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This web site has surpassed 1300 pages! 2008 Articles: Created a special link to articles relevant to West Toronto Junction which is celebrating its centennial this year. CPR London Division yard engine gallery add D&H 6702 an SW8 with a long history and still going after more than half a century! CPR Toronto Division; John Street engines added a great old photo of 7020 and 7027 in early paint scheme sitting on the table back in 1952. Also, a pair of FP7A's 1420 and 1421 also on the table. These passenger units were geared for 89 mph, the fastest on the CPR, they worked The Canadian as well as Toronto-Hamilton during layover. And, a personal favourite for their appearance, the five MLW FPA2 pasenger units is represented by 4094. Great Lakes Steamship service added another colour view of S.S.Assiniboia with passengers embarking after a short walk from the Steamboat train at the Port Mc.Nicoll summer station. Shortlines: CANDO Contracting latest switching contract is the Imperial Oil refinery in East Edmonton. Added a photo by new contributor Tim Stevens of the two units assigned there CCGX 1004 and 1005 ex CP 1209 and 1207 SW1200RSu. acquired for that contract. Note: Cando recently (December 2007) sold Athabasca Northern back to CN for $25 Million! Ontario Southland added photos of OCS long hopper and box car. Toronto Terminals Railway added recent photo of Scott Street tower. Photographs: Galleries: Stations: CPR Bruce Division added a better quality photo of Meadowvale circa 1920. Locomotive Galleries: Long-time contributor L.B. (Bruce) Chapman (CPR Ret.) continues with a number of CPR steam photographs. Ten-wheelers added D 4 class 444 and D 10 DAR 999 with two different tenders and later as a CPR engine at Lambton shop along with ex DAR 555 after being sold to Canadian Gypsum. Also, 2222 "four duces" G1 at John Street back in 1936. Compare tenders with 2201. CPR Diesels begins the addition of a number of different models of early units in old paint schemes. Special thanks to Wilco van Schoonhoven whose web site www.mountainrailway.com includes a roster of hundreds of photos over the years. Shortlines Gallery older units; added ACR GP7 157. Ontario Industrial added Acton Limestone Quarries 60 ex Lehigh Valley 44-tonner shown at Mac Yard possibly on a move between locations. Pinecrest, on the south side of Highway 7 next to CN Mac Yard was a distribution facility and Limehouse (Acton) was their quarry. New contributor John Vincent. Canada Crushed Stone added electric motor 10. Quebec Industrial added a very colourful AMF 1251 at the former CN Pointe St. Charles shops and an old RS-2 (built for Roberval & Saguenay) at Quebec North Shore Paper in Baie Comeau an isolated line. Both from new contributor Pierre Fournier. BC Industrial gallery 2 added Western Forest Products 302 (formerly, Canfor) one of only three GMD SW1200RS equipped with dynamic brakes. Articles: CPR London Division Branch Passenger Service page added an interesting photo of the Goderich-Guelph mixed train with D10 886 from new contributor Paul Charland. General: Independent Bus Lines added a brief rememberance by a former West York Coach driver along with a 1946 photo of a group of drivers by new contributor Bill Worthington plus a colour photo of a group of old Hollinger, Danforth and Roseland buses after the TTC takeover by another new contributor Pete Coulman. Photographs: Galleries: Locomotives: CPR Steam added another photo
of 2582 in this one it is a
London engine and now has a standard
size tender replacing the original, small one. Articles: CPR London Division
(scroll down) added P2 steam engine 5375 once a Lambton engine. Also,
images of the Road Railer operated
for Triple Crown (Norfolk Southern). In the yard
engine gallery added 6700 after
going through the Ten Year Rebuild Program for yard units. Although
no longer a London Division unit it was added here for comparison. After
the first year and only four 6700's of the 21 units this part of the
program was cancelled due to their low horsepower. It later became a
"Daughter" 1010. Ontario Southland: Added a photo of ballast train finishing work on new runaround track. Photographs: Galleries: CPR Bruce Division Branches added three great old photos unearthed by Ralph Beaumont showing a never before seen view of the old turntable and yard in Orangeville; as well as a view of a passenger train at Cataract Junction and another of a train crew at an unknown location. Also, added some century old newspaper articles about trains being snowbound near Laurel. Photographs: Galleries. Other (besides Toronto) Hump Yards added newer hump engines when SD40's replaced old GP's. (scroll down to bottom of page) Library: Narrow Gauge Through the Bush. A great new book just published all about two Ontario narrow gauge railways from years gone by: Toronto and Nipissing and the famous Toronto, Grey & Bruce. Well worth buying! Articles: CPR Toronto
and CPR Trenton Division added more
views of K1 class 4-8-4's. Toronto Streets Keele
and Weston Road added colour image of TTC
2132 at the north end of the Weston route from the Junction. Weston
Plank Road. Also, two views of PCC's on PM rush St.Clair
route extension up Weston Road which continued long after trolley
coaches had replaced streetcars on the Weston route. December 2007 Articles: Shortlines: Ontario Southland Rolling stock galleries added several highway vehicles to the truck page, ballast regulator to track machines page and motor car to the track motor cars page from new contributor Drew De Bruyn. Photographs: Galleries: Locomotives: TH&B. Added GP7 76 at Chatham Street roundhouse by new contributor Michael Donnelly. CPR Steam added another Ten-Wheeler D10g 930 with auxiliary tender a regular sight on the prairies. CPR Diesels added RS-18 8793 and RS-3 8445 both in Script letttering also RS-10 8477 in CP Rail Multimark. Snow plows in the Steam Era a new gallery started with two 1948 photos of a CPR D10 on the prairies, a time when "men were men!" New contributor Jack Gudmundson. November 2007 Articles: CPR London
Division added a separate page for the Listowel
Branch with photo of the last run and additional research by new
contributor Steve Hoshel. Photographs: Galleries: Locomotives: CPR Steam added an old photo of 136 at Ottawa back when it was just another engine. CPR Toronto Yard yard engine gallery added a recent shot of 5481 now in Brazil! Ontario Industrial see What's New in this Gallery. October 2007 Articles: CPR Bruce
Division: Added a page about Steam
Motor Car used on Orangeville Sub. in 1908. Built for Montreal off-peak
commuter service, its use in Toronto was unearthed by Derek Boles.
