ClrnADIAN RAILlWAD HIS!OlUCAl ASSOCIATION INCORPOI1.AlID. MONTREAL. CANADA n;lCEroJBER 1956 N~\'JS RErO~lT l·;C) . 73
Notice of meeting for rec:ular members resident in the Hontreal area has already been forwarded by postcard, due to early scheduling of our December 1956 meeting.
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During the month of Hovember, the !::~~ecu tive Association News Conunittee set up a Board of Trustees, seven in number, who will administer the affairs of the Association insofar as they relate to our l ong- projected Canadian Railway I,ruseum. Following the elections in January, it is anticipated that the work of many presently -i ndep c~d ent committees , such as the Ro l ling Stock , ~Iuseum and Purchasing and Bales Committee , will be integrated under the Board of rrustees of the C i....rJ. ~d ian Ra ilway Museum . The Board will be responsible to the 2xecutivc , and not more than three members , a minority, of the 3xecutive , mo.y simultaneously be members of the Board. This ".'ill ensure the auto:lo'1Y of the ~xecutive in matters respecting the Board. The month of November also saw an increase in our collection of prototype items of rolling stock. ;-J ith the passing of the Ho ntreal & Southern Counties Railway (see account in this issue)' in mid- October, the Canadian National Railways released to us el ectric car No . 104, which had been promised to the Association in 1955. This car, the only one of its class to have been preserved for historical purpos~~l is a wooden , double- truck , double- end suburban car, built for the ~~C RailNay by the Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company in the year 1912. The second item· to be a·cquired is our first operating steam l oco motive. This engine, an 0- 4- 0 saddle-tank industrial switching engine , standard gauge, was presented to the Association by the E. B. Eddy Com pany, the pu1pmaking firm of Hull, Que . It was built by the i.!ontrea1 Locomotive Company in 1925 , and has been replaced at the Eddy ' s Ottawa plant by a small industria l diesel l ocomotive. This engi ne is in operating condition, and it is expected that it will be kept in this condi tion and used to move other pieces of rolling-stock t-.rhen our museum site is established f in addition to serving as an interesting exhibit • The third acquisition is a Montreal & Southern Counties Railway interurban car, No . 6ll, built by tho Ottawa Car r.1anufacturing Co;npany in 1917. It is a double- truck , wood.en, sinele-end interurban car, 1.nd it has been purchased at scrap value from the CNIl throu[;h the private donations of several of our members, for the Association . Uhil c it was the original intention to confine our r~C acquisitions to No. 104, ) the lack of a true interurban car in our collection r esulted in ~.:;j1e decision to acquire No. 611, at no cost to the Association. As a result of the sYi:1pathetic efforts of r.1r . Ii' . A. Pouliot Gen eral Superintendent, Canadian Pacific Railway , J.lontreal, the CPR h.:l.5 permitted the Association to store the cars on its tracks in Eontr eal, 84 pending re:noval to a permanent site sometime during 1957. The loco- motive is to be stor ed privatel y by one of our members .
The other item in our coll ection, ];ISH No . 271 .. , is presently stored at the St . Denis Divi s ion of the f'.fI'C , along \-1ith othcar i tems of the ~IT C historica l coll ection.
, MINE RA IWAY MAP OF CAPB a;ii!:TON . . i sm;E Tm:l AGO , the J:ditorial Comr(littee decid I, ,. I ed to compil e and issue l arGe- scale a ll~ti me rail ,I , I way "maps of different a reas of Canada , lrlhich would I , ' show a ll knm·m lines of railway ever constructed I , within a given area . Because of the amount of in " formation contained on the maps , it is not possi~ ill I e to issue the.m as part of our re[ul <::.r publicat .I ,; i ons . In order to obtain the best reproduct ion I i III possible, commensur ate with the rather limited i I I, I I demand for maps of this nature , it has bGen decid ed to carry out the reproQuction by a blueprint I ; I II proc'ess. They will be offered for sal e at nominal cost to those members who desire to have them. II I i . The blueprint process will a l so permit perio di cal correction or revision. The Association feels that the maps will prove of considerable I I value to members for reference , as accounts appear ) from time to time in our. publications concerning I II various lines of r ailway, . past and present . I I
1'he 3ubject chosen for the first map in t~is i , , series is Cape Breton. . It cO I:::prises a l ar~--:e - sc a l e ,. I' reproduction of the North Sydney- Sydnoy- Glace Bny Louisbourg areas , with an, inset shovTing other mining railways not in this area . It was compiled by fo.1r . Robert i1 . Brown , embodying the rC!sults of ", '1 , many years of r~search into Cape Breton ' s mine I . , company surface lines , a l v/ays of speci.:l.l interest to him. l'he information has been clearly and gra III phicall y portrayed by the cartographer , IIr. Anthony .11 , f Clegg; The subterranean l ines are not included . I, I I , I ,: . Probably the greatest concentration of rail I , lines in.Canada existed in the nei Ghbourhood of Sydney, and our map of Cape Br eton shows all Ii which were knqwn to hAve .existed , their dates of construction and abandonment , gauge , o\'morship and m~ l eage . The r eception given to our Cape Breton mnp will determine whether other areas of Canada wi ll ije documented in .the same VlaY . The scale i n which they will be drawn will depend upon the amount of informati on to be sho\'m . ) I' , The map will be offered for sal e with the News Report for January. 85 To sU :;Jplemen t the Association ' s mE'.p of !~ine ('.nd In0uotri p. l R:' ilr:'£'. ye of C ~p6 Broton , ~hlch is to be r 61Lescd n Q~ t month ~ nd ~'h ich i s des cribed Glse~ h cro in this N6~S Report . ~c Dr csent somL notes compiled by Mr . R oher t R . Brot:n on the 811mo sUbjuc t ••
Mnn:: .AND INDUAT1:V '!'~ R!.IV-'j.YS IN CAPE BRF.TON
BLOCKH au sr: 11 Ill!: TlAMF l. Y Blookhouse Mine to CO~ Bny - t mile.
