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Upper Canada Railway Society the Cover Grooming the Iron Horse Upper Canada Railway Society The Cover Grooming the Iron Horse. Although attention like this at running shops kept steam locomotives on the go from day to day, occasional heavier work was called for. We take a brief look at the steam-era hackshop, beginning newsletter on page 34. — C.W.R. Bowman Number 266 March, 1968 Coming Events Published monthly by the Upper Canada Railway Society, Inc., Regular meetings of the Society are held on the third Friday of Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto, Ont. each month (except July and August) at 589 Mt. Pleasant Road, Toronto, Ontario. 8.00p.m. James A. Brown, Editor April 5: Outdoor observation session at Burlington Sta- (Frl) tlon. Take GO Transit trains from Toronto at Authorized as Second Class Matter by the Post Office Department, 1723 or 1823, return on CN trains at 2214 or Ottawa, Ont. and for payment of postage in cash. 2230. April 19: Regular meeting. Including an Illustrated talk Members are asked to give the Society at least five weeks notice (Frl) by John H. Walker on the subject "Steel Ralls of address changes. to the Junction". May 10: Last-run all-night streetcar excursion over (Frl) TTC lines to he dropped with the opening of the B-D Subway extensions on May 11th. Write Please address NEWSLETTER contributions to the Editor at UCRS Trip Committee for tickets, at $4 each. 3 Bromley Crescent, Bramalea, Ontario. No responsibility is May 17: Regular meeting, with entertainment focussing assumed for loss or nonreturn of material. (Frl) on the railways of Newfoundland. RESERVE THE FOLLOWING DATES NOW FOR THIS SUM• All other Society business. Including membership inquiries, should MER'S STEAM EXCURSIONS ~ FULL DETAILS SOON! be addressed to UCRS, Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario. June I: Toronto to Stratford and Palmerston with CN (Sat) 6218, Including a photo stop at Guelph along• side the displayed 6167. July 6: Toronto to Montreal with 6218, return by dle- Contributors: (Sat) sel. July 13: Montreal to Toronto with 6218, possibly run- (Sat) nlng via Ottawa. Aug 3: North Bay to Englehart, featuring Ontario Kelth Anderson, Chas. Bowman, John Bromley, Bruce Chap• (Sat) Northland 2-8-0 137; special cars from Toron• man, Peter Cox, Bob Gevaert, Tom Henry, Omer Lavallee, to to North Bay. George Roth, Jim Walder, Bill Wilson. Production: Omer Lavallee. Distribution: Harold McMann, John Thompson, Ted Wlckson. HELP WANTED The Joint UCRS/OERHA Book Committee needs a coordinator to handle the advertising, distribution and financial aspects of Its first publication — on the Niagara, St. Catherines and Toronto Railway — due to be released about the end of May. If you would like to help, con• tact B.E. West, 49 Leaslde Drive, Apt 409, St. Cather• ines, Ontario. FOR SALE: Large collection of Toronto Transit Commis• sion colour slides. No list, state your wants. For full Information write or phone Robert McMann, 80 Ban- nockburn Ave., Toronto 12, Ont. (416) 783-9232 WANTED: Will buy 35mm colour slides and any size col• our negatives of Rutland Rly and NKP dlesels and steam. Have various brass models, etc. (HO) for sale; send stamped addressed envelope for details. T. Gascolgne, Box 565, Oshawa, Ont. WILL BUY OR TRADE photos of CP's 4-6-4-hauIed excursion from Montreal to Smiths Falls, Out., In 1960. Contact Fred W. Burchlll, 1911 Victoria Park Ave., Apt 209, Scarborough, Ont. 445-4668 26 MARCH, 1968 RAILWAY NEWS AND COMMENT TWO KILLED AS CN FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE As If to prove that lightning can strike twice In the A head-on collision between two Canadian National same place, the engineer of No. 451 was a survivor of freight trains at Pefferlaw, Ont., 55 miles north of an earlier head-on crash at Pefferlaw, on December 23rd, Toronto, resulted In the deaths of two crewmen on March 1943, when a doubleheaded northbound train met a south• bound extra just south of Pefferlaw station. In that 16th. affair the engineer, H.A. MacDonald, was firing the southbound train, and In both cases he stayed with his The collision occurred when southbound train 310, enter• locomotive. (Incidentally, can anyone supply details ing the CTC-equlpped siding at Pefferlaw, was struck by of the engines Involved In the 1943 affair? The lead• northbound train 451 at about six o'clock In the morn• ing engines were a 4-6-2 and a 2-8-2, numbers unknown.) ing. In dense fog. Fuel tanks were wrenched free by the Impact and fire ensued, which burned furiously for over an hour. Two crewmen — the engineer of No. 310 and a brakeman on the northbound train — died after jumping from their locomotives, when debris landed on them. Several other crew members were seriously In• jured. All four locomotives Involved suffered