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UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY 2 • UCRS Newsletter » September 1991 UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY 2 • UCRS Newsletter » September 1991 UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY EDITOR IN THIS MONTH'S NEWSLETTER Pat Scrlmgeour The DP&T Co. in Hamilton: CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Sixty Years Without Interurbans 3 'Ttecoi^jtett&tJohn Carter, Art Clowes, Scott Hasklli, The Train Spotters 10 Don McQueen, Sean Robitaille, The Ferrophiliac Column 11 Number 503 - September 1991 Cray Scrlmgeour, Chris Spinney, Transcontinental — Railway News 13 John Thompson, Cord Webster In Transit 16 UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY Motive Power and Rolling Stock 17 RO. BOX 122, STATION A EDITORIAL ADVISOR TORONTO, ONTARIO M5W 1A2 Stuart L Westiand NOTICES CALENDAR MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL Friday, September 20 - UCRS Toronto meeting, 7:30 p.m., at Enclosed with this Newsletter is your membership renewal form the Toronto Board of Education, 6th floor auditorium, 155 for 1992. The dues for 1992 have been set at $26.00 for College Street at McCaul Avenue. Bob McMaim wiU speak on addresses in Canada, $29.00 for addresses in the U.S. and the 100th anniversary of the Toronto Railway Company. overseas (or send $25.00 in U.S. funds), and $17.00 for student Friday, September 27 - UCRS Hamilton meeting, 8:00 p.m., at members. the Hamilton Spectator auditorium, 44 Fiid Street, just off Main The small increase is required for the usual reasons: Street at Highway 403. The programme will be recent news and increases in all of the costs — printing, postage, GST — of the a showing of members' current and historical sHdes. Newsletter and the Society. The dues cover almost exactly the costs of producing the Newsletter; the other expenses in Saturday, September 28 — Toronto Transportation Society Ninth running the Society are paid for by the other small sources of Aimnal Shde/Photo/Video Swap and Sale. From 12:00 noon to income. 4:30 p.m., at the Ourland Community Centre, 18 Ourland Taking inflation into accovmt, the membership dues have Avenue, just east of Islington Avenue, south of the Queen remained nearly constant over the last 20 years. The highest Elizabeth Way, in Etobicoke. Admission is $3.00. (Space is point was reached in 1977, when the dues were $13.00, available at $14.00 per table, $8.00 per half-table. Reservations equivalent to $33.00 in 1992. are required for table space - contact Rob Sciimgeour at Membership in the UCRS is always a bargain. Please send 416 423-6223.) your renewal soon. Friday, October 18 - UCRS Toronto meeting, 7:30 p.m., at the PHOTOS NEEDED Toronto Board of Education auditorium. We need your contributions of photographs for the Newsletter. Friday, October 25 - UCRS Hamilton meeting, 8:00 p.m., at If you are one of the enthusiasts still using black and white the Hamilton Spectator auditorium. film, or if you have prints in your collection, please pick out a few photos, and send them to us for future use. UCRS 50th ANNIVERSARY BANQUET An image that appeals to you wiU be interesting to many SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 other members as well. AU photos, historic or contemporary, Stu Westiand will be your host for a review In photographs related to railways or transit in Canada, vtill be considered. AU and memories of the 50 years of history of the Upper Canada photos will be returned after they are used. Railway Society. The banquet will be held at the Primrose NEWSLETTER BACK ON SCHEDULE? Hotel, at Carlton and Jarvis Streets in downtown Toronto. Things are looking up . this is the first Newsletter since Social hour at 6:00 p.m., dinner at 7:00 p.m. February to be completed by the middle of the month, and The price is $34.00, including taxes and gratuities. probably the second issue you have received in just over two Reservations are available by mall from Banquet Committee, weeks. UCRS, P.O. Box 122, Station A, Toronto, Ontario M5W 1A2. We delayed the mailing of the August Newsletter until the rotating postal strikes had ended, and some degree of relaibflity For more information, call Al Maitland at 416 921-4023 or John had returned to the post office. Please let us know if your copy Thompson at 416 759-1803. did not make it through. FRONT COVER Please send short contributions to the Subscriptions to the Newsletter are TerraTransport (Canadian National) addresses shown at the end of each news available with membership in the Upper C8s 800 and 805 lead the Carbonear section. Please send articles and photos to Canada Railway Society. Membership dues the address at the top of the pge. If you mixed train as it approaches Brigus are $26.00 per year (12 issues) for are using a computer, please send a text addresses in Canada, and $29.00 for JcL, Newfoundland, en route to SL file on an IBM-compatible (SJA" or SJA'), addresses in the U.S. and overseas. Student John's. The Carbonear train ran three Macintosh, or Commodore 64/128 disk, memberships, for those. 