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WELCOME See What's New Now over 1900 pages (19,600+ 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
August 1, 2017 Correction: GMD feature article photos of GM F unit demos. Thanks to visitor Edwin Cooper for correcting year from 1948 to 1947.
ARTICLES
CPR Algoma District Schreiber Subdivision Added to yard engine gallery photo of 7063 in faded Script paint scheme.
CPR Ontario District
CPR London Division G & G branch Added photo of 6537 working Guelph Yard job with well-known engineer!
CPR Trenton Division Added leased unit BN 6312. Created a new gallery Doug
Hately's Bowmanville Gallery. Freight trains through Doug's home
town over many years. Smiths
Falls roundhouse.
CPR Lambton Yard steam yard engines gallery added (scroll down) M4 class 3441, 3462 and 3491. CPR Toronto Yard Started new gallery for leased power. Several different roads.
General Toronto Streets Added Front Street West with Queen's Hotel 1867 and later years also its replacement CP's Royal York.
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Trains Following
Port Rowan Mixed Mogul 80 in 1955. Added one more photo Bud
Laws found in this very interesting railfan
Locomotives CNR Steam Mikados Added 3201 and 3290 from the vast collection of Bud Laws. Unfortunately, no known location or dates.
CNR US subsidiaries Added GTW 2671.
CNR Diesel GP7 Added 1710 in its second series numbering. More renumberings to come!
Added (scroll down) 1946 photo of 15832 on a branch run, and 15836. Plus colour of D-1 three car motor train.
CPR steam Added M4 class two photos 3442 in Quebec City winter scenes also, 3472 fresh out of Ogden shops in 1950.
CPR diesel
H16-44 Added great photo of 8720 smoking it up and moving fast! Also, (scroll to bottom) 8709.
CP Rail era Created new gallery for power assigned to Nelson diesel shop. Several photos 1980's.
GO loco gallery Added (scroll way down) Subsequent owners Amtrak 199 enroute to Amtrak. ONR steam. Something new. Added a photo of 314 digitally coloured by Steve Woolfrey.
PGE steam Added 2-8-2T&T 2 ex Comox Logging 7.
Added (scroll way down) B&W photo MLW B unit 6868. Added (scroll farther) photos of 1410 and 1961 both ex CP units. Also, moved other ex CP units here from CP Rail gallery.
Shortlines steam GWWD Added #1 0-4-0T
Shortlines diesel
Manitoba Added (scroll down) two photos CCGX 5202 a rare model
SD38AC ex DM&IR nee B&LE plus previous owner photos. Nova Scotia DEVCO Added (scroll down) photo of 20.
Locomotive Dealers Andrew Merrilees Added (scroll down) IREX 200 and (scroll down farther) AMLX 401. Demonstrators Added great colour photo of UP 676 one of four Alco DL640 RS-27's. Sold to MLW and later DEVCO.
Industrial Alberta Added RSSX 1085 GP10 switching Cargill in Camrose. Saskatchewan New gallery created for Parrish & Heimbecker. Added 5 and 6 slug set, plus 10 all at Tisdale. Ontario See What's New in this Gallery. New Brunswick Fraser Paper Added two photos of rare (only one in Canada) Plymouth Flexomotive
Logging BC diesel Added Crown Forest 7128 Baldwin.
Rolling stock PGE Added three colour photos of box cars, some brand new, some far from home.
Facilities CNR Predecessor roads. Added 1867 photo of GTR General Offices in downtown Toronto. CNR created new gallery for
roundhouses moving exisiting photos from main page where large
roundhouses links remain. CNR water tanks. Added Kamloops. (same as above).
CPR BC Only Created new gallery for power assigned to Nelson diesel shop. Several photos 1980's.
Stations CNR West. Added (scroll to bottom) Kamloops still in use by VIA. Started new gallery for Maritimes beginning with Musquodoboit, NS now a railway museum and French Village a gift shop. CNR Ontario Added colour photo of Angus in 1957.
Added two old photos of Cagney live steam train in Springbank Park, London.
Okanagan Wine Train. New gallery for this short-lived tour train. Prairie Dog Central Added nice old colour photo of ex City of Winnipeg Hydro 3 complete with fake stack! Salem & Hillsborough Started new gallery with RS-1 8208
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JULY 1, 2017 150th Anniversary of Confederation. No country on the face of Earth owes
more to its history than Canada.