1724 !l.dlt into cliff fr om be,nch opGned by French cnginG6!" s from 'Louisbourg . Defended by blo okhouse o n to p of cliff h en(';o the n ~mo g ivGn later. 1758 Mine <:.bandonsd . 1863 Uins r O-O pG n od u n d n light rcilr:ny built from t.he b :,: nkhc.:". d to th e ShlppinS pi e r on Co,:;, B!'. y , .:>.hout 200 ,IlLrds. 'Dr obr.b ly the lino V;:':'.6 ,: orkod by C'rr.vity or by D. horsc-opor".tcd gin . 1 877 or soon nftor, the mins r:~s bought by :RobGrt Belloni , for merly assOcict6d ~ ith John J~cOb Asto r Jr . in tho o,er tion of the GI ~se o\-; e: Cl'!.!Je Brcton Cor.l & R.- il\:{".y Compeny . 1888 Hino 010 sod a n d trc m\-; , y. e b endon ed . , Bfl I DGr::PORT COT LIEIW 'l!l.lJJiW.\Y Br:,idgeport to 'tine-r.n Bt. y 2 mi I e s
1 830 Th e GGner r. l )Uning Associr tion opened ~ levul from tho b6r.oh into the cliff under the v i Jl~eG of Bridgoport . 1833 Shipping \':['.s very difficult bCO [' U~6 t;lo b6 i: ch nt Bridgoport v:es 6:;: ~OS6d to the !.tl ~ ntic s -;:6 11s, so E'. li£"ht trnm\-;;:.y \-;(I. S built from the ndit l1 1cne th e bc,-ch t.nd cor oss the s .::. ndbc r of T,ine,"ln B.. y to ,-. sm.:.ll ht.rbour ~~t the gr:~) ,-.t tho opposito side. Th o onrs ~6 r 0 h rulc d by hor ses. 1842 Ui n G olosed cnd tr --: rn'.: n y r.br:.nc.onGd .
BY-P"QODUC TS C OKr. COUPt.NY OF CAlT 1DA Sydney .
Indus tri a l sv:itching in Pl. . ~t yu rd, off Victoria ROl~d , n eer 8&t crossing. Motivo Por:or: No . 1 4-4-0 17x24" 63" 1880 Hinkley .qcr .'29 ~x ICR * 7; 6: COR ~ l 05 1 . 3 0- 6-0 1 9x2 6" 50" 1928 Uontrc r- l j.; 67430 . ,, Just before No .1 v:cs scr.:-.pped , ~ ll' rgo group of M!' ::lbers of P':"". rlicmont , he a ded by H:. nr i Bov.r ·_s sr. , visited R;: <'< nc;/ to inspect tho min Gs Dnd the s tool mil l, and No .1 ~~s polish Gd up ~nd used to h oul the spocial t r ain, o ~ llGd the "Bour~ssc np~ cl c l " .
CA!.EDONIA MINING CotC?~\NY Col6~oni~ Co lli~ ry (Gl o o s B, y) 1 t o ~ort C ~ 16donia 2.•. miles . 1865 C~16donia Mining Co. oig2nized to oD&n ~. min e. a t CalGdonia, n G8 r G1noo B.:. y. Gardiner Groono Hub bard , f r; thGr-in -l~ \': of Ale::nn dor Gr a ham BEl l , ~ ~s PresidGnt ~ n d other prominent ,-;e;ro Uesars. Hov.G , Convorso , Em~ry end the poet , H£rnry il. ) ~ o ngf e llo ~ , e ll of Boston . It i s believed thnt tho Company ~ns o~ncd by , or n t l E~ s t closoly ussoointed ~ith , tho gas compn ny nt Boston . Dr. Hanry S . pools , FRGS, M.· n c eer . 1 868 1{inG opened ~ n d ~ r a il ~ny built from the bLnkheod t o e n n rtif i oinl h a rbour exoc vnted in the s~nd bO ;' oh a t ryort Cnledoni a . 06 18H DCLV id MnoJ{eon apPointed M' nnllffsr . to follo~ l~ter) 1877 Bell telephonGs Insta l!cd in the mine . (Story p han de d by 18 78 Bo:ton sha reholdors Bold out to a loa e l grou S6 n ~ tor D.:lvld MaoKosn: nnd [!. r f'. ilv;'~y lins 189 3 The h e rbour at Port C:. lCi d oni,. "as abandoned ~ ith tho Glnoe ~ c s built from Cn ledonia J et. to a connection thfj Sterling Mine . Ahip B ~ y Mlnine Compc.ny' s r , il\.' =:.y , n enr Bny h ~ rb ou r. ments were mads from t he Gle oe Bny pier in Gl e oe the Dominion Mnro h 1st. Celedonin Mining Campeny boueht by 1894 Sydney & Con I Campeny nnd tho rLllr:f'.y beoc.me pnrt of the T.. oui sbourg TI n i b:c.y . Motive , ll 0-4-0T l OxIS " 43" 1869 NGilaon. Ne. l " '?inkio 1930. ~n 18 94 be oame 5&t No . 1. Sorepped 624 . No . 2 "Oe-Ge nll 0-4-0T 12x18" 48 " 1 863 Kingston Origina lly bra r.d-geueo 0-4-0 t 6nder enGine Gr · nd Trunk Ry . No. 2 27 . R ~ built by tho n k GTR to s t ~ nd c rd- c ~uae in 1 8 74 as a t n encino No . 387. Bouc ht by th e C l e doni c Minine Co . in 1887. Som( c uthorities ole s q uit th ~ t the n nmG " n e IIGon e:. rc!U " hioh i pessiblo . In 1894 bscl ~ mc S&L No.6 but \71"'. 6 s crc.,pGd soon !'.ftOT .
