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March 1, 2023
ARTICLES Added photo of 415384 fire car Road Engine gallery Added 4708
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries
Trains
Added interesting early VIA scene at Brockville. Read details. Also, (scroll way down) CN 6617 in VIA paint pre-VIA final era.
Added photos of Heritage Park Ry. CPR 9 and HPR 6412
Locomotives Added BCOL 640 first M-420 2000 HP new style cab. Also RCL-682
CN diesel RS-18 Added 3126 in Nova Scotia
CPR steam Added (scroll to bottom) 5931 numbered as 5934. Find out why.
Added 4215 + getting serviced at St.Luc diesel shop. Great black and white photo in colour era. Added 7073 and 8044 plus 4075-8520 and 1408_14xx Added 5533, 4571 (rare for MLW power here) and 5638. Added (scroll down to very bottom) CLC F/M 7005 7006 became CP 4064 4065. Preserved; 4065.
ONR steam Added (scroll down) Northern type 313 complete with smoke deflectors.
Shortlines Added (scroll down to West Fraser Ltd. Hinton Pulp Div). CCGX 5206 (inc. prior owner) switching pulp mill.
Mobil Grain 3147 added photo (caption link) prior owner KCS 6606 (nee CN)
Industrial Alberta Added 2 units PHOTOS NEEDED (REWARD) long history multiple prior owners. Several photos included.
New company added (scroll way down) Canadian Vickers, Montreal
Rolling Stock
CPR freight (steam era) Box cars loaded with apples at CPR dock. Click on enlarge and check out that switch!
ONR Passenger equipment. T&NO business car Ontario Added (caption link) subsequent owner ORA 200 TEMAGAMI
Stations
CNR BC Added GTP Mc.Bride now a visitor centre. VIA stop.
Added several photos C&O Mooretown station, CN 76611, velocipede etc.
Interurban Railways
Added photo of sightseeing tour cars built after Montreal tour cars.
A great collection of photographs over the years posted by retired C&O railroader Bruce Mercer.
Read the best in history, stories and photographs past and present along with the latest in news. Examples are the two old interurban sightseeing tour photos above. Subscribe: email Paul Bown brspaul@rogers.com Please mention your read it on Old Time Trains website. .
February 1, 2023 ARTICLES
CPR London Division Added (scroll down) D10 1051 sitting on shop track.
CPR Toronto Division Added (scroll down) closeup old photo of typical wooden level crossing tower. See what is in the background.
Added (scroll to very bottom) Extra CP 896 West so
designated as it is on its way to run on the CN Oakville Subdivision
Toronto Terminal Railways
New Union Station Gallery Must be a Sunday! Not much traffic.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Trains
A meet with 5651 stopped in front of the station as another
freight passes by higher up. 30 years ago!
Tourist Added (scroll way down) L4:2nd including (links) prior owner photos.
Locomotives
CPR steam D10 class 4-6-0 Added (scroll way down) 1100 on Western Lines.
Added 2929 at Steamtown in Vermont looking spotless like
the famous "John Street polish!"
DAR Added (scroll down to locomotive gallery) D10 1040.
BCR diesels Added better quality photo of MLW 676. Read about its history and subsequent owner.
CPR Diesels Added B-unit 4410 with comparison to identical unit facing in opposite direction. Good for modelling details.
CP Rail
M636 Added 4726 at St. Luc.
Shortlines
Huron Central
Added (scroll way down) NBSR 6315 finally repainted after about 10 years! Old owners (3) right below it. Guess who!
Industrial Steam (other than Ontario) Added (scroll to very bottom for Nova Scotia) Wallace Quarries dinky.
Industrial Diesel Added (scroll way down to L) Lafarge Cement leased FURX 5510 GP38-2 (replacing after over 20 years) old GP10 1749.
Added (scroll down to E for Elmira) LANXESS switched by Waterloo Central Ry. Freight Solutions. Added (scroll down to P for Princeton) drone views of
Stubbe's Cement in
tiny Princeton 5 miles west of Parris. Johnstown CREWS contract
switching. Exchanged photo of JLCX 1202 DIT (Dead In-Transit) for better
quality/size image. Port Robinson Geon Added #NIL ex Falconbridge 104 including prior and subsequent owner photos and current PSTR.
Added BMEX 523 the last all-electric loco enroute to Carol Mine. Also, photo 520 in the current paint scheme replacing the short-lived original paint scheme in old photo. Note too the detailed description of these unique locomotives.
