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Now 2317 pages (22,100+ items) on this website! Thanks to all who contribute. QUESTIONS? If a search does not give you what you are looking for you may Contact Us with more of a detailed question. CORRECTIONS Submissions and Acknowledgements
2020 TWENTY-TWENTY IS HERE!
July 1, 2020
Last month's query about location of ONR
van 100 photo has been answered. It was at its preserved location
in Alliston.
ARTICLES CPR Ontario District Cornwall Sub. Added (scroll down) steam gallery D4 class engines 424, 426, 435 and 492 including preserved. Winchester Sub. Added (scroll down) another photo of new CTC signals not yet in operation.
Trenton Division Steam Gallery Added D4's 434 and 439 on old O&Q line.
Shortlines ACR Diesel gallery Added (scroll down) 169 part of last order GP7's. Later upgraded in 5 unit order 100-104.
St.Thomas Sub.
Added great photo of 1400_1594 working hard with 54 car train!
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries
Trains
BC Steam Added CNR 6060 doubleheading with BC (ex CP) 3716 for unknown event. Can you help? CONTACT US
CPR E&N CP Rail era Added (scroll to bottom) photo of van 437083 along with auxiliary crane 414325.
CPR The Dominion Added (scroll down to a Look Back over the Years) No.8 1431_1908 with early consist including some Budd equipment.
Tourist Added great photo of numbers 2 and 1 preparing for rare doubleheader event. Long-abandoned, the engines and train still exist near their original home!
Locomotives BCR diesel Added (scroll down) BCOL 720.
CNR steam Mikado type 2-8-2 Added 3492 and 3501
Pacific type 4-6-2 Added 5107 on turntable during steam excursion in 1962. Northern type 4-8-4 Added 6116, 6172, 6225 and 6227. Added 6015, 6016 at speed, 6028 dead at Stratford. 1939 Royal Train engine still trim equipped. Also, 6029 and 6032. Six Wheel switcher 0-6-0 Added 7527 and 7533. Note: 7522 sold 1959 Buffalo Sash Co. Buffalo, NY.
CPR steam A2 class 4-4-0
Added 599 SR class. Also, numerical order D4 class 425,
439, 442, 476 and 486 (above) at unknown
location possibly London Div. ? ? D10 Class 4-6-0 Added 624, 672, 701, 721, 738, 827, 830 and 929. R2 Class 2-10-0 Added 5755 St.Luc transfer service. Also, R3 class 5758, 5762, Western Lines. T1 Class 2-10-4 Added 5931 (photographed on my birthday!) and 5934 looking great!
Ottawa West gallery
CPR Diesel CP Rail S-3 m.u. yard units Added 6565 in Winnipeg and 6577_6571 working m.u. in Saskatchewan.
Subsequent owners
Shortlines Quebec. Roberval & Saguenay Added (scroll to very bottom) 82 one of 3 SD70ACe's acq. early 2020 from Progress Rail. Sartigan (former
Quebec Central).
Industrial Steam
Provinces Other than Ontario. British Columbia On display for more than 6 decades! 36" gauge WCR Ry Wellington. Is it really what it seems to be?
Alberta (scroll
down) Lethbridge Collieries. 4-6-0 number 1 was the last operating steam
locomotive in Alberta.
Diesel
Ontario Added new entry for AIM in Hamilton starting with this brand new model diesel loco by tiny builder Tractive Power. Also, Valbruna ASW added dinky 12 (former identity unknown Can you help?) . Possibility shown pending verification.
Logging Railways BC diesel Added (scroll way down) Canfor 4103 one of their very unique cabooses. Also, photo of log loads.
Facilities CNR predecessors
Added link to GTR Goderich aerial inc. engine house and turntable.
Stations CPR Ontario Other Divisions Ottawa Added 1965 scene next to Ottawa Union includes RDC 9024
Interurban and Electric Lines AMT 446 with the last train through Mount Royal Tunnel. Originally scheduled for January 6. REM Light Rail will replace trains when construction is finished in about 3 years. Also, added (scroll way down) B&W photo 6725 first center cab unit.