C/.PE BRETON COA'L. I RON f.ND R:.ITX!f.Y CQM>'.)ANY
Br oughton Jet. to Br eughton 2 mi l es . Broug ht on Jot . to FAlse B .y He n d 2t milGs . Fe lae B:'.y. ""'I nn Comp...--:ny org;: nized to >. ork con I me!' suros nc.rtr 1 1904 tho mino r s . envision ed n medern mine nnd a medel to~n for n conne otion v:ith :
: rio ~UnG t opened . 1863 Clyde Co lliery, n lso knot": n co s the Ont on ef tho s hi p ping p io r 1866 Mine closed b G o~uSC of th o d ostructi by drift ioo . on c lone tre s tle a long the 1 871 "Li g ht nc.rro\':-g i'. u~G trc mv: . y built ~ ch t o Port Ca lodonia . bc Coe l Com!l:,.ny lhl rch 1st. ThG mins r;on s boug ht by tho Dominion 1894 br c.nch linG to a nd thG SydnGy e:, T.,ouisbourg RF. il,·:ny built e ~ m ~~y to p o rt thG minB ~ n d a lso the eld nerro ~ -e c u C 6 tr ·,:f.S b u i l t on tl:c. Cr. lsden in. \7 n 8 a b nndoned . Th6 Df; \. S &l , hr ,.noh Brr nch 0 1 t-;" o n bnn dohod r ight-of-'\.I1 Y of the fh h ooner ""cn d n d vi ll .... Cc t:crc Glasgo·,7 and CE'.pe Br e t on Rei h7ny . The minG , ~ Donkin . ) knov:n f Or mnn y ye ~ r s cs Doninion No .6, no 'l. otivo , \·:ith v or tic •. l MotivG :OO \7 6r : A s mell homs -m!:',do 0-4-0 loeoT of Bri d Goport~ }If; . Ber . 10 9".., . b oi l er t buil t 1889 by r'm . McK6nzio - TO BT. CONTIIIU:;D - 8 7 Some notes on ••••••• THE OllIGIN AI:D D;:V;:;LOPIJjj<;NT (continued from OF S LE~P ING CARS . l ast month) by O. S.A . Lavallee . He (I/ebster Hagner) successfully interested the Vander bilt family in the introduction of his own type of slcepinc car on the New York Central -- then controlled by Conuodore Cornelius Vanderbilt himself. In 1 867 , i!lagner built a Iidrawing room car" -- ancestor of the parlour car , and on September 1 st , 186$, four :ragner- built cleeping cars went into service on the New York Central & Hudson itivcr RR . As a result 0:: the backing of the V.?,nderbilt family, l,1agner secured a monopoly on the NYC where his cars ,.,..; re used exclusively, but after more than thirty years of intense competition, Pullman absorbed the Wagner company in 1899 . Hebster 'Jagner was killed at 3puyten Duyvil , NY , January 13th, 1 382, in one of his own cars which had caught fire from the stoves :.nd l amps after a sever e collil:ion. The effect of this d isaster 'i':1.S the eventual di sappearance of stoves in f a vour of steam hentine in first cl,Jss cars . The :':: i [hties a l so saw the introduction of electric :i..:. ·htin, of cars by the Fullman Company .
\/hile the use of Pullman a nd Uaener cars became fairly cxtc~ 1 ~5.ve in the United States , the Grand Trunk Ra ilway remained the princip:.tl user of Pullman cars in Canada . Subsequently , as other Canadi~n rail ways reached proportions which re~uir ed sleeping facilities in trains , they o\-med and operated their own cars independently of the fullnk1.n Cow-pany . :lith the openi ng of the first Canadian transcontinental by the Canadian Pacific ~lai l \'lay, the first of a long line of s l eeping cars were acquired and put in service. The firs t train to operate in this service left lIontreal on June 27th, 1386, and arrived at Port Noody at noon on July 4th . First class passengers slept in the CPI{ sleeping cars "Honolulu ,/ and ,tYokohama '/ , memb ers of Q series of cars imaginatively named after Oriental cities . They took their meals , on this initial run , in a dining car named "Holyrood" , which, \·rith its companions , bore the names of British .itoyal castles. Meanwhile, the development of the sl eepinc: car \
As a resul t of this predil ection for privacy, the ~uropean trav el ler pays more for his ac.comodation than \ie do . He always has j before the turn of the century, travelling was a l ways the prerogative of the ruch 3uropean. Compartment equipment as used outsido Amer i ca is essentially a room, not unlike American bedrooms , with an ufper and a lower berth. The upper berth hoists i nto the ceil ing. Sinel e occupancy of such a compartment constitutes first class ; double occupancy second cl ass . More recentl y t third cl ass sl eeping cars \-lith tiers of three berths in s i x berth compartments have been introduced. The latter cars are used by the vari ous State railwcys and the facilities ~re provided usually to enabl e t he passenger to recline , thouGh not to undress .
