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December 1, 2018
Stories > Added details about a Station Agent's many duties so important to railway operations and how in smaller communities this person played a vital role in people's lives. Read too about the long history of Eatons and Simpsons mail order catalogues as well as their connection to the community and local farms long before Amazon online shopping was ever dreamt of. It includes a short story that shows the character of George towards local residents.
Articles CPR Connaught Tunnel Added old 1932 photo of tunnel entrance on main page and (link) History page.
CPR Eastern Region
CPR London Division Galleries steam and diesel. Added 2410 in colour. See what is being done to it on shop track.
CPR Smiths Falls Division Smiths Falls yard.
CPR Toronto Division Lambton Yard Added great old photo (scroll down to History and click on link to Lambton Mills) showing The Lambton Mills Inn after milling ended. Sadly, it burned down the year after this postcard date. However, nearby Lambton House still stands and is used for historical purposes. Lots of history was nearby including the five Humber River bridges all within a few hundred feet of each other! TSR streetcar loop, TSR radial line, CVR station! Lambton road diesels
Added (scroll down) UP 1610_1601.
CPR Toronto Yard >
CPR Subsidiaries > CPEL Added (scroll way down) photo of LE&N high bridge in Waterford.
CNR Predecessors > GTR Added (link Click
twice to enlarge)
CNR Miscellaneous Newfoundland's Railways CNR Years. Rolling stock Added wooden coach 502 the only operating piece of equipement anywhere! Learn where.
Shortlines Added (scroll way down to Humber Loop) two more photos
of former Lambton Station long used as a residence.
Photographs
Added old Bank of Toronto banknotes with train $10 and steam
engine $20. Plus, Traders Bank of Canada $20 and Sterling Bank of Canada
$5 banknotes.
General Rail Car Ferries Added
old photo of Buffalo & Lake Huron operated International Car Ferry
which was discontinued when
PHOTOGRAPHS > Photograph Galleries > Trains CNR Steam Added 5565 at the GTR Whitby station which still exists as Station Gallery a popular place. GO Added interesting view of cab control car 100 leading a train of Bi-Levels out of Hamilton. Royal trains. Added photo of 4035_4034 on Stoney Creek bridge carrying Princess Margaret on a tour of Canada. VIA Rail Added (scroll
way down to RDC section) 9022 still in full CP Rail paint on Calgary-Edmonton
run.
Locomotives BCR diesels Added (scroll down) 752 in old colours.
CNR steam Preserved. Added (scroll down) 5093 at Casino Regina.
CNR Diesels Early diesels
Tempo units Added 3887 still in old colours after mods. Also, 3151_3150 in new CN Tempo paint scheme..
Added (scroll down to Southgate Collection) Added many photos of 6304 and 6311 in prior ownerships and many paint schemes including SP and WP, on WIR freight, a well as CN and Confederation Train 1967.
CPR steam
972 was another steam locomotive I had a direct hand in
preserving and would later enjoy an all-day cab ride on the famed "Ma
& Pa" in Pennsylvania after George Hart restored it to operation
with the aid of boilermaker Ben Kantner and others.
2800's (4-6-4's
non-Royal) Added (scroll down to end 2816
Gallery ) added (scroll to very bottom) photo of 2816
at Steamtown USA along with brief history of F.Nelson Blount and his
Steamtown USA collection which included other CPR and CNR steam locomotives,
some of which operated. I recall a visit and cab ride in 2317 at Steamtown
in Scranton then walking past 2816 sitting forlornly and thinking "Wouldn't
it be something to see her working again?" Never thinking it would
ever happen! And then, one day I got a private phone call from "Montreal"
that began "This conversation never took place" going on to
reveal that the CPR was acquiring 2816 repatriating it to Canada, overhauling
it and running it! I am thinking I should ask who am I tallking to,
yet I really knew. He also said "I knew you would want to know,
it will be official in about a month." Of course I kept that news
confidential. When it ran out of Toronto making history, I was part
of that as a volunteer working the train for two seasons. Thousands
of people, young and old rode behind 2816 and many throusands more lined
U3 class 0-6-0 Added (scroll down) 6262 switching with fireman taking it easy on this oil-fired engine! V class 0-8-0 Added (scroll down) 6920 switching passenger equipement in Montreal. .
Added closeup of Smokey Bear 50 Years emblem on side of
5902. 8900 Train Master
Added (scroll down below early B&W photos) colour photo 8901 still
in Block lettering at Hochelaga. HS Hydraulic Switcher Added 13 see what the ground crew is doing! Demonstrator units.
Subsequent Owners Delta Southern Added DSRR 1555 completing roster photos.
GO
ONR steam Added (scroll down) 503 long on display in North Bay. One of only three ONR steam engines saved.
Shortlines Nova Scotia Sydney & Louisburg/Dominion Coal Co. Added two hitherto unknown 2-8-4T steam locomotives 14 and 15. How do you like that ancient terminology, "hitherto" !
New Brunswick New page for New
Brunswick East Coast ( rostered more than 2 dozen RS-18's) photos
include subsequent owner and
Quebec
Arnaud Added CFAQ 1003 in current photo in rugged yet beautiful winter scene. Quebec Railway Corp.
parent company of various shortlines.
Ontario Goderich-Exeter
Manitoba GWWD Added 200 with its typically short train. Rumour is the two replacement small centre cab units are not working out!
Saskatchewan Added large map of all shortlines. Mobil Northern Lights Added new gallery for this MLW powered shortline. Stewart Southern
Industrial BC Added (scroll way down) Viterra 2020 another NRE small genset, second for them which seems to prove success! Alberta Alberta Midland Added (scroll down) NPR 5643 nee CP SD40-2. Saskatchewan Added G3 Prairie West division of G3 Canada, location in Plenty with unit PWTX 1326 nee ATSF. Quebec Port of Montreal Added (scroll way down to National Harbour Board) D5 MLW S3 switching port area.
Logging and paper mills
Rolling Stock CPR Cabooses Added 435810 wood van in Script lettering. Parrish & Heimbecker 177, a 5431 cu.ft. covered hopper car.
Stations Reused
CPR Saskatchewan.
Interurban and Street Railways London and Port Stanley Metropolitan Added Car 55 with crew posed.
