Newsletter of the Upper Canada Railway Society THIS MONTH IN RAIL AND TRANSIT

3 CP RAIL IN THE THOMPSON CANYON A Rail and Transit gallery, featuring Rob Scrimgeour's photos. 6 TWO WEEKS IN WESTERN CANADA Bill Reddy and his trip of a lifetime NUMBER 539 - NOVEMBER 1994 in B.C. and Alberta.

9 PUBLISHED BY RESEARCH AND REVIEWS RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY . . . ^Jtecoxiietteft Upper Canada Railway Society . . . Along the Ottawa River's north shore RO. Box 122, Station A . . . Station names on the E&NA Toronto, Ontario M5W IA2 INFORMATION NETWORK . . . FURTHER INFORMATION . . .Photo composition Tom Box sent some comments on "Two VIA . . . VIA's southwest Ontario speed-up Trips in Quebec" (September 1994 Rail and EDITOR . . . Update on BC Transit "Spirit" buses TransiO. Pat Scrimgeour

12 On the Saguenay, he says the Jonquiere 250 Queens Quay West #1607 station couldn't have been built in the late TRANSCONTINENTAL Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N2 1980s, as he was there in July 1990, and it THE RAPIDO CAR west-end sale E-Mail: 731 [email protected] hadn't been built by then. ... VIA Metropolis fire CONTRIBUTING EDITORS THE PANORAMA Grey Cup special On the Chaleur, Tom corrects the article John Carter, Art Clowes, MOTIVE POWER CN's new GE units by saying that the CN Drummondville Subdi• IN TRANSIT New low-floor bus vision is not a former Grand Trunk line. The Scott Haskill, Don McQueen, ROLLING STOCK VIA surplus sale GTR main line was what are now the Saint- Sean Robltaille, Cray Scrimgeour, THE TRAIN SPOTTERS Your sightings Hyacinthe and Sherbrooke subdivisions, with Chris Spinney, Cordon Webster a branch from Richmond to Levis. The Drum• ON THE CALENDAR mondville Subdivision was built as the Drum- mond County Railway, and later acquired by Please send news and short contributions to Please note the temporary the Intercolonial Railway of Canada (with the addresses shown with each news section. change of location for the trackage rights over the GTR from Sainte- Articles and photos should be sent to the December Toronto meeting Rosalie to Montreal). It was as part of the editor at one of the above addresses. If you Friday, December 16 - UCRS Toronto ICR that it eventually became part of CN. are using a computer, please use electronic meeting, 7:30 p.m., at the CHP Heritage (Of course I sliould have known the proper mall or send a WordPerfect or text file on an Centre, second floor, Cumberland Terrace, histoiy of the Drummondville Subdivision. My IBM-compatible (S'A" or 3/2") disk, along with just above the Bay subway station at Bay only excuse is that I wrote the article late in the a printed copy. and Bloor Streets. Please bring your slides. evening while travelling on the Queen of the Friday, December 16 - UCRS Hamilton North from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy, and meeting, 8:00 p.m., at the Hamilton Spec• didn't have any reference material close to Subscriptions to Rail and Transit are available tator auditorium, 44 Frid Street, just off hand. Naturally, I should have checked later. with membership In the Upper Canada Rail• Main Street at Highway 403. The prog• -PS) way Society. Membership dues are $29.00 per ramme will be recent news and members' Other comments from Tom: year (12 Issues) for addresses In Canada, and current and historical slides. 'Your description of life in the Skyline car $35.00 (or $27.00 In U.S. funds) for addresses Friday, January 20 - UCRS Toronto mont• brought to mind the fact that this car is in the U.S. and overseas. Student member• hly meeting, 7:30 p.m. This meeting underused on the Ocean. They don't serve ships, for those 17 years or younger, are returns to the usual location, at the Metro meals there, just snacks, and they don't serve $19.00. Please send inquiries and changes of Toronto Archives. Dave Spaulding will alcohol, either. There's a cart service that address to the address at the top of the page. make a presentation on railway stations. sells snacks and drinks to coach passengers, Friday, January 27 - UCRS Hamilton meals are in the diner, and sleeping car monthly meeting, 8:00 p.m. passengers hang out in the Park car. So not UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY much goes on in the Skyline." DIRECTORS John Carter, VP - Services 416 690-6651 COVER PHOTO MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS FOR 1995 Pat Semple, VP-Administration 416 923-9123 CP Rail SD40-2F 9024 Is shown pulling an With the October Rail and Transit, we Scott Haskill, Secretary 416 604-2071 empty grain train eastbound out of Drynoch enclosed a membership renewal form for Art Clowes 514 934-5549 siding, after having met a westbound loaded most members. (Those with memberships Rick Eastman 416 494-3412 Al Maitland 416 921-4023 grain train, led by SD40-2 5870. For more expiring at other times of the year will George Meek 416 532-5617 of this and other weekend action In the receive theirs later.) Once again, there has Pat Scrimgeour 416 260-5652 Thompson Canyon, see the Illustrated article been no increase in the dues, except this year Chris Spinney 416 281-8211 beginning on Page 3. for an adjustment to follow U.S.-dollar exchange rates. -Photo by Rob Scrimgeour, April 9, 1994 Completed November 27, 1994

2 • Rail and Transit • November 1994 Rail and Transit • November 1994 • 3 CP Rail in the Thompson Canyon CP Rail Thompson Subdivision

0.0 KAMLOOPS Yard Cache Creek 3.0 BENLEDI Crossover 8.8 TRANQUILLE End of two tracks 11.8 Hot box detector 16.9 MUNRO 7085-foot siding 25.2 SAVONA 7725-foot siding 32.1 WALHACHIN 9460-foot siding 35.5 Hot box detector 38.5 SEMLIN 9710-foot siding 47.3 ASHCROFT 8645-foot siding 54.8 NEPA Connection to CN 55.9 BASQUE 7100-foot siding, connection to CN 60.5 Hot box detector

CN Ashcfoft Subdivision 64.0 TQKETIC 9230-foot siding 72.8 SPENCES BRIDGE 7350-foot siding CP Ra/7 'Thompson Subdivision ^ 79.3 DRYNOCH 7380-foot siding 81.9 Hot box detector 85.6 THOMPSON 7155-foot siding Spences Bridge 90.1 GLADWIN 94.9 LYTTON 7784-foot siding 98.1 Hot box detector 100.3 CISCO Connection to CN 103.9 KANAKA 7170-foot siding N 110.8 KEEPERS 7045-foot siding 116.5 CHAUMOX 7160-foot siding '^THOMPSON 121.5 NORTH BEND Yard 'GLADWIN A CP Frequencies .Channel 7-161.535 MHz Channel 4-161.115 MHz

CN Frequencies .Channel 1 -161.415 MHz 20 km Channel 4 - 160.665 MHz

4 • Raii and Transit • November 1994 The Thompson Canyon Photos: It was April 1994 and spring break: time to get away from Saturday, April 9, 1994, saw CP SD40-2F 9024 puiiing an empty school and see some main line railroading in a relaxed grain train east through the Thompson Canyon. We follow it through environment. From Victoria, there are quite a few good areas the canyon, starting in the siding at Thompson meeting a to choose finm. There are the UP and BN along the Columbia westbound, on Page 4. The cover photo shows it leaving Drynoch Rivei; BN's Stevens Pass, and, a favourite of mine, the BCR siding after meeting a loaded grain train, it passes over the mouth of north of Lillooet. For this trip, 1 decided to go to the the Nicola River just north of Spences Bridge at the top of Page 5, ThomfKon Canyon and camp at Goldpan Provincial Park. 1 and is seen again north of Toketic at the bottom of Page 5. Later that decided to limit my self to just the area between Lytton and Ashcroft in an effort to stay relaxed and enjoy the holiday. same day 9014 came west with a train of coal headed to Rol^erts From Victoria, I took the ferry to Tsawwassen and then Bank tor shipment to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, headed to New Westminster to visit Pacific Scale Rail. With i photographed it accelerating away from Toketic siding and again my car all loaded up with railfan reading material, 1 headed approaching Spences Bridge. These views are shown at the bottom east on Highway 7 following near CP Rail. This is a more and top of Page 3. interesting trip to Hope than the main Trans-Canada freeway. Highway 1. As you turn north up the Fraser Canyon at Hope, Lytton, about a third of the way to Spences Bridge, is Skihist you feel quite confined after the broad expanses of the Fraser Provincial Park. There are campsites on the uphill side of the Valley to the west. North of Hope the canyon is heavily treed road and a nice overview of CNs tracks a long way down on and limits the rail photography somewhat, but with time and the downhill side. While I have not camped at Skihist, I think effort there are fabulous views. At Lytton, the Fraser Canyon it would be a better choice for families and the less hard-core continues north towards Lillooet and the BCR, but the Trans- railfan as there are flush toilets and the trains' noises will be Canada and the railways turn east into the Thompson quieter. Being of unsound mind, I passed up Skihist for Canyon. Goldpan. It turned out to be an economical choice as nobody Lytton is a good place to top up the coolei; as the next came around to collect the camping fees. (At that time of year grocery store is in Ashcroft; the road does have occasional there was no running water; so the charges were waived.) restaurants and gas stations along it. East and north from Goldpan Provincial Park is about two-thirds of the way Lytton, the canyon remains confining, but the area is more horn Lytton to Spiences Bridge, and is a very tiny park with arid and the canyon siofies have fewer trees. This makes it much easier to find open views of the railway. Not far beyond Text continues on Page 8 -b

