o WINTER-SPRING 1997-1998 NUMBER 568 A SPECIAL MESSAGE: operations, is creative and literate, and stays 1997 dues will include this issue and the two Rail and Transit and the future in touch with current events. Of course, which follow. If you have already sent your there are many members who this describes. dues for 1998, they have been credited to It has been several months since the last I do not think it's necessary that the editor your account. The mailing label on the next issue of Rail and Transit was in your hands. be in Toronto, or that the editorial group be issue - but not on this issue - will show The occasional but inevitable problem in an all in one place. whether your dues have been paid for 1998. all-volunteer organisation has occurred: the The UCRS has a long tradition of achiev• 1998 Annual General Meeting small group of people who produce the mag• ing high standards for its periodicals. The The annual general meeting of the UCRS azine have simply not had the time available Bulletin, Newsletter, and Kail and Transit was held in Toronto on March 20, 1998. to do the job. have been published for over 50 years, and Scott Haskill, president, and other directors I regret that this has occurred, and I have therefore repotted as current events a reported on the business of the Society in regret that we have not been able to deliver great fraction of the history of railways in 1997, in the areas of finance, membership, to you the news and information that you Canada. Some of the most important re• Rail and Transit, the CHP Heritage Centre, expect. I appreciate the interest that many search about railway history has been pub• and excursions. Pat Scrimgeour gave notice of you have expressed as you have called or lished in our pages. The publications have that he would be resigning as editor of Rail written to ask about the delay, and I appreci• changed as they have passed through the and Transit. AI Maitland, Neil McNish, and ate the patience of all of you. hands of the different generations of con• Pat Semple were elected as directors for a This issue is in a simplified format, to tributors. I'm pleased with how we've im• term of three years, and George Meek was make the production easier and thus to end proved during the time I've been involved, elected as director for a term of two years. the delay. As the last regular issue was dated but I also know that there is much more September-October 1997, we have desig• scope for improvement in the future. nated this issue as Winter-Spring 1997-1998 It would have been easy for me to con• to allow the cover date of future issues to be sider the production of Rail and Transit as a TEARING UP THE BRUCE current. The changes in cover dates of Rail chore, but when I read the appreciative BY RALPH BEAUMONT and Transit will not affect the number of comments from members about its value to The little hamlet of Proton Station is going issues you will receive as part of your 1997 them, or when I hear about the respect to have to change its name, because it can membership; we will not ask for renewals others hold for its place in creating part of never be a station any more. for 1998 until after this and two more issues the archival record, I'm proud to have partic• I drove north of Orangeville on Decem• have been produced. ipated and honoured to have had some of ber 5, 1997, to see how the wreckers were the responsibility. The long delay also means that much of progressing with tearing up the CPR line to the news in this issue is several months old. This is a serious job which I hope one of Owen Sound. I was surprised to discover We have pruned the items to include the you or a group of you will take on. The that they had already reached to a point just important ones, but to exclude some of greatest requirement will be of your atten• south of Dundalk. Rails on the west side, ties lesser interest or which have been super• tion and thought, and the greatest reward on the east, and a not-so-smooth road down seded by more recent events. We'll get back will be to serve as a vital link in communi• the middle where once a bustling railway on track with news in future issues. cating railway news and history to readers. used to be. You should also take note that this issue Please ask me any questions you'd like I continued north and the former has been printed using the same toner-on- about Kail and Transit or the way we Saugeen Junction really broke my heart, paper process as a laser printer or a photo• produce it. Please talk with your friends hecause that's where I took one of my all- copier, and so the printed words may trans• about ways you can work as groups. And time favourite photos of author/partner Jim fer to a plastic binder cover after long-term please get in touch with me, Scott Haskill, or Filby. It shows Jim with conductor Cliff storage. There should be no problem for Art Clowes to let us know that you're inter• Denny on the back porch of a van on the archival storage if both covers are next to ested in working on Rail and Transit in the paper or card surfaces. future. -Pat Scrimgeour In this issue The long delays have led me to conclude that I am no longer able to devote the time • Rail and Transit and the future and attention to Rail and Transit that I SOCIETY NOTES • Society Notes • Tearing up the Bruce, by Ralph Beaumont would like to, and should, and so I will be Membership renewals for 1998 • A trip to Australia, by Dean Ogle stepping down as editor. We have not yet sent renewal forms asking • An unusual collision avoided I think the next editor of Kail and Transit for your membership dues for 1998, and will • Railway Archaeology will be a UCRS member who is knowledge• not be doing so until Kail and Transit is again • Railway and Transit News able about railway and transit history and being produced on a proper schedule. Your • The Train Spotters ISSN I 193-7971 Published by Upper Canada Railway Society RO. Box 122, Station A Toronto, Ontario MSW IA2 Web address: www,btinternet.com/—ucrs Editorial group Pat Scrimgeour - Features and layout 250 Queens Quay West # 1607 Toronto, Ontario M5J 2N2 E-Mail: [email protected],ca Scott Haskill - The Rapido and In Transit 2520 Bloor Street West # 15 Toronto, Ontario M6S IR8 E-Mail: [email protected] The southbound CP "Moonlight" at Dundalk, disappear never really seemed possible. Art Clowes - Railway Archaeology on August 20, 1993. Photo by John Carter If anyone has current information on 234 Canterbury Avenue what's going to happen with the remaining Riverview, N.B. EIB2R7 Streetsville to Orangeville segment, please E-Mail: [email protected] Owen Sound main line, waiting to be picked up by the engine which had run up the pass it along. My in-laws tell me that trains Gray Scrimgeour - The Panorama branch to Hanover. on this line now usually pass by at night, #570 - 188 Douglas Street I and scores of others were on hand at but 1 hope to catch a few more photos before Victoria, B.C. V9V2PI Saugeen two decades ago when Nos. 1057 even this remnant is gone. E-Mail: [email protected] and 136 paused on the bridge for water on Correspondents and contributors their way back from an Owen Sound excur• sion, but on a chilly December 5, the site Tom Box, John Carter, Alex Campbell, Richard A TRIP TO AUSTRALIA was even more lonely and forlorn than ever. Carroll, John Legg, Bill McGuire, Don BY DEAN OGLE McQueen, Sean Robitaille, Chris Spinney, 1 guess the CPR still values switch My trip to Australia in September and Octo• Denis Taylor, Gordon Webster. stands, because the salvaged ones are all lined up like little soldiers in the yard at ber was a real WOW! and 1 am very pleased Subscriptions Orangeville. What looks weird is that most that my wife and I went. It was a combina• Subscriptions to Roi7 and Transit are available of them have brand new position-indication tion of today and 50 years ago. Computers, with membership in the Upper Canada reflectors, on what are otherwise pretty satellite television, cell phones, and radio Railway Society. Membership dues are $29.00 well-used and veteran bases. transmission of train orders direct to video per year for addresses in Canada; $35.00 (or There is a great-looking mural on the screens in locomotive cabs co-exist with ex• $27.00 in U.S. funds) for addresses in the U.S. side of a store in Dundalk, that shows CPR cellent public transportation, thriving down• and overseas. Please send inquiries and ten-wheeler No. 1081 pausing at the station towns, manual block signalling, and people changes of address to the address at the top with a passenger train. (Not too accurate, far more helpful than 1 usually encounter of this page. but picturesque and - 1 guess - plausible.) while shopping in Vancouver. Aside from this, there really isn't anything Australia's population is only around 18 Meetings good 1 can say about my trip.