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December 1, 2017
CORRECTIONS Reader Al Crisp points out incorrect caption identifying
blue trucks at West Toronto team
track as being CP Transport.
ARTICLES CPR Ships Added (scroll down Travel to Canada) two advertisements in London, England for travel to Canada.
CPR Algoma District Schreiber gallery added great action scene of fast moving 8735_4410 Also, (scroll down to link above thumbnails) added interesting photos of coal chutes under construction. Sudbury gallery added photo of Chalk River enginehouse, and two photos on Cartier Sub. including a great scenic shot.
CPR Ontario District Added (scroll down) poor quality photo chosen (reluctantly) for the action depicted as yard is being spread of snow. Station gallery Added Bala first photo and Midhurst first photo.
CPR London Division Guelph Junction
gallery two Gallery power. Relocated 3701_5403 and 2332 from another page. History other
Cornwall Subdivision
CPR Toronto Division Coach Yard scroll down to CPR-THB-NYC Pool Toronto-Buffalo. Added TH&BL 73 one of several coaches in through service pool to/from Buffalo. See also NYC coach. Parkdale Added (link) photo 1897 Dufferin Street looking north to Queen Street newly completed subway.
Obico Mileage 9.6
scroll down then scroll down further to Closed and Sold for
details of Obico Intermodal and scroll down further to Canpa Cutoff
and Sold for details of GO takeover of subdivision. A TTC subway
yard and shop will be built here
CPR Trenton Division Oshawa Spur. Added old photo of special trainload of new GM automobiles for one dealer! A pair of GM A units out of the passenger pool were assigned instead of the usual steam engine or some ALCO's! Stations Added colour photos of Bowmanville plus Burketon, Norwood, Havelock 1981 and Tweed. Also, Port Mc.Nicoll Kingston Subdivision Added (link) new gallery with two larger photos of 807 plus new photos of 807 (see what is going on here) and a photo that might well have been from the 19th century! New contributor Dave Page.
CPR Lambton Yard Lambton Locomotive Department. Added a gallery (scroll down to link) Coal chutes demolition, with 9 photos of demolition. Circa 1963. Date and photographer credit misplaced. These have been sitting for years amongst the thousands of images backlogged. I recall it was a Sunday and also the engineer's name but don't recall if I was working that day shift. Maybe I was there and that is why I recall Smokey being the hogger. Maybe when I saw the failed effort with the small 6500 I gave up and went home!
West Toronto Yard Added (scroll down) new part RIP Track explaining meaning and old photo including 7020 first diesel. Road power gallery Added old photos of 5305, 5311, 5316 and 5319.
Added (scroll down to bottom) two photos of the long-closed COR roundhouse in Trenton still being used by businesses.
GENERAL Grade Separations
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph galleries Trains CPR Diesel
The Dominion Added (scroll to very bottom) Rare photo of No.8 with piggybacks on headend! Kicking Horse Expo Limited Added photo of observation car Yoho Park.
Royal Trains 1939 Royal tour added three photos of 6047 one of the lesser known CNR engines other than 6400.
Speno trains. Added more photos of rail grinder train plus old 1957 photos ballast cleaner.
Locomotives
CNR Steam
CNR Diesel US Subsidiaries Added CV 3611 and 4925 in two different paint schemes. Also, added (link at top) map of lines.
CPR Steam P1n class Added (scroll down) 5212, 5238 both at unknown location. P2 class Added (scroll down) 5307 at unknown location, 5314 in Vancouver with crew posing in 1939. Also, 5350 in Calgary, 5356 (?), 5360 Calgary, 5365 brand new great photo! Finally, 5366 (?).
CPR diesel S-2 Added another photo of 7041 in Block Lettering paint scheme (my favourite!) See what is different on this unit. Guess? Added (scroll way down to second set of thumbnails) Remanufactured
units GP9u 1627 in new CPR
paint scheme Preserved diesels. Added 1100 cab control unit, 4237, 4744 and 9250 RDC-4
DAR Diesel Added great photo of typical gypsum train in diesel era with 1274_1275_8138.
Diesel TH&B Added photos of 56, 76 and 402_403 at John Street roundhouse in Toronto. .
