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October 1, 2013 ARTICLES
CPR Bruce Division
Detroit Scroll
down below Detroit River Tunnel for a very interesting old photograph
of downtown Detroit a Century ago! Detroit River Tunnel gallery added photo of Windsor entrance portal. Guelph and Goderich history page. Added new photo of 6275 preserved since 1959 and inside a very nice little museum.
CPR Toronto Division Stations in Toronto Sunnyside added link for this once common device used by people in a booth IN PRIVATE!
CPR Toronto Yard Road
engine gallery
General CANDO Contracting Imperial refinery in Edmonton. Added CCGX 4014 General Motors Diesel Added photo in plant gallery of DD-GM 57 nee TH&B 57 returned to where it was built!
Added current photograph of the federal government conference
centre, once Ottawa Union Station, long closed.
Galleries Trains
CPR Diesel Added a great photo of the original Fairbanks-Morse Train Master with CP dynomometer car testing its performance on Number 42. Read about the test results. Also, photo of The Canadian arriving in Toronto in its early years.
Locomotives CNR steam Mogul added recent photo of 81 preserved on display. It has never looked better!
CPR steam Scroll down below thumbnails to see caption for photo below.
G5 added four old small black and white prints of 1200 from its outshopping at Angus, showing the very capable ability of these engines hauling a short secondary passenger train and a freight so long you cannot see the tailend! G3 2400's added
2424 doubleheading with 2342 and 2432 both with Royal American
Shows carnival trains.
CPR Diesel Added a blank builder's plate from CLC. (scroll down below first group of thumbnails.)
CP Rail diesel Added photo of F-M units 8716 and 8715 working a Speno rail grinding train. Normally only 1 unit worked these trains while the other was used locally to protect the Speno train due its special equipment
CPR Self-propelled cars. Added official diagram for gas-electric cars 9003, 9004, 9005 and 9006. Also, added date for last run of last car in caption for 9003. Unfortunately, none of these "doodlebugs" were scrapped. They were still gas fueled.
Industrial Added ADMX 4607 a remanufactured GP9 ex GTW 4607 and another photo of 8316 which I included because it shows more of the ADM plant. ADM has plants all over Canada and the United States. I have yet to see a photo of a unit looking decent! Also, Canadian Fertilzer, Medicine Hat (scroll down) added CFTX 6706. Ontario see What's New in this Gallery? Quebec Port of Montreal
Rolling Stock BC Rail Added new gallery for passenger equipment (non-RDC) starting with two Royal Hudson cars ex CP.
CPR Vans added 438803 a modernized steel van renumbered from 437501. 8800 series was for Eastern run-thru service. 9800 were Western run-thru service.
Interurban
NS&T Added three colour photos of Express car 40 also passenger cars 82 and 83. Check out that Ford!
Street Railways
Cornwall Added 12 photos dating back 100 years! Winter snow clearing and other work equipment and locomotives.
Railway Construction Contractors
Created new gallery for Foley, Welch & Stewart. A dinky for a very large contractor. Read about who they were.
September 1, 2013
This month I am pleased to welcome a new author to
this website. Jennifer Weymark, The legacy of the railway is examined in the new exhibit
at the Oshawa Community
Museum
ARTICLES CPR construction and early
years.
CPR Algoma District
Schreiber photo gallery Added better scan of this great action scene of 5111 just leaving Schreiber. Taken by an interned Japanese person during World War II at which time many of these persons worked at the CPR shops. They had the best cameras and used them apparently without repercussions unlike the current time when railfans are hassled for their fun. Sudbury photo gallery Added P1 5168 near the end of steam.
CPR Ontario District Bruce Division Hamilton Sub. Added 851 on the Hamilton Way Freight. Trenton Division Steam
Gallery
Lambton Yard Road engine gallery Added 2815 on the table.
CPR Subsidiaries CPEL gallery added photos GRR 626 and 842
Canadian National Predecessors
Canadian Northern
Shortlines
CANDO Contracting OBRY 1000 added in a scene that belies its middle of the city location.
Toronto Terminals
Started new history page
with recent photographs of the massive restoration and expansion
including new atrium roof.
Interurban and Street Raiways Toronto Suburban Added pre-TSR era 1894 map of street and steam railways Toronto Junction and Swansea, built and projected. Includes lower portion of the Belt Line (steam) clearly showing track and stations from Swansea Bolt Works (Junction GTR) north to Bloor Street. Many of the proposed street railway lines were never built due to objections to having streetcars on local residential streets! Not much has changed in this City!
General Grade Separations
Added very interesting street scene of Dufferin Street
one of the level crossings
on the CPR North Toronto Sub. NOT eliminated until many years
later. A lot of interesting things to see including what research
turned out to be an overall manufacturer I had never heard of before.
