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Terra Transport

A railway that owned 51 diesel locomotives and where the daily freight trains have a 548 rail route mile run...(and is now gone...)<br><br>...today, August 2, 1982, the daily train is five hours into the 24 hour run to St. John's: Terra Transport #204 is at the Black Duck River bridge with five NF210's: TT#910 - TT#940 - TT#917 - TT#919 (CN noodle) - TT#918 (CN zebra) with eighty plus cars: a dimunitive railway? Hardly. <br><br>(what's interesting: some distance perspective, compare the Terra Transport Port-aux-Basque to St.John's: 548 rail route miles to the Windsor Ontario to Montreal Quebec: 558 CN rail route miles.)<br><br>More Terra Transport:<br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=7438"> Terra Transport #232 near Clarke's Beach </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6808"> Terra Transport #206 near Lockston </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6608"> Terra Transport power for #204, Port-aux-Basques </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6220"> TT #927, Port-aux-Basques </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=6336"> TT #929, Corner Brook </a> <br><br>sdfourty.

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Canadian Pacific

GP9 8808 adjusts the barge slip by poling prior to loading its train onto the "Berry Ferry" for the ride to Rosebery and the isolated Nakusp Branch

Bill Hooper

Canadian Pacific

The tail end of the Havelock Turn is barely off the bridge, and the bridgetenders are already at work opening the bridge for marine traffic.

Paul M Cordingley

Canadian Pacific

Mike Danneman

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Toronto Transportation Commission 1921-1954

Toronto Transportation Commission 411 is southbound on the North Yonge line nearing the crest of Hogg's Hollow hill; in a few moments it will swing east across Yonge Street into the Glen Echo terminal located at what was then the boundary between North York and Toronto. After the closure in 1930 of the former Toronto & York Radial Railway which extended from Toronto to Lake Simcoe, the townships of North York, Markham and Vaughan and the town of Richmond Hill banded together to acquire the southern 10 miles of the line to be operated by the TTC. Except for street running through Richmond Hill, the entire route was on a private right-of-way, most of it on the side of the road. Operations ended, replaced by buses, one week after the photo was taken, on October 10, 1948. This photo appeared in Railroad Magazine in a 1949 story about the closure of the last remnant of the Toronto & York Radial Railway and in a 1980s calendar of the Upper Canada Railway Society.

Julian Bernard

Canadian Pacific

CPR's train no. 7, the first one into Vancouver powered by 4500 H.P. diesel electric on loan to the CPR from General Motors. The train was almost three hours late. Consisted of 13 cars and arrived in Vancouver on Friday the 13'th of January, 1950. Burrard Inlet west of Port Moody by 1.5 miles."TEST RUN DOWN FRASER VALLEY CPR diesel Opens New Rail Era" By A. J. Darrymple Out of this world! That's the three-unit royal blue, silver and gold General Motors diesel that pulled CPR's crack transcontinental "Dominion" into Vancouver at 10:50 a.m. today in a history-making test run heralding a new era in transportation developement in Canada. Imagine yourself at the head of a power plant 154 feet eight inches in length, with total weight of 718,000 pounds, lifting a string of 13 steel coaches, 1190 tons, up the grades and rolling around the heavy curvatures at 55 miles an hour, and you realize the thrill of railroading. Although these diesels have been undergoing exhaustive tests in Ontario, this test run really started from Winnipeg for the 1473 miles to Vancouver under sever winter conditions. Reporters, radio newscasters and photographers boarded the train at North Bend before dawn today for the run over the last lap into Vancouver. A blizzard roared down the Fraser canyon; and officials of General Electric and CPR checked the operation of the three units under sub-zero conditions. In the big, clean, roomy, clear-vision cab, the experts scanned the operational devices and speedmeter as the powerful engines sang their song of high efficiency. Veteran Engineer Alfred Fahey handled the throttle with Fireman M. J. Marshall on the left-hand side. While the window-wipers beat metronome time to the humming wheels, the crew, flanked by a battery of maintenence men and operating instructors, leaned forward peering through the snowy mists. Down through Yale and then the frosty Fraser Valley, rolling toward Deroche, passing the stations in a swirl of snow, all intent upon the flashing signals. A pin point of green. "Clear board," sang the engineer. "Clear board," corroborated his mate. On through Dewdney and Hatzic, passing the eastbound Huntingdon mixed train at 9:37, and then reaching out for the curving course around Burrard inlet, and through the yards and waving crowds at the station. "A fine trip," said D. M. Campbell, General Motors application engineer, "but we would have preferred the test under more rigorous conditions; 15 below was the worst we went through." Regardless of the weather, CPR chalked up another first; the first of such power units to be used in transcontinental passenger train through the Rockies; recalling another first, that day, May 23, 1887, when old No. 374 pulled the first passenger train into Vancouver. Now the trend is distinctly from time - honored steam to diesel; lower fuel, maintenance and labor costs; improved schedules through reduction of service steops. Example: Winnipeg - Vancouver run steam locomotives make 32 stops for water; diesels 10. For the passenger: Smoother stops and starting and a more restful ride; and for the romantic - minded rail-fan, a sleek machine in brilliant color designs, running swiftly and purring like an electric clock. CPR officials aboard were T. F. Donald, Winnipeg, assistant superintendent of motive power; G. H. Nowell, Vancouver district master mechanic; Al Cowburn, assistant superintendent, North Bend; W. Sinclair, Montreal, diesel equipment engineer; B. W. Woodland, Winnipeg, internal combustion equipment superinvisor; Ernest Hanson, Vancouver, diesel supervisor for Pacific region. General Motors officials: H. D. Dana, assistant general servicee manager; R. E. Hunter, sales director; Don Campbell, engineer; Mel Johnson, service and maintenance engineer; Frank Switzer, Ed Park, E. Formento, operating instructors.