Street Railways Hamilton Street Added great old photo with crew posing in front of their car.
General Toronto Independent Bus Lines Roseland Bus Line
Added much better photo of 39 a Fitzjohn bus. While this B&W photo
does not show it, STOP signs in those years were white with black letters!
Unlike the common red we all know for decades. Bus and Coach lines Colonial Coach Lines 213 in New York state 1930's.
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November 1, 2018
Stories It has been a long time since any stories have benn added. Recently I have been creating many new photograph galleries with photos of reused stations all across Canada. Many for restaurants, some for residences, tourist information offices, small local musuems etc. While researching this I recently recalled a story George told me about one of those stations. Shelburne, where he had been the last agent. Here is the first very brief little story. Station Agent's Stories.
Articles CPR Bruce Division > CPR London Division > Gallery
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CPR Smiths Falls Division Added photo of 4711 one-of-a-kind Caterpillar powered unit.
CPR Toronto Division Added photo of light engine 2235 at West Toronto likely off a push to Bolton.
CPR Trenton Division Added photo of two US units (CV 4550 GT 4445) near Oshawa unusual sight. Station gallery Added Wilkinson new contributor Eugene Kirkham.
CPR Toronto Yard
Scroll down to diesel shop. Added photo of sanding towers.
CNR Predecessors > Canadian Northern
Shortlines > Ontario Southland
Photographs > Photograph Galleries > Trains > BCR steam
Added interesting old photo of 4294 with a passenger special
at Picton.
CPR diesel 1400 old paint schemes. Added 1/22 eng 1411_1414 old black and white 8 x 10.
CP Rail Added new thumbnail for SD40-2's. 5565 added also two other images relocated here.
Tourist Added a very unique
play train made of wood!
Locomotives CNR diesels
CPR steam
U3 class Added (scroll down) great old photo of 6253 in pre-WWII paint scheme. It would be around for 40 years!
Ottawa West See (first photo) what 1227 is doing then (scroll way down) great old photo of 5106.
CPR diesels S-2 model Added (scroll down) 7024 last unit of 3rd order in later Block paint scheme. CP Rail diesels Baldwin yard units Added 7069 in orginal Mulitimark paint scheme. LTEX sales Added
(link) PESX 8250.
GO Added photo of EMDX
201 and Portland and Western 3004 ex GO 726 nee Rock Island 381.
QNS&L diesels
Shortlines British Columbia BC Hydro Added (scroll down) 902 2nd unit of two SW900RS unit order. Southern of BC Added leased CITX 3032 their first SD40-2. Added (scroll down) Hudson Bay link (below map) to aerial view of Churchill VIA station. Checkout other aerial of Port
Ontario Rail America Added (scroll down to very bottom) Southern Ontario RLK 4205.
Quebec Quebec-Gatineau Added SW1500's 1501_1505 and GP38 2008. Sartigan All-Alco
shortline!
CANDO Added CCGX 5307
5311 switching contract Yarbo SK including photos of prior owners.
Industrial Ontario Terrace Bay Aditya Birla (formerly, Kimberly-Clark) Added CCGX 4015 (ex OBRY). Alberta Alberta Midland Transmark Added SSRX 3612 GE B36-7 in a fancy paint job ex BCOL nee ATSF. Manitoba Added Cargill 607 nee Reserve Mining SD18. Saskatchewan Added G3 Canada EFCX 1003 nee SP.
Rolling Stock
Anybody know what this is? CONTACT US Please! Businesses reuse. Other
use, museum etc.
Stations Reused for non-railway
purposes such as restaurants, tourist information, museum etc. New gallery started. CPR British Columbia Many interesting photos CPR Alberta Added photos of Claresholm as local museum with van 434426. CPR Saskatchewan
Added (scroll to bottom) 5 photos of tiny Percival station and the
post office plus van 436568. Portable station using rolling stock. Added very old (1924) photo of Brickburn, MB.
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October 1, 2018
ARTICLES
CPR Ships
CPR Smiths Falls Division CPR Trenton Division
CPR subsidiaries CP Electric Lines Gallery Interurban cars
CNR Subsidiaries New article started for CNR Steamships starting with to/from Toronto/Port Dalhousie and Niagara Falls.
Shortlines CANDO Central Manitoba gallery Added (scroll down) added CEMR 4002. TTR Added recent photo showing Flyunder and GO North Bathurst Yard filled with laying over trains.
GENERAL Toronto Area Industries The Junction Canada Cycle and Motors Added link to 1907 advertisment for a little-known (as in, never heard of it!) Russell No.12 railway track inspection car. Also, link to old adv for Moline Universal Tractor and Grain Binder. Ever hear of it? Everyones heard of Massey Harris but Moline is a new one for me.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Trains GO Added (scroll down to North Bathurst Yard) two great photos showing the scene looking off Spadina bridge with yard full of trains laying over and one shwoing a small portion of the sea of towers that blights the whole area. ONR diesel Added three
old (1951) colour photos of a pair of RS-3's working at Swastika.
Locomotives CNR steam Preserved Added (scroll down) 5702 being upgraded to Angus Pavilion at Exporal also 6069 looking well cared for in a park in Sarnia where it once was part of Bayview Railway Museum outdoor collection of equipment including C&O 608 (scrapped) and GTW 77137 (now at ECRM) wooden vans. CNR Diesels
CPR steam
CPR Diesel Subsequent
owners
CNR Steam Preserved
QNS&L Diesels Also,
Shortlines Ottawa Central Added (scroll to very bottom) new segment for Subsequent owners starting with two photos of ex SFEX 4204 and recent photo of DL 4204. Nee CP 4204 C-424. NOTE: Same photos as in CPR Diesel link above.
Rolling Stock TH&B Added (scroll to bottom) van 70 which I originally saved after a four year wait for its retirement and with co-operation of Morris Babcock TH&B's General Manager it was prepared for movement at no cost and it was donated to CRHA Toronto and York Division for the Harbourfront Railway Museum. CPR General Manager Eastern Region Al Hill moved it from Hamilton to Toronto for free. When the museum was evicted it became defunct and T&Y walked away from the collection. Some equipment was saved, sent elsewhere, some was scrapped. 70 was chosen by the city for inclusion in the proposed John Street Railway Museum where it is now.
