UCRS NEWSLETTER - 1967 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── October, 1967 - Number 261 railroadiana now for the UCRS Auction, Published monthly by the Upper Canada Railway which will be presided over this year Society, Incorporated, Box 122, Terminal A, by Mr. Omer Lavallee. Toronto, Ontario. November 24th; (Friday) - UCRS Hamilton Chapter Editor James A. Brown regular meeting. Board Room, CNR Authorized as Second Class Matter by James Street Station, Hamilton, the Post Office Department, Ottawa, Ontario, Ontario. 8:00 p.m. and for payment of postage in cash. December 1st; (Friday) - A visit to the High Members are asked to give the Society Level Pumping Station at Poplar Plains at least five weeks notice of address changes. Road and Cottingham, 8:00 p.m. A Please address NEWSLETTER vertical steam pumping engine will be contributions to the Editor at 3 Bromley operated for the visitors. Take the Crescent, Bramalea, Ontario. No ANNETTE trolley coach to Dupont and responsibility is assumed for loss or Davenport, and walk north two blocks. non-return of material. December 15th; (Friday) - Regular meeting at All other Society business, including which John Bromley will present slides membership inquiries, should be addressed to taken on his recent European trip. UCRS, Box 122, Terminal A, Toronto, Ontario. January 19th; (Friday) - The UCRS Annual Cover Photo: Here comes the TurboTrain!! Meeting: Reports of the officers for Fresh from the erecting hall of MLW, red-nosed 1967 and election of directors for P100 tries out the rails of Canadian National’s 1968. Longue Pointe Subdivision on October 27th. Its tubular construction is clearly evident READERS’ EXCHANGE in this view by DOES YOUR TRANSPORTATION INTEREST Jim Sandilands. 0261-001.jpg EXTEND TO .... BUSES?? You should be reading Contributors to this Issue: Keith Anderson, CANADIAN COACH! This modest monthly John F. Bromley, John H. Bromley, Bruce publication will keep you up-to-date with the Chapman, Ray Corley, Peter Cox, Doug Cummings, bus industry in Canada, and provide the Robert Gibson, Dave Haire, Bill Hood, George results of historical research, plus current Homer, Ed Jordan, Omer Lavallee, equipment rosters. Available from B.C. Norm Lowe, Neil McCarten, Bob McMann, John Transit Society at $4.00 per year; ask for Mills, Steve Munro, Doug Page, Gary Pollock, a complimentary copy. Write the secretary, Newt Rossiter, John Rushton, Jim Sandilands, BCTS, 7863 Cartier Street, Vancouver 14, B.C. Dave Stalford, Dave Thompson, Ted Wickson. DOES ANYONE HAVE copies of CANADIAN Production: Peter Cox, Ed Jordan. RAIL issues 118-120, 122-123, 153, 166, 169, Distribution: Charlie Bridges, Dave 172-175, 178, 180, 182-186, 189-191; UCRS Hanbidge, Ed Jordan, Tony Kerr, Bryce Lee, Bulletins 1-20, 23-24, 37; UCRS NEWSLETTERS Steve Munro, John Thompson, Ted Wickson, 176-179, 231, 236? Have 81 issues of RAILROAD George Wilton. Magazine from February, 1934 to September, COMING EVENTS 1954 for sale or trade. Doug Cummings, 529 rd Regular meetings of the Society are West 63 Avenue, Vancouver 14, B.C. held on the third Friday of each month (except WANTED: Kerosene-burning switchman’s July and August) at 587 Mt. Pleasant Road, lanterns, any Canadian line except CN and CP. Toronto, Ontario. 8:00 p.m. Please send details and price to Adam A. November 17th; (Friday) - Sort out your surplus Tymchuk, 660 Manhattan Avenue, Winnipeg 5, UCRS # 261 - 1 Manitoba. 6213'S A HIT AT THE “EX” UCRS News Toronto’s steam locomotive, Canadian of Secretarial Associates Limited, of National 4-8-4 6213, proved to be a big hit Toronto, who generously and without charge at this year’s Canadian National Exhibition, made available his company’s supplies and thanks to our Preservation Committee. The equipment for its production. The data sheet locomotive’s custodian, Dave Stalford, would was much sought after last year and certainly like to acknowledge the assistance of those well appreciated this year. who helped ready the locomotive for the Hopefully, even more UCRS members will Exhibition and/or helped display it during drop by to visit 6213 at next year’s Ex. And the Ex: Gord Baliner, John Dell, Bill Herbert, hopefully a few of them will be willing to Art Jones, Al Kinsman, Charlie McGoveran, lend a hand in the cleaning and painting that Darrell Phillips and Dave Spaulding. A goes before it. special thanks goes to Shirley Stalford, Dave’s new wife (Congratulations!!), for her RAILWAY News and Comment efforts in supplying moral support and, FACE-LIFTING AHEAD FOR D & H incidentally, painting the numbers and F. C. Dumaine, Jr., new president of statistics on both sides of the cab. the Delaware & Hudson —— a line which Again this year, much of the locomotive directly or through its subsidiary received a fresh coat of paint, and the white Napierville Junction —— has served Montreal trim was touched up. With an air compressor since 1875, has announced that a $5 million supplied by Charlie McGoveran and installed modernization programme will be undertaken by Dave Spaulding, 6213 came alive for the by his road. Much of this money will go into Ex this year. The air pressure enabled the new equipment, better service and improved Northern Type to ring its bell, open the passenger facilities, although track and firebox door, blow its communications roadbed improvements also form part of the whistle, show pressure on several cab gauges, plan. operate its power reverse gear, apply and The D&H, in conjunction with New York release its tender brakes and, possibly most Central, operates the only rail service satisfying, produce a continuous hissing between New York City and Montreal, with two sound in the cab —— although unfortunately trains daily in each direction. The road has not all at once. Many youngsters who came already purchased two dome coaches from the through the cab were momentarily startled when Missouri Pacific for use on its daytime trains they placed their hands on one of the brake on this route, which enjoys spectacular valves and found that it would suddenly emit scenery along Lake Champlain and down the a hiss of escaping air. Hudson River valley. On seven evenings during the During the first nine months of 1967, Exhibition period, 6213 was open to the D&H’s Montreal - New York service attracted public, and hosted a total of 5,428 visitors. 153,000 passengers, up 50 per cent from the Many of these were energetic enough to same period last year; a company official clamber into the cab for a attributed much of the increase to Expo let’s-see-how-it-works look. travel. D&H’s new attitude contrasts sharply Club literature and excursion with the approach taken as recently as a year pamphlets plus a special locomotive ago, when the day train appeared certain to information sheet were passed out to the be withdrawn as soon as permission to do so visitors. In connection with the data sheet, could be obtained. the locomotive crew wishes to express its FIRST PGE TRAIN REACHES FORT ST. JAMES appreciation to Mr. Ivan Moffitt, President Pacific Great Eastern’s first train UCRS # 261 - 2 on its new Fort St. James branch rolled into Newfoundland and substitute a bus operation. that town in northern B.C. on October 18th with CN claims it lost $918,000 last year by 18 cars of assorted freight. Several PGE operating the trans-Island service. officials accompanied the first run. This will be the first hearing held Official opening of the line, however, will under the abandonment provisions of the new not take place until next year, when all phases National Transportation Act, approved by of construction have been completed. parliament last Winter. The new line runs about 70 miles west AAR ADOPTS AUTOMATIC CAR IDENTIFICATION from a connection with the PGE’s Prince George The Association of American Railroads - Dawson Creek section at Summit Lake, some announced in Chicago October 10th the adoption 40 miles north of Prince George. of an industry-wide automatic car NEWFOUNDLAND TRAIN-OFF APPLICATION FILED BY identification system built by Sylvania CN Electric Products Incorporated. All North The Canadian Transport Commission has American railways with cars in interchange called a public hearing at St. John’s, service will work toward the application of Newfoundland, December 11th on a CN application special identification labels on all rolling to drop its passenger train services in stock by 1969 or 1970. The AAR points out that the new system the Lake Superior & Ishpeming and the PRR. will enable instantaneous tracing of any It is estimated that increased car freight car on the continent, by means of utilization as a result of the elimination scanning devices which can read of errors in car reporting could amount to multi-coloured `service stripes’ in the most 10 per cent, equivalent to adding 180,000 cars severe weather conditions and at speeds up to the U.S. fleet alone. Present error rates to 80 m.p.h. The data received from the run between 11 and 13 per cent; ACI can reduce scanners is processed at central computer reporting errors to considerably less than locations. one per cent. Sylvania’s KarTrak system (October WORTH NOTING.... 1965 NL, page 175, August 1966 NL, page 126) * A coroner’s jury in Hanley, competed against a Saskatchewan, blamed freak high winds for the number of similar ACI systems for AAR July 24th collision between a CN Saskatoon - blessing. It consists of three components: Regina RDC and a hopper car in which 42 were — Standard, reflective colour-coded injured and one died. The hopper car had been labels fixed to the side of a car in ladder standing on a spur at Dundurn, Saskatchewan, fashion to form a code unique to that car.