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June 1, 2020
ARTICLES
CPR Ontario District Bruce Division Branches
London Division
History of Passenger service. Added photo of 1221 assisting 2409 on No. 21 in a winter scene January 1954.
Gallery 5 Added 4724 freshly repainted. She never looked better!
Added (scroll to very bottom) recent photo that shows
newly installed (not yet in service) CTC signals next to very old ABS
signals still in use. This began last year and will take this year to
finish. When done the sub. will be single tracked for most of the way
between Dorion, QC (end of the suburban commuter service) and Smiths
Falls, ON former junction with the long-abandoned Chalk River Sub. to
Sudbury. There will be a few places where there will be miles long double
track sections signalled for faster meets. There will be about 100 miles
of track removed which will allow rail to be reused on the newly acquired
Central Maine and Quebec upgrading it for faster track speed (25 to
40 mph) and heavier (263,000 lbs.) capacity rolling stock.
CNR Predecessors
Canadian Northern Added great old coloured pamphlet from 1878.
Great Western Added 1855 photo of Grimsby station. Links to later years uses for this still existing building.
Shortlines
CN Cayuga line has closed down due to lack of traffic.
The last train operated to/from Courtland on Thursday April 23rd and
the very last train the following Thursday April 30th to/from Tillsonburg.
These OSR trains cleared out Future Transfer. CP Port Burwell leased line.
www.tillsonburgnews.com/2010/05/14/new-industry-locating-in-town An old 2010 news item in Tillsonburg News is no longer online. It concerned International Beams in Tillsonburg. If anyone can help CONTACT US
OSR GJR Added photo of 647_644
a pair of ex BC Rail MLW M-420's still hauling OSR's tonnage for over
a decade. Guelph Junction Ry. Added (scroll down to Guelph) photo of two trains meeting in small Lower Yard.
OSR Rolling stock GENERAL
Added 1941 article with detailed history of Helen
Mine near Wawa including facts about iron ore production which at
one
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries
Trains CPR New gallery for covered wagons recreated in old paint
schemes started with images relocated here plus 41B business train with
1401_4106_4107 eastbound through Ayr. Believed to be a high speed inspection
trip over the Galt and Windsor Subs. by CEO Keith Creel after which
it returned from Toronto to Calgary deadhead having been in the East
for another event. 2816 Added (scroll to very bottom) Empress 2816 with GO BFL Special out of Toronto.
Expo Limited Added photo of sleeping car Scotstown laying over at Sudbury.
CP Rail Trains
QNS&L Added 505 with ore train. SD70ACe
Tourist Alberni Pacific Added another photo of 2-8-2T number 7. See what is happening in this photograph. NRHS BC
US Roads in Canada D&H Added two B&W photos of subsidiary Napierville Junction Ry. 4050 and 4051 their only two units.
What signal is being given? First person with correct answer wins the prize! CONTACT US
Locomotives BCR Steam. Added 2860 under repair inside shop.
CNR Predecessors
Canadian Northern
CN Diesel M-636 Added 2307 GE Added (below thumbnails for modern units) photo 2428 trailing unit on train. Link below photo for all GE power.
CPR Steam Preserved 2839 putting on a good show for the photographer! Sold by CPR to some Americans who had a better appreciation for our heritage than we did. Operated by Southern Railway as part of their steam program. Sure would be nice to repatriate her back to Canada. Once a John Street engine, that is where she belongs. A former CPR passenger engine at a former CPR steam-era roundhouse that does not have a CPR steam locomotive!
CPR Diesel Heritage units Separate gallery created for 1400, 1401, 1900, 4106, 4107 and 3084.
CP Rail SD40-2 Added 5534 in CPRS paint scheme with RCMP logo.
Subsequent owners. Quebec-Gatineau Added 1801 later OSR 182. Luzerne & Susquehanna 1276 on lease ? or just sold ? to Meridian Southern. Lists other ex CP units 1850, 5700 5721. NRE-Alco Added NREX 5678 with an unusual outcome. NH&I 5577.
