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UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY 2 * UCRS Newsletter « May 1991 50th ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 499 MAY 1991 UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY 2 * UCRS Newsletter « May 1991 UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY EDITOR IN THIS MONTH'S NEWSLETTER Pat Scrimgeour The Last Run of CNR Train 95 3 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS VIA Rail Canada Schedule Changes 5 Rapid Transit in Canada — 2 6 John Carter, Art Clowes, Scott Haskill, The Ferrophiiiac Column 10 Don McQueen, Sean Robitaille, Number 499 - May 1991 Book Review 12 Gray Scrimgeour, Chris Spinney, The Train Spotters 13 John Thompson, Gord Webster UPPER CANADA RAILWAY SOCIETY Transcontinental — Railway News 14 In Transit 18 RO. BOX 122, STATION A EDITORIAL ADVISOR Motive Power and Rolling Stock 19 TORONTO, ONTARIO M5W 1A2 Stuart i. Westland NOTICES CALENDAR 1991 READER SURVEY Saturday, June 8 — Heritage Bus Tour to the Halton County Radial Railway museum at Rockwocxi, and the Wellington Breakdown by interests County Museum. PMCL coach, washroom equipped, leaves Spadina Readjust north of the subway station at 09:45. Return at 18:00 to Yorkdale. Tickets at CHP Heritage Centre, Other Cumberland Terrace, Bay Street at Cumberland, $26.00. For information, call 461-6032 or 921-4023. ex. Mod. Railway Friday, June 21 - UCRS Toronto meeting, 8:00 p.m., at the ex. Hist Traction Toronto Board of Education, 6th floor auditorium, 155 College Street at McCaul Avenue. Ralph Beaumont will give a shde ex. Urban Transit presentation on a railfan's search for steam in Canada and the U.S. during the past 25 years. Ralph's talk wfll also feature a Either - modern look at abandoned CPR branch lines in Southern Ontario. ex. Hist Railway Friday, June 28 - UCRS Hamilton meeting, 8:00 p.m., at the Hamilton Spectator auditorium, 44 Frid Street, just off Main Street at Highway 403. The programme wih be recent news and Either - historical a showing of members' current and historical slides. Friday, July 19 - UCRS Toronto summer meeting, at the CHP Traction only Heritage Centre, on the second floor at Cumberland Terrace, on Bay Street just north of Bloor. Total number of responses - 391 chart by Chris Spinney Friday, August 2, to Sunday, August 4 — The Kingston Division of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association will host the As usual, we asked you to tell us what your interests are, when 1991 Annual CRHA Convention in Kingston, Ontario. you returned your membership renewal form. Almost everyone responded, and we thank you for that. Only 400 of you are Saturday, August 17 — Vancouver Island Summer Tour, represented here, as the chart was compiled after that many sponsored by the West Coast Railway Association, vrill travel by had renewed. The results, as shown below, compared closely bus from Vancouver's VIA station at 08:00 to the ferry for with the last ones published, for 1989. Nanaimo, and by the E&N to Courtenay for lunch. Then the trip goes by E&N to Victoria, and by bus and ferry to Vancouver. 1989 1991 Price, $109, with lower prices for seniors and children. Write to Railway — Modern 77% 74% WCRA, P.O. Box 2790, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3X2. Railway — Historical 75 72 Sunday, August 25 — Southwest Ontario Rambler, sponsored by Urban Transit 56 56 Canadian Station News. A trip from Toronto to St. Thomas and Electric Traction 59 58 Port Stanley, with stops at stations on the way, Elgin County ALL of your comments have been read, although not all have Railway Museum open hotKe, with CNR 5703, and a ride on been replied-to. If you feel that a specific question has not been the Port Stanley Terminal Railway. Tickets, $45, from CSN, answered, please write us and we'U try to reply promptly. Attention: Rambles, P.O. Box 171, Cobourg, Ontario K9A 4K5. FRONT COVER Please send short contributions to the Subscriptions to the Newsletter are Canadian National Railways 4-6-4 addresses shown at the end of each news available with membership in the Upper Hudson No. 5700 led the morning section. Please send articles and photos to Canada Railway Society. Membership dues the address at the top of the page, if you are $25.00 per year (12 issues) for train from Toronto to Montreal one are using a computer, please send a text addresses in Canada, and $28.00 for day in the late 1930s. No. 5700 was file on an IBM-compatible (S'A" or 3%"), addresses in the U.S. and overseas. Student scrapped, but its identity was assumed Macintosh, or Commodore 64/128 disk, memberships, for those 17 years or by the renumbered 5703, which is along with a printed copy. younger, are $15.00. Please send inquiries preserved in St Thomas, Ontario. and changes of