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C4 Published monthly by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association P.O. Box 148 St. Constant P.Q. JOL lXO
EDITOR: Fred F. Angus CO-EDITOR: M. Peter Murphy OFFICIAL CARTOGRAPHER: . William A.
Germaniuk LAYOUT: Michel Paulet
FRONT COVER:
EX-CANADIAN PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVE 1201 waiting to pull up to the station at North Bay Ontario on August 12 1982. During this wait the Northlander is scheduled to come in, load, and leave.
Photo by Gordon R. Taylor.
INSIDE FRONT COVER:
LOCOMOTIVE 1201 running as second No. 121 southbound near Powassan Ontario on August 13 1982.
Photo by Gordon R. Taylor.
R4IL ISSN 0008 -4875
CALGARY & SOUTH WESTERN DIVISION 60-6100 4th Ave. NE Calgary, Al berta T2A 5Z8
OTTAWA BYTOWN RAILWAY SOCIETY P .0. Box 141, S ta t i on A Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8Vl
NEW BRUNSWICK DIVISION P.O. Box 1162 Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 4G7
CROWSNEST AND KETTLE-VALLEY DIVISION P. O. Box 400 Cranbrook, British Columbia V1C 4H9
PACIFIC COAST DIVISION P.O. Box 1006, Station A, Vancouver British Columbia V6C 2Pl
ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION P.O. Box 6102, Station C, Edmonton Alberta T5B 2NO
WINDSOR-ESSEX DIVISION 300 Cabana Road East, Windsor Ontario N9G lA2
TORONTO & YORK DIVISION P.O. Box 5B49, Terminal A, Toronto Ontario M5W lP3
NIAGARA DI V lSI ON P. O. Box 593 St.Catharines, Ontario L2R 6W8
ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY DIVISION P.O. Box 99 Ste. Doroth~e, Quebec H7X 2T4
INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY OF CANADA.
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St. J'klJfti'~ .<"1,8 1fIlr-riZ-<> Received from _ __ ~ ~_~
Ie follo(ing Goods or Merchandise, which nre to he transported from tb,s Station to, , , , ?~ ;a Lion, and delivered as addressed, agreeably to the" Conditions of Carriage" 88 set forth in tbe "Ge1l.ral Freigltt
ariJ!" of this Railway, • t3r Notice.-Thie nf\iJW&~ will not be acc()untn.ble for any article.s unlesB the same are PLAINLY MARKED-8igntdjor, as reuivtd hy a. duly authorized ~ent, Persolls sending Freight by this Ra.ilwIlY. should bAY" dlLpllwte receipts in this {f)rm, filled up, ready f<1l' eignil)g on delivery of the Goods to
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AN EXAMPLE OF THE ~!~~sdOf lading in G:;:TI~:~;ETY of train pictures
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BILLS OF LADING VINTAGE 1880's
By A.S. Walbridge
While walking along Charlotte Street in Saint John, New Brunswick, you arrive at the city Market building , an 1876 structure with high glass ceiling interior. One posses butcher shops, with sawdust on the floors, fish shops, fruit stands; and over in the front corner, quite unexpectedly - an antique shop. Nothing in it particularly attracted a person interested in Canadian railway history; but that foot-high pile of aged papers warranted a glance at least.
Here were hundreds of Bills of Lading for shipments on the Intercolonial RaIlway over the period 1875 through 1894 - for sale at 15¢ each. What a treasure trove.
All of the Bills covered shipments from "St. John Station" to various points in New Brunswick, and as far away as Toronto. The contracts of transportation written thereon wer e worded rather quaintly by todays standars, e.g. "The following goods to be transported from this station to .••.•. , and delivered as addressed, agreably to the Conditions of Carriage, as set forth in the General Freight Tariff of this Railway".
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THE OLDEST BILL IN THE COLLECTION dated April 6 1875 beard a cut depicting a small l840-vintage 4-2-0 locomotive hauling passenger cars almost as ancient. This train would be obsolete even in 1875 .
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Most were written by hand in black ink; while some were ~ritten in pencil. One wonders whether the additional copies that probably were required, before the days of carbon paper, were obtained by using a letter press, with which many stations were equiped, by pressing a damp cloth moistened in the rain barrel against a sheet of plain paper.
While the format varied according to the shipper who apparently had his own Bills printed for this own shipments, ~Clch includ,ed a; w~rning about the shipmen~ of dan9e.r9us:m(i-tel'~~ls -:- ,iThe i ~en~'tly is e1ghty dollars where cons1gnors ~end Aqyafort~s, 011 of V1trlol, matches , or gu n powde r:1 ,wit hou td-is-ti nC'~ ly 'm'a rki ng t h e-i r riot u re upon the Package". (Robert ' ,Nicholl.s ,would translated for us: aqua fortis being Nitric Acid; anoOH of Vitriol being Sulphuric Acid).