Equipment Dealers Added photos of DESX 5306 leased for HCRY work train service
also after sale photos of MSWY 5306 and 5309.
Industrial BC Added small news 1910 clipping re labour problem with Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. and their Morrisey, Fernie & Michel Ry.
Rolling Stock TH&B Added 1528 covered hopper car, 4763 LCL box car, van 62 original, 68 (see its safety slogan!), 73 coach.
Facilities CNR Predecessor roads. GTR
and Northern of Canada Toronto roundhouses along the waterfront.
Courtesy of Derek Boles. CPR Roundhouses Added Chalk River (what's left of it in 1973) with one yard engine 6506.
Stations GTR Ontario CNR Ontario
Radial and Interurban railways L&PS Added old photo with crew and other people posing. Possibly first or early train after electrification.
Street Railways Cornwall Street Railway Added (scroll down) photo of steeplecab loco 8 (1st).
Tourist railways Alberta Prairie Added 7 photos of early years. Southern Prairie New gallery two photos first day of operation.
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November 1, 2017
ARTICLES CPR General Transport Added old photo of Smith Transport tractor trailer being loaded on CP flat car.
Added colour photo of plow train in Mac Tier including two plows and a spreader. Note too something else interesting. Stations Tottenham Added great old post card dated 1910 showing passengers etc. complete with handwritten message. CPR London Division Gallery of power
Steam and diesel. Added 8471 getting hooped up by Operator at Woodstock.
Many other "hooping up" photos are linked to. Also, added
P1 5169. Stations Added nice old hand-coloured post card of Thamesford. See also 1952 photo.
New article started with existing material from Trenton Division Smiths Falls segment and photos from other galleries plus new history pages Prescott Sub. including aerial photos etc.
CPR Trenton Division Passenger service history. Caption for two photos now identifies the two passenger trains meeting.
Doug Hately's Bowmanville Gallery Added 5505_5504 (scroll way down) brand new pair of SD40's fresh out of GMD!
CPR Lambton Yard Road engine gallery. Added P1's 5143, 5154 and 5160 also see what the shopman is doing.
CPR Toronto Yard. Leased
power gallery Added in date order ATSF 3600 in new trial and short-lived
Santa Fe paint scheme, 3601, 3609, 3678 part of 20 GP39-2's; CN RS-18's
3698, 3708, 3728; GATX 3729, 5035 and (scroll down) KCC 106.
Canadian National CNR Predecessors Canadian Northern Added (link) Western lines gallery starting with two first trains!
PHOTOGRAPHS
Trains CNR steam
CPR The Dominion gallery Added (scroll down to Selkirks in the Rockies section) old magazine colour photo of three engines hauling what most likley is The Dominion. CPR Jubilee
1886-1936 cross Canada trip of The Dominion to celebrate
50 years of Trans Canada passenger service.
CPR Diesel Added photo of 904 hot-shot in Vermont led by 8793 passing B&M yard diesel. Also, (scroll way way down to below CP Rail thumbnails) for a scenic view in BC of four SD's with what was in the 1980's a long train. CPR E&N Added old colour photo of RDC-3 9024 loading passengers at Victoria old station.
Confederation Train Added night scene of train posed before it began its cross Canada run.
SPENO train Added SRGX 400 power car and un-numbered rail grinder cars also water tank UTLX 49406
Locomotives AMT Added (scroll down) CP 4072 before becoming MUCTC 1302. Added five photos of MLW's 601, 603, 605, 607 and 610. Also, (scroll down to BC Rail segment) added 606 in new paint scheme and 722 last MLW unit with old style cab. Next order M-630 first with new style. Finally, 6002 electric brand new.
CNR Steam Hudson 4-6-4 Added 5702 with Pool 14 c.1943 Mountain 4-8-2 Added 6020, 6023 and 6029 (above). Note markers. Full tender of coal. Nicely posed "rods down" in a CNR official photo. Looks brand new built at CLC. Is this in Kingston and it was running light to Montreal?
Mountain Added older photo of 6005 with smoke deflectors. Unknown location and date.