Rail and Transit • November 1994 • 5 Two Weeks in Western Canada

By Bill Reddy grade to the Cariboo Plateau. WiUiams Lake is another crew change point. A trip of a lifetime: two weeks touring Britisii Columbia The BCR Hne is single-, and freight trains are and Alberta. Since early in March of 1994, my wife and often required to hold the main track at various passing I had planned on going to the Canadian Rockies, and so sidings. Part of the regular routine is that passenger when a flyer arrived from Mountain Outin Tours, we train will enter the sidings to dear the main track for knew it was right. these long freights. Many of the freight trains require On Sunday, September 11, 1994, we met at the mid-train slave units and most trains stili carry a Seattie-Tacoma International Airport, with 118 other caboose. raiifans and friends, for a bus ride to and an From Wilhams Lake to Prince George, our train overnight stay in Richmond B.C. Our departure from the travelled over the Prince George Subdivision. Prince hotel on Monday morning was early, to be on BC Rah George is the north end of regular passenger service, but Train No. 1, leaving from North Vancouver at 07:00. there seems to be a demand in the area to extend the At the BCR depot, the Royal Hudson, 4-6-4 2860, sat service north, perhaps as far as Fort Nelson. dead, and we were told that it would not run again tmtil Prince George is a community of 70 000 people, the the exctrrsion trains resume next spring. On the station site of several wood processing plants, and the track was our train of eight RDC cars. In the lead were interchange point between BC Raii and the CN Jasper- the cars we would ride ail week, RDC-ls BC-10 and Prince Rupert line. At one time, CN had considerable BC-11. Our departure was delayed due to a mistake by shop fadhties at this location. Among the interesting the tour bus company, as some of the people who had sites in Prince George is the Central stayed in a different hotel arrived 15 minutes late. As Railway and Forest industry Museum, located at our train left the depot, we saw the intermodai terminal Cottonwood Park, behind the CN shops. There are five and some cars, still lettered for Pacific Great Eastern, diesei locomotives at this location, along with CNR 4-6-0 that looked to be in work-train service. 1520, built by the Canadian Locomotive Company in The first section of the railway, from Vancouver to Kingston in 1906 and previously on display at Saint- lillooet, is the Squamish Subdivision, 157.6 miles long. Constant, Quebec. This part of the road passes through West Vancouver, a Our tour group left BC Rail on Monday night at residential district, and above Horseshoe Bay, the Quesnei, and we spent the night at the Tower Inn there. gateway to Howe Sound. At Mile 28 is Porteau Cove On Tuesday morning, we departed by motor coach for a Provincial Park on the shore of the sound. At Mile 40.4 visit to Barkerville, a restored gold-mining town, then to is Squamish, which was the southern terminus of the our hotel in Prince George. railway rmtil the extension south to North Vancouver On Wednesday, September 14, we boarded our opened in 1956. Squamish is the present location of the spedai train consisting of RDC cars BC-10 and BC-11 at BC Rah shops. During the summer months, the Royal the Prince George yard office, with an 08:00 deparrirre Hudson excursion trips run from North Vancouver to for Chetwynd. At this location, part of our group split for Squamish, where the passengers enjoy a few hours a bus ride up to Fort St. John, while the balance of the before their return. group continued by train. On this part of the trip, we From Mile 47 to Mile 61, the raUroad climbs a 2.2 had two photo nm-bys. percent grade, following the spectacular canyon of the The Chetwynd Subdivision is 168.1 miles in length, Cheakamus River. Along the route at Brandywine Fails, and between Mile 521.1 and Mile 545 at First, the track Mile 68, is a 280-foot-high bridge. may be used by either diesel-electric power or electric Whistler, at Mile 73, is an interesting community locomotives from the Tumbler Subdivision. Our train now an intemationaiiy-known sid resort and formerly a covered the Chetwynd Subdivision in about six hours, garbage dump. The next large town, at the north end of after which we boarded another motor coach, for a look the Squamish Subdivision and therefore a crew-change at the Peace Canyon Dam. This is one of the more point, is Liiiooet. During the school season, BC Raii interesting hydro-electric operations in British operates a one-car train each morning north from Seton Columbia, and the visitors' centre is open to the public Portage to Lillooet, picking up school children at various almost every day of the year. locations and road crossings. This maybe one of the only Our arrival at the Pioneer Inn in Fort St. John was by school trains still in service on the North American motor coach, but our RDC train made a ferry movement continent. to Fort St. John to meet us there. The Liiiooet Subdivision extends from Liiiooet to On Thursday morning, some passengers who wanted Williams Lake, Mile 312.7 (the mileages are continuous to ride over the Alaska Highway boarded buses for Fort from North Vancouver, Mile 0.0, to Fort Nelson, Mile Nelson, and the rest of us remained on the train for our 979.4). Just north of the Liiiooet depot, at Mile 160, the trip there. The Fort Nelson Subdivision is 250.8 miles in radroad crosses the Fraser River and over the next 28 length, and Fort Nelson is some 978 miles from North miles, the line climbs over 3000 feet on a 2.2 percent Vancouver. At Fort Nelson, we were met by a delegation

6 • Rail and Transit • November 1994 of RCMP officers. After our dinner, we had the equipment detectors at at least four locations. opportunity to learn about their mission and to ask the Our arrival in Prince George was a bit late, and we questions that many of us had about this world-famous all headed for the hotel. Part of the group rode Train 2 police force. back to North Vancouver on Monday morning. Fort Nelson is the current end of the BCR, but with The balance of our group left on Monday morning the expansion of the lumbering and mining industries, it for Jasper, by motor coach on the YeUowhead Highway. may not be the end forever. We stopped at the ALpenrose Restaurant for a German On Friday, September 16, we retmrned to Fort St. buffet. With an arrival in Jasper around 16:30, many of John, where we spent another night, awaiting our ride us took the opportunity to ride the aerial tramway, on Saturday over the Dawson Creek Subdivision. which overlooks the entire valley below. Dawson Creek, B.C., is a most interesting town. It is the After our arrival at the hotel, my wife and I decided home of a museum housed in the former Northern to waUc downtown. Here on display beside the VIA Alberta Railway station and covering the history of the station was CN 4-8-2 6015, a CLC-buiit locomotive. We NAR. Next to the museum is a grain elevator which has were impressed by the town of Jasper. Elk roam about been converted into an art museum. Dawson Creek is the streets with ease, whUe traffic slows down to allow also an interchange point between the BCR and the CN their passage. The town is home to a good-sized yard on (former NAR) Grande Prairie Subdivision. The Peace the east side of town. The depot is classic CN and is used River area of B.C. stili has extensive wheat fields and by both VIA and the Great Canadian Raiitour Company. therefore grain elevators. CN runs several times a week VIAs tri-weekly trains that serve Jasper are the into Dawson Creek, while BC Rail operates a tri-weekly Canadian, Trains 1 and 2, between Vancouver and train from Chetwynd to Dawson Creek and return. BCR Toronto, and the Skeena, Trains 5 and 6, between Jasper fadiities at this location are small compared to some of and Prince Rupert. the other terminals we visited, but they are sufficient for From May to October of each year, the Great the volume of traffic now generated. Canadian Rahtoiu Company's On Sunday morning, we once again boarded our operates on a two-day trip from Vancouver to either motor coaches, this time heading for Tumbler Ridge, Jasper or Banff and Calgary. These are based on a four where we enjoyed an elegant buffet at the Tumbler day cycle. On Day 1, from Vancouver to Kamioops, these Ridge Inn while our train deadheaded to Murray on the are combined trains, operating over CN. The train stays Tumbler Subdivision. On our way from the Inn to meet the train, our motor coaches were delayed by the permafrost in the highway and although it was a Simday, highway crews were busy repairing the highway. At Murray, we were able to look at the one-stall engine house. The Tumbler Subdivision is 82.3 miles in length, and has the two longest tunnels on BC Raii. The longest of these is the Table Tunnel, 5.6 irdies long, with portals at Mile 34.1 and Mile 39.7. The next-longest is the Wolverine Tunnel, 3.7 nuies long, with portals at Mile 43.6 and Mile 47.3. There are also two shorter tunnels, one at Mile 49.6, 800 feet in length, and a 1200-foot one at Mile 53.5. So that venlilation equipment would not be needed in the long tunnels, the line was electrified when it was built. There are seven electric units, class GMF 60E, numbered 6001 to 6007, ail bruit by General Motors in 1983 and 1984. This subdivision is set up so that empty coal trains can loop around the coal loading fadiities, and load coal without stopping. There is a pattern of operations that calls for two coal trains per day over the Tumbler Subdivision, with an occasional extra. These unit coal trains carry a CN caboose, a run-through from Prince Rupert. The electric locomotives are usually replaced by CN dieseis at Wakeiy, but the BC Rail crews handle the trains as far as the interchange at Prince George. CN crews then take the trains west to the export terminal at Ridley Island, just outside Prince Rupert. The highlight of onr trip was a meet at Whitford with an eastbound empty coal train heading toward Murray. Our RDCs took the siding and we found a good area to photograph both trains. The coal train operation is state- of-the-art, with several inspection points and dragging-

Rail and Transit • November 1994 • 7 overnight in Kamioops, and on Day 2, one part of the crew-change point, and just south of there is Hell's Gate train, using CN, goes to Jasper, and the second section of Tunnel. By Chiiiiwack, the canyon has widened into a the train operates over CP Rail to Banff and then, on to valley with good farming country. Here, I saw. the tracks Calgary, This process is reversed on Days 3 and 4. of the Southern Railway of British Columbia, lined by Passenger locomotives Nos. 7488 and 7498 are B36-7s the steel poles that are a reminder of the former British leased from the Santa Fe through General Electric Columbia Electric Railway, at one time the longest Leasing Co., and are painted blue. There are 22 assorted interurban electric railway in Canada. passenger cars owned by GCRC, and ail are former VIA, The distance from Chiiiiwack into Vancouver is 76 and before that CN, cars. miles, and the train followed the CN Yale Subdivision to On Tuesday morning, September 20, we were back the Fraser River Bridge in New Westminster, then the on the motor coaches for our ride to Banff, with a side Burlington Northern New Westminster Subdivision, and trip on the way to the Columbia Icefields, a most then on CN tracks into the VIA station. After our arrival impressive sight. After reboarding our motor coaches, in Vancouver, we boarded the chartered motor coaches we had lunch at the Chateau Lake Louise. The vista at for orur return to Seattle and the next morning's this inn, operated by Canadian Pacific Hotels and departure on Delta Airlines for Atlanta and then Buffalo. Resorts, is magnificent, and I could only wish for a My wife and 1 plan to return to British Columbia in longer stay. As we travelled down the Bow Valley the fall of 1995 for our next adventure. The people of BC Parkway, we passed "Morant's Curve," at Mile 111 of the Raii virtually gave us their railway during the time that Laggan Subdivision, perhaps the most famous photo we were there. This trip should not be missed and is well location on the . Our arrival in worth the time and effort. • Banff was late in the afternoon. Wednesday was a free day, to relax, shop, and visit the local museums. The highlight of the day was a visit CP Rail in the Thompson Canyon to The Caboose steak-and-iobster restaurant, located inside the CPR station. The place is lined with old Continued from Page 5 photographs and artifacts ail relating to the railway. The just a few campsites squeezed between the highway and the water. Located on the bank of the Thompson Rivei; you owner is a retired CP Rail trainmaster. Our dinner menu hear that soothing sound, but you also hear all the trucks consisted of Alberta prime beef, with an elegant wine and cars passing. Just above the highway is the CP Rail from the Okanagan Valley. To add to the flavour of the track and the CN is across the river When trains go past evening, during our dinner, several trains flashed by in there is no way you can miss hearing them either The each direction. temperature did get down below 5°C overnight while I was Thursday morning, September 22, our group of 42 there, so I was glad to have a warm sleeping banket. passengers assembled at the Banff depot for our For those who prefer a warm bed, a shower; and a departure on the westbound GCRC Rocky Mountaineer, quieter night, there are many motels further north in Cache non-stop to Kamioops except for the crew-change stops Creek. But these are nowhere near the railway so instead I at Field and Reveistoke. would recommend staying in the motel at the north end of Ashcroft. It is nicer that those in Cache Creek and was The train travels over the Laggan Subdivision from comparable in price last time I stayed there. After you cross Calgary to Field. Perhaps the most spectacular portion of the bridge into Ashcroft, turn left down the hill into a small the trip is over the Laggan and Mountain subdivisions, park; the motel is located beside the park If you get a room through the Tunnels, over the Stoney Creek facing the river you can watch the CN on the west bank. Bridge, through the five-mile Connaught Tunnel, and Now, to trains. In a word: lots. Both CN and CP run west to Reveistoke. The steep grades in the Rocky and more trains than you can photograph. Both railwaj^ have , were the reason for the development slow times, but these usually do not coincide. For me, the of the CPR's 2-10-4 SeUdrk-type locomotives. To handle most photogenic trains are the unit trains. Long strings of a train through these mountains, the engineer must identical coal or grain cars have a nice graphic quality and know every foot of the railroad. Places where land slides do not overwhelm the scenery while trains of mixed cars occrur are protected by slide-detector fences. can look more distracting. The photos accompanying this article are all of unit trains. West of Reveistoke, the train passes through I woke up on Friday April 9, to a misty rainy day A Craigeiiachie, where the last spike was driven in 1885 to wonderful day for using black-and-white film to get nice complete the CPR, then along the shores of the blue, mood photos, but not so nice for sitting outside. I enjoyed. sparkling waters of Shuswap Lake, and on to Kamioops. a good day of raiifanning, but did too much sitting in the Kamioops is a city with diversified industry, and is an can Saturday was much nicer and clear all day and again I interchange point between the CN and CP had a good day of raiifanning with much more activity out transcontinental lines and the CN line into the of my car: Sunday was another wonderful day but I had to Okanagan Valley. The old CNR station in town is pack up the tent and start for home. As I travelled south, boarded-up, but its platforms are still used by the Rocky there was a line of clouds south of Ljftton. From there, all Mountaineer, as passengers transfer from the train to the the way back, it was heavily overcast with a occasional shuttle buses that take them to their hotels. rain. I guess it was nature's way of telling me my short holiday was over. Friday morning was our last day on the train. From The Thompson Canyon is one of many fabulous areas in Kamioops, we travelled west on the CN down the British Columbia, and possibly the busiest place in Canada Thompson and Fraser canyons, by such places as Jaws of as far as trains go. It is certainly deserving of more than just Death Gorge and Jackass Mountain. Boston Bar is a a quick drive through. Stay a day or two; relax. •