1,1u eh the most extensive use of sleeping cars in ~u rope , the Near ;';:ast.& Central and North Africa is that provided by the"Compagnie Inter national e des ~lagons Lits et des Grands .ti:xpress Europeens" . This Company is steeped in tradition and as a result , modern amenities such as we i n America know them are only beginning t o be introduced. The standard Wagon- Li ts car possesses air- conditioning of the do pen- window'! type . A few cars have been equipped \,iith air- conditioning ~inc c the Uar a nd it is probabl e that this trend will continue. Al so , t te Com pagnie insists uren the individual heating of each car by a :1e: ... l~er similar to the :Saker heater chich is a familLlr feature of older rai l way equipment on this side of the Atlantic. Th is heater is in charge of the tlconducteur'l who has a host of duties quite unlike those of his American counterparts . The Compagnie feels , lOGically enough , it ~ust be adm i tted, that a narc precise control over heating can be obtained in this way, rather than by rel iance upon stearn heat ''ihich is theoret ical ly subject to the whim of the eneincer, or the economi c policies of the various national railways over which ·,fagon- Lits cars operate .
The story of the C. I . \1 . L. is one of perSistence amone: , D. number of perver se ~uropean gover nments of another era. In ma intnining unifor m operation of its cars fai rly freely in and out of the Iron Curtain, the Compagnie Intern8.t ional e des ~.Jag ons Lits has triumphed notabl y where international political bodies have been unsuccessful . Even today it is possible to send a :iagon- Lits car through from Paris td Istanbul and return ~ passi ng through Communist Jugoslavia and Bul Ga r ia on the way . The car gets through BulgariaL though f ew, if any, through pass engers may do so . At the Jugos lav- ~u l gar ian frontier , the Istanbul passenger must l eave the Orient ~xpress and go by a different route to Greece , where the train may be rejoined once again. It was a l l started by an intelligent Be l eian engineer named George Naegel mackers . The bee inning of the Seventies sa.." the appearance of the an:nn ) Boudoir Sleeping Car,l. This ",as a six- \',heeled vehicle with sever<'ll compar tments in \-rhich the berths were l aid transversely. ThoUI;;h con siderable promotion of this car was made i n the Un ited StatC'!" , l.t::: particul ar characteri sti cs made it marc popular in !.Curope , \,.j"11 \~r c.;: e 89
CANAD I AN .(AILROAD HISTORICAL cr;mJ: Artmcnt rci[:n~i supreme . AS30CIATIW INCORPO'lATED ~lhilc Pull:l1an ['.nd his chief riv.?ls , News :{eport No . 73 -;'8.['ner and others ,\Tern fi[thti:1C' it out De cemb er 1956 in the United 3tates ~ man nGmed George Nac[,el mllckcrs , a BGl~~ian engi n Edi toria l Address : eer fron Liege , visited APlcrica . The Box 22 , Station B, Llontrcnl possibilities of the American sleepi ng c<",r as .:.d:1ptcd to Lurope::m usc c'lrpealcd Editor : Orne r S . A. Lavall ee to him. ~Jh ile his ambitions Nere CU:~' - ' 1 d b h -, r • or • Asst ~ Bdito r: R. Doue;lns Brovm to.~ e y t C l'ranco- .rU5S1D.n -.ar, l.l Committee : Robert R. Brovm Id70 , he manap3d .:1 visit to Americr1, ::.n Kenneth F . Chivers 1371 which convinced him th<.:t a ,.:lJ.)"",o;: Anthony Clegg ean counterpart of the Pullmnn COf! :V_', '] Forster A. Kemp was feasible . ;:Juring this trip, h-::; me t Co l. r,bnn , of '/boudoir cnr d r,t!li C; , and toccther they d0veloped their id ~' s so that , by fiby 1 873 , they ....1en~ able to equip n throuGh slcepine car train \'Ihich operated between PariS , Strtisbourg, Munich , Salzburg C'.nd Vienna. . This enterprise proved very successful and other a~[llico.t~~ r)!i. S "Tere made on the routes between Paris and Kalm, and Ostcnd and Berli n . As a result of this , Nacfclmackers became convinced of the i;:·.por tant possibilities of an int0rnntional compnny opcr.:l.ting slccpine,; cars heedless of nc.tional frontiers . Accordingly , bct\1Cen 1373 nnd 11.376 , fifty- eight sleeping cars "\-"lOre acquired, and treaties concluded ',;ith twenty- one countries . The outcome of :111 this vras the form.:ttion of the IICompa,£nie Internationo.le des l}.:-.,£:on5 Lits,1 on December 4th , 1876 , "lith the bl eSSing of Leopold II , Ein,G: of the Belgians . In 1677, the Compagnie instulled tz.bles i n ccrta.in c:;.rs so thD..t meal s mihht be provided to passenGe rs . In I B30 , the first double- truck sleeping cars [l.ppearcd , Clnd initilll stDpC "-lOre taken in tho..: formation of trains cor,1posed entirely of rolling stock belonging to the Compagnie. On June 5th , 1883 , the Orient ~xprcss left Paris 0:: ::" t;..: f:' ;: · ~ "':, r t:.r. '.:i"!"h a reduction of thirty hours over prccedinc: schedules . In the snme year , t he company was reor[ Decentral ization took pl G.ce during the; first ''!orld \br . Thnt co :_ ~) flict was ended , by the Signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1911\ in Hagon- Lits car No . 