ARTICLES CPR BCCS history. (scroll down to near bottom) Click on link in caption for Princess of Vancouver. Added a detailed brochure complete with a cutaway picture of the ship.
New brief histories of various truck operations over many
decades. CP Freight, CP Express, Smith Transport, Canpar etc.
CPR Algoma District Sudbury Division Gallery Added 3412 and 3491 yard engines North Bay.
CPR Ontario District CPR Trenton Division History. Added 2nd photo of 1245_8142 and trackside fire. Also, a seven unit, four model all-MLW consist led by 4734 Smiths Falls roundhouse Added 3408 yard engine on shop track. Port Mc.Nicoll
(Ex GB&S) Added photo of trio GO units handling grain train.
Also, 8150 and van for Road Switcher job. Station Gallery Added Elmsley a unique style structure.
CPR Toronto Yard Added (scroll down) 8800 (B&W) the last RS-18. Too bad CP did not order many more as they turned out to be the best MLW Alco units. Well-liked, they were good for road or local switching, fast accelerating, dependable and long-lasting. Previous experience with the earlier 244 engine in RS-3's may well have made for caution with the 251 engine.
Shortlines ACR Passenger history. Added interesting five photo series taken while riding the Snow Train including meeting a freight.
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Trains
Added Mixed train 218 leaving Ridgeway. Also, Ten-Wheeler 1135 "Down East". Find out what was happening that day.
CNR US Subsidiaries Added GTW 5627 with a very short passenger train. Also,
6305 and 8312. CNR diesel Added photos 3034, 3086, 3123, GT 4431, 4456 and night fall scene through Bowmanville and Newtonville. CNR US subsidiaries Added DW&P 3606
CPR The Dominion Added a great old 1951 photo of operator hooping up orders at Banff.
QNS&L Added old photo of CWR train with old heavyweight coach and built-new NSC van.
US Roads in Canada D&H Added beautifully restored Napierville Junction (D&H Canadian Subsidiary) caboose at private museum in NYC Added PC 8567 SW1500 in Fort Erie.
Locomotives Added interesting photo of a lineup of 6 engines at Turcot roundhouse.
Added Ten-Wheelers
1573 and 1591. Also, Consols
2413, 2432 and 2533. Pacifics
5250, 5265 and 5293.
Preserved steam engines. Finally got around to adding a bunch more engines to finish up this new gallery.
CNR diesel Added
photo of Toronto Yard shop tracks full of units 1969.
CPR steam Added M4 class 3403, 3406, 3437. T1 class 5931 two great colour views preserved in Calgary.
Preserved steam engines. Added 2839 in Southern Ry excursion service. Also, 3716 working on Kettle Valley Steam Ry. Plus, two great colour photos of 5931 preserved at Heritage Park in Calgary.
CPR diesel Added RS-18 8745 in good colour photo with Script lettering. Note explanation for yard switch targets.
ONR Added photo of newly-painted GP-38-2 1805 in a new scheme.
Shortlines Manitoba GWWD Added (scroll way down) Mack railcar 32 in older yellow paint scheme. Below newer scheme re#205.
Nova Scotia
CBCNS Added (scroll to very bottom) 3842.
Lease units. Index (see below for additions) Ex QNS&L
Added 142 and 150 GP9's leased to CPR
Industrial Ontario See What's New in this Gallery.
Facilities CNR New gallery for Rectory Street roundhouse in London with 1950 aerial moved here, added photos from 1969, 1982, 1987.
CPR Roundhouses, shop tracks etc. Moose Jaw. New gallery adding four 1979 views.
Added Kettle Valley Steam Ry. starting with two photos of 3716 pulling train on isolated ex CPR line near Penticton.
LINKS Added a link to Charles
Cooper's Railways Pages. Contains detailed Canadian railway history
and photographs.
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June 1, 2017 Begins our 18th year. All of it at Trainweb. Correction Articles CPR BCCS history. Thanks to Ross Mcleod for correcting the name of
the Princess of Vancouver in the 1972 photo of Phil Mason.
Articles
CPR London Division. Passenger history. Added (Scroll down) coloured drawing of Alco PA-1 2000. This type diesel might have been ordered.