ONR Diesel Added (scroll
to bottom) APU 204 all hooked up in winter! Did you ever see so many
connections? Subsequent owners Added CYDZ 239 ex 1202.
QNSL Added 526 one of several SD70's acquired used from Australia enroute to Canada. .
Shortlines New Brunswick NBEC Added 1858 with second RS-18. Also, notation added at least 3 units upgraded to -3 specs.
Industrial Steam
Nova Scotia Added (scroll to bottom) OSC 17. Later preserved but eventually scrapped due to neglect.
Diesel Added Gibson Energy Hardisty Terminal LTEX 6214 nee CP
5682.
Added (scroll down to G3) HLCX 8177 replacing transferred unit.
Ontario Lambton Diesel Added ex NBSR 269 slug originally converted from MLW S-3 as B-13 later retrucked.
Rolling stock Businesses Reused
BCR Cabooses Added (scroll down) BCOL 1836.
CPR passenger
CN
CPR OCS Added 400018 tank car. See also (scroll down) 415014 and 415046 previously in gallery.
Passenger equipment
Passenger equipment.
ONR Index to all galleries. Added map of ONTC highway coach routes.
Shortline BC BC Hydro Added van A-4
Added (scroll down to I) INTX 385281 Interstate Commodities Added (scroll down to Potash Corp. Saskatchewan) CGLX 1109 leased from GATX Canada.
Facilities ONR Added photo of HQ building
Stations CNR Ontario Added
rear view of former James Street station in Hamilton showing freight-only
tracks remaining. Reused Added new gallery for Algoma District starting with White River which has a new built reproduction station for Tourist Info.
Businesses Various Village
Depot, Grimsby,ON
CPR Western Lines BC Added (scroll down) Field old station and other structures.
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May 1, 2000 marks 60th Anniversary of the Tripleheader! It also marks the 20th anniversary of this website the largest website of Canadian railway history.
STORIES 40th Anniversary of The Tripleheader Excursion marking end of the steam era.
ARTICLES CPR Algoma District Sudbury gallery Added photos of two different types of covered gons for steel loading and old wooden van.
CPR Ontario District CPR London Division Added photo 6703 in original paint scheme. Great background! Passenger service. Added great 1915 public time table and details of the original Canadian Added (scroll down) photo of newly opened liquid tranload facility in the former Expressway Milton terminal.
Expressway gallery Added great night scene.
Added new page for Carleton Place Subdivision. Interesting photos of steam and diesel at Stittville includng much detail.
CPR Trenton Division Port Mc.Nicoll Sub. Added ancient crossing protection signal.
Canadian National Railways Added (scroll down to Canadian Government Rys) 2 links (marked NEW) public Time Table inc. QRL&P
Grand Trunk Cobourg-Peterborough Added map of 1837 surveyed route for Coburg-Rice Lake Ry. that if built would have been the first railway in Ontario preceeding the Ontario Simcoe & Huron Union.
Canadian Northern
Shortlines Ontario Southland
St.Thomas Sub.
scroll down to Belmont added great photo 1400_1594. After setting off
it makes run on CN Cayuga. Cayuga Sub. Added interesting photo of the above train running opposite direction passing interesting display!
General GMD
Added great old woodburner-era photograph of MEC-CPR stations
and trains.
Photograph Galleries Trains
CNR diesel US Subsidiaries
CP Rail diesel SD40-2 Added 5710 with freight through downtown Calgary.
US Roads in Canada Michigan Central Added old hand-coloured postcard with people posing for the camera around the Turn-of-the-Century.
Tourist Charlevoix Train Added scenic view of train led by LMCX 1031 self-propelled unit.
Locomotives
CPR steam Ottawa steam
2800's Added (scroll
down) B&W photo 2816 on the Glen table and a night scene laying
over for AM suburban service.
CNR steam Predecessor
roads. GTR Added link to 1915 article on Suburban type locos. Very
detailed.
Diesels H16-44 Added (scroll down) 2215 in old colours at Mimico.
