Trains of Recollection: Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada, and told to Arthur HawkesHanna, D. B. (David Blyth)
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Trains of Recollection: Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada, and told to Arthur Hawkes
Hanna, D. B. (David Blyth)
Canadian National Railways; Railroads -- Canada; Railroads -- Scotland
At Saskatoon, the original Canadian Northern yard is in the centre
of the City. Our facilities became wholly inadequate during periods
of heavy traffic. Canadian National and Grand Trunk Pacific
co-ordination greatly increased the pressure upon this terminal. The
two railways intersect at Nutana, in the southern part of the City.
Suitable land was available there. Work was commenced upon the new
yard, enginehouse and other terminal facilities in 1920. The terminal
has been in use since November, 1921.
Except at Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Fort William,
terminal facilities are now fairly satisfactory and apparently no
very large expenditure at any one point will be necessary during the
next few years although the growth of traffic at Winnipeg is so rapid
that it may possibly enforce some improvements at that point.
At Quebec, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa large developments are
involved, which will require a great deal of careful consideration.
Some additional facilities are immediately necessary at Quebec City,
to take care of growing traffic, and a proportion of the Grand Trunk
business.
At Fort William it is imperative that large modern yards and
terminal facilities be constructed immediately. Otherwise it will
be impossible materially to increase the grain traffic that can be
handled from the prairies to Lake Superior. Favorable options have
been secured upon suitable property, a very satisfactory tentative
agreement has been made with the Township of Neebing, for the closing
of streets, fixed taxation, etc., and plans have been developed.
REPAIR SHOPS:--The chief plants for repairing equipment,
manufacturing material, etc., are at Moncton, N.B., St. Malo, (Quebec
City), Leaside (Toronto), Transcona (near Winnipeg), Fort Rouge (in
Winnipeg). Smaller plants at which a limited amount of general repair
work is performed are at Riviere du Loup, Que., Limoilou, Que.,
Capreol, Ont., Port Arthur, Ont., Saskatoon, Sask., Edmonton, Alta.,
Port Mann, B.C., and Prince Rupert, B.C.
The outstanding developments were the equipment and opening of the
large St. Malo Shops, Quebec, and the construction and opening of
the moderately-sized plant at Leaside, Toronto. The former plant,
constructed by the National Transcontinental Railway Commission, was
completed in 1914, but was neither equipped with machinery nor used
until 1919. The lack of adequate repair facilities in the Province of
Quebec, together with the rapid growth of traffic, produced a serious
situation, and the equipping of St. Malo shops was undertaken in
1919, actual repair work being commenced in the fall of that year.
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