CNR Diesel US Subsidiaries Added (scroll down) photo of CV 8081 recently repainted at museum.
CNR Self-propelled Replaced black and white photo with colour photo of CN 15767 trailer. Model RR club car.
CPR Steam A2 class 4-4-0 Added old photo 136 likely taken in 1914 when "modernized". Eight-Wheeler Added great old photo from 1891 of 282 at Prescott roundhouse with shop staff. D10 class 4-6-0 Added (scroll way down) another shot of 1097 near the end of steam. See also 1097 with mixed train. F1 class 4-4-4 Jubilee added a rare photo with its streamlined shrouding removed.
P1 class Added
5116, 5134 (see what the fireman is looking for) and 5158 and compare
it to much earlier photo of 5158. P2 class Added 5323 (second photo, see what is being done), 5341, 5342 and 5343 second photo.
CPR Ottawa steam Added several photos 1219, 3417_3690, 3528_2229, 5107. Note: These are same photos as in the new ARTICLE CPR Smiths Falls Division. However, you might enjoy a look at all of the gallery for Ottawa steam.
CPR diesel Added 1019 hump slug and 9159 in special United Way paint scheme. SD40 Added rare photo of 5780 one of only a handful of units painted this way. Check it out. SD40 used Added 5410 ex QNS&L 214 one of 15 units acquired. CPR Baldwin road switchers Added 8012 brand new. Leased power
Added CGW 115-C and 166C two old EMD covered wagons from a road well
known for running trains of
Subsequent owners.
CPR self-propelled Added great old photo of gas car 9003. Read all about what is happening here.
Shortlines BC
Industrial BC Vancouver Wharves Added colour photo of Alco S-6 TMBL 950 which became VW 21 2nd. Alberta Added GMTX 403 for Carseland and ADMX 1356 at Lloydminster.
Rolling stock BCR Cabooses and work equipment. Added RGM-1 BC Rail's own rail grinder.
Interurban and Street railways TTC Runnymede Loop at
CPR Lambton Yard. Street railways Hamilton and Dundas Added details from 1884 employee of fares, routing etc. courtesy of David O'Reilly.
Bus and Coach lines. Added Montreal Tramways 800 a very unique gas-electric coach with dual front and rear trucks with traction motors!
Tourist Start new gallery for Cowichan Valley Ry, Duncan, VI
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October 1, 2017 Throughout this month's additions are more images
digitally restored R.L.K
ARTICLES
Created new gallery: Wolf Kirchmeir is back again this time with a big batch of 4200's (MLW C-424) 1970's+ Sudbury gallery
Added photos of 5538_5513 Pointe au Baril, plus 8245 on the Webbwood
Sub.
CPR Ontario District Bruce Division Stations 20th century gallery. Bala Summer station Added old coloured post card of two small lake boats at dock. London Division Steam
and diesel gallery.
CPR Toronto Division John Street steam power. Yard engines N2 class Added 3674 and 3695
Lambton Yard Locomotive
Department Added interesting photo near end of shop after Toronto
Yard opened April 1964.
Toronto, Grey &
Bruce
Canadian National NOTE: Created new listings for CNR predecessor roads also CNR subsidiaries etc. Relocated exisiting material for easier locating material. CNR Predecessors Canadian Northern Added (link) Western lines gallery starting with two first trains!
CNR Express & LCL Freight
SHORTLINES Roberval Saguenay Roster Added scroll way down) 64_72 (two photos) and 70. All GP38-3 newer power.
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Trains CNR steam Relocated
three interesting photos of 6062. See what is happening here. CN Turbotrain Added photo of a turbotrain under construction at MLW.
Confederation Train 1967 Added pdf UCRS Newsletter article. Royal Trains 1939 on CNR Added colour photo 6400 headon and scroll way down 2 photos of 6028 one of the lesser known Royal Train engines. Also, 2 photos relocated of 6400 preserved in Ottawa.
US Roads in Canada Wabash Added 664, 670 part of 20 units built by GMD for Canadian service. Also, 3547 EMD unit.
Locomotives CNR Predecessor roads
Canadian Northern Added Ten-Wheeler 57 with the whole crew posing.