CNR RS-18 Added 3106 and (scroll down) 3655_3682. S-13 Added (scroll to bottom) 8703 first photo of rebuilt units. CNR Added photo of 9428 leading B and A MLW units. See who is in photo and what he is doing. US Subsidiaries Added (scroll way down) CV 4928 on passenger train.
CP Rail RS-3 mod. for hump service. Added B&W photo of 8441. GP9 Added 8488 and (scroll down) 8802 in different Multimark.
Essex Terminal Added photo of 108-104 at the newly opened multilevel loading facility for Chrysler vehicles.
Shortlines Ontario Huron Central
Added RLHH 3403 and RLK 3410 relocated (3/2018) from other G&W
roads. Manitoba Winnipeg Hydro Added 4 preserved, 187-01 preserved Mack railbus B-1. All at Winnipeg Railway Museum.
Industrial Saskatchewan Added Western Dominion Coal preserved. (Same photo above Winnipeg Hydro). Ontario Steam other than Ontario. Scroll down to Quebec. see National Harbours Board formerly Harbour Commissioners of Montreal. Added 2 converted from 2-6-2T to 2-6-0 with tender.
Rolling stock CPR Added Ontario on tail-end of The Canadian. Service equipment. Plows etc. Added 400404 flanger. One of 50 on roster along with 190 snow plows.
Added CN 0001 the latest thing! Distributed Braking Container car. A large number of these now on roster or coming. Added 2 photos of specially equipped flat cars assigned
to GMD in London for moving export diesels with buffers. Added (scroll to very bottom) 3 stock cars including double deckers used for pigs etc. 810472, 815020 and 815075.
Added two different type scale test cars 52257 and 52784 ex ore car. Also, 55384 plow.
Facilities CPR BC Vancouver
Downtown Vancouver Yards Added photo of 7109 switching V.I. car ferry.
Stations CNR/CNoR BC Added (link) 1916 article CNoR also, photo CNR GN station which is currently Pacific Central. CNR Ontario Added (scroll down) 2nd old photo of Peterboro in 1935.
Radial railways
L&PS Link first
Hydro Radial Added (scroll down) 2nd 1916 article on electrification.
Street Railways Added Montreal Park and Island. Article 1896. Also, Mount Royal Park Incline
Montreal Tramways Added (scroll to very bottom) MTC 1398 in early 1950's street scene.
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April 1, 2020
CORRECTIONS ARTICLES General Montreal Locomotive Works 1914 article had a 1954 aerial photo 1954 added to it incorrectly identified. It has been removed. Actually it is a photo of Canadian Steel Foundries. Thanks to Ken Goslett for catching this and noting it is likewise incorrectly captioned in the Montreal and Quebec Archives!
ARCHIVES Added CPR Ontario District Time Table 44 effective May 1st, 1921. While in poor condition this time table was purchased to fill a gap in years. Hand written notes both detract and add to the artifact. Proof (above 44 on cover) indicates it has been prepared to show changes to various times of trains for the next time table to be issued later in the year.
ARTICLES
CPR Added (scroll to bottom) a cheque payable in shillings in England. Proof of the vast services provided by CPR.
CPR Algoma District Schreiber
Sudbury Gallery SOO Added to Soo gallery portion. 8159_8171, also 8165. See who is in this photo and what he is doing.
Added (scroll to very bottom) 4244 leading near Blind River. 8/1983
CPR Smiths Falls Division Prescott Sub. Added (scroll to very bottom) old photo of 3510 with short freight train. Link to a young boy's story.
Added 1954 aerial view of Canadian Steel Foundries.
Photograph Galleries Trains CPR diesel CLC A & B units. Added 4053 with 8856 in CLC Fairbanks-Morse territory.
SD40-2 Added
5922, 5934 and 6032 (three photos) in scenic West Kootenay Region of
BC.
GP9 Added new thumbnail started with 8696 and something interesting taking place, plus trailing 8810. Also, 8822.
CPR Ottawa old diesel inc. CN diesels Added CNR 1287 switching a consist of CPR RDC's. Explains why and when. Shortly before closure.