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Just A. Ferronut's At Lachute, the classic Canadian Pacific read the flyer correctly there wfll be two station is presently being used by government shows next year: one in March as well as the Railway Archaeology services in the community. This single-storey regular one in November. Art Clowes structure, brick with stone trim, is the small• A Montreal excursion 1625 ouest, boul. de Maisonneuve, Suite 1600 town version of the distinctive "chateau-style" No, don't worry about getting your tickets, Montreal (Quebec) H3H 2N4 structures which were a CPR trademark because you're too late! Back in July 1993, during the golden age of passenger trains. E-Mail: 71 [email protected] Rail and Transit carried an article as part of The building, with its hip roof and wide over• the celebration of the 50th armiversary of the Gee, it is that time of the month to turn on hangs, sits on a stone foundation that opening of the present Central Station. This the computer and see what one may find of extends up to the bottom of the windows. An station was the successor to the Tunnel interest. I had planned for an article with a article in the January 1930 Canadian Railway Terminal, which was the Montreal end of the map of railway lines in northern Quebec, but and Marine World states that this depot, Canadian Northern Hne from Ottawa via the great weather over the past month has located 44.1 miles from Place Viger station in Hawkesbury mentioned above. Before Cen• tended to keep my computer in the off mode, Montreal, was officiaUy opened on November tral Station was built, trains could only reach so we will have to browse some computer 22, 1929. It goes on to state that the civic the Tunnel Terminal through the Mount files this month. With luck, I will get the map ceremony was presided over by the Mayo^ Royal Tunnel. Physical work on this tunnel done before next month. However on the and attended by the CPR's Laurentian Divi• started in June 1912 and numerous stories positive side, the weather did entice me to do sion superintendent and other officials. some wandering. have been written about it and its construc• Eleven miles west of Lachute, the single- tion. storey brick station at Marelan sits on the Along the old rail lines to Ottawa The other day, I came across a letter and south side of the track between it and the A trip to Ottawa's RaOfair '94 model railway footnote concerning the first excursion highway. This boxy spartan station has that show was an excuse to take Quebec Highway through the tunnel. This letter; dated April no-nonsense efficient look common among 148 along the northeast side of the Ottawa 17, 1917, was from T. S. Darling of the structures built in the 1950s. River from Montreal to Ottawa. This area Canadian Northern Montreal Land Company At GrenviUe, on the east bank of the along the east side of the Ottawa River was to Gerard R. Ruel, Esq., Canadian Northern Ottawa River across from Hawkesbruy the once criss-crossed by the hues of the Cana• Railway, Toronto, and stated: dian Northern Ontario Railway, the Great roadbed approach and east abutment of the "The work on the tunnel is practicaUy Northern Railway of Canada, the Carillon and old Canadian Northern bridge is easily completed. They are now laying a standard Grenvflie Railway the Saint-Eustache Rail• spotted about a quarter of a mile downstream gauge track and have three new electric way and the only remaining hue, the Que• from the highway bridge. motors which wfll haul the regular trains. bec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Rail• A little closer to Hull, 30 miles from Contracts have been let for the excavation of way. All except the last two companies were Lachute, is the small community of Montebel- the Station site between Cathcart and La- part of the Canadian Northern-Canadian io. This village was spotlighted by railway gauchetiere Streets and for the erection of a National family of railways. enthusiasts in the late 1980s as the commun• City Station. Highway 148 stays northeast of the Cana• ity purchased and relocated its relatively large "We would be very pleased if you could dian Northern Ontario's former Hne over the log station. This log station, dating from the be present for the first trip through the com• approximately 25-miie section from Saint- days of the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and pleted tunnel running over the standard Eustache to Lachute. At Lachute, the Quebec, Occidental Railway, was relocated to the gauge tracks and hauled by one of the large Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway west side of the main street (Highway 148), electric motors. crosses Highway 148 and then parallels it where it has been restored, with the logs now "If you are able to be present, we wfll most of the way to HuU. This line is now in natural varnish. meet at the shaft. Comer Dorchester & St. Canadian Pacific's Lachute Subdivision, We were soon in Ottawa, where we spent Monique Streets, promptly at 2:30 o'clock extending from Sainte-Therese to Hull and an enjoyable few hours at Raflfaii; seeing p.m. on Sunday April 22nd." over the river to Ottawa. Sainte-Therese, at friends, looking over the varied model dis• This letter contained the following very the eastern end, is the junction with CP's plays, and browsing through the booths with interesting footnote: "In order to reach the Sainte-Agathe Subdivision and stiU has its their wares of books, photos, and modellers' train it is necessary to waUc down the starts single-storey frame station, which is painted supplies. at the Dorchester Street shaft to a depth of nearer to a pumpkin orange than to CP red. about 45 feet, and then walk through the This station houses CP radio transmitting Sun Youth show Now that it was Novembei; it was time to heading gangway for about 500 feet. The equipment. visit the Sun Youth's eighth Model Train stairs are narrow, steep, and not at aU easy to Lachute also was served by the Great Exposition, here in Montreal. This is my third go down or up. The gangway is, in places, Northern Railway of Canada's Hne that came year at this show and I always find it interest• low, so that you wiU have to stoop to avoid west from JoHette and Saint-Jerome to join ing, perhaps because it is different. Sun striking your head on timbers, and it wfll be the Canadian Northern Hne at Gushing Junc• Youth, the sponsors, are not a railway group, unwise for anyone to wear clothing that wfll tion northwest of Lachute. The Canadian and the show is spread over three floors of an be damaged by dirt. The train will merely nm Northern used the Carillon and Grenvilie old school. The model displays cover the fuU through the ttmnel to the West Portal and Railway from about Gushing Junction to range in scales and in skill levels. Others back, without stopping to let passengers off GrenvDle, then crossed the Ottawa River to must also find this show worthwhile, for if I for local inspection." Hawkesbury Ontario.

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Perhaps not the excursion for photogra• • Saint John was named in the honour of St. but became Plumweseep, Maliseet for phy, but nevertheless an interesting one. I John on whose day it was first visited by "salmon and river." visualise a sunny warm spring day with white explorers. • Stone's Brook became Penobsquis with the groups of men, dressed in suits and top hats, • At the other end of the subdivision, coming of the railway. Penobsquis is nor• standing, pointing towards the holes in the Moncton, originally named "The Bend," mally translated as Maliseet for "a stone and ground and Mount Royal, discussing this because of its location at the bend in the a brook," although others interpret it as great engineering project. Shortly, chauf- Petitcodiac Rive^ was renamed to honorrr meaning "little fish." feured automobiles arrive with senior Cana• lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton, a • Anagance is 61 miles from Saint John and dian Northern officers including perhaps G. British Army Officer who led a number of the five miles east of another station called R. Ruel, and a number of city and govern• early attacks on the Acadian settlers in the Portage. Anagance comes from the Micmac ment officials, stepping out again with suits area. Moncton's first station was a quaint "oo-ne-gunce," which means a portage. This and top hats for their descent into the bowels little frame structure between Main Street is the area where the headwaters of the of Montreal and their trip through the new and the railway just west of the present Keimebecasis and Petitcodiac rivers are the tunnel behind an electric locomotive. highway rmderpass. closest and hence a historic area long estab• • Moose Path, three miles from Saint John, is lished for portaging between these two water• Station names along the E&NA descriptive enough, and Tonyburn and ways. You can credit (or blame) Broadcast News for Appleby reflect a background of early settlers. • Petitcodiac is a name that shows up quite this section, since they reminded me that frequently in southeastern New Brunswick. As November 9 was the aimiveisary of the first • Rothesay, spelled Rothsay (probably in indicated above it is the name of a river that through train from Saint John to Hahfax, in error) in the 1868 timetable, was originally flows through Moncton and is also the name 1872. My checking showed that November 9, called Nine-Mile House for its distance from of a village about 25 miles west of Moncton 1872, was also the date for the opening of Saint John, and later Keimebecasis Station. on the E&NA. Petitcodiac has been recorded the last 76 miles, between Truro and Am• Kennebecasis, the name of the adjacent river; as being spelled almost a dozen ways, and is herst, Nova Scotia, on this route, and the is derived from the Maliseet words "Kenne• from the Micmac word "pet-koat-kwee-ak" date of the purchase of the European and bec" meaning snake and "sis" meaning little. that means "the river bends in a bow." North American Railway by the Intercolonial In 1860, the Prince of Wales, who later Railway. At that time the hue was broad became King Edward VII, visited New Bruns• These are some of the names highlighting gauge, 5'-6". This route wasn't converted to wick and made the journey from Saint John one 90-mile section of railway line in New standard gauge until June 18, 1875. to Kennebecasis Station. (It is this train that Brunswick. Imagine the possibilities across is shown in the photo on the cover of the the country! As I looked through the history, I noted September 1993 Rail and TYansit.') To com• the variety of station names along this route. Heritage stations memorate this event, Kennebecasis Station Many stations have names borrowed from Before leaving stations, the federal cabinet was renamed Rothesay, in honour of one of places in Europe. Some are named for people has issued an order-in-council permitting the Prince's titles, Duke of Rothesay. of national importance or with local impact. Canadian National to sell its Jasper; Alberta, • grrispmnsis developed from a "shanty town" Others have names with roots in the aborig• station to Parks Canada. The Minister of that was not plaimed but was established inal languages. The Maritime provinces prob• Canadian Heritage wfll be recommending accidentally Irish labourers, needed for work ably have more than their fair share of sta• that the cabinet also authorise the sale of the on the railway and other area projects, and tion names from this last group. A closer look CN station at Nakina, Ontario, to the com- grew into a town after the church was built. at these names shows that some are made up mrmity. Both of these stations carry the of a combination of bad Maliseet and equally • Nauwigey^'auk, is another Maliseet place- heritage designation rmder the Heritage bad English. Some people decry that the early name. As a kid, I remember the local folk- Railway Stations Protection Act. story as to how this village got its name. A railways imposed poor substitutes for some of While it has nothing to do with a desig• mother was travelling with her young child the original names. The portion of this route nated heritage station, there was an interest• named "Wigie" along the Kennebecasis. The from Saint John to Moncton is perhaps a ing news item in the September 1927 Cana• child kept complaining about having to walk good place to look at some of these naming dian Railway and Marine World about the and wanted his mother to canty him. Event• practices. clock in the then-recentiy-abandoned Union ually, the mother got frustrated of the com• This line, currently CN's Sussex Subdivi• Station near Simcoe Street in Toronto. The plaints and gave Wigie a few swats on the sion, was built by the European and North report states that the large clock from the behind, and said "Now, Wigie, walk!" American Railway and was opened in sec• tower of that station was purchased by'a tions. The first was the three miles from • Ossekeag, 22 miles from Saint John, got its gentleman in Huntsville, Ontario, and was Saint John to Moose Path, opened on March first train on June 18, 1859. At the time, presented to that town, 142 mfles north of 17, 1857. The last to be completed was the Ossekeag was nothing but a swampy stop Toronto. 45 miles west of Moncton, on August 1, along the railway. Nearby was Hampton Vancouver 1860, when the line was opened for through \fillage, and as time went on Ossekeag A while back, I wound up spending a Satur• traffic from Saint John. (A photo taken three started to grow because of the railway. It was day in Vancouver After a leisurely breakfast days later at Saint John was on the cover of renamed Hampton Station as more and more I wandered down to the harbour on Burrard the September 1993 Rail and jyansit.) important businesses and offices located near the railway. Inlet and from Cranvflle Square, next to the An E&NA 1868 timetable listed the fol• former CPR station, I watched the SeaBrrs lowing among its stations on this hue: Saint • Nearer Sussex isylpo/ia^". The first settlers cross the inlet and people scurry between its John, Moose Path, Tonyburn, Appleby, Roth- here named the community Studholm, hon• dock and the SkyTrain terminal attached to say, Quispamsis, Nauwigewauk, Ossekeag, ouring a early settler, Major Guilford Stud- the CPR station. As I stood there, noting a Passekeag, Norton, Apohaqui, Sussex, holm. The railway changed this to Apohaqui SkyTrain set parked on its tail track next to Plimiweseep, Penobsquis, Portage, Anagance, which means "meeting place of the waters" in CPR private cars Van Home and Shaughnessy, Petitcodiac, North Rive^ Salisbury Boundary Maliseet. I had to wonder what these gentlemen would Creek, and Moncton. • Three miles east of Sussex is Plumweseep. think if they could see this terminal today. To the first immigrants it was Salmon River;

