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Train No. 20, the "Canadian", runs past Islington
on April 9, 1955, about two weeks before both this train and the return Detroit
to Toronto service, Train No. 19, lost the titles which they had held for
41 years.
When the CPR decided to institute a new stainless steel dome train to run
from the east to Vancouver, the intention was to name it the "Royal
Canadian". However, the decision to use this title was made close
to the train's inception and time would not permit the usual formalities connected
with obtaining the necessary assent to use the prefix "Royal". Therefore,
it was decided to call the new train "The Canadian", thus
dropping the name from the Detroit run. The Canadian pictured above is a similar
consist to that mentioned on page 9. Once again it is a Saturday morning and
No. 2856 is deadheading home after a trip on Train No. 629 the previous afternoon.
Trains No. 19 and 20 continued unnamed until April 28, 1957 when No. 21, the
"Chicago Express", lost its title to No. 19. Train No. 20
remained nameless, and on October 29, 1961, both trains were dropped from
the timetable.
No. 2401 was a John Street engine for many years, seeing service on various
runs out of Toronto, such as the Havelock Subdivision night Ottawa Trains,
Nos. 33 and 34 and the Trenton Subdivision night Ottawa Trains Nos. 23 and
24. On the Toronto to Hamilton run in the mid-1950's, she had been downgraded
to freight service by the fall of 1956 and was assigned to
Lambton roundhouse, Toronto. Hauling Lambton to Cartier freight until March
1957, when she was removed from service, No. 2401 was listed on company form
1316 as being scrapped May 17, 1957.
No. 2401 was painted in Tuscan Red passenger livery. I mention this as it
is rather interesting to note that both passenger and black paint schemes
were applied to the modernized G3 "Pacifics". Several blocks
of locomotives with either livery existed but there were also seemingly random
applications of either Tuscan Red or black paint schemes. The last batch of
these engines, the G3j's. Nos. 2463 to 2472, built in 1948, were all finished
in passenger livery. Modellers painting a particular locomotive are recommended
to check photographic evidence before choosing the appropriate livery. No.
2856 was assigned to John Street from her delivery in 1938 until about the
fall of 1956. When the H1d's were constructed, Nos. 2855 to 2857 were allocated
to the Toronto to Windsor service and while they did haul northbound and east
end trains out of Toronto, approximately 90% of their service was on the Windsor
run. No. 2856 operated on the Windsor run until the fall of 1957, although
sometime in late 1955 or early 1956, she was assigned to the London Division
and stationed there. By early 1958, she was back in Toronto, on freight service
out of Lambton to Cartier, continuing in this service, with occasional assist
service, until early 1960. Withdrawn in that year, she was scrapped in 1961.
W.H.N.Rossiter