls began on 1326 and future car repair shop; 55, plus mechanical overhauls to M-6 9. Stores Building constructed and and motor trucks; immediately filled to suffocation 13. Association incorporated as with massive stock of spare parts non-profit educational enterprise and obtained from TTC, Oshawa Railway, and donations approved as charitable elsewhere; deductions for income-tax purposes. 10. Five cars, large and small, converted From this will be seen how the museum’s

UCRS # 261 - 10 horizons have widened since its modest Finances have always been a problem, beginnings. and more could have been done in recent years Photo: The carhouse extension was still under if the money had been available, or even construction when this photo of the yard reasonably in prospect. Money is always trackage was taken. Cars visible are W-25, mentally spent before it is received, and 2890 and 2424 on the left track, and M-4 and trips to the bank for loans have been necessary 55 on the right. Note the stub switch. Neil in recent years. This extreme action has been NcCarten. 0261-011.jpg taken only because of our faith in eventual Photo: This was the stage of substation public support when electric operations construction in 1965. Blocklaying and begin. A small loan was also offered by the concrete finishing are the only it for which UCRS and gladly accepted. professional labour is used. The building Our land extends through from the 4th is now complete and the motor-generator set to the 3rd Concession of Nassagawega Township, installed. Photo by Neil McCarten.0261-012.jpg and the line will eventually run from road In all this development we have been to road. Large loops at each end will reduce greatly helped by many large Canadian the central single-track section to little organizations, to whom we have no doubt over half a mile while increasing track appeared as extreme (but, we hope, pleasant) mileage to about one and one-third. The lunatics. Because of their generosity and centre of public passenger operation will be indulgence over the years, our equity in the at the west (3rd line) end, separate from the Rockwood site is greatly in excess of the carhouse which is at the original 4th line end actual cash investment. of the property. We anticipate that eventually it will be practical to run three cars over the completed line on about a 10-minute headway or less, should frequency prove necessary. Pole-setting for the overhead is the project for the last quarter of 1967. At the present time the Association has in its possession, all the materials necessary to begin electric operation over 1 about /3 mile of track, and we lack only labour and money to complete this distance. Should this become available, double-end operation with Car 55 could begin late in 1968. Photo: Heave ho! Ballasting the carhouse switch. The flat car was fabricated by OERHA while the gasoline-powered line truck in the background came from the Lake Erie & Northern; it’s basically a remotored 1934 Ford truck. Photo by Neil McCarten. 0261-013.jpg

O.E.R.H.A. EQUIPMENT ROSTER ROAD NO. DESCRIPTION BUILDER & DATE ACQUIRED 1326 DT wood passenger Toronto Railway 1910 1954 from TTC

UCRS # 261 - 11 55 ST wood passenger Preston 1915 1954 from TTC (ex 2210) 107 DT wood interurban combine Ottawa Car 1912 1956 from M&SC (standard gauge) 2424 Large Witt Canada Car 1921 1962 from Western Iron & Metal Company (ex TTC) W-25 ST grinder Toronto Railway 1913 1962 from TTC (ex passenger) M-4 ST bonder Electric Railway 1962 from LE&N Improvement Company Cleveland 1915 M-6 Gas line truck Ford ca. 1934 1963 from LE&N (flanged wheels) 2890 Small Witt Ottawa Car 1923 1963 from TTC 45 DT line car NS&T 1925 1965 from Oshawa Railway C-1 Crane car Toronto Railway 1907 1967 from TTC W-1 ST flat car OERHA 1962 light section car W-2 ST flat car OERHA 1965 heavy steel car for carrying rail W-3 pump section car unknown 1965 from CN M-5 Trackmobile Whiting unknown 1967 from Canadian Westinghouse M-7 Rail Motor Fairmount unknown 1967 from Canada Southern Division, NYC 1 ½-ton pickup Ford 1953 1964, rebuilt. 2 2-ton truck Ford ca. 1953 1965. from North York Hydro, new body.

The Association is entirely a The museum site is easily reached from historical organization and does not concern Exit 38 of Highway 401 west of Toronto; the itself with present-day events in the substation will be seen on the right behind transportation industry. Excursion some small trees seven miles north on the operation has been undertaken in a small way Campbellville Road (3rd Line). No other signs as one means of raising money, and the most of museum activity are yet visible here; the successful and enjoyable have proven to be centre of operations at present is on the 4th. all-inclusive chartered bus trips to other Line a mile east. All UCRS members will be cities such as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. welcome to visit the museum on any weekend The Association also operates catering when OERHA members are present. Bring your services on steam railway excursions as a work clothes and your “hard hat”. further source of revenue. Membership has Further information may be obtained grown to over 100, of whom a surprising number from the Association at Box 121, Scarborough, live in distant cities whose only regular Ontario. contact with the museum is through the TRACTION TOPICS quarterly leaflet “The Radial Report.” Edited by John P. Bromley Class A-8 PCC’s, 4537 and 4539 were suspended. .... overhead for the new JUNCTION transferred to Russell on October 20th in trolley bus route has been strung along Dundas exchange for 4300 and 4302. .... unused rails north of Dundas West, although most has not on Church and Bay Streets above the CARLTON been attached to the hangers. Some overhead route have been paved over. .... the opening for the ANNETTE trolley bus has been installed date for the BLOOR-DANFORTH subway extensions at Jane Station . .... since inauguration of has been postponed until April, 1968, due to MU service on QUEEN, almost all base service delays in construction resulting from various on KINGSTON ROAD has been operated by A-10 1967 construction strikes. .... painting of class ex-Cincinnati cars, with an occasional air cars’ exteriors has once again been all-electric, usually a “Roncesvalles” car.