CPR Trenton Division
Added 12 photos from Doug Hately's vast photography digitally
enhanced by Gordon Kennedy.
Passenger trains. Added (Scroll down) coloured drawing of Alco PA-1 2000. This type diesel might have been ordered.
CPR Toronto Division
Added photo of NYC 2957 typical coach used on CPR-TH&B-NYC pool
Redid first page with larger page (old 640 pixles to new standard 760) larger colour image. Added 2 great old aerial views with much detail including nearby streets, truck terminals etc. Courtesy of Dan Dell'Unto.
CPR Toronto Yard
Train gallery
Added outbound east train led by 4073. Yard
engine gallery added 6616, 6618, 6708 and 7090.
CPR Miscellaneous
Alternate roster steam. Added (scroll down to links between yellow charts) 0-10-2 yard engine with cut down tender 5806 and 0-10-2 5800 transfer engine with normal size tender.
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Trains CNR diesel Added unique set of 10 recent photos showing a local job switching industry on Kingston Sub.
Added (link) Brief History with chronology of service details etc. Also, grouped links to other GO galleries and Articles including CPR Milton line and TTR Union Station.
ONR Added two photos of Northlander train.
CPR diesel The Dominion Added GM demonstrators 7001_7002_7003 several photos.
The Canadian
Added nice shot of 1417 and another A unit on No. 1 at Ottawa
Station. Plus, a great surprise shot!
US Roads in Canada Added NYC 2957 coach in CPR John Street coach yard. Also, (scroll down to Welland) NYC 658 dining car and a coach.
Locomotives CNR steam
Added 14 engines from the vast collection of Bud Laws across much of Canada. Mostly ex CNoR but also two ex DW&P 1347, 1348 Baldwins. Different sub-classes of H-6. 1270, 1301, 1303, 1315, 1320, 1334, 1347, 1348, 1359, 1389, 1391, 1394 and 1399. Plus, H-10 1447 Check out the two photo sequence of 1389 to see what happened!
CPR Steam
Preserved locomotives. Created new gallery grouping together photos from various galleries etc.
CPR diesel
Alternate roster. What might have been ordered in the way of other models and makes of early diesels. Demonstrators. Regrouped/consolidated existing photos. Preserved units grouped together in one new gallery. Link in group of links above first thumbnails. Subsequent owners Start new gallery Minnesota Commercial beginning with MNNR 83 ex 1837
ONR Diesels Added great photo of 1509_1518 sitting outside the main diesel shop.
QNS&L Locomotive gallery Added (scroll to bottom) subsequent owners 4 photos of B&P train passing with 301, 302 rebuilt AMF SD40-2CLC units relocated to another US shortline along with ex CN 6072 another upgraded rebuilt unit.
Shortlines Steam GWWD started with photo of Mogul 3 taken before I was born! Read about unique one-of-a-kind numbering system. PGE Added builders photo of 2-8-2 51 one of only two engines built by MLW.
Shortlines Diesel BC Southern Ry of
BC Added (scroll way down) 908 last of the BCER fleet of SW900's.
Rolling Stock CPR Budd Company stainless steel equipment. Added elevations and floor plans of little-known planned
2nd order of Budd Company stainless steel passenger equipment. Passenger equipment Added (scroll way down) 450249 OCS downgraded ex Express Reefer 5500 series. OCS equipment Added (scroll to bottom) 450249 duplicate of above.
Facilities CPR BC Added (scroll
down) New Westminster
Yard shared by CP, CN and SRY, all included in photos.
New gallery for Crown
Gypsum Company's short narrow gauge railway in Ontario connecting
with the MCR until 1932.
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May 1, 2017 Seventeenth Anniversary This website started May 1st, 2000 marking the 40th anniversary of the Tripleheader May 1, 1960. Once again, thanks to all who contribute photographs and information adding to the success of this website. RLK
Articles CPR
Ships BCCS Added colour photo (scroll way down) of Princess of Nanaimo at dock.
CPR London Division Gallery 4 Added three old scenes of freights around Campbellville.
