tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26451936776141584192024-03-27T19:54:06.706-04:00Kingston's Hanley SpurErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.comBlogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-22419428900856062782024-03-21T12:19:00.000-04:002024-03-21T15:14:16.753-04:00Special Trains visit the Hanley Spur - Enhanced Post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><div>The Rexall Train, the Flying Scotsman, the Discovery Train and Royal Trains are among special trains that have graced the Hanley Spur and CP trackage over the last 90 years. Although I originally published some of this material in January, 2019 you're reading an enhanced post. </div></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><br /></div><div>It was September, 1970 when the British Pacific arrived on a goodwill tour (top photo) and a certain insouciant six year-old future Hanley Spur layout-builder mugged for the camera. Note City Hall at left and the Holiday Inn at right. Read more here and see more photos of<a href="https://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-flying-scotsman-visits-kingston-1970.html"> this venerable LNER Pacific along the waterfront</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1933, the <a href="http://www.webpraxis.ab.ca/vrr/_Remarks/Royal_Scot.shtml">London, Midland & Scottish 4-6-0 “The Royal Scot”</a> arrived by ship in Montreal from the United Kingdom. The locomotive, renumbered 6100, was heading for the Chicago World’s Fair, travelling from Montreal to Toronto when it stopped in Kingston. Peter Gower kindly shared this photo showing the London, Midland & Scottish visitor here, with CN-style switch stand in foreground: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAkJ5_g16pIcQhyZvzgIFiZ5X1pcIkVE4R4hz1xO93IStDWbcj12yMzoJUu6EZ-xzOVvavAXDvLVW1rtq1YEimr2_m2n9_Avj2dHZSZlvpWtuzJ8rYZgjgo1Gp8rs9gq1IFiTdmkCmAn347ksohe_Kc0GtRtYgA6250C_f-FHpOSU8uyTRU0lrcKqL8c/s500/royal%20scot%20in%20kingston%201933%20per%20peter%20gower.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="500" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAkJ5_g16pIcQhyZvzgIFiZ5X1pcIkVE4R4hz1xO93IStDWbcj12yMzoJUu6EZ-xzOVvavAXDvLVW1rtq1YEimr2_m2n9_Avj2dHZSZlvpWtuzJ8rYZgjgo1Gp8rs9gq1IFiTdmkCmAn347ksohe_Kc0GtRtYgA6250C_f-FHpOSU8uyTRU0lrcKqL8c/w640-h384/royal%20scot%20in%20kingston%201933%20per%20peter%20gower.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div>On August 17, 1936 <a href="https://www.themetrains.com/rexall-train-main.htm">the Rexall Train</a> came to the city. Pulled by New York Central 4-8-2 Mohawk 2873, the entire train was royal blue and white. The locomotive’s streamlined sheet metal and conversion to an oil-burner prepared it for a 29,000-mile trip across North America. Four display, lecture and dining cars, plus private observation car for Rexall President Louis Liggett were part of a train consist of twelve cars. All cars were given balloon-style roofs over their existing clerestory roofs. Coming from the U.S. Midwest and Michigan, the train visited Kingston on its way to Quebec City. Parked on CN trackage along Ontario Street near CLC and Gore Street, the train attracted large crowds.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Royal Train of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived in Kingston on May 21, 1939. Thirteen trainloads of spectators were brought to Richardson Stadium to cheer on the King and Queen’s motorcade while on their extensive cross-Canada tour. Their daughter Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited the Royal Military College in 1951.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 1950 and 1952, hundreds of Canadian troops boarded special troop trains in Kingston during the Korean Conflict. <a href="https://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2024/03/boarding-troop-train-at-place-darmes.html">CP trains at Place d'Armes</a> and CN trains departing the Outer Station carried the soldiers to other bases or overseas. In September 1953, three cars of an Africa Zoo Train were spotted near CN’s freight shed. Spectators came to view animal displays in the cars. In October 1959, a carnival midway was loaded on flat cars at the Outer Station for furtherance to the next fair on its fall tour.</div><div><br /></div><div>City Hall and the newly-opened Confederation Park hosted Canada’s Confederation Train from August 22 to 25, 1967. Arriving on the last remaining track across from City hall, the train was uncoupled with the two locomotives and steam generator car across Johnson Street near CLC, and its ten coaches between Johnson and the foot of Brock Streets. A line-up of eager visitors formed near preserved CP 1095, waiting to pass through the display cars. </div><div><br /></div><div>On September 28, 1970 the London & North Eastern Pacific 4472, “Flying Scotsman” arrived on the very same track along with its coaches and boat-tailed bar car. Designed by Gresley and built in 1923, the green-painted steam locomotive and train were brought to Boston from the United Kingdom to tour North America. It was specially fitted with a headlight and operating bell for the tour. Open to the public on September 29, the weather was generally English and overcast before departing for Toronto the next day!</div><div><br /></div><div>Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrived by Royal Train at the Outer Station on June 27, 1973 for a motorcade to City Hall to celebrate the city’s Tercentenary. The Royal Train was wyed and staged on the Hanley Spur, with the Governor-General’s cars placed adjacent to the Belle Park golf course parking lot for the Royal Couple to reboard in the evening. Visiting Kingston again on September 28, 1984, the Royal Couple was taken by motorcade from the CN, now VIA Rail, station on Counter Street to Amherstview to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Loyalist settlement in Ontario.</div></div>
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In June, 1973 Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Kingston to celebrate its tercentenary. The train was stashed in the Hanley Spur, its tail-end observation car at Belle Park (above). Earlier, the guard of honour was ready at the Outer Station; the Hanley Spur behind the Vimy Band in the right-hand photo (L.C. Gagnon photos):</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxiWxi7WGV3rfozrSNsLtBC6MvaThWZJjla6wGUKQnHz-VYe4uT4lM0N4MJcAjKTDaD8XcXFSF9LpgwVhd7aEU5OuHKzruAogTraiJV-0ENY4VWg9sE-dKPhHX62Oik9QPX7I_qXFij0/s1600/1973june27kingston.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="1000" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxiWxi7WGV3rfozrSNsLtBC6MvaThWZJjla6wGUKQnHz-VYe4uT4lM0N4MJcAjKTDaD8XcXFSF9LpgwVhd7aEU5OuHKzruAogTraiJV-0ENY4VWg9sE-dKPhHX62Oik9QPX7I_qXFij0/s640/1973june27kingston.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In July, 1978, Kingston was the premiere stop for Canada’s Discovery Train. Between July 22 and 26, the orange, black and white train was parked at the Hanley Spur’s north end along Montreal Street. The National Museums of Canada mounted displays in 15 cars which toured Canada between 1978 and 1980. One of the silhouettes painted on the cars was one of Kingston’s own bearded Fort Henry Guard. The display cars had previously been used for the U.S. Bicentennial American Freedom Train.</div></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-70984517459700209612024-03-20T23:24:00.006-04:002024-03-24T08:32:54.970-04:00Kingston Historical Society Presentation<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3HcmVxBrf4uFN_sm54MROcCXJCZa4MFeLrF0dPn-AkZrcBxsp2FM-Y8TiFKhlA3nULKWO54P-v4ExrHQaRJ2MzkcPuduIXQTp7YQaJeY1Y1GBouu7WjTfVjGobsoL7nFBvpQjqTBSeJOQ6fsyySxL9J5OOyXeRZQmYJlBjr7iARgHYHraRq1HBgyPVw/s2848/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2022.57.58.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="2848" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3HcmVxBrf4uFN_sm54MROcCXJCZa4MFeLrF0dPn-AkZrcBxsp2FM-Y8TiFKhlA3nULKWO54P-v4ExrHQaRJ2MzkcPuduIXQTp7YQaJeY1Y1GBouu7WjTfVjGobsoL7nFBvpQjqTBSeJOQ6fsyySxL9J5OOyXeRZQmYJlBjr7iARgHYHraRq1HBgyPVw/w640-h324/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2022.57.58.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you had told me five years ago that I'd be making a presentation on Kingston's history to the very group mandated to foster and maintain interest in the history and heritage of the City of Kingston and its environs, I would have doubted it would ever happen. Everything about the Kingston Historical Society seemed to focus away from where my interest lies. The lives of successful local figures, wealthy families and opulent King Street houses and their storied legacies were not my thing.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_KOIFRUCOJ3tOdKHRRQvulD9VZYmZ3beoa6INY0E53KrAogU5uJa089xNXl_LCo9mGsJ5iqQelpzMuzwaNfm8z6bEvmSSOzu0ZfX5CiAh6pJbgryQ6gJ6PlxZigkFp6ntIUAA87k43TtYAhXTOFP5PxNdPSr2N0ylaybC633-jIVAjhCUEtf1uJ1dXI/s2398/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2023.20.40.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1576" data-original-width="2398" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_KOIFRUCOJ3tOdKHRRQvulD9VZYmZ3beoa6INY0E53KrAogU5uJa089xNXl_LCo9mGsJ5iqQelpzMuzwaNfm8z6bEvmSSOzu0ZfX5CiAh6pJbgryQ6gJ6PlxZigkFp6ntIUAA87k43TtYAhXTOFP5PxNdPSr2N0ylaybC633-jIVAjhCUEtf1uJ1dXI/w640-h420/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2023.20.40.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">But it was the kind invitation to make a presentation to the Society, by Programme co-ordinator Dr. Duncan MacDowall that set me on a different course (my efforts at research and modelling on my Hanley Spur layout had not gone unnoticed). A course that led me to the impressive Kingsbridge Retirement Community venue on the evening of March 20. I was there to present my 90-slide PowerPoint-accompanied talk, "Two Miles, Two Railways, Two Tracks....to Obscurity?"</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5yh9QMjMzfhspEmYmS42lHi5Quqz4ahEI6Pj92pjIpUvaHK5n0yCqwv7w8DYaldSuqfWN0EWspxhBF1kIM7QfKP1AauIgoqfCO9c9XAzATPDegeh_aBkV_IrotS3u_YC2Xdi1bH6aamNWpA9uOLezkPtW4oDTpwL_8Vt0vmoCVDV6finVQcMZo-VIQd8/s2014/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2023.00.50.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="2014" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5yh9QMjMzfhspEmYmS42lHi5Quqz4ahEI6Pj92pjIpUvaHK5n0yCqwv7w8DYaldSuqfWN0EWspxhBF1kIM7QfKP1AauIgoqfCO9c9XAzATPDegeh_aBkV_IrotS3u_YC2Xdi1bH6aamNWpA9uOLezkPtW4oDTpwL_8Vt0vmoCVDV6finVQcMZo-VIQd8/w640-h366/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2023.00.50.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was welcomed by Paul Van Nest (Membership and Web Host for the evening), Duncan (introduction, question period), Peter Gower (publications). I had met Peter previously, when we were both Kingston Whig-Standard community editorial board members. Paul and his wife Sharon knew my Mom and Dad through a church connection. Kingston really is a big small town, after all! I recognized Speaker Peter Milliken and the Rev. Bruce Cossar in the audience, as well as fellow rail enthusiasts Graham Oberst and Kurt Vollenwyder and Inner Harbour champion Mary Farrar! I didn't have a chance to meet President Paul Charbonneau, former Frontenac Paramedic Services Chief, my son's now-retired boss. Duncan noted the impressive turn-out in the room (50 attendees) and on Zoom (20 tuned in).</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Everything went flawlessly. Refreshments were available, the technology co-operated, and the podium was positioned so I could easily see the Zoom/room and screen, with a nice microphone to boot. The carpeted room had comfy chairs, each with a small table and at least one attendee catnapped covertly after the lights were dimmed, as one might when feeling at home. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Duncan kindly introduced me, thankfully failing to elaborate on my sung rendition of the Canadian Railroad Trilogy! He fielded questions from the room afterwards, and we had something of a tag-team microphone rapport. There was much to discuss, and I was in a setting in which I felt I could talk with kindred spirits, perhaps for hours! It was great to meet and chat with several audience members, and to sell a few copies of my second book.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fellow author Steven Manders and I talked about today's book market. Dave McCallum and I might just have established a connection with Joe Quattrocchi about produce shipments by rail! A better link to my website would have helped, but via three emails, Mark Logan now has my blog address.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Before long, the evening wrapped up with the presentation to me on behalf of the Society by Duncan of a generous Novel Idea bookstore gift card and a treasured memento Martello-tower pin that I will use judiciously and treasure, respectively. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When available, I'll provide links to Peter's write-up for <a href="https://www.kingstonhistoricalsociety.ca/publications/">the Society's Limelight newsletter</a> and the <a href="https://www.kingstonhistoricalsociety.ca/events-news/">Youtube Zoom video</a>.....</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here's the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLOQhziraQI">March 20 presentation video</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My thanks to Duncan, Peter and Paul and all KHS members for recognizing the role railways have played in Kingston's history, and for inviting me to share my small part in fostering and maintaining interest in that connection. </p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-35359785797006821632024-03-20T09:28:00.000-04:002024-03-20T09:28:22.967-04:00CLC Diesel Day Newspaper Ads<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-3QaM3R8lRN6rThvVYeaEMlCtS6A1GJl019o0T25BwIDf1rO_N74R4HN59iuntLv4IGI9i6ZXly7x_ee-pbsZeLtHZSz9RkC0SHJ-5o81Wcnb5CkyyQp7WP9JZMnK_z8hHXR-ryik8ByGvO8uHxoFn1wBOdEa6RCk3cnOAia35yATi02uvoYuniF80aY/s2471/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_various_businesses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2471" data-original-width="1331" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-3QaM3R8lRN6rThvVYeaEMlCtS6A1GJl019o0T25BwIDf1rO_N74R4HN59iuntLv4IGI9i6ZXly7x_ee-pbsZeLtHZSz9RkC0SHJ-5o81Wcnb5CkyyQp7WP9JZMnK_z8hHXR-ryik8ByGvO8uHxoFn1wBOdEa6RCk3cnOAia35yATi02uvoYuniF80aY/w344-h640/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_various_businesses.jpg" width="344" /></a></div>On August 1, 1951 the Kingston Whig-Standard printed a special section to mark Diesel Day, a celebration at the Canadian Locomotive Company (CLC). On that day, every space around City Hall was filled with cheering crowds as CLC celebrated the completion of its first Confederation (C-Liner) locomotives as part of an order for Canadian Pacific.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This post features several ads conveying good wishes from suppliers as well as notable Kingston businesses. A large full-page ad included the names of some smaller businesses (top photo). Many of the Kingston businesses can be found on my Hanley Spur layout: the Davis Tannery, S. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6r_uhKK7nxFDZxEPiM7QQZAo0G7cVc2aotBV0EsPlvJ9KJUmoay0TFQixTjeH7RsaXQ9D9gvR9KsOjg9E0FDAzBW7nkJ7_UiNkpBctaUsTQ1Zq_kJelU14tp2mM2XCQZflztWNGIc-EVeJ-FZHEywaT1Caoua9QmQ9KRKhMmvHfs7nT5EmCRtlGc540/s6599/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_various_businesses_full_page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6599" data-original-width="4801" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6r_uhKK7nxFDZxEPiM7QQZAo0G7cVc2aotBV0EsPlvJ9KJUmoay0TFQixTjeH7RsaXQ9D9gvR9KsOjg9E0FDAzBW7nkJ7_UiNkpBctaUsTQ1Zq_kJelU14tp2mM2XCQZflztWNGIc-EVeJ-FZHEywaT1Caoua9QmQ9KRKhMmvHfs7nT5EmCRtlGc540/w466-h640/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_various_businesses_full_page.jpg" width="466" /></a></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-41669942337641291812024-03-20T09:09:00.001-04:002024-03-20T09:09:35.742-04:00CLC-built CNR 9000-9001<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLdl1rmUTPTtUw7xlmz2UVbtp9cxP1WolDgmgvAMq7uQwA2Uo_xIl9Xn2jBdoWx64RwHot24iB8pJ8IBklYUSFw7smYmObu4c-2nPfi9ME7vKLe5wgv-qlHIrzovkEv_ao-7xNQy9ZMknrCpuFSyWrAXGlza4Gfd4GlbRhvhyphenhyphenkKVfPslymgOuhnXcMj8/s1300/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2008.52.43.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="1300" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLdl1rmUTPTtUw7xlmz2UVbtp9cxP1WolDgmgvAMq7uQwA2Uo_xIl9Xn2jBdoWx64RwHot24iB8pJ8IBklYUSFw7smYmObu4c-2nPfi9ME7vKLe5wgv-qlHIrzovkEv_ao-7xNQy9ZMknrCpuFSyWrAXGlza4Gfd4GlbRhvhyphenhyphenkKVfPslymgOuhnXcMj8/w640-h272/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2008.52.43.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Tuesday, November 20, 1928: CNR 9000 left the </span><a href="http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2021/01/kingstons-canadian-locomotive-company.html" style="text-align: left;">Canadian Locomotive Company</a><span style="text-align: left;"> (CLC) plant on Ontario Street for its trial run east toward Brockville, perhaps as far as Coteau, QC. Newspaper reports beamed brightly: "A new epoch for CNR locomotive production" and "revolutionize...locomotive design on this continent"! Fifty-eight years later, Canada Post would feature the revolutionary locomotive(s) on a stamp (top photo).</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Supervising the move were CNR Chief of Motive Power C.E. Brooks, CLC General Manager William Casey, Canadian Westinghouse Company's J.C. Wilson, among others. CNR Vice-President, Operations S.J. Hungerford was expected at some point along the intended route.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Shrouded in secrecy during its prior year-long construction, the new locomotive slipped out of the plant at 0700 on that Tuesday morning. A slight delay occurred when two freight cars were found obstructing the 9000's way north to Kingston's Outer Station. Quickly accomplishing the switching, the electric bell rang and diesel exhaust emanated ecstatically from its engine compartment.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Waiting at the Outer Station was a test train: a business car for the officials accompanying the train, a dynamometer car with instrumentation for testing en route, and a caboose. As 9000 backed in and coupled onto the waiting test train, engineer H.P. Palmer, replete with new overalls, he received the highball from conductor R. Ferguson and the train departed eastward at 0723. Wouldn't it be great to have photos of this special movement in the Kingston area? The run at low-speed to Brockville was deemed successful, and the train continued on to Montreal, reaching 65 mph!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Planned service for the single completed unit between Belleville and Brockville would be followed by a publicity tour when 9001 was released by CLC. Promised 12-hour operation without refuelling must have seemed like rocket-science during the steam era, when the care and feeding of steam engines consumed so many man-hours. An overall weight of 650,000 pounds with a tractive effort of 100,000 pounds upon acceleration. Carried onboard were 8,000 pounds of fuel oil and 11,000 pounds of boiler water providing six to twelve hours heat depending on outside temperature.</p><div style="text-align: justify;">Design was by CNR engineering staff, oil engines by William Beardmore Co. Ltd. of Glasgow. Electrical generators and associated equipment from Canadian Westinghouse. CNR's previous experience with oil-electric propulsion began with CN 15820's Montreal-Vancouver trip in 1925.</div><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2DKXYAWoFqFiFuMJ_ITozNWKMoG4BrBBi0Ggwm4QLjar3-c4NQq9Xp4tjgsrcTZG72XxIPR1s1DBWajmOgwzpeBgMjoPRlNlQnB-BVODWbhYqUWIlJBTSgYrlgmGGQyIr1VvGqXLgt5JRv2bsmSHjdZD17s_JNSNBZQaV1jldX73_TPGC3w_AuS69_8/s3148/CLC_oil_electric_makes_trial_run_on_Intl__Ltc__Aug_26__1929.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="3148" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2DKXYAWoFqFiFuMJ_ITozNWKMoG4BrBBi0Ggwm4QLjar3-c4NQq9Xp4tjgsrcTZG72XxIPR1s1DBWajmOgwzpeBgMjoPRlNlQnB-BVODWbhYqUWIlJBTSgYrlgmGGQyIr1VvGqXLgt5JRv2bsmSHjdZD17s_JNSNBZQaV1jldX73_TPGC3w_AuS69_8/w640-h230/CLC_oil_electric_makes_trial_run_on_Intl__Ltc__Aug_26__1929.jpg" width="640" /></a>The second 'half' 9001 was accepted by CNR in April, 1929. On August 26 [not September 26 per the ad below] of that year, the paired locomotive led the second section of CNR's International Limited from Montreal to Toronto. Kingston Mayor W.H. Craig met the train at the Outer Station. At the time, CLC officials proudly noted that the premier locomotives' power exceeded that of CNR 6100's, also built by CLC and at the time the largest locomotives in the British Empire!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are lots of print and online sources on these revolutionary locomotives, so a complete history is beyond the scope of this Kingston-related post. They operated for two years together before they were separated for eight years and famously became the nucleus of a wartime armoured train, used sporadically on the West Coast. The motive power for the armoured train was 9000, with 9001 cannibalized as a parts source. Even Grenada got into the stamp-issuing act:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOEAFuVmSYDqogSk26On-_10nJqKcKZadQFHucHx-6EFDdrrWNixUd-xWMG_YRMzt87NfISgghcPWNVt9OWYxDh6m6onOO6v4kTTc2xbCuvYK5lV8Ts-gKwnNiWa-28dVjTrGGl2A8SAzuLsPTh7Zzw9zw4YQHsfKYpNR3ZkOIZG_te75X5UyqNiaPtA/s1186/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2009.01.16.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOEAFuVmSYDqogSk26On-_10nJqKcKZadQFHucHx-6EFDdrrWNixUd-xWMG_YRMzt87NfISgghcPWNVt9OWYxDh6m6onOO6v4kTTc2xbCuvYK5lV8Ts-gKwnNiWa-28dVjTrGGl2A8SAzuLsPTh7Zzw9zw4YQHsfKYpNR3ZkOIZG_te75X5UyqNiaPtA/w304-h400/Screenshot%202024-03-20%20at%2009.01.16.png" width="304" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div>On August 1, 1951 CLC celebrated Diesel Day - its first production run of new C-liner cab locomotives for CP. An entire Whig special section was dedicated to the celebration, complete with ads from notable local businesses congratulating CLC, three of which featured 9000-9001:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9I4oUknuhuwVI80e98NX31Qlt6_YtlfGZA9aROyiCUVtCwGvssrymYtSce46cZnvU3q8BKi7uJ-8DS6ibtf64yquB0scQHkkvrpxgwjNtYZdu0DkhprqRUvTQUZSQNlSiJNj0HuxyvFCjK89N9vmPkSuQYf3i895fg903DijHctfTtQSuXTy3rqNM8AU/s6683/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_Westinghouse.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6683" data-original-width="4824" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9I4oUknuhuwVI80e98NX31Qlt6_YtlfGZA9aROyiCUVtCwGvssrymYtSce46cZnvU3q8BKi7uJ-8DS6ibtf64yquB0scQHkkvrpxgwjNtYZdu0DkhprqRUvTQUZSQNlSiJNj0HuxyvFCjK89N9vmPkSuQYf3i895fg903DijHctfTtQSuXTy3rqNM8AU/w462-h640/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_Westinghouse.jpeg" width="462" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFMUVvxNXIG5f_aFXRhxAoPbcIaa2f8m-8nuhUzmorQL-0MmVrjndrztzGHaCRGzBvFdPWDfPqAyYw0_LazoaL-xau8udh9MfiDsOgrVUEzkn4nLrt5KmXasOtpZMl1a3I37XUltsT8D2DpHur2WiqArF91lYIxaQkASFo68xooE0wO5O8RO9Yw51uk0/s4545/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_Alcan.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3008" data-original-width="4545" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHFMUVvxNXIG5f_aFXRhxAoPbcIaa2f8m-8nuhUzmorQL-0MmVrjndrztzGHaCRGzBvFdPWDfPqAyYw0_LazoaL-xau8udh9MfiDsOgrVUEzkn4nLrt5KmXasOtpZMl1a3I37XUltsT8D2DpHur2WiqArF91lYIxaQkASFo68xooE0wO5O8RO9Yw51uk0/w640-h424/Aug_1_1951_Whig_ad_Diesel_Day_Alcan.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgURUoQ0_zG57ntUkoZUVItRSVkxf3cbKaIJPI3AYPGeTB_70yEkZhX5Vkek2NaId0JeMafspN_5wFUGa7jvbWF8w3B-tKN28Ktr6kzRpPzWRDyE80UDRsfS6UQmmX0oN9p7f_D6Mo1D3TMgYDF9z24daIHqLEIgGlUX-xlQmHm2qeI5uMUhPgCYvSq85E/s1713/Screenshot%202024-03-19%20at%2023.09.33.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="1713" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgURUoQ0_zG57ntUkoZUVItRSVkxf3cbKaIJPI3AYPGeTB_70yEkZhX5Vkek2NaId0JeMafspN_5wFUGa7jvbWF8w3B-tKN28Ktr6kzRpPzWRDyE80UDRsfS6UQmmX0oN9p7f_D6Mo1D3TMgYDF9z24daIHqLEIgGlUX-xlQmHm2qeI5uMUhPgCYvSq85E/w640-h430/Screenshot%202024-03-19%20at%2023.09.33.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-39187287702588716952024-03-19T13:05:00.005-04:002024-03-19T13:25:08.471-04:00Boarding a Troop Train at Place d'Armes, 1950<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikd39YzV7wrj2gBJApsYZvrGotPgmZR4TLB-9FipJQTLbbTrQBaRCe7oTexGkv0Vtu9-NmFiXvP44QeVqdh5TpP0X5e1fugOq2JBtPNVhBtQIuTUwOsZNDj1nE40rYUuvsdPH1usrE9d3QQc-FujBW-FgEhVcVRGKQcTD0VE6pgxFB9qUM9OuXd5F_3Oo/s1061/Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20Place%20d'Armes%20%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="1061" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikd39YzV7wrj2gBJApsYZvrGotPgmZR4TLB-9FipJQTLbbTrQBaRCe7oTexGkv0Vtu9-NmFiXvP44QeVqdh5TpP0X5e1fugOq2JBtPNVhBtQIuTUwOsZNDj1nE40rYUuvsdPH1usrE9d3QQc-FujBW-FgEhVcVRGKQcTD0VE6pgxFB9qUM9OuXd5F_3Oo/w640-h492/Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20Place%20d'Armes%20%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">These remarkable photos that I discovered in the (Queen's University Archives, George Lilley Fonds V25.5-14-6) show a rare troop train embarking Canadian soldiers at Kingston. At the time I photographed them, as negatives, I had absolutely no information on what was happening and why. I knew the date the photo was taken in November, 1950 and that was all. There were far too many passenger cars (including sleeping cars) to be any regular CP passenger train! Notice the skylights of the Millard & Lumb building at top right (top photo), and officers checking in the arriving troops.</div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">The photos actually show some of the 300 RCCS, RCEME, RCE and RCASC troops boarding a special six-plus car train at Place d'Armes on November 13, 1950. Part of the Commonwealth Korean brigade, the Special Force members were boarding one of two Kingston troop trains on a four-day trip to Fort Lewis, WA to undergo advanced training. In all, there would be 22 special trains taking the 10,000-man volunteer force, augmented by 1,000 regulars, to Washington. From there 1,000 would leave for Korea by the end of the month. Four trains with the 2 PPCLI left Edmonton, with more taking 2 RCHA from Camp Shilo, MB.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExFOfTc2knWDAf5YSWHaueJ13Mb59HZ3A_ndiCx-Rnlam_9aeV0tgog8sHVRPOM5SJQB0Q3T0g5IozPT1ovUIO1F4jgBD8RY9jYfYnmGcgjkzGRjrVFUtgSkok6piC-t96zodJRMR4yg6JAeG0zcEszOjI_sq6J4Ul6XwEOJI_AUpad7ssgwxvGF3-60/s1037/Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20Place%20d'Armes%20a%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="1037" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExFOfTc2knWDAf5YSWHaueJ13Mb59HZ3A_ndiCx-Rnlam_9aeV0tgog8sHVRPOM5SJQB0Q3T0g5IozPT1ovUIO1F4jgBD8RY9jYfYnmGcgjkzGRjrVFUtgSkok6piC-t96zodJRMR4yg6JAeG0zcEszOjI_sq6J4Ul6XwEOJI_AUpad7ssgwxvGF3-60/w640-h308/Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20Place%20d'Armes%20a%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After embarking in Kingston, where the troops had been stationed since early summer, the officers and senior NCOs would bed down in sleeper berths, with other ranks in tourist sleepers. Each train was supplied with two diners. What looks like the roof of the Bajus Brewery is just visible above the train, near centre (above). This marching unit is equipped with greatcoats against the weather. Did they walk all the way down the hill from Barriefield?