24l9 in the forest of Compicgne. I'he cG.r w.:\s subsequently preserved . FollowinG the Nar, many countries established thci!' mm sleeping enG. di ning C2r services , thus limitine the scope of the Compacnie Internationc.le . Chief among th..::se nntiono. l organizc.tions WD.S th(! ,jr.iittol Europaische Schl af- und SpeiSCvlQgcn A. G. d r:lOrc fmnilit.rly kno\'m as "i,'i. itropG." which was thnt oq:;anized by the Gcrmnn GovcrI}ffic nt . By ) 1939, the inventory of the -. !aeon- Lits COrilpany i ncludcd 800 s lcopin,?; cars , 661 rcst,:mrant cars , 1 33 Pullman pJ..rlour C.1.r3 and. 133 r:1.:.~i l <.l11{1 t r nffi c w[l.[ons . Though the second 1:!orld lIar saw sorzIC dcci :·n<::.t :i. r:~ ~'.' the cer s , the end of 1948 saw a totc..l of 1 , 351 vehicle: , rr..:'l1Y of tncm new, i n servic e . 90 • cars, 661 restaurant curs , 133 Pu'lman p~rlour cars and 13$ mail end traffic ,·:ngons . Though the second iJorl d ',Jar salt! some.: decimation in tho ranks of tho co.rs, the cnd of 1948 sali a total of 1,351 vohicles many of them Oel'l, in the servi ce of ;lagon- Lits . ' In England , tho sleeping C.:1r services nre nIl run by the railways. They wt:)re initiated in 1 873 , ",h en the North British Railway h,.<1 <1 C.:lr built by the Ashbury Ra ihmy CarriQge und Iron Co . Ltd ., 0p011shaw, l\1anchcst er, for service on the B.:lst Coast route botwoon London (J:ing ' s Cross) and Gl 000000- 00- 000000 Tl-lC Montreal & Southern Counties SOUTHilHN COUNTLlS Ra ilvlaY brought its eventful career to a CESSATION OF S~nVICE close during the early hours of S~day , October 14th, 1956. On that date , the flackayvi11e , Hontreal South and Ste. Angele Subdivisions were abandoned, and the Granby Subdivision became part of the Canadian National I( ailHays , beinG extended , at the same ti:ne , to \laterlooo, The so- called \Jest 3hefford Subdivision of the CrJ:i nm', extends onl y from ClouC; h (Granby) to I.Ieigs (Farnham) so that i'·, does not include the station for which it is named. The l ast train to Ste .Anr,ele VIas No . 432, which left St;La,mbert at 4:40 PM on Satur day, October 13th and lias operated by car ,;608 . Car //609 made the l ast run to riarievill e as train No . 436. C1.r ,;(608 returned from Ste .h.neele to Marieville as train No . 453 , then was coupled to car ,;'609 a fter its arrival,I and both r eturned as an extra to St . Lambert . The oreier was t:wn Civen to the substation operator at Chambl y to s ut dO"ofm the power to the interurban d ivision for the last time. The end came for the suburban l ines at 12 : 10 At.1 , when two cars l eft the St. lambert terminal. Car 1;~J20 made the l ast run to Nontreal South, while car :'~ l Ol ran to nackayville (Elizabeth Street) carrying several members of the Association. Both cars then returned to St . Lambert. The Association ' s members participated in an official commemorative excursion in car ,;'104 on October 1 3th. This trip covered all remainilJ$ ) lines and was the l ast special car chartered on the i:I£cSC . Following the cessation of service , the bodies of a ll cars except Nos . 104, 305 , 323 , 610 and 611 were offered for sale. They '"ere purchased by a bidder "oflho resold them for use as motel s J snack bar!:) , 91 or sheds throughout the fl30uth Shore" area .. By the end of October, all bodies so disposed of had been r emoved , l eaving: only trucks and miscellaneous electrical equipment to be sal vaBed for scrap by the CNR. The five cars excepted, noted above , 'Vlere transferred to the Pointe St . Charles yard of the Canadian National Railways . 1'0 . 305 i s to be used as a CNR Tower Trail er in the rlontreal Ter:ninals el ectrifi ed zone, whil e nos . 104 and 610 had been donated to our ASSOCiation, and to the New England 1!: lectric ilailw3.Y Historical Society at Kennebunkport , Ne . , respectively. Subsequentl y , No . 