CPR Trenton Division Added (scroll down to Bowmanville) 6619 working the Trenton PU, then two photos of eastbound freight with a surprise! See what is was. A 40 mph speed restriction would not have made it popular with the crew! And scroll down farther to Oshawa and 6709 one of only two GM yard units at Toronto Yard with one kept working locally to relieve Oshawa unit needing maintenance. Can't have a MLW there! Looks like the boys have found some nice clean discarded lumber! Added (link at top) Port Sub. page 1936 employee time table effective September 27, 1936 also footnotes.
CPR Predecessors and subsidiaries. Index to railways that became part of the CPR over the years. Links to various articles, galleries etc. on this website.
Shortlines
ACR Passenger train history Added three photos of incredible 5 covered wagons on the Agawa Canyon tour train.
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Trains
Subsequent owners Added (scroll to very bottom) 8 photos, mostly recent. WNY&P all-Alco shortline. 631: surprise unit!
CPR The Canadian Added further details of a planned second order for Budd-CCF stainless steel equipment although exact quantities of each type is not yet known. It was to include NEW types of cars! Suburban Montreal Added photo of three A units being transferred by an RS-10 that would then go on the Cornwall job. Glengary & Stormont shortline which became CPR Cornwall Subdivision. New gallery started.
Locomotives CPR steam Ten-Wheelers Added D-4 426.
CPR diesel GMD 1400
passenger units. MLW S-3 Added 6557 in script lettering. Winnipeg.
Created new gallery for Preserved diesels. Starting with 6503, 6539,
Created new index to various galleries of Subsequent
owners of units sold by CPR. LINK below both thumbnail galleries.
QNS&L Subsequent owners (scroll down) added CP 5407 also, (link) Precision National sold added C&NW 4521
Shortlines Manitoba
CEMR Added a three photo set showing impressive 106 grain hopper car train with 3 units inc. SD38-2 recently acquired.
Ontario Southern Ontario Added a shot of three untis sitting in front of the diesel shop.
Quebec Quebec-Gatineau Added photos of 3 SD's with interesting history; 3325, 3334, 6904. Also, map of lines. Romaine River Added GP9 40 ex Cartier.
Newfoundland and Labrador New gallery started to cover operations in Labrador. Note:
QNS&L and Wabush Lake already listed under Quebec.
Industrial Ontario See What's New in this Gallery. Includes ancient narrow gauge plant RR previously unknown. Quebec Thurso & Nation Valley. Added several photos from a 1970 visit by Phil Mason.
Rolling Stock CPR stainless steel equipment. Added further details of a planned second order for Budd-CCF stainless steel equipment although exact quantities of each type is not yet known. It was to include NEW types of cars! Note: Same link in Train Gallery
Radial Railways
Added better quality photo of HER 125 crossing lift bridge
also added old postcard (long message) 1917 track level view.
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April 1, 2017 CORRECTIONS Articles CPR Ships BCCS
Ross McLeod corrects caption for Transfer No.4 this being second
barge carrying this number. Old Articles Index Facilities Ross also advises of missing text last paragraph CNP Patricia Bay ferry slip
Photograph Galleries CPR Diesel 8921 Recently John Vincent was able to identify as his a photo with uknown photographer noted. If you see a photograph not credited which you believe is yours, kindly do us the favour of so advising and will be happy to correct the missing or inaccurate credit.
ARTICLES CPR
CPR London Division. Stations gallery. Added Windsor NYC station used by CPR trains after tunnel opened.
Added photo of the MLW's "last hurrah" on the main line as 5 units (4210-1838-1837-4216-4230) head to Windsor ahead of arrival of 10 HLCX leasers that would end their days. Aware of this, none other than L.B.Chapman himself assigned these last units to run from St.Luc to Windsor. The end was near! Added (scroll to bottom for link) photo of 8733-4465 on 911 leaving "the Falls' with an interesting load! Passenger service.
Added (link in text) some old photos by a teenager, the late Bill
Sanderson,
CPR Lambton Yard Steam road power. Add 5402 and 5403 last of the non-streamlined P2's.
Newfoundland Railways Newfoundland Added new gallery for steam self-propelled cars.
General GMD Added photo of FT A&B
units displayed at 40th Anniversary Open House.
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Train Galleries
CNR steam Added Ten-wheeler 1541 in 1957 read what would happen two months, two weeks and two days later!
