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Doug Page is a photographer based out of the Hamilton Area and has been photographing trains since the 1950's. Doug's collection has been graciously handled by Doug's close friends and a group of volunteers pitching in to ensure the public display and preservation of his collection, not only for use in part on this site but also in other realms, including eventual donation to a suitable museum. Doug has provided his blessing on these activities and you may find him occasionally attending a Hamilton chapter UCRS meeting, of which Doug had chaired and organized for many decades. (Meetings the Fourth Friday of the month, except in summer months, at the Peoples Church, 510 Mohawk Rd in Hamilton - all are welcome - Bryce Lee now chairs these meetings) The group of volunteers who have assisted with Doug's photography include: Bryce Lee, Bruce Acheson, John Eull and Bruce Mercer.

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Looking back, this was another incredible excursion and routing...Toronto-Hamilton-Caledonia-Jarvis-St. Thomas behind Northern (4-8-4) 6167, about to cross the TH&B diamond--helped "up the Avenue" and on the grade by green and gold RS-3s 3004 and 3019! Yet another trip sponsored by the UCRS..."Those were the days, my friend!"
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 09/30/1962
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 14 Favourites
How many of us have fond memories of taking the Algoma Central tour train with its exotic equipment including former CP coaches pulled by four or five GP7s in that classic paint scheme (or successor cab units)? And then disembarking in that magnificent Agawa Canyon Park? On a beautiful day, it's an experience you are not likely to forget!
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Algoma Central
Date: 7/ /1979
Location: mile 114, Soo sub
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 14 Favourites
You can almost hear the "chugging" as this westbound coasts into Bayview before the engineer opens up the throttle at the bottom of "the hill" for pull to Dundas and Copetown. Spring is in the air and an all-MLW consist in nice light at a favourite location...what could be better? (Power is CN M636 2323, M420W 2577, and C630m 20x7.)
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 3/ /1987
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
Now it's time to get back to some serious subjects--like STEAM, two years after it's demise on CN's Southern Ontario District. According to a list of excursions passed along by John Thompson, this Toronto-Lindsay trip was sponsored by the Don Valley Conservation Authority. Let's hope that there aren't any trains coasting downhill to surprise the admirers on the westbound track!
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 5/7/1961
Location: Toronto
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 25 Favourites
Last run-by of the day at Foxboro, 6.5 miles west of Belleville on the now abandoned Campbellford sub. This excursion Toronto-Lindsay-Bellville excursion over the "back route" was sponsored by the UCRS. You have to wonder how we got away with antics such as climbing on freight cars and signals to get photos...I guess it just was a different time.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 6/20/1964
Location: Foxboro
Province: Ontario
Comments | 13 Favourites
One of the joys of hanging around Canfield was that you never knew what you might catch. Today we have a dimensional load train heading west behind GP9 4571. It is crossing the PC Canada Division main line and CN Cayuga sub where N&W trains operate.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 9/ /1970
Location: Canfield
Province: Ontario
Comments | 17 Favourites
My how times change--study this classic St. Thomas photo, take after the arrival of a UCRS excursion from Toronto (via Hamilton and Jarvis). Note the crowds around the "glamour girl", 4-8-4/Northern 6167...the station building in the background...the L&PS crossing/interlocking just beyond...the shop buildings on the north side of the yard and freight shed on the south...the FIVE Wabash cabooses plus another THREE CN vans. In the early 1960s,the Wabash ran three freights per day east and west of St. Thomas in each direction and CN originated a daily way freight. Hard to believe that this is all gone.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 9/30/1962
Location: St. Thomas
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 27 Favourites
Train No. 17, the Intercity Limited, pulls away from its station stop at Dundas in August 1961. GTW GP9s 4901, 4909, and CN RS18 3100 lead the train on this summer morning.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 8/ /1961
Location: Dundas
Province: Ontario
Comments | 11 Favourites
New York Central GP7 5827 idles at Montrose Yard during the winter of 1960. This unit was originally built for the Chesapeake & Ohio in March 1951 as their 5729 and was acquired by the NYC in January 1956 to help dieselize the Canada Division. She was operated by NYC successors Penn Central and Conrail until the time of the Canada Southern's sale to CN/CP in 1985.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: New York Central
Date: 2/21/1960
Location: Niagara Falls
Province: Ontario
Comments | 30 Favourites