Pacific type
Added 5282, 5284, 5288 (later preserved by Nelson Blount), 5292 and
5298. Hudson Added 5703 which still exists renumbered 5700! CNR US Subsidiaries GTW Added (scroll down) 6037
CPR Steam Relocated (scroll down below thumbnails) photo of 5248 as yard switcher at Banff in summer. A1 class 4-4-0 Added 28 in Ottawa in 1933. Eight-Wheeler Added 71 with diamond stack in Kingston. D10 class Added (scroll down) 2 photos 834 almost a decade apart same place. Note changes to features. N2 Class P1 class Added 5103 on Western Lines.
Diesels
Demonstrators etc. Bombardier Relocated old 1975 clipping for LRC from Popular Mechanics magazine. Remember that publication?
Shortlines BC
INDUSTRIAL steam locomotives Other than Ontario.
Rolling Stock CNR Freight Added (scroll down) 97149 a "long" hopper. Find out what it is. Not really all that long. CNR work service. Added (scroll down) 60023 converted from unknown self-propelled gas car. CNR Passenger equipment modern era. New gallery started with 15404 one of 123 SG cars.
CNR US Subsidiaries Passenger equipment. Added nice colour photo of old truss rod car CV 4100 rule instruction.
CPR Freight equipment steam era Added (scroll down) builders photo of 364599 80 ton tripple hopper. CPR cabooses Added 438709 recently repainted in new scheme of red with yellow ends.
CPR Observation
cars. CPR Business Cars
CPR Stainless Steel equipment. Scroll down to very bottom. Added two photos of ex NYC observation car.
ONR Passenger equipment Added photo of AGUMIK retired Restaurant Car saved for preservation later scrapped.
Private ownership Added (scroll to very bottom) TSCX 460 a rare type of car (I never saw one) used by STELCO.
Stations Relocated to specific galleries: CPR Alberta Added Lake Louise old post card. CPR Quebec Gallery 3 added 1893 adv for Chateau Frontenac CPR Windsor Station Montreal. Added photo of proposed new station never built! GTR Ontario new gallery Predecessor roads Started with OS&H/NRC Davenport and TBL Moore Park.
Radial Railways Added (scroll to very bottom) Niagara Central cars at park.
Street Railways etc. Hamilton Street Railway Added line car 15, work car 407, cars 409 and 417.
Hull Electric Co. Added three old photos of work car 42, streetcar 48 and interurban car 202.
Note: You can also link this from ARTICLES then GENERAL Toronto Transportation Commission and/or Toronto Streets. Keele Street in the Junction. Added new photo of TTC Weston Streetcar Terminal showing unique track arrangement. Toronto Transportation Commission Added new gallery showing Runnymede Loop with streetcars then trolley coaches. Added old detailed article about new shops (Hillcrest) 1923. Added MAP 1928 showing extension of Dovercourt streetcar route. plus other routes shown including Jane bus. Started new gallery for early
buses. Includes 13, 16, 235 and 571 part of the fleet era of buses.
Added York Township Railways history which was operated by TTC for the Township.
Buses and Highway Coaches Gray Coach Lines Added 1450 a 1948 interburban coach.
Toronto Streets Sunnyside
Added interesting photos of five poiints intersection, GCL bus terminal,
TTC cars in 1941 and later.
Tourist Railways Prairie Dog Central has turned itself into a small shorltine operation including storage of freight equipment. West Coast Railway Ass'n
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September 1, 2017 An old photo of open observation car without a location has been identified by Doug Mayer as being Revelstoke due to the ice house in the background. Always glad to hear from people who can add missing or additional information to captions.
NOTE: In the above Old Articles be sure to read about
the BCER Electric
truck garage.
ARTICLES CPR Algoma District Schreiber Added 3122 in brand new Canadian Pacific paint scheme replacing CP Rail. Sudbury gallery. Added 4200, 4214, 8158, and 3002
CPR Ontario District CPR Toronto Division John Street diesel engine gallery Added 2nd colour photo of 4071 a covered wagon in clean paint.
Created new gallery for Speno rail grinding trains. Port Mc.Nicoll Steam gallery added 3632 and 3649.
