Canada's Railway Magazine since 1945 PUBLISHED BY Upper Canada Railway Society NOVEMBER 1995 P.O. Box 122, Station A NUMBER 550 Toronto, Ontario M5W IA2 ISSN I 193-7971 Features this mouth Research and Reviews Transcontinental TO SCHEFFERVILLE ON THE QNS&L 4 RAILWAY ARCHAEOLOGY 14 THE RAPIDO 16 4- Ride an RDC mixed train 4 St. Martins and Upham Railway 4 CN privatised LE TORTILLARD DU SAINT-LAURENT 6 4 CP's Shogomoc Subdivision THE PANORAMA 18 4 Classy tourist train, in CNR green and gold 4 RDC blown up on BC Rail! DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES 14 IN TRANSIT 19 A CANADIAN RAILWAY ADVENTURE .... 8 STATIONS 15 4 Last day for Toronto PCCs 4 The Trains, by John Legg 4 Hervey-Jonction, PQ, CN This IMU* Admission for adults is $8.00; reduced rates Main Street at Highway 403. "How I spent my stimmer vacation" could be are available for children and seniors. the theme for this month's Rail and TLansit, FinaUy, the 22"'' annual Lindsay Model Covar photos with three articles on train rides in Canada. Railway Show is on April 13 and 14, at the The front cover this month is a photo by Ken The feature article, beginning on page 8, Victoria Park Armoury, 210 Kent Street West, Andrews of CN FP9A 6538, at Windsoi; is John Legg's tale of his epic cross-Canada Lindsay. The show is open from 11:00 a.m. Ontario, in August 1958. The conductor is railway Journeys this past summer. John had to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, and from noon to handing orders to the engineer. The locomo• been planning an extensive passenger train 4:30 p.m. on Simday. Adult admission $4.00; tive is seen in its original colours of green, vacation to Canada for some time, and he reduced rates for seniors and adults. Inquires black, and gold, which lasted a relatively managed to include Just about every possible to Wayne Lamb, 705 324-9865, or Eric short time, from the mid-1950s to the early trip, using a VIA Canrailpass. Potter 705 328-3749, or write to P.O. Box 1960s. Contrast this original scheme with the version applied to Le Tortillard du Saint- The other two articles highlight one of 452, Lindsay, Ontario, K9V 4S5. Laurent's FP9A 6306 as seen on pages 6 and the newest tourist train operations in Canada, 7, itself a former CN and VIA locomotive. and one of the most-remote. A trip on the UCRS mMtlngs At the Toronto meeting on December 15, QNS&L, with its unique Budd RDC/mixed The top back cover photo is of a QNS&L Peter Jobe gave a taste of his upcoming trains, was a chance not to be missed. The passenger train of a generation earlier than presentation by showing slides from his loss-making service had been threatened with the ones featured in the article on pages 4 recent trip to the southwestem U.S. Rick discontinuation, but the NTA annoimced on and 5. The photo is at Sept-Iles in June Eastman delved into his own collection for September 19 that it must continue, as it is 1981, by Steve Danko. SD40 206 is leading some rare and interesting shots from closer to in the public interest of the remote region. a passenger train made up mostly of ex-CPR home. Angus Shops-buRt curved sided coaches and Upcoming shows The next meeting will be Friday, January baggage cars. While some ex-CPR cars Make plans for these three upcoming railway 19, 1996, and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the remain, passenger trains today on the QSN&L and model railway shows in southern Toronto Hydro office, 14 Carlton Street, Just use ex-VIA RDCs or ex-Southem coaches. The Ontario. The first is the Forest City Railway east of College subway station. SD40 was later sold to CP as their 5402. Society's 22"^ annual railway slide and trade The February meeting wiU be on February The bottom back cover photo is on a day, on Saturday, March 23, 1996, from 1:00 16, and wiU feature Peter Jobe's presentation railway that has new passenger service in to 5:00 p.m., in London, at AU-Saints' on fallen and falling flags of the southwestem 1995 - the route of Le Tortillard du Saint- Church, comer of Hamilton and Inkerman. U.S., including the Westem Pacific, Missouri- Laurent. The undated photo of CNR 1400 is Admission is $2.00. Dealers are welcome; for Kansas-Texas, Kansas City Southem, South- at Saint-Joachim, the point where the Que• rates contact Ian Piatt, RR#3 IngersoU, em Pacific, and Santa Fe. Peter takes excel• bec Railway, Light, and Power Company's Ontario NSC 3JC, 519 438-3330. lent pictures, and this presentation is not to electrified line from Qudbec City ended, and Next