</div><p style="text-align: justify;">Boarding of the of the khaki-clad troops was in a wet snow, with families of any local soldiers exchanging farewells. As the first train pulled out, the RCCS Band played 'Auld Lang Syne'. Later, the RCEME Band played the jaunty 'There's Something About a Soldier' while the second train boarded. Seeing the troops off were Lt.-Col. J.R. Dunlop commanding the RCEME school, Lt.-Col. C.A. Peck commanding the Signals school and Lt.-Col. T.E. Sisson, assistant adjutant and quartermaster general, area headquarters. The Morris Coal Co. building is visible at right, with its nearby coal yard at Place d'Armes and Ontario St. until 1960. That homburg-wearing fellow at left, standing by the train's steel van, looks for all the world like a plainclothes railway policeman, and the van was likely to be his ride! Porters and trainmen for the train are up at the next vestibule.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpO1CIVAUOToShYv5vPkTibHJGlSosyHNMrJ1oSHaHF_VfeYvyhPV4dDl-_8po6Ycu3SrTCSh9vjGXPn9cK4m1xJwsy3NV2bmAhWjkglm9mCq_0Jy185gxAbw_iAgPHfwM-W3CThTuHdy74x8PGBr1v21TMcVMmLGVLOoHNWa9etOmN3bqxOFzijQMHEI/s1359/T12%20Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20North%20STreet%20c%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1359" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpO1CIVAUOToShYv5vPkTibHJGlSosyHNMrJ1oSHaHF_VfeYvyhPV4dDl-_8po6Ycu3SrTCSh9vjGXPn9cK4m1xJwsy3NV2bmAhWjkglm9mCq_0Jy185gxAbw_iAgPHfwM-W3CThTuHdy74x8PGBr1v21TMcVMmLGVLOoHNWa9etOmN3bqxOFzijQMHEI/w640-h328/T12%20Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20North%20STreet%20c%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Some of the troops are armed, with a mix of rifles and Sten guns. It's tough to determine what the circular patch on their left arms represents - likely denoting Canada's contribution to the Commonwealth brigade. Since this was prior to the accession of Queen Elizabeth, the Tudor crown of King George would be part of the insignia. Also worn are unit shoulder flashes. I zoomed in on the negative to find the New York Central oval, and the adjacent Canadian Pacific 'Spans the World' logo on the mini-box CP 240922 (below).</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHj3LMkPkF3bDTXDdZbBryyOPA4DhSA_ro4uYEvOKe_3SpdMAppOOsDJ26QEqWXSC5A7Ez965YLzgyhbuwF0YvYzqAKrGhBNNuwNfgCOd_4bEjuCGio0pfJRM0GXb6cLkarHYjI9oFEiYA-5SUsSB8xvhZTKzVoL4zyUjscwaZoqmJRBXr388cJRzlJI/s1146/Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20Place%20d'Armes%20b%20closeup%20of%20boxcars%20%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="1146" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinHj3LMkPkF3bDTXDdZbBryyOPA4DhSA_ro4uYEvOKe_3SpdMAppOOsDJ26QEqWXSC5A7Ez965YLzgyhbuwF0YvYzqAKrGhBNNuwNfgCOd_4bEjuCGio0pfJRM0GXb6cLkarHYjI9oFEiYA-5SUsSB8xvhZTKzVoL4zyUjscwaZoqmJRBXr388cJRzlJI/w640-h400/Canadian%20Army%20troops%20loading%20CPR%20train%20Place%20d'Armes%20b%20closeup%20of%20boxcars%20%20Nov%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I have to wonder about the routing this train took - presumably up the K&P line to the CP mainline to Toronto. The cars are clearly those of Canadian Pacific. I wonder which steam locomotive led, because the diminutive D4's normally operating into Kingston would have a tough time lifting these steel passenger cars up the grade north of Kingston! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I wanted to ascertain which tracks were in use for the embarkation, so I checked out Snapshot Kingston'a 1966 aerial image (below). You'll notice that George Lilley has an elevated viewpoint for his photos. I believe he was on the CP loading ramp and I've marked his photo angles, approximately, with yellow arrows. The troop train is parked on the westernmost CP spur (between the red arrows) with the spur holding the (B)oxcars, the (M)illard & (L)umb building, and the foundation of the (M)orris Coal Co. building, both visible in the photos above. Indeed, in the top photo, Lilley has turned back toward Place d'Armes, catching the Millard & Lumb building in the background. It appears, based on all this, that the train was parked as close to the military base as possible, almost to Place d'Armes and Ontario Street.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhUoWzyn0NDhNvh2NtQu8EzT8IMrm_0UoXoYJ_dIpIGS6UAbH5DaKHM__A2wz_IbZ78cJuJyccISBGz-v0vf4OZRLRR6lL5hS5S9RUwNHwv-yUvd9uby8EYyKIln0VfqcYM_lW7i8QI0zOsubUCUPU9iEVwsgw20knEky2h5iIPaNiJj6EHpTtXlx6oeY/s1109/Screenshot%202024-03-19%20at%2010.59.45.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="1109" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhUoWzyn0NDhNvh2NtQu8EzT8IMrm_0UoXoYJ_dIpIGS6UAbH5DaKHM__A2wz_IbZ78cJuJyccISBGz-v0vf4OZRLRR6lL5hS5S9RUwNHwv-yUvd9uby8EYyKIln0VfqcYM_lW7i8QI0zOsubUCUPU9iEVwsgw20knEky2h5iIPaNiJj6EHpTtXlx6oeY/w640-h626/Screenshot%202024-03-19%20at%2010.59.45.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, on November 21, just eight days later, one of the many troop trains en route to Washington state collided with an eastbound Canadian National passenger train at Canoe River, B.C. more than 300 miles west of Edmonton. Twenty 2 RCHA troops from Camp Shilo, MB perishing in the wreck with 58 injured. The cause of the wreck was a miscommunication in setting up a meet between the two trains.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5zvgxHq7hzPZNM_ayDKyNxvehGQGcAeUgbXFlCQOGa2gj9Xnhb0-LKjzx9yJWgFCKhI2SEik4VX9gwStHhMIkyli1MJl2qaGIKIPe1miaUqs4Zl09JiZauFInZSsbMA3GbHbmKk57PwusNG2wZepwqNY3KgMrs1kwpgbPQkPOlVUNk787azFxNI84Bo/s1140/aaa.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1140" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk5zvgxHq7hzPZNM_ayDKyNxvehGQGcAeUgbXFlCQOGa2gj9Xnhb0-LKjzx9yJWgFCKhI2SEik4VX9gwStHhMIkyli1MJl2qaGIKIPe1miaUqs4Zl09JiZauFInZSsbMA3GbHbmKk57PwusNG2wZepwqNY3KgMrs1kwpgbPQkPOlVUNk787azFxNI84Bo/w640-h426/aaa.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">As a technical note on preservation, the value of having access to original news photo negatives in the Queen's University Archives is reinforced, considering the alternative. This clipping that appeared in the November 14, 1950 Whig is so muddy as to be virtually uninterpretable, and it's severely cropped to fit the columns available. It's almost impossible to pick out even the coarsest detail, unlike Lilley's crystal-clear photos!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc2J6uDjUT0YO7Z050Qov8WiTg9ybFPCxbA_Tm21F_PezX2aLVavUwC7urlp5-uZjUCGbHBw0yKICc2UKN1ZqUfS50rYv-xzn95-HP6Iws9_Ia2Pk0hh2KfKpUCnwV1pxwogCKz6uiV-u1xor6-Dz4f5YTlIQc0aLDAC8td-wOaB723GhaSjPdxpa65zw/s3140/Very_muddy_photos_of_troop_train_boarding_Place_d_Armes_published_Nov_14_1950.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3140" data-original-width="1790" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc2J6uDjUT0YO7Z050Qov8WiTg9ybFPCxbA_Tm21F_PezX2aLVavUwC7urlp5-uZjUCGbHBw0yKICc2UKN1ZqUfS50rYv-xzn95-HP6Iws9_Ia2Pk0hh2KfKpUCnwV1pxwogCKz6uiV-u1xor6-Dz4f5YTlIQc0aLDAC8td-wOaB723GhaSjPdxpa65zw/w364-h640/Very_muddy_photos_of_troop_train_boarding_Place_d_Armes_published_Nov_14_1950.jpeg" width="364" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I feel very fortunate to have had access to the Archives' incredible holdings, and through the sale of my books on Kingston's industrial waterfront, to contribute monetarily in a small way to their valiant and valuable efforts.</div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-89066020567997198792024-03-18T18:25:00.002-04:002024-03-18T18:28:50.996-04:00Swing Bridge across Anglin Bay<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQIVyQCIJp68p1aFvF1x4Ra3ByQRVxNQIYhgc5svkSwFH7K2GEiO7Jk4dv6P1CY1GJmMl5DDkNcLHR433USgpr7CwNApw9cXavCDD_XhkPnaUIojyeM7JZsNTF0G-788NvHOeMj0PqqA8e0IvM-QygNenXvrJhMkUFui_q95i1IAbzYQY710vLKNhgbo/s1544/Screenshot%202024-03-18%20at%2018.21.20.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="966" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUQIVyQCIJp68p1aFvF1x4Ra3ByQRVxNQIYhgc5svkSwFH7K2GEiO7Jk4dv6P1CY1GJmMl5DDkNcLHR433USgpr7CwNApw9cXavCDD_XhkPnaUIojyeM7JZsNTF0G-788NvHOeMj0PqqA8e0IvM-QygNenXvrJhMkUFui_q95i1IAbzYQY710vLKNhgbo/w400-h640/Screenshot%202024-03-18%20at%2018.21.20.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>In January, 1857, under the Committee on Railways (alternatively referred to as the Railroads & Improvements Committee or simply the Railroad Committee) [Sir] John A. Macdonald arranged with the Crown for access for a railway across the marsh at Anglin Bay, described in the press of the time as a 'loop line'. An estimate of costs to construct a swing bridge (?drawbridge) would be required, to be positioned at the middle of the embankment across the small bay's mouth (top photo - blue circle in close-up of Brosius map of 1875).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In February of that year, Messrs. McFarlane, McCutchen and Anglin had concerns and tried to prevent the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) embankment to the swing bridge. It was felt that the embankment would block Anglin Bay, thereby causing waste water in the area to stagnate. Already shallow and murky, the water in the semi-circular bay was thought to cause ague (malaria) and lake fever (cholera) outbreaks annually.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Published in the Kingston Whig-Standard May 7, 1859, a case was heard involving the difficulty of accessing the Anglin wharf due to the position of the Grand Trunk Railway swing bridge. North winds made passage into Anglin Bay especially challenging. The track made the wharf nearly valueless, the openings being only 28 feet in width. Water depth at the wharf was only nine feet. The verdict went in favour of the plaintiff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CPz2dcaD6Is6PUGCTvpt-vikCvUXVpqU4o0dVn-BKpE-_ivDAjiKu9motxHU-bm8PQ7mHpaN-uNXj_TK8ijfMKJ3rmq_Gx2spQjSfeFlWG5rxakfvJqG9TNGDStpkzvQpUSZbpGyOISh_jqBnhMmYFTC_tu8DE9oYuQpfAGlYN1g7Fddztpq5rZKFBU/s754/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%2021.02.55.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="662" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CPz2dcaD6Is6PUGCTvpt-vikCvUXVpqU4o0dVn-BKpE-_ivDAjiKu9motxHU-bm8PQ7mHpaN-uNXj_TK8ijfMKJ3rmq_Gx2spQjSfeFlWG5rxakfvJqG9TNGDStpkzvQpUSZbpGyOISh_jqBnhMmYFTC_tu8DE9oYuQpfAGlYN1g7Fddztpq5rZKFBU/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%2021.02.55.png" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Between 1875 and 1890, the GTR branchline was relocated to the west of the Kingston & Pembroke (K&P) line, perhaps as early as 1878. The swing bridge was removed, resulting in an opening left in the embankment across the mouth of the bay. By 1890, the K&P built 'spile' docks out into the bay, some accounts saying almost halfway across, allowing transshipment of ore from flat cars into barges or ships in the shallow harbour. The spile docks were demolished by 1929, with 85 year-old W.J. Gates supervising the work. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">On June 12, 1896 - the swing bridge was still in place:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdtaXy0AvjJbQTHIDLELLX_EM5o2uQ3q3gfF2VzB03P0BchoYhg2yKxK5Zj4i4saHnw_qf3RFgI07mwu56w97kXusiUtT1ghKRG53mJS31MZOfqeelH1VGPEbyTOPtaXTlY4iToAkgH1Kw0T5BHAlS0239NAG-AamIW6yzFmdkaV_M9JG6EiYkpbREWCc/s634/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%2020.59.58.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="634" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdtaXy0AvjJbQTHIDLELLX_EM5o2uQ3q3gfF2VzB03P0BchoYhg2yKxK5Zj4i4saHnw_qf3RFgI07mwu56w97kXusiUtT1ghKRG53mJS31MZOfqeelH1VGPEbyTOPtaXTlY4iToAkgH1Kw0T5BHAlS0239NAG-AamIW6yzFmdkaV_M9JG6EiYkpbREWCc/s320/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%2020.59.58.png" width="320" /></a></div>A 1919 map showing the now-GTR alignment (hatched) and the opening in the CP trackage where the swing bridge had been located (blue circle) and the spile docks extending out into the Cataraqui River (red box):<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8iYlTGeLuPozm01ixXj9jl3EccKaZ2Avhx3xGPO4PePQihN5XApY3sdcQ_WFyh2etLpDNAsIsDAbgtUSTzs_FZBHCIbxNvFMX2xEGh5Hr7lWkIlotzc_MZfaEWGRmZzVMXSl9C_0tedgBHU0fW7D2Ayrce3eqbaYdjNyFVZL6uNjIeQKwJ4qiXCso7Y/s950/Screenshot%202024-03-18%20at%2018.14.32.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="560" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8iYlTGeLuPozm01ixXj9jl3EccKaZ2Avhx3xGPO4PePQihN5XApY3sdcQ_WFyh2etLpDNAsIsDAbgtUSTzs_FZBHCIbxNvFMX2xEGh5Hr7lWkIlotzc_MZfaEWGRmZzVMXSl9C_0tedgBHU0fW7D2Ayrce3eqbaYdjNyFVZL6uNjIeQKwJ4qiXCso7Y/w378-h640/Screenshot%202024-03-18%20at%2018.14.32.jpeg" width="378" /></a></div><br />Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-16498245421546998382024-03-06T17:39:00.004-05:002024-03-17T23:42:32.517-04:00Woolen Mill Salvage Yard<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2J4G83K9fzJap624FuuMMgnYVhJxI0lynK_ZksvXz-cwr4E8xNYj6VcW_vuTYRkzap06h6zPRwLtYcg-iM-SepeiNW9Oxopx5rz7QjKKuTiMCGd2BSUhOvhA7acxyclE3GWGKIqWck-w2E27vwI-FHNCNA-eogax01fN_YAq2mH87m9Hf6R77_PlLKg8/s1507/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2017.27.54.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="1507" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2J4G83K9fzJap624FuuMMgnYVhJxI0lynK_ZksvXz-cwr4E8xNYj6VcW_vuTYRkzap06h6zPRwLtYcg-iM-SepeiNW9Oxopx5rz7QjKKuTiMCGd2BSUhOvhA7acxyclE3GWGKIqWck-w2E27vwI-FHNCNA-eogax01fN_YAq2mH87m9Hf6R77_PlLKg8/w640-h574/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2017.27.54.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>From 1970 to 1990, the Cataraqui Street Woolen Mill was surrounded on at least two sides by the Harold's Demolition salvage yard. A 1984 Snapshot Kingston aerial view (top photo) shows the Woolen Mill, Harold's Demolition yard, and the former location of the CP spur (yellow line) to the mill's former loading dock.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Operated by company president Harold Westendorp who was born in Holland in 1952, the yard at 5 (or 6) Cataraqui Street was routinely advertised in the Whig as a site to find salvage items too good for scrap. Westendorp, who began his business on Church Street in Brockville before moving it to Kingston, claimed he was the youngest salvage company owner in Ontario at the time. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harold's Demolition at the burned out Fort Henry Hotel on Princess Street, February 4, 1969 - Whig clipping:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWz7qagU560X9_6db0SkuDoMGuyYL0gyyhIJ7onEvg5Ob5A2HTvpqL3INHLqfZmPoIAdhCsUwwGtRMoQI6wB89NAcn4f2mE6xm8u1T2NpJiBXuTiDY8XL4beoTLlbNkkpEwuGeGNWT74ODSKzsqZP_baJe3E5lmus7V5n4IsvuHjjQhT_aEC96ryDBFX0/s1482/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2017.15.25.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="1482" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWz7qagU560X9_6db0SkuDoMGuyYL0gyyhIJ7onEvg5Ob5A2HTvpqL3INHLqfZmPoIAdhCsUwwGtRMoQI6wB89NAcn4f2mE6xm8u1T2NpJiBXuTiDY8XL4beoTLlbNkkpEwuGeGNWT74ODSKzsqZP_baJe3E5lmus7V5n4IsvuHjjQhT_aEC96ryDBFX0/w640-h426/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2017.15.25.png" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">This notice was from a June 23, 1970 Whig:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHM_sVUfACSFuxWEDm-2WGD8NV4SXrxjDnwn2Iaafr3YQiBerDH7tDm5q3Wjfab9Ee6rQfKTwqk5InWoAYJpaVfwP2w7ypso6FiL_FPf3WJMJjS2kcJXk62n3-D3D-0hQ3t6f9fMcaB87xAg5KLj52cGRLIFoqkf0cmInNQ5a49DrPvflIEYF3FQJzDb8/s1102/harold_westendorp_demolition_salvage_yard_June_23_1970_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1102" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHM_sVUfACSFuxWEDm-2WGD8NV4SXrxjDnwn2Iaafr3YQiBerDH7tDm5q3Wjfab9Ee6rQfKTwqk5InWoAYJpaVfwP2w7ypso6FiL_FPf3WJMJjS2kcJXk62n3-D3D-0hQ3t6f9fMcaB87xAg5KLj52cGRLIFoqkf0cmInNQ5a49DrPvflIEYF3FQJzDb8/w400-h396/harold_westendorp_demolition_salvage_yard_June_23_1970_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">A January 30, 1976 Whig classified ad describes salvage coming from the former Canadian Tire store:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQfpkGiirhIg2wtRDN9vk8AbT0qidAH-mc2VUjjff3wFIiIlrl9EiiXhBiAfgRBUUs7NbMVK1eBPsTMMH5vzdiYSXRZifNNoF8gFzjXutIENwFlDzaFa_JnFWc4iaW_kLsXEN82n7RGiYig2nNuT6cbzaWk8LaLjjnm9LrEJHNHwJwRfKc-dkXC84kuE/s506/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2013.53.28.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="506" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQfpkGiirhIg2wtRDN9vk8AbT0qidAH-mc2VUjjff3wFIiIlrl9EiiXhBiAfgRBUUs7NbMVK1eBPsTMMH5vzdiYSXRZifNNoF8gFzjXutIENwFlDzaFa_JnFWc4iaW_kLsXEN82n7RGiYig2nNuT6cbzaWk8LaLjjnm9LrEJHNHwJwRfKc-dkXC84kuE/w400-h341/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2013.53.28.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In July, 1980 there were big savings to be had:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyJOBtNtvnYxLt6_UIzsMx9IWLt-lkPxg9upxlyEo2V9B7IZm2TWGhfLL91nZszLCuQA-2uqzzIVGh6p6WSXEq3YSuoO_ZPw_MFXMjJLPyTZc8vwrkmsPJa8dDgyvlwmL7hBrJzf2iRThm0VU2Zc-gPqQHFSQ-IYc1p7Hdxjlr7uFik0zKysO_2lCXxk/s1216/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2014.09.24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1216" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyJOBtNtvnYxLt6_UIzsMx9IWLt-lkPxg9upxlyEo2V9B7IZm2TWGhfLL91nZszLCuQA-2uqzzIVGh6p6WSXEq3YSuoO_ZPw_MFXMjJLPyTZc8vwrkmsPJa8dDgyvlwmL7hBrJzf2iRThm0VU2Zc-gPqQHFSQ-IYc1p7Hdxjlr7uFik0zKysO_2lCXxk/w400-h324/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2014.09.24.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An August, 1989 classified ad:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDPQITwD4tphfCVVKcIey0CVxC3n716i9IfKL1spoONje0nSfRZcg2Lsyl1__dZvADEpyjy1Zoxw6kYZp6phnl-PFZJvf20Y4H3sgXm_fsZqjeiBh_62qMwBUNSgje13rinremvT50w05OpX1vK1tRJevH-tyorAyAVPt65Px79rav3HuJpVuRqgO4xBg/s592/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2014.05.35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="592" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDPQITwD4tphfCVVKcIey0CVxC3n716i9IfKL1spoONje0nSfRZcg2Lsyl1__dZvADEpyjy1Zoxw6kYZp6phnl-PFZJvf20Y4H3sgXm_fsZqjeiBh_62qMwBUNSgje13rinremvT50w05OpX1vK1tRJevH-tyorAyAVPt65Px79rav3HuJpVuRqgO4xBg/w400-h176/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2014.05.35.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A 1985 flap about high-density housing zoning change proposed for the area brought the company president to a public meeting, with the possibility of having to find another location for the salvage yard, away from the Inner Harbour location. Such a move was estimated to cost Harold's $2.5 million! Harold's, Rosen Fuels and S. Anglin Co. all objected to the city's proposed zoning of 60 acres from River Street down to Place d'Armes. Though only valued at $3,000 per unit (Rosen) and $10,000 per unit (Harold's), the proposed change would increase land values up to $18,000 per unit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An undated photo of the yard kindly shared by Marc Shaw, looking up Cataraqui Street with the Bailey broom factory at extreme right:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rRe5QQ3MglsqP7GEFLk7dQo7H2plr5pVidTqnREWSBeNd-r9aDOzwmqtXDHUHwoegzW-yuan93lupcByFPfh5XKQGp0sbVKtY3pIE9SedOw7vlnRkIW0c90mrKQsgpg44JqC1O3amni99NH6HqFFqczJqohrrQ8K0TxmJvYVzgYstUdnA2MBe6re6Jw/s919/Harolds%20Demolition%20ms%20photo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="919" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1rRe5QQ3MglsqP7GEFLk7dQo7H2plr5pVidTqnREWSBeNd-r9aDOzwmqtXDHUHwoegzW-yuan93lupcByFPfh5XKQGp0sbVKtY3pIE9SedOw7vlnRkIW0c90mrKQsgpg44JqC1O3amni99NH6HqFFqczJqohrrQ8K0TxmJvYVzgYstUdnA2MBe6re6Jw/w640-h410/Harolds%20Demolition%20ms%20photo.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1986, the property was described as being bounded by a corrugated metal fence between 10 and 12 feet high, topped with mountings for barbed wire. The operation was then sometimes referred to as Harold's Recycling Centre, much more in line with emerging environmental enlightenment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Used by Harold and Hilda Westendorp as a warehouse for nearby Harold's Demolition, the <a href="https://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2022/02/national-grocers-history.html">National Grocers building</a> was the site of an auction held to sell off various stored materials in late-October, 1987 resulting in $30,000 in sales. Even the kitchen sink(s) were for sale! At the time, the proposed Wellington Street extension was planned for the site of the salvage yard.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A June, 1992 Whig clipping (below) shows a Sheriff's Sale of a Westendorp grader. When Hank Doornekamp bought the Woolen mill and adjacent 3.2-acre Harold's Demolition salvage yard in mid-1993, Harold's Demolition was already a defunct company. The proposed use of the yard for residential use never materialized, and the Woolen Mill (formerly Whig) parking lot now occupies some of that real estate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ifz1vDQ3lEnCuo6qf9z0NJtHSPmNsTvWWZg8-dxQHga25qe669mLvsgy-HUwSAS0ggxCKSse9Xw9E2npAz8FqQmn4itkFa51FNAx1pT7jkwyU-90cbPoYddvKggRG1zyXekVeuN3Abr4k5xaLavlFUFgasDzQO41T1zQ96WxugkpSmY7GIl4fo4Xdwc/s1004/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2014.07.37.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="590" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ifz1vDQ3lEnCuo6qf9z0NJtHSPmNsTvWWZg8-dxQHga25qe669mLvsgy-HUwSAS0ggxCKSse9Xw9E2npAz8FqQmn4itkFa51FNAx1pT7jkwyU-90cbPoYddvKggRG1zyXekVeuN3Abr4k5xaLavlFUFgasDzQO41T1zQ96WxugkpSmY7GIl4fo4Xdwc/w376-h640/Screenshot%202024-03-06%20at%2014.07.37.png" width="376" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I moved my scrap yard to make way for an Anglin expansion recently. I moved some scrap behind an emplaced chain-link fence in front of the Woolen Mill, drawing inspiration from Harold's salvage yard:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fmsbdxNyar-0m7l9YcUTn5h7zjEx63PP_2MNeI1ZMibvTGrYpNM8Zb-AWLUsAd3DBK_GlnAV_GLCT3_LPyFGZZwwv6PewA7UF9ZxsBV8tfWq_6mmmGweif7A1e4uelswuDOOzwpPCp-CTz-TAHIt4xgTJjRITAYJTdxcmi83OoUA7aC0Vpr7I4oxR-0/s3821/IMG_0473.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2518" data-original-width="3821" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fmsbdxNyar-0m7l9YcUTn5h7zjEx63PP_2MNeI1ZMibvTGrYpNM8Zb-AWLUsAd3DBK_GlnAV_GLCT3_LPyFGZZwwv6PewA7UF9ZxsBV8tfWq_6mmmGweif7A1e4uelswuDOOzwpPCp-CTz-TAHIt4xgTJjRITAYJTdxcmi83OoUA7aC0Vpr7I4oxR-0/w640-h422/IMG_0473.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_fRHCPh_lW6hT8BGwcoMoifTxNQ8zX207ayWFOJ6brImG7ULjimIhTz4uNsjy6K_JjFQmLXOsXqHj0fZBs021gsWhhFQuntMBKdiDXHSw8OzwBEyWx4Vez3i5GseE_vJvkBKAEdtasa_R0fYfFy64jL88WnWcm5ZpWS7JwyeSUM_i_kBB51n26PvvC0/s3766/IMG_0472.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2387" data-original-width="3766" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_fRHCPh_lW6hT8BGwcoMoifTxNQ8zX207ayWFOJ6brImG7ULjimIhTz4uNsjy6K_JjFQmLXOsXqHj0fZBs021gsWhhFQuntMBKdiDXHSw8OzwBEyWx4Vez3i5GseE_vJvkBKAEdtasa_R0fYfFy64jL88WnWcm5ZpWS7JwyeSUM_i_kBB51n26PvvC0/w640-h406/IMG_0472.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-84697582978208598862024-03-06T08:22:00.003-05:002024-03-09T22:08:35.337-05:00Layout Video Update 2018 vs. 2024<div style="text-align: justify;">I recently posted a video to Youtube. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23zymaqU98M">Six minutes</a> of the very latest 2024 look and feel of my Kingston's Hanley Spur HO-scale layout. By comparison, this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pESpJ-Kh1qk">two minutes</a> taken in 2018 are tough to watch. Granted, it was extremely early on in the new Kingston iteration (changing over from Vermont). Here are some screenshots to show the progress:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx0kSYM6By2TAD_x_3eOTqcn4fS26zkALMP7QodKzXCkxh3HM1iSU9CZcG_6rkDFl-wj5aLyBnF8_IoAgZa0Z0jlFcfE8EjmI7Q0rOWeWBhMD400TsqW629Yho4GiC36ycyj6GBvEoYflA783zk7-ki691hyTpjNRtBmePec8BRSX5vuuReuCwnh5Lg9I/s1918/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.07.25.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1918" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx0kSYM6By2TAD_x_3eOTqcn4fS26zkALMP7QodKzXCkxh3HM1iSU9CZcG_6rkDFl-wj5aLyBnF8_IoAgZa0Z0jlFcfE8EjmI7Q0rOWeWBhMD400TsqW629Yho4GiC36ycyj6GBvEoYflA783zk7-ki691hyTpjNRtBmePec8BRSX5vuuReuCwnh5Lg9I/w640-h356/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.07.25.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hurricane trees (!) and structure stand-ins with a passing freight (2018 - above). By 2024, structures, billboards and backdrops are in place with a different CP freight in town:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1iIjEFui8Fjh8tb_ERsSVABUFHXxveKQr9LmDViWYYdBIzQ1Hy71mpvPoaNTLklqOUGdJITdo8N_4JxNUSfCIlGHXHcgBKR-PvvYiDg0vpshTSb7-fTJHnQ6dE8_AOjDIfTdYplVMwkeoHx1ZQm8npcir24Qe_QBdUeWlWPJJnjU-_X9rKds00RIdc8/s1928/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.09.50.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1928" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1iIjEFui8Fjh8tb_ERsSVABUFHXxveKQr9LmDViWYYdBIzQ1Hy71mpvPoaNTLklqOUGdJITdo8N_4JxNUSfCIlGHXHcgBKR-PvvYiDg0vpshTSb7-fTJHnQ6dE8_AOjDIfTdYplVMwkeoHx1ZQm8npcir24Qe_QBdUeWlWPJJnjU-_X9rKds00RIdc8/w640-h360/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.09.50.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Two more before-and-afters:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYXE0zCzn9GfialDTbHgc1OF9jUbt_0irqGhArx5HeFmobVmBl_eFOoFD-9YPqti4QWdMfvoeY_ywNtUv25Si7uBRAJVJagDIYkSsqrnng-hJQPCClHNTjrBxFuJBigUaiIDK39_WQ6RXK9YfvXbx1Gl6UWqC8nwi8KogA4DvvyUsLInEjnNnClUJgbg/s1924/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.11.13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1924" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYXE0zCzn9GfialDTbHgc1OF9jUbt_0irqGhArx5HeFmobVmBl_eFOoFD-9YPqti4QWdMfvoeY_ywNtUv25Si7uBRAJVJagDIYkSsqrnng-hJQPCClHNTjrBxFuJBigUaiIDK39_WQ6RXK9YfvXbx1Gl6UWqC8nwi8KogA4DvvyUsLInEjnNnClUJgbg/w640-h354/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.11.13.png" width="640" /></a></div>A cornucopia of CN work equipment has arrived in the still Vermont-y yard, with more uprooted scenery and the red-brick station kit that would become CN's Outer Station (2018 - above). By 2024, the yard was properly populated, backdrops and scenery in place, and the passenger station busy:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVv62-_xE4yOMODMpOOxgCifoXQFx0Sr2X0aFknH_23b9l7NvK_aEAgdcbQ-RaEc4eAoq5a6_BCajaPa7fujX63bgcbySih1l2CFHZdZjX-4MFB1lT4yhLb8eNkw3LhcPpXTit5P30im9XxGAxnIWkqCeKeWPNWBzakXv8ByhypXE7cBYVjYCKcHRJjKE/s1916/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.10.32.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1916" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVv62-_xE4yOMODMpOOxgCifoXQFx0Sr2X0aFknH_23b9l7NvK_aEAgdcbQ-RaEc4eAoq5a6_BCajaPa7fujX63bgcbySih1l2CFHZdZjX-4MFB1lT4yhLb8eNkw3LhcPpXTit5P30im9XxGAxnIWkqCeKeWPNWBzakXv8ByhypXE7cBYVjYCKcHRJjKE/w640-h358/Screenshot%202024-03-05%20at%2023.10.32.png" width="640" /></a></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-90800186139181632132024-03-04T22:46:00.004-05:002024-03-07T17:15:02.993-05:00Aerial View of the Other Side of Kingston<div style="text-align: justify;">Oh, there's another side to Kingston besides the industrial waterfront trackage and industry I enjoy researching and modelling? Let's turn our back on the Hanley Spur part of town for a moment and look west. There's a university, prison, residential blocks, historic buildings and hospitals out there. Who knew?? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, we all did, and we've all spent some time there (some of us years and years working), so when I received an electronic copy of this Wallace R. Berry original 16x20-inch image that was recently unframed and scanned in high-resolution, I had a lot to look at. I've looked at Kingston 'from both sides now'! Click on image for much larger view:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRZHrMIguAoOJW9z5SU0RDO2hSXjLLSkbD_s7twZKpPlfkWN5uE76DeQd3VJOnRKzt4-CV7_M3-Kd4xvqbJjsFPL1Qyu7yqxHUsH2YFI8MImeBeTJ-a8KEn5GMc-GNK0ciSSHZe76zWu0t99R12ZVRMgxdWBtc5UdvAmi_i-0Dz4n_HHs0-3k-JnSqjg/s3000/Kingston,%20undated,%203000%20.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2437" data-original-width="3000" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRZHrMIguAoOJW9z5SU0RDO2hSXjLLSkbD_s7twZKpPlfkWN5uE76DeQd3VJOnRKzt4-CV7_M3-Kd4xvqbJjsFPL1Qyu7yqxHUsH2YFI8MImeBeTJ-a8KEn5GMc-GNK0ciSSHZe76zWu0t99R12ZVRMgxdWBtc5UdvAmi_i-0Dz4n_HHs0-3k-JnSqjg/w640-h520/Kingston,%20undated,%203000%20.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>There are several interesting things in this fine photo. Some help to suggest its date:<div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>red arrow - vessel at PUC water plant (now Gord Downie Pier)</li><li>green arrow - salvage vessel in Portsmouth Harbour - prior to 1976 Sailing Olympics repurposing</li><li>blue arrow - Cataraqui Bay grain elevator</li><li>yellow arrow - McArthur Hall/College (built between 1969 and 1971)</li><li>orange arrow - County gaol and wall (demolished 1974)</li></ul><div>And thanks to Stu's comment below, the new Richardson Stadium not being built yet. So I think we can confidently date this photo as taken in 1969 or 1970.</div></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-48023736963427626642024-03-01T09:46:00.005-05:002024-03-01T09:46:53.866-05:00Collins Bay's Causeway Construction<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxxe-Jl6GQnUdo4TEzWrh96sgGYkXShH7JEb3iMhUOB5AKe9L_mI9ZtqXgNKUmCzHJYPf8DkymcVxuzQsfDQmiXJwdg2atSJE6J6b8WwJm6nUuBhtJBlXCXd9wUd8pJPsgREzf7QK700eqZiGOhvfvTHCqXBPhqGypphKuW4uIpMA1ZCglIF-FbYDARU/s1619/Collins_bay_causeway_construction_nov_9_1922.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1619" data-original-width="711" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxxe-Jl6GQnUdo4TEzWrh96sgGYkXShH7JEb3iMhUOB5AKe9L_mI9ZtqXgNKUmCzHJYPf8DkymcVxuzQsfDQmiXJwdg2atSJE6J6b8WwJm6nUuBhtJBlXCXd9wUd8pJPsgREzf7QK700eqZiGOhvfvTHCqXBPhqGypphKuW4uIpMA1ZCglIF-FbYDARU/w282-h640/Collins_bay_causeway_construction_nov_9_1922.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another post from Collins Bay, this one describing the realignment of Bath Road, Hillview Road and the Grand Trunk/Canadian National mainline tracks. (Whig clipping dated November 9, 1922 - top). This area has been a perennially dangerous crossing point, with many vehicle and pedestrian collisions, injuries and fatalities profiled in the Whig's pages. The Hillview Road level crossing was <a href="http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-close-crossing.html">closed in 1995</a> after Hillview Road was restricted to one-way northbound traffic. Between Collins Bay and the present Gardiners Road there were at least three private level crossings that have been closed in recent years, also following crossing incidents.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The May, 2011 issue of the <i>Limelight</i> newsletter published by the Kingston Historical Society (KHS - Vol 13 No 5) contained this excellent article by Collins Bay historian Stewart Renfrew. I found this comprehensive account using the KHS's useful <a href="https://www.kingstonhistoricalsociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Limelight-Index-2024-03-printable.pdf">Topic Index</a> compiled by Paul Van Nest:</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZkul91I5alR7vXybLRsD5MzAKWAgpB2UQEHZQc5rzrHsacB3Ki0ydhiPEmf6X9H4Qh3pvrk918_ECCyUQo8b8oXc5OlPcyw9naIu9qLNpmPj7QMSoqZxAPo7P7-hSubaV-MFzFZrdM_mhKQ9lPcskDXNrA5QafZyk0-H19SNHMvD3wSETPIorSu5Sqk/s2742/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.04.10.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="2742" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZkul91I5alR7vXybLRsD5MzAKWAgpB2UQEHZQc5rzrHsacB3Ki0ydhiPEmf6X9H4Qh3pvrk918_ECCyUQo8b8oXc5OlPcyw9naIu9qLNpmPj7QMSoqZxAPo7P7-hSubaV-MFzFZrdM_mhKQ9lPcskDXNrA5QafZyk0-H19SNHMvD3wSETPIorSu5Sqk/w640-h334/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.04.10.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkS_bty_X4tf4Yx2ShPFT8z8THfS2K91mpGPFOjXCrgXwzv2nBQfA0Ihd19lz8jDrQ6kDVy46iCPATx3kbLfiySgpU_ElwxJEJJY6Msn7So9sh6039nHf1f0U3U2hSxaQ5-Jy9JdeWqT6j9z-psRnHO3vlXjjMk59W6abLfUsGrFP2enUQ8PJNDRsjSlA/s2738/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.04.37.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="2738" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkS_bty_X4tf4Yx2ShPFT8z8THfS2K91mpGPFOjXCrgXwzv2nBQfA0Ihd19lz8jDrQ6kDVy46iCPATx3kbLfiySgpU_ElwxJEJJY6Msn7So9sh6039nHf1f0U3U2hSxaQ5-Jy9JdeWqT6j9z-psRnHO3vlXjjMk59W6abLfUsGrFP2enUQ8PJNDRsjSlA/w640-h308/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.04.37.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">For future reference, the James Reid advertising supplement was actually titled "aswesawit", not "aswewait". Because who wants to be known as <i>wait</i>ing for the undertaker?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCK4leG57UuvPlmDYXm-BNHE5SLkDJEXgZBnldpEE0Gr2MxWeLfNtw7E3wAuAFuGYrla8BXU3EpIAMIMx43nJmdoHPqWDNmk_3GKcFc7G2uhChJaTiNnoahpkUOCkVSOcLR96YRabV5zJK16rolUQ1frJ08E1mNNkRmLBQctWwbn6LbaTot_GHvWZmpQ0/s1302/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.07.54.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1060" data-original-width="1302" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCK4leG57UuvPlmDYXm-BNHE5SLkDJEXgZBnldpEE0Gr2MxWeLfNtw7E3wAuAFuGYrla8BXU3EpIAMIMx43nJmdoHPqWDNmk_3GKcFc7G2uhChJaTiNnoahpkUOCkVSOcLR96YRabV5zJK16rolUQ1frJ08E1mNNkRmLBQctWwbn6LbaTot_GHvWZmpQ0/w640-h522/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.07.54.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Aerial views: 1953 (above) and 2004 (below) from Snapshot Kingston</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKdvP8-L0rKa1KkM4u2SbnvE78MTVo_Asa95cd4uqsJ6UWujAsxhfi_Z15AL6PuZDW1ei-L6o3NgvEVSzQjuVz62Hk7RAyM31_npAT5kfGk6fBqobT5YLKQZkhvPuy-Iv2ugiCkB3HwK-ilJt00mp4tEcTeBXAmiSJ6aZUKyg0kLW9BQSCcAGsxot0XU/s1446/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.09.22.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="1446" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOKdvP8-L0rKa1KkM4u2SbnvE78MTVo_Asa95cd4uqsJ6UWujAsxhfi_Z15AL6PuZDW1ei-L6o3NgvEVSzQjuVz62Hk7RAyM31_npAT5kfGk6fBqobT5YLKQZkhvPuy-Iv2ugiCkB3HwK-ilJt00mp4tEcTeBXAmiSJ6aZUKyg0kLW9BQSCcAGsxot0XU/w640-h386/Screenshot%202024-03-01%20at%2009.09.22.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;">An 1878 atlas image that seems to show the Grand Trunk crossing Bath Road (twice, once out of view to the right), the bay, and Collins Bay Road at left:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgsLCy-vnRjWIkFDrBvO7gEFbDUAmKyMatpEUMwB-kKvOMoD6gvbbwywZITTYzxC6kuG56xNaFt8III1uZOVhRUyJOxlUzLAs2IG-ICkMsY3-WFL6dHA8OGQqP14xhxG7bJx_F063yE-GyfFYK-S5q2ulLR3qsAwZd0H48IsskoxRoJcBbfYF-NFo3E8/s461/aa.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="446" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcgsLCy-vnRjWIkFDrBvO7gEFbDUAmKyMatpEUMwB-kKvOMoD6gvbbwywZITTYzxC6kuG56xNaFt8III1uZOVhRUyJOxlUzLAs2IG-ICkMsY3-WFL6dHA8OGQqP14xhxG7bJx_F063yE-GyfFYK-S5q2ulLR3qsAwZd0H48IsskoxRoJcBbfYF-NFo3E8/w620-h640/aa.jpeg" width="620" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-79510676218992070082024-02-28T23:27:00.001-05:002024-03-01T23:31:01.812-05:00CN Property Plan of Hanley Spur<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_r9Gev2JMvh7axA6e13myRCcsJ3L8em66wNI8QThQASd4D_FtMt4ho2hCPZo7oYAR9MDTSrSConh_0OiJdhOSdyGJat7XKQK2OBsg2k8WmhK-zHbel0f132sHdKNWnaoS0dPQkdKjA7d4egKYdbWdTUfd8uy5eWQA66to5wavmrK-uwCWqLAB72eh9Co/s3099/IMG_0320.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2272" data-original-width="3099" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_r9Gev2JMvh7axA6e13myRCcsJ3L8em66wNI8QThQASd4D_FtMt4ho2hCPZo7oYAR9MDTSrSConh_0OiJdhOSdyGJat7XKQK2OBsg2k8WmhK-zHbel0f132sHdKNWnaoS0dPQkdKjA7d4egKYdbWdTUfd8uy5eWQA66to5wavmrK-uwCWqLAB72eh9Co/w640-h470/IMG_0320.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It took me awhile, but I finally got around to getting these CN property plan images from March, 1945 printed. Book customer Jeffrey Smith kindly emailed me pdf images of the CN property plan back in December, 2022. They marinated in my email inbox, perhaps getting better with age, until I finally hustled them over to Staples on a USB a couple of weeks ago, then expectantly picking them up today! Look what we hath wrought:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJOTgHMo0wGazP6E_A620EhrBiBv9NLCuqdaoqxVsLXux0PM_NV-RpypStdlFdjDRZ5QE_nMyUorJHOiGcrCOm-IFR-eUcqWAYNHVov-6zqQgozPazygP2iBN6XCmMaRXVoKh9bLhwfwoxIoYOKRoYmmW8OntOxaXGLNONM0US5bt9KnOpuqAvz1jSHg/s1633/Screenshot%202024-02-28%20at%2015.05.38.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1633" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJOTgHMo0wGazP6E_A620EhrBiBv9NLCuqdaoqxVsLXux0PM_NV-RpypStdlFdjDRZ5QE_nMyUorJHOiGcrCOm-IFR-eUcqWAYNHVov-6zqQgozPazygP2iBN6XCmMaRXVoKh9bLhwfwoxIoYOKRoYmmW8OntOxaXGLNONM0US5bt9KnOpuqAvz1jSHg/w640-h538/Screenshot%202024-02-28%20at%2015.05.38.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">How the images looked in the pdf viewer (above) - awesome! I had a tough time picturing just how big they were. I knew they were detailed and sizeable. When I rolled in to Staples an the copy centre clerk told me they would print out 120 inches in length, quick math told me that's 10 feet long! And that's printing them at the maximum paper width of 36 inches! We compromised at 5 feet long on 18-inch paper. There are three images, but I found one of them to be largely superfluous, so here are the two largest printed images on my family-room floor, with a one-foot ruler in the image, and my two feet edited out:</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nUKN4E90ACY0SPewst5pX5q7Pma_M7mYBrm68OVI-wKdaPcHh3b0FBIabNYeTOz6AHv_ioM0VV2Kyaiu5isnkKWeH-bIlwms9X1BEUtyxAmboYiFLk-O-Q2PsOFUpbwX9mtFZeYh_1GecCA1o6ngdGRuVcWs6tvfqDYuuzGpM_kBD59WhU_ennL7qW4/s3863/IMG_0318.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3863" data-original-width="2253" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nUKN4E90ACY0SPewst5pX5q7Pma_M7mYBrm68OVI-wKdaPcHh3b0FBIabNYeTOz6AHv_ioM0VV2Kyaiu5isnkKWeH-bIlwms9X1BEUtyxAmboYiFLk-O-Q2PsOFUpbwX9mtFZeYh_1GecCA1o6ngdGRuVcWs6tvfqDYuuzGpM_kBD59WhU_ennL7qW4/w374-h640/IMG_0318.jpeg" width="374" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Close-ups. Telegraph lines, streets, railway (single, not double) lines, some buildings, and lots are shown:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pFZsDEm-EVFxFQjHpDbxA6zKuNfiwTF2J7qcAMpZs86iRyO8fKos80a2Af64mX16DxHv0CCRcWqq0SYFdPjwH8P2gvXoF2R_nKSc9VJ60cj0RLMOBjn40GPXxWNZ1r9hYnjZhliIl43_1edcuiGg-u-HtR9yP9XY0G3_WMMl7S0zcf5Vu1YvAlZ9fcc/s4032/IMG_0323.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2520" data-original-width="4032" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pFZsDEm-EVFxFQjHpDbxA6zKuNfiwTF2J7qcAMpZs86iRyO8fKos80a2Af64mX16DxHv0CCRcWqq0SYFdPjwH8P2gvXoF2R_nKSc9VJ60cj0RLMOBjn40GPXxWNZ1r9hYnjZhliIl43_1edcuiGg-u-HtR9yP9XY0G3_WMMl7S0zcf5Vu1YvAlZ9fcc/w640-h400/IMG_0323.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Ground zero" Cataraqui and Rideau Streets (above) and a little farther along Rideau, North Street:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMd7tKgBNbwBat3SfRrclSZrzXLA1Y2noY36QZ96tq_mhJeUfo6FdlViktLL_sYEKLBWZwOXbioaQhnp15-g1ioVPPOk04_MPMdu9CgNDh47c_XrNUy_g7TqnlCfLmZ1wvWFNN0SBgyR7hSQm8ib7F6UpaUVW8Gd_DF6ndh-Zl4o2kAXdHVB0esYd4Ns/s3887/IMG_0324.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2872" data-original-width="3887" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMd7tKgBNbwBat3SfRrclSZrzXLA1Y2noY36QZ96tq_mhJeUfo6FdlViktLL_sYEKLBWZwOXbioaQhnp15-g1ioVPPOk04_MPMdu9CgNDh47c_XrNUy_g7TqnlCfLmZ1wvWFNN0SBgyR7hSQm8ib7F6UpaUVW8Gd_DF6ndh-Zl4o2kAXdHVB0esYd4Ns/w640-h472/IMG_0324.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidYYBXNrWI-jUwjJd5nUYZf7zEmX1bO6LQJHHRRC6XHxUIAWQ-A-IZjjhJ3BvSivyEykjk9JD5TOMb1UInfwwNsNu6lqk63nclf5gk6kTyDKnBGbppR375KzQBX5mxf4pDFKgZnUyZ9qlwMzMTXeejINr7BVNvVy6jqRpWCP_8bZdcA2KzT7EDjS09SyQ/s4032/IMG_0325.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidYYBXNrWI-jUwjJd5nUYZf7zEmX1bO6LQJHHRRC6XHxUIAWQ-A-IZjjhJ3BvSivyEykjk9JD5TOMb1UInfwwNsNu6lqk63nclf5gk6kTyDKnBGbppR375KzQBX5mxf4pDFKgZnUyZ9qlwMzMTXeejINr7BVNvVy6jqRpWCP_8bZdcA2KzT7EDjS09SyQ/w640-h480/IMG_0325.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">CP's station across from City Hall (above) and CLC (below):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4EFxUKrTqOvcHOVMam3Er9EdNidni0SzDZGxmpkk21ktLUuKCmpTUyu9mUXygG7h0f6kM5WnlL2M5eljjbcpJYCC689ytp8Lqa3-hEB2wPa4J9SVMgw86rUxXdsXvIS1K0-r98ujE5T1wNn0wtGrokrQM30ZMU6Uhms9L1_LZ4YMhUu07Ohce49IpYM/s3993/IMG_0326.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2414" data-original-width="3993" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG4EFxUKrTqOvcHOVMam3Er9EdNidni0SzDZGxmpkk21ktLUuKCmpTUyu9mUXygG7h0f6kM5WnlL2M5eljjbcpJYCC689ytp8Lqa3-hEB2wPa4J9SVMgw86rUxXdsXvIS1K0-r98ujE5T1wNn0wtGrokrQM30ZMU6Uhms9L1_LZ4YMhUu07Ohce49IpYM/w640-h386/IMG_0326.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Under the River Street bridge:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ-h018T4ELWMOzJK6yc6xlgvsRClsHBms3YPN7hyphenhyphenUuCiXf4A8ARrbLZ2e7ElBWiqymY2Y5UH2cZFIpd80VL8s_0iDxHS_ja16X6Zu1IOL6ddOTcjq2xh8ovZWLvoHkUy1uZQPnRQzAIQ2YR7BjIzhhl3A1WtHv0e1gNFHy4R1-qeOQ3essmNA5dygtI/w640-h480/IMG_0329.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Some floor-level iPhone images follow. Tete du Port (above), Montreal Street subway (below):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_vxPgRD3peKz7wso2MNu2qLnFm0m-9FuBWkfJ5WSuOaSQChk-jFs6lel9MgxCsxh0EtUHHX6z4gLSmg6UY-kfc7fTzeXUIA3IHldCpI22O4vBiwbkvTzcCTvzMbPKgD8HmLh3LvdBUp-oj5QXkIt5eBjhkQ4Odu9qG403Au_JeAWh7ShlyN73fFqxSM/s4032/IMG_0330.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_vxPgRD3peKz7wso2MNu2qLnFm0m-9FuBWkfJ5WSuOaSQChk-jFs6lel9MgxCsxh0EtUHHX6z4gLSmg6UY-kfc7fTzeXUIA3IHldCpI22O4vBiwbkvTzcCTvzMbPKgD8HmLh3LvdBUp-oj5QXkIt5eBjhkQ4Odu9qG403Au_JeAWh7ShlyN73fFqxSM/w640-h480/IMG_0330.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5_6zfJdqHNRDw4D7ygJTX0urSnJA_e5_2lBcQT7qhBA-a4t7DbnScm9tBUZX7YkhmfvGb2cvI21hjTeYrsgr1BWmVGyAFztt0rWtjzzJlDO9ebq3DNu81yrp3I9Ou_xEB4tKulHJI7r1SSh9-Pt6Ue7ODG3MjJViM8pH8A6rHfwFb_biMegt-Rlh-PU/s4032/IMG_0331.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5_6zfJdqHNRDw4D7ygJTX0urSnJA_e5_2lBcQT7qhBA-a4t7DbnScm9tBUZX7YkhmfvGb2cvI21hjTeYrsgr1BWmVGyAFztt0rWtjzzJlDO9ebq3DNu81yrp3I9Ou_xEB4tKulHJI7r1SSh9-Pt6Ue7ODG3MjJViM8pH8A6rHfwFb_biMegt-Rlh-PU/w640-h480/IMG_0331.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">CN's Outer Station (above), CP's bridge over CN near Division Street (below):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hwaRGcUaAdXCHZpynqZz084Xo5PvTtWiUbgy4p5UvW8BL-1G8OZ2Jstirvt0A5BaaiXZZnFcXukYj5fC2QkH7-_3AUS4FbOUoeK1XdTlbtDweMqe0Vk_zt3in_13xCpV9AElhEBV43RX5iaNfAYp8zdJ4hdu2SY3gyB1XSD5laZHBmjH63yiBj5x-d8/s4032/IMG_0332.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1hwaRGcUaAdXCHZpynqZz084Xo5PvTtWiUbgy4p5UvW8BL-1G8OZ2Jstirvt0A5BaaiXZZnFcXukYj5fC2QkH7-_3AUS4FbOUoeK1XdTlbtDweMqe0Vk_zt3in_13xCpV9AElhEBV43RX5iaNfAYp8zdJ4hdu2SY3gyB1XSD5laZHBmjH63yiBj5x-d8/w640-h480/IMG_0332.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBbimblQ80ElSSEiL_q24JxFcQWo_YqWZpPd6ep5RooTUxn7DGv5GhHB7ld89fP_gEUNOdreVYgEzAK7x1rMwKH0mVsriB0TnDb742ZeLy_kx1WTKGPWejbfhEeB8UGDC9hzOdXwAqA2xGcpFsvpJky9l2NTaB3Zt1kHotH4KvruEV9pMcqIlQjBhUcY/s4032/IMG_0333.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBbimblQ80ElSSEiL_q24JxFcQWo_YqWZpPd6ep5RooTUxn7DGv5GhHB7ld89fP_gEUNOdreVYgEzAK7x1rMwKH0mVsriB0TnDb742ZeLy_kx1WTKGPWejbfhEeB8UGDC9hzOdXwAqA2xGcpFsvpJky9l2NTaB3Zt1kHotH4KvruEV9pMcqIlQjBhUcY/w640-h480/IMG_0333.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Frontenac Floor & Wall Tile and Monarch Battery across the tracks from the Outer Station (above), Davis Tannery (below):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHS25xC-Wg_jVBSfqoimBEBtAafEyQWogll1Z7AWt5GO06AMBvHMoNIsd2ufJoobLuVsGghHdMZaFpN7M-7RwuvZMYCVQ7jHQfR-5RukknK9P2VnNkYvULU1hHVRa4ESyPj11ySI6O5WQUBJGQHmTxRHafcUhSy9qYktmgFAA4nukOY8SFH4rlv8mN_8s/s4032/IMG_0334.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHS25xC-Wg_jVBSfqoimBEBtAafEyQWogll1Z7AWt5GO06AMBvHMoNIsd2ufJoobLuVsGghHdMZaFpN7M-7RwuvZMYCVQ7jHQfR-5RukknK9P2VnNkYvULU1hHVRa4ESyPj11ySI6O5WQUBJGQHmTxRHafcUhSy9qYktmgFAA4nukOY8SFH4rlv8mN_8s/w640-h480/IMG_0334.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now in the layout room: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhneoubOCHbyzw-qugvTI9e1vtK_eynESWRPhs5c4Wkpndcs_APc-p1NhXYum7LsDNud7zNLQsIJ9TjJqqdtkS97IHCB6GrHsPn8Kg9dOACpGIWkRKjAGVC3MUWfNYFU8TmbeV3hAF4p4DtCladoon21VQB_XjOOpJukM5xq8r7AIgd162gOhtyGZHQ0fY/s3123/IMG_0424.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3123" data-original-width="2771" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhneoubOCHbyzw-qugvTI9e1vtK_eynESWRPhs5c4Wkpndcs_APc-p1NhXYum7LsDNud7zNLQsIJ9TjJqqdtkS97IHCB6GrHsPn8Kg9dOACpGIWkRKjAGVC3MUWfNYFU8TmbeV3hAF4p4DtCladoon21VQB_XjOOpJukM5xq8r7AIgd162gOhtyGZHQ0fY/w568-h640/IMG_0424.jpeg" width="568" /></a></div></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-91566547100945387232024-02-06T22:51:00.002-05:002024-02-06T22:51:41.367-05:00My 'Montreal Street Subway' <p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Until now, I unofficially called this little bridgespace the Continuous-Run Option (CRO). Though my HO-scale layout is officially point-to-point, with CN and CP lines beginning and ending in a schematic straight line, sometimes I want the trains to just run a bit. This CRO crosses the aisle leading into the layout, and it is removable. I snapped a photo of CN crews finishing up my project tonight. Read on to find what's new and what's the same after this build is in place:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrF4QwLar9nmOcnrxecZLsgwrt7SgBNMrLB0E_2qWlz2ISBYPsKtVYfRGE1STGJCCi9W0NzGkysLwMiXjEGKVulfQURjtw_rtBGJRVdwYtJRZAR3d-_H8y2gVUTAWZD-gI8igQG10hx21if0GZU_4zKhpAZhqawZea7b_ErWHpX4JRzwTxwM5qOgqNVBk/s4032/IMG_0045.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrF4QwLar9nmOcnrxecZLsgwrt7SgBNMrLB0E_2qWlz2ISBYPsKtVYfRGE1STGJCCi9W0NzGkysLwMiXjEGKVulfQURjtw_rtBGJRVdwYtJRZAR3d-_H8y2gVUTAWZD-gI8igQG10hx21if0GZU_4zKhpAZhqawZea7b_ErWHpX4JRzwTxwM5qOgqNVBk/w640-h480/IMG_0045.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One new thing is a new name. I'm going to call it the <a href="http://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2022/08/montreal-street-underpass.html">Montreal Street Subway</a>, the namesake underpass that carried the prototype Montreal Street under the CN mainlines just east of the Outer Station. It actually leads directly to my HO scale Outer Station which was located on...Montreal Street. So the symbolism and the siting signalled spot-on synchronicity! Another unofficial name for this CRO, in its previous form, would be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D7hFHfLEyk">the Bridge of Death</a> due to the danger of rolling stock plunging four feet to the unforgiving hard floor below. Things that are temporary often become permanent, and this little plank was no different. Held in place with four splice plates, its position was flexible and could be lifted out after the CRO piece of flex-track was removed first. Such lift-outs usually take place in the modelling off-season, when I'm enjoying the nice weather and not operating. But now, during modelling season, I'm operating and working on the layout nightly, so it stays in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHtVd9hw1RlGh0P7b4flSxQ68TfSSL5KmSPXmg3rUlH0DBOfWZC6M4ho2Y_daeLaG1TkckpMXxq2KYFKMZdJlMsaTtcuLeSnI11X-zPnoCk91sTqg7lnO3X2kdEsvCr37ll1JWR9Zgh1GxWgi1d1g8u8rn1ZyIPgxrGG3b2NQln6azAy_3UMKbZYVy-8/s4032/IMG_0029.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnHtVd9hw1RlGh0P7b4flSxQ68TfSSL5KmSPXmg3rUlH0DBOfWZC6M4ho2Y_daeLaG1TkckpMXxq2KYFKMZdJlMsaTtcuLeSnI11X-zPnoCk91sTqg7lnO3X2kdEsvCr37ll1JWR9Zgh1GxWgi1d1g8u8rn1ZyIPgxrGG3b2NQln6azAy_3UMKbZYVy-8/w640-h480/IMG_0029.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before (above) and after (below). Surprisingly, I had very few casualties take the plunge with this benchwork in place ever since I ceded part of the layout room to my wife's craft space and reducing the layout footprint from 23x10 feet down to 11x10 feet, four layout iterations ago. I can remember maybe two unfortunate incidents. The unwritten layout rules were never park the Rapido locomotive nor the True Line Trains cabooses on the CRO!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsDosZ1XpYB80vRX17STCk3b1vMP-iuLrI8CRXvksa3jKfhd4Tlwm4kUahEpUuQaM0UNEXHPBqmw2Cz3es2NQvP-qdpuLgEGLWCFeETg1HMWE0erXcL-RWjGj4cqieO6PKot8uLkXwKaJGkL2AaVkQGgAHm6x_q4u4jzRMiZFtCiB4LdD6_wuUaIlhqQ/s4032/IMG_0031.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgsDosZ1XpYB80vRX17STCk3b1vMP-iuLrI8CRXvksa3jKfhd4Tlwm4kUahEpUuQaM0UNEXHPBqmw2Cz3es2NQvP-qdpuLgEGLWCFeETg1HMWE0erXcL-RWjGj4cqieO6PKot8uLkXwKaJGkL2AaVkQGgAHm6x_q4u4jzRMiZFtCiB4LdD6_wuUaIlhqQ/w640-h480/IMG_0031.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJ02RCoNOtyXM3XrluxuhK3Rsb-KZmNUs918P1xgYVdMCFLXUZRth-L4Q6macYyp1XQOZU-aeyeUIlKnwjM_WImUHr_d8Tm1xFAFshsyvlQkpaZozC7jxBtZx_HcdfppVh4EjJDfQZI0y_VExlsDAlzAmm8v5oTsKCNPslsNcKNZXJ_8GUnOPhNYVLEI/s4032/IMG_0028.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHJ02RCoNOtyXM3XrluxuhK3Rsb-KZmNUs918P1xgYVdMCFLXUZRth-L4Q6macYyp1XQOZU-aeyeUIlKnwjM_WImUHr_d8Tm1xFAFshsyvlQkpaZozC7jxBtZx_HcdfppVh4EjJDfQZI0y_VExlsDAlzAmm8v5oTsKCNPslsNcKNZXJ_8GUnOPhNYVLEI/w640-h480/IMG_0028.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">High-level views Before (above) and After (below). Casting about for suitable material for the new crossing, I discounted several random boards found in the garage leftover lumber lounge as either too short, too narrow or too flimsy. The Goldilocks Principle comes to the layout room! Dispirited and disappointed, I sat down and spied a previous front-porch layout, the <a href="http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2021/06/2021-front-patio-layout-lyttle-redd.html">Lyttle-Redd Caboose Co.</a> propped up in a remote corner of the layout room! Would it fit?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG08YHlILZcoU1ex8GTX6cofZ9-ip11fJIZsz_O-Ijyfa0ec9ByRX5Nly5Jfq8iqAYrMIPc29OCFouRqu9cE2f4Eol-Ek4xBfEABcmSriTpt06gWCiot_IGYsKYVM6H72D5hyphenhyphenhoL1E0k2fG18ArpPsU-pjxE7qUqDglj2SHEjVJwbCT6narzNrcJVknCo/s4032/IMG_0032.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG08YHlILZcoU1ex8GTX6cofZ9-ip11fJIZsz_O-Ijyfa0ec9ByRX5Nly5Jfq8iqAYrMIPc29OCFouRqu9cE2f4Eol-Ek4xBfEABcmSriTpt06gWCiot_IGYsKYVM6H72D5hyphenhyphenhoL1E0k2fG18ArpPsU-pjxE7qUqDglj2SHEjVJwbCT6narzNrcJVknCo/w640-h480/IMG_0032.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As I note in the above-linked post, this layout base was also a last remaining vestige of my childhood home in Amherstview. Hence the turquoise <a href="https://www.formica.com/en-ca/articles/our-products/patterns-from-skylark-to-watercolors">Formica laminate</a> that had de-laminated over the years. But this thing was SOLID and fit the space, so out came the Sharpie. I marked some cut-lines, then out came the hand-saw. I severed both ends on the angle naturally leading from the corner of the layout across the aisle. That's the horizontal. Now the vertical. I needed the track to continue straight across, and had to find the correct level and height. I added together the thicknesses of the Formica piece and a square support piece I had sawed in two, then measured down from track height to attach the support pieces to the fascia.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMiQDuMeLZoSYD82NLVLzMrSnLqXsbnlMLqv6Y7L3DrUehUQYE3O0geBroBAz3nJvhm0P0zn6f0JUkTut2BeWCsEnciqdldtqrIt3adLxtHRtz2Tg9VIUMe3JsmQWvZo156gTeh9VzniPJwdbDlq_GnZtooAmSAc9OnW2_sNfiqTI74PqVZPkmfCgShxs/s3995/IMG_0034.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1667" data-original-width="3995" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMiQDuMeLZoSYD82NLVLzMrSnLqXsbnlMLqv6Y7L3DrUehUQYE3O0geBroBAz3nJvhm0P0zn6f0JUkTut2BeWCsEnciqdldtqrIt3adLxtHRtz2Tg9VIUMe3JsmQWvZo156gTeh9VzniPJwdbDlq_GnZtooAmSAc9OnW2_sNfiqTI74PqVZPkmfCgShxs/w640-h268/IMG_0034.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I had seen some other modellers' experiences building CROs (also known as duck-unders or nod-under, layout height-dependent). Everyone wants a fancy hinge, a dependable drop-down, or some other over-engineered gizmo. The design challenge here is to build something strong enough to support a train, but flexible enough to move and not stenose my spine if I 'come up to soon' while negotiating the subway. I planned supports with pins allowing the 'floating' CRO to drop into place secured by the pins. While getting to that stage, I placed the support piece underneath the middle of the Formica piece, holding it in place with Scotch tape then driving a single Robertson (is there any other kind?) temporarily in the middle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhItz6qpXbuX9YtLR5CtplfSiot-C2v6bQkZR0Fm8ZPsiKxRQNBcsFbDxlInlhQHXoRj9lZViaQ6Be8PvwpY6c3fXPZJYaHulhLti_xW64-XgMDLP4fNgetYNSLA0Kc2RwsfK3fUnLjmDtURlebpZ9ShG8hZ3ghxCtlSFhxDzr598u7AyA5QC_ZaxJzAbI/s4027/IMG_0035.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2226" data-original-width="4027" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhItz6qpXbuX9YtLR5CtplfSiot-C2v6bQkZR0Fm8ZPsiKxRQNBcsFbDxlInlhQHXoRj9lZViaQ6Be8PvwpY6c3fXPZJYaHulhLti_xW64-XgMDLP4fNgetYNSLA0Kc2RwsfK3fUnLjmDtURlebpZ9ShG8hZ3ghxCtlSFhxDzr598u7AyA5QC_ZaxJzAbI/w640-h354/IMG_0035.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Did I mention temporary things becoming permanent already? I think I did. Once I removed the tape, I liked the free-floating, self-levelling, somewhat-adjustable bit of engineering I had unwittingly created. The view while entering the layout:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBbrxQeGCVbeJ83eymIrhFa0R1R0dzfo8ET0y3dvLTwsZZvtZ476Hcn4qvFWjkocUEv31ddPVxIfr4qzeEJafgiTAoff_LKfmhCQI6HFNcQ1FaDnBJgpIq5UU-n_q55cIxi-6TUpgubn87WU9iM18Luxqyyg3w1vQr0HbdfI3TB7Bbq4ol3ynoURktSE/s4032/IMG_0036.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBbrxQeGCVbeJ83eymIrhFa0R1R0dzfo8ET0y3dvLTwsZZvtZ476Hcn4qvFWjkocUEv31ddPVxIfr4qzeEJafgiTAoff_LKfmhCQI6HFNcQ1FaDnBJgpIq5UU-n_q55cIxi-6TUpgubn87WU9iM18Luxqyyg3w1vQr0HbdfI3TB7Bbq4ol3ynoURktSE/w640-h480/IMG_0036.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Just a bit of track work needed doing. I trimmed the CRO piece of track a bit for a better fit, screwing it to the CRO and ensuring track joiners could slip into place once the Montreal Street Subway was put in place. The height was good, and support on both sides was good, with a bit of flex horizontally because I WILL come up too soon or otherwise klutzily collide with the new Subway at some point. The finish of the counter-top underside actually matched my 'barnboard' Dollarama fascia sticker finish. And that bit of turquoise reminds me of 'home' so I just might keep it for awhile. No Last Spike here, but the work has been done well in every way, if I do say so myself!