Around the CPR I saw (and wore) Headlight made by Larned Carter &
Co. Ltd. in Parkdale. Another local brand was Carhartt and from the
USA was Lee. Read more about what all is shown here.
PHOTOGRAPHS Trains Added Rutland 90 with soon to be discontinued New York day train in 1951. Brand new CNR 9044 GMD covered wagon.
Steam Locomotives CNR Predecessor roads. CNoR Magazine article on 25 new 2-8-0's built by CLC. GTP oil fuel for BC engines. (Scroll down to bottom.)
CPR Steam Added photo (scroll down below thumbnails to cab interior photos) of a foam meter a device in cab of Royal Hudsons and possibly other classes of steam engines.
Eight wheelers Added great old 1893 photograph of diamond stacked 144. No, not that 144!
CPR G2 Pacific
type. Added 2634 on passenger. Finally, an in-service photo of this
engine long preserved in Moose Jaw. CPR engines equipped with Worthington
feedwater heater. CPR Drake Street. Added view of restored roundhouse at Expo 86. DAR steam Added D10 1020 supposedly somewhere in Quebec.
CPR diesel S2 added nice
clear black and white photo of 7053 in original paint scheme of black
with tuscan letter board.
CP Rail Diesel GMD passenger A & B units. Added 4474 converted to freight (renumber and regear 65mph) fresh out of the shop. Then, returned to passenger as 1964 with the coming of VIA Rail. Also, VIA 1961 ex 4473 nee 1900. GP9 Added black & white photo of 8633 and colour photo of 8635 with 4461 B unit and 8633 trailing Alyth hump. Also, added photos of 8678 and 8707 in BC. 8707 was the second last unit of huge 73 unit order the largest diesel order by CPR. During a few short months in the Fall of 1957 with the delivery of these units and a resession that saw traffic drop off to the point where on the Ontario District road power went from about 75% steam/25% diesel to 75% diesel/25% steam!
NAR steam The end of steam was very near. This day there was plenty. Less than two months later there was none.
Shortlines Quebec
Romaine River QIT/Rio Tinto Remote isolated non-common carrier railway. Two photos brand new RS-18 (above) and another taken
weeks ago now 45 years old and still working!
Industrial Locomotives Ontario. See What's New in this Gallery.
Rolling Stock CNR Predecessor roads GTR Added old article for GTR Air Brake Instruction car and another for GTR steel frame suburban coaches. CNoR Added magazine articles on seven new dining cars and new 30 ton box cars. CPR Passenger Added photos of Cafe-buffet-sleeper DEAN and sleeper RESTON.
Facilities Added nice old photo of the International Bridge between Victoria and Black Rock. Added a very detailed article about GTR Stratford Locomotive Shops. Added a second much more detailed article about the NTR main shops in Transcona. Total 11 pages. Added two old articles on GTR construction in Ottawa
including a new station and the Chateau Laurier hotel. CPR Added very old photo of West Shops stores in Calgary. Not a glamorous place but a very necessary one at any shop. Roundhouses
etc. (link) and scroll down to Glen October 1976 caption for
Glen Yard (link) Added two 1955 maps. (links)
Stations Quebec. CPR Added two early articles on the construction details of Windsor Station.
CNR Ontario Added a great set of ten old Engineering Dept. photos showing CNR station and facilities serving Lake Joseph in Ontario's Muskoka area. Taken in the middle of the Great Depression it is proof some summer vacation activities continued in spite of the effects of massive job losses. What is interesting to look at is the spotless grounds and structures in the mid-20th Century before the throw away society of non-returnable drink containers and other litter as well as the 21st Century scourge of graffiti.
OLD TIME TRAINS (bottom button on home page) Added old photo of ex C> 501 Brill doodlebug with trailer 501 at Delaware & Ulster tourist railroad in upstate New York. New contributor Philip M. Goldstein. This equipment was bought by Old Time Trains to operate a weekend tour train around the waterfront on Toronto Harbour Commission tracks. Unfortunately, Harbourfront, the quasi-government body involved was unable to secure the cooperation of the CPR and a good tourism opportunity was lost forever.
August 1, 2013 HOME PAGE Finally! A larger version of that great
image. Thanks to long-time acquaintance Peter Bowers.
ARTICLES CNR
CPR
Passenger History added photo of No.36 stopped at Bonarlaw an old station originally built for Central Ontario.
CPR Toronto Division
CPR Toronto Yard.
Added photos of rolling stock. 3076 wood box car, 40721 ancient passenger car in work service and SHERBROOKE
Canadian National CNoR stations added CNR Mixed in winter scene at Bonarlaw.
General
Toronto's Independent Bus Lines Danforth
Bus Lines added a very old bus with a body built by a Toronto
company that started out in 1843 as a buggy builder! They continued
in business until 1979. You will be surprised at what else they built.