Really unique one-of-a-kind self-propelled passenger car. It was not
successful. Photographs: Galleries: CPR Steam added a page for G1 class 2200's and another for early G3 2300's. US Roads in Canada; added an old photo of a D&H passenger steam engine at the Glen. September 2007 Articles: CPR. A new article about the Lake
and River service of Southern British Columbia, a unique operation
that linked many remote communities and isolated branches using sternwheeler
steamers as well as tug boats and barges. BCCS
added photos of the Motor Princess and Princess of Vancouver
along with statistical data here and there throughout the article from
new research. Photographs: Galleries: Locomotives: CPR
steam another G5 1289 one
the last and assigned to Western Lines as were many of the CLC built
G5's. Also, added four more Ten-Wheelers.
August 2007 Articles: CPR added history of Express Company. Also, British Columbia Coast Steamship Service, a unique part of the CPR's history. Includes a brief history of Grand Trunk Pacific Steamships/CNR in BC. CPR Bruce Division Branches added an old 1916 linen map of Walkerton station area from new contributor Jim Griffin. CPR Trenton Division added an old photo of 136 back when it was just another steam engine on the Kingston Mixed. Photographs: Galleries added new section for Interurban railways with new gallery for CNR subsidiary Montreal & Southern Counties and link to existing gallery for London and Port Stanley Tourist Railways added page for Halton County Radial Ry. featuring L&PS 8 with interior views of this beautifully restored radial car from new contributor Stephen Rees. Links: Added links to Canada
Science and Technology Museum virtual exhibits. A Train Journey Through
the Ottawa Valley featuring pictures from the Aubrey Mattingly collection.
Also, July 1, 2007 TTR added a recent photo of John Street Tower minus its roof and hidden beneath the footbridge leading to CN Tower but still very crucial to the operation of Union Station. General: Stockyards added 1960 aerial view of Canada Packers etc. Toronto Streets local delivery trucks added a great old photo of Canadian Kodak truck in Mount Dennis. June 1, 2007 Articles: CPR London Passenger Service added a new paragraph about #21 & 22 going to RDC's with discontinuance of the famed Bullet once powered by Jubilee type 4-4-4 3000's. Now only two trains of RDC's a day operated where not long before there were four. Includes a link to an article about Highway 401 which contributed to the decline of these passenger trains. Interurban and Street Railways TTC The City of Toronto takes over. More reconstructoin street scenes of the Weston Route near the Junction. Photographs: Galleries: CPR
Diesel added 8763
with wrong way nose stripes like on 8921. May 1, 2007 Seventh Anniversary of This Web Site! Al Howlett is back with more of his old slides carefully restored. Find them throughout the links. Articles: CPR Bruce Division added a 1974 view of the
long-abandoned infamous horseshoe
curve. Also, a 1973 view of Mac
Tier shop area with the turntable almost hidden by weeds. Shortlines: CANDO's CEMR added two images from new contributor Curt Wakeman. Interurban and Street Railways: Toronto Transportation Commission more old scenes in the Junction of track reconstruction work on Dundas after the TTC takeover. This was a very time consuming project organizing the images which were in random order in the TTC Collection in the City Archives plus researching the scenes themselves, which accounts somewhat for the lack of variety this month. Lots of interesting things to look at more than 80 years ago including double decker buses on Route 1. Later Years page shows PCC's in the 1960's in the Junction. General: The Junction and It's Railways added an interesting old photo showing a horse drawn wagon riding along the streetcar tracks, one of the very few I have ever seen and proof of the reason for chosing the odd-ball gauge. Photographs: Galleries: Locomotives: Shortlines: ETR 102 SW8 added. TH&B added new gallery for diesels starting with SW9 switcher 58. All Canada Industrial, British Columbia created another page to add a new photo of Western Forest Products 303 a unique SW1200RS with dynamic brakes on the Vancouver Island railway of pre-decessor CANFOR, the last remaining logging railway in Canada. Saskatchewan added IPSCO 4 ex LA Jct. Alco. Ontario Industrial see: What's New in This Gallery? April 1, 2007 Articles: CPR Trenton
Division added brief history of Agincourt.
Also, old colour slide of Smiths
Falls roundhouse. Station
gallery a nice colour slide of Havelock. Shortlines: North From The Soo a look back at the Algoma Central more than half a century ago. Also, added a new shot of former AC 140 now on new shortline showing street running. General: Logging Railways in Ontario added a link to a web site about the Key Valley a little known 12 mile long non-common carrier that connected with the CPR at Pakesley. Toronto Streets Yonge Street added an interesting old photo of cement trucks at work rebuilding the street after opening of the Subway. What is really interesting is a building in the background at 51 Yonge the Commercial Travellers Building. For many years commercial travellers rode the rails to gather wholesale orders for every kind of merchandise. This men dealt only with businesses unlike travelling salesmen who went door-to-door selling retail. TTC new file starts with some old track construction scenes in the Junction from the TTC's first days. Keele Street and Weston Road. Independent Bus Lines of Toronto area added new articles for Danforth Bus Lines, and Hollinger Bus Lines along with photos for previous articles on West York Coach Lines and Roseland Bus Lines. Stories: Turning Back the Pages added a nice old colour slide of C&O 8401. Photograph Galleries: CPR London Division yard
engines gallery added old colour slides of GMD 6701 long-time London
engine and Alco 7061 a Windsor engine. New gallery
for facilities starting off with steam-era water tank and standpipe.