6ll ViaS purchased by members of this Association , as noted elsewhere i n this report . The Disposi tion of No . 323 remains unsettl ed at time of writing. \'ihile the l·lontr eal & Southern Counties .taihlay has passed :i .... _f) history as an operating system, i t will be com.'TIemorat3d by FI~ 1 _-':. seven of its very d istinctive pieces of rolling stock , vl:1ieh . .-' eaeerly sought after by two Canadian, and two United States, l~ ; ·:i.l. -"_'Y historical groups . Cars thus preserved are as [olloNs: M&SCRy . No. 9 DT Psgr. Car DE Dranford Elee . Ily . Assn. USA 104 " •• Canadi an Railroad Historical Assn. 107 " Comb . " Ontario !';;lec . Hy . Hist . Assn . " " ";. 504 " Bagg . ~j otor New Zn[,land bl e_. c . rry . Hist . Joe_. . H 610 if Int . Psgr . Car SE- n iI ,I " 6n _. "- Canadian a ailroad Historical Assn . 621 -. n DE - New "":nfland £: lec . ny. Hist . Soc . All of the ears listed "rere generously donated to the several groups by the Canadian Nati onal Ra i lways , \t!ith the exception of r!0 . 611, which was purchased at scrap value. \lith the closing of the li&SC , the members of the Association would like to express l1 publicl y their appreciation to Hr. R. ("Bob ) Cannon Superintendent , his assistant , I-!r . E. (t'Ernie" ) Leonard, and the other officers and employees of the I.USC , for the splendid and cordial rel ati ons which have always existed between our Association and the N&SC , in our many mutual deal ings . -,Ie would like to assure them all that our best ....lishes for the future eo with them in their new positions. CPRAC&HBCNRGlr,iDNA., PGIWAilC&:GT ~ Several applications t o d iscontinue passenger service have been approved NOTES &: NEIlS -- by ~ or are to be heard by the Board of Transport Co~~ issioners for Canada. Forster A. Kemp II On Canadi an National Jailways , mixed 'J trains 155 and 156, anJ passenger iL·~&"'p"Sr .~". N"S"\&nrr1".IC"""t&..."p,"G'"lt"Rr:.l"S""A"&'JT'-"'.C"l"O"""NR trains 193 and 194 made their l ast runs between Pembroke and Go l den Lake Ontario on Saturday, October 27th , thereby ending passen~er service on the l ine which connects Pembroke "lith the former main line of the Canada Atlantic ~ail\'iay . Pa ssenger service between Palmerston a nd lmrham, Ontario will end on January 5th , 1957, .... then mixed trains 333 and 334 will run for the l ast time . .10 VTord has yet been rec ) eived concerning an a1")pl i cation to end the ope r a tion of mixed trains 336, 337, 338 and 341 between Parkhead and \Jiarton and of trains 92 339 and 340 between ~arkhead and Owen Sound, Ont o On the New York Central' s Adirondack Division, commuters are protesting against the company ' s application to discontihue its passenger trains between ?-1ontreal and lialone , NY . The service consists of one round trip daily, and is used by about 200 passeneers each day . The service has been gradually reduced, during the past few years , whil e fares have been increased . tr: The effects of Dieselization of Canada 's r ail \-fays are mak ing them selves felt, even in Toyland. The Canadian National train upon which children r i de in Eaton ' s Toyland in Torohto during the Christmas shopping season has been converted to 1Jdiesel ,I power . The train VIas formerly headed by a replica of a 4- 8- 4 type steam locomotive of the 6400 class. The train in i::aton ' s Toyland in f.1ontreal is now the only one of these toyland trains with a steam- tYDe locomotiv0 . It is a CPR ;'Royal Hudson" 4- 6-4, nu.rnbered 2851 , which formerly r,:'.. l in the ilinnipeg store. Motive power for all the3e tra ins is actl.~E·.l.l Y ;·,n il electric motor, which in lIs team locomotives, is mount.ctl in tht: tender and drives the tender "lheels. :t 'i'he abandonment of street car trakks on St . Catherine Street in Mon treal prevented a repetition of l ast year'strolley- borne Santa Claus parade to Dupuis Freres' department store , but t~is year Santa came to another department store in comfort - - by train l On November 17, a special CNR train moved out of Ottawa Union stat.ion carrying almost 1400 people, children and their parents. After a ride to a point outside the city, all passengers looked out to see Santa coming down , not in a sleigh, but a helicopterl After he boar ded the train , it returned to Ottawa where Santa was officially \"lelcomed to the city at Union Station and then proceeded the short ,-"· istance to the A. J . !" reiroal department store. This was the first t ble that a special train has been used for this purpose in Canada . 