Tourist
Prairie Dog Central. Added 4 old photos from 1980. Can anyone identify the 3 men? CONTACT US for reward.
Locomotives GTR Added 930 and other engines in a scene at East Toronto yard and shops. GTR 4-4-0 Added (scroll to bottom) 377. ICR Added 66
CNR Steam Preserved.
CNR diesel G12 Added another photo of 992 (ex L&PS) showing front of unit and unique trucks. RS-18 Added 3733 S-2 and S-4 Added 8078 and 8114 (ex 7948) subsequent owner Ontario Paper 4.
Subsequent Owners New gallery started with several MVPX units.
CPR Diesel CLC A units Added
4053. Also, (scroll to bottom) Robot 15 plus link to Robot gallery all
makes.
Added 4238_4236 in Cranbrook, BC not a common place for
MLW 4-axle power as it was all assigned to St.Luc. Note: Bruce Chapman (LBC) confirms it was he, working
at the Power Bureau at Montreal HQ, who worked such units Added 4238 (closeup of above pair) M630
Subsequent Owners RTEX Added 8138 at new location with new paint job for MetalX.
GO Added 600:2nd, 666
and twin-engined 677.
(scroll down) 1601 also (scroll down) 1730 (3rd photo) freshly painted with somewhat short-lived "Rail Services" sub-title.
Shortlines Ontario
G&W's SOR. Now back in CN's hands added (scroll to very bottom) 2 views CN 580.
Industrial
Ontario Paper History of this steam engine, a long-time mystery has been solved by Philip M. Goldstein!
Steam other provinces Added scroll down to Saskatchewan (link in caption) Manitoba & Saskatchewan Coal 6166 (ex CP) displayed outdoors.
Rolling Stock Added Chi-Cheemaun ferry. ONR Work equipment, vans etc. Added van 104 colour photo in original paint scheme.
Facilites CNR Yards etc. Longue Pointe, QC Added aerial 1954 includes huge Canadian Steel Foundries plant.
Stations CNR Ontario .. CORRECTED Started new page including many links to existing photos of Toronto stations including predecessor roads.
Added Ontario Northland's Chi-Cheemaun
Interurban and Electric Added (scroll down) CN 6714_6713 B&W photo. Also, (scroll to very bottom) 201 and M-5 side-by-side.
Montreal Tramways
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March 1, 2020
ARTICLES CPR Algoma District Schreiber Added great colour aerial view of White River. Sudbury Gallery
CPR Ontario District CPR Bruce Passenger Service Hamilton Added 2662 at TH&B Hunter Street in Hamilton with a NYC train from Buffalo bound for Toronto. By this date three newer G3's had replaced four older John Street engines specially equipped for ATC over NYC Welland-Buffalo. It is possible 2662 retained its ATC equipment and kept as a protect engine. It would later become a Lambton engine.
CPR Trenton Divison Added three old CPR publicity B&W photos with RS-18's posed. Check out early device for contacting dispatcher!
Kingston &
Pembroke
GENERAL General Motors Aerotrain
Added cover adv. new passenger service using brand new unique lightweight
Aerotrain.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries
Trains CNR Steam
CPR Diesel RS-3 GP9 Added 8826 (Script) leading (CPRail) B_RS_RS units through Nelson.
Added 8027 8063 (2nd) rebuilt GE 4400 HP units on the
once famous NYC Water Level Route 4 track mainline to NYC.
The Canadian
Tourist Trains
Locomotives CNR Predecessor steam
CNR steam
US subsidiaries;
CNR diesel C-424 Added 3218 GP9 Added 4133 GP9RM Added 7017
CPR Steam
G2 class
C-424 Added 4223, 4228, 4237. Check all captions this page for subsequent owners, many added. M636 Added photo 4727 on my birthday! SD40 Added 5541 SW1200RS RS-18 Added 8752 GP9u Added 8210 8248 plus (check all captions on this page for links) several ex numbers and subsequent owners. SD40 Added 5524 one of the few SD40's scrapped. Most were sold to subsequent owners. SD40-3 Started (scroll to very bottom) 6000 (to be re# 5100) one of 10 units. SD40-2F Added 9007. AC4400CW New thumbnail for this model. Includes 9507, 9602, 9641, 9654.