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The CPR's elegant station has been Item 45 restored and is used by many commuteis as Information Network CP train on Rochester and Southern their terminal to connect with the SeaBus to Item 43 Message from: Bill Reddy cross Burrard Inlet to North Vancouver or the Beare Road photo composition The September Rail and Tiansit gave an SkyTrain for their commute to Bumaby New Message from: John Reay account of CP Rail SD40-2 5860 and a Soo Westminster or Surrey. The upper floors of The picture on the back cover of this issue of Line engine as being on the Rochester and the station are now commercial offices. The an over-under "meet" at Beare never actually Southern on September 10, 1994. Actually, main concourse or passenger waiting area happened in real life. Both trains were photo• these two units made more than one trip, has been restored with its frieze of panels graphed separately about ten minutes apart, and I have followed them at least twice. aroimd the outer walls with scenes from at the Beare Road overpass south of Plug Hat Now, there is a new plan to run CP Rail units along the CPR route through the mountains. Road (near the Scarborough-Pickering town over this road; how it works it thus: This work is accented with a few panels of line). I have been frustrated on several occa• One or two R&S units will leave Brooks dark scroUwork patterns of the buff upper sions when trying to get the perfect meet at Avenue yard in Rochestep go down to Silver waDs. This sets off the deep-panelled flat this location. The advent of image-editing Springs with their train, pick up two or three cefling. The exterior brickwork of this station software for personal computers allowed me CP Rail units or leased units, along with the is painted brick red with the row of large to create the image I have never managed to empty salt cars, and drag them up to P&L columns across the front now a cream colour get in real fife. Both slides were transferred to Jrmction. Here, the CP units are set out, as It was then time for a relaxed trip on the a Photo-CD. I then used Aldus Photostyler to well as the empties, and the R&S crew con• SkyTrain to kRl some time and then a trip cut the picture of the CP M630s and paste it tinues on to Rochester. Because of at least over to the VIA station on Main Street. This onto the picture of the CN Laser train. The two derailments at P&L, the Genesee and former CNR station is a large greystone two- join is just at the bottom of the CP fine's Wyoming will not allow these units to go up storey structure. The station has a stub-end ballast. Since the photos were not taken from to Retsof. So, the C&W wfll bring down the track arrangement; and the railway access is exactly the same location, I had to resize the salt to P&L, cut their power off, and take the via Burlington Northern's line. VIA has CP picture so that the bridge would fit realis• CP Rail imits back to Silver Springs. Here, restored this station. It, like the CPR's, has a tically on the bridge support. the CP power remains with the train, and flat cefling with deep panels. The pilasters usually a CP crew comes from Buffalo and item 44 along the walls have been done in dark takes the train to SK Yard. The C&W crew VIA October 1994 schedules green. The columns around the main con• and heads back to P&L Junction by taxi to Message from: Richard Carroll course have a polished light grey marble dado get their powep and to haul the empty cars With the October 30 acceleration on the or base. The ceiling panels are cream with to Retsof. This happens several times a week. Toronto—Windsor route, a whole new set of their mouldings accented in reds. As part of I Like to catch them on Mondays, as they running times can now be placed under the this modernisation, the south portion of the leave SUver Springs about 11:00 a.m. "best-ever" column for these runs. The three main hall has a news stand, a barber shop, key ones are: Toronto-London, 1 h 47 min item 46 and more importantly a intermodai terminal (the best previous time was 1 h 53 min in Commonwealth Games "Spirit" buses for several bus fines. The centre of the main 1987); Toronto-Windsor 3 h 35 min (was Message from: David Onodera hall has an information counter with a large 3 h 45 min in 1973); and London-Windsop From BC Transit, I got the "Spirit" names of restored clock. In the northwest comer is a 1 h 38 min (was 1 h 40 min in 1966). An the Victoria buses that Gray Scrimgeour did restaurant ready to feed the travellers over interesting point is that aU the new best not see before he compiled his list (Septem• the next decade — a McDonald's. times are eastbound runs, and all the previ• ber Rail and Transit). Buses 761, 770, 876, A few more 1872 GTR brownies ous ones were westbound. and 953 were out of service and were not Back in May I listed a few punishments Oddly enough, although the schedule named. The others were: inflicted and rewards given ("brownies'T by now sets new standards for minimum times • 775 Spirit of British Virgin islands the GTR to their employees back in 1872. for virtually every city-pair combination on • 777 spirit of Botswana Here are some more: this route, it does not establish a new bench• • 778 Spirit of Guernsey • Rule G-A brakeman from Buffalo was dis• mark for start-to-stop average speed. The • 779 Spirit of Antigua and Barbuda missed for being the worse of liquop dis• fastest point-to-point average on the new • 844 Spirit of Maldives orderly and impertinent to agent at Port timecard is 68.9 m.p.h. (Train 74, Chatham • 9T1 Spirit of Brunei Hruon while No. 6 was waiting at that sta• to London, 64.3 miles in 56 minutes). But • 927 Spirit of Jamaica tion, also for being the worse of liquor when way back in 1962, a pair of trains was carded • 967 Spirit of Solaman islands on duty at Stratford. at 29 minutes for the 33.9 miles from And one more bus was named, TDH-4519 • Train speeds - A Toronto conductor was Chatham to Clencoe - a 70.1 m.p.h. 6057, the Spirit of Bangladesh. fined 50 cents for running with No. 25 train average. item 47 from Georgetown to Toronto at a greater The sKghtly-improved 1 h 48 min best Toronto Railway Company office building speed than, allowed as per time table. run between Toronto and Niagara Falls Message from: Ray Corley • Blocking main line - A Toronto conductor inches closer to the 1 h 45 min best-ever The building behind TTC 2776 on the back was suspended for a week after causing a time, from 1971. cover of the August Rail and Thansit is not the detention of 15 minutes to Nos. 1 and 6 East of Toronto, Train 56 is now sched• Toronto Railway Company offices, as report• passenger trains by occupjdng the main line uled at just 2 h 39 min from Toronto to ed in the October issue. The TRC building, on at Bowmanvflle on the time of those trains. Brockville; a better time has not been pub• the northwest comer of King and Church • Fire prevention - A London car checker was lished. And to the best of my knowledge, the streets, was tom down after 1925, and the rewarded two days' pay for his vigilance in new non-stop dash of Train 52 between land was sold to Imperial Oil, who expanded discovering a fire in a pile of lumber near the Oshawa and Kingston is the first of its kind their offices to the south. The doorway visible station, and for his promptness and energy in (126 miles, 90 minutes, 84.2 m.p.h. just to the right of the car was at the south getting it extinguished. average). end of the original, unexpanded, buflding.

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HH-US STRIKE OVER? east of Toronto connects with trains in United Transportation Union workers on CP's Toronto. Previously this train operated only HH-US unit, the former Soo Line, have begun five days a week. voting on a tentative agreement that is hoped • Train 501 now operates daily from Mont• to end six years of labour troubles that real to Bensenville Yard in Chicago. This caused a 47-day strike this siunmer. Union train originally operated out of Montreal but officials believe the agreement will be was changed to originate out of Toronto ^l^rrfRN CANADA accepted, but polling wfll take untfl. early some time ago. It handles miscellaneous December. boxcar traffic from Montreal and Toronto Gordon Webster Included in the new tentative agreement destined for Bensenville Yard, container 78 Scarboro Beach Boulevard are a 10 percent wage increase, assignment traffic for Davenport, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Toronto, Ontario M4E 2X1 of two-person crews to aU trains, a one-time and St. Paul, and automotive traffic from E-Mail: [email protected] payment of approximately $15 000 to most Lambton, London, and Windsor destined to members, and deferral of a dispute over the Bensenville Yard. CP RAIL SYSTEM basis for many workers' pay until the next • Train 504 now terminates at Trois-Rivieres, CANADIAN ATLANTIC WEST END SALE round of contract talks. Both sides agreed to instead of Toronto. It handles all miscellane• CP has chosen a group comprised of Iron begin negotiations last month based on ous box car and loaded and empty auto Road Railways Inc. and the Bangor and recommendations made by a U.S. presidential traffic from the IHB Blue Island Yard in Aroostook Railroad to negotiate for the sale emergency board. Chicago to Toronto and Montreal, Montreal of the 181-mile portion of the CAR between If the agreement is rejected, a strike can Wharf commercial traffic, and Trois-Rivieres Sherbrooke, Quebec, and BrownvUle Junc• commence again in February, when a govern• traffic from Toronto. It may also handle steel tion, Maine. CP made its decision after re• ment-imposed "cooling off" period ends. A between Curtis, Indiana, and Plymouth, viewing more than six potential operators. A signing ceremony has tentatively been set for Michigan. deciding factor was the BAR's abiUty to begin December 5. Contracts with other unions on • Train 505 now originates in Trois-Rivieres operation quickly, as the railway connects HH-US expire on December 31, 1994, and instead of Toronto from Sunday to Friday, with the CAR at Brownviile Jimction. collective agreements on CP's Canadian oper• and originates in Toronto on Saturdays. The IRR recently entered into an agreement in ations expired on December 31, 1993. train handles all miscellaneous box car traffic principle to purchase the BAR. IRR has also —Journal of Commerce from Trois-Rivieres, Montreal, Toronto, Lon• purchased the Dominion Atlantic Railway don, and Windsor destined for the IHB and STRIKE INTERVENTION from CV, and is now operating it as the BRC in Chicago, finished autos from Lambton The government of Canada says it will not Windsor and Hantsport Railway. The com• and Toronto Yard to the IHB Blue Island allow a railway strike to tie up the grain pany is also considering the ptuchase of CP's Yard, containers for IHB, and auto traffic for industry for more than a couple of days; if hue from Delson, Quebec, to Newport, CSXT between Ingersoll and Chicago. there is a strike, the government will force Vermont. • Train 517 now originates at Sainte-The• the workers back to work. Earlier this month, Negotiations continue with the Irving rese, instead of Toronto, Monday through the Canadian Auto Workers union notified group for their acquisition of the operating Saturday, operating to Detroit. It handles the Minister of Labour that negotiations with assets of the CAR between Brownviile Jimc• General Motors traffic from Sainte-Ther&e to CP had ended in an impasse. By law, the tion and Saint John. But talks between Irving Oshawa and Toronto, finished vehicles from Minister of Labour has 15 days in which to and the proposed operatop Guilford, do not Toronto to Detroit's Rougemere Yard, and either name a concfliator or free the parties appear to be progressing as well. Guilford lifts finished vehicles for CSXT as required on to engage in a legal strike or lockout action. says it has little interest in operating the line the Gait and Windsor subdivisions. It replaces —Canadian Press west of Mattawamkeag, where Cuflford con• Sainte-Therese-Toronto Train 915. nects with the CAR. Guilford said it will TRAIN CHANGES • Train 592, which handles international interchange traffic to the BAR if it comes the CP has made a number of changes to its train traffic from Clenwood, Minnesota, to Chica• 43 miles east from Brownviile Junction to operations in Eastern Canada: go, now operates to Clearing Yard instead of pick it up. • Train 280, formerly a Montreal-Saint John Bensenville Yard. It operates when required, Irving said it is keeping options open by train, now originates in Toronto, replacing and is scheduled to depart Clenwood at purchasing the hue between Mattawamkeag Train 918. The train handles all traffic, inclu• 00:01 and arrive at Clearing Yard 24 hours and Brownviile Junction, and it may either ding special dangerous, dangerous, and later. seek to negotiate an agreement between dimensional shipments, and cars with speed • Train 921 once again originates in Mont• Guilford and the BAR or grant both parties restrictions between Toronto and Montreal or real instead of Toronto, operating to Windsor. running rights into Saint John. Irving has Saint John, and empty paper cars for Bedell. It handles empty auto-racks from Montreal to also said that with its new interest in the It is scheduled to depart from Toronto at Toronto and Windsor; and intermodai traffic railway, it may shift its traffic in forest and 14:00 each day. from Lachrne to Windsor. It runs Monday to petroleum products from primarily trucks to • Train 474 (Winnipeg to Toronto) now Saturday. trains. operates daily, handling traffic from Winni• • In addition. Trains 484, from Wirmrpeg, —Journal of Commerce, Evening Times Globe, peg destined to Thunder Bay, Sudbury, North and 492, from Calgary, to Montreal, will Financial Post, Globe and Mail and Montreal Gazette Bay, Smiths Falls, Ottawa, Toronto, Mont• operate to Toronto instead. This is due to real, and Eastern Canada. Traffic destined capacity problems at Saint-Luc yard.

