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Canada's Railway Magazine Since 1945 JULY 1996 Canada's Railway Magazine since 1945 JULY 1996 PUBLISHED BY Upper Canada RaHway Society JULY 1996 P.O. Box 122, Station A Toronto, Ontario M5W IA2 NUMBER 556 ISSN 1193-7971 Features this month Research and Reviews Transcontinental CNR LOCOS SCRAPPED IN TORONTO 3 RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY 8 THE RAPIDO 13 • From Ray Corley, a list of CNR steam locomo• • More details on St. Lawrence River ferries. • Flooding in Quebec affects CN, RS, and VIA tives scrapped at Scarboro Jet., Leaside, and • Stations on the Temlscouata Railway. ROLLING STOCK IS Danforth, from 1925 to 1941. • Locomotives under the Arctic Ocean. THE PANORAMA 16 HIGH-SPEED TRAINS 6 INFORMATION NETWORK I I • The new Canadian Transportation Agency • A review of passenger-train speed improve• • Sales of Toronto PCC streetcars. IN TRANSIT IB ments around the world, by Richard Carroll. • Questions about streetcars and excursions. MOTIVE POWER 18 CN's THREE-YEAR PLAN 12 STATIONS I I • CN's planned line abandonments and sales. • Queensborough, Ontario. THE TRAIN SPOTTERS 19 Events UCRS meetings Cover photos 7TC 75th anniversary weekend The next meeting in Toronto will be at 7:30 On the front covet a photo by Jack Knowies The Toronto Transportation Society is organ• p.m. on Friday September 20, on the third of Toronto PCC streetcar 4612 being re• ising a "transportation weekend" to mark the floor at Metro Haii, on King Street at John moved from TTC property. Two cranes from 75th anniversary of the TTC. Street, just west of St. Andrew subway sta• Amherst Crane Rentals lift car 4612 onto a • Friday August 30 - Evening entertainment tion and a short walk from Union Station. rig of Arnold Bros. Transport of Winnipeg in at Metro Haii (King and John streets), third The meeting will feature a presentation by the TTC's Hiiicrest Way Yard on April 19, fiooi; 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. Ted Wickson, TTC archivist and long-time 1996. The car was being shipped to the • Saturday, August 31 - Day tour to Haiton UCRS membei; on the TTC's 75th anniver• Edmonton Radial Railway Society's museum County Radial Railway museum to ride sary Ted's presentation will be a chronologi• line at Fort Edmonton. Visible behind 4612 is Toronto streetcars, (using the Brampton cal overview of highlights from each of the the TTC's pair of rail-grinding PCC cars, Transit double-decker bus and with a visit to TTC's 75 years, from its inception in 1921 to W-30 and W-31, the former 4631 and 4668. the Brampton Transit garage), 9:00 a.m. to today. The presentation will be illustrated by An item by Ray Corley in the Information 4:30 p.m.; evening entertainment at Metro many rare and interesting photographs from Network section this month gives the details Haii, 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. the TTC archives and from Ted's collection. of the shipment and destination of the other • Sunday September 1 - Six-hour tour of The following meeting, also at Metro PCC cars retired from the TTC. Toronto on a PCC streetcar 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 Haii, will be on Friday October 18. The upper photo on the back covei; taken p.m.; evening entertainment at Metro Haii, The Hamilton meetings will be at by Bob Sandusky, shows Rocky Mountaineer 7:00 to 10:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. on Friday August 23, and Friday Raiitours' glass-topped and open-piatform Tickets for the weekend are $45.00, and September 27, both at the Hamilton Specta• coach RMR 7501, at Caigaiy on June 9, single tickets for either Saturday or Sunday tor auditorium, 44 Frid Street, just off Main 1996. The car is leased from its manufac• are $30.00 each. Make cheques payable to Street at Highway 403. The meetings will ture:; Rader Raiicar, and has been on each Toronto Transportation Society and write to feature recent news and members' current run of the Calgary section of the Rocky Moun• TTS Transportation Weekend, EO. Box 5187, and historical slides. taineer since May 21, marshalled ahead of its Terminal "A", Toronto, Ontario M5W 1N5. double-deck sister RMR 9501. New double- Help wanted: UCRS sales project deck cars are on order. Forest City slide day We are looking for a member with a little The lower photo on the back coveq by The Forest City Railway Society is holding an spare space in the basement and a little spare Paul Bioxham, shows a southbound train on autumn version of their popular slide and time every couple of weeks to administer a the TTC's Scarborough RT line and south• photo trade day in London on Saturday special project to sell by mail-order back bound CO Train 865 (Stouffviiie-Toronto) October 26, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. The issues of Rad and Transit and the UCRS on the CN Uxbridge Subdivision, from the location is at Fanshawe College, Room Newsletter, plus other UCRS