Remanufactured Units GP9u Added 1580 ex 8635 one of 3 units modified with chop nose for Alyth Hump service. GE AC4400CWM Started with 8000 first of 64 units factory rebuilt in random order.
Subsequent owners SD40 and SD40-2
US Roads Delaware-Lackawanna Added 4223 (5 photos) ex QGRY 4223, and subsequent owners ME 423 and RRPX 4223. WNY&P added 417 ex 1850 nee 8738, also 434, 435
Added 7118 in roundhouse being worked on. Also, two photos of The Canadian's protect power 3 GP9's off local jobs working one shift out of Drake Street thus on hand to be dispatched if replacement power needed for Number 2. CPR "Poco"
Added new link Common abbreviation for Port Coquitlam, main freight
yard and diesel shop for Vancouver.
GO Subsequent owners. Added Amtrak 199 in service Niagara Falls, ON. Also, see how it looked when sold by GO.
Shortlines Steam
Bartholomew 30" gauge 0-4-0T built by Porter in 1897! Owned by predecesor Asbestos & Asbestic. TOS & TIC.
Industrial Steam Kirkfield Crusehd
Stone (narrow gauge)
AltaSteel new power has been identified as far as prior
owners is concerned. Also, Added CRGX 701 ( inc. 3 ex owners) one of only 6 SD28's built enroute to Cargill's elevator in Lethbridge. Sand Source Services (scroll down) New listing started with DLCX 143 an upgraded early EMD model SC.
Manitoba Hudson Bay Mining and
Smelting
Rolling Stock BCR Added BCIT 841920 box car used for International freight only as per its reporting marks.
CPR Added (scroll to very bottom) CPI 542019 bi-level auto carrier with pickup trucks. Early open style multi. Piggyback and container flat cars. Added (scroll way down) 520053 last of 29 6-wheel truck
flats to handle 4 containers converted from heavyweight sleepers.
Vans
OCS
Radial T&YR Metro Div. Added (sroll to very bottom) unidentified radial car beside Fairy Lake.
Street Railways Hamilton Added builders photo of new order first car 500.
Added (scroll down to CNR) aerial view of Winnipeg shops, also, Senneterre diesel shop. Roundhouses
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February 1, 2020 ARTICLES CPR London Division Gallery of power. Added (scroll down) 6593 one of the few 6500's on London Division. It would eventually wind up on Waterloo Central! Gallery 5 created and CP Rail era diesels moved from Gallery 4 to here and added 5879 eastbound at Galt. More to come!
Added (scroll down) 4230_4202 with pig train eastbound
to Montreal. Roundhouse gallery Added 2814
Added 5375 backing to its train for Hamilton. Incorrectly identified as being in London.
CPR Lambton Locomotive Department Added new link (duplicate) to better locate following page and gallery. West Toronto
Roundhouse and Diesel Servicing Area.
CPR Toronto Yard
Road
engine gallery
Port Burwell Sub. Added photo rear view of original diesel shop. St.Thomas Subdivision Added a nice winter scene with 6508_1401.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Trains
Added brand new 4073_4074 "carrying green" stopped
at unknown location. Can you help?
Also, added 6623 last of only 10 S-11's "van only". Note what is on the rear of the van. This was standard equipment on all older vans. Note too what is on the track in foreground. Very important safety device and its purpose.
CP Rail SD40 Added 5832 also, 5844 with their trains in BC.
Locomotives BC Rail Added (scroll down) 758 and 762,
CN Rail HR616C
CPR Steam Added 158 in its last years before being preserved under
its original number 374 having hauled No.1 May 23,1887 Ten-Wheelers
D3 class D10 Added 981 and 1108 close to last one. G5 class Added 1251 last of 50 MLW built G5's. G1 class 4-6-2 Pacific G2 class Added 2614 at unknown location. Can you help? G3 2300 Added 2343 fresh out of Ogden! G3 2400 Added
2352 2nd G3c which began the newer semi-steamlined style locomotives. H1 class Royal Hudson Added 2842 in builders style photo.