Added photo (link) showing part of the William Davies packing house. Workers clearing ice from streets due to flood Don R.
Added 1924 map of planned track changes due to construction of the Viaduct grade separation project including creation of the CNR Don Sorting Yard (only place I have ever heard of that term) and various CPR and CNR freight sheds at Cherry Street and industry sidings in the area. Look for link at end of Waterfront Viaduct paragraph.
PHOTOGRAPHS Added link to old 1923 black and white movie showing
Toronto Suburban Ry Guelph radial line lengthy picnic train being
hauled by their only electric locomotive. Starts off running along
the old Belt Line from Keele & St.Clair in West Toronto.
Trains
CNR old diesel 9300 first of 23 CLC built Fairbanks-Morse diesels. Looking east from Bathurst Street bridge.
Also, added photo showing three builders of CNR units all represented on Extra 2210. Plus, 6785 doing what Alco's did best. Smoking up the place! Accelerating from a station stop with a short passenger train.
CNR RDC Add several Budd Cars in numerical order. RDC-9 6002 RDC-1 6101, 6103, 6111 and 6114. RDC-2 6205. RDC-3 6355. RDC-4 6453 and lastly, 6475 on the tri-weekly Thunder Bay-Winnipeg run.
CNR Steam
Added old photo of an important passenger train being hauled by an Alco yard engine!
The short-lived Expo Limited that ran for one season only during Centennial year. It restored a second Montreal/Toronto-Vancouver train following discontinuance of The Dominion in February 1966 on the pretext diesels were needed to handle heavy export grain traffic.
Locomotives
Added Canada Atlantic 619 one of two high speed 4-4-2's built 1899 for fast Ottawa-Montreal passenger trains.
Mikado page
Added 3452 Unfortunately, it is another of the many photos with no
caption. Looks like Oshawa?
CNR old diesels
CPR Steam Added
old photo of an important passenger train being hauled by a 2-10-0
transfer engine.
CPR Ottawa West
Added 2207 being readied on the shop track. Possibly for the Prescott
Way Freight pictured in 1948. CPR engines equipped with distinctly shaped Worthington
Feedwater Heater.
CPR Diesel old colours GP9 Added two views of 8635 before and after chopped nose. New contributor Keith Ardinger
CP Rail diesel Added new gallery for the 5 rebuilt GP9's done as a prelude to the Ten Year Locomotive Program that saw a major remanufacture of many units. This is linked on the GP9 page.
GP9 added four photos of 8800's all in BC including 8812 among rotary dump coal hoppers.
CPR Self-propelled cars.
Industrial diesels Ontario: See What's New in this Gallery?
Facilities
CNR Added photo Spadina shop track showing great variety of diesels, RDC's and SG etc.
Shortlines SRY of BC added recent photo (click on link at top of page) of their main yard in New Westminster.
Rolling Stock
CNR service equipment Added two photo of snow melter 55700 (moved newer 55702 up next). CPR Service added 411528 an unusual car converted from a passenger car into a wire car with a cupola! Scroll to bottom. Also, 412207 a Dining Car. No, it was not a spare for The Dominion! TH&B Added photos of TH&B Line coach 75 and combine 303 commonly used with doodlebug.
Railway Construction Contractors It has been a long time since anything has been added to this catagory. Added Foley, Welch
& Stewart once the largest railway construction contractor
in all of Canada.
July 1, 2013
Recently a visitor to this website contacted us to correct the caption to an old photograph. It has been verified he is right and the correction has been made. We encourage you to contact us if you notice something incorrect even a small typographical error. This is not looked at as criticizing or nit picking. Rather we look upon it as a favour as we strive for 100% accuracy. This goal may not be achievable but it is nevertheless something to strive for. Many old photos have no caption or incomplete ones so it can be difficult and time consuming to research it. Yet, we do it. Thanks to all who assist us in reaching this goal. R.L.Kennedy, David Bridge, Bruce Chapman.
ARTICLES CPR Bruce Division
Passenger history page added photo of The Canadian outbound getting orders hooped up the operator. Looks like it could be Bill Sutter. Check out the gas ad on the billboard. Remember that brand? Very few of their service stations around West Toronto. Do you remember service stations? They were places you went to get gas for your car and an employee came out when he heard the "ding ding" when you ran over the air-filled cord laying across the pump area. This man (usually wearing a uniform with the gas company emblem on the cap) pumped the gas for you! Great idea. He also washed your windshield, checked your oil and if you needed a quart (remember that size can?) he would add it for you. No need to get dirty or to even get out of your car. All this for the price of the gas (39.9 cents per GALLON) and oil alone and never a tip required. Some, inclduing B/A and Esso gave iut free street or highway maps. Those were The Good Old Days!