Facilities
Montreal shops and yards Added (scroll down to St.Luc for this photo and another below it.) Yard nearly new.
Stations Many additions to both of the All Railways catagory galleries.
Radial Railways
Index Added second view
of Radial Railway Station in Hamilton on post card with written message
on reverse side.
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SEPTEMBER 1st, 2018
Happy 77th Birthday RLK
ARTICLES
CPR Ontario District Station galleries Mac Tier Sub. Kleinburg. Added photo including freight shed. Also two colour photos later years plus modern photo of it preserved in town long used by Scouts. CPR Bruce Division Hamilton
Also, scroll down to Joint Section Industries for links to St.Lawrence Cement, St.Lawrence Starch (history etc.) aerial of Imperial Oil refinery, all in Port Credit. CPR Bruce Division Branches Orangeville Added link to 1914 top map of horseshoe curve. CPR Bruce Branches Teeswater Added very old photo Mount Forest spur Martin's Pond with bridge.
CPR Toronto Division Coach Yard Added
(link) NEW map showing John Street
coach yard, roundhouse etc. Plus TTR and CNR. Circa 1976. Downtown Toronto
aerial views. Lambton
CPR Trenton Division
Added (scroll down to Port Hope) CN Turbotrain! Detour.
Port Mc.Nicoll Sub. (Georgian Bay & Seaboard) Station gallery thumbnails. Eldon Added two great recent photos of what is one of the best station resorations of a residence I have ever seen! New contributor Jeri Danyleyko.
CPR Toronto Yard. Yard engine
gallery 3
Canadian Pacific Railway Predecessors
Canadian National Predecessors Grand Trunk/Grand Trunk
Pacific Canadian Northern Added
(link below aerial view) detailed map of Leaside yard and shops.
Shortlines CANDO Added CEFX 6056, CEFX 6057 leased SD38-2's for new switching contract.
St.Thomas Sub.
Port Burwell Sub.(scroll down to Salford) Added photo of 1594_182_6508 all in new paint scheme with big train.
Roberval - Saguenay Diesel roster Added 63 another rebuilt GP38-3 Toronto Terminal
GENERAL Toronto Streets Yonge Street
Local delivery trucks. Added unique looking 1936 Studebaker.
Added interesting old photo of a GTRS Locomotive Engineer's "license". Original size: 7" x 11" so, not wallet size!
Photograph Galleries Trains
CPR The Canadian Added four photos along Kicking Horse River. See what is going on here.
GO Transit Added interesting
photo of early single level coaches train at Danforth taken from underneath
Main Street bridge.
Royal Trains
US Roads in Canada.
Photos of the strangest railway of all! This short monorail
was known as the "Peg Leg", officially Southern Ontario Railway
Aspen Crossing BIG
News! Recently CNR 5080 4-6-2 was acquired and will be evaluated for
return to operation! Okanagan Wine Train (Nagle Tours) Added photo of all 11 cars sold to private owner and stored on Aspen Crossing.
Locomotives BCR diesel. Added photo
of PGE 624 MLW demonstrator that became CP 8921. Steam CNR self-propelled steam. Added ex GTR 3 now CNR Instruction Car 15006. CNR Predecessor roads.
Added (scroll down) Northern Railway of Canada previously Ontario, Huron
and Simcoe. CNR Displayed and preserved Subsequent owners Moguls
preserved added second photo of Green Mountain 89. CNR US Subsidiaries
steam
CNR Diesel Preserved Added 6514_6614 restored in original paint scheme.
DTI Added 217, 6221, also 251 and 254 in Windsor.
CPR steam. A2 class
4-4-0 Added (scroll down) 136 with movie train for CBC series about
building of the CPR.
Selkirk Added 5921 in two official CPR photographs. See what had to be done to get the second photo! Preserved inc.
subsequent owners operating.
CPR Diesel Leased power Used SD40's Added 5407 ex QNS&L 211. One of 15 units leased then acquired.
CPR Robot Cars Added 1010 ex CLC B unit.
CPR Diesel Subsequent owners Delta Southern Added 1597
CPR Self-propelled
RDC Added 8 x 10 photo (scroll down) night scene 9020 5147 in Spanner article.
ONR Steam Added (scroll
down) 600 and 601 4-6-2 Likely taken same or similar date, October 1951.
Likely same train. ONR Diesel Added photo 1308 RS-3 early paint scheme. Also, of 1805 (scroll down) first unit in newest paint scheme termed "Arrow" (with nose stripes). An excellent look! QNS&L diesel subsequent owners. Added WCOR 307 and CP 5407 one of 15 sold.
Shortlines Manitoba Hudson Bay Added (link below map) aerial view recent years of the Port of Churchill.
Demonstrators Added MLW 7008 export model RSD8. New gallery for MLW demonstrators groups photos together.
Industrial Locomotives BC G3 Terminal Added small aerial view. Vancouver Wharves Added (scroll down) colour photo of 0-6-0M 22 in 1965.
Saskatchewan
Ontario Dundas Steetley
Added more photos and better detailed caption with more history.
Quebec SOPOR COGEMA
Rolling Stock CNR Service Added 55501 double track plow, 56288 flanger. ONR Work service, vans etc. Added van 83 on work train. Private owned cars Swift Added photo of a Swift reefer SRLX 5105.
Facilities CNR Roundhouses
CPR Montreal (scroll down) St.Luc hump yard Added four more old photos (plus enlargements). CPR Roundhouses
Stations
Added nice old black & white photos of Dundas, Lindsay
and Peterboro.
CPR CNR
VIA Vancouver
NOTE: New All Railways catagory gallery started. Reused
stations. Residences, museums, tourist information etc.
Interurban Railways
NS&T Added (scroll to very bottom) great old colour photo of 623 in Thorold.
Street Railways Hamilton and Dundas Added 19th century photo of steam dummy powered train with three cars! Toronto Railway
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August 1, 2018
ARTICLES CPR Algoma District Sudbury gallery.