UCRS # 261 - 12 Air cars are once again in base service on M, N) continue to operate, oblivious to it CARLTON as well, and KING and DUNDAS have all. .... all 100 of the ex-Washington cars several during peak hours. The latter has sold in recent years to Barcelona, Spain are required a new window card to be made up for now in service there, and most are looking Broadview and Dundas West Stations and air very dilapidated already. .... the second cars on these routes carry a “Subway” “rubber” subway in North America is now under destination sign. A revised assignment list construction in Mexico City, aided by loans will be forthcoming next month. .... Car 4595 from the French. The planned equipment will has become the first “boomer” PCC in Toronto be very similar to Montreal’s cars, including to be scrapped. The car was severely damaged the width dimension. .... northbound YONGE in an accident last summer. .... Cars 5496 subway trains were diverted via the “ready and 5497 have been stripped of their track” (Number 3) at Davisville on October experimental paint scheme and are back in 28th - 29th due to a broken water main under service, with gold numbers instead of red. the northbound track near the CN overpass. A further set of two H-1 cars have been .... in the early days of m-u service on QUEEN shopped for a second experimental scheme —— several cars not equipped for the service were watch for strange (for Toronto) colours to scheduled regularly on the line, adding a few be applied. .... Car RT-3 has been somewhat gray hairs to the heads of harried inspectors. rebuilt to perform as a “Wall-washing” car. This practice has now ceased, the exceptions .... the first of the TTC’s Japanese-built being weekends, when car type doesn’t matter, subway service cars are due to be delivered and the mid-day race track trippers, usually shortly, and the two re-bodied trolley buses air cars. .... car 5080, damaged by fire when may also arrive, before Christmas. .... car someone threw an iron bar beneath it south shipments to Egypt have again ceased, with of St. Clair Station, has had fluorescent the future of the balance in doubt. One lighting installed as part of its rebuilding. rumour has forty cars returning to service .... night deadhead runs to Greenwood yard for the winter, but this is highly illogical. now operate directly into the yard on their An additional 35 air cars will become surplus eastbound journey instead of proceeding to next April. .... rumours of the arrival of Woodbine first, allowing RT-4 to leave the an articulated car in Boston in September are yard somewhat earlier. .... a large number totally false and should be ignored. The of KINGSTON ROAD cars from both services have MBTA, due to car shortages and the been routed to Neville during October to fill postponement of the WATERTOWN abandonment, gaps on QUEEN. .... at least two m-u trains reduced all three-car trains to two cars, were which naturally resulted in immediate operated on King Street during October. One overcrowding. Some of the TTC’s stored air set was spotted eastbound at Parliament on cars are in better shape than many MBTA PCC October 20th, signed `Connaught-KINGSTON ROAD’ cars. .... Philadelphia Suburban is while the second on October 31st, consisting experimenting with a “Rail bus” with of 4460-4669, was a diverted QUEEN set retractable steel wheels on the high speed rerouted due to an accident on Queen Street. Norristown service. .... El Paso PCC cars The train ran via Church, Richmond, Victoria returned to the Mexico loop service in early and Queen without difficulty, although October, refurbished and good for several more further diverted cars were uncoupled first. years of dependable service. These ex-San .... the longest m-u train ever seen in Toronto Diego cars are now thirty-one years old. .... occurred in mid-October. Cars 4430 and 4422, Subway construction in San Francisco is now in train, both broke down near Humber, and proceeding under Market Street. The were pushed by a train consisting of 4410 and Municipal Railway’s surface lines (J, K, L, 4447 to Hillside Wye on the LONG BRANCH line,

UCRS # 261 - 13 thus technically creating a four-car train. Cars 4410-4447 then proceeded, in train but out of service, to 18th Street (Kipling) and returned to Humber, where it is suspected 4447 was towed through the non-m-u switch. Car 4430 was repaired at Hillside and towed 4422 back to Roncesvalles. .... LONG BRANCH assignments lately have included several air cars and a few class A12 (4675) types as well, as Russell and Roncesvalles equipment is somewhat jumbled. J.H.B., J.F.B., D.H., J.W.H., R.D.M., S.M., D.T., T.W. Photo: A train of ex-Cleveland PCC’s nears Parkside Drive westbound on the Queensway private-right-of-way. The lead car’s destination sign has already been changed for the eastbound trip from Humber Loop. Photo courtesy of Ted Wickson. 0261-014.jpg

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