A large nu~bei of printers seemed to find the printing of Bills of lading to be a profitable business - G.A. Knodell Barnes & Co., "Telegraph" Job Print Times Print, Watson & Co., even "E.J. Armstrong, Steam Printer". And each seemed to have this favourite engraving of a railway or marine scene . Some licence appears to have been taken by some of the engravers, especially in the matter what appears to be connecting rods between the wheels of the leading truck on some of the loc omotives Also, some of the cowcatchers depicted were somewhat unusual if factual. E.G. the one on the Bill of Lading dat ed April 6, 1875 The double-desked cars in the
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NOTICE. - This Railtuay will rwl lu a(({1Unta/;lejor any artid~s tm/us tlu same art: 'PlAINLY !;/ARKED, signed /01' as rueived by a duly authoriud A,t:ml. Persons ul1ding Freigh' by Ilzis Raiio'·ay should have auj/irate re(("ipts in this j()rTJl filled up ready jor .tiglling on rkliva'y of tlu C()()rU /0 FNiglzt Agrnt. .
WJun GO()d$ are i"ttn(ud. after bdng cOllveyed by /},is Rai/wllY, to be forwarded /ly 10111( olMr Rathuay or Co,wlY(ZllU to 'Iwr filial dutmalio" flu auplirate r(uil' musl s/'Ca/y Ilu same, and the arfides be marked auordmgly. This Rarlway '/utll not lu rtspollSlb/c after they arc JO cklivcyed.
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The PENALTY is EIGHTY DOLLARS where: ConSl",ors semI A9uajtlrlis, Oil (Jj ViI1"i(JI, A/aIr/It".( or Gu:--orowllER, m;Jrkinc their nnture ~Ipon the p"ckag~, or otherwi~ giving notice to the Acent 10 whom the !'"mc i~ to ['e clc-li\"t:rc-cl.
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same engraving are also wort~y of note All of the locomotives depicted are inside-connected; until we notice the evolution of outside valve gear in the engraving on the Bill of L~ding dated December 1"894.
A listing of the types of containers in common use in the 1880' s, as well as the products being shipped would make on interesting comparison with a list of containers and products shipped nearly-a ~ hundred years later:
Roll of Oilcloth Bole of Carpeting Bundle 0 f Whips Case of Axle Grease Bdle Washboards Brls Tinware Box Harness Oil Keg Cod Liver Oil Pel Drygoods Sks Salt Bbls Oatmeal Pare Cigars Bdl Biscuit Legs Pigs Feet Plow Head
INTERCOLONIAL RAILWA~ TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
Tfeceived f:~}~~l~~<~ the following Oooda or Merohandise, whioh are to be transported from this Station to. ~. Station, ond delivered as addressed, agrooably to the "ComliUo1ls 0/ Carriags" 88 set forth in the "G6,wrrrl Freight
Tariff" of tbis Railway. s Nolice.-Thl~ T.-.ftt'n ..... 1II110t ba "<:t':<I uohl,ble fnr any, .rtlde. unle-8I the aam~ Are PLAT!'IL1" IIARUO-,I/'grl(tl' (or, fU.rt«;~d by. dbly Allthnril..ed
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-~I(ALTf Id E10Htf JJVLLAR:I wh"l ~ c,'UrlJilJ"(l'rf lIend Aqll'llorliJ, uil u( YilriLd jl/'ttdll~, or GUNPO\\'DIiiK, withuut dt"tinctly TIlArldn&, t.heir nature \lpon the Package, or utherwi!<C giving notlee to the Avent tA,., whom the •• me I. to be delivered,
ANOTHER SHIPMENT TO MONCTON was a keg of cod liver oil which also cost fifty cents to ship. The train on the bill-head is decidedly out of date for 1888.
"ONTARIO 198211
C.P. RAIL LOCAL with engine 8156 south of St. Mary's Ont. on February 10 1982.
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The year 1982 was an eventful one for rail operation in Ontario •. Events ranged from delivery of new locomotives to an unfortunate wreck. This was also the first full year after the service cuts of November 1981, and it was also the year that the new LRC trains went into service on several lines in Ontario and Quebec. Our members Gordon· Taylor and John Russell were active recording some of the happenings on the railways of Ontario this year, and it is our great pleasure to present some of their fine photos to the readers of Canadian Rail. Unless otherwise noted the photos are by Gordon Taylor. So enjoy the photos of 1982 railroading from the snows of January to the sunny days of mid summer.
ON FEBRUARY 21 1982 C.N. plow extra 4599, consisting of plow 55370, pushed by locomotives 4599, 9195, 4536 is pictured at Stratford.