March 1, 2007 Articles: Added a new subsection
to the index for interurban and street railways. Sir Adam Beck's Hydro
Radial Railways proposal is included. It is interesting to speculate
just what might have happened had these modern electric railways been
built and had they survived the coming of the automobile and trucks
as well as the Great Depression. Nearly a century later, would we have
had fast efficient public transportation over much of Ontario that today
would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the endlessly growing congestion
that plagues our streets and highways? CPR Bruce Division Branches
added instructions from old
employee time table of 1898 governing operating down steep grades.
CPR London Division added another photo of Goderich
turntable. CPR Toronto Division
added rules page from old employee time table for 1898
governing Toronto Junction. CPR Trenton Division K&P
page added date of the last run as well as altered final abandonment
Order. Stations: CPR Bruce Division added a photo of the elusive Camp Borden station at its official opening from January 1944 Spanner, the first issue in magazine style. Goes with recently added view of W.W.1 station. CPR London Division added an old post card view of Goderich. CPR Toronto Division added very old photo of CVR Cooksville. February 1, 2007 Articles: General: Something different this month. Take a look at the streets of Toronto in the first half of the 20th Century. An Index page provides links to many existing pages and new ones. Includes construction of Canada's first subway in Toronto, a really big deal at the time it has long been taken for granted and now often complained about! The construction scenes are interesting for what they show. People all wore hats back then except that workers didn't have hardhats. Some neat looking automobiles too! A look at the Junction in West Toronto including streetcars and radial cars that ran to Weston, Woodbridge and Guelph. The latter died early in the Great Depression. Had it survived there might not have been a need for the Georgetown GO trains, commuters could ride a fast LRT on a separate right-of-way into Toronto. Many of its industries were long lived, others less so, including the famous Russell Motor Car. Once a prosperous thriving place that was begun because of the coming of the CPR in the late 19th Century; it was the exit of the CPR in 1964 that began its downhill slide. When the CPR moved its shops out of West Toronto and its freight marshalling yard was replaced by a modern hump yard in Agincourt, thousands of good paying union jobs went with it. It continued with the closing of Canada Packers and the Ontario Stockyards. New big box stores and others on the site of the stockyards and housing where the Packers was keeps people away from the old Junction shopping area long without most name brand chain stores. Changing demographics has kept the Junction down as new construction goes elsewhere. CNR and CPR ended their passenger train service and you can't even get on or off a VIA or GO train in the Junction. Toronto's Independent Bus Lines beginning with West York Coach Lines including the Eileen Avenue route which I rode as a kid. There are no known colour photos or slides of any of these buses. Can you help? Got any old black and white photos? Contact me if you have. CPR Bruce Division added
old colour photo of a Royal Hudson
with TH&B Line equipment at Union Stn. CPR
Toronto Yard added recent views of former ex NS/Sou long hood forward
SD40 hump units sold off to NREX
and now back at NS! Plus, older photos when Norfolk
Southern owned and earlier yet when Southern
owned. All photos from new contributor Mike Ray. Shortlines: Algoma Central added photo of ex ACR 140 now on brand new shortline in USA from new contributor Rob Schreiner. Ontario Southland added recent photo switching Cargill in Mount Elgin.
Archives: Added CPR Perpetual 4% Consolidated Debenture Stock certificate issued in 1930.
Happy New Year! January 1, 2007 Articles: Intermodal Pioneer added an old Spanner article about the start on December 1, 1952 of piggyback service between Montreal and Toronto. This was for CPR's LCL traffic using 20 foot trailers. This is also linked from the feature article CPR Trenton Division along with another Spanner article about the start of dedicated piggyback trains effective October 9, 1957. CPR London Division added an old Spanner article about display train of brand new Dayliners about to begin service. Long lines of people waited to see inside these never before seen stainless steel cars. CPR even ran a special train out of Toronto on a Bolton Turn just for reporters and they too came out in big numbers. What a difference; now the public hardly knows passenger trains even exist, especially other than commuter trains. Steam engine gallery 3 added 2409 now in freight service. CPR Toronto Division added three 1929 photos, an increadible difference showing a dirt road of Eglinton Avenue West which remained as a level crossing until the late 1950's. Kodak plant is here and presently under demolition having closed in early 2006. Also added several old photos 1926-7 showing area around Front & Spadina where a new bridge was built over the railway yard with streetcar tracks extended south on Spadina over a diamond with the Shed Lead as well TTC tracks on Front Street which already crossed the Shed Lead just east of there. A new subway is also shown which was part of the massive Viaduct grade separation project. Included in TTR Viaduct Gallery. In the stations gallery added a photograph more than a century old showing a two horsepower way of getting to the old North Toronto station or, in fact, to old Union Station as well. Another old photo shows a little bit of Bloor Yard. I have never seen a decent photo of the place. CPR Lambton Yard added three great old photos from 1927 showing construction of TTC tracks on Runnymede Road . These streetcar tracks were never used! Also, some more equally old TTC photos to go with the Keele Subway shot of 1915 showing a far busier street complete with a streetcar and two different indepdendent bus companies vehicles as well as pedestrians all competing with the many automobiles that had since invaded the streets. Note too the drinking water fountain on the street, once a common sight, now, you could die of thirst looking for one! Credit Valley added a very old public time table (1878) for Ingersoll-Woodstock. Shortlines: OSR added a brand