Branch Passenger added very old photo 172 of an inside admission 4-4-0 on the dead end spur into Mount Forest.
CPR London Division Station gallery Galt Sub. Added Killean. Not a good photo but it was one station that was missing.
CPR Toronto Division
North Toronto
Subdivision (scroll to bottom) added photo of Train Master
8918 on the Transfer. For a few years after the hump yard opened 2
or 3 Train Masters were around mostly to work the transfer to and
from Lambton and Parkdale.
Leaside Added photo of 2659 assisting 2408 on a Second Class freight. What is rare is the fact both are not Toronto engines. That little girl could well be a pensioner by now!
Added several old photos of various stations around
the Toronto Terminal and images enlarged on others. Check out:
CPR Trenton Division
Added this interesting photo which attracted much speculation as to just what it was and where it was going. A John Street engine it sits right at the switch to the Brockville Sub. It might be a late section of No. 34 from Toronto to Ottawa or a late section of No. 22 from Toronto to Montreal. Either would loose timetable authority when 12 hours late. It might also be a boat train to Montreal for a ship to Europe.
Steam Gallery Added
5161 with a typical drag also 2659 and 2408 on a Second Class train
(SEE ABOVE Leaside.)
Diesel gallery
added old black and white photo of an early Alco covered wagon. The
second such unit on the roster.
CPR Toronto Yard
Freight trains gallery added 8913 a Train Master on 955. Not a lot of these units worked out of Toronto.
CPR Lambton Yard
Locomotive Department
added larger images for street scenes at Runnymede and St. Clair.
Note: Three transport trucking outfits were located nearby. On Maria was Star Transfer (owned by Ontario Northland) and on Castleton Avenue was Thibodeau Express (owned by Algoma Central) and on St.Clair opposite the roundhouse Hume's Transport had a fleet of over 50 trucks handling mostly Maple Leaf meat products for Canada Packers (in ice refrigerated trucks) with only International Harvester trucks. A IH dealership was located on St.Clair Ave. near the packers. Two Hume families homes were next to each other on a nearby residential street where we lived. I went to school (grades 7 & 8) with Gail Hume. I also went to school Ann Chiovitti whose father peddled fruit and vegetables around the neighbourhood from the back of a pickup (later, Chiovitti Banana Co.)
Shortlines
Toronto Terminals Ry. Viaduct
gallery Added a much later photo of CNR Riverdale station long
after it was closed. Pontiac torpedo shaped automobile was once the "in" thing (1940-1948). Note too the clipon fender guide. Remember those? In later years there were other tenants including a grape dealer. For years there were grape sellers located at little team tracks all over Toronto. None wanted to be near any other seller and were thus a nusiance to the yard engine crews. A large Italian population were mostly their customers. This was from the era when railways NEVER sold off any property. They rented it out for ongoing income year after year. Now, they sell off any land they can for short term gain. Brilliant!
General Toronto's Independent Bus Lines
Roseland Bus Lines: added rare photo of a Roseland bus. Courtesy of Pete Coulman
PHOTOGRAPHS VIDEOS Link to an old 8mm movie
riding a mixed train from Lindsay. Includes a cab ride! Try that today!
Trains
New gallery started for CPR E&N includes some brief history of local places in Victoria. New contributor Rick Horne.
Added (finally! It was in a huge backlog I am still
struggling through) this view of the Maritime Express back in 1949.
Added old colour photos GMD FP9A's 6510 and 6542 of
new MLW passenger covered wagons 6706 and 6710.
CNR RDC added RDC-1's 6014 and 6112; RDC-2's 6204 and 6205; RDC-3's 6302 and 6352; RDC-4's 6401 and 6450 serving east and west.
VIA added a scenic shot in a winter scene and another transition era photo with a single blue car.
Locomotives CNR steam Northern type added 6139, 6213, 6220, 6221, 6234 and 6252. CNR old diesel
AddedCLC C-liner covered
wagon 6702 just months away from retirement.
CLC H-16-44 2217. CPR diesel Added old CPR PR photo showing a posed lineup of diesels at St.Luc.
Industrial BC Added photos of Neptune Terminals 66 and VIEW #nil the same 50-tonner just part of its long history across Canada. Ontario See What's New in This Gallery? Quebec Port of Montreal
Added two photos 8403-2009 and (scroll down) RPRX 1002 enroute.
Facilities CPR Roundhouses etc. Added interesting old article from 1920: Systematic Control of Locomotive Repairs. It looks in detail at how the Angus Main Shops handled the many details of heavy repairs.
Street railways
New page started for Toronto Railway Co. the private streetcar operation from 1891-1921.
Inspection Autos
Hyrail added CP Rail 62
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