publications. pedestrian overpass at Mooregate Avenue, at B1071, 1460 Oxford Street East in London. Please contact Scott Haskiii if you can help. 07:48 on May 12, 1995. The Lawrence East Admission is $2.00. Park for free in any Watch for an announcement in future station on the RT and the Lawrence Avenue marked parking spot, including meters. months on the availability and pricing of the overpass are visible in the distance. For dealers' information, contact Ian back issues you need to complete your col• Piatt, 1240 Cienora Drive, London, Ontario lection; most issues from 1967 to the present This Issue completed on August 18, 1996 N5X 2P7, telephone 519 438-3330. are in stock. Editor Contributing Editors Subscriptions Directors Pat Scrimgeour John Carter. Art Clowes, Scott Haskiii, Subscriptions to Rail and Transit ire available Scott Haskiii, PresideiK 6(M-207I 250 Queens Quay West #1607 Sean Robltallle, Gray Scrimgeour, with membership in the Upper Canada Paul Bioxham 905 770-6916 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N2 Chris Spinney, Gordon Webster. Railway Society. Membership dues are Art Clowes 924-9428 E-Mail: 731 [email protected] $29.00 per year for addresses in Canada; Calvin Henry-Cotnam 287-9396 Correspondents $35,00 (or $27,00 in U.S. funds) for Al Maltland 921-4023 Please send news items to the address Paul Btoxham, Tom Box, Alex Campbell, addresses In the U.S. and overseas. Please George Meek. 532-5617 shown with each news section. Articles and Richard Carroll, Calvin Henry-Cotnam, send Inquiries and changes of address to the Pat Scrimgeour 260-5652 photos should be sent to the editor. Bill McGuIre, Don McQueen, John Reay address at the top of this page. PatSemple .WA3-9I23 Denis Taylor. Chris Spinney 281-8211 CNR Locomotives Scrapped at Scarboro Jet., Leaside, and Danforth Compiled by R. F. Corley This listing of Canadian National steam locomotives scrapped at CNR facilities in eastern Toronto between 1925 and 1941 is compiled from the official records of CN's Motive Power and Car Equipment Department (as to dates), with recorded observations of locations by R. F. Corley, J. D. Knowies, O. K Mans, and J. E. Piatt. It is not complete, since other locomo• tives, shown only as "Central Region" in CN records, may have been scrapped at these locations; however, Danforth is 100 percent complete in this listing, Scarboro probably 95 percent, and Leaside possi• bly 40 to 50 percent. Scrapping took place over the following time-span: • Leaside, 1925-1938 (and probably earlier). • Danforth, 1937 (due to vandals steal• ing turntable tractor parts and "marooning" the locomotives). • Scarboro Jet. (Pit), 1935-1941. Locomotives in this listing were of these types: • 214-396 - 4-4-0, CNR Class B. • 488-489 - 2-6-0, CNR Class D. • 613-860 - 2-6-0, CNR Class E. • 1072-1177 - 4-6-0, CNR Class G. • 1209-1276 - 4-6-0, CNR Class H. • 1545-1628 - 4-6-0, CNR Class 1. <• 1925-2086 - 2-8-0, CNR Class M. • 7048-7181 - 0-6-0, CNR Class O. • 8072 - 0-8-0, CNR Class R • 15900 - Steam motor coach, a self- propelled car built by GTR in 1910. Locomotives 2015, 2016, and 2025 stored at Scarboro for scrap were rehabil• itated for wartime service. These three photos, of CNR 785, 817, and 1175, are from the Paterson-George collec• tion, and all were taken in the scrap line at Scarboro Jet. about 1936. Rail and Transit • July 1996 • 3 CNR Locomotives Scrapped at Scarboro ja„ Leaside, and Danforth Annual listing by location Leaside, 1925 Leaside, 1935 Scarboro Jet., 1937 Number Date Number Date Number Date 1211 488 May 30 7124 June 20 February 13 1177 February 19 489 June 10 1558 June 20 7139 February 23 338 September 1276 July 26 823 March 3 359 September 720 July 26 835 March 10 1110 September 1081 March 16 347 October Scarboro let., 1936 838 March 19 396 October Number Date 333 October 20 1577 January 7 Danforth, 1937 Date 366 October 20 352 January 7 Number 7087 April 7 344 November 1169 January 13 810 April 15 393 November 7179 January 21 740 January 30 Scarboro Jet, 1938 Leaside, 1927 1209 January 31 Number Date Number Date 7172 February 6 646 May 6 1072 August 2 7126 February 13 7048 May 14 2086 August 2 1574 February 20 712 September 9 1078 September 1 1573 February 28 624 September 15 1082 September 1 7181 March 6 730 September 23 644 September 29 729 March 12 1925 October 7 Leaside, 1934 1628 March 28 643 October 21 Number Date 1567 March 28 1545 November 1 2084 October 31 1627 April 6 2085 October 31 1594 April 8 Leaside, 1938 8072 2018 April 16 October 31 Number Date 724 April 23 1585 September 23 Scarboro Jet., 1935 815 April 30 1606 October 15 Number Date 771 May 7 795 Julys 770 May 17 Scarboro Jet., 1941 638 July 30 817 May 21 Number Date 780 July 30 214 May 29 637 May 30 648 June 9 821 July 30 851 June 5 613 June 13 824 July 30 717 June 12 619 June 19 860 Oaober 30 789 June 19 801 July 5 1222 June 26 797 October 30 1609 July 14 * 759 November
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