new photo of GEXR switching on new siding at AOC
in Joint Area of GJR. Also, created a page
to link various non-revenue equipment, cabooses, hopper and tank
cars, car mover, track machines, trucks etc. Got any others? Cabooses added an old Spanner article from 1954 about new turret cupola cabooses. Photographs: Galleries: Stations. CPR Toronto Don station added an old photo of the "new" Queen Street bridge. The station is difficult to see, just beyond the tower. Locomotives: CPR steam added several old colour images including an old Pacific equipped with an early form of HEP downgraded from Montreal commuter service and its replacement newer Pacifics; along with an old P1 freight engine and a neat old yard engine in Brownville Junction, Maine. Most of these 20 Baldwin built 2-8-0's lasted until the 1950's except for 3 including 3512 lost off a barge into the deep Slocan Lake in BC in 1947. CPR diesels, added two Baldwin yard engines in CP Rail paint, 7067 on the mainland and 7072 on the island at the E&N shops, an interesting compact facility suitable for a model railway. Also, 6592 MLW S-3 in Calgary from new contributor Richard Silagi and S-10 6612 from new contributor Rob Kitchen and 6613 when it was PGE 6613. Shortlines: added BBRX 7000 former Bombardier HR412 demonstrator from new contributor Patrick DeLarue. December 1, 2006 Articles: CP Ships finally found a photo of a Duchess class ship, the Richmond, as well as a rare old photo of one the famous and elusive Silk Train. Still don't have a Mont class ship. CPR Toronto Division
added plan for a proposed 1914 large station at the Don. Thanks to Derek
Boles who unearthed this very interesting document. Added a small
page of New Toronto industrial
history with a link to the local historical society for further history.
Weston page, added an old aerial
view of the Kodak plant in Mount
Dennis, recently closed, a victim of changing technology. The large
site will be a prime residential redevelopment. Both of these pages
can also be viewed from Toronto
Area Industries found under General. Ontario Southland added a nice digital shot of their Alco S-6 number 500 sitting at Salford shop one year ago. Also, QGRY 1801 on a plow job. This ex CP unit didn't last very long on the shortline making it difficult to find any photo of it at work. It was sold to Andrew Merrilees (D), acquired by OSR and underwent considerable work to return it to service as OSR 182. Also, an old photo of the small station at Corwhin, long gone. Toronto Terminals Ry. added some old photos here and there including York Street bridge area showing old Union Station and old Heating Plant; another view of new Union Station along Front Street before it opened and before the Royal York hotel was built. Beyond the TTR limits but still part of the Viaduct Grade Separation, an old view of the GTR Riverdale station before work began. Also viewable in Grade Separations Article. Grade Separations added some old images of North Toronto level crossings before project as well as one of a work train with engine 1064. Stories: Two more stories by the late Don Gaw; one about meeting a ghost train that scared a train crew and another, Memories of a Close Call at Christmas Time about a near disasterous situation when a train crew got careless. Photographs: Galleries: CPR
Trains: Added 8200, 8201 only GP30's. 8403
in Block lettering. 8921 famous
one-of-a-kind unit several views in Montreal terminal. CPR
Diesels added 8212 GP35
soon renumbered into 5000 series and
8300 C-424 soon renumbered into 4200 series from new contributor
Peter Cox. 8403 in
Script lettering. 8921 before
chop nose mod. by new contributor David L. Brook. CPR
Facilities added some old shots of the CPEL Galt yard including
the crane and scale. CPR Rolling
stock added a Burro
crane with a clam bucket picking up snow and an old service
car used on the auxiliary. CPR Steam added two old photos of the
two K-1 class 3100's the only
4-8-4's on the CP, one in passenger service and the other after conversion
to oil, in freight service near the end of steam. November 1, 2006 Articles:
Ontario Southland has a complete re-write
including about two dozen new images by new contributor David Young
a young railfan with an interesting local web site Fergus
Railfan. Also, created a new gallery
(scroll down) showing former units on CPR. CPR
Bruce Branches added three images of abandoned Elora Sub. CPR London
Division Passenger Service created
a new page for GO trains also,
added a great old poster announcing commencement of Palace
sleeping car service between Chicago and Toronto via St.Thomas in
1895! Added text and two images showing new mainline Quebec
Street Yard. and the extended Nissouri
passing track.Yard Engine gallery
added photo of 6700 brand new. Loco
gallery 4 added nice shot of 4015
FA-1 A unit from new contributor Earl Minnis.
CPR Toronto Division added city map of Toronto from 1834 showing
the many annexations until 1914. No further annexation took place until
1967 when Forest Hill and Swansea were taken over. Toronto stayed at
this stage until the forced amalgamation January 1, 1998 of the seven
municipalities that had comprised Metropolitan Toronto, itself created
in 1954. CPR Trenton Division added another old colour slide of the
Hog Bay trestle at Port Mc.Nicoll.
