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A VERY OLD TRAIN ORDER (cont.) Research by R.L.Kennedy THE WEST TORONTO ENGINES
In searching for suitable photos to illustrate this old scene I came across two old photos I had previously researched for the West Toronto Junction Historical History of which I am a life member. Surprisingly, they are very close to two of the engines in the train order and were photographed at West Toronto. 1493 was renumbered 3293, and was identical to 3292; while 2751 became 951, identical to 953 and it figured in a serious wreck about ten years later that resulted in it being scrapped. 4-6-0 D109 2751 built by CPR 10/1911 renumbered 1/1914 as 951 wrecked 11/1927 and then scrapped 6/1928. It was an identical engine to 953 in the train order. 951 was wrecked on Sunday, November 27, 1927 when running as Second 910 (hot freight ex Parkdale Yard, Toronto to Montreal), it failed to clear First 19 (passenger, Montreal to Chicago), engine 2329, at Dockrill, Mileage 56.2 Belleville Subdivision. Between Wilkinson m. 52.4 and Lens m.61.2 (Smiths Falls m.0.0). It was at the bottom of a dip and on a curve. The siding was later removed. 2329 was only 15 months old at the time (built 8/1926). It was repaired but 951 was scrapped, one of the earliest D-10's retired. 2329 was a hoodoo (jinxed) engine, it was in another head on wreck on July 22,1941 at Tripoli, mileage 102.7 of the White River Subdivision when two passenger trains of The Dominion met. 2339 on westbound #7 and 2329 on eastbound #8 came together as a result of a lap order. This was a dispatcher's most dreaded situation where he gives out an overlap of authority for two trains to occupy a single track in opposing directions. Sometimes they saw each other and got stopped, sometimes they didn't. Both G3 4-6-2's were scrapped as a result of this wreck.
There is a possible error in this caption, it is more likely the Engineer was in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Lodge 295. The fireman was in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Lodge 162. The Conductor and Trainman (or Yard Foreman and Yardman), in the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodges 277 and 579, but why two lodges? One may have been for road men and the other for yard men. The engine appears in this photo to be a Compound, note very large cylinder, while the right one is not visible and would have been smaller. These engines were rebuilt to Simple, superheated, and reboilered starting in 1911. It was an identical sister to 3292 in the train order. Note too the long wooden pilot instead of footboards which a yard engine should have. This 2-8-0 road engine may have been assigned to yard service at the time. The Brotherhoods fought to have yard engines properly equipped with footboards for safety reasons and finally succeeded in getting this in their Collective Agreements. So too did all the Brotherhoods fight for many safety features on engines and elsewhere.
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