CPR Ontario District London Division Passenger history. Added (scroll way down to Budd Cars) two photos of 9050_9051 brand new. Guelph Junction gallery two Added (scroll down to bottom) 2206 light engine off push to Orrs Lake. Station gallery Toronto Division
West Toronto
Diamond.
Added photo of un-identified track machine at Darlington. Bowmanville
gallery Smiths Falls roundhouse gallery Added 8599 also, (scroll down) colour photo 1952 of 2396 fresh out of Angus!
CPR Lambton Yard Road engines Added 902 credit by Dick George shows West Toronto 1935. May actually be Lambton roundhouse.
CPR Toronto Yard Added 1998 view of Pulldown with 9009_5955_5699
CNR Predecessors Canadian Northern predecessor Bay of Quinte Added recent photo of Erinsville station preserved by locals although unused and has not been used as a railway station since before I was born!
CNR Subsidiaries Toronto Suburban, Guelph Radial line. Added (scroll down) photo of TTC 4769 on rush hour only extension up Weston Rd past former hydro transformer station. Also, added two links to Earlier street views on Keele Street and Weston Road
Shortlines Ontario Southland Rolling Stock Added photos of HMIX contractors equipment and ex CP 404092 baggage car.
GENERAL Speno rail grinding train. Added one photo July 1972 on CPR in Bowmanville.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries
Trains AMT Added MUCTC 1304 one year after CPR ended suburban service.
Cartier Added three photos from 1994 "All MLW era". New contributor Graham Atkin. Also, another photo led by 71.
Added 2141 with BC freight. Read about its history hauling last freight train. Its history as CNoR 2-8-0 built by CLC, its preservation and restoration to operation again! Also, 5299 see what fireman is doing. Also, two 1950's colour photos of passenger trains in Newmarket and Holland Landing including some brief history of the Holland Marsh area. Remember too this was the first railway in Ontario! The "Oats, Straw and Hay". Also, 2547 colour photo at Newmarket. See earlier colour photos of 5296 and 6023 in Newmarket also 2589 in nearby Holland Landing.
CPR diesel Ottawa Added photo of 4069 and an interesting story of what was taking place at the time. 4069 is still around!
Tourist trains Assiniboine Park Added photos of 24" Crown coal-fired 4-4-0 still running after more than 50 years! Alberta Prairie Added photo of GMD-1 1118 which clearly shows its pilot plow. Hanlan's Point Amusement Park Started with photo of old Cagney steam engine and photo newer live steam train. Rocky Mountaineer Added scenic view of train near Castle Mountain. TTCA New gallery for now defunct operation on Quebec Central. New gallery for the newest tourist train Wheatland
Express Excursion Train. York-Durham New
gallery started all-Alco powered RS-3's 22 nee R&S, 1310 nee ONR
and RS-11 3612 nee DW&P.
US Roads in Canada Gull Added an ornate 1903 B&M advertisement promoting vacation travel to New England and The Maritimes.
Locomotives
BCR diesel Added (scroll
way down) RCC-3 and RCC-6 ex B units converted into Remote Control Cars
for Locotrol use. Subsequent owners (scroll down) HLCX 6205 Cartier Subsequent owners Added SIXX 73 CNR steam Forney tank engines Added photo of 45 and yet another photo of 49 but this one shows the rear of tank. Consolidated 2-8-0 Added (scroll down) 2419, 2615 night, 2706.
Mikado 2-8-2 Added (scroll down) 3480 night scene.
CNR steam US Subsidiaries Added Grand Trunk Railway System 6400. Ever see an engine
so lettered? Rare indeed! Only one known to exist.
CNR diesel Preserved
Added 6311 nee 6529 part of the Southgate private collection. Nicely
restored in original CNR paint scheme. US subsidiaries Added (scroll down) CV 5809 then scroll a little farther to GT 4448 see what feature this unit is missing!
Added (scroll down below thumbnails) 109 earlest 0-6-0's various US builders 1883. Added scroll down to colour photo 374 click on link in
caption long displayed in Kitsilano Beach. Also, scroll down a little
more nice colour photo from 1958 of No.1 Countess of Dufferin
on display outside Winnipeg station.
CPR Ottawa black and white Added (scroll to very bottom) 6876 last V2 class making what was likely its last run!
CPR diesel S-3 GP9 CP Rail SD40 SD40-2 GP9u Added 1695 ex 8839. RS-18u Added 1858 ex 8778 St.L&H (scroll
way down to STLH section) Added 1594 in old CP Rail Action Red paint.
Compare to newer Apple Red Subsequent owners. Added Apache 98 ex 4227 also Northern Plains 1695 ex 8839.
NAR steam Added (scroll to bottom) old colour post card of 73 when it operated on APRA museum property.
Shortlines BC Southern of BC Rail Link Added 122 and 112 a control cab slug.
Manitoba
GWWD
Industrial Alberta Alberta Midland
Railway Terminal Added photo of 1695 from parent Northern Plains
in US. Including photos of it as Labrador Carol Mine added IOOC 431505 electric loco. Ontario See What is New in this Gallery? Several additions.
Logging Added (link in caption) photo of nicely repainted, unletterred
Bloedel Stewart & Welch 1 Shay on V.I. . Scroll down some more to last Comox photo shows (July 2nd) Shay 12 with freight train on display on VI.
Rolling stock CNR Passenger equipment modern. Added Tempo train public display. Appears to be on North Line through Guelph etc. CNR Passenger equipment. Created new gallery for Business Cars starting with 15005 a Rule Car and 15038 Toronto Yard Demonstration Unit (strange term) a display car about the new hump yard. Moved 61201 a very different kind of BC. CNOR Freight equipment Added 42380 box car. CPR Budd stainless steel equipment. Added two more old CPR PR Dept. 8x10's showing interior
views with Passenger Department (Public Relations Dept. too?) Also, (scroll to very bottom) for current photo of Babbling Brook in private car charter service in USA. CPR service equipment
Businesses Food places.
Added (scroll down to new segment for Quebec) Subway restaurant complete
with "station" and VIA 757 passenger car plus CN 79327 van
all nicely set up in park style setting. Also,
INDEX added The Depot former station at Craigleith, the Keg former
CPR station, London neither of which had any rolling stock. Rails End
Gallery and Arts Centre, Haliburton includes tourist info van as well
as CNR 2616 elsewhere in Haliburton. Notations added to exisitng entries
Facilities CNR Yards Scroll down for three links to three views of Turcot Yard in Montreal. CPR BC only Added POCO shop 8839 in Script paint scheme.