extensive damage and repairs. In at least one case, may well prove unec• onomical. Engines 3238 and 3212 were handling No. 310, while 3874 and 3869 headed up No. 451. (Unit 3212 was featured In a series of 'fast freight' promotion photo• graphs taken last year at Montreal Yard; the best known of these Is probably the large mural at the west end of the concourse In Montreal's Central Station.) About a dozen cars were derailed, mostly empty steel frame boxcars. Contrary to Impressions given by the press, there were no stock or tank cars derailed, al• though the trains' consists could well have Included such equipment. Wreckers from Toronto Yard and Capreol cleared the line. Burned-out unit 3212 lies beside the track as Although track was relald through the wreck site by 'auxiliaries from Capreol (left) and Toronto clear midnight March 16th, the Toronto Auxiliary continued the debris. cleanup operations until the morning of March 22nd. — W.R. Wilson While the line was blocked, Bala Sub. trains between Toronto and Washago were rerouted via the Newmarket No. 3238 was the leading unit on southbound train Subdivision. 310, and took the brunt of the Impact on Its left •front corner. That's 3212 In the background. — J.A. Brown NEWSLETTER 27 THE ALBERTA RESOURCES RAILWAY ~ WHY?? DRILLING COMPLETED FOR CN'S VANCOUVER TUNNEL PROJECT There is growing opposition in Alberta to the Alberta A small blast on March 7th, 73 feet below the Masonic Resources Railway, a project designed to exploit the Cemetary In Burnahy, B.C., breached the final obstacle' vast timber, coal and pulp resources In the northwest to completion of Canadian National's 11,200-foot tun• part of the province. nel which stretches from Lougheed Highway to a point near the Second Narrows bridge. The tunnel will be Everything rolled along smoothly until late last year finished In July. when Mclntyre Porcupine Mines Ltd., which Is developing a coking coal deposit at the Smoky River — one of the It is part of a $32 million development, scheduled for prime targets of the railway — had to acknowledge that completion in October, which also includes a rail negotiations with Japanese steel companies to purchase bridge across the Second Narrows, and rail yards at the coal had broken down. This coal, and Japanese In• Port Mann and North Vancouver. terest in It, were primary reasons for construction of the railway, which links Canadian National's main line west of Edmonton with the Northern Alberta Railway near Grande Prairie. The area's other natural resources, chiefly timber and gypsum, and Improved access to Al• berta's Peace River district, were only Incidental In the planning. Construction of the railway began late In 1965 at an estimated cost of S40 million, but a hill Introduced during the current session of the Legislature acknow• ledged that It will cost at least $100 million. The Initiative for the project Is reported to have come from CN, who proposed to build the railway with funds advanced by the government. Provided the new line turned out to he a money-maker, CN would be prepared to purchase It later. This agreement has led some NEHT STATION FOR CANADIAN PACIFIC IN HULL critical observers to suggest that the proposed rail• way Is a fine piece of salesmanship. In effect, the The National Capital Commission will build a $500,000 government agreed to a deal that committed Alhertans to station for Canadian Pacific at Montcalm Street, Hull, the risk and Initial costs, while CN stands to reap the replacing the vacant station off St. Redempteur Street. benefits. If the resources railway turns out to be a Construction will begin as soon as possible. white elephant — as It surely looks at the moment — the people of Alberta will be stuck with It. The new station Is being built as part of the NCC rail• way relocation program In the National Capital area. Last year the new Ottawa station off Alia Vlstp Drive There Is speculation that CN's ultimate plan Is to con• was opened, replacing the venerable Union Station. nect the ARR with the southern terminal of the Great Slave Lake Railway, to Increase Its share In the hand• The Hull station, a 40 by 50 foot glass-and-concrete ling of Pine Point ore. This cannot he the sole pur• structure, will he equipped with a waiting room, general pose of the scheme, but earnings from traffic out of offices and baggage room. The NCC will probably assume the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta via the responsibility for design of the station grounds and new railway would be far greater than the half share In maintenance. traffic on the Northern Alberta Railway which CN now realizes. The NAR, jointly owned by CN and Canadian Pacific, now provides the link between the Great Slave EXPO EXPRESS CARS TO RUN AT MONTREAL FAIR Lake Railway and CN and CP lines, at Edmonton.
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