Stories: Don Gaw a now deceased CPR conductor wrote some interesting true stories about his railroading days. One is about a near disasterous wreck on Christmas Eve. Another is about one of the rare E-8 diesels on a fast Montreal-Ottawa train that lost a wheel! Photographs:
Added a builder's photo of a unique piece of equipment, a mobile
power plant built in 1929 for Canadian Utilities Ltd. and amazingly,
it has been preserved. Galleries:
CNR Facilities a new
gallery started off with an aerial view of London (full circle) roundhouse
in 1950. Locomotives: CNR old diesels
added 4495 CPR Diesels added
8200 one of only two GP30's
in Canada, and its interesting history. Re-numbered, both still exist,
5000 privately preserved, photo
from new contributor Ed Mello and 5001
in the hands of a small switching contractor in the US; new contributor
Thomas Johnson. HS-10
as Ogden shop switcher. Also, 8716
CLC H16-44 out of its territory in London, this was one of two units
equipped to operate Speno rail grinding train. 4015
Alco FA-1 covered wagon. 7118 last
of 20 MLW S-4's and 78 Alco and MLW S-2's from new contributor Brian
Ambrose; both in CP Rail Multi-mark scheme. Created new gallery
for CPR rolling stock starting
with an old mail car. October 1, 2006 Articles: New article about Grade
Separation projects in Toronto. (Find same article under General,
CPR or CNR.) Includes Toronto Viaduct as well as GTR Parkdale and CPR
North Toronto. Also, CNR
Concrete bridges. Contributions from new contributor Jeffrey
P. Smith. CPR Bruce Division Hamilton
Joint Section added 1971 view at Bayview Junction. Passenger service;
added 1980 view of Budd Cars stopped at Black
Rock for US Customs, new contributor Doug Kroll who has provided
a number of photos this month from his
web site. CPR London Division locomotive
gallery 4 added 4015 an old covered wagon. Branchlines: added old
photo of two children playing with the turntable
in Goderich.and one of Hydraulic Switcher
17 with a nice new paint job. Passenger
Service added 9110 eastbound at
London station changing crew near the end of passenger service. CPR
Lambton Yard added S-11 6615 to yard
engines gallery. CPR Toronto Division
Lambton page added link to a new page for Cowan's
Chocolate factory which became Rowntree and finally Laura Secord
before rail service ended. This was the last industry on the Old Bruce
service track. Wharf page added
aerial view c.1930 of York Quay showing the huge Terminal
Warehouse, which was incorporated in 1926 as the Canadian
Rail and Harbour Terminals, Limited. Also, a view of it redeveloped
as condos and retail, Queens
Quay Terminal. Fez City
page add artists rendering of high rise West
Harbour City on former Molson brewery site. John
Street engines gallery added a page
to show differences in headlight and truck modifications to Alco/MLW
switchers. Added two photos of St.Luc yard diesels 7012 and 7042 compared
to 7011 from new contributor Peter
Layland. Weston page add 8921 crossing
West Toronto Diamond in its CP Rail Action Red. General: Cabooses:
added photo of unique turret cupola CPR van and modern TH&B steel
van built same as CPR wide-vision cupola vans. Photographs: Galleries: Locomotives: Shortlines:
add Grand Forks 6703 in new paint from new contributor Jim Spurway.
CNR old diesels, added RS-18
3684 nicely restored to original
green paint and now indoors at Exporail along with older shot in red,
black and white. Archives: Added two
different Lake Huron & Northern Ontario1914
stock certificate. September 1, 2006 My 65th birthday. I am now officially a senior citizen! Articles CPR Lambton Yard added old photo of streetcar tracks being laid on Runnymede Road to reach the new Britannia car barns which were never built. Added new link in Part 1 for the page making it easier to find. Part 2 added Spanner article about custom built diesel refueler truck, first in Canada. CPR Toronto Division Esplanade added another image of the Toronto Fruit Market. This was once the Great Western station. There is also a link on the Swansea OFT page. Parkdale redevelopment added old photo of the Gladstone House to go with an image of it following its recent renovation. Sunnyside, added a new page of non-railway street scenes. Leaside added old photo of 9051 en route to Peterboro on recently started Dayliner service. John Street Locomotive Department added another link to diesel refueler truck article. John Street engines added 6271 including retirement presentation of its number plate to its long-time regular engineer, Sam Hicks. One of only two 0-6-0's not scrapped it has been neglected for over forty years at the Canadian Railway Museum in Delson. It belongs here in Toronto. Too bad we don't have a railway museum here. West Toronto added several old photographs including Royce Avenue level crossing and the subway under construction and nearby industries including one which supplied bodies for the nearby short-lived Chevrolet plant before the GM plant was built in Oshawa. CPR Trenton Division
(scroll down to Abandonments) added an interesting little note about
the last train on the Havelock Sub. to the Falls having to stop to open
farmers fences put up across the seldom-used tracks. Also, added a link
to the 3M
company web site for its history in Canada including the now-closed
plant just east of Havelock that kept a small portion of the line open.