Added (scroll down to very bottom) Wallace Quarries #NIL Plymouth with great history! Also, it is preserved!
Stations Stations resused/preserved DAR Middleton Railway Museum. Adding even more equipment! Former CNR (nee ICR) 7260 0-6-0. Also, two dinky engines. A Vulcan and a Plymouth.
Stations
DAR Kentville, NS Added old photo of this HUGE old station.
Guelph Added great old photo circa 1908 courtesy Jim Christie. Added (scroll down) Princeton. Also, link to more recent photo!
Toronto and York Radial (1877)
Added predecessor dating from 1894. Toronto & Scarboro' Electric Ry. and Power Co. Inc. maps, history, subsequent owners up to TTC.
Toronto and Mimico Electric Ry. Added two photos of earliest (small) double decker open cars.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! January 1, 2023
I REMEMBER by Herb Stitt Stories by a retired CPR locomotive engineer 1915-1962. Pocket book 100 pages.
ARTICLES
CPR Toronto Division
Parkdale Added
photo of CPR and CNR yard jobs switching industries. Inc. enlarged image
and closeup of yard office. Added photo (scroll way down to CP Rail) of 955 with MLW covered wagons about to head north on the MacTier Sub.
CPR Trenton Division
Passenger service 3100 and 3101 having a meet around 3 AM in the middle of nowhere!
Ontario Southland....Added photo of 1249 in new paint! Also, old view of 501 and 502.
501 and 502 (nee PGE 1001 1002) both now on Waterloo Central as 1001 1002.
GENERAL Toronto Streets Humberside Avenue with first TTC double deck bus service. Added old 1923 photo of street scene nearby that shows a footbridge still in use and historically designated.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries
Trains
Added 9199 see what was added to this RDC and why. What was "outlawed" by the Canadian Transport Commission.
Tourist Nova Scotia Added photo of former Upper Clements 2 foot gauge train at it s new location at Trueman Blueberry Farms.
Locomotives
CNR Steam Ten-Wheelers Added 1274 working a yard job.
Added 1521 (ex 1274) at its current location in Nova Scotia. Inc. prior locations.
CPR Steam
CP Rail S-3 Added 6554 in first CP Rail paint scheme. Added photo of a long line of new units rejected by CP Rail due to numerous faults. GMD refused to take them back allegedly telling CP "you bought them, your problem." Unsure if GMD did any corrective work on them howver CP cancelled a subsequent order!
TH&B Diesels Added 53 in CP Toronto Yard.
VIA Rail RDC Budd Cars New gallery created just for RDC's along with several added photos of early years original Budd Cars (inc. ex CN) and RDC-2 converetd into all-baggage. Several rare interior photos. Plus, subsequent owners.
Shortlines Added (scroll way down) old photo (2+ decades) of pre-decessor PCHR 308. See also prior and subsequent owner photos.
Dealers Added MVPX 904 newly acquired SW900 with an interesting history.
Industrial
Added another brand new electric locomotive for Iron Ore
Co. of Canada's Carol Mine Railway a non-common carrier
Ontario Hamilton
New location added. Railcare Inc. a G&W subsidiary acquired in 2014.
Johnstown CREWS added aerial views of repeated expansions. WANTED REWARD photos of CREWS diesel units roster shots and switching.
St.Marys Added entry new industry Roslin Enterprises collecting organic waste (used cooking oil) and shipping it to their plant in USA to be recycle into bio diesel. This property was previously used by Hayes-Dana to make vehicle chassis.
Nova Scotia Fundy Gypsum Added 647 with train.
Rolling Stock Added (scroll down to Alberta) CP 437083 on display in Lethbridge. Notes former and subsequent preserved locations.
Added (scroll down to Mobile Grain ) also, clikc on link in title for more photos inc. many locomotives. MGLX 625156 ex Saskatchewan government grain service now private.
Station Galleries CPR Western Lines
Added photo of opening ceremony 1908 Saskatoon and later years view of passenger train.
New listings for Island Stone Pub and Saskatoon Station Place. Added multiple photos inc. night and interior views former CNR and CPR stations.
Added Middleton Railway Museum inc. ex CNR 1274 relocated from Upper Clement Park, Nova Scotia
Radial Railways London & Lake Erie Added combine 84 (later NS&T 68/113).
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