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMxREFB3DW5M3GRbuKdweTla1RKFxexIjdtt8dwKyWBCeJbN5VnOjs0wm9nD33YlIAjxPWB7J0CjmsPi01ZGFx3S4YDH3r1pbvvFfssA3y0Ex4tjMxO5s_g6qCVbRpT-aRHeS1MlCgMmbRi7pF7oJTQRiyk-gCGAOagFeSKVOwefAYuLIPuiECAOGorsw/s4032/IMG_0046.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMxREFB3DW5M3GRbuKdweTla1RKFxexIjdtt8dwKyWBCeJbN5VnOjs0wm9nD33YlIAjxPWB7J0CjmsPi01ZGFx3S4YDH3r1pbvvFfssA3y0Ex4tjMxO5s_g6qCVbRpT-aRHeS1MlCgMmbRi7pF7oJTQRiyk-gCGAOagFeSKVOwefAYuLIPuiECAOGorsw/w640-h480/IMG_0046.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-61783351930998982902024-02-02T15:17:00.002-05:002024-02-03T11:30:19.036-05:00City of Kingston Street-sweeper<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2463" data-original-width="3513" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaiITsN0T4FDZlOKDYK1tCJv5-whC-5p7D7AV_IU3lSmFziT9Ii5N-KvTK92KFmrETEApKimJAtZQ_rJCX-iERzjzMbusoWARi0XB0Exj4iOj5OiSA56MsWbaGBXrTJefRU8DkHKwKAeWNU8l_M3Tnhijm5idHVONaHsGouFs0ucck6wGwNGg0N8U5Mrk/w640-h448/IMG_9971.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? This phrase may date to the seventeenth Century and the pedantic theological discussions of the day, but it resonates with me today - how many rocks can sit on the surface of one of my HO scale streets? After publishing the previous post on the Rideau Public School structure just installed on the layout, a sharp-eyed fellow modeller mentioned the gravel evident on the street and that I should get a street-sweeper! (Previous to the plumbing supply house, this location had hosted the Sowards coal office and access road!) I just happened to have a street-sweeper on hand, so I quickly posed it as if it were doing the clean-up:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDT8fvNhHGz0Yj_Lb2wx3nniey_5bcD_klkA9tea07jnmLdOljt92XJvEUOqMwNWhrMuALPtZtNHYsBNMahQfju0SYmkbNhYHdg2rXuQsr_swrNmpi8YQRG7C0wHCh-jP-JEHM_HBNRtqrZMSjYqN6TgY4Zr2SH3Jwj1MZ2SqefsWf58BG_P9BwviHvI0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1698" height="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDT8fvNhHGz0Yj_Lb2wx3nniey_5bcD_klkA9tea07jnmLdOljt92XJvEUOqMwNWhrMuALPtZtNHYsBNMahQfju0SYmkbNhYHdg2rXuQsr_swrNmpi8YQRG7C0wHCh-jP-JEHM_HBNRtqrZMSjYqN6TgY4Zr2SH3Jwj1MZ2SqefsWf58BG_P9BwviHvI0=w640-h539" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Compare the before (above) with the after (below) and down below you'll find more on this transformation!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9X_oASgHhQWqhn0lCL7caccJPP7r-y4F-mjOaCXK5OW9i-k2U899MEG0gDkR5H9bcxrdQKWbuiD_nc6hs4GkC0b6wsFWr58Y720xxrpzj7AA-3OHTvsoi-AlTyyeO1rg-t2BOG3hb0n9IcqQUMyzcQmwuvFaa6cKbZ0I2V8uXSM0-GonR3aPOX8Px4Eo/s4032/IMG_9986.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2491" data-original-width="4032" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9X_oASgHhQWqhn0lCL7caccJPP7r-y4F-mjOaCXK5OW9i-k2U899MEG0gDkR5H9bcxrdQKWbuiD_nc6hs4GkC0b6wsFWr58Y720xxrpzj7AA-3OHTvsoi-AlTyyeO1rg-t2BOG3hb0n9IcqQUMyzcQmwuvFaa6cKbZ0I2V8uXSM0-GonR3aPOX8Px4Eo/w640-h396/IMG_9986.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeqr6fSMeSuDSE9DPqukh9FubYyJUPvTd6jNNc_3VEMNrUzdcX_JGbGsDbnWJcRBqiv6ujiD5sh-bA-iM3nCEJPGFRAdX0ejSyLR2o1CVNpZpRzEShxBDcGJBGfNWlyxmbfQAlLyaGIbAdeO-Mu_y7N5XouVXBDUnMF-MQn8pr1k6n4PlxnAI8GMJYWw/s563/aa.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="563" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeqr6fSMeSuDSE9DPqukh9FubYyJUPvTd6jNNc_3VEMNrUzdcX_JGbGsDbnWJcRBqiv6ujiD5sh-bA-iM3nCEJPGFRAdX0ejSyLR2o1CVNpZpRzEShxBDcGJBGfNWlyxmbfQAlLyaGIbAdeO-Mu_y7N5XouVXBDUnMF-MQn8pr1k6n4PlxnAI8GMJYWw/s320/aa.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This 1999+ Matchbox street-sweeper is typical of their products that catch my eye in Wal-Mart, Toys R Us or even the local dollar store, while I'm reliving my second (kids) or third (grand-kids) childhood! They're inexpensive ($1.00-$1.50) and can be really good stand-ins for higher-priced scale models $25-40, if they are in fact available). In this case, it's an Elgin Pelican-model street-sweeper, scaled at 1:74, a little larger than HO scale which is 1:87 (prototype:model ratio i.e. 1 foot = 87 HO scale feet).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJv8Jka_eABqvjsGAwLbiKkk-ARUAdNueMBqxyXKhitRxLPbYQtXTCpmhqmccFgeXuTM2QnFKUielsh6Vq-wABxV8v0cdhd_GXsMya5Up5FMxuq5n8dypVvMEnoHpOhAMehR7O4s9xtNXPKehBLk1FdF5iyNtMThTpn9y-eXZRGA3JfNvXYHvUTHRb4o/s564/ab.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="564" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJv8Jka_eABqvjsGAwLbiKkk-ARUAdNueMBqxyXKhitRxLPbYQtXTCpmhqmccFgeXuTM2QnFKUielsh6Vq-wABxV8v0cdhd_GXsMya5Up5FMxuq5n8dypVvMEnoHpOhAMehR7O4s9xtNXPKehBLk1FdF5iyNtMThTpn9y-eXZRGA3JfNvXYHvUTHRb4o/s320/ab.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The Matchbox street-sweeper features moving parts: wheels that turn, a collection basket that raises, inverts, and dumps, and two side rotating brushes. The more I looked at my quick photo with the 'Metro Disposal' paint scheme above, the more I knew I needed to improve on it. (Though I chose to not pose a figure at either of the steering-wheels roughly modelled in the cab. This would have entailed disassembly and possible desecration of the model!) Also not modelled, the whirring noise and attendant Schroeder-like dust-clouds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7imV-X4HZsg20ZGeaaCNf_rXc0YwA0hHFo4T-Mj1KrHLMs2d3nASeMetZXeDJPokjT1ZC1DkAnKKD_tOLYNGlAF1r49-nWk2d8stN4VDe-xoYCzrUDaV0NveK1VjPob4AeNaD-f6Ine1AmWBgCYIFFAGMd4nYRxUJ68ANMORF__Z_SYd9xpYdhLx70DI/s3437/IMG_9980.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2354" data-original-width="3437" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7imV-X4HZsg20ZGeaaCNf_rXc0YwA0hHFo4T-Mj1KrHLMs2d3nASeMetZXeDJPokjT1ZC1DkAnKKD_tOLYNGlAF1r49-nWk2d8stN4VDe-xoYCzrUDaV0NveK1VjPob4AeNaD-f6Ine1AmWBgCYIFFAGMd4nYRxUJ68ANMORF__Z_SYd9xpYdhLx70DI/w640-h438/IMG_9980.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">With only vague recollections of seeing a City of Kingston street-sweeper working downtown, and no prototype photos to refer to, I went with an overall cream-coloured paint job. Other options were overall white, or the long-applied turquoise-and-white scheme used on a variety of city works vehicles. I replaced the front toy-like wheels, painted all the wheel hubs, the basket, and most surfaces, then painted the brushes and tires grey. A coat of dilute grimy grey coated many of the just-painted surfaces. I touched up the running lights and top flashing light, hand grabs, leaving the stencilled equipment number at cab bottom. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieGBF4QU0oOtVrpqBYQGqYzIikNaXV-e0vsY0ZooT4CzOZbB6dyyVVfJQ6Ae_cLkegkBZ3PI_0eMn_2gPLsO2gHLPNeir5Eg3ynweC2QLRfBpoON-d5Dy0Y7diGdHOEaLsF0OniQKFvtXOuKCVD4D-Rg9awDGsfpq2Dx-bkgyKKudWdXtVV6ep8aEbMVk/s4032/IMG_9984.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2757" data-original-width="4032" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieGBF4QU0oOtVrpqBYQGqYzIikNaXV-e0vsY0ZooT4CzOZbB6dyyVVfJQ6Ae_cLkegkBZ3PI_0eMn_2gPLsO2gHLPNeir5Eg3ynweC2QLRfBpoON-d5Dy0Y7diGdHOEaLsF0OniQKFvtXOuKCVD4D-Rg9awDGsfpq2Dx-bkgyKKudWdXtVV6ep8aEbMVk/w640-h438/IMG_9984.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Posed in action, the basket comes out and gets dumped into a waiting truck:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD85kZdlnU8yYTnsuBxvgChtCXCj7fT-VRTPtGuRJyH_TtMTTN5gbiTYdL3pv6cmlvuAn_YvlE3HtsNwNDoQ3EDm17udulORxRXR_UhhYZeWRIi3GQUzSFkrMxH3J0aS9ERpinnG9TROh4i3wV5wVQrWQEjKr-BFhGPa5m5cCpeAym3s3ZCpVd7V2Mgv8/s3736/IMG_9978.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2218" data-original-width="3736" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD85kZdlnU8yYTnsuBxvgChtCXCj7fT-VRTPtGuRJyH_TtMTTN5gbiTYdL3pv6cmlvuAn_YvlE3HtsNwNDoQ3EDm17udulORxRXR_UhhYZeWRIi3GQUzSFkrMxH3J0aS9ERpinnG9TROh4i3wV5wVQrWQEjKr-BFhGPa5m5cCpeAym3s3ZCpVd7V2Mgv8/w640-h380/IMG_9978.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The street-sweeper is ready to clean those messy Swamp Ward streets! Now, to add a tiny city crest to the cab...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga29vDq1rBoaujctHDjVHICNXda6wNNnhj1rB0_RCCRLDKMiB9WNsv0x3LwYAqFXDYjs_4-ihaQVGCfTq8q8xnSL3aBWdRiSjOw7SIpi9Ye3htKYsLhdBqMQ5S619Rah_kfZrbywpxXzLe2o_rmqXcH7EexVaWd8qqcGNEaNIpn-37HwoPeNVFWk6umk8/s832/Kingston_city_crest.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="832" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga29vDq1rBoaujctHDjVHICNXda6wNNnhj1rB0_RCCRLDKMiB9WNsv0x3LwYAqFXDYjs_4-ihaQVGCfTq8q8xnSL3aBWdRiSjOw7SIpi9Ye3htKYsLhdBqMQ5S619Rah_kfZrbywpxXzLe2o_rmqXcH7EexVaWd8qqcGNEaNIpn-37HwoPeNVFWk6umk8/s320/Kingston_city_crest.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was lucky to not have this garish paint scheme to cover over with light coloured paint! The Matchbox street-sweeper has been produced in at least a half-dozen paint schemes, from purple to green to gold, tan and white!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>And as Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed in his famous 'sweep streets' speech: <div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."</i></div><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-79871104817637618572024-01-31T13:39:00.002-05:002024-01-31T13:39:23.894-05:00From School to Plumbing and Back Again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BXI0-vLDndcKD1Yk2-mUq043-06nLBql0tXmov-1zr9iZF6sNI9vCAsslmqXlakgi_I1fLxmg1BJGBqkXDEpxNDQXa1mN3AjALIkxkrF5CK7NTmf4BJ_dSVDab0VMYyjyvHud4JYUPtqabSBaLLnsuuu__AgeJxGPqeNgtdsvDFn-jFUh0XDxAGh2Ng/s3875/IMG_9906.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2898" data-original-width="3875" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BXI0-vLDndcKD1Yk2-mUq043-06nLBql0tXmov-1zr9iZF6sNI9vCAsslmqXlakgi_I1fLxmg1BJGBqkXDEpxNDQXa1mN3AjALIkxkrF5CK7NTmf4BJ_dSVDab0VMYyjyvHud4JYUPtqabSBaLLnsuuu__AgeJxGPqeNgtdsvDFn-jFUh0XDxAGh2Ng/w640-h478/IMG_9906.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In an <a href="http://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2023/11/modelling-rideau-street-schoolkings.html">earlier post</a> I profiled my building of the Rideau Street School/King's Town School structure. I had made a point of trying to appropriately span the decades of this still-standing school's life. This skewed the structure's guise to my modelled era circa 1970. It was constructed as a school in 1868, later becoming a commercial building before returning to its original purpose as a school in 2004. In fact, my grandchildren attend the school and my daughter-in-law teaches there. But in 1970, it would have been a plumbing supply house, and that's what it is now, settled in on Rideau Street, sidewalk, scenery and all.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2D-iDXOsENDuVBd5WJZw1Hcb_ouuOYX_RSz1n0HGyBwmG-CaacqNRGfLsn_yoxS3c7pPmbvOdEZjH43aIe3kHvogb7hPDIAkgNnqdG3BVDTEntXy_rENvT6picQ_oPKD5j0lCIACp2pOpgRhKWXATXHas5MfCZxs4AOa1dsoBnmsGi4G-8j2M8rBG3Y/s3816/IMG_9924.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2650" data-original-width="3816" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2D-iDXOsENDuVBd5WJZw1Hcb_ouuOYX_RSz1n0HGyBwmG-CaacqNRGfLsn_yoxS3c7pPmbvOdEZjH43aIe3kHvogb7hPDIAkgNnqdG3BVDTEntXy_rENvT6picQ_oPKD5j0lCIACp2pOpgRhKWXATXHas5MfCZxs4AOa1dsoBnmsGi4G-8j2M8rBG3Y/w640-h444/IMG_9924.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I plainly lettered the building sign and a commercial pickup truck for Warren Plumbing Supply.</div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKptjbisZeP-g5-8qwwwh-7e58vv2xK1B3J7ECxheWDCoci9nWacfSYgBngrECxOCfMFtioApGNFlSTbgtrGefb75w_YAFKV1-2ZEEWQUwJ7KDbAzOa7c7T3jG9PCGePOu6Eo4LJKCGCJtaxL2C6R3n_Qyf6Bsf-947A94FYtSTHqMNm9t00m3eClMNk/s3514/IMG_9953.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2404" data-original-width="3514" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinKptjbisZeP-g5-8qwwwh-7e58vv2xK1B3J7ECxheWDCoci9nWacfSYgBngrECxOCfMFtioApGNFlSTbgtrGefb75w_YAFKV1-2ZEEWQUwJ7KDbAzOa7c7T3jG9PCGePOu6Eo4LJKCGCJtaxL2C6R3n_Qyf6Bsf-947A94FYtSTHqMNm9t00m3eClMNk/w640-h438/IMG_9953.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmrSiVy7YhHffmQKl8TcTqC3W9ZzNgC_X-bhBQl8N43Dd2LuPL8cLmDIlay3FyMSsV3P0D8yF83c9QP5rntjfFx7_fFxEUR17J6L_RbIJ-bFhZiuuUpL3tPmyAbgcl4GEYXXsd8ZPml6Qz8ZDtuJD4MBRUzJTTJh2e_1WbxI7caoYfkGiEOjU2GgnGmNU/s3984/IMG_9915.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2522" data-original-width="3984" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmrSiVy7YhHffmQKl8TcTqC3W9ZzNgC_X-bhBQl8N43Dd2LuPL8cLmDIlay3FyMSsV3P0D8yF83c9QP5rntjfFx7_fFxEUR17J6L_RbIJ-bFhZiuuUpL3tPmyAbgcl4GEYXXsd8ZPml6Qz8ZDtuJD4MBRUzJTTJh2e_1WbxI7caoYfkGiEOjU2GgnGmNU/w640-h406/IMG_9915.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYGs23SsfObUHoLc0KkUS7jK1Q2e4HPACayRlxEm-1d8rltw3KmnxB2SxTVSnCDnpH-QpAJErnnisR20Fiz4ajDnFSsIwZcBQQChXHFVxiQoWTOSEQb9btCe42DSPdtl48tD7o4P-GCT0bICCNevt6fLq6xW2VaXg4Wxy6enXQKEkN5Yy43iSR3OuHhgc/s3079/IMG_9942.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3079" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYGs23SsfObUHoLc0KkUS7jK1Q2e4HPACayRlxEm-1d8rltw3KmnxB2SxTVSnCDnpH-QpAJErnnisR20Fiz4ajDnFSsIwZcBQQChXHFVxiQoWTOSEQb9btCe42DSPdtl48tD7o4P-GCT0bICCNevt6fLq6xW2VaXg4Wxy6enXQKEkN5Yy43iSR3OuHhgc/w628-h640/IMG_9942.jpeg" width="628" /></a></div>Neighbourhood ladies heading to the store....and back.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFWC4-v-W1HDMDa5k3QM6eT3mxMBdBfbrgO_H9rwe5eQObibDfAM5po9XC64mOKqljiotrrFVi6DgmZQBUycqQtsy_giGJOsKXc4GJYxg2GPiZCNEuRNgNHx9Rri35XDL0OIiAlue_Nqjfs6t6fz8bft1ZWefU5ZENGDKE-VGUXLzKl65DJgPNC73asU/s3913/IMG_9927.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2580" data-original-width="3913" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFWC4-v-W1HDMDa5k3QM6eT3mxMBdBfbrgO_H9rwe5eQObibDfAM5po9XC64mOKqljiotrrFVi6DgmZQBUycqQtsy_giGJOsKXc4GJYxg2GPiZCNEuRNgNHx9Rri35XDL0OIiAlue_Nqjfs6t6fz8bft1ZWefU5ZENGDKE-VGUXLzKl65DJgPNC73asU/w640-h422/IMG_9927.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Having built the structure 'on spec' for the enjoyment of family, I decided after putting that much work into it, that it deserved a permanent home on my Hanley Spur HO-scale layout. Rideau Street is definitely an area that is central to my modelling. So, even though these structures are not railway-related, they are 'core' to setting the scene, and to representing the part of Kingston I'm recreating!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDAKiI-Uib8cx_-fXkgNIhE6qWQPQsW0LTIgAUr7UaccS2Fo-0AKIvqQR0Ah4GplmR40LF-NQlYGkYZnb5QVi9UDNsiDZMRxlFWrwTDddxKvwrTgccwy49Xp3d_RG2njrkWkmO6Qo8EwZR-OalpG2jfFS8hVE2aWNSoTP4alZ8SSSEdJIQL6mY67cBdg/s3622/IMG_9908.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2365" data-original-width="3622" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDAKiI-Uib8cx_-fXkgNIhE6qWQPQsW0LTIgAUr7UaccS2Fo-0AKIvqQR0Ah4GplmR40LF-NQlYGkYZnb5QVi9UDNsiDZMRxlFWrwTDddxKvwrTgccwy49Xp3d_RG2njrkWkmO6Qo8EwZR-OalpG2jfFS8hVE2aWNSoTP4alZ8SSSEdJIQL6mY67cBdg/w640-h418/IMG_9908.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is where those ladies were heading for their groceries!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMsdMP-SQEd1D1VV-3VRBEDntQ3TCM0vEXJJCBx7FwXqw6g7T9TB5YaC8IRUV-CHCPfr4fSLsCMgAP15bLpyTeHNW3qZTpOD-q43WzzdWil7xpcKbfXGe_X4uIHVSywgrbo-5OLrWAr9aDDiRhqRCFe9s4JTJvd-ZIKyqUXgqSpsY9waCN6nBZ2mZluA/s4032/IMG_9933.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQMsdMP-SQEd1D1VV-3VRBEDntQ3TCM0vEXJJCBx7FwXqw6g7T9TB5YaC8IRUV-CHCPfr4fSLsCMgAP15bLpyTeHNW3qZTpOD-q43WzzdWil7xpcKbfXGe_X4uIHVSywgrbo-5OLrWAr9aDDiRhqRCFe9s4JTJvd-ZIKyqUXgqSpsY9waCN6nBZ2mZluA/w640-h480/IMG_9933.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-20287635825536148432024-01-25T23:17:00.004-05:002024-01-25T23:19:37.813-05:00Urban Planning, Anyone?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_pfSIK6oV3pi-Bm07-3jthMXXBihZVPM8AykQwsEMGgF0sdxtmGqRJyLv5uFmsghX_lExMhsFZS4aHtuLiSLw5gRrXDfP49hIajFVl1LoBNEvFdhCk0N9lAsWVw8E5NTDAdUDvvl00I0iI3DaiO8RhOqr0t_4GFynXIhb2gBZYZ2ddrxdx7ywZeluqs/s4032/IMG_9722.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie_pfSIK6oV3pi-Bm07-3jthMXXBihZVPM8AykQwsEMGgF0sdxtmGqRJyLv5uFmsghX_lExMhsFZS4aHtuLiSLw5gRrXDfP49hIajFVl1LoBNEvFdhCk0N9lAsWVw8E5NTDAdUDvvl00I0iI3DaiO8RhOqr0t_4GFynXIhb2gBZYZ2ddrxdx7ywZeluqs/w640-h480/IMG_9722.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A major, unexpected benefit of building the King's Town School structure was the opportunity to do some re-structuring in the nominal Rideau Street/Wellington Street/Place d'Armes neighbourhood. Or to put it another way, where do I want to move the buildings around to? Or to put it yet another way, Urban Planning! After:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXxAvfWyMdIvHtzWp-f1q7w0j9ndxJskHWsMCi9Jgxq26-57C4PV1nno_DbjjG2tcgvNBz1PWaFZeeOyWZPNP2sSTp7dvbSS6hP0QYLlNqcN8PpBhp8cnceVcSSP_8VRgWngMy21_1kiCWvgfTdm_w1fdLqYmyFHeh4M3P3yl2JOqVNm4ZN9QaA-WRHU/s4032/IMG_9725.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2438" data-original-width="4032" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXxAvfWyMdIvHtzWp-f1q7w0j9ndxJskHWsMCi9Jgxq26-57C4PV1nno_DbjjG2tcgvNBz1PWaFZeeOyWZPNP2sSTp7dvbSS6hP0QYLlNqcN8PpBhp8cnceVcSSP_8VRgWngMy21_1kiCWvgfTdm_w1fdLqYmyFHeh4M3P3yl2JOqVNm4ZN9QaA-WRHU/w640-h386/IMG_9725.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">When I tried to place the school, or in my modelled era of 1970, Warren Plumbing Supply, I came up against (literally) the Sowards coal shed. And that ain't prototypical! So, I had to find a way to cover my tracks (not literally). So I took a few trees out of the tree box and plunked them around the school. I was pleased with the results. It greened up the layout significantly, made the school area look natural and lived-in, and actually visually separated both the school and the coal shed from each other:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUNwalZDormviS1fglnzlTr7banlHIVzHIAiTSH5svEpxLO2TOp65IUlC5H0WCsKEiFOc4RCw5JZRo_Oyy8ltcKZ7O0dqDpiXj8RY0zJkUpg9_UyPrtMPFqO5TDdGMKz1wmtz5Uv-DyYE-0Pr3i35d64mtrr47rLFULrrM5oCF0OUmp2L5xLx576rijI/s3463/IMG_9734.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2483" data-original-width="3463" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUNwalZDormviS1fglnzlTr7banlHIVzHIAiTSH5svEpxLO2TOp65IUlC5H0WCsKEiFOc4RCw5JZRo_Oyy8ltcKZ7O0dqDpiXj8RY0zJkUpg9_UyPrtMPFqO5TDdGMKz1wmtz5Uv-DyYE-0Pr3i35d64mtrr47rLFULrrM5oCF0OUmp2L5xLx576rijI/w640-h458/IMG_9734.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I've since constructed a green cardstock 'scene mat' on which I placed and painted green some modelling clay, added some ground cover, and planted the trees in them before gluing the mat to the layout and placing the school in the midst of it. The glue is still drying. Before:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJ2j18PreF83WR7F471YGDyIEF3nwTmkJbZFoNIHsVh8pBdYuxIoUhyuKUd9tJt0xORaLdJEEWwbsWWzw_LYHhGE8-9e7NsyO_YyTyUR8RTzRE8RaDRZ4QRrH29K8Tc7Dnx3GdM08gIe87pppdx6CO9OSxUx5kwZwx41M0AtTY52hzF1aQnm32p-03eE/s4032/IMG_9472.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJ2j18PreF83WR7F471YGDyIEF3nwTmkJbZFoNIHsVh8pBdYuxIoUhyuKUd9tJt0xORaLdJEEWwbsWWzw_LYHhGE8-9e7NsyO_YyTyUR8RTzRE8RaDRZ4QRrH29K8Tc7Dnx3GdM08gIe87pppdx6CO9OSxUx5kwZwx41M0AtTY52hzF1aQnm32p-03eE/w640-h480/IMG_9472.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No trees around the school. Who would ever make HO scale students study so close to a loud, clattering and dusty coal shed? Not me. The trees should absorb some of the coal dust and give off some HO scale oxygen!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Dj_sJnGFcsJKC-YCVI7QLswJJ2PpN1UBtyP6PTs9QEbBIhAfNikM3Buc-COy2olJ06C_sYWSUyTn_z1xLz-LeQwp6uM-lA1crDjeAd72xl3EzjmRCY0GZ6sN6xqvcT1mUbO38K32M7kd0ho_yMvhUOiYGogwN44CaP1uODH-h2SArUv8h_xUNTRTK0o/s4032/IMG_9470.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2366" data-original-width="4032" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Dj_sJnGFcsJKC-YCVI7QLswJJ2PpN1UBtyP6PTs9QEbBIhAfNikM3Buc-COy2olJ06C_sYWSUyTn_z1xLz-LeQwp6uM-lA1crDjeAd72xl3EzjmRCY0GZ6sN6xqvcT1mUbO38K32M7kd0ho_yMvhUOiYGogwN44CaP1uODH-h2SArUv8h_xUNTRTK0o/w640-h376/IMG_9470.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The black and white of the layout as well as a few grey areas. I plan only to keep moving the buildings around every so often, trying to get the ideal juxtaposition of them all. That garage is a nice structure but I have yet to rework it! Aerial photograph view, with the iPhone right up at the drop ceiling, with your humble blogger teetering on a chair to get the shot!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZUiD82BIA0F8ApOzcakyPZiHoaI412aJvzA_PRk5DvvA0FrCihYMB29PBabVuGnPvDfz18sTBDCICX0taMIMMXcwSvC5Crk6ZHdaG0GXNBB76U6tfo8N6JSONGal3YFFKlRwwIErO17Ftw3KQN_KhUaDMBTsSDkR1t-_XD7g5yDN2RL2hKLk39YWewSI/s4032/IMG_9468.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZUiD82BIA0F8ApOzcakyPZiHoaI412aJvzA_PRk5DvvA0FrCihYMB29PBabVuGnPvDfz18sTBDCICX0taMIMMXcwSvC5Crk6ZHdaG0GXNBB76U6tfo8N6JSONGal3YFFKlRwwIErO17Ftw3KQN_KhUaDMBTsSDkR1t-_XD7g5yDN2RL2hKLk39YWewSI/w640-h480/IMG_9468.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-11899640483507608122024-01-20T22:06:00.000-05:002024-01-20T22:06:46.203-05:00Collins Bay's 'Aunt Maude'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdTP7_h8OKhXJFrgtkrYVcpx7oXo8YVJlexJnUKU_kbM34gKjzcf4n9WdNb6WdvVB7NO3hg8XTMlsjaRRbk0DlkoezlSEJrAuFx_9cf2T_Bx21tB3SNnMgoV5_i5E5XTSoWr1FA_WAYmYGvOtIzHMGPA9w02NLgLwodtBM5zkJaAfVOoyXQRx4UuXaQrLg/s1095/rev%20ray%20milley%20presents%20mrs%20ae%20rowley%20aunt%20maude%20and%20harold%20clarke%20a%20gift%20at%20edith%20rankin%20muc%20may%204%201970%20kws%20fonds%20qua.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1095" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdTP7_h8OKhXJFrgtkrYVcpx7oXo8YVJlexJnUKU_kbM34gKjzcf4n9WdNb6WdvVB7NO3hg8XTMlsjaRRbk0DlkoezlSEJrAuFx_9cf2T_Bx21tB3SNnMgoV5_i5E5XTSoWr1FA_WAYmYGvOtIzHMGPA9w02NLgLwodtBM5zkJaAfVOoyXQRx4UuXaQrLg/w640-h450/rev%20ray%20milley%20presents%20mrs%20ae%20rowley%20aunt%20maude%20and%20harold%20clarke%20a%20gift%20at%20edith%20rankin%20muc%20may%204%201970%20kws%20fonds%20qua.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Permit me a slight departure just west of downtown, but still along the water! On May 4, 1970, Harold R. Clarke, Aunt Maude, are shown with the Rev. Ray Milley. The two are being honoured with testimonial plaques and Bibles to mark their long service. The occasion is the tenth anniversary of Edith Rankin Memorial United Church in Collins Bay. Previously, services were held in the 1872-built Collins Bay United (formerly Methodist) Church on Hillview Road in Collins Bay. Familiar names like Bustard, Rankin, McCullough, Renfrew, Britt surround that of Aunt Maude in accounts of church doings in this era. (Top photo - Queen's University Archives, V142-7-285, Whig-Standard Fonds)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some knew Aunt Maude as 'the post lady' started delivering mail by horse-and-buggy, assisting her father throughout an area bounded by Gardiners and Collins Bay Roads, Highways 2 and 33. At that time, that made her a rural mail carrier, though this is now a developed suburban part of Kingston. Active in many church and charity events in an era when women were referenced by their husbands' names i.e. Mrs A.E. Rowley, and when women still wore hats in church! She taught Sunday school at Edith Rankin for 56 years, beginning in 1922 at the former Methodist Church on Hillview Road. The superintendent of the Sunday School was 'Bert' Rowley. </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Albert Edward Rowley was born in Somerset, England, living in Collins Bay for 70 years. He was section foreman for the Grand Trunk Railway at Collins Bay in 1919, and contracted the Spanish Flu in November, 1918, requiring hospitalization at Kingston's Hotel Dieu Hospital. One sordid story involves him finding a dead trespasser who'd been walking the tracks west of Collins Bay. Likely a World War I veteran, the train killed him even though a bullet war wound found at autopsy did not. Bert was known to drive an old '29! Retiring in 1946, he was an award-winning member of the Kingston Stamp Club in the mid-1950s. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">He married Gertrude Maude Waller in October, 1930 and though they had no children, she was 'auntie' to over 500 children that passed through her Sunday School classroom. Their golden wedding anniversary was celebrated at Edith Rankin on October 19, 1980. Bert died at 98 years old on May 18, 1986. Aunt Maude died on February 18, 1988 at the age of 90. </p><div style="text-align: justify;">I remember Aunt Maude. She may even have been my Sunday School teacher. She was recognizable by what I believe was a thyroid goiter that gave her a hoarse voice. Regardless, she was a kindly lady and beloved by many. My Mom followed in her footsteps and later became a Sunday School teacher at Edith Rankin. Here we are after church in the fall of 1973 with the long-gone CN Collins Bay station:</div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZeuTkzkQsjk8T6PTJ0YK9OlRtpOiVRc5Lfy9rraH6fh8bOOv6afNYvuiQRCJrbmZP9G5ngagn8FIzdPjKo_hLt0mprNGUkQ9g5xGIafQhD7cDce793JmdrPKQaZs9OMVmoReJPPl-vWtpKOl4_It7r4pqoGi-38R4pFpj3CmUaiEeq2sHjo3NfkInoc/s1600/aa.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="1600" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZeuTkzkQsjk8T6PTJ0YK9OlRtpOiVRc5Lfy9rraH6fh8bOOv6afNYvuiQRCJrbmZP9G5ngagn8FIzdPjKo_hLt0mprNGUkQ9g5xGIafQhD7cDce793JmdrPKQaZs9OMVmoReJPPl-vWtpKOl4_It7r4pqoGi-38R4pFpj3CmUaiEeq2sHjo3NfkInoc/w640-h532/aa.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-40502947950210841092024-01-18T10:23:00.005-05:002024-02-07T08:16:48.006-05:00Kingston's Coal Gasification Plant - History<div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrJdKDgFdTLV7m8K6GI1r05-D6TRxf_LaJhH-HCgQ6GZECrNolGKbqoFI8jZZpW0CS_bH6FQiantl3xLUNi87Aei8X21RvK9HGXwciEw_0nRZDLMSVuVYV4VTXD5AKTHl4kRpfD7lU5LtuR_5L1gfMehaa2dwMBoLmrlgc9oCP62JVoi1SLJFoR7mq-M/s3545/Tete%20du%20Pont%20Barracks%20panorama%20to%20King%20and%20Place%20d'Armes%20drydock%20area%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1709" data-original-width="3545" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrJdKDgFdTLV7m8K6GI1r05-D6TRxf_LaJhH-HCgQ6GZECrNolGKbqoFI8jZZpW0CS_bH6FQiantl3xLUNi87Aei8X21RvK9HGXwciEw_0nRZDLMSVuVYV4VTXD5AKTHl4kRpfD7lU5LtuR_5L1gfMehaa2dwMBoLmrlgc9oCP62JVoi1SLJFoR7mq-M/w640-h308/Tete%20du%20Pont%20Barracks%20panorama%20to%20King%20and%20Place%20d'Armes%20drydock%20area%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>The Kingston gas works operated for over 100 years from 1848 to 1957 on a 1.6 hectare site located north and south of Barrack Street between King Street East and Ontario Street, and Queen Street and Place D'Armes. Two gasification tanks loom over downtown, in the background behind Millard & Lumb, with the Richardson elevator demolished in 1941 still standing (top photo - Queen's University Archives, V23-IndB, Kingston Picture Collection, Industrial Buildings).</div><div><br /></div><div>The main gas works site was later occupied by the PUC bus repair garage, parking lot, and office, the Kingston police underground parking garage, a Kingston Hydro substation, and retail stores. The auxiliary gas holding area was occupied by the PUC bus transit garage and parking lot. The city property was also the site of Kingston Transit System garages and the Kingston Police headquarters. The former gas works site is located about 150 metres southwest of the mouth of the Great Cataraqui River. (Below - a 1950 aerial view showing the older tank dismantled, new propane tanks installed, with the PUC building at left, Millard & Lumb at right, and Fort Frontenac at bottom - Queen's University Archives, V25-6-2-37, George E.O. Lilley Fonds, Aerial Photographs Binder.)