Upper Canada Railway Society
INCORPORATED 19 5 2 NUMBER 401 MARCH 1983 UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY BOX 122 STATION "A" TORONTO, ONTARIO McKinnon Industries' unusual diesel-electric switcher is pictured at the CPR sleeper "Redvers", pictured at John St. Coach Yd., Toronto, circa Meritton, Out. plant of McKinnon, July 16, 1951. The diminutive locomotive, 1970, is similar to the sleeping cars recently acquired by the B.C. completed by EMD on Aug. 2, 1940, serial no. 1134, is a Model 40. It was Transportation Museum (see Short Items). The eight section, two acquired from EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant in Feb., 1951. The unit has compartment, one drawing room sleeper was one of 29 such cars built by two traction motors and two diesel engines. —Ray Corley photo National Steel Car/CPR Angus Shops in 1929. —John D. Thompson photo TTC A13 Class PCC 4704 is winched up onto a flatbed trailer at Hillcrest Edmonton Transit System 80, still wearing its red livery, awaits Shops, Feb. 18, 1983. The car, the last of its class remaining on the TTC restoration at the Edmonton Radial Railway Society Museum, on Sept. 2, roster, was being trucked to Birmingham, Alabama, from whose transit 1981, some 30 years after its withdrawal from service. Like many street system the 1947-built Pullman PCC was bought in 1953. The 4704 has been cars, 80 was sold for domestic purposes (storage, etc.) after its service donated to the NRHS in Birmingham for preservation. photo days were over, a fate which saved it from destruction until ERRS acquisition. —John D. Thompson photo MARCH 1983 3 B CP Rail Extensive 1983 construction program In a massive program of plant improvement for 1983, CP Rail intends to spend $315 million for capital projects and an additional $722 million on regular maintenance and repair work during the year.
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