11: Qu ebec North Shore & Labrador :iail\"fay has purchased a rotary sno'w'lplow from the Chicago, :~ il"Taukce, St . Pau1 & Pacific RR . The plww , ,:! NS&L No . 4, formerly I·1i l ....'a ukee X9002l3 , is understood t o be diesel - powered. It is a rather small machine , having two trucks "'ith 4 ' 6" wheelbase , and 17' 6 11 over truck centres . It is understood that it will be s:1ipped to Sept Isles before the winter season. a A highway is being built parallel to the r e cently- compl eted PaciO'ic Great Eastern Railway line between North Vancouver and Squamish, BC . Contractors are finding it difficult to keep :natcrial from f alling onto the track while blasting and 'v'lhen trains pass . I"cllcn ""'.:,,,.i· ial must be r c!.loved from the railway at the contractors 1 expel1:: :~ . .a- A construction proje ct soon to be undertaken by the Canadian i-f;:', tional is the raising of the line across the Topsails in I"!ewfoundland . The pl an, designed to eliminate or reduce delays due to driftinG snow, is to raise the 3 ' 6 11 Gauge track five f eet above the drift line . Th e project will require three years' "lork, but is expected to lessen the hazards presented by this section of barren plateau. ) :k The new line of Canadian National Hail ways between Cornwall and Cardinal, OntariO, was completed on TuesdayJ, October 30th, wh en i t was joined with the old line at Cardinal. 1he line was bmilt to avoid 10\'1 ground ,,'hich i"fi ll be flooded by the impounded waters of the Saint Lawrence .1iver when dams of the Seaway and Power Project 93 are completed. Trains will not begin using t he line until n ext spring, as there i s further ballasting vork to be done and stations mu st be built at HarrisburG, Iroquo is, Ing l e side and ~ong Sault, a s '.':el l as at Cornwall . Ingleside ~nd : .. ong ;.: c. ult are the names of the nee towns being built to hOuse the r e sidents of Mille Roches Moulinet te , Dickin son t s T,and ing , \T n leB .!:.nd Farran I s Poin t . The ' completio n of the n e w line came only three dr.ys c f ter the 100th anniversary of the o pening of the ori gina l onG. The stone s t a tion buildings a t Cornv:all , Iroquois a nd Ho r risburg nre &mone fifteen of the original st r: tion s s t U 1 sta nding bet'.7een Montreal f' nd 8£rnia. Th e y a r e G'<)' 8ily identified by their v.- n l l s of l£.rC6 ston e blocks, round-arched w in do~s Dnd pan kad roof with four chimneys. * Several paints on the Cnnadian No tion e l Rn ilv.-cys a r e to have n 6 ~ st.!!t ions, £. coordin g to pr esent, pl r.n s . In 17i n dsor, Ont ., n ner; s t .!! tion is t o be built in th6 ·r. lkerville ~ r ee to replf' c6 the , rcsent building r:hich t':cs or Gctod by the Grsl'. t l"estern Raily:ay and is c im ilnr to th e on e in Ni~gnrn Fc lls , Ont~rio . Another poin t to h 'vE n n G\-: s t :: t ion is Port Ht'. Y: k esbury, NS. A t6mpoJ"" ry buildinG '::[.s e r e cted ~ h e n the linG ~ns r 6l oc ~ tsd tor the Cr nso C ~ uscr n y but ~ ?G r ml'. n s nt stn tion is no.,.: to bo bu il t <'. t n site mo ra ;' cc6s ni b1e t l) i':. ieh 'Sr:.y tr~ffic . Cnn ndinn r ft il c~ ys ~ill so on b e s ~r:. r ni n G ~ it h EOUIPMRNT I!OTES s61f-prop& lled Budd RDC ' s , if a cqui s ition of the l.mits c ontinues ~ t it s 9re s snt r ': tc. Th e r e r.re not·; fi f t y such units in rag'.lIf'.r oper:: tion on Cnn ', dicD linss , ~ith S6vent GC n on o rd e r. Th 6 c c rs nrc divided cs f o lloes: • Cen Gdinn ~ r:.c ific Ry. - 33 (11 RDCl; 12 RDC2; 7 RDC3; 3RDC4 .) C ~ n ~ di n n Nn tionn l Rys . - - 7 '0,;: C i f i c Gr 0.'1. t !!:r. 5 t orn 6 Boston & Mr. ine - 1 (o!)Gr"ted by C , n ~' di :: n ~~cifio in Cnnndn - Hon tr e~l-Bos ton through serv., The tt-:o l a r ge r ...~ ih\ays er.ch h ~ v (,l Eigh t on ord e r , r.n d thE; 'OGE n''' r.its one mOTS . The I n ttor is using ~ ll six b6t ~ £6 n North V ncouvsr e nd SquP.mish nn d r eport s thn t mor G ' ill h :- vc to be or c.o r od befor 6 the through service to Princ G Gcorg~. c 'm be operf' t od in the propo s ed time of 16 to 17 hours. 