Stations CN Ontario
CPR in BC CPR New Brunswick (former stations) Added photo of nicely restored Fredericton station now a government liquor store. CPR Other Ontario Divisions Added (scroll down to Schreiber Division) Red Rock POW portable station 401510.
CNR Ontario Also, Richmond Hill. GTR Ontario Added two old postcards Brighton (2), Goderich and Orillia. Not a horseless carriage in sight!
Interurban railways Toronto Suburban Weston Road scenes added
two photos at new overpass bridge on new Extension to Keele and St.Clair
terminal.
NS&T Interurban gallery 1 Added (scroll down to very bottom) car 623 at very end of track in Port Colborne.
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JULY 1, 2018 Happy Dominion Day! Canada 151 1867-2018
ARTICLES CPR Bruce Division Mac Tier Sub Added 3428 yard engine (colour) see what this engine is equipped with!
CPR Subsidiaries Added Esquimalt
& Nanaimo index page to group various existing galleries together.
Shortlines OSR
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Trains CPR The Canadian Added two B&W photos of 1412 No.2 at Banff inc. tailend view. CPR Ottawa old
diesels
ONR Added old photo 1300 no date/location
Tourist Rocky Mountaineer New gallery. Off to a small start with RMRX 8014. SOLRS New feature covering early history restoring ETR 9 0-6-0 including St.Thomas Central and Waterloo Central. Waterloo-St.Jacobs New gallery started for this defunct tourist train.
VIA Rail
Locomotives AMT Added (scroll down) 1342 (ex GO) in attractive new paint scheme. BCR Added (scroll down) 761 (Locotrol master unit) and other units on shop track North Van.
CNR Steam Mountain Added (scroll down) 6043 preserved in Winnipeg. Northern Added (scroll down) 6250 colour. Six-wheel-switchers Added (scroll down) 7450 colour.
CPR Steam D-10 class
Added (scroll down) 989 with an extra water tender for bad water subdivisions.
Diesels HS Added photo of 14 and 15 fresh out of CLC Kingston. SD40 used Added 5430 part of 10 units bought after being leased. Remanufactured SW1200RS to yard units. Added 1251 in new corporate identity Canadian Pacific. Remanufactured GP9y
Added 1598 in new paint scheme for new corporate i.d. CP Rail System.
New gallery Buffalo Southern acquired 1847 and 4212 previously sold to Genesee Rail One owned Quebec-Gatineau. New gallery Foster Townsend Rail Logistics a transload facility barge/rail. 8201 and 8223. ONR Added 1603 GP9m,
1601 and 1605 GP9's. Note that ONR added SG's to all six of their GP9's.
PGE steam Added (scroll down) 162 second last steam engine. See what the engineer is doing.
PGE diesel
Shortlines Steam New gallery for Stave Falls an obscure shortline built for a hydro-electric dam project. Long gone
BC Southern Ry of BC Added 385 Canada's first SD35!
Industrial BC Added (scroll down to very bottom) Western Canada Steel ex CP 6574 and 6583. Ontario CGE Peterborough Added CGEX 10001 four truck depressed flat.
Rolling Stock CPR Budd Stainless Steel Added (scroll down) photo of passengers inside a Chateau bedroom. Freight equipment from steam era. Added 269300 marked WA = Waiting Angus for destroyal. Work service equipment. Added 411389 (scroll down) typical heavyweight passenger car downgraded to work service. Auxiliary cranes Added 414338 old small crane with typical steam loco tender downgraded to work service. Caboose (van) gallery Added 437129 with Script lettering Brownville Junction.
Stations
CPR Western Lines BC
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June 2, 2018
ARTICLES CPR Smiths Falls Division Brockville Sub. added old colour photo of 2202 one of only 3 G-1's equipped with stokers, leftovers from cancellation of the next 100 G-5's to be ordered out of a planned 600 engines! Dieselization!
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Locomotives BCR
CNR diesel SD40-2 Added 5392 one of several unique Ontario Hydro-owned units.
Added two photos (scroll down) of 1401:2nd fresh out of
the rebuild shop. This is the BEST CPR paint scheme ever!
GO Subsequent owners. Added (scroll down to bottom) RBRX 18520 one of 3 units leased to SCAX (Los Angeles).
ONR diesel Added (scroll down) 1734 fresh out of the shop in latest paint scheme. Compare it to old paint scheme.
Shortlines Manitoba
GWWD
Quebec Romaine River Added QIT 10 MP15DC with passenger train with ex Tempo coaches (4 purchased). QIT 1 long on display, this was one of three S-4's with m.u acquired new.
Industrial BC Neptune Bulk Terminals (scroll down to NBT 80) link to photo of SP 1271 in Los Angeles. Alberta Dow Added (scroll down to Dow 1010 caption) link to photo of SP 1271 in Los Angeles. Manitoba Fixed missing link Prairie Rails Solutions Ontario See: What's New in this gallery
Quebec Added Rio Tinto (Tracy) 8144 SW1001. Rearranged entire gallery into proper alphabetical order.
Rolling stock Added 557420 box car still painted in old scheme for EXPO 86 long after it was over. Also, 730009 a 75 foot auto box car restricted to CNR lines they were somewhat shortlived. Added 59017 auxiliary cook & diner converted from old coach. Added (scroll down) 293517 a new type box car with two different types of doors. Added (scroll down to bottom) 653 latest rebuilt coach, also photo of all four rebuilt cars with more to come. (Interior inc.) Added 3538 40 foot box car builder's photo.
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May 1, 2018
Remembering the Tripleheader May 1, 1960 This website was created to commerate a Sentimental
Journey.
ARTICLES CPR Bruce Division Hamilton Sub.
CPR Toronto Division
MacTier Sub. Added photo of No.11 The Canadian stopping at West Toronto depot being hooped up by the operator before moving from the Galt Sub. onto the MacTier Sub. Read details of this photo. Swansea Scroll down to Paragraph Mimico Switch Line Fixed bad link to Junction Terminal. Lost off server.