CPR Toronto Yard Gallery
3 Added 1518
CNR
Shortlines Newfoundland (CN) Added (scroll to very bottom) Added subsequent owners FCAB 1421 in Chile, South America!
GENERAL Sperry Rail Car Added new gallery of Sperry Cars with 1 photo CPR Toronto Yard copied here plus 1 new on old PGE. Speno Rail New gallery starting with 2 trains on CPR Belleville Sub.
PHOTOGRAPHS
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERIES
Trains CP Rail diesel Added (scroll way down to below second set of thumbnails) Added photo of No.2 1407_1418 plus scan of Authorization Form permitting train to pass defective stop signal. New page of several photos of Chasing 917 through Vermont in 1985.
E&N Added (scroll way down) three photos of the CP Rail era on Vancouver Island.
Speno rail grinding trains. Created new gallery. (Same link above Trenton Div.) Sperry Car Added new link to old Articles General.
US Roads in Canada NYC Added PRR 6301 Alco C636 in St. Thomas! Why?
Locomotives
AMT Added (scroll down) 1311 later preserved and (scroll down further) 606 EGU. CNR steam Pacifics Added 5071, 5250 and 5273. CNR diesel Added lots of interesting photos old units/old paint scheme.
70-tonner Added
39 and 26 on PEI. Booster units New with B-4 slug converted from S-3 mu with 8459 S-3. Then, B-4 mu with 8622_8609 pair S-13's. Newer diesels galleries. C630M Started
with 2005.
CPR Steam M class 2-8-0's Added (scroll down to very bottom) 3560 in perfect rods-down pose. Ex QCR 58. One of 9 M4's on QC. N2 class 2-8-0's Added 3624, 3632.
CP Rail diesel GP38 New gallery started with 3040, 3052, 3085 and one day old 3127. M630 Big addition 4515, 4516, 4574, 4575, 4576, 4577, 4578. Some brand new! GP35 Added 5017 first in gallery. SD40 used units Added 5480 ex 3249 (ex N&W) already in gallery. SD40-2 Added 5907 and 6054. GP9 Added 8496 Remanufactured units GP9 Added 1686 ex TH&B
CPR diesel Preserved units. Added 4723 and linking 4563 in operation at Exporail (already in a gallery). Added 8000 CPR's first road diesel.
CP Rail diesel Subsequent owners. Started new gallery Delaware-Lackawanna DL-4743, later GVT 3643. Also, QGRY added 4228.
GO Transit Added (scroll down) 724 ex Rock Island. ONR Added 1509 in a very nice colour photo plus, (scroll down) 1734 and 1984.
INDUSTRIAL Alberta Added RSSX 9022 LEAF enroute to Kinder Morgan/Imperial Oil reload in Sherwood Park. Saskatchewan Added (scroll down to R) Added Richardson Pioneer 003.
Rolling Stock CNR Cabooses. Added 78755 a transfer van without cupola.
CPR Freight steam
era Added (scroll down) 42209 old 40 foot double door box car. ONR Created new galleries relocating existing photos and adding work equipment spreader, pile driver, rapid unloader (whatever that is!) snow plows, business car Onakawana and lunch counter car Meechim for Polar Bear Express. Freight equipment added some different box cars: ONT 7449, 90656, 91009 and 92076. Colour coded doors explained.
Also, passenger equipment, added (scroll to bottom) four photos of newest coaches recently given major overhaul by ONR.
Facilities CNR Added MacMillian Yard aerial views. also, Symington Yard booklet 1958 PDF inc. history of predecessor yards and shops. ONR New gallery starting with a sand house.
Interurbans Railways and electric lines. Levis County Tramway Added old photos of streetcars 49, 83 and 102 in 1940's.
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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.
Remanufactured units 1200 Added 1205 1500 Added 1505.
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 CPR Freight (steam era) added 42209 staggered double door 40 foot box Freight (diesel era) Added 42595 modern 50 foot double door bix car used for auto parts.
ONR Freight Added box cars 90656, 91009 and 92076. PGE Freight. 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 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.
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 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.
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
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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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