CNR steam Added link under "riding" section for previous posted photos of Hamilton-Port Rowan Mixed with Mogul 80.
CPR diesel
The Canadian
Added three photos of winter scenes on the M&O Sub. near
the end of CP Rail days. VIA coming!
CPR Ottawa
old diesel Added (scroll way down) to Ottawa Union Station and Ottawa
(new) Station. Link to Bulletins
Added new gallery for 1977 royal tour that included train made up of ex CP 1201 and NMS&T rolling stock including the two government cars 3 and 4 used on the 1939 Royal Tour. It is said the Queen remarked she rather preferred these two cars to the current modern lightweight government cars she had used on previous trips. Added photo of 1901 Royal Tour train on CPR at Field.
B&M CPR Pool Added
4 photos of The Alouette starting with B&M Pacific
3625 leaving Windsor Station in 1939 NYC diesels (scroll down)
Added Niagara Falls GP9's 6033_6036, Canfield GP20 2109 + on freight,
Locomotives
CNR predecessor roads Self-propelled cars and steam self-propelled. See also Newfoundland Ry. British built cars!
CNR steam Ten-wheelers Added 1238 with a work train at Sunnyside in Toronto a long time ago (two days before I was born!) eight-wheeler switchers Added 8297 at Turcot during the Great Depression.
CNR Self-propelled. Added 15700 a weird little car!
CPR Steam Added (scroll way down to colour photo of 2816 on table. See photo 2822 below for connection.
D10 Class Added
1065 and 1085 at unknown location and date. Also, 1104 in a bucolic
scene that has been identified as
G5 class Added 1230
in winter and 1231 with commuters in colour and 1300. All made it to
the end of the steam era.
L and M class 2-8-0's added photo of 732 on 1901 Royal train (same as above under Trains)
CP Rail Diesels (scroll way down to second set of thumbnails) 8921 Added two photos (left & right sides) chop nosed and wearing wrong angle nose stripes!
NAR Steam Added 52 near the end of steam in 1960.
Shortlines Diesel Manitoba
Winnipeg Hydro. Added (scroll to bottom) nice colour photo of ancient Mack railbus.
Demonstrators
Alco UP 2903_2904 Alco C-630's on CPR and CNR inc. details of use.
Industrial
Quebec CAD Rail Services Added 1825 plant switcher in brand new paint scheme. Note: 2001 finally in for wreck repairs.
Rolling stock CP Added dynamometer car 62 used to test pulling power of steam and diesel locomotives.
STATIONS
CPR standard portables. Small enough to be easily moved on a flat car! Blueprints included! CPR stations Other
divisions in Ontario Scroll down to Ottawa to link to New Ottawa
station 1966
Electric Added new gallery for the short-lived and obscure South-Western Traction, later London & Lake Erie. Street Railways, etc. Added photo of Brantford Electric streetcar in which an interesting store can be seen. Read its history and see if you remember these stores in your home town. H^opital St. Jean
de Dieu. Added photo of electric freight train on private railway
serving asylum.
Added coloured card of Allan Herschell miniature Streamliner park train to compare with earlier real live steam Cagney.
WANTED Website assistant Looking for someone with experience using Photoshop
or FastStone image software
March 1, 2017
ARTICLES
CPR Bruce Division 20th century station gallery Added Mono Road in early scene.
CPR London Division Photograph Galleries. Gallery
of power Added CP Rail 5599 brand new SD40-2 fresh out of GMD.
CPR Trenton Division Gallery steam Added 1049 at Oshawa in 1936.
CPR Lambton Yard Road engines gallery Added some more D10's 1930's - 1950's. 1017, 1038 and two of 1058.
CPR Ten Year Locomotive Program Added photo of last RS-18 1868 (69th unit) oushopped Angus.
QCR Added 1083 near the end of the steam era in 1960.
CNR Predecessors
Added (scroll down) former Bay of Quinte old photo card view of Yarker. Courtesy of new contributor canada-rail.com
Thousand Islands Added better photo of home made 500 preserved and on display.
Shortlines Algoma Central Locomotive
gallery Added (scroll down) 183 on lease to CP Rail (as were all
SD40-2's 183-188. Roberval-Saguenay Added (link in caption) great aerial view of Rio Tinto's Port Alfred facility.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Trains Carnival and Circus New gallery combining photos already in existing galleries. Cartier Added RS-18 65 in original paint scheme. CNR Riding the IB&O Mixed. A brief reminiscence early 1940's. New contributor Gren Schrader.