CPR Lambton Yard. Added (scroll down to very bottom) 5368 on "Ham" and see what else is in this photo and on street.
Shortlines CANDO Imperial Oil East Edmonton Added CCGX 4021 in current paint scheme. Ex CP 8246 one of three acquired 8/2015.
Mimico Switch Line A little-known "shortline" from ancient history.
General Stockyards same link fixed
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries
Trains CNR steam
CPR diesel CPR diesel The
Canadian Added photo of 1432 leading No.2 at Lake Louise. (Compare
to older shot above it).
Locomotives Added 706 (note lack of zig-zag on two-tone green paint scheme), 759 and) scroll down to BC Rail era added 1003.
CPR Steam G3 class Added (scroll down) 2323 fresh out of Angus in new paint scheme replacing original one. Larger tender.
M4 class Added (scroll down) second photo of 3442 at Crown Street shop. Check out the unusual sand tower! N2 class Added (scroll down) 3729 on the Kettle Valley. See what else is in this photo!
CPR Diesel GP9 Added photo of 8688 still in Script years after CP Rail Multimark paint scheme. Added recent photo of 4090_4469 and other things preserved
at the unique Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook. Subsequent
owners Created new gallery Respondek Rail Corp. and Port Harbor RR CP Rail G9u Added 1604 ex 8543.
GO
First photo GP9's in gallery, added 204_209.
ONR Steam Added 140 and 204 colourized and T&NO 502, ONR 1100 on shop track.
Diesel
Shortlines Saskatchewan
Great Sandhills
Torch River Added photo of RIMX (D) 1432 newly arrived.
Industrial Steam
Rolling Stock
CN work equipment.
SPECIAL CPR
Budd Stainless Steel equipment. Read all about the details of this
equipemnt and the trains it was ordered for. 1952 Study
passenger car equipment requirements. What happened and what did
not happen. Some surprises!
CP Rail RDC Added 91 on Public Relations trip for a Boy Scouts and Girl Guides outing. .
CPR service Added
3 photo group 403338, 404051 and 368839.
Business (and other) use of retired equipment. Added two photos of number 9 of song fame. Other Scroll
down to Ninth River Grand Valley & Southern van added link in caption
to private car Saint Lucie Sound.
Stations CNR Ontario Added (scroll down) James Street Hamilton. CNR East Added two photos of Saint John Union Station. CPR NB Added two photos of Saint John Union Station one with CPR Atlantic Limited
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ARTICLES CPR Algoma District
Sudbury Division Added brief article about Strauss Bascule Bridge in the SOO which was the longest in the world.
CPR Ontario District CPR Bruce Division 19th century station gallery.
CPR Toronto Division Leaside Scroll down
to Leaside look for bold link OS
Leaside July 1953 Added two more days July 13 and 14, 1953. John Street Gallery steam engines Added new thumbnail for V class 0-8-0's starting with 6908 and 6926.
CPR Trenton Division Stations Havelock Sub. Kaladar Added nice old 1925 photo of typical O&Q style Van Horne era station.
CPR Lambton Yard Steam yard engines Added (scroll to very bottom) old 1937 photo of V3 class 0-8-0 6906. CPR Toronto Yard Leased road power 1980's. Added AC 188, KCC 103, 105 and QNSL 218.
CNR Subsidiaries
Shortlines ACR Passenger service
Toronto Independent Bus Lines. West York Coach Lines
Added (scroll down to link below photo of tickets) schedule April 1949
brochure. .
Toronto Streets Keele Street (in
the Junction)
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photograph Galleries Trains BCR RDC Added nice photo of Budd Cars on No. 2 at Lillooet. CPR The Canadian
Added photo of inaugural trip of No.1 at Ottawa West 4/24/1955.
CPR Ottawa
US Roads in Canada Wabash
Locomotives CPR Steam
V class 0-8-0
CP Rail RDC Added 9300 first of 8 RDC-2 converted to all-coach for Suburban service.
ONR diesel Added (scroll down) 1809.
TH&B Diesel Added a recent photo of ex 57 still working on US shortline Upper Merion and Plymouth.
Shortlines Saskatchewan Stewart Southern Added 1009 one of 3 GE B23 units added to roster.
Lease units, demonstrators
etc. Added White Pass 111_112_113 narrow gauge units built by Bombardier for British Yukon Ry. the Canadian portion of the White Pass & Yukon and never delivered. Eventual sales detailed.
Industrial BC Added (scroll down) Pacific Elevators Hunslet 0-4-0. Be sure to click on link above photo for gallery of photos.
Rolling Stock Business (and other)
use of retired equipment. A major expansion of this new gallery
of old photos, mostly from regular contributor Don McQueen. Includes
many vans and other freight and passenger cars for many uses. Some moved
from place to place over the years. Sadly, many deteriorated and are
still being scrapped after decades of non-rail ownership.
CPR Stainless steel passenger. Added (scroll to bottom) recent photo of Babbling Brook observation car in charter use.
Facilities CNR Roundhouses Added old undated view of Charlottetown PEI roundhouse and shops.
Stations Vancouver
Waterfront. New gallery starting with a great detailed 1923 street
scene plus a ship (Built 1915 by CPR)
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ARTICLES CPR Bruce Division Bruce Branches Stations: 19th century gallery Teeswater Sub. Added old photo Waldermar with people posing. Orangeville Subdivision.
Orangeville Yard Added link to Superior Portland Cement hand coloured
postcard 1907 and message! Added (scroll down) Cataract Added link 1923
map of track layout including quarry spur, turntable etc. then, Scroll down to Owen Sound Subdivision. Added 1972 colour photo of Owen Sound roundhouse.
Teeswater Subdivision Mount Forest spur added link to 1910 map of tracks and facilities. Branch Passenger service.
Toronto-Orangeville-Owen Sound.
CPR London Division
Added link to map of all railways Ottawa 1965.
CPR Toronto Division Station gallery West
Toronto Don River Bridge.
Added link Leaside high bridge to a great photo of the completed bridge.
John Street Locomotive Department Construction
photos (link) Added (scroll down) aerial view of roundhouse etc.
nearing completion August 1929 as seen from opposite angle to earlier
view. Enlargment also.