Kingston Sub. (the old "Kick
and Push" ) added some info and a newspaper
clipping about the last through Mixed trains between Kingston and
Renfrew hauled by D4 class Ten-Wheelers 417 and 492. Bob Sandusky
is back with more of his speciality, colour photographs of branchline
railroading in the 1950's, a time when both steam and mixed trains were
fading from the scene. Photographs: Galleries: Locomotives: CPR trains: added three more views of The Alouette including one with an open observation buffet parlor car. Still looking for a good colour view of B&M E7 in Canada. CPR Locomotives added view of WN&P 630 formerly CP 4500. A railfan saved this unit from scrap. Industrial Ontario see: What's New in This Gallery? Stations: CPR Toronto Division added view of GTR South Parkdale. Why here? It was replaced by the GTR Sunnyside station which CPR shared the use of. CPR Quebec added a page 3 which shows the boarded up magnificent Lacolle station on the former NJ/D&H. August 1, 2006 Once
again Old Time Trains welcomes many new contributors who, along
with the many repeat contributors all help to make this a more interesting
web site. Thank you one and all. If you think you may have something
of interest you are welcome to send along jpgs. Articles: CPR London Division (scroll down to Changes Over the Years) added new information regarding introduction of MBS radio dispatching replacing train orders issued by Operators. Removal of Train Order Signals or, "Order boards" as they were commonly known from stations was part of this. New contributor Bill Miller was one of those who was on hand to record its passing at Guelph Junction a long-time favourite place for railfans to hang out watching and photographing trains. In the locomotive galleries a good colour slide of P2 class steam engine 5406 at Galt. On the Branches added an old slide of the interesting crossing of the long-abandoned CNR (exLH&B) at Blyth. CPR Trenton Division GB&S segment added a great colour slide of the famous Hog Bay trestle on the way into Port Mc.Nicoll. CPR Toronto Division (scroll down to LCL and Pool Cars), added evening view of shed transfer shoving on King Street Lead across Front Street by new contributor Terry Link. Also, view of yard engine switching the paper shed. Parkdale page, Swansea and Ontario Food Terminal segment added link to two old photos of the Toronto Wholesale Fruit Market, (once the Great Western station) on the Esplanade, predecessor of the OFT. Lambton page rewritten text for Bloor Street to West Toronto portion. Added 1915 photo of Wallace Avenue footbridge. Added some 1923 photos of Diamond area including Osler Street Team Tracks and West Toronto freight shed. Plus, an old shed. CPR Toronto Yard train gallery added detail to caption to identify unique style of signal: Entrance Yard Track Indicators. CPR Lambton Yard History, added two very old photos to map of Lambton Mills. Also, added 1912 view of Runnymede Subway before yard office and roundhouse were built. Photographs: Galleries: Created a new gallery for
CPR facilities starting
with a crossing watchman's tower, a water tank and a water standpipe.
Stations: CPR Toronto Division
added two old views of Don station.
One in 1910 before the high level bridge was built and afterwards in
1929 which also shows nearby tower. GTR
Sunnyside temporary station in a coach. CPR
Bruce Division added old photo of Erin
being demolished. Bill Weber was the last regular agent-operator
there and saved this old notice of many stations
being offered for sale. He also saved a great old
document from Credit Valley days. Photo of Cheltenham
added. GTR South
Parkdale added view of new station just before it was closed by
the grade separation project. CPR
Trenton Division added two views of Lindsay
freight shed in its last years. Toronto Terminals Railway old
union station gallery added view at track level just before demolition
of trainshed. Archives: Ink blotters were once a common way for
businesses to advertise because of their widespread common usage by
the public. Two from 1955 have been added from the collection of Bill
Weber; one for Canadian Pacific Steamships
and the other for Great Northern with a map showing its lines including
several crossing the international border. July 1, 2006 Articles:
CPR Bruce Division added
a page of old snapshots taken by brakeman
Cliff Beagan back in 1954 on a trip on 953, a fast freight hauled
by 2305, a Pacific type former passenger engine. Not the best
quality but, cameras for the average person were often not the greatest
and, these were taken from a moving freight train! CPR
Lambton Yard added 1915
photo of new Runnymede Road subway showing yard office recently
built. Ontario Southland added photo of
BCOL 1001 now OSR 501. June 1, 2006 Articles:
CPR Toronto Yard added
new gallery starting with old photo
from new contributor Steve Reeves of a train waiting to leave
the yard. Ontario Southland added photo by
OSR engineer Joe Dennis of ex BCR
M420 646 switching at Petro Canada where it replaced two units that
failed late in 2005. One, ex SOO 378 GP7
was sent to Lambton Diesel Service in Sarnia for repair. Added a
link to Welland
Industrial history site. Not much railway but, interesting, especially
the heavy industries served by railways. Photographs: Station Galleries CPR
London Division added GO
Streetsville. An interesting comparison to the more traditional
railway stations that once served the town. May 1, 2006 Marking the Sixth Anniversary of this web site. I am taking this opportunity to thank all of the many contributors who have added to this web site. Your comments, corrections and contributions are always welcome. Thank you, one and all! Articles: CPR Bruce Division added a 1919 photo of the S.S.Cherokee at Bala Summer Station. Bruce branches in Orangeville added recent photos by new contributor Steve Bradley of the former CPR bunkhouse recently being destroyed by fire. Shortlines: Algoma Central added some photos here and here taken 25 years ago by new contributor Rob Kitchen also, added a photo of tour train hauled by ex Wisconsin Central GP40's newly under CN ownership. Newfoundland's Railways added a page for Buchans Railway a long-abandoned non-common carrier narrow gauge railway operated by ASARCO including photos from new contributor Mark Landgraf. General: Early diesels added a rare old 1933 photo of CN 7750 one-of-a-kind early diesel in Turcot Yard. Photographs: Main page added a photo of CNR 7312 when it was just another 0-6-0 switcher. It went on to become famous as Strasburg 31. Galleries: Stations: CPR Trenton Division, added a recent photo of the former Havelock station restored and in use as the Station Restaurant. For sale again, March 2006. Locomotives, Industrial, BC added BC Forest Prods. 9 long-gone Whitcomb 80-tonner. Quebec: added a little 45-tonner named Romeo & Juliette with a fancy paint job at the now-closed timber reload facility on the revived Quebec Central. Ontario steam: Added nice old photo of Consolidated Sand and Gravel 7105 back in 1932 at Paris pit. It was ex Standard Paving nee CNR/GTR 7105 and went on to become part of the CNR Museum Train. It remains at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. C&D Sugar added CNR 7456 when it was just another 0-6-0 switcher. Preservation: New page briefly describing the preservation of two ex CNR 0-6-0's from Canada and Dominion Sugar. Both still exist, one became well-known as Conway Scenic 47. April 1, 2006 Articles:
CPR Bruce Division branches. More
than half a century after abandonment of part of the Elora Sub. for
the Shand Dam project the abandonded
right-of-way can still be seen at times of low water levels in Lake
Belwood, from new contributor Tom Landers. Added old map of Cardwell
Jct. showing location of connecting track with GTR on the former
TG&B. Added explanation of Protect
engine for passenger and auxiliary trains. Stories: Bruce Mercer is back with more of his stories about the C&O in Ontario as he Turns Back the Pages of his tattered little notebook. Photos have been added throughout including new contributor Doug Page who had some interesting photos back in 1967 of a C&O train detouring over the CNR at Canfield Junction. Your photos are welcome. Photographs: Galleries: New gallery for Hy-Rail equipment. Beginning with a restored 1958 Pontiac station wagon (remember them?) from new contributor Matt Cummins. Ordinary automobiles replaced rail-only inspection cars for use by Officials. Re-arranged CPR diesel galleries with some additions: CPR diesel units and CPR diesel trains. March 1, 2006 Articles:
Old Time Trains welcomes a new author Brian Westhouse who specializes
in Ontario logging railways and lumber companies. Many of these operations
had little or nothing published about them and photographs are hard
to come by. General: Logging Railways
in Ontario CPR CPR ships part of the Travel on CPR article
World's Greatest Travel System.