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ascends a two-percent grade up towards fresh petrolemn and chemicals. LACHUTE ABANDONMENT air. The bulkhead barrier on the Samia side CN's Canadian railway operations had a Abandonment hearings into CP's application has been dismantled, as there is now no risk nine-month operating income of $357-mil- to abandon its Lachute Subdivision between of flooding. As of November 18,1434 metres hon, up from $115-million. U.S. railway Sainte-Thdrhse (Mile 28.0) and Thurso (Mfle of the tunnel were complete, and 956 of operations did not perform as well, incurring 90.1) were held in Lachute on October 24. 1230 precast rings had been installed, mak• an operating loss of $23-million for the nine- CP claims it lost $860 000 on the line in ing the tunnel 77 percent complete. month period, compared with a $6-miUion 1993, when it handled only 232 cars. Munici• loss in 1993. -Toronto Stor vio Rex Fundle pal governments requested that the hearing STATION FIRES be postponed to allow preparation of a better The CN Merritton station in St. Catharines MOCK DISASTER DERAILED challenge to the application. The NTA suffered a $250 000 fire during the evening CN proposed to the Hastings County board of granted an adjournment imtil November of October 23. The station was built in 1898 education that it stage a mock car-train 21. —Michel Beihumeur by the Crand Trunk Railway, and was one of accident behind Quinte Secondary School, in six suspicious fires in the St. Catharines area Belleville. The simulation, which would have THIRD QUARTER PROFIT that weekend. The remains of the bunding been the first organised by CN, was proposed Canadian Pacific continued to improve finan• were demolished shortly afterwards. to take place on a railway line behind the cially in the third quarter of this year. The Three nights late^ on the evening of school to promote safety. CN wanted to give company reported income of $306.9-million October 26, the CN Hastings station burned the 500 students at the school "safety mess• for the first nine months of 1994, up from to the ground. The firefighters arrived at the ages that will stay with them through the rest $105.8-miUion in the corresponding period vacant building at 22:51 and found the fire of their life." The board said that it favours last year. Including losses from discontinued well underway. It took over three horns to safety promotion, but did not agree to the operations, net income amounted to $293.1- extinguish the fire. The building was last "shock approach." —Canadian Press nullion, compared with a loss of $73.1-mil- used as a carpentry shop in 1991. NO SAINT-RAYMOND SHORT-LINE lion in the first nine months of 1993. —Cobaurg Daily Star via Ray Corley CN has decided to discontinue a search for a Revenues in the first nine months of TRAIN FIRE buyer for a 39-mile segment of its Saint- 1994 rose to $5.194-billion, from $4,612- A CN boxcar on Train 142 boimd for Mont• Raymond Subdivision between Shannon and bilHon last year. The improvement was attrib• real burst into flames and exploded around Riviere-a-Pierre, Quebec. CN will begin re• utable mainly to CP Rail System and PanCan- 10:00 on November 16 in central Michigan, moving the track soon and wiU then lease the adian Petroleum. west of Durand. The boxcar was carrying right-of-way to the local county until May 31, Losses from discontinued operations sodium isopropylxanthate, which cannot be 1996, after which the sale wfll be concluded included $13.8-million in the first nine extinguished with water when on fire. The at a price of one dollar. CN received per• months of 1994 .incurred by CP Trucks until fire prompted the evacuation of 30 houses mission to abandon the hne between Shan• the sale of its operations to its employees on and two schools. There were no injuries in non and Saint-Raymond effective October 24, September 26, 1994. the incident. The boxcar continued to bum 1993. The portion beyond Saint-Raymond to CP Rail System's operating income of into the evening. Amtrak Trains 364 and 365 Riviere-a-Pierre was abandoned previously. $189.3-million was up $85.8-milUon in the were terminated at Durand and Perry, Michi• Saieii first nine months. Third-quarter operating -Le gan, with passengers taken by bus between income fell $21.0-milLion from the third SHORTS the two trains. -Montreal Gozette and Al Tuner quarter last year. The railway's Canadian The Victoria Bridge in Montreal will undergo operations continued to grow but the HH-US DERAILMENTS extensive work next yea:; including recon• strike outweighed this improvement. Nine cars on CN Train 398 derailed when struction of the deck flooring. An overhead CP Ships made an operating profit of entering Belleville Yard on the evening of crane system may be used in this work. • A $60.5-million in the first nine months of October 20. The cars, which contained salt, worker that was killed on CN's York Subdi• 1994, up $25.5-million over the same period lumbep and syrup, all remained upright. No vision in July (see August Rail and Thansit) last year. This improvement was mainly the one was hurt in the derailment. The cars was not a CN employee. The worker was a result of increased container carryings and were retailed by the next aftemoon and Jackson-Pandrol employee working with a higher westboimd shipping rates stemming caused only minor delays to train operations. rail-grinding train. Media reports had incor• from better trade conditions. At 04:40 on October 28, a collision at rectly identified him as a CN worker. Mile 6.17 of the Halton Subdivision caused a CN NORTH AMERICA derailment. Two light engines from Train 386 VIA RAIL CANADA CN's REACTION TO THE CP OFFER collided with cars on Train 448 on the south VIA METROPOUS FIRE CN has now made its opinion known in track, derailing one engine and three cars. On the evening of November 20, VIA Train regards to CP's $1.4-billion offer for CN in During the clean-up, numerous trains were 66, the eastbotmd Me/ropo/is from Toronto to the east. CN says the offer includes so many detoured through downtown Toronto and Montreal, collided with a three-foot length of conditions that CP may end up with the lines over the Bala and Weston subdivisions. rail that had been placed on the CN track for half of the price. Some conditions FINANCES IMPROVE near Brighton, Ontario. The rail pierced the included CN having to spend $250-million in CN made a profit of $186-million for the first fuel tank of the locomotive, LRC 6920, and capital improvements in 1995 and give CP its nine months of 1994, compared with a $41- the leaking fuel was ignited and engulfed the unused tax credits, worth about $300-mil- million loss for the same period in 1993. In following cars while the train was slowing to lion. -Traffic Warid via Phil Hall the third quarter CN made a profit of $86- an emergency stop from its estimated 90 mph speed. Trains 66 and 67 use LRC locomotives SARNIA TUNNEL million, compared to a $9-miIlion loss last so that they can travel at 100 mph for much Excalibore is out from imder the St. Clair year. The improvement is attributed to the of their non-stop Montreal—Toronto run. River and is making its way to the already- improvement in the economy leading to On the train were 407 passengers, nine constructed portal in Port Huron. Progress is higher freight volumes. Revenues were up in crew, and one deadheading employee. expected to slow down as the mole now aU major business units with the exception of