Added link in text below 6525 photo for Christie's cookie
plant closed in November 2013 and awaiting approval for a massive residential
development. Another link for sadly, another Canadian plant and its
employment lost, considered as "no longer viable". Campbell's
recently announced the upcoming closure of their 87 year old (1931)
plant at 60 Birmingham Street in New Toronto. Affecting 380 jobs even
though millions of dollars were spent not long ago to upgrade machinery.
Campbell's had ended shipping by insulated box cars due to service issues
changing to intermodal years ago removing their private siding. It would
be nice if the new owners (Highline) of the former Heinz plant in Leamington
could take over Campbell's Canadian production even if it had to move
there.
CPR Trenton Division.
CPR Lambton Yard.
Canadian National Predecessor railways
Canadian Northern Added (scroll down) coloured picture unique station built for OS&H Ontario's first railway.
GTR Added great old
colour travel brochure for Summer Resorts in Quebec.
Toronto Belt
Line. Added (scroll down Humber loop) photo of long abandoned Old
Mill on Humber river. Also,
GENERAL GMD (scroll down to Export Locomotives). Added SJ 742 a model G12 sent to Sweden and now preserved.
Interurbans and Street Railways Toronto Suburban Weston Line (scroll down) Added link in caption to aerial photo of Willys-Overland factory Toronto Transportation Commission Added link to level crossings and grade separations.
Toronto Independent Bus Lines Danforth Bus Lines
and Toronto Coach Lines Added public time table 1953 for highway
routes.
Added three interesting old photos. Engineers insurance
policy beginning of Brotherhood at a time when unions were illegal.
Photograph Galleries Trains
CPR diesel CPR Ottawa old
diesel Added (scroll way down) four photos of Train Master diesels,
rare in Ottawa. Includes three photo series the first of which is passing
near (out of shot) well-known retired CPR railroader L. B. (Bruce) Chapman's
long-time home on Gilchrist Avenue. Bruce is a long time personal friend
and constant contributor of photos and information for this website.
Royal Trains US roads in Canada NOTE: Movie trains relocated to very bottom of page. Added at top NYC Windsor Station in latter years. Used by CPR trains to/from USA. NYC-CASO-PC Added (scroll down) three photos of Hagersville Tower including last day. Pere Marquette/Chesapeake & Ohio/CSX
Locomotives
BCR diesel. Added a great
find, two builder's photos of 565, 566 MLW RSC-3 (6 axle 4 traction
motors). (561 preserved)
CNR steam Northern type Added (scroll down) 6302 at unknown location. 6400 builders photo and another at Turcot in 1954.
CPR steam Added
old coloured postcard of 1991 4-6-4T. CPR Diesel Preserved units. Added 8120 at Kenora RR museum. Sadly, 4723 at Farnham was scrapped recently due to minor vandalism (a van was previously scrapped also vandalized) and lack of funds and interest in a small community.
Added (scroll down) two digitally coloured old photographs of 306 and 307. Colour photography was expensive back in the 1950's so too did the very slow speed of colour film make moving photos difficult and seldom used for that reason.
TH&B steam Added (scroll down) roster shot of 202 in rods down pose. One of only two 2-8-4 Berkshires in Canada.
Demonstrators
GMD covered wagons are here! "Everyone and his brother" came out to see them!
INDUSTRIAL Ontario See What's New in this Gallery?
Rolling stock
Added (scroll down) two photos of PHLX covered hopper cars including 112 one of a big order for grain cars. Saskatchewan Grain Car Corp. has disposed of its grain car fleet to three shortlines. See details.
Facilities
CNR Added (scroll down) photo PSC diesel shop with an array of different passengers units on the shop tracks. CNR Roundhouses Turcot added (scroll down) links to two 1930 aerials of Turcot (bottom) and CPR Glen (upper).
CPR Glen (scroll down) to links two 1930 aerials of Turcot (bottom) and CPR Glen (upper). SAME as above CNR Roundhouses
BC only Added (scroll down to V = Vancouver) aerial Drake St. roundhouse with red outline of a garden! These were common all across the CPR at station and kept by the Agent. Lesser known were a smaller number in yards looked after by sectionmen. Added (scroll down) view looking down at consist being
turned on the wye in Drake Street.
Stations
Ottawa
Quebec CPR Palais Station in Quebec City. Added two 1976 colour photos. Note too the previously uploaded 1916 articles.
CPR Alberta. Added (scroll down) Calgary 1920's view plus 1960's colour view of street scene includes Palliser Hotel.
GTR Added link to map of Ottawa Terminals inc. Union Station 1911.
Interurban & Electric Rys. London & Port Stanley.
Street Railways (scroll down to link at top of galleries list). Patterson & Corbin old local maker of electric street cars, horse and trail cars. 1895 advertisement.
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February 1, 2018
NOTE: Page count now at 2317! A favourite engine of mine.
ARTICLES
CPR Ships GLSS
Brockville
Sub. Added great street scene of Brockville bound Number 261. Created new station gallery for Smiths
Falls Division stations OTHER than the Falls itself. Starting with:
CPR Lambton Yard Steam yard engine gallery. Added (scroll down) 0-6-0's 6160 and 6209 c.1937, 1946.
OSR Power gallery. Added (scroll to very bottom) BCOL 644. One of four GE units acquired, the largest OSR power.
Photograph Galleries Businesses Created
new gallery for business re-use of railway rolling stock. Beginning
with Clearview Station B&B, Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum
and Tourist Bureau in Nova Scotia, Ossawippi Express Dining Cars which
only recently had a final piece of its chequered past come to an end.
Tatamagouche Station Inn in Nova Scotia with the largest number of cabooses.
Victoria Station once a big chain of restaurants (only two in Canada)
that lasted for a number of years. More to come.
Trains Added (scroll down) colour photo 6701 on historic Store
Street in Victoria.
Royal Trains Tour of 1901 Added (scroll down to bottom) great photo of huge crowd at Carleton Place.