CPR The Dominion Added (near top) G3 Pacific 2339 in northern Ontario. Also, (scroll down to Royal Hudson segment, then Montreal - Sudbury) Added 2858 and 2859. CPR Riding the Scoot.
Old article about famous mixed train between Brownville, Jct. Maine
and Megantic, Quebec. CPR Ottawa old diesels. Added (scroll way down) E8 1802 mu'ed with F9B 1902. It was beyond rare to ever see an E8 in m.u. with any unit other than another E8.
Locomotives BCR diesels. Added RCC-2 remote control car. MLW B-unit conversion. Included in BC Rail page below.
BC Rail Added (scroll
way down) 705 enroute to GE Erie 29 trade-in units one of which became
GECX 5000 demo unit. Read about this unique remanufacturing program
that kept them as MLW powered units! It still is in use on a shortline.
Also, 751 and three photos 4610-3623-4614 all GE 6-axle high horsepower
units. Subsequent owners (scroll down) includes MHWA 642 and DL 3000
ex GECX 3000 in brand new paint scheme.
CNR steam
Preserved and
displayed locomotives. Standard 4-4-0 start with 392 ex GTP (top of main page). Moguls Added 619 and 877 in Lindsay and Saskatoon from 1930's (before I was born!)
Added a bunch of Ten-wheelers
across much of Canada decades ago starting with some from well-known
photographer Consolidation Added 2418 ex CNoR built by Canada Foundry, Toronto. Also, 2744 oil-fired.
CNR Diesel
GMD1 Added 1070 last order A-1-A trucked units. CLC H12-44 Added 1625 and 1648 in newer paint scheme. CLC H16-44 Added 2210 and 2217 last of 18 units in newer paint scheme. GMD F7 Added 9104
with blanked out cab to prevent use excpet as B unit due to non-compliant
safety device. Recent changes required RSC (reset safety control) in
place of old style deadman pedal. Units were near retirement. CLC CFA16-4 Added 9302 and 9305 old paint also 9318 in new CN paint scheme.
CPR Steam D10 Added 1044 in old undated scene, possibly in NB? G3 Added 2324 new. G3 Added 2400 brand new G2 Added 2527 (see who is riding the rails!) and 2605. G4 Added 2700 early
CPR steam Ottawa West B&W Added (scroll way down) 3 photos 2927 inc. doubleheading with 2200!
CP Rail diesel Added KCS 1869 a GG20B Green Goat in Alyth enroute to buyer. (scroll down to second set of thumbnails)
QNS&L Locomotive gallery.
TH&B steam Added two great old photos of Pacifics 15 and 16 stopped at Sunnyside. TH&B Diesel Added 72 sitting in Port Colborne via running rights over CN.
Shortlines BC SRY added 5 photo set of SRY Rail Link train headed by 108 (ex CP 1627) 121 slug control cab unit and slug mother 129.
Canada Industrial locomotives Kinder Morgan Added KMTX 820 in 2012 still bearing Vancouver Wharves lettering but already sold to Western Rail (D). Added an earlier photo of second-hand EMD United Grain
Growers 3 in better days. Vancouver
Wharves
Added (scroll down) Perrish & Heimbecker 3 ex Dofasco.
Looking for photo of PHLX 4 ex DLCX 1202 CONTACT US Also, PHLX 4 (1st) ex 8454 S-3 at P&H Moose Jaw.
Quebec Axiall Added great aerial view of CSXT 2383 switching at plant. Axiall has their own switcher as well.
Logging railways BC Diesel Added photo of Howe Sound Pulp & Paper 950-001 later to SRY BC steam
Car Ferries.
Canadian Pacific Car and Passenger Transfer Company Added great old view of Prescott station etc.
Rolling Stock
Added 272014 rare horse car (only 14 wood and these 15
steel cars)
Private owners
Added new gallery for Texas Gulf Sulphur Kidd Creek Mine. includes various equipment.