</div><div><br /></div><div>In its day, the Kingston plant was the third largest in Ontario. By 1905, 800 million cubic-metres of gas were being produced yearly, with 1,573 gas meters in operation. The location, as with most other gas works, were usually chosen to keep pipe runs to downtown customers short. Gas was used for lighting and heating, often requiring nearby water access and docks. The first gas jet (in all of Ontario) was lit in the window of the Wilson building on Wellington Street in 1847.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyARtpDxHjXvQx5k7I4hjpEfYGptweeSFbexvOZa38zvR-Ub4apueIuqdYjLfFeQW-9UWG2VUHY_YlYZawTyXegTFZ10XVVDxUe7YC07ESSzVxHh7G1XArbq1lgLugo49Tulmb5JgQ9rfy9Ew0y3oHhHlMnxyy5-eLNSzN6EYhrg_Sx5agpUFinDFIoo/s2218/Screenshot%202024-01-18%20at%2009.10.22.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2218" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSyARtpDxHjXvQx5k7I4hjpEfYGptweeSFbexvOZa38zvR-Ub4apueIuqdYjLfFeQW-9UWG2VUHY_YlYZawTyXegTFZ10XVVDxUe7YC07ESSzVxHh7G1XArbq1lgLugo49Tulmb5JgQ9rfy9Ew0y3oHhHlMnxyy5-eLNSzN6EYhrg_Sx5agpUFinDFIoo/w640-h338/Screenshot%202024-01-18%20at%2009.10.22.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">TIMELINE</div><div><br /></div><div>Dating to 1848, a coal gasification plant in the King-Queen-Ontario-Place d’Armes block was operated by the Kingston Gas Light Company in 1864, the City by 1905 and the PUC in 1914. Coal arriving by boat would total 10-15,000 tons per year. Served by a CN spur crossing Barrack Street north of Ontario Street, cars of coal were unloaded for gasification, the production of a gaseous fuel, with ashes and inert matter remaining as residue. A nearby wall sign proclaimed “Gas – The Modern Fuel”. The main gas works was south of Barrack Street, with the large gas-holding tank north of Barrack Street, dominating the downtown site. Gas production evolved from retort coal gasification, to a carbureted water gas process in 1925. The rise of oil slackened demand through the 1930’s. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lT8h8qANeHSlb4EDb5oKXQ5x-iTCNnbx98Ue7ndl4T0u_QjizugK4iv6xjkWJBxyVNp6iJYH-MkrEg7srd6BHsNs490R7cQmLTJKeefm1rI07exLd0DR1XGD-9tAL9JlaFnzbgLT5xpiGl4RMrxCWVPdhz9WUwtINzjNoKuCN_kqhFgn67-xhK2hhKU/s1942/IMG_0057%20(2).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1319" data-original-width="1942" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lT8h8qANeHSlb4EDb5oKXQ5x-iTCNnbx98Ue7ndl4T0u_QjizugK4iv6xjkWJBxyVNp6iJYH-MkrEg7srd6BHsNs490R7cQmLTJKeefm1rI07exLd0DR1XGD-9tAL9JlaFnzbgLT5xpiGl4RMrxCWVPdhz9WUwtINzjNoKuCN_kqhFgn67-xhK2hhKU/w640-h434/IMG_0057%20(2).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div>The coal gas plant was later abandoned, superseded by a propane air mix plant. Propane tanks on flat cars were delivered via the spur from Horton Steel Works of Fort Erie, ON in March, 1950. Tank cars (8,000 gallons each) were unloaded into the tanks on the PUC spur, that had crossed Barrack Street (1947 fire insurance map image - above) later truncated at Barrack Street. The old gasification tanks were being demolished in the fall of 1950 by former builder George Boyd. The tanks were made of quarter-inch riveted plates, cut apart by torches under water to reduce the danger of sparks from any residual gas. The resulting scrap weighed 200-300 tons. The older 48 year-old 'purification' tank was 50 feet high and 75 feet in diameter. The 35 year-old 'storage' tank was the same height and 100 feet in diameter, to be demolished in 1951.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJY__VGdbtfTLrW43gLDJLSJDjKrOF_ykGi7OEwtUm6QufZKHPZskajwTl-x4xOGigMcFZ5fdoQDi_I1sWqAdW053vqr_uP1fQJtGdmcBPmg3lwAcOwlTZfrC5jEz2GxTDeiU9UQJYu4Y5STai0HtshkNHsoZk0ziVnnYSC-a7uZnnGWgpb1n1BwCwWI/s970/Norton%20Steel%20Fort%20Erie%20tanks%20being%20unloaded%20from%20flat%20car%20with%20idlers%20PUC%20Feb%20or%20Mar%201950%20b%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="970" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJY__VGdbtfTLrW43gLDJLSJDjKrOF_ykGi7OEwtUm6QufZKHPZskajwTl-x4xOGigMcFZ5fdoQDi_I1sWqAdW053vqr_uP1fQJtGdmcBPmg3lwAcOwlTZfrC5jEz2GxTDeiU9UQJYu4Y5STai0HtshkNHsoZk0ziVnnYSC-a7uZnnGWgpb1n1BwCwWI/w640-h474/Norton%20Steel%20Fort%20Erie%20tanks%20being%20unloaded%20from%20flat%20car%20with%20idlers%20PUC%20Feb%20or%20Mar%201950%20b%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>All the way from Fort Erie, ON - Horton Steel Works propane tanks being unloaded from flat cars at the site in February or March, 1950. An interesting time of transition - the larger tank is still pending demolition (above and below - Queen's University Archives, V25-5-11-197, George E.O. Lilley Fonds).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyuohQ_FszsR8PwpYIFBiOEIcFwRLZAikV2eTwD6fp0JXM0TVR_62O-hWWWNuyhXXQ17hAGfmxj_HdRgpMgWzeSekBVDbD80BUP_64rcYMGyPuvxeaq0DfrKYMHnDdSe5ozAfwmLtVXRGf4Y3xedmvmQnaoXzWhHQQSBWGk5FeWeUkyGwKnLsX5nXCXU/s1018/Norton%20Steel%20Fort%20Erie%20tanks%20PUC%20Feb%20or%20Mar%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1018" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyuohQ_FszsR8PwpYIFBiOEIcFwRLZAikV2eTwD6fp0JXM0TVR_62O-hWWWNuyhXXQ17hAGfmxj_HdRgpMgWzeSekBVDbD80BUP_64rcYMGyPuvxeaq0DfrKYMHnDdSe5ozAfwmLtVXRGf4Y3xedmvmQnaoXzWhHQQSBWGk5FeWeUkyGwKnLsX5nXCXU/w640-h484/Norton%20Steel%20Fort%20Erie%20tanks%20PUC%20Feb%20or%20Mar%201950%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The new propane tanks are in place in April, 1951. Millard & Lumb is shown at right (Queen's University Archives, V25-5-15-5, George E.O. Lilley Fonds).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3PWx7cqjBaHm2nUGErLP1U08EoDmuTMrHuF2VoaCM9z9YU9x7iGnG0aC6TG1cEP7_zEQpvH6D0-Xjg6xy-XJW7JP1UqPfEIxpQRqZ-WDF8ziUvkduv8SZFG75oRN3H2GkHvIYfHtX1R5PzT40uQA6Iq503Ears7VeIHF7M0OfBJ1vsxb666IRLKFRIM/s1031/PUC%20gasworks%20near%20Millard%20&%20Lumb%20Apr%201951%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1031" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3PWx7cqjBaHm2nUGErLP1U08EoDmuTMrHuF2VoaCM9z9YU9x7iGnG0aC6TG1cEP7_zEQpvH6D0-Xjg6xy-XJW7JP1UqPfEIxpQRqZ-WDF8ziUvkduv8SZFG75oRN3H2GkHvIYfHtX1R5PzT40uQA6Iq503Ears7VeIHF7M0OfBJ1vsxb666IRLKFRIM/w640-h476/PUC%20gasworks%20near%20Millard%20&%20Lumb%20Apr%201951%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span>Propane almost ran out on February 18, 1958 during a severe cold spell. More was needed, but CN had no loaded propane cars available in Kingston for the PUC. There were cars in Belleville and Brockville. An urgent call was placed to CN, and one car was quickly despatched from Belleville and unloaded. Two more cars arrived in Kingston soon thereafter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span>In 1958, Corcoran Excavating installed a five mile-long eight-inch gas line from the Trans-Canada pipeline just south of Glenburnie, along Perth Road and Division to Railway Street at Patrick Street, where it was connected to a 1956-built line from that intersection to the gas plant. The pipes were manufactured in 50-foot lengths by Page Hersey Tubes Ltd. in Welland, ON and supplied by Grinnell Co. of Montreal. The capacity of the completed line was 800,000 cubic feet per hour, and the cost was $250,000. A regulator station was built at Montreal and Railway Streets to supply industries in that area. (</span><span>Below - Whig clipping fortuitously showing a CPR boxcar and the Sowards Coal office in background!)</span></div><div><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="2085" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC9AXaIFtTIMwT3x_bBmrb3ZX-k6mVzGKuDD8YbnEOx3UHxAOSuw0-kQDjt9z0oP9heLh1zzNAdspF5Lb7hTKK2H_xY7-tPKEOIOHH78FEr6GHuhf4RbzbblpdfeDb5KhC_wewHkF51O4EB1BqSGb42LnIfLBQMm5xiR76jUm6T9u_ZJww2Dzkd0y8-EI/w640-h616/Kingston_gas_plant_and_CP_boxcar_June_13_1958.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /> </div><div>The downtown spur was removed in 1970. The gas plant was to be moved outside the city in 1966, finally making the move to Lappan's Lane after 1968, due to the lack of a sewer onsite and a dispute with Kingston Township. The new four-tank site was to boost Kingston's gas supply from Trans-Canada Pipelines during peak usage periods. A CN spur was built just east of Lappan's Lane for $8,000, with gas mains laid along Counter Street off the Division Street gas main in 1967. This was part of a PUC service centre building for electric, water and gas departments (and later a bus garage) development on the site. </div><div><br /></div><div>Coincidentally, the last car of natural gas at the downtown gas plant leaked. Much larger than the original 8,000 gallon cars, this one carried 27,000 gallons of propane. A fitting on the car's piping was the culprit, and it was towed into the nearby yard after its load was transferred to two onsite tanks. January 24, 1967 Whig clipping: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiToljJampqnN8DcWOQNou9_bi3Sg3VsA7Fy9-b-5Rufh_KTKOlzvWT1-Y87eAW5S4Z2C2hEpMvOK5PVqM2aNnSPAtKbOSf2CiDYgvp0U2tL9i-_DkSFSNNjASDXbuP1i7FK1QQN3NlXmhbfvwHchqRxulbRoiPhPRfY2jiDAXAOZV63nTvbxCFmsfetM/s1364/jan%2024%201967%20leaking%20propane%20puc%20tank%20car.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1364" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiToljJampqnN8DcWOQNou9_bi3Sg3VsA7Fy9-b-5Rufh_KTKOlzvWT1-Y87eAW5S4Z2C2hEpMvOK5PVqM2aNnSPAtKbOSf2CiDYgvp0U2tL9i-_DkSFSNNjASDXbuP1i7FK1QQN3NlXmhbfvwHchqRxulbRoiPhPRfY2jiDAXAOZV63nTvbxCFmsfetM/w640-h418/jan%2024%201967%20leaking%20propane%20puc%20tank%20car.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A final vestige removed - on September 28, 1970 a final gas holding tank was being removed from the site (Queen's University Archives, V25-5-39-103, George E.O. Lilley Fonds). Apparently photographed while waiting for the Flying Scotsman to arrive on the same day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnyfNF2kuwBOninphxXvnGDKygq4UnXlFDXk77Kj7WZjg-6LQ7G59vEOuXaN91OOhJH2w5ILImh-taoHHTLy1ea0hfc4_J0hohyphenhyphenvs-MNC4QxT1AOUc58QvAIGq1bmLo9D6Vp3FlPBbktAbg3Qt8o2fOfrwQgGnxTyG6bTrXt7ziVpMtKDW6qclVfzu_1Y/s1150/PUC%20tank%20demolition%20near%20Queen%20St%20Sep%2028%201970%20George%20Lilley%20fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="1150" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnyfNF2kuwBOninphxXvnGDKygq4UnXlFDXk77Kj7WZjg-6LQ7G59vEOuXaN91OOhJH2w5ILImh-taoHHTLy1ea0hfc4_J0hohyphenhyphenvs-MNC4QxT1AOUc58QvAIGq1bmLo9D6Vp3FlPBbktAbg3Qt8o2fOfrwQgGnxTyG6bTrXt7ziVpMtKDW6qclVfzu_1Y/w640-h422/PUC%20tank%20demolition%20near%20Queen%20St%20Sep%2028%201970%20George%20Lilley%20fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The new site in December 1991. One Procor and one CGTX propane tank car were spotted for unloading on the CN track designated KL03, just off Lappan's Lane and adjacent to Permanent Concrete. The silver bulk propane tanks are just visible on the PUC property at left:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZnJJuJ56akI6BuPMd_6K6ro4UYlsk2d00jjXSQmd1OG-dv1f3vBicPJnBeAhtgrUrwsmfsnJN0yq7Yq4rdT5pvBE9hcBuThKE4WgiFd6CSi2Hg9cF7tUMGvzGPfFVikMSsu9XdxUexh2WlgVeVPuON2DsWJsF7Fc4oeoPZyPVUR4Uq9b6mO3k8p0tKM/s891/blogkingindal8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="891" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZnJJuJ56akI6BuPMd_6K6ro4UYlsk2d00jjXSQmd1OG-dv1f3vBicPJnBeAhtgrUrwsmfsnJN0yq7Yq4rdT5pvBE9hcBuThKE4WgiFd6CSi2Hg9cF7tUMGvzGPfFVikMSsu9XdxUexh2WlgVeVPuON2DsWJsF7Fc4oeoPZyPVUR4Uq9b6mO3k8p0tKM/w640-h362/blogkingindal8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div>The following original gasification structures are labelled by number on the two plant layouts shown below:</div><div> </div><div>1. Generator House - used to make gas in a retort. </div><div>2. Oil tank - used for storage of oil (Bunker C) for water gas process or may have been used for tar storage.</div><div>3. Relief gas holding tank - used to store raw gas. </div><div>4. Condensor House - contained equipment to condense tars, oils and liquors from hot gases. </div><div>5. Purifier House - contains equipment to scrub raw gas to remove tars. </div><div>6. Main gas holding tank - used to store pure gas prior to distribution. </div><div><div>7. Meter House - used to regulate gas flow to consumers. </div><div>8. Coal Shed - used to store coal and coke. </div><div><span>9. Oxide Room - storage of new or spent oxide.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UtCBIQUCHaUeyf9Z4I15wo6Rfh35TG9_ICcD9SynRTwnt2P_MzaTkL0CQzIpgMbYl9FHgS7AG4zdQiTVpqtof6vrN6__uecVzjCZucZFC3AZVLio1lQY8AsjUSTJ9x_AQlIJHRKWuN8VrugRDRMN-jEOsKVcdm-Lf5ijXwMy8E94HzQmMR3ena9Vmew/s962/1908%20PUC%20gas%20plant.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="962" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UtCBIQUCHaUeyf9Z4I15wo6Rfh35TG9_ICcD9SynRTwnt2P_MzaTkL0CQzIpgMbYl9FHgS7AG4zdQiTVpqtof6vrN6__uecVzjCZucZFC3AZVLio1lQY8AsjUSTJ9x_AQlIJHRKWuN8VrugRDRMN-jEOsKVcdm-Lf5ijXwMy8E94HzQmMR3ena9Vmew/w640-h538/1908%20PUC%20gas%20plant.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Fire insurance plans of site (above - 1908) and 1924 (below - 1924)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifnuBovKpFkoYN-K5mBQDLYDKcgpHs9vtEiQhPaOLu4qAVh5_RSuVzNoxFwDZllS3mEnqGbw5YxvGS2zp-N5LqKvFCcmARIPFGPku1lRv8hXDyCUm5caxaGhAhIDJ_OL38OqrzTujZYXr99kuSj_ZJvF13HvM7RLJbS_OmM6PrtH-5xqcNR8h0iAMvyb8/s962/1924%20PUC%20gas%20plant.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="962" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifnuBovKpFkoYN-K5mBQDLYDKcgpHs9vtEiQhPaOLu4qAVh5_RSuVzNoxFwDZllS3mEnqGbw5YxvGS2zp-N5LqKvFCcmARIPFGPku1lRv8hXDyCUm5caxaGhAhIDJ_OL38OqrzTujZYXr99kuSj_ZJvF13HvM7RLJbS_OmM6PrtH-5xqcNR8h0iAMvyb8/w640-h538/1924%20PUC%20gas%20plant.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-44236423382956225512024-01-15T14:59:00.003-05:002024-01-16T09:43:02.993-05:00From Clarence to Charles by Air!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU8xI7eD2X0IUeuRSjidy8tM1CqlP7YM-Ik4aPoHJs2_1gi15sIMaTEcFUawUGDg-Ndg7yLBARdIPxaoO3oW34GPTY-Ur7CBF_zCvM8n50zQ2Su5rpW1xmTKAdTm3PSBkfS6WgTu6DbUm0BLXVZLOp_rgegg5RpTHFl9KIPB_g35O3sNsxyohOC8cAfYc/s3821/IMG_9838.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2308" data-original-width="3821" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU8xI7eD2X0IUeuRSjidy8tM1CqlP7YM-Ik4aPoHJs2_1gi15sIMaTEcFUawUGDg-Ndg7yLBARdIPxaoO3oW34GPTY-Ur7CBF_zCvM8n50zQ2Su5rpW1xmTKAdTm3PSBkfS6WgTu6DbUm0BLXVZLOp_rgegg5RpTHFl9KIPB_g35O3sNsxyohOC8cAfYc/w640-h386/IMG_9838.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Book customer and fellow model railroader Barry Elvidge contacted me about a black & white aerial photo print measuring 16x10 inches, showing the area roughly from Clarence Street to Charles Street, centred on Fort Frontenac and the Lasalle Causeway. Barry was kind enough to drop off the photo this morning, and my first instinct was to attempt to attach a year/date to the photo. Some criteria I used:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>the <a href="http://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2021/02/switchmans-shanty-on-ontario-street.html">Ontario Street switchman's shanty</a> is still in place. The shanty was removed between 1950 and 1963.</li><li>the PUC propane tanks are already in place. The tanks were installed in February/March, 1950.</li><li>three CP passenger cars were adjacent to the North Street roundhouse. Mixed train service ended along with the end of the steam era, circa 1957.</li><li>Canadian Army Staff College training building across Ontario Street from Fort Frontenac are not yet in place. Older buildings on site were demolished around 1952 and the new building built in 1954.That narrowed it down!</li></ul><div>Then I logged onto the city's Snapshot Kingston site, which allows various years' aerial imaging to be toggled on/off a particular location. </div><div><ul><li>the Imperial Oil bulk tanks on Rideau Street were a very visible spotting feature. The tanks in Barry's photo matched the 1953 year layer exactly.</li><li>the ships and barges moored at Canadian Dredge & Dock also matched 1953 exactly!</li></ul></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE25B_X91a20QX7zN4l44kl6UnMfsE_foQ699U4kaStSwAtUYkXIO7-lvvEEjhr-U5VYPd6GTFOChyphenhyphentcLS7q8AQDoseinwPCz1RoFBVJOVkwuYY8Bm3c6CE6K_4e0mzgefHavqjjgX37XRD7NoX43ADnxzThp-Sa0Gsv1TVR9vlTRHqO93eap2uSAdlAE/s3802/IMG_9839.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3802" data-original-width="2908" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE25B_X91a20QX7zN4l44kl6UnMfsE_foQ699U4kaStSwAtUYkXIO7-lvvEEjhr-U5VYPd6GTFOChyphenhyphentcLS7q8AQDoseinwPCz1RoFBVJOVkwuYY8Bm3c6CE6K_4e0mzgefHavqjjgX37XRD7NoX43ADnxzThp-Sa0Gsv1TVR9vlTRHqO93eap2uSAdlAE/w490-h640/IMG_9839.jpeg" width="490" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Close-up views of the photo. Clarence to Fort Frontenac (above) and Fort Frontenac to Charles (below).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_WNNSD6YtHenWvSprdSg-JcHUudi3QFefiIWftZnZHLPQYCNlUaVPcq-9scwlAAqMJVllEKXO3Ctta2j9D9T7aqAr79wfHDZoHJtgRh7ONHZvULD_b98cYRgzV3OrKjA2ua9WKiV2sQj4IXs-qkL9YKYu3ixhemCz2ap2NBvlkNRjYnjunLsR6hxkc4/s3811/IMG_9840.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3811" data-original-width="3022" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_WNNSD6YtHenWvSprdSg-JcHUudi3QFefiIWftZnZHLPQYCNlUaVPcq-9scwlAAqMJVllEKXO3Ctta2j9D9T7aqAr79wfHDZoHJtgRh7ONHZvULD_b98cYRgzV3OrKjA2ua9WKiV2sQj4IXs-qkL9YKYu3ixhemCz2ap2NBvlkNRjYnjunLsR6hxkc4/w508-h640/IMG_9840.jpeg" width="508" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, I was only going to take this so far...but I just had to confirm whether the photo was exactly the same. I'm not sure of the source of the Snapshot Kingston photo, but Barry said his is from the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario where he was employed. I counted a few cars parked here and there, and they appeared to match. Here's one difference I noted: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzuVBChRYbwrpkFlMYojmqDjRYMh1Syh4BOsTjzzy2YmoA4ONKC6ylA7dvFcrIssapCiuzz7MLlJloVKuMrgtTdOts8vwCn6vC3lR-Lq4wCLgjDumrFrqEUymKd3R58Aqu8A49bU6Wm3KeM6BNDPjLxfEEPONAhvKpxT2_zoTlCFlBsvn4dBe5WWEshY/s4032/IMG_9843.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQzuVBChRYbwrpkFlMYojmqDjRYMh1Syh4BOsTjzzy2YmoA4ONKC6ylA7dvFcrIssapCiuzz7MLlJloVKuMrgtTdOts8vwCn6vC3lR-Lq4wCLgjDumrFrqEUymKd3R58Aqu8A49bU6Wm3KeM6BNDPjLxfEEPONAhvKpxT2_zoTlCFlBsvn4dBe5WWEshY/w640-h480/IMG_9843.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>The smoke emanating from alongside the CD&D dry dock is blowing a slightly different direction, and making a correspondingly different shadow! Either the photo was made on a slightly different pass - note the Snapshot Kingston image is a composite, with a line between stitched-together photos (above) while Barry's excellent photo is all-in-one (below).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEievIbA1mqXx_SNhdrS8g-FBy-no7mjb-409r1eB2Pr2TWlwUIsnv7vWTb8cVKIJN-e2dMUBtRLbGaWE6DwP6daFmM14l4pyOcpxE-OZYu3zfVV_FmVq1q9us4thHabug6enuuDfUaSWaYiTkpMITmCqMDzYJsVqmLtxf6cRNesos4Nr_wK3jW0FIp0DJs/s4032/IMG_9842.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEievIbA1mqXx_SNhdrS8g-FBy-no7mjb-409r1eB2Pr2TWlwUIsnv7vWTb8cVKIJN-e2dMUBtRLbGaWE6DwP6daFmM14l4pyOcpxE-OZYu3zfVV_FmVq1q9us4thHabug6enuuDfUaSWaYiTkpMITmCqMDzYJsVqmLtxf6cRNesos4Nr_wK3jW0FIp0DJs/w640-h480/IMG_9842.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>As a result of this very enjoyable, brief bit of detective work, I'm calling this aerial photo analysis done, and as a result, I believe Barry's photo was taken from on high in 1953!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While I was examining the photo, I noted numerous pieces of railway rolling stock. Starting on CP:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>north of the North Street roundhouse - 6 freight cars</li><li>at roundhouse - 3 passenger cars and 3-4 freight cars</li><li>Shell bulk tanks - 3 freight cars, probably tank cars</li><li>yard - 7 cars</li><li>station - 2 cars on spurs, 10 at freight shed, the car cleaner's flat car</li><li>Swift dock area - 1 car</li></ul><div>And on CN tracks:</div><ul><li>Wellington St. freight shed - 6 and 7 boxcars</li><li>yard - 22+ cars</li><li>PUC propane tanks - 1 propane tank car</li><li>Crawford coal - 3 hopper cars</li><li>Ontario St feed mill - 1 car off-spot</li><li>Topnotch feed mill - 2 box cars</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My thanks to Barry for this photo. I'm going to give it a place of honour in my Kingston's Hanley Spur layout room. It's a valuable reference!</div><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-20388266065914123932024-01-14T15:51:00.000-05:002024-01-14T15:51:09.348-05:00James Richardson and the Richardson Family's Long Legacy in Kingston <p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYy215Bt5uBlNWvEV24ZVQul86vHDlZvYwaMYO5hElcz0ahf_a4y0KcUyYI0rszNLRdMhEPUOKRWYee50CsoxSfIAXEKee3iBkjkKp3uibVBmwLRjCA-PQdLbRpbR1av_fKDB4Qk0fq5144ugPHnNk7ebtEVVGI_-fDi_Gvr9iWeZm-YqQsuIRxMMZ04/s348/james%20richardson%201819%201892%20and%20logo.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="348" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYy215Bt5uBlNWvEV24ZVQul86vHDlZvYwaMYO5hElcz0ahf_a4y0KcUyYI0rszNLRdMhEPUOKRWYee50CsoxSfIAXEKee3iBkjkKp3uibVBmwLRjCA-PQdLbRpbR1av_fKDB4Qk0fq5144ugPHnNk7ebtEVVGI_-fDi_Gvr9iWeZm-YqQsuIRxMMZ04/s320/james%20richardson%201819%201892%20and%20logo.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>Hours after publishing the initial post on the James Richardson & Sons grain elevator on Kingston's waterfront, fellow Kingston historian Marc Shaw reminded me that he had created a precis on the Richardson family and its long business and philanthropic history in Kingston and western Canada. Not only did I know a small portion of what Marc had carefully written, but I also worked near and spent time in the Richardson Laboratories while working at Kingston General Hospital! With permission from Marc, here is his intriguing history of this very well-known Kingston family, with some not so well-known facts that make for a good, multi-generational impact on our city and region.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Marc begins...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The sprawling enterprise of James Richardson & Sons has been based in Winnipeg for almost 100 years. It’s an immense privately owned family-run business, now headed by a member of the 5th generation. Dealing in businesses as diverse as insurance, investing, oils and gas, agriculture and real estate, it's a global behemoth, and incredibly successful. The relatively low-profile Richardson clan is worth something like $6.55 billion and are consistently ranked in the country’s top ten.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Some in Kingston may be surprised to know that the story began here, and that the Richardsons were long a Kingston institution. The family was aways philanthropic by nature, and although they have moved on, the city is awash in memorials, particularly in the hospitals and at Queen’s University, where many of them were educated.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It’s a very interesting family and much has been written on the individuals, their stately homes, their benefactions and their business enterprises. It’s hard to condense the whole story down. It’s also a bit confusing, with a lot of James, Henrys and Georges, with a couple of Agneses! This “précis” is not for the faint of heart!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The founder of the Canadian family and the firm which bears his name, James Richardson (1819-92), arrived in Kingston in 1823 from Ireland and was apprenticed to a tailor. Over time he discovered that often his clients could not afford to pay him in cash but gave him grain instead, which led him to gradually move into that industry. Over the next decades he built a grain-shipping and export business into a major concern. James Richardson & Sons was formed in 1857. By the 1860s he was a very wealthy man, and as a measure of his success he built for himself and his family a fine brick home at 100 Stuart Street, in a new suburb near the hospital. He built a large grain elevator on the Kingston waterfront in 1882 and by the following year was shipping wheat to England. By the time he died in 1892, the firm he and his sons operated was a major player in the Canadian grain trade. The Richardson elevator burned down in November 1897 and was replaced by a second, larger one that was a familiar sight for several decades. It also burned, in December 1941, while it was in the process of demolition. The Holiday Inn is on the site today. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the next generation his sons George (1852-1906) and Henry Wartman (1855-1918) carried on the business. George was President from 1892-1906. In 1879 he built a large Victorian home called Windburn on Gordon Street, within sight of the home on Stuart where he had grown up. His brother Henry Wartman was President of the firm from 1906-1918. He and his family lived in stately Alwington House, off King Street at the western edge of town. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">He was a noted local businessman with involvement in many enterprises: to name a few, he was President of the Street Railway Company, the Kingston Hosiery Company, and the Kingston Feldspar and Mining Company. Mrs. Richardson’s sister married Dr. Walter Connell and they occupied a very nice home nearby at 11 Arch Street, adding to the numerous relations in the Queen’s neighbourhood. Henry Wartman was named to the Senate and died at Alwington in 1918. He and his wife Alice Ford Richardson were major philanthropists and donated the funds for Richardson Laboratory at for the joint benefit of Queen's University and Kingston General Hospital, completed in 1925. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Their children were all wealthy, of course, but seemed less inclined to involve themselves in the core family business. Their son Henry came to live in a large brick home at 102 Stuart Street, next door to the original family residence. Henry was President of the Weber Piano Factory (S&R/Smith-Robinson building). The original family house next door was eventually occupied by his sister Eva, who married Thomas Ashmore Kidd (1889-1973), a grocery broker who also had considerable success in politics: MLA 1926-40, Speaker of the Ontario Legislature, MP 1945-49. He was also the Grand Master of the Orange Lodge. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When the Kidds lived at 100 Stuart Street, their extensive back yard and gardens were noted for their careful landscaping and were the scene of numerous social and fundraising activities. After World War I, the house was converted into a convalescent hospital for returning soldiers. A brother to Henry and Eva was John, who inherited Alwington and lived there for a time but eventually bounced back and forth between there and Winnipeg. Another sister, Bessie, married successful contractor T.A. McGinness and in 1924 they built Stone Gables on King Street West, on a piece of property cleaved off the Alwington estate. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The two Stuart Street houses remain and have long been used by Kingston General Hospital (known as Kidd House and Richardson House, of course). After a long period as a private home, in the 1980s or 1990s Stone Gables became part of the Regional Headquarters complex for the Correctional Service of Canada. Its future disposition seems uncertain. And Alwington House was tragically burned in December 1958, with the loss of two lives, while Mrs. Dorothy Richardson was still in residence. The house remains were demolished and the property sold; Alwington Place was laid out where perhaps Kingston’s most celebrated home had once stood. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As noted above, Henry Wartman’s brother George (1852-1906) moved upon his marriage to a large new house at the corner of Gordon and Alice (today, University and Bader Lane). He and his wife had a number of children who grew up in the sprawling Victorian home. Son George Taylor (1886-1916) enjoyed a brilliant academic and athletic career at Queen’s and seemed destined for great things within the family grain business; he was named Vice-President in 1910. However, he was tragically shot by a sniper in France in 1916. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In his will, he left the bulk of his fortune to his sister Agnes and brother James with instructions to use it to fund a number of initiatives for the betterment of Kingston citizens. The money was carefully invested, and primarily under Agnes’ stewardship, was allocated to some very worthwhile enterprises. The Richardson Beach bathhouse, the George Richardson Memorial Stadium, and allocations for the stimulation of art and culture in Kingston were a few of the results. Agnes (1880-1954) married Dr. Frederick Etherington in 1921 and they made their home in her old family house where she had lived since birth. Etherington had had a brilliant career at Queen’s and during WWI ran a field hospital in Egypt and France. After he returned to Kingston, he became a Professor of Surgery and was for many years the Dean of Medicine at Queen’s. Etherington Hall (1959) is named for him. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Soon after their marriage and their taking up residence in the old house, the Etheringtons decided to build a new home on the same site. The result was the very graceful Georgian-style home which stands today (with many additions). The new house was perfect for entertaining and the house became a hub of the Kingston Arts and Literature scene. Over the years, Agnes funded speakers, visiting professors, and the purchase of works of art. The Etheringtons had no children, and on Agnes’ death in 1954 she bequeathed the house to be renovated and used as an Art Museum, which of course it remains today. Following WWI, Agnes also erected a convalescent home and recreational facilities (including a small golf course) on Fettercairn Island (today Richardson Island) in Indian Lake near Chaffey’s Locks.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Agnes’ only surviving brother was James (1885-1939) who appeared to inherit the drive and foresight of his ancestor who had first created the fortune. He moved into company administration following studies at Queen’s, and became President in 1919. A man of great drive and ambition, he bought out the inherited interests from all his cousins and came to dominate the firm to the extent that he became, in the public mind, the only Richardson. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">He took the company to great heights. Recognizing the importance of the West to the core family grain business, he supervised the move of the Kingston executive office to Winnipeg in 1923, and relocated there. Prior to the move to Winnipeg, the company’s head office was in the building at 243 King Street East, now occupied by Empire Life. It had been there from 1914, when it took over from Regiopolis, and was succeeded there by the Oddfellows organization. Prior to 1914, he had been on the southwest corner of Princess and Ontario (present Cornerstone). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">George was a giant in Canadian industry, a visionary businessman with significant side interests in radio and commercial air travel. Under his stewardship, the firm became the largest grain business in the British Empire. Queen’s named him Chancellor of the university in 1929, a position he held until his untimely death a decade later. Richardson Hall, a Queen’s building constructed in 1954 a few doors away from where he had grown up, was named in his honour.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Upon his death in 1939, an unusual thing happened. His widow Muriel took over as President and proceeded to run the company with great success until her death in 1973. Their descendants continue to operate the company to this day. They are a very well known family in Winnipeg, and have long supported many Winnipeg institutions including the Winnipeg Ballet. For many years the only “skyscraper” in the city was the 34 storey Richardson Headquarters building, erected in 1969. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">One son, James, was an MP and member of Cabinet under Pierre Trudeau. Another, George, was company president for many years and was also the last Canadian Governor of the Hudson Bay Company. Daughter Agnes (1920-2007) married William Benedickson, MP and Senator, and was Queen’s Chancellor (her father’s old position) from 1980-96. Agnes Benedickson Field is named in her honour.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Few if any families have left a larger imprint on Kingston.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">-my thanks to Marc Shaw for generously sharing this!</p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-12568628656878632652024-01-14T08:59:00.001-05:002024-01-14T09:32:12.995-05:00James Richardson Grain Elevator - History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb77tKmPluqS6MZFXkeGifalJqi0cxCU5xDpU19O3y-ANXZLMJKKjDFVT1baFAtDIZiKL92A9Z8D0APcR4ofGMAUpxsbY4xWxtgKy82K39YXZwo530Dilwec1PKnUjEd5DRp7ZS8dgE6LctUmv_iwqrkCZ5SDRdkxGOjOuAgSjkWzGIEOebPNsDks85js/s4389/Richardson%20elevator%20ships%20undated%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3616" data-original-width="4389" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb77tKmPluqS6MZFXkeGifalJqi0cxCU5xDpU19O3y-ANXZLMJKKjDFVT1baFAtDIZiKL92A9Z8D0APcR4ofGMAUpxsbY4xWxtgKy82K39YXZwo530Dilwec1PKnUjEd5DRp7ZS8dgE6LctUmv_iwqrkCZ5SDRdkxGOjOuAgSjkWzGIEOebPNsDks85js/w640-h528/Richardson%20elevator%20ships%20undated%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">(Top photo undated, Queen's University Archives. V23-Box 6-1 Kingston Picture Collection. Boats and Boating. Cargo Ships. Below - Schooners at the Richardson elevator, City of Vancouver Archives CVA 260-1920.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxtaQSlonCcEVGGo6jB6nE6pKFC9fM-pViLwcoJNk4cJ7386GiELoc5ifjKvU8lazLr1gwbAcCgoyfjWqaQF9pR5a30EMpJ7HbK18o_WHsUP5vmpGY92bDKgSGHaH-Q-xJyYOMDANazcHuBVBmjjpGDYFEpKxvO_mInhnoGQGRJZetKUrHTjf9MRo7_Y/s821/Schooners%20at%20Kingston%20likely%20Richardson%20elevator%20City%20of%20Vancouver%20Archives%20CVA%20260_1920..jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="564" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxtaQSlonCcEVGGo6jB6nE6pKFC9fM-pViLwcoJNk4cJ7386GiELoc5ifjKvU8lazLr1gwbAcCgoyfjWqaQF9pR5a30EMpJ7HbK18o_WHsUP5vmpGY92bDKgSGHaH-Q-xJyYOMDANazcHuBVBmjjpGDYFEpKxvO_mInhnoGQGRJZetKUrHTjf9MRo7_Y/w440-h640/Schooners%20at%20Kingston%20likely%20Richardson%20elevator%20City%20of%20Vancouver%20Archives%20CVA%20260_1920..jpeg" width="440" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">JAMES RICHARDSON BEGINS HIS EMPIRE</div><div style="text-align: justify;">James Richardson was born in Ireland in 1819, arriving in Kingston in 1823 when the population stood at a mere 3,000 citizens. Entering the grain trade in 1857 with sons George and Henry, Richardson bought the old Commercial Wharf in 1868. Located at the foot of Princess, it was once owned by the Royal Mail steamship line. Richardson had an octagonal office building built there. Their first vessel, the grain schooner <i>The Richardson</i> was built at Kingston in 1867. A 4,000-bushel grain load to Oswego marked the first grain shipment from Kingston. View from the top of the Richardson elevator (below - undated Queen's University Archives, V23-Box 6-3, Kingston Picture Collection, Boats and Boating) showing the railway spur passing the octagonal office building, bottom left. A lake vessel, likely being unloaded, faces up Princess Street:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl3q58AAOljOct8xoAKf_Mnx5ez7IcEtWmUDP7DLInYVlkDCg3A8FQWSnZziDqjT4hlQk5UJXyELcOpzJMqhdahSZGiReZpArDpKavijKfQzmFfT31pWbjZzLxr732HToDx_z9SD0pxFmx44oNqKZXv6EnHMaQgQpRyrgfhMqglMLJseyZPBDn6rE_P60/s3040/WIND1%20View%20from%20top%20of%20Richardson%20elevator%20%20note%20boxcar_tankcar_boxcar_steam%20loco%20undated%20Kingston%20Picture%20Collection%20QUA%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2086" data-original-width="3040" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl3q58AAOljOct8xoAKf_Mnx5ez7IcEtWmUDP7DLInYVlkDCg3A8FQWSnZziDqjT4hlQk5UJXyELcOpzJMqhdahSZGiReZpArDpKavijKfQzmFfT31pWbjZzLxr732HToDx_z9SD0pxFmx44oNqKZXv6EnHMaQgQpRyrgfhMqglMLJseyZPBDn6rE_P60/w640-h440/WIND1%20View%20from%20top%20of%20Richardson%20elevator%20%20note%20boxcar_tankcar_boxcar_steam%20loco%20undated%20Kingston%20Picture%20Collection%20QUA%20(3).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofkNKzZn2gRLDZEN7Bk8iM7wZmkVcewgwHZv6jq8q_0gHHK6OAlWlO36uwAN77AXP6CzYbuqltMsTgbxFlyp0hSS3GaHI7OMAA74dzG4_MQ74hgaN4loGlm5Xieg4oNYUvAwha_f6dpwcxWT_w9aUjYVEiDgBMjgcYGtX8LQGUNifA7qJKM-p95L3SvE/s818/Whig%20Richardson%20ad%201919.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="818" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofkNKzZn2gRLDZEN7Bk8iM7wZmkVcewgwHZv6jq8q_0gHHK6OAlWlO36uwAN77AXP6CzYbuqltMsTgbxFlyp0hSS3GaHI7OMAA74dzG4_MQ74hgaN4loGlm5Xieg4oNYUvAwha_f6dpwcxWT_w9aUjYVEiDgBMjgcYGtX8LQGUNifA7qJKM-p95L3SvE/w640-h418/Whig%20Richardson%20ad%201919.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtaeq5Luk9uJ9xeBXFYTkLVfoZy_Kj0lKqOuoMmumf4HClIfQ2UKrRZb_8vv1A7mYV6mFcaJ0BZ70xoSp9b7V-kO4MsUOrw_nDB5pG-YIPiEPsnRgQwlLxynEPxVbNVHbxx1HGfn7FNO_EY6LhVftnFxVcUiKWIrjXwwKelhbJWU2x2aZhVaC03Pbj7E/s1264/Cover%20Richardson.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1264" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYtaeq5Luk9uJ9xeBXFYTkLVfoZy_Kj0lKqOuoMmumf4HClIfQ2UKrRZb_8vv1A7mYV6mFcaJ0BZ70xoSp9b7V-kO4MsUOrw_nDB5pG-YIPiEPsnRgQwlLxynEPxVbNVHbxx1HGfn7FNO_EY6LhVftnFxVcUiKWIrjXwwKelhbJWU2x2aZhVaC03Pbj7E/w640-h444/Cover%20Richardson.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">RICHARDSON GRAIN MOVES WEST</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Richardson died in 1892 and the company established a western headquarters in Winnipeg by 1912. The Richardson family history and legacy is deeply-woven into the fabric of Kingston, though a discussion of this topic is beyond the scope of this post. By 1919, the Anchor Elevator Co. Ltd., and Eastern Terminal Elevator Co. Ltd., were under its control, having incorporated Pioneer Grain Limited in 1913. The company's large $1.5 million terminal grain elevator at Port Arthur was completed in 1919. There were 250 western Richardson grain elevators in operation by the 1930’s, signalling the shift of the head office west to Winnipeg in 1939. The firm's executive office had moved there in 1923. (Richardson advertisements published in the Kingston Whig-Standard - 1919 above. Below - 1938)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5hcHLci72ZZvTxMsao7VY7k9f5M9ZtvqlpUeDqRrbHi909yFsuhYMlvcLJZ9dBaLHnt1JFpmZ3q1sM_n7LmQegXW5aY0YF_WtA7PJct_kzK_r2dj4ZIjmYhsSjEN4-GUNb46K5vUlQGvm-QhPrmn0hF6FRUq4L5ICKjhGN5e2B1ntStzHe3XrVzKT-Rs/s819/1938%20Richardson%20Whig%20clipping.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="819" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5hcHLci72ZZvTxMsao7VY7k9f5M9ZtvqlpUeDqRrbHi909yFsuhYMlvcLJZ9dBaLHnt1JFpmZ3q1sM_n7LmQegXW5aY0YF_WtA7PJct_kzK_r2dj4ZIjmYhsSjEN4-GUNb46K5vUlQGvm-QhPrmn0hF6FRUq4L5ICKjhGN5e2B1ntStzHe3XrVzKT-Rs/w640-h462/1938%20Richardson%20Whig%20clipping.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The local office was then relocated to Princess and Ontario Streets. (Below - Queen's University Archives, V020 Box 1 - Slide 62, Allan Ronald Hazelgrove Fonds. Stone Houses of Frontenac and Kingston series.) At the time this photo was taken, March 12, 1961 the office at 253 Ontario Street bore Richardson & Sons as well as Crawford lettering:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dthEsv9aBOaWZWM5kTWSrD8Vi1rmqyz8od2sv5DZNBf_Pa3pIZpG-Y5U-7WxtNqlHhvBaLowOqdR7L-ncnoXzRlq4zEwsc-c2aOhagmgVQxUn4Pw7vK4wyOATPJDnsK4RncRLfRuTe3fUlJ12uT0AfK-IaXWGM3iXRdtEEcgr2_eZ0PMXdUxSOyNxPo/s3179/253%20Ontario%20SW%20corner%20Princess%20Crawford%20and%20Richardson%20signage%201962%20Hazelgrove%20Collection%20photo%2062%20QUA%20(2).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1712" data-original-width="3179" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dthEsv9aBOaWZWM5kTWSrD8Vi1rmqyz8od2sv5DZNBf_Pa3pIZpG-Y5U-7WxtNqlHhvBaLowOqdR7L-ncnoXzRlq4zEwsc-c2aOhagmgVQxUn4Pw7vK4wyOATPJDnsK4RncRLfRuTe3fUlJ12uT0AfK-IaXWGM3iXRdtEEcgr2_eZ0PMXdUxSOyNxPo/w640-h344/253%20Ontario%20SW%20corner%20Princess%20Crawford%20and%20Richardson%20signage%201962%20Hazelgrove%20Collection%20photo%2062%20QUA%20(2).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">RICHARDSON'S KINGSTON ELEVATOR </p><div style="text-align: justify;">Previous to the erection of a grain elevator at Kingston, Richardson transferred Great Lakes grain from sailing vessels to barges at Kingston. These large barges were then towed to Montreal. Three-storey, 60,000-bushel elevator Richardson No. 1 was built on the wharf in 1882 but burned on December 1, 1897. At the time, the Richardsons were not sure they would rebuild. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZtRr-qsuQjCzEB9AitElSVFhABP9IrntRWwYxVAy_7CZglOgmVg1M2y2ZHrlgwyWfDgl1tTuNCHcgB8Q3ieqQ-iXTtmNKw5raK2Z5PMP1NVcjWzknHSwIR3mDZ2zAL3Df5qvyaqonSngxIhAExEkXdhideO3u2eEUXwYcem0uj67-QqpRvGDMjBTCI4/s1339/Kingston%20and%20Richardson%20elevator%20fire%20insurance%20map%201900.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="1339" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZtRr-qsuQjCzEB9AitElSVFhABP9IrntRWwYxVAy_7CZglOgmVg1M2y2ZHrlgwyWfDgl1tTuNCHcgB8Q3ieqQ-iXTtmNKw5raK2Z5PMP1NVcjWzknHSwIR3mDZ2zAL3Df5qvyaqonSngxIhAExEkXdhideO3u2eEUXwYcem0uj67-QqpRvGDMjBTCI4/w640-h388/Kingston%20and%20Richardson%20elevator%20fire%20insurance%20map%201900.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That soon changed, and it was replaced by a 250,000-bushel wooden elevator in 1898-99 also designated Richardson No. 1. Dimensions of the new elevator were: 138 feet high, 53 feet wide, 150 feet long, nine bins each 54 feet deep, and four scales. The power house was 150 feet away, 35-feet square with a 75-foot stack, with power transmitted utilizing a rope drive. </div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVhh7876CTCQ23xV7gE3WbgyTIz-4SoQ1zMtAvqh4nFwebx3YsuVYWbiQU9Agrtzw95_v7b-wrrx7rTvR2k7dZyx2Is9LVIvNmxy93Cty22PUXPas27F-aqWFsOyn3U72eS0Fau8Ojep2lTzTnu7YRD4gK8nIWFyBr9y649PpqMYfeCmgHZYSonZqqgY/s340/Screenshot%202024-01-14%20at%2000.01.28.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="340" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVhh7876CTCQ23xV7gE3WbgyTIz-4SoQ1zMtAvqh4nFwebx3YsuVYWbiQU9Agrtzw95_v7b-wrrx7rTvR2k7dZyx2Is9LVIvNmxy93Cty22PUXPas27F-aqWFsOyn3U72eS0Fau8Ojep2lTzTnu7YRD4gK8nIWFyBr9y649PpqMYfeCmgHZYSonZqqgY/w640-h576/Screenshot%202024-01-14%20at%2000.01.28.png" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li>The last of 650 spiles, driven into the bottom in clusters, were completed in ten days on January 20, under contractor J.E. O'Shea.</li><li>The cement foundation boxes for masonry buttresses were being filled on January 23, resting on the spiles.</li><li>Tinning by the Pedlar metal roofing company of Oshawa was underway on April 21.</li><li>The north-side marine leg of the elevator, capable of unloading 9,500 bushels/hour and was placed on May 3. The south side's two vessel-loading legs were capable of vessel loading at a rate of 20,000 bu/hr.</li><li>The railway spur was being completed May 11.</li><li>Equipment was tested on May 13, with only minor work required on main floor.</li><li>The steamer <i>Orion</i> was to be unloaded on the evening of May 13, with another 12 vessels waiting to unload. The sloop <i>Echo </i>arrived on May 16 with 22,000 bushels of barley from lake ports. <i>Orion </i>again discharged 13,000 bushels of wheat from Chicago at the elevator on June 2. The sloop <i>Madcap</i> unloaded 1,800 bushels of oats on June 10.</li><li>Dredging by a government dredge was underway near the elevator on June 1.</li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="2013" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaWX96czp_8FtUry7rp3xSZfLYtcYPil9n-sUweK9-tqsOmf-eMqTNi31UxomVNa3cRoH7kMgurH8h-N7PAFsIFjXVu0WpK2IyTauZFO1imJeWK6d8ktQnScIqpeIOXz6lkDcCCg2k_-xtpvSmafI9VFwODHPbCeZ0YmckT769tRNItmkO8IIEHBpF7nE/w640-h210/Richardson%20elevator%201918%20City%20of%20Vancouver%20Archives%20CVA%20260_1910.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Richardson elevator, like the nearby Montreal Transportation Co. elevator, (above, centre in 1918 - City of Vancouver Archives) could only accommodate three boxcars on its spur. It was a busy year for elevator construction, as the <a href="http://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2019/10/orange-meat.html">Kingston Elevator & Transit Co.</a> and <a href="https://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2018/12/postcard-views.html">Montreal Transportation Co. (MTC)</a> had also built elevators along Kingston's waterfront - all three totalling 1,550,000 bushels in capacity. The Richardson 'high-storage' design used spouts, while the 'low-storage' MTC elevator used conveyor belts. Grand Trunk Railway boxcars adjacent to the elevator (undated James Richardson & Sons photo):</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwo_YsSAABoPQmr3w95QEqioQvMjxRqi7AP5jpXvCY1acO-qomeL8YEqlf6-J___9VPGkCCMFz58CbYqrSh614OsinCUgvKX2huVbkVYETpYOKNzIdC57XfdaV9Ij0xpjEA49K3ZUuyNRjh_zVtl6ddaSOtdXe9qJnMWk39ormOvNUwrHAZIepVRSp7A/s1080/kingston%20richardson%20elevator%20undated.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwo_YsSAABoPQmr3w95QEqioQvMjxRqi7AP5jpXvCY1acO-qomeL8YEqlf6-J___9VPGkCCMFz58CbYqrSh614OsinCUgvKX2huVbkVYETpYOKNzIdC57XfdaV9Ij0xpjEA49K3ZUuyNRjh_zVtl6ddaSOtdXe9qJnMWk39ormOvNUwrHAZIepVRSp7A/w640-h640/kingston%20richardson%20elevator%20undated.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Through the late-10's and early 20's, the point of transshipment changed from Kingston to Port Colborne, since the Welland Canal could not accommodate the Upper Lakes' larger vessels. Some grain was handled by the Kingston Richardson elevator for ship-to-rail transshipment, then sent by train to Montreal. The Richardson elevator was the only one of Kingston's three elevators still standing in 1926, when the arrival of several vessels awoke the elevator from its inactivity necessitating 30 workers on site. On September 28, 1933 the 375-foot Robert P. Durham arrived at the elevator with 195,000 bushels of wheat from Fort William. This was only possible after dredging by the Canada Dredging Company. Previously, large boats had often grounded in the harbour! Lake vessels on both sides of the well-labelled Richardson No.1 elevator with boxcar (undated photo courtesy Keitha Pixley) and the right-hand vessel being loaded by both loading spouts:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm3mQ05qJqkZkppW-l5XAmHmFhKD3eSa6Nk85A9zppgMpL3TDz7UXHZBl_79PsF2n8nmcZO64hZQElWHdeqnT0yU-75Mu4Pv8c_7Q88GEZfD70pNJc0LZxOlb7oetHh4YciEWGRjUoOhBmWvMeB7jMaAZCC3FigBvs-OmNHju4TgcqNGba0NNJFd1qo3A/s1100/WIND2%20%20richardson%20elevator%20FROM%20KPP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="1100" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm3mQ05qJqkZkppW-l5XAmHmFhKD3eSa6Nk85A9zppgMpL3TDz7UXHZBl_79PsF2n8nmcZO64hZQElWHdeqnT0yU-75Mu4Pv8c_7Q88GEZfD70pNJc0LZxOlb7oetHh4YciEWGRjUoOhBmWvMeB7jMaAZCC3FigBvs-OmNHju4TgcqNGba0NNJFd1qo3A/w640-h608/WIND2%20%20richardson%20elevator%20FROM%20KPP.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In 1937, the Richardson elevator had a book value of $70,000 for insurance purposes, and by the 1940s was estimated to have a replacement building cost of $90,000. the Kingston Grain Elevator on Front Road was built, and larger grain-carrying vessels were able to transit all the way from the Upper Lakes through the Welland Canal, business was diverted from the Princess Street elevator. The Richardson elevator was sacrificed in the interests of progress, sold in August, 1940 for demolition purposes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXBr6Gr2JaO27mIEtEd98uOBhlkVLWRNPTV-d12hpcMX-OtR5ai8bRHQ0j-MTTE9lGM0NwMcgOPeqZPEIFqnk2DAyLdYFzw6c3YqtjSBVemxuTda6_fV7SKlbSgxCBiHB7JEndpOAhPPR_I3lXQbtlltl77w6A6JK2MhVkD7w2Dz6IhXjftBB6g3i1v0c/s968/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20at%2011.27.25.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="968" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXBr6Gr2JaO27mIEtEd98uOBhlkVLWRNPTV-d12hpcMX-OtR5ai8bRHQ0j-MTTE9lGM0NwMcgOPeqZPEIFqnk2DAyLdYFzw6c3YqtjSBVemxuTda6_fV7SKlbSgxCBiHB7JEndpOAhPPR_I3lXQbtlltl77w6A6JK2MhVkD7w2Dz6IhXjftBB6g3i1v0c/w640-h638/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20at%2011.27.25.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Whig clipping, November 1941 (above). Undated Whig photo appearing to show the Richardson elevator under demolition:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImpU2SAM8CO6hIBJ2FLRZ_7QFx5rKNElUgAkTrrXk9HL5vi_Z01w2NTqD6STbT50bt-goazyu1PfkBEcw2cewscv275rvfVugbBCe02ye9KExKwDaM24jh9WtDGHw3K952f8b8yt9K471qF7pI5GAVOI-aGms1-7dF8bMU-5WPSYi4czaPi-zOiDvhuE/s1567/aa.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1567" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImpU2SAM8CO6hIBJ2FLRZ_7QFx5rKNElUgAkTrrXk9HL5vi_Z01w2NTqD6STbT50bt-goazyu1PfkBEcw2cewscv275rvfVugbBCe02ye9KExKwDaM24jh9WtDGHw3K952f8b8yt9K471qF7pI5GAVOI-aGms1-7dF8bMU-5WPSYi4czaPi-zOiDvhuE/w640-h472/aa.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSrDhCQw9_Xf9Nj0r4NsV0CmwPbfTVo2IQcgvSpNOS4DHIXjAI6okPiyk09n6fmIel-wBHgfVdlv0KftERHxpNJTpb30wo1fHerXZCz-oVKeNEiTJYgNKA2nKy7ZjWGbLUByJpP8yMuNa3WASZViS0SYtnAGZBSaGz9yNxu-XVd6qvRp6IJQKdE2CQQk/s1142/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20at%2011.25.40.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1142" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSrDhCQw9_Xf9Nj0r4NsV0CmwPbfTVo2IQcgvSpNOS4DHIXjAI6okPiyk09n6fmIel-wBHgfVdlv0KftERHxpNJTpb30wo1fHerXZCz-oVKeNEiTJYgNKA2nKy7ZjWGbLUByJpP8yMuNa3WASZViS0SYtnAGZBSaGz9yNxu-XVd6qvRp6IJQKdE2CQQk/w640-h434/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20at%2011.25.40.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">ELEVATOR FIRE AND DEMOLITION</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Frankel Brothers of Toronto was awarded the contract by Vice-President John B. Richardson to demolish the elevator. Considered by Richardson to be not of economic value and in danger of becoming a waterfront eyesore, the Kingston elevator caught fire on the evening of Tuesday, December 23, 1941. Noticed first by an Ordinary Seaman O'Neil of Kingston, on duty at the nearby naval training base formerly the Richardson office, at the foot of Princess Street. The sailors formed a volunteer fire brigade organized by the Naval Lieutenant Sherman Hill, commander of the training base. To save their training vessel <i>Magedoma</i>, formerly the Fulford Yacht of Brockville anchored a mere 150 feet away from the elevator, they kept the sailing vessel's decks wet to prevent sparks landing. Several large freighters were anchored at winter berths only one hundred yards away! The Kingston fire department deployed 6,000 feet of hose, tapping hydrants at the CP station and on Queen and Princess Streets. The elevator was completely destroyed, before its demolition that was already underway, was completed. The original octagonal office, housing a wartime naval training centre at the time, was not damaged.</p><div style="text-align: center;"> Postcard memories:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiortN_Xw4NpdNj6D6yKmhTOaelo4L9TB_bXDszfJIL2uLmcsgUZStNNqO9qWikn6vYP6uV6No80caZbYOayhylDjgOUIGUFQ8KhH0nwVEpZA6pMQeS31YrvEJ0Zff4EGEN_EphUhjat8jOsg0dLIpRlEuQuI7nd8SH1qKDJv_os3-Q3rvs0ogtB4sujNo/s400/aa.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="400" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiortN_Xw4NpdNj6D6yKmhTOaelo4L9TB_bXDszfJIL2uLmcsgUZStNNqO9qWikn6vYP6uV6No80caZbYOayhylDjgOUIGUFQ8KhH0nwVEpZA6pMQeS31YrvEJ0Zff4EGEN_EphUhjat8jOsg0dLIpRlEuQuI7nd8SH1qKDJv_os3-Q3rvs0ogtB4sujNo/w400-h255/aa.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-65009285543460624152024-01-04T22:52:00.003-05:002024-01-04T22:52:57.979-05:00Kingston Inner Harbour Sediment Management Project<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1920" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmoLZ8Z0OaKroNjz6RZK7YJPyGADUBF3oGMbWG0O6aFfWqbxHesOBaNySC6fI10hyphenhyphenODHoXV-vzyTr4XT794lpPZ2cqDDaO4eDly-IQtkgWi72RyYhhBd8vnwRlMIT6EcMDuoaZ8j9J43SGp67ZmizGTo71ClzYRqzCacm6wBIiMIl5fKO5l10FKAmSMs0/w640-h406/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20at%2022.37.28.png" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This blog is not one to promote a particular political or even environmental viewpoint. I don't profess to know enough about such issues to blog about them. However, I have learned a lot about Kingston's waterfront industrial history, and that includes the Inner Harbour upstream from the Lasalle Causeway. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just today I learned that the Kingston Inner Harbour Sediment Management Project website is live, and I spent some time looking at the information and materials presented there. I've heard pros and cons about remediating, stabilizing and even dredging the Inner Harbour after years of heavy industrial impact. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.kihproject-projetpik.ca/Home/IndexEN">The website opens with, "<i>The Kingston Inner Harbour (KIH) Sediment Management Project is a Transport Canada and Parks Canada shared project to manage contaminated sediment within federal water lots at KIH. The goal is to balance protecting sensitive species, habitats, and valued features while reducing risks associated with contamination. Currently the project is in the planning stage with work anticipated to begin between 2025 and 2027."</i></a> ...click previous to go to website</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I would commend this information on the website to anyone with a sincere interest in discussing what's best for our city's future. We are in the early stages of discussing this issue I believe being informed is the first step, and this website is an early marker in the discussion. Several narrated slide decks, Q&A and other information sets are presented for public viewing. Sample slides:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR1cUZv_Eiy58XPtL-qLNRj7w07nRBnNXtS9BZ-A_29XUjXaioBVkYRQojzBEt8K0iknGg3LWD4wwHd5QHiuoNR7d5j2W81FJtMiiBJH97y86AxMhjdFpf3vFVGOATe75gKl1BQxQig7MAHOOf8byJVinrGZ6x__eR_P12Ay7BSIz40BTqxzLlZvG21xY/s1432/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20at%2022.36.15.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1432" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR1cUZv_Eiy58XPtL-qLNRj7w07nRBnNXtS9BZ-A_29XUjXaioBVkYRQojzBEt8K0iknGg3LWD4wwHd5QHiuoNR7d5j2W81FJtMiiBJH97y86AxMhjdFpf3vFVGOATe75gKl1BQxQig7MAHOOf8byJVinrGZ6x__eR_P12Ay7BSIz40BTqxzLlZvG21xY/w640-h360/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20at%2022.36.15.