June 1, 2013

ARTICLES

CPR Bruce Division.

** Bruce Branches 2 history page.
Added interesting old photo of a special trainload of appliances operated for the Beatty Bros. of Fergus, recently being closed.

** Hamilton history page added old photo of D-10 874 on the Ham Way Frt sitting at Burlington.

Stations: 20th century gallery added old photo of Hillsburg on the Elora branch complete with horse drawn carriage.

 

CPR London Division

Station galleries. Galt Sub. added photo of Puslinch and a link to history of Puslinch Township.

Goderich branch added old photos of Corwhin and the first train from Goderich to arrive in Guelph in 1907.

Courtesy of the Wellington County Museum and Archives. Special thanks to Karen Wagner and Elysia De Laurentis.

 

 

General

Toronto's Independent Bus Lines

**Danforth Bus Lines Added several photos.

**Hollinger Bus Lines. Added a large number of photos in a new gallery. .

**West York Coach Lines Added several buses/coaches including highway coach 56 and improved some existing images. Also, on the Dundas & Pacific parking lot added several more vehicles. And, photos of buses after being sold off to TTC/GCL.

**Roseland Bus Lines Added two photos of highway coaches 30 and 34 after sold to Grey Coach Lines. No known photos of these buses in Roseland service.

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Photograph Galleries

Trains

**_CNR old diesels. Added interesting photo of train passing the huge limestone quarry operation at Beachville near Ingersoll.

 

Hudson Bay VIA era.

**_A brief look at another winter. This one in SEPTEMBER!

 

 

Locomotives

**_CNR Predecessor roads. Added ex GTR 247 an ancient 0-6-0T part of the CNR Museum Train that travelled Canada.

 

 

Interurban and electric railways

**_Oshawa Added steeplecab 16 ex NS&T 16 later sold to Noranda Mines.

**_North Yonge added two more photos (scroll to end) plus some details on earlier captions. Can you find the Sweet Cap girl?

 

**_NS&T Added a new gallery of great old colour photos of a day riding between Port Colborne and Thorold. 1953
Added another new gallery for locomotives.

**_QRL&P Added a winter scene of loco 226 at the terminal in Quebec City.

 

 

 

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May 1, 2013 Marks the 13th anniversary of this website.

 

ARTICLES

CPR

Rogers Pass Tunnel Old article with much detail on construction.

 

CPR Bruce Division

20th century station gallery Inglewood added a brief memory by Cliff Beagan working the Moonlite. (Scroll to bottom)

 

CPR London Division

Main history page added interesting very detailed 1911 article on the Detroit River Tunnel construction.
Scroll way down and click on link.

Guelph Junction Gallery part 2. Added photo of 2332 eastbound to Lambton yard.

 

CPR Toronto Division

Parkdale: Added interesting old article from 1911 about the John Inglis company with additional photos.

West Toronto see link West Toronto Diamond subpage added very interesting 1911 article about what was then called the Weston Road Viaduct.

 

General

Independent Bus Lines of Toronto. Added three old photos of West York and Roseland vehicles. TTC 1726 ex WYCL 510 in a "country road" scene along Scarlett Road in 1954. A trio of WYCL coach and buses on the Dundas & Pacific parking lot Roseland charter coach in Niagara Falls.

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

Galleries

Trains

CNR diesel. Started new gallery for newer units starting with SD40 5112.

 

 

Locomotives

BCR diesels

Added Remote Control Car 4 an ex CP CLC B unit. (scroll to bottom of page)

 

CNR old diesel

C-Liner added 9301, 9314, 9338, and 9344.

 

Turbotrain New gallery started.

 

CPR steam

Ottawa West Added 1226 taking water on a wet day.

CPR diesel

Ottawa Added photos of 1417 and 8448.

PGE diesel. Added an unusual unit for Canada. D-1 a F-M switcher bought for parts but found to be good enough to use!

PGE self-propelled New gallery started.

 

TH&B steam. Long in the Archives section of this website added it here for easy access. A fourth class stationary engineer's license would be required to operate such a boiler under Ontario law. My grandfather held one from when he worked at Viceroy Rubber across from West Toronto depot when laid off by the CPR with a long service pass (20 years) in his wallet.

 

Industrial

Ontario See What's New in this Gallery?

 

 

Interurban

NS&T

Created a second page for addition a number of old black and white prints of mine never before seen.

 

Radial Railways

North Yonge

New gallery started for this TTC operation on the former Toronto & York Radial, Metropolitan Division.
New contributor Julian Bernard.

 

 

Rolling Stock

CPR passenger equipment Added Ash Grove second lightweight sleeping car.

 

 

Hyrail vehicles

Added ONR M-32 station wagon/ambulance for remote areas.

 

 

Facilities

CNR Added old article on construction of NTR Transcona shops. Also, NTR bridges in Northern Ontario near Cochrane.

CPR split up the gallery into two parts separating roundhouses and shops etc. from other facilities adding a very large number of old photos of Victoria, VI. This property has been sold to a developer who will turn it into a grocery store and boutiques! Wonderful!

Part one. Added a zoomable link to a great aerial photo of Montreal in 1947. Thanks to Ray Murphy.

 

 

 

Construction Galleries

Railway construction during 1910. CPR out west and in Ontario. Kettle Valley. NTR in New Brunswick and Quebec.

 

 

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