Andy Morin

Canadian National

Sharp staccato stack talk wakes the Saturday morning Sunnyside Ontario neighbourhood as the westbound expressway parade paces MLW built CNR Mountain type 6060 on August 23, 1980. The Upper Canada Railway Society car 13 Cape Race holds the markers on this train. At extreme left note the single level 100 series GO control cab car leading the approaching GO train on track 1 CN Oakville Sub. Perhaps viewers with detail knowledge of this train will be willing to share. Kodak Tri X pan b & w ASA 400 negative. Photographer S. Danko.

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Grand River Railway

Lake Erie and Northern car 933 is shown coupled to two other cars at Port Dover station. The gentleman posed by 933 is a good friend of Mr. Hommerding, Jim Findlay of Hudson, Michigan, who attended the fantrip with Cecil and is seen snacking on an ice cream bar. <br><br>Car 933 would be a “protect service” car that was kept at the Port Dover Station to cover any needs of service. Port Dover was the south end of the LE&N line that started at the GRR-LE&N Galt Main Street station and ran 51 miles south to Port Dover. The station was built in 1947 to a CPR Station Plan, at Chapman and Main Street, Milepost 51.0 of the LE&N. It was sold in 1965 to CN, who later sold it to the local town. Today it is leased to a private firm, owned by the Norfolk Region and still exists today (though not like it looks in this 1950 photo!). <br><br> This series of photos were taken by a now-deceased friend, William Cecil Hommerding (who passed away in 1983). Another mutual (deceased) friend, Jim Findlay of Hudson, Michigan (pictured) accompanied Cecil on the trip. The Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse chapters of the NHRS did each run several one day trips over the entire near 69 mile GRR-LE&N line around when these photos were taken, always on a Sunday. This particular trip was by a group from Michigan who held a one day, full length of the line trip on April 30th 1950 using GRR car 842, as pictured in many of Cecil's images. Although both Cecil and Jim are now deceased, their photos live on! <br><br> (<i>* Editors note: we would like to thank Doug Leffler for sharing these excellent historical photographs of Cecil's with us, and George Roth for helping interpret much of the historical and contextual information depicted in these photos.</i>) <br><br> <i><u>Other photos from the fantrip:</u></i><br> Car 842 crossing the bridge at Waterford: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10357"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10357</b></a><br> The fantrip at Kitchener: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10681"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10681</b></a><br> The GRR's Preston Shops: <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10413"><b>http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10413</b></a><br> <br> <i>For more details on Cecil, see <a href="http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=10297"><b>here</b></a>.</i>

Cecil Hommerding, collection of Doug Leffler

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