Facilities CPR Angus shops. Added detail last diesel 1813 outshopped closing Angus January 31,1992. PHOTO WANTED Contact Us
CPR Drake Street shops and roundhouse. In the better-late-than-never catagory here are a dozen more of Jim Booth's old colour photos showing the facilities shortly before their shutdown. New additions: Shops, scroll down to the Stores Building subsection for 6 more photos. Roundhouse, scroll down past last photo of 8665 inside the house for 6 more photos of the outside old wooden buildings "shacks" really, oil tanks etc. Or, better yet, just enjoy them all!
Radial railways
L&PS Added two car interurban train with cars 6 and 2. T&YR Added two old photos of the Deer Park (North Toronto) carhouse and shops. Recently destroyed by a massive fire. Also, Car 50 typical radial car.
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February 2017
ARTICLES
CPR London Division Passenger service history. Added unusual photo of two 2800's together on #21. Read why.
Added great old photo of D-10 1108 switching a plant in
Bowmanville during the Great Depression. Building still exists. Steam gallery Added M4 3415 Diesel gallery. Added photo of 519 a DTS mainline hot freight hauled by four rebuilt GP9's!
CPR Lambton Yard Road engine gallery Added 892 previously a London engine working Woodstock branches.
Subsidiaries
Quebec Central Added (scroll down) G-2 61 fresh out of the main shops, also D-10 940 ex 57.
CNR Predecessors Great Western Added two very old photos of Paris Junction station.
Shortlines Algoma Central locomotives gallery Added (scroll to very bottom) subsequent owners KWTC 150 and 151.
Ontario Southland Updated Cayuga line reopening including photo of the long trestle and the first train.
Trains
CPR The Dominion gallery. Added very old photo of predecessor train at Glacier House and scroll down to Selkirk part for this great old scene (above) almost 70 years ago in an outstanding digitally restored image. Also, 5927 by Sawback Range.
Locomotives
CNR steam Moguls Added 745, 755 and 907 (later re#85) Ten-Wheelers Added 1008 a really small 4-6-0 sister to preserved 1009.
CNR diesel Subsequent
owners Added CVSR 6777 MLW FP-4 newly repainted in new scheme to
match 6771 repainted last year.
CPR steam
Added this great old photo with only the name Thomas A. Young connected to it. No other details. CONTACT US Also, added 935 (see what is next to it), 956, 983 (1956 comparison to 1941 shot) and 1007 all Western Lines. M class 2-8-0's Added M3 3379 with its train in NB one of the 4 light M3 class engines that lasted until the end of steam. N2 class 2-8-0 Added
3624. See what it is switching. This engine lasted until the end of
steam in 1960.
CPR diesel Added battery hybrid 1700 and RPRX 2402 demo. Details of these units part of 35 unit order later cancelled.
BC Rail Locomotives Added (scroll to very bottom) subsequent owners 4 photos over 20 years ago of 4 units (inc PGE) on National of Mexico! TH&B diesels Added 55 first SW9 ordered by TH&B. See what it is equipped with from the steam era!
Shortlines BC Started Nelson and Fort Sheppard, a one-horse, 10 mile short-shortline!
Saskatchewan
Great Western Added (scroll down to big sign) 4 photos of MLW road units inc. rare M-420R 2002.
Manitoba
Added photos (scroll way down) of ex HBRY units elsewhere
on other Omnitrax shortlines in USA but still in HBRY paint.
Industrial Saskatchewan Gallery 1 Added nice view of IPSCO steel mill and nee CP 6716 hardly recognizable.
Ontario
Kirkfield Kirkfield
Crushed Stone. Added a nice old colour photo of 0-4-0 mechanical
dinky on standard gauge trackage. Look back too at their narrow
gauge quarry steam operation with an eight colour photo set (scroll
down to Gallery 2)
Timmins Kidd Creek Mine Added TGS 052 Best photo of Texas Gulf Sulphur lettering. Toronto CGE Added (scroll way down) photo small self-propelled crane. New contributor Jim Little. Uhthoff Limestone Quarries added Whitcomb 4.
Rolling stock CPR Snow plows etc. Added another photo of 422027 snow melter this one at at work. New details of machine.
GTR Added this great old photo of caboose with crew posing beside it. Gord Billinghurst Collection
Stations CPR other Ontario divisions Added (scroll down) 5 photos of Ottawa Union Station inc. under construction.