P1 class Added 5125 digitally restored courtesy of Walter Pfefferle.
P1n Added 5213
smoking it up a bit! P2 5300 Added 5325 in an interesting/rare photo of it being finished off with its backshopping at Ogden! U class Added 6151 recently converted to oil-firing. Also, 6295 freshly outshopped. V Class Added (scoll to very bottom) 6968 last heavy 0-8-0 renumbered from 6609.
Added 4503_4463_8773 sitting on a shop track at St.Luc. Look at what is included here. I have never seen a photo of this before however, I sure have seen the real thing itself!
CLC-FM Added 4053 (and 8556) in a scenic photo of F-M territory. SD40 Added 5533 (5532) in Script paint scheme. RS-23 Added photo of 8019-8021-8032
M-636 Added good photo of 4730. GP35 Added 5024 SD40 Added 5565 first Dash-2 Baldwin Added 7070
Rebuilt units 1150 Belt Pack Added 1158 and 5492 with 1158 including subsequent owner 5492. 1500 GP9u Added 1504 in short-lived CPRS era paint scheme.
Gensets (scroll to bottom) Added demo 2GS14B NRE 2007 used at Calgary and two places in BC as well as winding up at a small contract switching outfit in Texas along with ex CN 4010.
Subsequent owners Added 1201 and ex 2001 nee 8109. Also, links (top of page ) to ex CN power MVPX 1202/1504 ex Cargill 1504 ex CN 1504; MVPX 1203 ex GTW 1516
Industrial all Canada. Check LouisDreyfus roster at top of first page, there are many missing photos. Can you help?
Added 513 one of 6 units sold to Amtrak.
Added 201 one of 4 EMD SW1001 low-clearance cab units
(popular with steel mills all over), acquired from Inland Steel,
Shortlines CANDO Added (scroll
to bottom) CCGX 7211 (ex CN) and 1622 (ex CP) both units in storage.
At this time (1/2020)
Industrial Alberta Gallery 1
Added GMTX 331, 335 new power for AltaSteel. This looks like either
just a change of loco leasor or the Saskatchewan Gallery 3 Coal mining companies.
Added Westmoreland Mining 2 photos; DMVW 6354 ex SP 6608
GP35.
Facilities BC
Added photo of 7113 with a mixed consist of pigs, containers, box cars under a modern building. See what it was.
LINKS
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January 1, 2020 ARTICLES
CPR Algoma District Sudbury Gallery Added 4563-4501 backing onto their train.
CPR Ontario District CPR Bruce Division
Passenger service. Hamilton. Added 1421_19xx with the "Little Ham" leaving Sunnyside almost back home.
CPR London Division
CPR Toronto Division Parkdale Added photo M-235 1929 Packard Inspection Car. See who is driving it! Added old photo of Weston Road Viaduct just built not
yet open to traffic. See what is almost hidden in this 1911 photo.
CPR Trenton Division Leased power.
Added MKCX 9057 and other owners (inc. WC and NBSR still on roster)
for it and 9526. Kingston Sub. Added great old photo of D4 485 smoking it up leaving Kingston with mixed train.
CPR Lambton Yard West Toronto Added 5 photos of Inspection cars over the decades prior to Hy-rail vehicles.
CPR Predecessors and Subsidiaries Quebec Central. Added nice old (1915) photo of pre-CPR Ten-Wheeler 45 with passenger train.
CNR Grand Trunk predecessor
roads.
Algoma Central
Locomotive gallery
Scroll down to diesels.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Trains
CNR
CPR
Steam The Dominion (scroll down to Selkirks in the mountains) Added 5934 descending Field Hill.
Added 4067-4066 looking brand new in 1952!
Also, (scroll down) 4062-4446 led this special train that
was operated over the Victoria Day weekend May 24, 1952.
Confederation Train Added (scroll to bottom) photo of 1967 cross-Canada display train in Swift Current.