17 years or days a week until 1984. along with a printed copy. younger, are $17.00. Please send inquiries -Augusts, 1982 and changes of address to the address at Completed September 16, 1991 Photo by John Carter the top of the page. UCRS Newsletter * September 1991 :* 3 THE DOMINION POWER AND TRANSMISSION COMPANY IN HAMILTON SIXTY YEARS WITHOUT INTERURBANS BY A. ANDREW MERRILEES followed by numerous important improvements in the physical property of ffiat subsidiary. New car shops were opened early Sixty years ago, the last intemrban electric railways closed in in 1928, and 48 new steel streetcars purchased during 1927, Hamilton, Ontario. To mark the anniversary, we present this article, 1928, and 1929. based on a manxiscript written in 1950 by Andrew Merrilees (1919— The interurbans were gradually giving way to buses during 1979). The situations described as current, therefore, have in many this period, and on January 5, 1929, the Hamilton Radial cases changed substantially Since. Electric Railway between Hamilton and Burlington and Port Nelson was converted to a bus operation. The electric railways of the Hamilton area had their beginning in 1892 when the Hainilton Electric Light and Cataract Power After the acquisition of the DP&T Co. by the Hydro in Company Ltd. first transmitted power from their small plant at 1930, the new owners completed the conversion. On June 30, DeCew Falls, on the Niagara Escarpment near St. Catharines, 1931, both the HC&B and B&H electric railways were to Hainilton. abandoned, and the tracks were lifted in 1932. The Hamilton This early company known as the "Cataract" to a and Dundas Electric Railway had, meanwhile, been put out of generation of Hanultonians, was a pinely Hamilton enterprise, business by bus competition and had been abandoned on having been formed by the "Four Johns" - John Moodie, John September 5, 1923. Patterson, John Gibson, and John Dickenson, for the purpose of The HEPC, after assuming control, adopted a policy of generating power from the waters of the Twelve Mile Creek, trying to dispose of the Hamilton Street Railway to the City of where it cascaded over the escarpment at DeCew Falls, and Hamilton, retaining an interest only in the power generating transmitting it to Hamilton over the longest electrical and distribution system. transmission line then in existence. In this they were not successful. In 1934, howeyei; This company by 1900, had bought the Hamilton Street Hamilton Bus Lines Ltd., the company operating the interurban Railway which had converted firom a horse-car to an electric bus system, was sold by the Hydro to private interests headed operation iu 1892, the Hanulton and Dundas Street Railway by Frauds Farwell, operating as Highway King Coach Lines Ltd. which had been converted from a steam line in 1898, and the This firm was renamed Canada Coach lines Ltd. in 1937, and Hamilton Radial Electric Railway operating to Hamilton Beach became a successful bus operation. and Burliogton. This latter was a then-new electric railway On July 12, 1946, Mr Farwell and two Hamilton business having been built iu 1896. After these acquisitions, the associates bought the Hamilton Street Railway fiom the HEPC, "Cataract" was reorganised in 1903 as the Hamilton Cataract and commenced a program of progressive replacement of Power Light and Traction Ltd., and this company thereafter streetcars by buses, which will culminate in complete acted as holding company for the organisation's various railway replacement by 1954. This brings us up to date on the history enterprises. of the transportation divisions of the various companies. In 1907, following the acquisition of the Hamilton, Grimsby We now turn to a doser study of the histories of each of the and Beamsville Electric Railway and ftie construction of the raflway properties. Brantford and Hamilton Electric Railway and the Hamilton Terminal Station, and the purchase of control of the Lincoln HAMILTON STREET RAILWAY Electric Co. of St. Catharines and the Western Coimties Electric The Hamilton Street Railway Company was incorporated in Co. of Brantford, the entire enterprise was reorganised as the 1873 and construction was commenced on the first portions in Doininion Power and Hansmission Co. This company then the summer of 1874. The first track was laid on Stuart Street assumed the position of holding company until AprQ 1930, from the Great Western Raflway station to James Street, and up when it was purchased by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission James to King. This section was opened on May 15, 1874. of Ontario (HEPC) for $21 500 000, together with aU its During 1875, stables and a car bam were erected on Stuart railway assets. Street near Bay, and the company's office was established at In the five-year period prior to its acquisition by the HEPC, James and Core streets.
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