Street railways Hamilton and Dundas.
New gallery started with the pre-electric operation of this unique operation
that began with steam dummys, seldom seen anywhere in Canada. Bet you
can't find the bell! Link & pin couplers too!
TOURIST Railways and Park Trains Added ancient old photo of a Cagney live steam engine in Crystal Beach Amusement Park.
Railway Construction Contractors Started new page featuring a builder's photo of a dinky engine.
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January 1, 2017 HAPPY NEW YEAR1
ARTICLES CPR Ships Added new brief article on Bay Of Fundy service.
CPR Bruce Division Bruce Branches history
Mono Township Quarry Spur Added (links) aerial maps marked
to show old spur to Owen Sound Quarry. Research and markings added to
aerial views by Ralph Beaumont. CPR London Division. Galley
of yard diesels. CPR Lambton Yard. Road diesel gallery. Added 4022-4409. CPR Toronto Yard Road diesel gallery. Added 4085 and 4097.
Canadian National Railways Cameos Small phamplets handed out to passengers explaining train operations.
Map of GTP 1906 showing it combined with NTR (TCR) to reach ICR. Never happened when GTP refused to take over the eastern line of National Transcontinental/Trans Continental. Invoice from shipper H.E. Cooke & Co. in Owen Sound for cigars. 1915
Shortlines
First day of operation 6508 in new paint scheme along
with 1620 in similar scheme.
This Feature Article has undergone a major update
and reorganization. Each line has new or moved material, check it all
out. GJR has more photos at various links in text such as, aerial views of PDI added PDI liquid terminal and new Massey Road transload. Spur Mile 30.88. Also, Joint Industrial Area; South Industrial Spur, North Industrial Spur, XT-99. St. Thomas Sub. Many additions also, started new gallery
Woodstock for trains to/from CP interchange with CAMI and all other
freight plus CN trains with CAMI auto multis only. CN Cayuga line formerly operated by St. Thomas & Eastern
is to be leased to OSR after extensive repairs (over $1.1M) Port Burwell line.
Added 3 great aerial (drone) large 2015 images of the Salford
diesel shop. Credit misplaced. Tillsonburg Gallery Second set of thumbnails larger image plus additional photo linked in caption OSRX 180_OSR_500 swithcing Tillsonburg (who is that guy?) and 184 with OSRX 503. Rolling Stock MofW trucks. Added a big
boom truck working at Guelph Junction. A number of photographs throughout have been replaced with larger scans sometimes better quality scans as well. We welcome any corrections or additional information as well as scans of your photographs. CONTACT US
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Correction: Photograph Galleries Radial railways.
One year afterwards a typo was pointed out. Never too late or too small!
Locomotives Added (scroll to very bottom) a three photo sequence of
3716 leaving the shop track in Squamish. CNR Predecessors Steam Mogul 2-6-0 Added (link) 1908 article 1221-1235 Baldwin.
CNR Early Diesels
Added 2 colour photos of Rock Island 1000 and 1009 Whitcomb 75-tonners
rejected by CNR. Added photo of first CPR Alco A unit freight diesel 4000
in CPR Public Relations Dept. photo with "freight train".
S-2 and S-4 yard
engines. Added 7010 right side view; 7018, 7019 brand new, 7014 and
7027 all in early paint schemes. S-2 and S-4
yard switchers Added AN23 a retired B unit one of a batch waiting to be converted into a Robot car. Added air repeater car 1101 a 50 foot box car.
TH&B steam Added (scroll down) 201 one of just two Berkshire 2-8-4's and rarely seen in daylight!
Shortlines
Manitoba GWWD Addedsevral photos including two of 202 possibly nearing retirement. Two small GE centrecabs have just been acquired. Also, two RS-23's heavily stripped of parts plus a maintenance of way railbus.
Industrial Locomotives
BC Vancouver
Wharves
Logging Railways
Ontario. Added Victoria Harbour Lumber No. 1 history of this dinky unknown.
Car Ferries Added CPR Bay of Fundy service.
Street Railways Brantford Electric. Added 1896 article earliest history. Guelph Electric Added 1896 article predecessor Guelph Railway (Link in text 2nd paragraph.) Peterborough Three part on-line article on this little-known streetcar line that ended 88 years ago in 1928.
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