While waiting to shoot the UCRS excursion over CN's "Toronto Access Lines" (Burlington to Pickering with RDCs 6352 and 6110--Budd's demonstrator RDC1), an eastbound CN freight came along powered by CN's first C-424 (3200) along with a pair of RS18s (3102 and 3736). The train will soon cross 15 Side Road and the single track bridge over 16-Mile Creek.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 5/30/1970
Location: Halton Hills
Province: Ontario
Comments | 12 Favourites
As dusk is descending on the Golden Horseshoe, once again the Starlight begins its trip over the Oakville sub back to Toronto Yard. Today's train is led by CP C-424 4239 and leased B&M RS3s 1518 and 1508.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/ /1971
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
Comments | 10 Favourites
Heading south on the MacTier Sub, a freight train powered by steam generator equipped RS10 8557 approaches the north siding switch at Beeton. (Note the "beaver" crest on the nose, the large combined fuel/water tank, and the exhaust vents on the short hood--spotting features for a dual service road switcher.) In this pre-scanner era, we don't positively know the train number but a 1963 employee timetable suggests that it is No. 86, a daily scheduled train whose schedule began at Medonte and, according to the timetable, was supposed to be overtaken by No. 12, The Canadian, at Midhurst--30 miles to the north--at 3:25 PM. In the early 1960s, the timetable provided 4 northward second class schedules for dispatcher use (Numbers 901, 953, 955, and 965), 2 southward second class schedules (Nos. 948 and 954), and 5 southward fourth class schedules in a 24 hour period (Nos. 80, 82, 84, 86, and 88). Additional northbound trains would operate as "Extras" or Sections of a schedule. Operation by timetable and train order was a beautiful thing--provided everyone had an accurate watch, properly calculated the times they had to be in the clear, and as long as nothing went wrong!
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 8/ /1962
Location: Beeton
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 21 Favourites
Having departed Sudbury at 11:15, CP's The Canadian is just clearing the crossing of County Road 10 as it approaches Beeton in the summer of 1962. The 12 car train is led by FP7 1401, F7B 1918, and RS10 8572 (if I'm reading the numbers correctly). The Canadian was re-routed over CN's Bala sub when VIA took over in 1978...
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 8/ /1962
Location: Beeton
Province: Ontario
4 Comments | 24 Favourites
Nearing the end of its transcontinental journey, the train No. 12 The Canadian passes the north switch at the now removed Beeton siding. No. 12, scheduled for a 5:10 PM arrival in Toronto, was one of two daily passenger trains in each direction shown in the summer 1962 time table, the others being The Dominion (train numbers 3 and 4). The westward Canadian, No. 11, was scheduled to depart Toronto at 5:10 PM. During the summer on Fridays, it was followed 10 minutes later by train No. 317 to MacTier (which returned on Sundays or holiday Mondays as No. 318). The photo was taken from the 9th Line bridge and Jim Brown informs us that the location has now grown in...
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 8/ /1962
Location: Beeton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 10 Favourites
CP 2-8-2 5187 and a 5400 series Mikado pause at Guelph Junction with an Extra West in the fall of 1959 (unfortunately, I only have the slide processing date, not the exact date of the photo). Normal practice was for helper engines to continue as far as Orr's Lake...Diesel railroading just isn't the same! (Special thanks once again to Dan Dell'Unto for his assistance in editing this shot.)
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 10/ /1959
Location: Guelph Jct
Province: Ontario
7 Comments | 21 Favourites
On 5 June 1960, the Upper Canada Railway Society (UCRS) sponsored an excursion from Toronto to Port McNicoll, Ontario (return) behind 4-6-4 2857. This memorable day turned out to be the last assignment for a Royal Hudson in CPR service. This shot was taken during the run-past at Eaton Mills.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 6/5/1960
Location: Eaton Mills
Province: Ontario
8 Comments | 25 Favourites
A pair of GP9s lead a 20 car eastbound through Dundas in the summer of 1961.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 8/ /1961
Location: Dundas
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 20 Favourites
An eastbound freight powered by GP9s 4581, 4558, and 4579 moves through Bayview in the spring of 1962.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 5/ /1962
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
2 Comments | 22 Favourites
Back in the day, you could occasionally catch CN passenger engines in freight service around southern Ontario. In this scene from March 1970, an eastbound freight descends "the hill" into Bayview behind the interesting lash-up of FPA-4 6780, GP40 4003, GP9 4100 and GP9 442?. Look at that brake shoe smoke!
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 3/ /1970
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
3 Comments | 13 Favourites
On a beautiful evening in the spring of 1977, CP's Starlight passes through Bayview on its way from Aberdeen Yard in Hamilton to Toronto Yard. SD40-2 5729, SD40 5501, and C-424 4206 power today's train.
Name: Doug Page
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 5/ /1977
Location: Hamilton
Province: Ontario
1 Comments | 12 Favourites
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