Replaced some black and white images on the Atlantic
page with nice old post card views from a great web site of ship post
cards. See link to Simplon at bottom of Atlantic page. New chapter added
for cargo ships including container
and bulk carriers of CP Bermuda. CPR London Division created a new page
for branch line passenger service
separate from main line service and restored battery car 9002 that was
inadvertantly left off when the feature article was reorganized. CPR
Trenton Division VIA passenger trains did not normally operate on the
Belleville Subdivision but, VIA units did haul CPR freight trains during
times of power shortages. New contributor Raymond Farand proves
this with a shot of a pair of F40's
on an Intermodal train crossing Mud Lake trestle. Added a hot link
to a photo of 2399 which was the
last regularly assigned passenger steam engine on the Trenton
Div. Protect Engine explained.
CPR Bruce Division added photo from
new contributor Bill Hakkarinen of VIA
RDC's at Exchange Street station. CPR
Toronto Division a small rewrite under Operating Department listing
positions of various Officers, including a description of the Supervisor
and Shop Foreman. also
the Call Boy and Station
Agent/Operator etc. Employees parking their automobile at
John Street required a windshield
permit. CPR Lambton Yard
added a little piece about the Beanery.
CPR subsidiary Quebec Central added page
from employee timetable
5 effective April 24,1966. One year later, timetable number 7 eff.
April 30,1967 was the last separate one issued.Also, added
small public timetable cover showing RDC which in 1957 reduced travel
time between Sherbrooke and Quebec City (147.6 miles) by an hour and
a half! Chalk It Up article now has an
old photo showing how cars were once marked for switchmen. CNR
Constituant lines: Newfoundland's Railways
has three images from new contributor John Carter of the
Carbonear Mixed one of three such little known trains that continued
to operate for years after main line passenger service ended. Shortlines:
Dale Wilson is back with an expanded article on the little-known
Lake Huron and Northern Ontario. Add
link to Joggins and Maritime railways. February 1, 2006 Articles:
CPR ships added to Travel on CPR
article World's Greatest Travel System.
CPR Schreiber Division
(link) article added on Nipigon
Subdivision and article about James
Secretan, government engineer for the Pacific Railway (pre-CPR).
CPR Bruce Division Branches added
old colour photos of the abandoned
Walkerton Sub. right-of-way at Priceville and the bridge
piers in the Saugeen River in Hanover and the new
footbridge built on the old piers. Also, Bruce
Branches, Elora Sub. added two views of diamond
with CNR. Added in the diesel
era gallery three colour photos by Jim Griffin in Markdale:
Rare GP30, a slightly derailed plow, and a great shot of snow plowing
through town back in 1977. CPR London Division Branches
added old colour photo of St.Mary's
yard; another one near Elmira shows how arrow-straight much of the
Goderich Sub. was as it crossed the land.CPR
Toronto Division added several 1986 views of Parkdale
and Strachan Avenue after track changes including a closeup of the
"dump" where runaways were
caught. Parkdale yard after converted to an Inter
Modal Service facility for CAST container traffic. Two 1987 aerial
views looking towards Bathurst
Street and of the area around the former
Cabin D. Also, view of King
Street Lead along Front Street. John
Street Gallery has eight new photos of the last year of its operation.
Gene Burles. CPR Trenton Division
(scroll down) added a photo of the last
through train to leave Smiths Falls with a caboose. Photographs: Galleries: Stations: CPR
Trenton Division added two recent views of Dunsford
(Bobcaygeon Sub.) as a residence from new contributor Tony Bock.
CPR Bruce Division
added another view of Owen Sound.