Locomotives
BCR Added (scroll down) 632 ex L&HR C-420, scroll farther down to BC Rail segment for 601 two photos including Starlight Dinner Train plus 602, 603 and 604. Scroll down further to 644 (now OSR) in A-B-B-A consist, also 646, now OSR 646, and GE's 4603, 4608, 4610, 4618, 4621, 4645. PGE diesel Subsequent owners Added M&B 1012 the only 65-tonner on PGE roster.
CNR steam
CPR steam P2 class Added (scroll down) 5410, 5413, 5414 and 5417. Some brand new! Also, 5455 with a working wig-wag! U3 class 0-6-0 Added (scroll down) 6152 with a switchman giving engineer hand signal preparing to line switch for a backup move. All without a radio! Hot summer with canvas awning out and roof hatch open!
CPR diesel CP Rail gallery Added link to new gallery for early
modified GP9 units pre-Ten Year Program.
GO diesel Added (scroll down to APCU section) Added 9861 ex ONR A unit later re# 904.
Shortlines BC SRY Rail Link
Industrial BC Added (scroll way down) two photos of United Grain Growers 6503 switching the elevator.
Logging steam Added Bloedel Stewart & Welch 1 two views from the seldom-photographed left side of a Shay! Logging (and paper mill) diesel (scroll down to M's (M&B 76-11 45-tonner) added M&B 1012 (same photo as above)
Tourist
Cowichan Valley
Salem & Hillsborough Added 8245 ex CN S-12
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JANUARY 1, 2018 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
ARTICLES CPR Ships Lake and Rail Added (scroll down to very bottom) two great colour photos of tug and barge on lake, also Nelson yard.
CPR Eastern Region
Hamilton Added (scroll down) P2 class 2-8-2 approaching Hamilton Jct. heading to Aberdeen Yard 1956. . Station gallery
Station gallery Galt.
Added 1983 photo. Compare order boards to other photo. Other history. Changes over the Years. Signalling details. Photo of train at Guelph Junction passing through new CTC signals.
CPR Toronto Division Stations Leaside Added 1945 view of old station. Toronto Gallery
aerials. West Toronto Diamond Added (scroll down to link) detailed plan 1963 showing all signals.
CPR Trenton Division History of Changes over the Years. Added photo of the early style Hot Box Dedector signal and explanation of same. Doug Hately's Bowmanville Gallery. Added two interesting photos of an unusual move! See what it was. Station gallery Havelock
CPR Lambton Yard Road engines Steam: Added P2's 5368, 5371, 5375 and 5403 (c.1951).
Added SD40 (thumbnail) subsequent owners two photos only surviving SD40 6006 in WC and WGNS paint schemes. Locomotive gallery.
CANDO Imperial Oil refinery East Edmonton. Gallery Add CCGX 4008 seven years later in newer paint scheme.
OSR St.Thomas Sub. A little update with a winter photo of 1620_1400 backing over the diamond with CN Cayuga line.
GENERAL Sudbury Area Mining Railways Gallery electric locomotives Added (scroll way down) 113_125 the latter one of 5 ex KCC locos rebuilt in Arizona. Gallery rolling stock Added photos of 14 and 28 two of the many slag pot cars in different empty positions.
PHOTOGRAPHS Photograph Galleries Trains AMT Added photo of STCUM doubledeck train led by cab car 900. This equipment all stored out of service. Cartier Scroll down to Subseqyent owners. Added WNYP 637 (nee CN 2312) with a short train OL-2 to Salamanca. CPR diesel The Canadian Added a second view the last Canadian ex Ottawa from opposite end of station. CPR Ottawa
old diesels Added same two photos of last Canadian. Also, photo of equipment
in coach yard including an
Royal Trains 1939 Royal
Tour
Locomotives CNR Steam Mountain Added 6061 with bullet nose (compare to other photo without).
Northern From the prolific collection of Bud Laws. Added 6104, also 6111 with smoke deflectors and compare to photo without.Plus, 6115, 6126, 6133, 6136, 6143 and 6153 when it was just another Northern and before I was born! CNR Diesel MLW RSC-14 Added 1754 shortly before it was retired and donated to S&H tourist railway. CNR US Subsidiaries Diesels Added DW&P 3601 RS-11 in old colours. CNR interurban QRL&P Added photo of interurban car 454 at US museum. CNR self-propelled Added (scroll down to bottom) GTW 15805 re-engined with diesel.
CPR Steam CPR Diesel Subsequent
owners. Scroll down to Western New York & Pennsylvania. Added
newly repainted 435 ex 4228. (scroll way down) Industrial USA Added
LTEX 1206.
ONR Steam Added (scroll to very bottom) "T&NO 137" and display train at museum.
QNS&L Steam Added
colour photo of 702 on display.
Shortlines Alberta RLK_AB Added (scroll down) CSCD 1758 relocated to USA subsidiary. Ontario new gallery Genesee & Wyoming era of Goderich-Exeter Starting with RLK 2211 (ex CP 5010) and GEXR 3393.
Canada Industrial Locomotives Alberta Added
(link near top) new subcatagory: Transload and car storage facilities. Saskatoon Added (scroll down) Richardson Pioneer GMTX 429 GP15-1
Manitoba Added CRGX 609 SD20 enroute to Cargill in Morris.
Quebec Port of Montreal Scroll down to Subsequent owners. GMTX 307 ex 8405. All four MP15AC's retired and sold to GATX Rail. MP15AC Rare model in Canada and modified to work as "mother" units with "daughters" (slugs).
Tourist Railways Salem & Hillsborough
Rolling Stock
CPR passenger Budd Stainless Steel (scroll to very bottom) View car ex NYC.
Facilities
Created (link) new gallery Toronto
Downtown grouping exisitng photos of Bathurst Street and Spadina
scenes. CPR BC Added (scroll down) great almost-aerial view of Nelson yard. Vancouver
downtown yards. CPR Added (scroll down) Maintenance of Way seqment with photo of typical section motorcar (detailed specs.) and typical toolhouse plus a little-known fact about these small buildings. Montreal area. Added link Lachine IMS 2015 also, (scroll down to link) aerial view of Hochelaga 1918.
TH&B
Station Galleries CPR Windsor Station Montreal. Added aerial view 1918. Stittville Ontario over the Decades. New gallery Hooping Up trains. All railways. New gallery consolidating existing photos and adding photos.
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