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Twenty-thiee people were admitted to hospi• travelled over CP from Conxafl. in Niagara tal with serious injuries including bums, Falls, New York, to West Toronto, puUed by broken bones, and back injuries, some of OTHER NEWS CP SD40 5550 and SD40-2 5478, arriving at which were sustained when people jumped ACR UPDATE West Toronto at 22:45 on October 31. The from the train before it stopped. Many pass• The NTA is still considering Wisconsin Centr• train was then taken to Parkdale Yard by a engers left through the emergency windows al's appKcation to take over the Algoma transfer and switched into the former TNT in the cars, which work by breaking the glass Central Railway. A number of letters in Raflfast shed tracks and storage tracks in the with a small hammer. Fire departments from support of the purchase have been submitted area of King and Dufferin streets. Livestock five commtmities battled the fire until 21:15, by businesses, municipaUties, and industry cars were spotted on the east side of and the adjacent track was opened at 22:45, groups. Sixty-one letters opposing the sale Strachan Avenue, and elephants and horses allowing five other VIA trains on the hne to were also submitted, but these all came from were unloaded and paraded to the SkyDome pass. Some passengers walked through fields members of Local 885 of the United Trans• on November 1. Flatcars were placed on the to waiting buses. Others, including a wheel• portation Union, which had not signed a new west side of Strachan and circus vehicles chair basketball team, were taken from the collective agreement with WC at the time. were driven off onto the street. scene on CP hi-rail vehicles from the adjoin• Since the letter-writing, the same deal The train returned to Niagara Falls, New ing CP line. Nine buses were used to carry accepted months ago by the eight other York, leaving West Toronto at 01:45 on uninjured customers to Montreal, with arri• unions on the ACR was accepted by members November 7 behind CP SD40-2s 5820 and vals between 01:30 and 03:00 the next oftheUTU. 5798. The train was on its way to Pittsburgh, mommg. Industry Canada's bureau of competition Pennsylvania. The circus's "Blue Train" wiU The train was not moved until the next policy has approved the WC acquisition, come to Toronto next year. aftemoon, when poKce had completed their sa5dng it could offset some negative effects on THUNDER BAY GRAIN BUSIER on-site investigation, after which it was competition if CN and CP ever merge their Shipments of grains through Thunder Bay readied and taken to Montreal. Two eastem tracks. The NTA must reach its deci• have increased substantially this year. The Brighton-area men, one aged 21 and one sion by the end of January. port has carved a new niche for itself as a imder 16, were charged with criminal negli• Traffic has increased on the ACR with the handler of special crops, which have become gence causing bodily harm on November 23. early recaU of workers at Algoma Steel's iron more popular on the prairies. The port's grain The locomotive was heavily bumed from the ore division from a two-month shut down. shipments reached 6.82 million tons by the middle of the unit towards the rea; and will The plant closed September 3 due to the lack end of Septembe; up by more than 1.1 likely be retired. The first car was VIA 1 club of work, but was reopened earlier than million tons over the same period last year. car 3457, and it was bumed throughout; expected as a result of more orders. The steel —Western Producer even large parts of the roof melted. There mill in Sault Ste. Marie requires 50 percent were five other coaches on the train (3302, more volume than planned, and another GRAIN SCARE 3303, 3308, 3336, and 3349) and some of large order is expected from Detroit. Not all During the last week of Octobe; a group them were damaged by fire as well. The cost of this traffic will travel by train, but what calling itself the "David Organisation" of the damage was estimated as $3-million. does wfll certainly help the ACR. threatened to contaminate cars of grain Also on November 20, vandals placed —Canadian Press and Souit Star destined for port in Thunder Bay, Vancouve; concrete blocks in a switch near Rimouski, DEUX-MONTAGNES NEWS Prince Rupert, and on the St. Lawrence Quebec, derafling the Train 16, the Chaleur, The first of the new equipment for the Deux- Seaway. On October 31, workers in Thunder on its way to Caspe. A few days late; a VIA Montagnes commuter line arrived in Mont• Bay found the initials "D.C." hammered into train struck a washing machine placed on the real last month. A motor car and a trailer the side of a CN hopper ca; and a CP hopper tracks near Sainte-Foy, Quebec. As a result of arrived at the new Saint-Eustache shops on car was found on October 28 with the words these incidents, CN and VIA announced an October 31, pulled by a CN diesei locomotive. "David Croup" and a dagger drawn in chalk policy of increased survefllance of railway These first two cars will be fitted with mea• on the car. Samples of peas and canola from rights-of-way and new public education suring equipment and were to begin acceler• the cars, which originated in Manitoba and programmes to warn of the dangers of tres• ation and braking tests within a couple of Alberta, were sent to a lab, and tests showed passing on the railway. weeks. Additional cars will arrive weekly. there was no contamination. The organisation made the threat to the SAINT JOHN SERVICE The new catenary was tested at 120 volts British Columbia government with demands VIA will negotiate with the bus company, AC in mid-October by technicians from Bom- for action on environmental issues. Forty- SMT (Eastem) Limited, of Saint John, for the bardie; and starting on October 24 at 19:00, eight grain cars were threatened to be con• bus service from Saint John to connect with 25 kV tests began. Signalling and equipment taminated with pesticides at terminal elev• the Ocean in Moncton. SMT is owned by the tests were expected to begin this month. ators. RCMP investigators feel the graffiti was Irving family, the same group that has pur• FuU seven-day a week service on the line from a copy-cat, especially because the name chased the Canadian Atlantic Railway from returned effective October 31, after being "Croup" instead of "Organisation" was used. CP Rail and thus forced the change in VIA shut-down on weekends since last spring, and —Canadian Press, Western Producer, Thunder Bay service. -Globe and Mail completely closed in the summer months. Chranicie-journai, and Manitoba Co-Operator The new station at Autoroute 640 will be COMPUTER RESERVATIONS named Deux-Montagnes, and the existing TGV EXHIBIT VIA has joined its third computer reservation Deux-Montagnes station wfll be renamed French engineer and designer Roger Taillon system, Worldspan. This brings the number of Grand-Moulin. The project is proceeding on was in Ottawa recently for the opening of an U.S. travel agencies which have access to VIA schedule. —Michel Beihumeur exhibition on his design of France's Train a to about 20 000. Canadian and U.S. travel grande vitesse (TCV) at the National Museum CIRCUS TRAIN TO TORONTO agents using the Apollo-Gemini and Sabre of Science and Technology. The exhibit was The Ringling Brothers and Bamum and Bailey systems have had access to VIA seat inven• in Toronto for a few weeks, and runs in "Red Train" came to Toronto for the visit of tories since last March. Sleeping car reserva• Ottawa until January 8. -Ottovvo O'tfzen tions are expected to be on-line this January, the circus to the SkyDome. The 50-car train

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in 800 to 1100 litres of diesei fuel being HE P MA spflled in the yard. The city's public works department contained the spiU and prevented BRITISH COLUMBIA RAILWAY it from leaking into a storm sewer. -B/ Wire TUMBLER RIDGE CABOOSES BC Rail began operating Tumbler Ridge coal SABOTEURS LOSE CASE trains without cabooses in October: Caboose- Four former CP workers, who were fired six less operations will be phased in gradually WESTIRN CANADA years ago for tampering with railway signals over the entire system. during a labour dispute, failed in their Gray Scrimgeour —Rick Newell in Northwest Railfan attempt to get their jobs back after a Mont• #570-188 Douglas Street real arbitrator recently dismissed their griev• DEASE LAKE LINE REOPENS Victoria, B.C. V8V 2P1 ances. The arbitrator ruled their actions must The Takla Subdivision reopened on Septem• E-Mail: [email protected] rate among the gravest of disciplinary infrac• ber 30 after the two bumed trestles were tions, calling it "industrial terrorism." The restored. The cost of replacing the trestles CP RAIL SYSTEM arbitrator was chosen jointly by CP and the was estimated at $3.5-million. "At this point CAR HITS TRAIN, TRAIN HITS CAR National Automobile, Aerospace and Agricul• we are not operating north of Lovell," a BCR Marion McAdam-Beal has an incredible tale tural Implement VYorkers Union of Canada. spokesman said. "Before (the fire) we could operate the whole length of the line." Lovell of survival to teU after her car was damaged The four were accused of cutting wires on is at Mile 197 of the extension, just south of twice by the same train. "It all seems really four signals west of Winnipeg, on CP's Car- where members of the Citksan Fort CoimeUy fuimy to me now - the train ran into me and berry Subdivision in April 1988. The cut band established a blockade at Mile 221. The then it ran into me again," McAdam-Beal, 41, wires turned all the signals red, forcing a 77- limit of the railway's operations used to be to said from her hospital bed in Calgary. "And I car westboimd freight to slow to restricted Mile 309 at Chipmuiik. don't remember a single thing about it being speeds. Sixteen miles late; 19 hopper cars of scary or terrifying, but you'd think I would the train derailed near Poplar Point, Manito• —Eric Johnson in Northwest Railfan; have been scared to death." ba. After a lengthy investigation by CP Police Kitchener-Waterha Record McAdam-Beal left a meeting near and the RCMIj it was determined that the Didsbuiy, north of Calgary, and was driving derailment was caused by sabotage to track CN NORTH AMERICA home early on October 13 along a road she switches. DERAILMENT has travelled "miUions of times." Thafs the The arbitrator relied heavily on testimony On October 17, a CN train went off the last memory McAdam-Beal had before she from a CP mechanic who drove two of the tracks west of , spilling sulphur on drove into the 38th car of a 42-car west- men to the signal sites. The mechanic said he the main line between the Alberta capital and bormd train. Her vehicle was dragged almost did not know any tampering was going to Vancouver. The train's two crew members 10 km along the track before it became take place and was given his job back in escaped without injury, but the accident dislodged. About 30 minutes later the same return for testifying against the four. CP has sparked a few small fires along the line near train — now heading in the opposite direction filed suit in the Court of Queen's Bench, the Evansburg, 80 km west of Edmonton. Seven• — struck the car again as it sat on the track high court of Manitoba, against the four who teen of the train's 101 loaded sulphur cars with McAdam-Beal laying rmconscious and cut the wires and two others implicated in spilled, but officials said the sulphur posed no trapped inside. Fire and ambulance crews had the derailment. The railroad seeks damages danger. Traffic, including the VIA Canadian, to rrse the "jaws of life" to free the woman, for wrecked equipment, injuries to the train was rerouted through Calgary. who suffered a broken leg, arm, and numer- crew, and workers' compensation payouts. -Canadian Press orrs brrmps and bruises. —tAontreal Gazette The accident cost CP about $l-milHon. THE THIRD SEABOARD This incident took place during a strike LETHBRIDGE DERAILMENT Another money-losing shipping season has against CP by 3500 workers from five unions A derailment on Monday, October 17 in come to a close at the port of Churchill but grouped under the Canadian Council of Lethbrrdge may have been caused by a bro• boosters say the red ink is no accident and Shopcraft Unions. The workers began rotat• ken rail. Emergency crews evacuated more could have been avoided. Total shipments in ing strikes in March 1988 and escalated the than 200 people when six CP cars carrying nine vessels were more than 291 000 tonnes. dispute to a full strike on May 1, 1988. methanol left the tracks just north of the city That's only about half of what it takes for the centre. At least one car was leaking the wood —jaumal af Commerce port to break even and should result in alcohol, but the spiU was contained and no GREY CUP SPECIAL TRAIN another loss of close to $2-million for Canada injuries were reported. A CP Rail spokesman A Cray Cup special train was to travel from Ports Corporation. But port manager Allan said the stretch of track believed to have Calgary to Vancouver on CP Rail, leaving on Johnson and a Manitoba-Saskatchewan group snapped was tested less than a year ago. November 23. The train ride was to honour called the Hudson Bay Route Association say —Victaria Times-Colanist the 1944 Cray Cup champion Royal Canadian the port could have made money and should Navy team that won the CFL playoff in have shipped a lot more grain. REGINA DERAILMENT Hamilton. About 15 of the surviving RCN "We beUeve we didn't get our fair share," CP crews spent October 18 cleaning up a fuel players will ride the train. The train was to Johnson said as he and port staff began spfll in the Regina yard following a minor carry about 175 people, using CCRC Rocky preparing for the winter shutdown. "lbs derailment involving two trains earlier in the Mountaineer cars. The train was expected to intentional, there's no question in my mind," day. The derailment was caused by an im• be pulled by CP SD40-2F 9000, and to have agreed Arnold Crambo, president of the properly aligned switch. A moving locomotive a steam generator ca; a baggage ca; four Hudson Bay Route Association. struck a box car and a hopper car on an da3mighters, one smoking ca; and one or two CN, which owns the line to Churchill, adjacent siding, causing the engine and the dome cars. A stop was to be made at Mission deserves much of the blame for doing what it two freight cars to jump the tracks. Damage to put the Crey Cup itself onboard for the can to discourage traffic to the port, sug• to the tracks was minimal. The collision arrival in Vancouver. —Victaria Times-Colanist gested Crambo. Crambo questioned whether ruptured the locomotive's fuel tank resulting all the money the railway has received from