Locomotives: Started a new gallery for early
CP Rail diesels with E8 1800 on the Atlantic Limited. Ontario Industrial
Locomotives see What's New in
This Gallery. January 1, 2006 Articles
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway
was an epic undertaking, one that not only built a railway but, also
built a country. In no other country in the world was the railway of
greater importance than in Canada. Without the CPR Canada simply would
not have existed as it has. CPR Schreiber Division added a link to web site of David Gagnon, a trainman in the 1970's. A look at this rugged area including interesting old general railway material. Be sure to read FAQ. CPR Trenton Division added paragraph (scroll down to abandonments) about CPR taking over from the abandoned CNR (ex Bay of Quinte) in Tweed back in 1941. CPR Lambton Yard added 1912 map and c.1920 photo of The Campbell Flour Mills in West Toronto (scroll down to Keele Street for link) another link is in Toronto Industries elevators. Photographs Galleries Locomotives: CNR Steam started a new gallery with 49 one of only six 4-6-4F type engines especially built for GTR Montreal suburban service. CPR Steam added 2467 in Montreal suburban (commuter) service. CPR Diesel added two photos of Train Masters, one m.u.'d with a Rocket! and a four car set of Budd Cars in the Montreal suburban service. Stations: CPR Trenton Division added old CPR photo of COR Bonarlaw station, a joint facility. December 1, 2005 Articles Shortlines: Smoky Falls Line. Spruce Falls Power & Paper Company in Northern Ontario operated its own non-common carrier railway for many years known as the Smoky Line. Only plant switching in Kapuskasing remains. Roberval & Saguenay 2-6-0 with a two car mixed train in 1933. Ontario Southland has had a reorg plus update and added images including one from new contributor Shaun Arthur of GP7 383 with its unique new logo on the nose and one from new contributor Chris Lyon of parts hulk 1116 sitting at the Junction on February 26, 2005. Walter Pfefferle responded to a special request for photos of the Shuttle Wagon car mover at Salford shop. General: Cabooses. Added dates for start of cabooseless train operations. CPR Ontario District London Division added two great aerial views of Woodstock back in 1945 and 1953. Trenton Division Dayliners operated for years on the Peterboro Sub. but not on the new main line through Trenton, however, here is one at Bowmanville. Nor did GO trains operate anywhere on the Trenton Division, however GO units often did in the 1970's. Toronto Division added a new page describing train operations and crews to better clarify situation including assist or "push" engines. Bruce and Trenton Divisions also have a link to this page for pertinent information. Scroll down each main page to Crews or Operations to find link. Also, Toronto Division added exact date North Toronto Station was renamed Toronto-Yonge Street (November 21,1919) and opening date for Leaside Junction station, September 1894. Lambton Yard added to engine gallery 2-10-0 5750 on Parkdale Transfer with my grandfather (Johnny Jackson) as fireman. He may well have been the fireman on the Swansea Transfer in this old view of 0-6-0 6271. He retired off the Swansea Transfer shortly after I began railroading carrying on a tradition begun decades ago with my great grandfather who retired from the Air Brake Room at West Toronto. Photographs Galleries Stations: Created a new gallery for former CPR New Brunswick stations, added stations to CPR Quebec as well as a second page including stations still in use for AMT commuter trains. All from station specialist Jeff Henricks. Ontario Industrial Locomotives see: What's New in This Gallery? Created a new gallery for older CNR diesels. CPR Steam added 1201 back in 1951 when it was just another G5, 2663 on a passenger extra in Joliette, U3 6304 the last 0-6-0 and 6950 one of only three 0-10-0's both in Winnipeg. Stories Turning Back the Pages of the Tattered Little Note Book. I am pleased to welcome a new author to the Old Time Trains web site of Canadian Railway History and Stories, Bruce Mercer who writes about his early railroad career working as a locomotive engineer on the C&O in Ontario in the 1980's and 90's before being laid off in 1996. Previously he had worked non-op jobs on the TH&B and the C&O in Toronto and is currently an engineer on OSR. Newt Rossiter's stories: Added a link in CPR Bruce and Trenton Divisions articles about push engine on 955 and 1/22. This was inadvertantly deleted from the Stories section during the many reorgs as were some others now restored: 2838 on a rerouted troop train over the CNR at Bayview and 2925 on the "little Hamilton" psgr. Other stories are linked to the locomotive galleries in each Division feature Article. November 1, 2005 Articles:
General; Newfoundland's Railways,
includes a look at the last of steam on the CNR and a very brief item
on the Millertown, an early shortline. Shortlines: New article
on the Roberval & Saguenay, an old
shortline in Quebec owned by Alcan to serve its aluminium smelter and
other traffic, includes photographs by new contributors Renaud Chodkowski
of France and Glenn Courtney. Essex
Terminal an early Ontario shortline still going. Link to ETR's web
site for a detailed history written by retired ETR president Murray
Elder, the man most responsible for steam locomotive #9 coming to SOLRS/STCR.
Mattagami RR tiny shortline in
Northern Ontario added 1928 passenger
ticket. Sudbury Area Mining Railways
has had a reorg creating smaller pages to speed downloading on dial
up. Added a brief mention and the only known photograph of the Lake
Huron & Northern Ontario (formerly Bruce Mines & Algoma)
an obscure little railway that came and went with little notice. A long
ways west of Sudbury, but had to put it somewhere! Stockyards
added another aerial view
and two maps showing West Toronto stockyards
and packing houses, plus an
original un-issued share certificate
of The Union Stock Yards Company from the West Toronto Junction Historical
Society archives. CLC added photo of
actual builders plate from CPR 1301 last
G5, from new contributor Ron Muldowney. Articles Index Page: CNR Family Tree of principal constituents up to 1923. Photographs: Added a writeup about lime
kilns around Eaganville. See caption of Dominion
Rock Products tramway. Galleries: Construction locomotives:
Queenston Hydro added current
photo of HEPC 46 0-4-0T that became Deloro Smelting & Refining.
Saved by Chas. Matthews it has changed hands and sits rusting
away. Added an interesting look at the life of contractor J.D.McArthur
Added old photos from 1931 showing construction
on the massive Beauharnois Power project. One of the 14 steam locomotives
bought new from CLC is now in St.Thomas
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