is the 21*'^ annual Toronto Model be missed, especially if you want to have a CN's otherwise-isolated line to Murray Bay Railway Show, on March 30 and 31, spon• good (last?) look at the striking red-and- began. The entire line is now operated by the sored by the Toronto and York Division, silver Santa Fe scheme. Chemin de fer de Charlevoix, a new short Canadian Railroad Historical Association. The The Hamilton meeting on Friday, January line. The photo is from the Paterson-George event wiU be held at the International Centre 26, 1996 will feature recent news and mem• coUection. inMississauga, Ontario, near Pearson Airport. bers' current and historical slides. The meet• The show opens at 11:00 a.m., and closes at ing will begin at 8:00 p.m. at the Hamilton 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, 5:00 p.m. on Stmday. Spectator auditorium, 44 Frid Street, Just off This issue completed December 29, 1995 Editor Contributing Editors Subscriptions Directors Pat Scrimgeour John Carter, Art Clowes, Scott Haskiil, Subscriptions to Rail and Transit are Scott Haskiil, President .... 416 604-207! 250 Queens Quay West # 1607 Sean Robitaiile, Gray Scrimgeour, available with membership in the Upper John Carter, Vice-President 416 690-6651 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N2 Chris Spinney, Gordon Webster. Canada Railway Society. Membership dues Rick Eastman, Vce-President 416 494-34 i 2 E-Mail: 73! [email protected] are $29.00 per year for addresses in Art Clowes 514 934-5549 Correspondents Canada; $35.00 (or $27.00 in U.S. funds) for AJMaitiand 416 921-4023 Piease send news items to the address Alex Campbell, Richard Carroll, addresses in the U.S. and overseas. Piease George Meek 416 532-5617 shown with each news section. Articies and Calvin Henry-Cotnam, Bill McGuire, send inquiries and changes of address to the Pat Scrimgeour 416 260-5652 photos shouid be sent to the editor. Don McQueen, John Reay, Denis Taylor. address at the top of the page. PatSempie 416 923-9123 Chris Spinney 416 281-821! I News Photos NOV 95 From December 26, CP Rail can abandon 27.4 miles of its Cornwall Subdivision, from Souianges, Quebec, to Comwaii, Ontario. The abandonment was approved by the NTA on September 27. Traffic had decreased to 644 carloads in 1993 and 450 carloads in 1994. These two photos were taken by Michel Belhumeur on September 11 of this year, at North Lancaster, Ontario, and at. Saint-Teiesphore, Quebec. CP's Owen Sound Subdivision between Owen Sound and Orangeviiie, a distance of 71 miles, has been approved for abandonment on December 11. Traffic was 458 carloads in 1993 and 428 carloads in 1994. In October, CP said that it would offer" the remaining 35-miie section from Streetsviiie to Orangeviiie for sale as a short-line railway, as it has higher traffic levels. These photos were taken by John Cartel; at Dundaik, in 1993. Effective October 4, CP abandoned the Lachute Subdivision between Mile 28 in Mirabel and Mile 90 at Thurso. Michel Belhumeur took this picture of CN Train 584 on September 13, 1995, on the CN Montforf Subdivision (now the Montfort Spur). The train was about to cross the diamond with the CP at Sainte-Schoiastique, at Mile 23.1 on the CN and Mile 31.53 on the CE Rail and Transit • November 1995 • 3 I To Schefferville on the QNSscL By Pat Scrimgeour top rotary-dump gondolas.) We met another southbound, again with three units, at Oreway at 14:40. At the end of September, I rode north from Sept-Iles to We arrived at Ross Bay Jet. at 15:30. From Ross Bay Schefferville on the Chemin de fer QNS&L (the Quebec Jet., the Wacouna Subdivision extends south to Sept-Iles, North Shore and Labrador Railway), and back south the the Northemland Subdivision extends west to Labrador next day. City and the mines at Carol Lake and Wabush Lake, and the The northbound train, made up of former VIA (CN) Menihek Subdivision extends north to Schefferville, where RDCs 6218, 6115, and 6101, left Sept-Iles at 09:02. As we the mines have been closed since the early 1980s. At Ross left the yard, we passed a train of empty ore cars ready to Bay Jet., we waited for the connecting train from Labrador leave behind Dash 8-40C 403 and SD40-2 313. We passed City. The QNS&L passenger train to Schefferville runs once the begin/end CTC sign at the north end of the yard limits a week, and north of Ross Bay Jet., it is the only train on the at 09:18, and Amaud Jet., where the Chemin de fer Amaud line and so nms as a mixed train, with freight cars at the connects, at 09:28.