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CN 6213 is a 4-8-4 steam locomotive maintained by the Toronto Locomotive Preservation Society. It is an important display piece of the park.
- Pyke Crane
In the case of the Pyke crane, we are fortunate to have...
- Canadian Pacific #7020
Locomotive 7020 was among Canadian Pacific’s earliest diesel...
- Partners
The brewery occupies stalls 1-11 of the roundhouse and is...
- Pyke Crane
- Introduction
- Canada’s Railway Bust
- Picking Up The Pieces
- Cooperation During The Great Depression
- World War Two and Dieselization
- Adapting to Changing Times in The 20th Century
- Privatization and The Cn of Today
- References
The Canadian National Railway was formed well after most of its contemporaries in Toronto. It was created as a Canadian crown corporation just after World War One to consolidate the railways already managed by Canada’s federal government with the faltering Canadian Northern Railway under one banner. Shortly thereafter the CNR was similarly used to ...
By the time World War One began, the Canadian Government managed a total of four railway companies. The earliest of them was the Intercolonial Railway, founded in 1872 to run between the Grand Trunk in Montreal and the port of Halifax. It came about because of Canada’s confederation a few years earlier in 1867 with the purpose of providing rail acc...
Sir Henry Thornton became president of the yet-to-be-incorporated Canadian National in 1922, replacing David Hannah. Thornton had previously managed the Long Island Railroad and worked for several other railroad companies in the United States and Britain. When he joined Canadian National, their system was made up of a vast number of duplicate lines...
Canadian National would enter the Great Depression on a relative high note, having opened Toronto’s new Union Station in 1927 and the elevated rail corridor in 1930. The new corridor was thoroughly tested with the heaviest locomotive available, one of Canadian National’s 2-10-2 Texastype steam engines delivered in 1924. It included three new interl...
The Great Depression ended with Canada’s entry into World War Two on September 10th, 1939, resulting in the rapid adjustment of Canadian industry to serve the war effort. As the economy rebounded, Canada’s railways quickly found themselves dealing with the opposite of the previous decade’s problems in the form of higher than usual passenger and fre...
In addition to the transition from steam to diesel locomotives, the middle of the 20thcentury saw an even more significant paradigm shift that directly affected railways in Canada. Where transportation used to revolve around trains, streetcars, stagecoaches and walking, it now increasingly involved private automobiles and aircraft. The first highwa...
The public nature of Canadian National was gradually stripped away during the broad trend of austerity in western countries during the latter half of the 20th Century, ultimately becoming a source of much controversy. The money lost by the Federal Government in operating Canadian National was called into question and the crown corporation was recap...
MacKay, Donald. 1986. The Asian dream : the Pacific Rim and Canada’s national railway. N.p.: Douglas & McIntyre. Mackenzie, Keith. 1988. The History of the Canadian National. N.p.: Bonanza Books. Holmgren, Eric J. 2008. “David Blythe Hanna.” The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/david-blythe-hanna. Eagle, John...
To learn more about this classic Ontario system and its history please check out the Toronto, Hamilton And Buffalo Railway Historical Society's website. The Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo was a mid-sized system serving southern Ontario that dated to 1892. It became part of the CP in 1987.
Jul 24, 2020 · In July 2020, we celebrate the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo. Please enjoy a collection of locomotive images located in the David P. Morgan Library archives at Kalmbach Media that include the TH&B’s iconic locomotives and classic scenic photos.
The Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway (TH&B) is a previous provider of freight and passenger service in the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. Contents. 1 History. 1.1 Historical timeline. 2 TH&B Stations. 3 Roster. 3.1 Marine vessel. 3.2 Steam locomotives. 3.3 Diesel locomotives. 3.4 Vans (Caboose) 3.5 Passenger Equipment. 4 Further reading.
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-2-4 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and four trailing wheels on two axles.
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Canadian Pacific Northern Type 4-8-4 Locomotive. Photo by Brass Trains. This is one of the most iconic locomotives to be serviced at the John Street Roundhouse. CPR owned only two of these 4-8-4 Northerns (3100 and 3101) which were built at the company’s Angus shops in 1928.