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Informative slides showing effluent that for many decades seeped into the harbour from tanneries and other industrial applications.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8dzBVkoYDOI_xY6iZJPYHDUgecqzxmqBrFG0wl-mXhqrvwzzh_iNOVkdjlkp7XR3WnjNuREx5EuU8iwSBKd9oUM4Cl9RJo4iwV2OxRyKKrsq8MMHikniGgmTGZ_YFOGszQM-8UOWfsg2pn_aQmE8OOtUwuqQGwT89sVFR66vVWHREjp-eeJlGyVRr-c/s1432/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20at%2022.35.18.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1432" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO8dzBVkoYDOI_xY6iZJPYHDUgecqzxmqBrFG0wl-mXhqrvwzzh_iNOVkdjlkp7XR3WnjNuREx5EuU8iwSBKd9oUM4Cl9RJo4iwV2OxRyKKrsq8MMHikniGgmTGZ_YFOGszQM-8UOWfsg2pn_aQmE8OOtUwuqQGwT89sVFR66vVWHREjp-eeJlGyVRr-c/w640-h360/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20at%2022.35.18.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-67020956162820100532024-01-04T11:20:00.006-05:002024-02-16T23:23:22.720-05:00W.P. Peters Seed Co. - History<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHY0FaZNcmktPif7HuIfeHorpkbJzvz_6Scr45viNxJvQFIOBY411bW1L_U_9DNGotvIoqU46xZm69MfhOMUORnIxCF-Lya3lvwBP6fqy0I4cL-ir2fxyuw1RvaONGTQwDCIrmo42uSWHKtEyGVThhhZhWN3AtQDHbGI_2NhhQYKSa00lMwC3B21poCdg/s1789/Peters%20Ontario%20St%201959%20.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="1789" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHY0FaZNcmktPif7HuIfeHorpkbJzvz_6Scr45viNxJvQFIOBY411bW1L_U_9DNGotvIoqU46xZm69MfhOMUORnIxCF-Lya3lvwBP6fqy0I4cL-ir2fxyuw1RvaONGTQwDCIrmo42uSWHKtEyGVThhhZhWN3AtQDHbGI_2NhhQYKSa00lMwC3B21poCdg/w640-h482/Peters%20Ontario%20St%201959%20.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Imagine telling Kingston tourists that the glitzy entertainment district around City Hall used to be filled with dusty coal yards and seedy grain elevators! Early on, Kingston was a busy Great Lakes port handling grain, coal and lumber though its importance later diminished as other ports and canals developed. About five months after being sold to the United Co-operatives of Ontario, a nicely-lit 8x10 black 7 white photo of the Peters Seed Company limestone warehouse, variously listed as 267-269, 271, 267-275, 275 or "foot of" Princess Street was taken on August 2, 1959 (top photo - Queen's University Archives, Kingston Picture Collection V23.6-8 and George E.O.Lilley Fonds V25.5-34-78 C -below):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcCw4cc9N7pzL65VkTfXTb3Jkmk8_LOpayHKuvk56GeyfxnqaqOrTltrDeuU0CV9eEAhWO1Cp4iQhZygTgNYJtwDbT_YWE8iBU8sAuVGimqyUM682HeIDsnVAwJkGAb1aA97w9MfAYoGHsO7lQzkVhIddvb9zSUQ6IMse7Z7DPy3qsykbQzGmwVynxHo/s2833/V25_5-34-78.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="2833" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcCw4cc9N7pzL65VkTfXTb3Jkmk8_LOpayHKuvk56GeyfxnqaqOrTltrDeuU0CV9eEAhWO1Cp4iQhZygTgNYJtwDbT_YWE8iBU8sAuVGimqyUM682HeIDsnVAwJkGAb1aA97w9MfAYoGHsO7lQzkVhIddvb9zSUQ6IMse7Z7DPy3qsykbQzGmwVynxHo/w640-h312/V25_5-34-78.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This 1929 fire-insurance map image (below) shows Ontario Street between Princess (left) and Queen (to right). The theme of this post is the W.D.[sic] Peters seed warehouse on Ontario Street (blue) and an additional warehouse with CN spur (brown) closer to the waterfront:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkrbzNwZ988RqFun9wND9s0AG-MymbIlNKt_hNlrpD7HYFBSugoXUYQh1Th5m8ML2Gd2q6J9USnLSVLF_XO0ZQANitzhGDCc6aEQI2zjey8jWEbSBeiY4O7Bt11OXJsXHbGUj1PAiqGgEtBqhe1DlnteK_XW_fi-ZtpXU7ZABig0Z9KL4lqPAziPwrhY/s1718/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20at%2007.21.55.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1718" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkrbzNwZ988RqFun9wND9s0AG-MymbIlNKt_hNlrpD7HYFBSugoXUYQh1Th5m8ML2Gd2q6J9USnLSVLF_XO0ZQANitzhGDCc6aEQI2zjey8jWEbSBeiY4O7Bt11OXJsXHbGUj1PAiqGgEtBqhe1DlnteK_XW_fi-ZtpXU7ZABig0Z9KL4lqPAziPwrhY/w640-h420/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20at%2007.21.55.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fellow Kingston history enthusiast Marc Shaw recently shared these four clippings on the early years of the Peters operation - the inspiration for this post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYbACQsmkqsqW0N7C_eQIRXrwHplfMKn0ZVF1TmBJEqN5_cWgg3MkeQC4__ycmQ599MBff8tOj6tSjJMUtmnyuGriMymSOxq4xQCZK9bhH92Nz6J9awyWyTf6EGpjKRXdbV4e-B9u8MqqtvJaoJOTn6esk9SP43rCnFb0io8g1T0MHyEtzhozqsnW1so/s1406/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.19.53.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1406" data-original-width="538" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZYbACQsmkqsqW0N7C_eQIRXrwHplfMKn0ZVF1TmBJEqN5_cWgg3MkeQC4__ycmQ599MBff8tOj6tSjJMUtmnyuGriMymSOxq4xQCZK9bhH92Nz6J9awyWyTf6EGpjKRXdbV4e-B9u8MqqtvJaoJOTn6esk9SP43rCnFb0io8g1T0MHyEtzhozqsnW1so/w244-h640/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.19.53.jpeg" width="244" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiap_xxlRqKoMq3GffeZCR8dTmymtnk6X5Kr9QCFGeqMIbAatjlxWPt7ZdQyGF2ktAUSJ_c40mTDL7sAHMWc5VCYGPcFI7B7982j9IfOFCL6tfsmXE4IFl2iY2Jkbq5BaVEHB0DHBMRwB1aN5VEg7adpe3fAChIDlVblp2uHaYd4bi4xBp4jwrjY9maLMI/s1338/ad.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1338" data-original-width="416" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiap_xxlRqKoMq3GffeZCR8dTmymtnk6X5Kr9QCFGeqMIbAatjlxWPt7ZdQyGF2ktAUSJ_c40mTDL7sAHMWc5VCYGPcFI7B7982j9IfOFCL6tfsmXE4IFl2iY2Jkbq5BaVEHB0DHBMRwB1aN5VEg7adpe3fAChIDlVblp2uHaYd4bi4xBp4jwrjY9maLMI/w198-h640/ad.jpeg" width="198" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Marc added the following: <i>As often happens, I was looking up something else when I happened on a couple of articles about William Palmer Peters (1872-1968) and his seed company. I was a bit familiar with him, having a very tangential relationship in that he was my great-aunt's brother-in-law.</i></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>He first appears in the city directories in the mid 1890s, working as a labourer and a weighman for the celebrated Richardson grain firm. By 1897, he had branched out on his own, and had begun what ultimately became a very large and successful wholesale and retail business dealing in flour, feed, and seed. Beginning at 65 Brock Street, he moved to 117 Brock Street after a few years and then finally to 267-275 Ontario Street. </i><i>Concurrently with his business success, he dabbled in car sales and had a very long career in municipal politics, from about 1911 to 1946. He was the Mayor of Kingston in 1934. H</i><i>e lived until the age of 96, and ran his company until well into his 80s. It was a very long and productive life!</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguju3x0B_UKKBxXdMB3455FubqlJL59F5NQK15BlwYNfai5AwN9eDHSJ-8EEn-_C4r5kveNg95fmvi-GhvxX_U8OsJF6uRYIkfWafpVq2IusnoC3YSxtW_RJ1kEHBPxVTMmF__nur2ljyerOQMWX3-cbse2BAHJ_d4vH_Crkpflw_jD0iLweuLGoj5fHA/s1318/ac.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="1162" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguju3x0B_UKKBxXdMB3455FubqlJL59F5NQK15BlwYNfai5AwN9eDHSJ-8EEn-_C4r5kveNg95fmvi-GhvxX_U8OsJF6uRYIkfWafpVq2IusnoC3YSxtW_RJ1kEHBPxVTMmF__nur2ljyerOQMWX3-cbse2BAHJ_d4vH_Crkpflw_jD0iLweuLGoj5fHA/w564-h640/ac.jpeg" width="564" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">W.P. Peters opened a feed and seed business in 1897, relocating its operation from Brock Street to 267-275 Ontario Street, circa 1918 when a CN spur was built at the rear of the building which could only hold a single car at the unloading platform. Carrying products like Lake of the Woods flour, feed and mill stuffs, lawn and flower seeds, upon W.P. Peters' retirement in 1943 the business was transferred to Vernon Morrison, though retaining the Peters name. The upper-storey grain storage area caught fire on April 5, 1945. In 1960, the founder’s son, W.R. Peters became manager, changing the name of the business to Kingston Co-operative Seeds and relocating to a new location at 93 Counter Street in 1963. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfcOJpyaCx85NiExg-MtUbVSWL9SGMvOUk6TT6SKmqmJyH-8x9uxvKMUijQlv6RaEkpLTUAj5oOURVfAfZhAdu9vvhWUKKqWowBP7RPVy7PXbiHWADSRtfwX58mkpavB8wawb7Q-0MtsM0uL0auN94sQQvNOhe4U32un1vqo46Ky-IkVkwn-ZtzUmwkV4/s1290/ae.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfcOJpyaCx85NiExg-MtUbVSWL9SGMvOUk6TT6SKmqmJyH-8x9uxvKMUijQlv6RaEkpLTUAj5oOURVfAfZhAdu9vvhWUKKqWowBP7RPVy7PXbiHWADSRtfwX58mkpavB8wawb7Q-0MtsM0uL0auN94sQQvNOhe4U32un1vqo46Ky-IkVkwn-ZtzUmwkV4/w382-h640/ae.jpeg" width="382" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A door-open CN boxcar can be seen spotted near the two-storey Peters warehouse on the dock, formerly a Naval Reserve training building during World War II, and James Richardson Grain office. Coast Guard buoys are in the foreground and the Topnotch mill at centre background (Queen's University Archives, City of Kingston Planning Department V123.1-file 4) taken in 1959 or 1960.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfws7LX12t5NUsM_jpYA7YdGCWvGWS8Q2xpUO7IIn1bq5dLVg5Ac1-rmV5ErIQP644-W4QNNoOUfOf8TUysTVkOYmkuUp7ZEMaMg1rrSo6DfBnLjmKGZw5AFCb8XLUAamHmAJJEJkKRXFPZmfqHmIpLh5yU0fOFYxR8qy9Z9f0g25YBro_p2P9QfRIEXg/s4633/CN%20boxcar%20closeup%20on%20waterfront%20C%20of%20K%20archives%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2165" data-original-width="4633" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfws7LX12t5NUsM_jpYA7YdGCWvGWS8Q2xpUO7IIn1bq5dLVg5Ac1-rmV5ErIQP644-W4QNNoOUfOf8TUysTVkOYmkuUp7ZEMaMg1rrSo6DfBnLjmKGZw5AFCb8XLUAamHmAJJEJkKRXFPZmfqHmIpLh5yU0fOFYxR8qy9Z9f0g25YBro_p2P9QfRIEXg/w640-h300/CN%20boxcar%20closeup%20on%20waterfront%20C%20of%20K%20archives%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYq0W9_QFWn_rsozqAkrD_CW4aDSfhJQQgKpik87bYebQVOlaNe7uk-ozUNmoL9po5hGCg8xPeEu5BF3SXR4aK8D6EDpsByVfZlyc1icz9vghyphenhyphengR1Ta92MBX4yXiVmnJTKMlk1eFM_yGP3pi5S9eEYgQLOPw8PzrP48o4VTigLb86aaz66vMnCZf9-vk8/s2619/Foot%20of%20Princess%20St%20CP%20switching%20engine%20closer%20to%20station%20George%20Lilley%20aerial%208-2%20Oct%201947%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1494" data-original-width="2619" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYq0W9_QFWn_rsozqAkrD_CW4aDSfhJQQgKpik87bYebQVOlaNe7uk-ozUNmoL9po5hGCg8xPeEu5BF3SXR4aK8D6EDpsByVfZlyc1icz9vghyphenhyphengR1Ta92MBX4yXiVmnJTKMlk1eFM_yGP3pi5S9eEYgQLOPw8PzrP48o4VTigLb86aaz66vMnCZf9-vk8/w640-h366/Foot%20of%20Princess%20St%20CP%20switching%20engine%20closer%20to%20station%20George%20Lilley%20aerial%208-2%20Oct%201947%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two closeups from an aerial photo showing a Canadian Pacific steam engine with three boxcars behind the Peters building on Ontario Street, with a logo-less Canadian Pacific (?) boxcar sitting on their VERY short spur. Were it not for the pre-existing nature of the limestone building, it's unlikely a modern railway would install an expensive track switch for a one-car spot (Queen's University Archives, George E.O. Lilley fonds V25.6-8-1).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV59xlJoFU0P8nA_9K79craLhItjOYpetJq6CP8aLMd_6mKXVLNf2jhnp8HmjR1VHWKsgfrhZbtiHR1Rphk0Wdt96BSi2Po4nPy88o8HzvmJnAjSlvftZ3q3O6rzJYY-XrFIOpCzzc5ph-KUI-o28Jo-Ob_7zaDk-YYcnHcqQ3b2Jt-50Scmx3Ak5DKcw/s900/Foot%20of%20Princess%20to%20Queen%20Street%201947%20George%20Lilley%20photo%20via%20A%20Jeanes.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="900" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV59xlJoFU0P8nA_9K79craLhItjOYpetJq6CP8aLMd_6mKXVLNf2jhnp8HmjR1VHWKsgfrhZbtiHR1Rphk0Wdt96BSi2Po4nPy88o8HzvmJnAjSlvftZ3q3O6rzJYY-XrFIOpCzzc5ph-KUI-o28Jo-Ob_7zaDk-YYcnHcqQ3b2Jt-50Scmx3Ak5DKcw/w640-h352/Foot%20of%20Princess%20to%20Queen%20Street%201947%20George%20Lilley%20photo%20via%20A%20Jeanes.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another feed mill, visible in waterfront photos with its checkerboard elevating tower, was operated by Topnotch Feeds - May 1950 Whig ad (below). The business was moved to a larger building at Counter and Division Streets by 1970, now operated by Kingston Plate & Window Glass.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdLOQaurZtzPiVN3XVBFqmVgJ_UHHxspPPQ9upHzalk9JPUZW8L5x_0PuNZ8qXPAHtjdDVEdochTK_0h0ELfeiaZAjCckE1YWkC6fCj7NHX6jNTKAIqYCMZr4SRz5uXEk54UFLHKwGbyBqSq31gv9liPV8_7NB5FpDxKw_P0DC1Z0bJVZJsqPd6CZPBg/s1206/Topnotch_Feeds_formerly_HP_Purdy_May_13_1950.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1206" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdLOQaurZtzPiVN3XVBFqmVgJ_UHHxspPPQ9upHzalk9JPUZW8L5x_0PuNZ8qXPAHtjdDVEdochTK_0h0ELfeiaZAjCckE1YWkC6fCj7NHX6jNTKAIqYCMZr4SRz5uXEk54UFLHKwGbyBqSq31gv9liPV8_7NB5FpDxKw_P0DC1Z0bJVZJsqPd6CZPBg/s320/Topnotch_Feeds_formerly_HP_Purdy_May_13_1950.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An intriguing series of five photos of the Topnotch feed mill taken on May 18, 1961 (Queen's University Archives, George E.O. Lilley fonds V25.5-28-63). </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5tf3YVMMuuUae4inQTjRINqrxa1My658Eo0N4jGzO4vBk5Aa4Lh8VLQCexl_vBBFPK75ADmAw3dhy8QkAScpXZM1TdnDgXWH8QNT3YVjiriDiDghdEVutiyEDvrI-S_MHWYMVBtZdmzfrhitGCyV1TDzwIEvVrC2GOFxtibCK2JvlAjwVi2jepSaQMw/s2024/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.35.47.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2024" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh5tf3YVMMuuUae4inQTjRINqrxa1My658Eo0N4jGzO4vBk5Aa4Lh8VLQCexl_vBBFPK75ADmAw3dhy8QkAScpXZM1TdnDgXWH8QNT3YVjiriDiDghdEVutiyEDvrI-S_MHWYMVBtZdmzfrhitGCyV1TDzwIEvVrC2GOFxtibCK2JvlAjwVi2jepSaQMw/w640-h370/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.35.47.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Period billboards with the Public Utilities Commission (later site of Kingston Police headquarters) brick building across Ontario Street at right (above) and harbour view:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3wHJlmucll2YLclknA_EkhCPQaA8DHGjeMV54iWcsLP7ut3eiQC0SjPYf_UjHhJh9nSRPVH-G-GKNMUgjcdNH_xyy3maJj02ZqAjF1tZMUR81x2vIFdXTBjNkcW1sOlzjoFzeNOV8n121WAC_tx19dx7MJUtlvgJsOA427doPzcHJavTyXoa-xkk6rE/s1918/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.36.08.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="1918" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3wHJlmucll2YLclknA_EkhCPQaA8DHGjeMV54iWcsLP7ut3eiQC0SjPYf_UjHhJh9nSRPVH-G-GKNMUgjcdNH_xyy3maJj02ZqAjF1tZMUR81x2vIFdXTBjNkcW1sOlzjoFzeNOV8n121WAC_tx19dx7MJUtlvgJsOA427doPzcHJavTyXoa-xkk6rE/w640-h412/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.36.08.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The loading/unloading door angled to meet the CN spur <span style="text-align: left;">with a loading pipe from the elevator visible at the top of the White Owl cigar billboard:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhAvnFm9JR07LoBobLv4T9mUWH3qnT04g5wG4jVMnEPLs3tPpR0E0uQmrkmpBD8ZY3hj0iSPRnESEZ_gnLevSJrs6lb4CwsYx6T46zUdb3d7icqPIi4nBR26LVeEI1A6YkQZTukJUApg43oA9pOH8ya2vb3dNb9QBzmP0gCAZoUZ1bZiDCHVsoi7CsUE/s1121/Kingston%20marina%20feed%20mill%20May%2018%201961%20b%20George%20Lilley%20Archives%20QUA.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="1121" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDhAvnFm9JR07LoBobLv4T9mUWH3qnT04g5wG4jVMnEPLs3tPpR0E0uQmrkmpBD8ZY3hj0iSPRnESEZ_gnLevSJrs6lb4CwsYx6T46zUdb3d7icqPIi4nBR26LVeEI1A6YkQZTukJUApg43oA9pOH8ya2vb3dNb9QBzmP0gCAZoUZ1bZiDCHVsoi7CsUE/w640-h404/Kingston%20marina%20feed%20mill%20May%2018%201961%20b%20George%20Lilley%20Archives%20QUA.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Broken windows facing the harbour, the rails barely showing in the dirt:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAP0ETAluHaLcmgfTkIuq2jLYx_yUIF69H-lGnS796Ub2Ez4_F75JfOuZnLbi-TyYMKJnsIwTvWinpKgizTQ7UhAi5gR9xSqF5Y4nFoNJ5gOw7hjQ3HEPImTkscOJF9UeGx8kOCJcrzKMBtSqYIlpR8x1ZVURCR5l2w4JJ8_TvXYjY4Zkso13baEeTylw/s817/Kingston%20marina%20feed%20mill%20May%2018%201961%20d%20George%20Lilley%20Archives%20QUA.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="817" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAP0ETAluHaLcmgfTkIuq2jLYx_yUIF69H-lGnS796Ub2Ez4_F75JfOuZnLbi-TyYMKJnsIwTvWinpKgizTQ7UhAi5gR9xSqF5Y4nFoNJ5gOw7hjQ3HEPImTkscOJF9UeGx8kOCJcrzKMBtSqYIlpR8x1ZVURCR5l2w4JJ8_TvXYjY4Zkso13baEeTylw/w640-h632/Kingston%20marina%20feed%20mill%20May%2018%201961%20d%20George%20Lilley%20Archives%20QUA.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">View from Ontario Street toward the lake, with lighting for the billboards visible at centre. The warehouse was built for the Tweed Milling Co. circa 1935 and Moore Neon is operating the office at the time these photos were taken, originally built as Donoghue Grain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uiHVVaGePxgQP2jCS7YBJTXfk26TfgfNalZs6h6QTEnnWmDxZYAwKxL8BGbPNLj27HhPcxPi9QmCsKI7vwzypyMdL4L7GEaXTcTeNADWMaJLwK4VJCFRVCYRJEThLAsMTM-bUgnH0rRKcwmd_9QUgEZQIidZGHXGrUEMd8ksFwN4xiClGVZNi7AnWYk/s905/Kingston%20marina%20feed%20mill%20May%2018%201961%20e%20George%20Lilley%20Archives%20QUA.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="905" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uiHVVaGePxgQP2jCS7YBJTXfk26TfgfNalZs6h6QTEnnWmDxZYAwKxL8BGbPNLj27HhPcxPi9QmCsKI7vwzypyMdL4L7GEaXTcTeNADWMaJLwK4VJCFRVCYRJEThLAsMTM-bUgnH0rRKcwmd_9QUgEZQIidZGHXGrUEMd8ksFwN4xiClGVZNi7AnWYk/w640-h550/Kingston%20marina%20feed%20mill%20May%2018%201961%20e%20George%20Lilley%20Archives%20QUA.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Back to Peters....an early 1960s colour photo taken from the opposite side of Ontario Street (Queen's University Archives, Hazelgrove Slide Collection 1.71). Having already moved to 93 Counter Street, there's a "we have moved" sign in the ground-floor window and the building is for sale:</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsCtG1ga6DWigoKlW4jD9IMN6OWM_5VGwsbw9nRBIQ56vMAtfZcrFAL7Iw-5lyEtPuYCHtWv4T_Nb3wohAJfK5rVMPjleEmfp-A9oKt5J_3dgEXTo1oK6jnUZmo956GxmUbsW9zLGcnxwvgboA5TeM8vg5Oz0U0MXBd7l4VIiv0W46s9f7m_8ZM73AtEs/s2100/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.41.33.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1332" data-original-width="2100" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsCtG1ga6DWigoKlW4jD9IMN6OWM_5VGwsbw9nRBIQ56vMAtfZcrFAL7Iw-5lyEtPuYCHtWv4T_Nb3wohAJfK5rVMPjleEmfp-A9oKt5J_3dgEXTo1oK6jnUZmo956GxmUbsW9zLGcnxwvgboA5TeM8vg5Oz0U0MXBd7l4VIiv0W46s9f7m_8ZM73AtEs/w640-h406/Screenshot%202024-01-03%20at%2017.41.33.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The new Co-op building at 93 Counter Street, from the Division Street end on May 12, 1960 (Queen's University Archives, George E.O. Lilley fonds V25.5-26-177). The current Executive House, former home of Hanson & Edgar, was built on the site in 1964.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpEf0hBL-6-T1vuUuc1NJw2v3YCtFMQvohq87_TdKjaAKLkUB7H34jzhBXzUc38cRpMbC3sw7pu9lo1LreeNYqcQjsg2FDYFehUgIRGRmjk45UIvHIxWEayiux6IyWxd_bLUvbMhWKRe07qzZqSavnMkbYOJFJRxhgAKd3RZvdJ4EwYS7nLwFfcz9J9A/s1148/Co%20Op%20building%20Counter%20ST%20May%2012%201960%20a%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="1148" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpEf0hBL-6-T1vuUuc1NJw2v3YCtFMQvohq87_TdKjaAKLkUB7H34jzhBXzUc38cRpMbC3sw7pu9lo1LreeNYqcQjsg2FDYFehUgIRGRmjk45UIvHIxWEayiux6IyWxd_bLUvbMhWKRe07qzZqSavnMkbYOJFJRxhgAKd3RZvdJ4EwYS7nLwFfcz9J9A/w640-h254/Co%20Op%20building%20Counter%20ST%20May%2012%201960%20a%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another view from the Rigney Street end (below). My Dad and I often stopped in on Saturday mornings to buy items such as winter coats, chicken wire and bird seed. Once no longer operated by United Co-Operatives, Tractor Supply/TSC and Peavey have been subsequent owners.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja3dUsUP3LOHiiMpLHeKRP_AlkWw3NV_6rUkcg-jlgw6tLZ5D1UPGdQAduzgn_iNSn8mL2vKaBrzn0_mxrbGpEo3ACF60g72RiEYM3EzpTrHoj6ISIZDgLrGfJQLu5VE7-Yt3PugiO90XDElhw2jScL7u04zhJzYSN_9CG3BMkSzYxJ04f7ncCmi14Oes/s1062/Co%20Op%20building%20Counter%20ST%20May%2012%201960%20b%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="1062" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja3dUsUP3LOHiiMpLHeKRP_AlkWw3NV_6rUkcg-jlgw6tLZ5D1UPGdQAduzgn_iNSn8mL2vKaBrzn0_mxrbGpEo3ACF60g72RiEYM3EzpTrHoj6ISIZDgLrGfJQLu5VE7-Yt3PugiO90XDElhw2jScL7u04zhJzYSN_9CG3BMkSzYxJ04f7ncCmi14Oes/w640-h298/Co%20Op%20building%20Counter%20ST%20May%2012%201960%20b%20George%20Lilley%20Fonds%20QUA.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-86738986053649905912023-12-28T15:18:00.005-05:002023-12-28T15:18:46.587-05:00Modelling Presland - a Structural Flat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwcrktDDYFJ-Zmjokak1HvhXbN2KxZf7QygB898diUtGMrK7F_GOmoY4I_mUEQUBFmcx-1XhtnIniKYfhlI_UDgMDEuKB8AbZpEXQ9Mimcb-Dyyv-UhYAMz8I-Nw6BbEabDIkPC8lFf2d3we3SSfXYhIMhxoqQ-nhB49ySa-oLe0lOUkbT0Z2j9kzS43E/s3968/IMG_9713.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2038" data-original-width="3968" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwcrktDDYFJ-Zmjokak1HvhXbN2KxZf7QygB898diUtGMrK7F_GOmoY4I_mUEQUBFmcx-1XhtnIniKYfhlI_UDgMDEuKB8AbZpEXQ9Mimcb-Dyyv-UhYAMz8I-Nw6BbEabDIkPC8lFf2d3we3SSfXYhIMhxoqQ-nhB49ySa-oLe0lOUkbT0Z2j9kzS43E/w640-h328/IMG_9713.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2022/03/reliance-moulding-and-several.html">Reliance Moulding</a> building on Maple Street is presently operated by Presland Iron and Steel. On my HO-scale Kingston's Hanley Spur layout, I have a spur serving the property used by both CN and CP. It's a rambling structure, and I wanted to increase its profile as a structural flat. The finished product (top photo) and I'll describe the build and the prototype in this post.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXFSVt9fEK_EErHuQVSRZ3X8tRpID5VCE_R6GEWYWEH3olgVt3aiWN3NGOrOeYQHNPL6Jugyc6Eye8FWaqeVhMtEPR4c8R-J0uaHQkTrXR8DsA65YhvBGwE-I2y8OG3u7oIOG-yVo0imlInP-Ksg8Xu33oiLKgkUtkE9gonsi9DH9sX7tnA425Dza55c/s4032/montreal%20and%20maple%20street%20walk%20july%202022%20h.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2524" data-original-width="4032" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcXFSVt9fEK_EErHuQVSRZ3X8tRpID5VCE_R6GEWYWEH3olgVt3aiWN3NGOrOeYQHNPL6Jugyc6Eye8FWaqeVhMtEPR4c8R-J0uaHQkTrXR8DsA65YhvBGwE-I2y8OG3u7oIOG-yVo0imlInP-Ksg8Xu33oiLKgkUtkE9gonsi9DH9sX7tnA425Dza55c/w640-h400/montreal%20and%20maple%20street%20walk%20july%202022%20h.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The north side of the property as seen from John Counter Boulevard:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-VZy-hpj1iQLareOXzJQST8nEw3I5Ft1R0Z38pKZD4-cTwGWpheWjd_BsOx19ytY4C8Cv8gi9BITs0P1PL06pAVghdl6tPdATeNHZg0KoauL4YIrZLDeif-WC_JKBVapUyRzwwSuQsE1C5x0KHeccO_wtkHNjh5mGfUftVwyvHklV1j7Fu7zEnypRBE/s3995/montreal%20and%20maple%20street%20walk%20july%202022%20g.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="3995" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-VZy-hpj1iQLareOXzJQST8nEw3I5Ft1R0Z38pKZD4-cTwGWpheWjd_BsOx19ytY4C8Cv8gi9BITs0P1PL06pAVghdl6tPdATeNHZg0KoauL4YIrZLDeif-WC_JKBVapUyRzwwSuQsE1C5x0KHeccO_wtkHNjh5mGfUftVwyvHklV1j7Fu7zEnypRBE/w640-h246/montreal%20and%20maple%20street%20walk%20july%202022%20g.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was always a railway spur to this property, initially built by the CP but later jointly-served by CN once CP's alignment into Kingston changed. The spur was likely used for inbound and outbound loads for the various companies that occupied the property. In my modelled era of 1970, marking the start of Presland's use of the property, it's likely steel loads were received in gondola cars and handled by the overhead travelling crane.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WeW1vOaY3vPFOq1ojfoMhupMt2t_j-rdjmxSoDdkRg7TYszCphZ7gSdFR-4ox61-0O3HBsQmduULp8mBgKEKgOEARAcNwolQ1320NcW7MY5X8cqyS0MYykBU8mCot4S6DitU_ElqFJcejXXoatYyQDADOeMkSaSgUmHGz6DS8O7IYZybcCw1Yzy_zlg/s3948/montreal%20and%20maple%20street%20walk%20july%202022%20g%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2659" data-original-width="3948" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WeW1vOaY3vPFOq1ojfoMhupMt2t_j-rdjmxSoDdkRg7TYszCphZ7gSdFR-4ox61-0O3HBsQmduULp8mBgKEKgOEARAcNwolQ1320NcW7MY5X8cqyS0MYykBU8mCot4S6DitU_ElqFJcejXXoatYyQDADOeMkSaSgUmHGz6DS8O7IYZybcCw1Yzy_zlg/w640-h432/montreal%20and%20maple%20street%20walk%20july%202022%20g%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Travelling from the north side of the property (above) to the south side (below), I only model a small portion of the crane. This is the third structural flat I've placed here. The first was a holdover from my Vancouver Wharves layout. The second was a cardstock/paper flat with a Gould Battery sign on the roof.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOknUntpSwG_uEnFMOaRrirKjW7tprQPFVy-w1Wr7qHFCjJda9oswQaxWx_CoSS2jF2fbjlvDMgMVJjyJL1FkZy-cDo-_wEVF646swnkoWZpKHcqsfR8dbIyjY2sQm9EXSsKttMlTDlSQcx92eD70tQRSwPvMmrfa_FQA4KHPJxqGa6DD7jgZBwEwgNg/w640-h480/montreal%20and%20maple%20street%20walk%20july%202022%20i.JPG" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">My first step was to rummage through my structure parts drawer to find some likely components. I found a side wall of the Walthers Municipal Pier Terminal kit (below-at left) and some other components with prototype photo printed off:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqGHUlrrbkbCQ93yUrtVqA73WqvZusVRUkmR-hkadYpuLlOVvS7m9xCbG6kv8AiKKsSMoZZUCpK_oEHDvm8Y-ydAlbuK5FnywJdPMPgMdqMIgANERVmZQUyELKYcPX5f7WNzPzGCgxL4bc36YUJTaX6z4t6L-km0raLCqCxEXuCaA-Fs8-xL1pOgC99HQ/s3634/IMG_9337.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2192" data-original-width="3634" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqGHUlrrbkbCQ93yUrtVqA73WqvZusVRUkmR-hkadYpuLlOVvS7m9xCbG6kv8AiKKsSMoZZUCpK_oEHDvm8Y-ydAlbuK5FnywJdPMPgMdqMIgANERVmZQUyELKYcPX5f7WNzPzGCgxL4bc36YUJTaX6z4t6L-km0raLCqCxEXuCaA-Fs8-xL1pOgC99HQ/w640-h386/IMG_9337.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I decided I wanted nearly two full storeys, and selected this wall component before removing some height at bottom. With this done, it would line up with the travelling crane better:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaU41__ciwuYDXdZpXq4fBVY7_t-RHxj89yFrYiSsQaeIYfuFM_wnBk-nD4bqobeJT5Io1iRf60NynWCGKhXJzgSCf1Y60gIrMRoneP0plQLb-1WcLyBNj0FZgWWoLJDsN1sLnHpq3XW8OzkxKbC7JjX_bDlt1LfpDjrNgzUnlGKMVOxi851TUwKo2-Mk/s3545/IMG_9339.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2302" data-original-width="3545" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaU41__ciwuYDXdZpXq4fBVY7_t-RHxj89yFrYiSsQaeIYfuFM_wnBk-nD4bqobeJT5Io1iRf60NynWCGKhXJzgSCf1Y60gIrMRoneP0plQLb-1WcLyBNj0FZgWWoLJDsN1sLnHpq3XW8OzkxKbC7JjX_bDlt1LfpDjrNgzUnlGKMVOxi851TUwKo2-Mk/w640-h416/IMG_9339.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now to fill in some holes, to give the building a modified-over-the-years look. I used two brick wall sections, another at top right, a grey sliding door from the Walthers kit, and added one platform:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzvrjtIe1-2pYb58WV_i1J4X-_D2_Ya7Dhl1ZxeGvHRzPmblqFj-CDcuDh8Ra7-s7sIr3Pr8RTqXodkv5DQMsmN2IS7wr0gBBmtqRLgjfK3Pf71ssLXmm228usMFByZlMs8uKWlp5CdIPfH_-4yoyWFMG4R3OyvjzTA-VanVpsZ3I0DQKNvEU_KoJDrw/s3437/IMG_9669.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2108" data-original-width="3437" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzvrjtIe1-2pYb58WV_i1J4X-_D2_Ya7Dhl1ZxeGvHRzPmblqFj-CDcuDh8Ra7-s7sIr3Pr8RTqXodkv5DQMsmN2IS7wr0gBBmtqRLgjfK3Pf71ssLXmm228usMFByZlMs8uKWlp5CdIPfH_-4yoyWFMG4R3OyvjzTA-VanVpsZ3I0DQKNvEU_KoJDrw/w640-h392/IMG_9669.