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TWO VIEWS OF C.N. PLOW EXTRA 4563 west (units 4563, 4571, 4522, plow 55614) at Stratford heading for London after a lO-to-ll hour duty clearing the branch lines north of the London and Stratford areas. Ma~ch ~ 19~~
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ALL READY TO PULL OUT of the station at Moosonee Ontario is the O. N. R. tourist train "Polar Bear Express". This train runs from June 26 to September 6 and makes the run north from Cochrane in about four hours.
John Russell.
ENGINE 137 of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario (now O.N.R.) is now part of the Cochrane railway and pioneer museum display in Cochrane Ontario. This well kept locomotive sits to the east of the railway station in town.
John Russell.
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TWO VIEWS OF O.N.R. NORTHLANDER just north of North Bay Ontario on August 12 1982. The train is running as a passenger extra from Feronia, and is operating in a push position. These special trips were run by O.N.R. in connection with the steam trip.
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THE REGULAR NORTHLANDER, train #121, just south of Powassan on August 13 1982. The steam special followed as second N121.
C.P. RAIL EXTRA 5974 Westbound passes the Ontario Northland shops at North Bay on August 13 1982.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF RAIL CAR: C. P. Rail inspection car M297 on display during North Bay's lOOth anniversary rail days.
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TWO NEW GP-38-2's for the Cape Breton Development Corporation (Devco) are waiting at the G.M. Diesel Division plant in London Ontario on July 4 1982. Soon they were shipped by C.N. to Nova Scotia.
A SPECIAL CAR USED BY C.N. FOR AWKWARD LOADS is being used for a large plate being shipped from the General Electric plant to the new hydro plant at Douglas Point Ontario on July 22 1982.
AN OLD L. & P.S. LINE CAR with three old M.L.W. yard units are seen in a train of scrap cars at London on July 22 1982.
NO MATTER HOW EFFICIENTLY A RAILROAD IS RUN, it is stated by "Murphy's Law" that things can still go wrong~ A good example of this happened at about 8:10 A.M. on August 10 1982 when C.N. and VIA had a get-together in an old-fashioned "cornfield meet". near Ingersoll Ontario. VIA train No. 82 was eastbound on the westbound track in order to clear the heavy track work near Dorchest.r. It was to have crossed back at Ingersoll, but did not switch back and crashed head-on at about twenty miles an hour into the stationary freight train. Although the units were quite heavily damaged, a considerable amount of the impact was taken by the hopper and box car which were five or six cars back in the freight train.
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SEVERAL HOURS AFTER THE CRASH the clean-up of the wreck is proceding. C.N. locomotive 9629 suffered only light damage. but VIA No. 6537 was damaged beyond repair.
These four photos by John Russell.
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A VERY RARE SET UP IN 1982 is a GP-9 and three F-7B units. The "B" units (9198, 9195, 9196) were used on snow plow extras during the winter storms. Now it is April 17 1982 and they can afford some rest after their hard work.
EASTBOUND VIA '74 at London Ontario with engine 9634 leading a 6700-series and a long train on April 17 1982.
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VIA '666 eastbound out of Stratford. This train is usually made up of R.D.C.'s.
VIA .663 westbound just ~ast of Stratford on May 18 1982.
C.N. extra 4536 west a mile north of Thorndale Onto with a train of empty oil tanks. It is waiting for eastbound VIA '668 on April 24 1982.
ONTARIO HYDRO'S SCHNABEL CAR No. X200 with a heavy transformer for the Hydro plant at Douglas Point. May 18 1982.
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WORK EXTRA C.N. 2527 shut down for the weekend at Stratford on May 29 1982.
C.N. FUEL CAR 73144 at Stratford on May 29 1982. This car is painted bright orange and is used in work train service.
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VIA *85 eastbound east of Beachville. LRC locomotive 6907 and three coaches. LRC equipment is now usual on this train. June 1982.
VIA U80 running at speed at Woodstock in June 1982. This train only stops at Woodstock on signal.
WESTBOUND FREIGHT EXTRA 9606 heading towards London on June 20 1982 after VIA '80 cleared the main line.
CONRAIL WAY FREIGHT westbound near St. Thomas on June 23 1982.
C.P. Rail extra 5502 west crossing the Thames river at Thamesford, June 23 1982.
TIlE Pi..A.HT SWI TOOR FOR BEACtNILI..f LDIE on June 20 1982 . Thls is a r"TC view as thi s uni t l s usually waTkin, ur parked behind the plant area.
BACK COVER :
NORnt OF ENGwtART bound fOT Cochrane and Kapuskalina froa Toronto, daily VIA train 12 , "'The Northland", passes typical Northern Otatario landscape on i ts run of July 17 1982 .
John Russell .