6rdcr~d t ~o ooe ches, t ··o b nggnge c :: rs Cc n :'.d i r.. n Nn ti on n l R:".il',:,nys h <'.s • ond n dining c n r from Nr.tionl'.l Stool C~r Corp . a t Ht mi l t o n , for ito N e~ foundl n nd Di s trict. Tosts h ~ v G boon conducted ~ ith Diesol• locomotivos in the St.Clnir Tunnel y:h ich conne cts tho CllR l'. t r: [!. rni r. , Ont ., \: ith the GT" n t 'Oo rt Huron, Mioh . Tho tunnol i s n oc o p er ~ t 6 d '- ith bO~4cnb olc ct r ics most of ~hich nra n oe 49 yenrs old . It i s ~ro p o scft t o 09c ~ ~ t c t =~ ins through eith dioscl po ~ cr b ~ t ~t cn Toronto nn d Chicncc in t he ~cr r future . Only ono of ths C1?R clr.5s F21'. 4-4-4 ty pe> locomo tive s i s s till i::;. 0, ) Q r ~ ti o n in E~s tGrn C~nnd~. E~~ e i ne 3004 usuelly h ~ndl t s trl'. in No. 427 to Ott m-:n vin Montobollo E-,"l. oh S .:- turd e y .:-. nd returns on Sundny morning ~i th trnin No . 422. 94 ~f)~:r ;.::.7","i.C .:l «'(' X- 1'?b7 subscri p tion, r:h i oh is 5~1.( · ; ~.s.;l.i , c ::.r:" ;,':'8 t;::; !"~ ot. .~ ti c n " ChGq uG chr- rue _ ':'l.:~:I~. :"b; .;."~_ ~~ j::-.r• .-· ~i. c::l 'J~ this is , thl':.t ',76 '-;Quld : \:;': ~'(' J G'': ,<'·10. , 1S¢ t; ,) ~< ' l.il· r cm itt :~ nc 6 1;if it is 1----- ~'l. '~:. r. :~ ;' t·~:l". ';, :" !'.Ctiu::, V.L':'!.-::!'!. (lH f: I) :: l~k v·,:t s idc of ;Jj~:'!.I· ·~;"'.l . If ~:6mi~t ·- ~ i "; G is medo by I!Ost~ l !lo te or money or der p~ y ~ _blc a t p ~ r in ~ fc ntr6 ~ 1 . this . 15¢ o dditi ~ n cil1, of c J urse , not bs neccssery . it.- for bl',nk 6xchr.ngs • NEXT MONTI-I - The firs t nr tic16 lD•- n scri6 8 on CAnA DIAn Loca,.WTIVES by R CB:;:: RT R . BROPN Gre:1 t Brit(' in h ::l. d it s P::;U-Y.-DAR1.N , it s PUFT"ING BI T,LY "nd its ROCK ET ; the United St.!:'.toa it s TOU TJ£illJB , its S 'rOUnBf{IDG:~ LI ON [' nd its lEST FRr:;::~n: O~~ CH:.RT-,::: ST3N . Cenrida too , h ed its D03CnI;::l~T.R , its SAMS On end its "::;':Jl:Y :u _ ~t. .'-'0H' 7 nr.d mo ny 0thors of oqur.lly gr6l".t int e re st. Unfor tunntol:l .. 1.h0 m~:Jorlty of thLm rG kn oY:n onl~1 t o {'. emaIl number of r~i l hi s t ori :l ~l S \,: 1'.0 ~~ (~ YO beon ~: orklne for yec.rs t ryinc to roscue t he r. tory of early Cn~aJ i ~n r ~i l~ays from oblivion . C~nn d~ O~0 8 ~ e r o ' t deel to it a r ,"' ilr;:"ys -.- muc h more thc.l1 is c on6r!'. 11y !' s::.l i7. cd -- sin0 6 , --ithout the snorti ~c ir o ~ 110r80 , it n c vtr ~ o u ld h ~ vo boc n o ~ c r o ~ t n ~ tio n. Not only ~o u le th6 opu16 nt eg ric ultcir~l ~nd min&r ~l ri c hos of the. ~cst6rn prr:irios ~l1C th e T.['.urent ian R!1 i old rem:":. in unknO',:n , btlt i"horG Grc~.t cities no'.: f]0U:L"i s h , t hero ,".ould pG rh:'.p s o nly be only '" f €.\"; squt:lid v,'lg':::>. ms . Bu.ff~.lo might G r ~ zG on: "DortHGG !~ t ME'. in , <::. nd r:hero Y:6['.lthy oilm6n g r. thor on J {'.s;:>e r Av e nu6 , po ssibly only gri zzli6s nnd .:'. fe'.: trapP6rs ~ould be found . A fe ~ ye ~ rs h en c e , ths tra ins of C r:n~dc ~ ill be h ' ulod entirely by dies61-61ectric e ro ~ lGrs or pe rhaps by lo c omo tives ~h Ose ~0~6 r saur o£. 1 s still unkno'..... n. \" ithin e. foy: yOE'.r s , th e rE> ' ;11 ] be <' ne'.': g.ne r [" t10n \: hich '.-: il l n o t knCli-: the sound .. n o t 11e sm .:: ll o f {'. stoam loc omo tive . Thoy y: 111 n 6vo r e,xperi Gnc6 the t h rill, of sce in e r. high-'.:hGsl ed Pe.ci f ic t. nd 1 ts "string of v ~ rnish" spEoding by , nor he ~ r it s cleRr-t oned bell ~ nd its melodious st6~m-'.:hist]c ; no r ',~ i ll they S6nse t ho f6slin g of immensl;. pot-:er [IS a big JU k6 " dr~gs 1 ts h e i.vy t !'." in up .~ l on g e r Lde . Truly it is e snd prospec t to think of the ste =' m loc omo tive j c ining , in the l imbo of the P2.s t , the '::indj f~mm6r, the s i dc; r.h(. 6 1 stc .:'.. mboc.t , the s urrey v: ith th E> fring6 on top a nd th e meols of lone ~ ~ o ~hich consi s tc~ untirely of food . Oh \7&11 % Tho \:o rld mu s t ",c. v .:'.. n (, Co n d the r . ih r: ys mus t ~ dopt overy me : n s of incre Co sing efficioncy 2. n d r educing c os t s but we must n ever forg6t th ~ t C c. n ~ d~ ~ c. s cr G2. t ed by the Iron HcrsD . This is t he first <.t t e mpt t o r slr: t G in det!'.i l <_ nd in chronolo g icf'.l se qu6llce thJ ~istory ~ f G, =13 C ~ nc.dic.n mo tivo ,~~er ; ~6 hO,c t h . t it ~ill be intorcsting Dn d instructive. No stano '- ill bo left untu ~n6d in I ~ n effort t o <.rrivG .:'.. t t h e, truth; 2. uthorities \: il ). be eit od , ·."}:r.. : :?O S8- iblc. ; d iffe r e ncos of opinion \: ill bo discussed , c:nd ... hon it i s necess- n r y to indulge in J. bit of surmisG , thG f : ot r; ill b e indic.:: tsd c le; rly . I - Rebe rt R . Bro~n . Nr:XT MONTH - Part 1 - The "Dorche s t e r " .