Rail and Transit • November 1994 • 15 Transcontinental Railway and transit news from coast to coast taxpayers has gone to line maintenance, • HATX 406 (ex-CSXT GP40 6664) including a $30-mfllion grant provided in the MOTIY WER • HATX 518 (ex-CSXT GP40 6548) late 1960s. He said despite claims to the • HATX 519 (ex-CSXT GP40 6585) contrary, CN could use modem hopper cars • HATX 4000 (ex-CSXT GP40 6667) on the hne. Instead, it uses old boxcars that • HATX 4001 (ex-CSXT GP40 6708) carry less grain and are harder to unload. • HATX 4002 (heritage unconfirmed) • HLCX 3681 (ex-IC GP38AC 9552) Always in high demand, hopper cars are used to service West Coast and Creat Lakes ports. CP MOTIVE POWER NOTES John Carter Johnson said Churchill has the capacity to Two more of the ex-CATX SD40-2s have 2400 Queen Street East #204 unload hopper cars and they've been used on recently been renumbered. CATX 2004 and Scarborough, Ontario MIN IA2 the line in the past with no problem. 2008 have become CP 5426 and 5430 res• E-Mail: [email protected] CN denies the charges and insists it has pectively. • CP SD40 5561 was taken to the improved the line as promised. Even with the CN NORTH AMERICA BCR shops in Squamish in October for main• improvements, typical grain trains of 100 tenance. The shops there wfll be getting one hopper cars are simply too heavy for the CN TO LEASE GEs FOR 18 WINTERS CP unit per month, as the CP shops are too unstable muskeg terrain, said spokesman Jim CN has entered into an agreement with busy to handle all the required work. • D&H Feeney. He said as far as CN is concerned, Ceneral Electric to lease 25 locomotives for a GP38 7311, previously scheduled to be Churchill's future is something best left to six-month period from November to April, in released from overhaul at Ogden on Octo• politicians. The railway receives subsidies, so each of the next 18 years. The arrangement ber 31, has since been rescheduled for release it loses no money serving the port. wfll allow CN greater flexibility through the on November 28. • BC Rail SD40-2s 746 and The fate of the port of Churchill could be winter months when there are greater 747 were not returned to the BCR on Novem• decided in the next few months. A federal- demands on the locomotive fleet. The agree• ber 1, but as of November 20 still continue to provincial task force has been created to ment comes through CE's leasing arm. Lease see service on CP. • M636 4712 was retired make recommendations about the future of Management Systems (LMS), which is cur• in mid-November as a result of fire damage the northern Manitoba port, which has been rently fielding a fleet of 60 Dash 8-40CWs, sustained in late October. The unit caught an outlet for prairie grain exports since 1931. numbered 700 to 759, which have been in fire east of Toronto on October 28 while on The 20-member task force will include repre• service on Conrail. CN will get LMS 715 to train 904. The train was stopped and the fire sentatives from various groups with interests 739. Two units, 720-a-n(L725j^ visitedJvIae- extinguished in Darlington siding. Afterwards, in the future of Churchill. The grain indus• Millan Yard in Toronto for a few days, begin• the train continued to Montreal with the try's interest will be represented by the ning on November 16, before entering service damaged locomotive remaining on the train. Hudson Bay Route Association, the Canadian on CN. CN is also expecting to take delivery Wheat Board, and CN. of its own 23 Dash 9-44CWs in December. RAILTEX IN CANADA —Montreal Gazette, Western Producer CURRENT CN LEASE FLEET CB&CNS NAMING Leased units currently on CN: All of Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia's VIA RAIL CANADA • EMD Leasing GP40s 200 and 201 (ex-GO power has now been repainted into their ANOTHER GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENT Transit 725 and 726) attractive black-and-gold paint scheme, and The VIA Budd cars assigned to passenger • EMD Leasing GP38-2s 763, 772, 775, 790, all of the units have been named. Names of service on the E&N have been subject to 794, 795, 800, 806, and 813 (all ex-Conrall) each are as foUows: many grade crossing accidents. RDC-1 6135 • GATX Leasing GP40 3702 C630M 2003 John Gait was no exception when it had a fuel line • Helm HLCX SD40s 015, 016, and 5000-5004 20 \ Robert Burns mptured on October 26 when it was hit by a • Helm HATX, SD45-2s 9O0-9I0 2016 Robert Louis Stephenson four-wheel drive truck in Nanaimo. After the • Helm HLCX SD40-2s 6204, 6206, and 6209 2029 Sir Richard Maitland accident to the southbound train, passengers • N RE SD40S 869, 870, 872, 878, 882, 886, 889, 2032 Lord Byron were taken by bus to Victoria, and the car and 892 (ex-C&NW) 2034 Sir Canon Doyte was brought south to Victoria the same • Morrlson-Knudsen MKCX 9053-9057 2035 Sir Waiter Scott evening as a special freight train. SD40 and SD40-2 REBUILDING 2039 Wi«/om Ounbar RS18 3627 Sir John A Macdonaid While it was initially thought that the car SD40-2 rebuilds 5364 and 5365 (former 3675 Sir Charles Tupper was too badly damaged to be repaired, 6135 Missouri Pacific 4095 aiid 4100) have been 3842 Sir Robert Lo/rd Borden was to be sent to VIA's Vancouver Mainten• released from AMF. These units now have 3852 Sir J. S. D, Thompson (see below) ance Centre for work, and it should be back nose headlights, class lights, and ditchlights, in service in five to six weeks. and bells have been moved under the frame. NEW UNIT FOR THE CB&CNS Twelve of the 24 ex-MP/UP units are sched• CN class MR-14 1757 was at CN Cordon FUTURE OF E&N uled to be completed by the end of 1994. Yard shop in Moncton to be converted back On November 14, Moe Sihota, B.C.'s minister SD40S 5009, 5014, 5026, 5033, 5042, to its original RSI8 configuration. It was of the environment ministe; told a ratepay• 5045, 5047, 5059, 5076, and 5111 are at then to get back its former numbe; 3852, ers' meeting in his constituency that negoti• AMF for rebuilding and wfll be renumbered before it was to go to the CB&CNS. Two ations with CP Rail on the possibility of the in the 6010-6019 series. more of the six-axle RS18s, CN 1760 and province taking over the, VIA operation of the 1765, are still on lease to the CB&CNS. E&N has been stalled. Sihota said CP Rail CP RAIL SYSTEM was delaying the talks because the federal GODERICH-EXETER RAILWAY government has not reversed a previous direc• NEW LEASED UNITS October 20 saw the arrival of CRL 342 on the tive stating VIA did not have to operate the More lease units have shown up on CP. New GEXR. We do not yet know whether this unit E&N line. The provincial government made a Helm arrivals are: is on lease from Conrail or is one of approxi• commitment to negotiate a takeover of the • HATX 400 (ex-CSXT GP40 6532) mately 20 units which Conrail sold to Rail- passenger service. —Victoria Times-Coianist • HATX 405 (ex-CSXT GP40 6659) Tex. The unit is a CP38, formerly Pittsburgh

16 • Rail and Transit • November 1994 Transcontinental Railway and transit news from coast to coast and Lake Erie 2038, previously Conrail 2037, Former CSXT CP40s 6513, 6851 are to and originally Perm Central 7766. It is cur• be rebuilt as CP40PH-2s for Virginia Railway rently black with yellow doors and pilot, but Express, the commuter service ruimmg south in the mid-1970s was painted red, white, and from Washington, D.C. blue for the U.S. bicentennial. • CEXR CP9s Maryland and Delaware RS3m units 178 and 179 have each had a red and white ("DeWitt Ceeps," Alco RS3s rebuilt with vertical panel attached along the running EMD 567 engine blocks by Perm Central and board, near the rear of the unit, describing Conrail) 1201 to 1203 are being cycled Scott Haskill "Operation Lifesaver." through AMF for major overhauls and instal• Ashford Hall, 2520 Bloor Street West #15 lation of 26L brake equipment. The first, Toronto, Ontario M6S IR8 GM LOCOMOTIVE GROUP 1203, entered the shop in mid-August. E-Mail: 72154.-133 [email protected] CR.TO ASSEMBLE ITS SD60s Former CTW SW900 7262, recently Because GM Diesel Division in London is equipped for remote operation at AMF, was INDUSTRY NEWS currently building at capacity, CM has delivered to the Stelco plant in Nanticoke as NEWEST LOW-FLOOR BUS UNVEILED arranged for Conrail to help build its current Stelco 455. The newest entry into the low-floor bus race order of SD60MIs. Forty-five of the 90 high- lABOUR JURISDICTION was recently unveiled by the Nova BUS Cor• horsepower units are being assembled at AMF asked the Quebec Superior Court to rule poration of Saint-Eustache, Quebec. The Conrail's Juniata shops in Altoona, Penn• that it is subject to Quebec labour laws "Nova LFS" is an all-new vehicle design that sylvania, where previously Pennsylvania instead of federal laws. The Court decided has its roots in Europe, being nominally Railroad CC-ls were built. Locomotive con• that AMF, despite being a subsidiary of a based on a Dutch low-floor bus currently on struction ceased at the shop in the 1940s, but crown corporation, is subject to provincial the market. A test bus was imported from the facility has continued to be used for laws. The Canadian Auto Workers union is Europe and studied carefully, in order to help maintenance and has performed locomotive appealing the decision. Seven other unions Nova BUS engineers and designers come up overhauls and complete rebuilds since. Parts representing workers at the company took what they felt was the best design for North for the kit locomotives are being shipped part in the case. American markets. from both London and La Grange, and the AMF workers currently do not have a locomotives are being assembled in four bays Nova BUS, which has operated the former contract. AMF said it requested the decision within the shop at an expected rate of five MCI, former General Motors Diesel Division, for two reasons: to settle conflicts between units per month. CM has also contracted out bus plant in Saint-Eustache since 1993, has federal and provincial health and employ• work on other orders to VMV in Paducah and consulted widely in developing the new ment security regulations, and to allow AMF to AMF in Montreal. design. A large number of focus group to offer its employees advantages that come sessions were conducted by Nova BUS in The Conrail SDSOMACs mentioned in the with Quebec's labour laws. —les Affaires order to get as much input as possible from October i?m7 and Thansit axe. not scheduled for the transit systems' point of view, including completion until mid-1995. The units under OTHER RAILWAYS both Canadian and U.S. agencies. Being a construction for Conrail are SD60MIs. GCRC UNITS LEASED TO BCR Quebec-based organisation, the company BN DELIVERIES The General Electric units used in the svxa- worked most closely with a group represent• Recent deliveries of Burlington Northern mer fox the Rocky Mountaineer, GCRC B36-7s ing transit systems in that province. SD70MACS include the following; 7488 and 7498, have been leased to BC Rail The Nova LFS bus features a combination • 9506 and 9508 - November 4 for the winter of 1994-95. • BC Rail's four of fibreglass body and nylon skirt panels • 9504 and 9505 - November 8 additional GE units on orde; Dash 9-44CWs, bonded to a welded steel tube frame. All • 9499 and 9510 - November 10 are to be the last DC units that BCR will frame components are coated with an anti- • 9495 and 9507 - November I I order; aU future dieseis wfll be AC traction. corrosion coating. The prototype bus features • 9509, 9542, and 9543 - November 18 two 47-inch wide "slide-glide" doors, and tall VIA UNITS SOLD • 9544, 9545, and 9548 - November 19 windows with sliding lower sashes. A large, FP9 6541, originally CN .6541, and FP7 • 9550-9552, via CR date unconfirmed curved, single-piece front windshield is the 6550, originally CP 4099, have become most striking feature of the bus. The rear has Nebkota 54 and 55 respectively. Based in AMF TECHNOTRANSPORT a two-thirds width window. Cordon, Nebraska, Nebkota operates 74 miles RECENT WORK The prototype bus is powered by a Cum• between Merriman and Chadron on the west Recent work at AMF includes the following: mins 8.3-litre diesei engine mounted in a "T- end of the Chicago and North Western "Cow• CN SW900 7920 was repainted with a drive" configuration, with an Allison B-300R boy" line across northem Nebraska. blue hood and orange trim, and was sold by transmission. Other engine-transmission AMF to Esso Chemicals at Samia. (Tliis CP 4500 TO THE U.S. combinations will be available. The use of a nwnth's The Train Spotters column shows Former CP Rail G630M 4500 is to be moved Cummins engine represents a milestone in 7920 returning east to AMF on August 18.) from the Canadian Ceneral Tower siding in the histoiy of the company and its prede• Former CSXT CP38-2 2601 was released Oakville to the Illinois Railway Museum in cessors. With its former CM ties, the com• on June 30 as Southern Pacific 170. Similar Union, lUinois. The owner of the unit had pany had exclusively used Detroit Diesel units that followed were 2589 as 159 on previously considered moving it to the York- engines. The front axle is a ZF solid-beam July 5, and 2595 as 165 on July 19. Durham Heritage Railway in Uxbridge. drop axle, while the rear is a ZF drop-centre Quebec North Shore and Labrador portal axle. Motive Power news sources: British Columbia SD40-2S 229, 233, 238, 246, 248, and 250 The configuration of the engine and Railway Historical Association, BRS Branchiine. arrived in June, and 237 and 245 in July for transmission is similar to the proposed CN North America, CP Rail System, Conrail, rebuild and upgrade. Their new numbers are Orion VI from Ontario Bus Industries. The Extra 2200 South, FCRS Tempo Jr., John Reay, expected to be 313, 315, 311, 316, 314, 312, engine and transmission are mounted in the S.I. Westland 317, and 318, respectively. rear comer of the bus on the driver's side.

