Canadian Pacific Railway

Ottawa

8462-8463 No.5 Expo Limited. Ottawa Station 1967 L.B.Chapman Collection

No. 1 engine 1417 The Canadian from Montreal on the M&O Subdivision just coming up to Deep Cut where CNR trackage rights started. The line on the right is the CNR Alexandria Subdivision, which is the line that the 1417 is about to enter. Signal 868 is 86.8 miles from Vaudreuil. That’s the old wooden decrepit CNR roundhouse on the far right at Ottawa East.
Ian Taylor August 1958

8448 on the table. (RS-3 MLW #81037 10/1954) Ottawa West August 1958 Ian Taylor

7028 (Alco S-2 #73386 6/1945) arriving at Ottawa West off the M&O Sub. with Hull Transfer. C.1950
Addy Schwalm/Bruce Chapman Collection

M-4 3528 with its replacement, 7088 a brand new MLW S-2 the first diesel in Ottawa. 2/21/1949 Canadian Pacific

7088 (MLW S-2 #75863 2/1949) switching the River Yard at Ottawa West. c.1950
Addy Schwalm/Bruce Chapman Collection

Sperry car 123 looking for track defects, is about to cross Carling Avenue (Highway 17) west of Britannia, and about to enter the stiff Nepean grade. This was on August 8th, 1965, 2 years before track abandonment of the Carleton Place Subdivision which was August 28th, 1967. The right of way is now a bike path. Look at all those old cars! FINA gas station in background.
Bill Linley/Bruce Chapman collection.

June 7, 1966 L.B.Chapman

Here is #76 engine 4224 the freight train from Ottawa West to St. Luc via the M&O Subdivision heading south, on the Prescott Subdivision. It is on a shoefly while the cut is being made for the new Prescott/Ellwood Subdivision at Carling Avenue where you can see how far southward they have progressed on the cut, and some sodding is occurring on the east side of the cut. There is lots of water in the cut north of Carling Avenue towards Young Street.

The new track in the cut is now used by the O Train of OC Transpo more formally Capital Railway starting October 15, 2001.

8124 part of original 31 unit order for SW1200RS. GMD A1504 10/1958 Ottawa West 1/23/1967 Bruce Chapman
In the background that tender belongs to CNR 6200 waiting to go to the National Museum of Science of Technology.

Ottawa Union Station and Ottawa (new) Station
Change between stations effective 12.01 a.m. Sunday, July 31, 1966

E-8 1800 No.10 Sudbury-Montreal local train connecting at Sudbury with Vancouver-Toronto No. 6.
Ottawa Union Station Saturday, August 1958. Ian Taylor

1419-1422 No.1 The Canadian westbound from Montreal to Sudbury. Track two Ottawa Union Station.
Sunday, October 4, 1959

Number 1 The Canadian led by 1404_1903_1409 westbound on track 4 Ottawa Station. CNR cars at right are on track 5, a yard track. Note the white wagon used only for ice for air conditioning. Six 300 lbs. blocks would be loaded into underslung bunkers. Parlor cars took 18 blocks, almost 3 tons! No easy task. Further, it was common for two carmen to go through a car and a half of ice per 8 hour shift! Smaller ice, used for drinking water was handled by the "ice man".

FP9A CN 6537 on track 3 of the new Ottawa Station leading what is likely westbound No. 1 Super Continental 5/1972
Jim Shaughnessy/Joseph Testagrose Collection

CN 8030 one of three regular units. (8030, 8031 and 8032) S-4 1000 hp MLW 76445 1/1954
New Ottawa Station 4/6/1971 Joseph Testagrose Collection