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Douglas Leffler found a couple of photos that he took of CNR steam locomotive no. 6167 on an Upper Canada Railway Society excursion on May 4, 1963. He was 16 years old at the time and photographed this marvelous locomotive with a 120-size, roll-film folding camera. The location of the photo run-by is Watford, Ontario where he clicked a close-up of the locomotive’s smokebox, feedwater heater, markers, headlight, number plate and angled number board.
CNR #6060: “ Inside the Cab - with Harry Home" Harry Home is a former locomotive Engineer working out of Jasper, Alberta, and has been involved directly in the preservation of #6060. It was used on steam train excursion runs by CN in the 1970’s, and now operates on the Alberta Prairie Railway excursion trains between Stettler and Big Valley in central Alberta. Harry Home remains actively involved and here are a few clips of the #6060 inside the cab, and on excursions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcWQRt_OETA&feature=email
Exporail News, March 2011:The following special activities will be offered every weekend in March. · Rotary snow- plow: Climb aboard and see how this huge machine works! · Railroad Jobs: Hands-on activities for the children. Try your hand at being a brakeman, a carman, a trackman, or a motorman! · Mail Express: Visit the mail express car and discover how the mail was sorted en route. You can also write a post card and mail it from the mail car! · Return of the miniature train ride: Weather permitting, the ever popular miniature train ride is back in operation, fun for the whole family!
March Schedule Winter hours, Exporail opens Saturday and Sunday only 10:00 – 17:00.
Canadian Rail, January - February Issue
The January – February issue of Canadian Rail will feature Early CPR Construction in Eastern Canada, History of the Prairie Dog Coaches, Winnipeg Streetcars and Rawdon Railway Centennial. Canadian Rail is available at most local hobby shops, at the Exporail Boutique, and is mailed to members of the CRHA.
Photo: Visitors examine the inner workings of CNR rotary plow 55361. The cab and boiler area will be open to visitors during the month of March 2011.
SOLRS – Windsor Chapter:
The Windsor Chapter of the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society has recently taken delivery of a generous donation from the Canadian Pacific Railway. Tool car number 404938, stationary at Montreal's St.-Luc yard for some two decades, arrived at the CP Windsor yard just after New Year's Day. Interchanged to the Essex Terminal Railway, the surplus car was spotted on the chapter's leased trackage on the property of Don Hearn Ltd. in historic Amherstburg. There it will undergo extensive restoration and will act as storage and shelter for the club's project of refurbishing three vintage Alco diesel switchers from the 1940's. The car was one of a batch of eighty-nine built by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in 1952-53 as baggage-express cars, this one formerly numbered 4769. Being of the smooth-sided design with wooden doors, most were painted in the CPR's traditional tuscan red livery with gold lettering, black rounded roof, and black underframe. They rode on Commonwealth trucks with roller bearings and were used system-wide, including on The Overseas from Chicago to Montreal through Detroit, Windsor, London, and Toronto to meet the Europe -bound ocean liners departing from the St. Lawrence port. Interestingly enough, some were painted in aluminum with tuscan red letterboard and gold lettering for use as extra head-end cars on The Canadian. Dimensions of the car are eighty-one feet in length over end-frames, with two doors on each side of ten and six-foot widths. One end of the car contains an office and is heated by a kerosene stove. The Windsor Chapter is also continuing its cosmetic restoration of ex-CNR steam locomotive number 5588, the tender to receive extensive rebuilding this summer in the beautiful Riverfront Park overlooking the Detroit River and skyline.
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