address to the address at Completed June 2, 1991 -Photo by Lloyd G. Baxter the top of the page. UCRS Newsletter * May 1991 * 3 UCRS 50th ANNIVERSARY FEATURE THE LAST RUN OF CNR TRAIN 95 On the 4Qth anniversary of the RODE UP FRONT occasion, we reprint two articles Charles R Randall, also of Toronto, a grain salesman who is about the last day of passenger called CPR by his buddies after his initials, who collects pictures train operation on the CNR's of locomotive engines, snapped dozens of shots to add to his former Port Hope, Lindsay, and collection of more than 1000 different types of engines and Beaverton Railway, between ended the trip by riding up at "the front end" with engineer Port Hope and Peterborough. Ernie Rainbow of Lindsay. The second article, from Hundreds of Port Hope citizens were on hand at the Canadian National Magarine, Walton Street station as "The Cannonball Express" as it is seems to borrow to some extent known to the district residents pulled out on its way back <y from the Telegpam article, and north. perhaps also from other Many who had never been on the fine in their lives jumped newspaper reports. aboard and went as far as Quays, four miles out, or Carmel, eight miles away where friends picked them up in cars to retum LAST MILLBROOK RIDE to Port Hope. ''CANNONBALL EXPRESS" When No. 95 arrived in Millbrook which wfll be the end of the steel on the line, the Millbrook High School band led by a ENDS 94-YEAR SERVICE comely majorette was on hand to serenade the train crew and passengers. Most of the 800 population jammed on the station From The Telegram, Toronto, Friday, June 1, 1951 platform to get their last glimpse of the train. BY ART BURN ELL OLDEST RiDER Local historians recall when the railroad was in its prime "Port Hope, last change for Millbrook and Peterborough," called Millbrook was a busthng town of nearly 2000 persons, but as out Conductor Harold Homer yesterday aftemoon as the one old sage remarked: 'As the population declined so did the Toronto to Belleville CNR train slowed to a stop at Port Hope railroad. Now the trains are gone, what wfll happen to our station. population now. It is a sign of the rimes." To some passengers those words meant nothing, but to Oldest rider on the last trip was Ralph Carlson, 84, of others who made the change the words were only too true. For yesterday Thursday May 31, 1951 was the last day Peterborough, who recalled riding on the line when it was one Train No. 95 pulled out of Port Hope station northbound to of the busiest in Eastem Ontario and at least four passenger Peterborough 31 miles away. The CNR officially abandoned the trains a day ran each way besides freight trains carrying lumber line between the two towns yesterday aftemoon when train No. and grain to the then bustling harbour of Port Hope for trans• 95 loaded passengers for the six stations in between at 4:05 shipment to England and the United States. p.m. standard time. Paul Edward Terry two months old, of Peterborough lay Sixteen miles of track between Port Hope and Millbrook sleeping in the arms of his mother Mrs. W J. Terry unaware win be torn up. The remainder to Peterborough will be only he had made local history as having the distincrion of being the used for occasional fireight service. The railroad had been in yoimgest passenger to make the last trip. operation for nearly 94 years. Another passenger to make the trip was H. R. S. Ryan, K. MADE LAST TRIP C, of Port Hope who fought long and hard to try and stop the Passengers from all over Southern Ontario made the last return CNR from gaining approval of the Board of Transport to trip. When the train pulled out of Port Hope, Walton Street abandon the line, which was first mooted in 1941. station, said to be one of the smallest on the continent, Mayor INVESTED MILLION W. N. Moore was on hand to bid goodbye to the train crew. One of Durham County's foremost historians, Mr. Ryan says the Dr. Walton Ball, a Toronto dentist and member of the municipality of Port Hope has invested nearly a miUion and a Upper Canada Railway Society was on the train. His interest half dollars in the line since it was first incorporated in 1848 as was both historical and personal. the Peterborough and Port Hope Railway Company. His grandfather Albert M. Ball of Port Hope, was a Eight years later the name was changed to the Port Hope, passenger on the gala day on October 16, 1857, when the first Lindsay and Beaverton Railway. Two years later construction train over the line ran firom Port Hope to Lindsay. Another tie began, with the municipality advancing nearly $700 000, a lot to his family Hes in the fact his great-great-grandfather Captain of money even in those days and owning about one-third of the Nathan Waltoir founded Port Hope.
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