Amtrak 344 with the Maple Leaf in the Falls is changing crews almost 40 years ago!
Added 3667 see what is in the background.
Tourist
Added old colour photo of van 61 (ex TH&B) nicely painted and coupled to L3 ex C&O GMD SW9.
Locomotives
Added S 410 last of 10 slugs converted from retired RS-3's
and controlled by RS-18's. Added (link in 644's,caption) 644-687-685-641 in a A-B-B-A style consist with two cabless "B" units.
CNR steam 4-6-2 Pacific Added 5080 looking sharp in 1959 near the end of steam era.
0-6-0 Added (scroll way down) first photo of this sub class 7508 last of sub class. 0-8-0's Added 8297 ex CV, 8322, 8366, 8390 and 8435 at the end of its career. .
Added 1531 long displayed in Barrie it was sadly neglected
then relocated to Midhurst. Rumour it might return to Barrie. Added 5114 displayed at Regional Park Railway Museum,
Melville, SK with other equipment and a station.
CNR diesel C424 Added 3215 GP35 Added 4001 in new paint scheme. Last of only 2 GP35`s on CN.
S-7 rare model Canadian-Only Alco built by MLW only for CNR. Added 8210 in orgiinal paint scheme.
S-3 Added 8463 in an interesting scene. Location and date unknown. Can you help?
CPR steam
Preserved Eight-Wheelers Added 32 cent postage stamp. (same as in Preserved gallery but see other 4-4-0's it represents).
G5 class Added 1202, 1203, 1210, 1214, 1238, 1257 and 1265. Last two at unknown location. Can you help? Jubilee class Added 2926 tip-towing out on a pier to switch fishing shed is light enough even with a full tender of coal! P1 class Added 5094 last of first 95 (hand-fired) 2-8-2's. Also, 5113 freshly outshopped Angus rebuild. P1n class Added 5211 P2 class Added 5369 (read what it had been doing), 5432 and 5464 (read its obituary). R3 class Added 5772 years ago before I was born!
T1 class Added 5909,
5917 and 5921. The latter looks like it is being fueled up with Bunker
C oil, a rare scene.
FP7/FP9 A&B Added 1416-1402 SD40/SD40-2 Added 5742 one of only two units painted for Expressway trains recently discontinued. S4 SW1200RS Added 8110 and 8147 including subsequent owners.
Rebuilt units RS-18u Added 1859 ex 8786.
Saskatchewan added LouisDreyfus LDCX 2005. USA (Scroll to very bottom) Progress Rail, added PR 8147
Shortlines Ontario Goderich-Exeter Added (scroll to bottom) RLK 4095 and QGRY 2008
Southern Ontario Added four photos of this special train handling massive transformer.
Rail America Southern
Ontario
Industrial Alberta Gallery 2 (scroll
way down) New entry Providence Grain. Started with great overall view
of elevator etc.
G3 Canada Added EFCX 1001 at Colonsay a high output grain
elevator wirh 134 car loop for unit grain trains.
Ontario London General Motors Added plant switcher 57 still in TH&B paint! Toronto Andrew Merrilees (D) Added (scroll down) AAM 10 70-tonner ex Potasco 10 and photo nee SN 210.
Rolling Stock BC Hydro Added old wooden van A8 and unique self-propelled work car. CN Added WFRX 856625 first of large fleet of new-style covered hopper cars for grain. ONR Freight Added ONT 100508 with nice part load and 100510 empty, new long flat cars
Facilities
CNR Added overall view of Transcona shops, roundhouse and yard.
CNR Yards
Toronto Downtown. Front Street team tracks, yard, shops etc. Lots to see in this 1972 view. ENLARGE
Added (new link) great old aerial view of Parry Sound yard.
US roads in Canada
Stations Other Ontario Divisions Ottawa Added (4th image down) old view Union Station near end 19th century.
Station reused, museums etc. Started new page CNR Saskatchewan. Eatonia (museum and library) inc. CN 78103 steel van. Plus, a real surprise!
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