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As built, the 40-foot by 102-inch proto• compete fully in the U.S. market, where type includes a step-free interior equipped access for disabled customers is required, the ROLLI OCK with 37 passenger seats (including some rear height of the front door opening has been facing seats, and some seats on platforms). increased by approximately ten inches, now Two wheelchair positions immediately behind in alignment with the top of the window the front axle are included, but if both are frames. In order to accommodate this change, occupied, six seats which face the aisle are a number of structural modifications were lost. A ramp is provided at the front door, made in the design of the front end to ensure and the bus is fully-accessible to customers in the structural integrity of the bus. Don McQueen wheelchairs and scooters. Another change to the Classic line is the 38 Lloyd Manor Crescent The prototype also includes air condition• introduction of a "Classic TDS," named for its London, Ontario N6H 3Z3 ing, a roof duct heating system, optional T-drive design. A prototype bus has been sidewall heaters, and an on-line audio-visual constructed using the Cummins 8.3-litre AWARD FOR VIA SILVER AND BLUE CARS passenger information display system similar engine coupled to an Allison B-300R trans• VIA recently received a Brunei railway engin• to that now found on cars in the Montreal mission. A Rockwell full floating rear axle is eering award for it.s rebuilding work on its Metro. included, but with the T-drive installation, fleet of stainless-steel cars. An awards cere• The first Nova LFS low-floor buses are the centre seat in the rear bench is lost. mony and display were held in Washington, scheduled to come off the production line in Over the past couple of years, the com• D.C, on October 17 and 18. Other recipients the second quarter of 1995. Seventy-five pany has taken a somewhat conservative of awards were Amtrak, for its AMD-103 units are to be delivered to the Societe de approach to the urban bus marketplace. "Cenesis" Locomotive and interior design of transport de la Communaute urbaine de Much of its production has been delivered to its Superliner II coaches, and Santa Fe for its Montreal (STCUM), a member of the design operators in the Quebec (including 300 this articulated auto rack. VIA displayed coach group. Other Quebec systems, including the year for the STCUM alone). The lack of a 8100, sleeping car Dunsmuir Manor, dining Societe de transport de la Communaute low-floor design has left the company out of room car Louise, and dome-observation car urbaine de Quebec (STCUQ), are expected to several markets and interprovincial trade Kokanee Park at Union Station in Washing• follow suit. restrictions have meant that the company has ton. There were more than 400 entries com• The bus received its U.S. unveiling in not bid on Ontario orders recently and can• peting for the awards. -Al Tuner Boston at the annual meeting of the Ameri• not do so under present conditions until late can Public Transit Association. The Nova LFS next year. -CUTA Forum VIA EQUIPMENT FOR SALE bus will be on display at the Canadian Urban CANAC, on behalf of VIA, is disposing of Transit Association's conference in Calgary in surplus rolling stock through a closed bidding late November. EUROPEAN-STYLE LOW-FLOOR BUS T process. Bids will be received until December 16 for the following equipment: The company has been busy on a number The "Nova LFS" is the new low-floor bus by of fronts over the past few months. Besides Nova BUS, of Saint-Eustache, Quebec. The 40-foot • Steam generator units 15405, 15420, 15429, announcing an agreement in principle to bus is based on a Dutch design. This demonstrator 15439, 15444, 15445, 15448, 15454, 15459, acquire the Transportation Manufacturing is seen in Boston at a transit industry trade show. 15460, 15466, and 15480. Corporation (TMC) from its current Mexican Montreal's STCUM has ordered 75 Nova LFS • Club-galley cars 650-St. Denis, 651 -Richelieu, owners. Nova BUS has made changes to its buses, for delivery in early 1995. and 662—Lour/er. "Classic bus." In order to allow the bus to -Photo by Van Wilkins • Caf6-lounge cars 751 and 754. • "E" sleepers I I \0-Eastpon, I I I I -Eastview, I I 13 -Edge/ey, I I 14-£dmun

TTX INTERMODAL PUMFORMS TTX has ordered 300 five-platform all-pur• pose intermodai cars and 750 centre-beam lumber flat cars from National Steel Car for delivery in 1995.

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Sean Robitaille 371 Wakefield Place NEW BUSINESS FOR BOMBARDIER Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 6P3 Bombardier has signed two contracts in Florida worth $86-milIion. The first contract is with the Jacksonville Transportation Auth• CN TRAINS IN CHICAGO . . . August I I -September 23 Ken Lanovlch ority, to supply the UM 111 monorail system. Aug n, 14:40 - CN Train 392 with 2114-5032-5353-9628 The second contract, worth $11-million, is to Aug 15, 22:30 - CN Train 238 with 2118-2101-9615 supply five bi-level commuter coaches to Tri- Aug 24, 18:35 - CN Train 392 with GTW 5853-CN 5349-GTW 6204-CN 5205 County Commuter Rail Authority of Florida. Aug 25, 18:25 - CN Train 392 with GTW 5913-6411-CSX 6122-6131-6513*-6851* Construction of the monorail equipment will * - Units 6513 and 6851 were dead, en route to AMF for rebuilding for Virginia Railway Express. take over 40 months and will be done in Sept 2, 13:30 - CN Train 341 with MKCX 9054-GTW 5937-MKCX 9057 Florida and at the Kingston plant. The Tri- Sept 5, 11:35 - CN Train 391 w. CTW 5831-NRE 886-GTW 5719-CN 5346-HATX 903-908 Rail coaches will take roughly six months to Sept 9, 14:40 - CN Train 341 with DWP 5902-CTW 5935 complete at the Thunder Bay plant. Sept 16, 21:45 - CN Train 392 with 5081-CTW 6206-HATX 905 Bombardier has also signed two contracts Sept 20, 18:20 - CN Train 392 with GTW 6211-HATX 905-CN 5081-HATX 906-GTW 6216- for commuter cars. One is a $59.3-million CN 9604-9589 contract to supply 34 commuter coaches to Metro-North Commuter Railroad in New HAMILTON AREA August IB-September 18 Greg Smith York. The contract includes an option for 15 Aug 18, 20:00 -- CN Train A448 with 4124-7028-9603 additional cars, which could raise the value 20:06 -- CN Train 392 with 5355-5321-AMF 7920" of the contract to $80.1-million. The other is * - AMF 7920 is ex-CN 7920 but with orange cab and blue hood. It was probably returning to a $55-million contract to supply 28 bi-level AMF from Esso at Sarnia. coaches to BC Transit for its new Mission- Aug 25, 14:50 - CP Train 523 with 5653-HATX 404-CP 8207 Vancouver CommuterRail service. These cars Sept 2, 12:22 - CN Train 391 with 5308-SP 162-HATX 902-CN 5262 are to be delivered by next September. 13:30 - CP Train 523 with CPRS 5638-CP 4738-HLCX 3110-CP 5626-HATX 919 The company says it expects to receive an Sept 11, 14:52 - CN Train 239 with 9652-NRE 882-CN 9593 order worth about $180-million for 66 com• 16:12 - CP Train 521 with 4230-8231-HATX 408-CPRS 5427 muter cars for a new Mexican railway. A Sept 16, 19:13 - CN Train 392 with 3528-3527-HATX 910 group of Mexican companies, called Crupo Sept 18, 12:15 - CP Train 521 with 5645-5410-Soo 748-CP 4743-HATX 506-CP 8207- Guanajuato, recently was awarded a conces• 4239-HLCX 663 sion from the State of Guanajuato to build WESTERN CANADA August 27-September 7 Pat Scrimgeour and operate a 170-kilometre railway line. Aug 27, VIA Train 1 left Toronto with 6440-6450-8616-8122-8123-8118-8516-5/ierMW Bombardier said it is the designated rolling- Manor- Thompson Manor- Alexandra- Franklin Manor- Allan Manor- Wolfe Manor- stock supplier for the group. The project, Strathcona Park which will link five cities in Guanajuato, will Aug 31, Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan - CP switch job with 3052-HATX 504-CP 3040 be managed by consulting firm GMAT Ltee. At the Moose Jaw diesei shop - Soo 6608-6002; HATX 511-CP 6049; HLCX 6201- of Montreal and is estimated to be worth CP 6056-HELM 6367-CP 5538-5801; CP 5649; HLCX 663-CP 6007-PNC 3064; CP $840-million. 5876-HLCX 3023; CPRS 5938-HATX 918-CP 5833; CP 5791-5937-HATX 513; Soo Power Corporation and Bombardier have 6042-CP 3066; ACR 185 also joined forces with the China National Sept 1, at Medicine Hat: Railway Locomotive and Rolling Stock Indus• • CP Eastbound with 6010-5982 try Corp. to create a joint venture to build • CP Eastbound with 5666-Soo 6061 rolling stock in China. • CP Westbound potash with 5801-5538-HELM 6367-CP 6056 -Financial Post and Globe and hAaii • CP Eastbound grain with 9019-6080 Sept 3, Kingsgate, B.C. - UP Southbound with 3698-2538 (Lifted consist CP set out the night before; UP left unit 2481 behind, across the border at Eastport, Idaho.) BACK COVER - TOP Sept 5, at Fort Steele: The Meet That Never Was: Eastbound on the • CP Northbound coal with CPRS 9000-5878 York Subdivision at Beare, CN GP40-2 9527 • CP SB coal with CPRS 5877-CP 5758-5930-CPRS 5517-CP 5503-5698-5972-5934 leads an eastbound Laser train under the CP Sept 7, in Jasper: Belleville Subdivision, In March 1992. Shown • CCRC Eastbound with 7498-9488-5709-5704-5707-5718-5715 above the CN train is an eastbound CP Rail train, with by M630s 4561 and 4550. For more • VIA Train 5 with 6439-8129-8500-MacZ)o/iflW Manor information on this image, see Item 43 in the AYR ... September 23—October 16 Sean Robltaille Information Network, on F'age I I. Sept 23, CP Train 921 with VIA 6455-Soo 6040 08:59 -Photo(s) by John Reay 09:27 CP Westbound with 5774-HATX 408-CP 1815 Sept 24, 22:44 CP Train 926 with VIA 6452-HATX 508-VIA 6448 BACK COVER - BOTTOM 23:37 CP Westbound with CPRS 6408-CP 4730 With F40PH-2 6448 and four of the classic ex- 23:47 CP Westbound with 5826-1825-8200 CN blue cars, VIA Train 74 is seen here at Oct 2 21:08 CP Train 504 with 5753-GATX 902-CP 5566-1859-8233-VIA 6448 Beachvllle, headed from Windsor to Toronto, In Oct 11, 21:41 CP Train 500 with 4220-4227-HATX 912-HELM 403-HATX 401 a 1992 view. —Photo by John Carter

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