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Colours are hard to distinguish from black & white photos, but I went with an overall cream colour:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvgvs56PvQjqR_Qf0pcE3ZuGvjDkJnTal6VSKtB62uch6JT7Djz-9pvR_pTI6zimoeRr_QW3afTUyWjT2eYQz8pdkE_m6pHt1Pbz1ZSCFX4-8m3DqlalM12UxAtbtHRymC9kxg3JPsTGvV1dc5AG5ULfbsQzmWngBNfIHc4_NNOR5J1c9cCBZc86zb8I/s3734/IMG_9671.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1877" data-original-width="3734" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvgvs56PvQjqR_Qf0pcE3ZuGvjDkJnTal6VSKtB62uch6JT7Djz-9pvR_pTI6zimoeRr_QW3afTUyWjT2eYQz8pdkE_m6pHt1Pbz1ZSCFX4-8m3DqlalM12UxAtbtHRymC9kxg3JPsTGvV1dc5AG5ULfbsQzmWngBNfIHc4_NNOR5J1c9cCBZc86zb8I/w640-h322/IMG_9671.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then some dilute black craft paint to add a patina of age:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtsi6ovfa0sUQpk7NXUSvmug16250QRychccn4Z1HLSKg4yZWU0E7ff44kckpLbma7A84F7K7GvyQiGIZ04xBTAJKi81w5jpAhv_NvR_JnQovyf4u5tlEDy3xV4knTegm2rCmtXY_SGMxRcpuiOjFgHWW0SC-JIUXdpGD8NK7NZK61SXdnqHkqFabwt4/s4032/IMG_9672.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1987" data-original-width="4032" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtsi6ovfa0sUQpk7NXUSvmug16250QRychccn4Z1HLSKg4yZWU0E7ff44kckpLbma7A84F7K7GvyQiGIZ04xBTAJKi81w5jpAhv_NvR_JnQovyf4u5tlEDy3xV4knTegm2rCmtXY_SGMxRcpuiOjFgHWW0SC-JIUXdpGD8NK7NZK61SXdnqHkqFabwt4/w640-h316/IMG_9672.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvdzaYszCcgc1kALJ8jCjWY0qb6tFl17AOK-fzaFU4qZd5OK98tX0b-oKiWil0viiscUtN0G9Q1HzB7GpAIEsUoveDx6BFGBy-xY4dlewF4LrcWH6kCa6qH615SshH2aAfzPjWhtL0j1Sjh1BAxdybvZhMMK7Q1v0snXi-Ic0pwG_YBCZZA7X7SiQE7fM/s3974/IMG_9335.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2809" data-original-width="3974" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvdzaYszCcgc1kALJ8jCjWY0qb6tFl17AOK-fzaFU4qZd5OK98tX0b-oKiWil0viiscUtN0G9Q1HzB7GpAIEsUoveDx6BFGBy-xY4dlewF4LrcWH6kCa6qH615SshH2aAfzPjWhtL0j1Sjh1BAxdybvZhMMK7Q1v0snXi-Ic0pwG_YBCZZA7X7SiQE7fM/w640-h452/IMG_9335.jpeg" width="640" /><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before and after. The previous cardstock/paper Gould Battery flat (above) and my finished structural flat (below), both showing the travelling crane in foreground. Note how the existing paper backdrop fits in to add depth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqBkiF9d65WWKUKk4b3P8hKq1Q3ilMB5IabLz4LAuBTRSOMiu85JWSs7VaHuwGW0MyzKRs4F3zOKPAYP_SZ4opi15xZcisnx-8Bk5tSdRkVb0l1vzKeUyHpU2eVmLBVZ2GkQxT7E2Re-OeMp9hTtsAPRaP1iwR1JFuT228Ub8W8JK3yJcPJdLVLLOiDo/s3957/IMG_9715.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2725" data-original-width="3957" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqqBkiF9d65WWKUKk4b3P8hKq1Q3ilMB5IabLz4LAuBTRSOMiu85JWSs7VaHuwGW0MyzKRs4F3zOKPAYP_SZ4opi15xZcisnx-8Bk5tSdRkVb0l1vzKeUyHpU2eVmLBVZ2GkQxT7E2Re-OeMp9hTtsAPRaP1iwR1JFuT228Ub8W8JK3yJcPJdLVLLOiDo/w640-h440/IMG_9715.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4PTrAmZK_lE-lc6Sg1352wHjodbo7klUREmajAzmxOjx7OkiJLKGXYqP-oZ6itpXqmywNr0bWJwPj56oW4gp4L6VOVRLPOFVEefE7C0D4tmjujTBxk0mXncH6zP9MYAIesGYxrBPGYth1b4rSesQm8aHITafZgBTlJNPG2YpEu1QeYzN_KDToz-RKFIg/s2922/IMG_9334.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1966" data-original-width="2922" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4PTrAmZK_lE-lc6Sg1352wHjodbo7klUREmajAzmxOjx7OkiJLKGXYqP-oZ6itpXqmywNr0bWJwPj56oW4gp4L6VOVRLPOFVEefE7C0D4tmjujTBxk0mXncH6zP9MYAIesGYxrBPGYth1b4rSesQm8aHITafZgBTlJNPG2YpEu1QeYzN_KDToz-RKFIg/w640-h430/IMG_9334.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Before and after, opposite end view. I would end up adding a garage door, a paper access door, small railing and platform at the left side of the structural flat, as well as a ledge to separate the two storeys. Due to the minimal car clearance here, any larger platform was a no-go. I also added acetate to the second storey windows then some printed factory windows in behind. The yawning opening at right will be filled with some interior details and/or a moveable door to add depth to the structure.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXPDQohiwnrLi19PABKXPknLF_h1vhz6UF0XsH9t1HJLYvgCjWo0TyOwZtpuPOmwunL-RpZ1CpS-phn8pL7aNwyzHBs10N-KjYiweh12aka1SVR_7dhettkj26xfppBQHDnS_a1H07pdPN0ete_P7XXvR5gO4PD0f5lm0Blqq6oiPVKL1jznrDhUAJbwg/s3968/IMG_9713.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2038" data-original-width="3968" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXPDQohiwnrLi19PABKXPknLF_h1vhz6UF0XsH9t1HJLYvgCjWo0TyOwZtpuPOmwunL-RpZ1CpS-phn8pL7aNwyzHBs10N-KjYiweh12aka1SVR_7dhettkj26xfppBQHDnS_a1H07pdPN0ete_P7XXvR5gO4PD0f5lm0Blqq6oiPVKL1jznrDhUAJbwg/w640-h328/IMG_9713.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I think this completed third structural flat presents a more imposing facade and the look of a larger building extending beyond the backdrop.</div><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-53747734801021965422023-12-08T18:25:00.000-05:002023-12-08T18:25:04.358-05:00Revising Outer Station Yard Operations<p style="text-align: justify;">Every so often, I decide to revise the way in which some part of my HO scale Hanley Spur layout functions. In this case, it's the five-track yard at Kingston's Outer Station. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Previously, I'd just bring cars from the mainline interchange at 'Queens' and push them into whichever of the yard tracks were emptiest. When it was time to make up one of the three CN switching runs that serve in rotation the Outer Station area, Rideau Street area or Wellington Street area, I'd just pull out one trackful of cars at a time, cherry-picking the cars I needed and placing them on the run-around track before adding a caboose. That was really boring and I decided there was a better way.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Though I've never seen photos of the prototype Outer Station yard anywhere near full of cars, I'm sure there was some system of organization therein. Most cars for area customers seemed to arrive from the mainline before being taken away be spotted, then put on a mainline eastbound or westbound freight as soon as they were brought back to the yard.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, I proceeded to designate one yard track for each of the above-mentioned runs, with a fourth track for overflow - if more cars are brought from interchange than fit in the track. The fifth track is used for company service cars, cabooses, or hold cars for Northern Telecom.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlR_t6F1cEzD45DqngwanKuIu1aOpC4GnA5bqHbcSVL3A31Bp1hzjHqAZB2jHLuDPWzptJGHpAw1K2itflqWwUDW9OkmE9hu5bb1eIvf0y9v8YQBP3iiTOmQnjug7vV2Bme1rxw5amwAfnnIIFXFj4GStqSxzSvlVC0EVhLHHj1-l4l5d46RtJ7nPSqV4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="565" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlR_t6F1cEzD45DqngwanKuIu1aOpC4GnA5bqHbcSVL3A31Bp1hzjHqAZB2jHLuDPWzptJGHpAw1K2itflqWwUDW9OkmE9hu5bb1eIvf0y9v8YQBP3iiTOmQnjug7vV2Bme1rxw5amwAfnnIIFXFj4GStqSxzSvlVC0EVhLHHj1-l4l5d46RtJ7nPSqV4=w640-h192" width="640" /></a></div>The tracks I designated (top to bottom):<p></p><ul><li>Outer Station (marked C)</li><li>Rideau Street</li><li>Wellington Street</li><li>Overflow</li><li>OCS/cabooses</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">I decided to put cars in the first 'Outer Station' track, <i>even though that's needed for switching Frontenac Floor & Wall Tile and Presland Steel</i>. I figured that the cars on that track would be the ones to be switched, meaning that track would be clear when needed for switching moves.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This revised system has worked well in practice. I've made up about five switching runs since its implementation. It's also a very easy way of seeing which runs/customers need more cars, since that track will now be empty.</div><p></p>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2645193677614158419.post-2501424389827566512023-12-03T11:06:00.004-05:002023-12-06T14:16:23.248-05:00"The Last Run" of CP Trains 612/613<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">When I visited the Queen's University Archives in April, 2019 my first exposure to their collection was viewing some of the digitized images of the George E.O. Lilley fonds. These included a very interesting series of photos taken aboard a CP mixed-train operating out of Kingston. Frustratingly, though I took some grainy 'redneck-screenshots' (pointing my digital camera at the computer terminal screen, with the accompanying annoying lines on the image), by the time I reached the negative envelope of those digitized images in August while making my way through the 51 packed boxes of the Lilley fonds, the negatives in box 38 were not present. I suspected they'd been withdrawn for digitizing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb40bxfbrFK26ksAZsM2pWvlM7axijFHldxCHTxhajEr_Ec8IuSmb_03VSDi4MGRgMn8vrdr9KJgYwoc3PG8Q7EWf_75K8syitx2zO7A_9nZzlttCPWgLBHaQWlQxJT_-7BY7TCl7edYd_sVN0UcPvZq0-0qoVFuV2Ut6NiJhSLn1-oGJEWiMt3vGeuD8/s1022/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2006.28.34.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1022" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb40bxfbrFK26ksAZsM2pWvlM7axijFHldxCHTxhajEr_Ec8IuSmb_03VSDi4MGRgMn8vrdr9KJgYwoc3PG8Q7EWf_75K8syitx2zO7A_9nZzlttCPWgLBHaQWlQxJT_-7BY7TCl7edYd_sVN0UcPvZq0-0qoVFuV2Ut6NiJhSLn1-oGJEWiMt3vGeuD8/w640-h486/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2006.28.34.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eureka! According to the Queen's University Archives <a href="https://hanleyspur.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-last-run-of-trains-612613.html">website</a>, as part of the Archives' digitization project, 36 photos taken by George E.O. Lilley dated June 15, 1957 are titled "Last Run of [CP] Trains 612 and 613 from Kingston to Sharbot Lake", (V25.5-38-29-1 to 29-34). These photos centre on a steam-powered mixed-train run making its way north from Kingston, through Harrowsmith, Verona and Sharbot Lake. Added to the 1,100+ digital images available to website visitors, these were added on February 28, 2023 by Digital & Private Records Archivist Jeremy Heil. Since the website is not always the easiest to navigate, and because I believe these photos constitute an amazing record of a sample mixed-train run, albeit latter-day, I've included them in this post. </div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjghLB0AmpRX_nGoOM15ylBjGE-54jLIFcOmxsyc_tHBYMHQSJ28_8YaOGqEMPo1mFhQotpkzi61LMQI0adIDKxq1wsqM65StQRDh0jDhyTy5Q2XAwNMdY-vYD-vPVRvvaddVgWTf-Oc-r-45gywRxAYqfE-mD34HaR8TYqo_tDLhWg4yPLBjiTf3JD78/s1036/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2006.30.34.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1036" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjghLB0AmpRX_nGoOM15ylBjGE-54jLIFcOmxsyc_tHBYMHQSJ28_8YaOGqEMPo1mFhQotpkzi61LMQI0adIDKxq1wsqM65StQRDh0jDhyTy5Q2XAwNMdY-vYD-vPVRvvaddVgWTf-Oc-r-45gywRxAYqfE-mD34HaR8TYqo_tDLhWg4yPLBjiTf3JD78/w640-h636/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2006.30.34.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The photos appeared as part of a Saturday, June 15, 1957 Kingston Whig-Standard news story written by staff reporter E.C. Beer. It seems photographer Lilley rode and documented the train north from Kingston to Sharbot Lake behind CPR D4g 485 on Tuesday, June 11. He then photographed a subsequent southbound run behind CPR 417 as it arrived in Kingston. Whig reporter Cliff Knapp rode and photographed the Saturday, June 15 "last daytime run" which was in turn published in the Monday, June 17 edition of the Whig. The night train would continue hauling passengers and freight but no mail as of Monday, June 17 departing Kingston at 8:30 p.m.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've added some captions, since the negatives do not include captions, and some details from the Whig article. The train heads under the Highway 401 overpass under construction (near the current Highway 38 - top photo) as Conductor George Giff of Smiths Falls, an 11-year veteran of the run, sits at his 'desk' in the mail/express car reviewing paperwork with his grip on the opposite seat (above). The rattan-covered seats in the gas-lit coach:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpf9OXXDrYrAAYoSj6o19bzuOZSCY-bm1mfyNwwo0iGa5WjgV2K8xl_0KznDSLheOZgxnxpggDZIx7XCHn8YhS9g5L_Llvpk4BH6M_kS3Px_LCj0Gh9gEJGxnMJHcEj7nxdcgHKdX81Z9YeNNmb22hpinLG9H9YY6ZttFhyphenhyphenTEU9BJwrfk3IbHm_H-VKU/s1032/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2007.19.41.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1032" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpf9OXXDrYrAAYoSj6o19bzuOZSCY-bm1mfyNwwo0iGa5WjgV2K8xl_0KznDSLheOZgxnxpggDZIx7XCHn8YhS9g5L_Llvpk4BH6M_kS3Px_LCj0Gh9gEJGxnMJHcEj7nxdcgHKdX81Z9YeNNmb22hpinLG9H9YY6ZttFhyphenhyphenTEU9BJwrfk3IbHm_H-VKU/w640-h478/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2007.19.41.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The reporter noted that no 'bona fide passengers' were aboard, likely accounting for the discontinuance of the run that was now largely paralleled by a more modern, more convenient highway. Only a couple of 'sentimental observers' who came along to take notes and pictures were aboard, plus the six-man crew shown in the photos, listed below with their years of CP service. A Whig clipping published June 17 shows the crew posing with CP 485, left to right: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><ul><li>Mail car clerk Joe Lawless</li><li>Baggageman Gerald Harris</li><li>Trainman Ernest DeGracey</li><li>Engineer Glen White (13 years)</li><li>Conductor George Giff (17 years)</li><li>Fireman Clifford Orr (11 years)</li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaJOy0M2PFvRooVFRc02-0lpNz1iU7BLLyxWn0ME9GfKDzPeMgZaM_-qNX9Nh7TUmgXK-XgnsT6azHae4OCwjvthWEZcdONS0Bx0A0gy1c_lP9jqZB7bDuDi1WipJSnU-PY76qtUfGhoMrh2w8DfmIOvmITdXh2Sd-oxGXr8OGhSz8KdcMmJJJL5E7rxM/s1701/June_15_1957_CP_crew_with_CPR_485_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1562" data-original-width="1701" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaJOy0M2PFvRooVFRc02-0lpNz1iU7BLLyxWn0ME9GfKDzPeMgZaM_-qNX9Nh7TUmgXK-XgnsT6azHae4OCwjvthWEZcdONS0Bx0A0gy1c_lP9jqZB7bDuDi1WipJSnU-PY76qtUfGhoMrh2w8DfmIOvmITdXh2Sd-oxGXr8OGhSz8KdcMmJJJL5E7rxM/w640-h588/June_15_1957_CP_crew_with_CPR_485_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div>At Harrowsmith, there's a pause to re-line the switch after the CP train has gained the joint track section with the CN Smiths Falls Subdivision (receding to left beyond semaphores). The switches were normally <a href="https://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/2021/02/harrowsmith-on-part-2-steam-era.html">kept lined for CN movements</a> though CN was the 'junior partner' at this junction, albeit operating more trains than CP. The foundation of the former interlocking tower appears to be at right:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvx9hTe7_ZzpC-CtCLQo6Bp9d2CkZDSRCiRK9_R86RPwZf3IYyLjFAeJa_G5a9r0oP-fHIDLPNR58k52hxGakKRKDzKTVc2uUGXJ0HAWy91zYmil97C4RbjrmKqITluIhGj8a-TiwZkmLdb87QlURsjvsqe5P7-t8d608JO4FRUvEwxfwnp3-6CZLjjo/s1022/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2008.40.40.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1022" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvx9hTe7_ZzpC-CtCLQo6Bp9d2CkZDSRCiRK9_R86RPwZf3IYyLjFAeJa_G5a9r0oP-fHIDLPNR58k52hxGakKRKDzKTVc2uUGXJ0HAWy91zYmil97C4RbjrmKqITluIhGj8a-TiwZkmLdb87QlURsjvsqe5P7-t8d608JO4FRUvEwxfwnp3-6CZLjjo/w640-h422/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2008.40.40.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Conductor Giff steps down on the platform at Harrowsmith:</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGj5JqtsOmnQLA3i0UpTelB7QQXfsg5W2r3pc4dF4froUxz6LNkJnW2DKaEtE9Js9itqXPMyHXwitDFxSlCKsZ85izk1mz3obkTZ9SJ_hvQjGfLt7IxqhQhXzXGgPzVD_QGKKFmrmIw-X4x1iYnTvyIn8R7C-xah_8phFNsRQ54mj4_wKYPw4dl4kTo-k/s992/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2008.33.40.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="992" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGj5JqtsOmnQLA3i0UpTelB7QQXfsg5W2r3pc4dF4froUxz6LNkJnW2DKaEtE9Js9itqXPMyHXwitDFxSlCKsZ85izk1mz3obkTZ9SJ_hvQjGfLt7IxqhQhXzXGgPzVD_QGKKFmrmIw-X4x1iYnTvyIn8R7C-xah_8phFNsRQ54mj4_wKYPw4dl4kTo-k/w640-h576/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2008.33.40.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harrowsmith and Sydenham mail courier Mrs. Arthur Harker exchanges mail bags with mail car clerk Joe Lawless:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5naRvI-MoS8qzTUwA68fq_5Ob1muRzsznFSMS6pJAqFx2HIT1CyrzR0OlbgZTMekHuq0EkqE4mISahn2rCIc_awh4ff7YBK3c1b4gVg64Yig0FotowrZOREUyQ7BJHJdq1eB3dIqyMILQ7jO6ok2RJHXIfTc1Ix5XB_rpTGy-aMze7Sv_PISwYsVnYYQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1026" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5naRvI-MoS8qzTUwA68fq_5Ob1muRzsznFSMS6pJAqFx2HIT1CyrzR0OlbgZTMekHuq0EkqE4mISahn2rCIc_awh4ff7YBK3c1b4gVg64Yig0FotowrZOREUyQ7BJHJdq1eB3dIqyMILQ7jO6ok2RJHXIfTc1Ix5XB_rpTGy-aMze7Sv_PISwYsVnYYQ=w640-h614" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Holding down the typical baggageman position in mail/express car CP 3450's wooden chair with California oranges, meat and auto parts for Verona, mattresses for Elginburg, a Deluxe Lawn Cruiser power lawnmower for Flinton, shoes and live chicks for Kaladar:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4dDX0dZxCvatUNWMc3dfc_cgDBbRYKyp1-UR38gyCMRsSXmKg83cOmePNSjshZMh94VyjNf9uK3DL2vB7aYKNvxqma2pHpsP6OKJUuqLlcgRAwgZmTI7Lh2PaKm0ynS5FGwIM2-6iDn2kVFcCoCnpKGA-v9JZJTtCgpRn5SJdqt16eMkQ-ycB_cCgUo/s1052/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.10.41.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1016" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4dDX0dZxCvatUNWMc3dfc_cgDBbRYKyp1-UR38gyCMRsSXmKg83cOmePNSjshZMh94VyjNf9uK3DL2vB7aYKNvxqma2pHpsP6OKJUuqLlcgRAwgZmTI7Lh2PaKm0ynS5FGwIM2-6iDn2kVFcCoCnpKGA-v9JZJTtCgpRn5SJdqt16eMkQ-ycB_cCgUo/w618-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.10.41.jpeg" width="618" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lunch time in the mail/express car. This is likely baggageman Gerald Harris:</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuid3yIiMw-dxiw8pHG2KxmoNpGDjzKbqE-zmGgzS7ZqZVUGoVoZYb-y0HGMLG3E8i3bwXpFZM0YbDowek653eeoAC3tCYgtYEArjzeIEGiBTToYiInk5MhexNFbdEEiMj-hUwpbJBlj3pjNZF0EJDRgScLDzhPHd7XrBM9QZp5AGynBDeDuV-ZDKEts/s1172/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.18.43.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1172" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuid3yIiMw-dxiw8pHG2KxmoNpGDjzKbqE-zmGgzS7ZqZVUGoVoZYb-y0HGMLG3E8i3bwXpFZM0YbDowek653eeoAC3tCYgtYEArjzeIEGiBTToYiInk5MhexNFbdEEiMj-hUwpbJBlj3pjNZF0EJDRgScLDzhPHd7XrBM9QZp5AGynBDeDuV-ZDKEts/w640-h628/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.18.43.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elginburg-bound mattresses manhandled off the mail/express car. Could this be Hartington? Note the grass-choked siding and no platform:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGsVS1TkVwQnHcytijUCuF_KR88HwE8L7sF7JLVUtFOFZ_PpGJP6eWOx7Nw-6vkOJA3uA2FiByhjyHFpRNIQo4eoIUNRq5Ojq7Tx4j04LHXepfxfntRhFd2f3rGfi2Brs2wkxUqLvJlseif2hIiSFkuOjsn_muG1dfK4xF3l9YZa-ns49HeWS8wvM4Hk/s1016/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.25.53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1016" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPGsVS1TkVwQnHcytijUCuF_KR88HwE8L7sF7JLVUtFOFZ_PpGJP6eWOx7Nw-6vkOJA3uA2FiByhjyHFpRNIQo4eoIUNRq5Ojq7Tx4j04LHXepfxfntRhFd2f3rGfi2Brs2wkxUqLvJlseif2hIiSFkuOjsn_muG1dfK4xF3l9YZa-ns49HeWS8wvM4Hk/w640-h560/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.25.53.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mail and express handled at the mail hook-equipped door:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6LcxBK6Pu6LF4Hh5RzFlXIglo-Jq6gKsHxP9NogSWqBhyJnLjonAxaavPeLjLn4xPi859UGBUeoZE67oFcMp25DDjlnDjQkRmq3TmHpwi4rYMCgpUND5GEJtJoC4O2y1jS4hn3kn_FTI6S9vsz18_GziYeU8IvZhz84rFqlJdlO4vIXdjCHrKPpfXOgU/s1032/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.28.33.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1014" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6LcxBK6Pu6LF4Hh5RzFlXIglo-Jq6gKsHxP9NogSWqBhyJnLjonAxaavPeLjLn4xPi859UGBUeoZE67oFcMp25DDjlnDjQkRmq3TmHpwi4rYMCgpUND5GEJtJoC4O2y1jS4hn3kn_FTI6S9vsz18_GziYeU8IvZhz84rFqlJdlO4vIXdjCHrKPpfXOgU/w628-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.28.33.png" width="628" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Express shipments and cream can at Verona:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpLAifa4Xzqe4cnuPM9yNcZRpLTqlN04Mjq_k6-GIIo4OmsArTi4NVFKy2hqpSE55xfoQlrLWJxc-12JYlDc2CrJrJWMY0KxUXHHwaspt3P3vUWrh5BYzPMHqc_5bbBFrBBaz3Ihu41NqoPsotc30CHS95ffNRemrVDpUdAAlv2M6mWvq-Cq8AVLhUiZk/s1032/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.31.36.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1014" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpLAifa4Xzqe4cnuPM9yNcZRpLTqlN04Mjq_k6-GIIo4OmsArTi4NVFKy2hqpSE55xfoQlrLWJxc-12JYlDc2CrJrJWMY0KxUXHHwaspt3P3vUWrh5BYzPMHqc_5bbBFrBBaz3Ihu41NqoPsotc30CHS95ffNRemrVDpUdAAlv2M6mWvq-Cq8AVLhUiZk/w628-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.31.36.jpeg" width="628" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXuXlVrMsO0jfU9qhS6PP25YwwibbQAei8KO-Yk3C7Z7ZBG5thJpi7Vd8UHMZczjQty0mh4YznS4zyS2DyroNCZnxsBXacguogTkgQzXj5_NFwIpik6-RwsgdHswBDO21m68_tR9-naoSLUH_KIHgtKXy4yGfRhh7wovBslRJuk-QrUAon1yLHdVeKuA/s1038/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.34.19.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="892" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEXuXlVrMsO0jfU9qhS6PP25YwwibbQAei8KO-Yk3C7Z7ZBG5thJpi7Vd8UHMZczjQty0mh4YznS4zyS2DyroNCZnxsBXacguogTkgQzXj5_NFwIpik6-RwsgdHswBDO21m68_tR9-naoSLUH_KIHgtKXy4yGfRhh7wovBslRJuk-QrUAon1yLHdVeKuA/w550-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.34.19.jpeg" width="550" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The local merchandise car, interestingly stencilled for CP's International of Maine Division to Saint John, NB handles consignments for Verona, Tichborne and Sharbot Lake. Transfer by hand-cart directly into the freight shed section of Verona station:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMH0y2k9Mg8m30571dz4Fows-Zywpi65FYBJNW4DuaNFz8i0AUfJp3y8F2wTfacc5uWLJ_LkifCorCA2kPdPx1tU3W4aBcn-y5FAgmdKCQMZ7F-DStJJUhTm0bg3vYGqHfKcAX2CnyXHqt2j1BqI-UTFKan1Jv4otfIMVnn3HTvmN07B6YZ8K2G1cq-dU/s1022/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.38.28.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1022" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMH0y2k9Mg8m30571dz4Fows-Zywpi65FYBJNW4DuaNFz8i0AUfJp3y8F2wTfacc5uWLJ_LkifCorCA2kPdPx1tU3W4aBcn-y5FAgmdKCQMZ7F-DStJJUhTm0bg3vYGqHfKcAX2CnyXHqt2j1BqI-UTFKan1Jv4otfIMVnn3HTvmN07B6YZ8K2G1cq-dU/w640-h588/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.38.28.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Typical views along the line, from bucolic farmland scenes to a hillside and rock-cut, taken from the front and rear vestibules of the coach. Could this be the rock-cut north of Murvale Creek that the train-crew (and my father-in-law) described as difficult at various times of the year due to falling caterpillars and falling leaves making the rails slippery?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQawdsPV3frgt1z15AbCPbBHXJrE8wpUYjny_XpfUlA7Wn9_q0QaFb-FY79DszRVDsaVgackJSMM_uty5X0zqG0f7DzUOJiN3Ly-ljkwjm0CHMXDcLxG04u2Acr0XCeSy3oO8eCNqxBXhjcNEXJ49Z6L-aFCQwUIJ6neAK9mGd41ocl82-fK8yqlg-b8M/s1030/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.48.13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1018" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQawdsPV3frgt1z15AbCPbBHXJrE8wpUYjny_XpfUlA7Wn9_q0QaFb-FY79DszRVDsaVgackJSMM_uty5X0zqG0f7DzUOJiN3Ly-ljkwjm0CHMXDcLxG04u2Acr0XCeSy3oO8eCNqxBXhjcNEXJ49Z6L-aFCQwUIJ6neAK9mGd41ocl82-fK8yqlg-b8M/w632-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.48.13.png" width="632" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdUSI5GefQ-P-tNV_ms_0AelpnubeyTNc2ihIpfG_SIF88VTRMnTzfpXZJEK3r63qlw28De5FqS38_RjE6Wxt1U0RmzbKlwyvvLCOgORnTVGahL56X4jZZhx2hbaiJ3If0n67Vb6-RXMSzBkdMeLpIg9xZptufP6kJND0FRjQS8RSeXXyPg7Anj5Cf6Q/s1022/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.47.28.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1022" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdUSI5GefQ-P-tNV_ms_0AelpnubeyTNc2ihIpfG_SIF88VTRMnTzfpXZJEK3r63qlw28De5FqS38_RjE6Wxt1U0RmzbKlwyvvLCOgORnTVGahL56X4jZZhx2hbaiJ3If0n67Vb6-RXMSzBkdMeLpIg9xZptufP6kJND0FRjQS8RSeXXyPg7Anj5Cf6Q/w640-h522/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.47.28.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh6Hx3_ncDzUrckU7M6sRPcRwBotyby4bgaZdP3exWwqrNWfjQzgOXTMjYi5d75d6T3fJv9lYpMC0JDxH8TttqqOajKZ0CLDWzwyux5nOfdLr0Wu1ks2YBORsdOQ9ifUmlze9z29hzb7FrcG9Dzv7wf4YDEhD3anexJqjPA-nyuBdzqSt1oxw2U1ls1O4/s910/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.57.39.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="778" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh6Hx3_ncDzUrckU7M6sRPcRwBotyby4bgaZdP3exWwqrNWfjQzgOXTMjYi5d75d6T3fJv9lYpMC0JDxH8TttqqOajKZ0CLDWzwyux5nOfdLr0Wu1ks2YBORsdOQ9ifUmlze9z29hzb7FrcG9Dzv7wf4YDEhD3anexJqjPA-nyuBdzqSt1oxw2U1ls1O4/w548-h640/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.57.39.png" width="548" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEire7z8mI2JUu6Nl5NslGvIx9KS6ph7am2YCPbJjnv_xX9E8cbAPc2dReeCg704C_au6CQzoieaE73E2tA899RNaaPpctvtJIWdDnfHNkk5gCsSyXY7EWeNxdvrWZOzTUquB2HA7_KGbzopiWesWbN2OSB8OTEYUffBO0UbN9o4htnHsYE9oyH6h7J1ojs/s1042/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.46.22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1042" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEire7z8mI2JUu6Nl5NslGvIx9KS6ph7am2YCPbJjnv_xX9E8cbAPc2dReeCg704C_au6CQzoieaE73E2tA899RNaaPpctvtJIWdDnfHNkk5gCsSyXY7EWeNxdvrWZOzTUquB2HA7_KGbzopiWesWbN2OSB8OTEYUffBO0UbN9o4htnHsYE9oyH6h7J1ojs/w640-h636/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.46.22.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFlOkipvVfiyzg75zm8U4TlE_lD3PlnqLTP_R2o1qnUoXVSAkGjibZiiiyuY9jdPAyVS813_q9p3As736KNB4q2Zu5B2Xu7UkpiQUhEkfsMksEXCQdEJif01NgHlBxkGnk4gtk4Vt8p1GXCzvStMa24HF-hBIX7K7H159CHMxJneDo7oIiDQMCcIX3zw/s950/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.45.38.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="950" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidFlOkipvVfiyzg75zm8U4TlE_lD3PlnqLTP_R2o1qnUoXVSAkGjibZiiiyuY9jdPAyVS813_q9p3As736KNB4q2Zu5B2Xu7UkpiQUhEkfsMksEXCQdEJif01NgHlBxkGnk4gtk4Vt8p1GXCzvStMa24HF-hBIX7K7H159CHMxJneDo7oIiDQMCcIX3zw/w640-h620/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2009.45.38.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The train's consist on this run comprised three empty cars, two gondola cars of scrap metal for Beauharnois, QC, a car of mining equipment for a uranium mine in Spragge, ON (near Sault Ste. Marie) all for Tichborne, and another empty for Peterborough via Sharbot Lake. Add the local merchandise car, mail express car and coach, and we have an exhaust-worthy job for little 485.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiOTn0voqKmQqoLkrXg_OMlSPXxDql_qW8doH9r7mk1oOy3bxB1hyPKU_QECOC86T2r9tMdi2uU6vXktOsOOux5_Tn70EUdXNNhYB8ZfuBFUsHWldIVo5A9pDNqbbnlIFLP6UpkP0YpKgAx6uaF3HdyD9VCNSuz6HIUTQG0KF0_M9-aWQDlS8luKj9PU/s1044/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.06.30.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1044" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiOTn0voqKmQqoLkrXg_OMlSPXxDql_qW8doH9r7mk1oOy3bxB1hyPKU_QECOC86T2r9tMdi2uU6vXktOsOOux5_Tn70EUdXNNhYB8ZfuBFUsHWldIVo5A9pDNqbbnlIFLP6UpkP0YpKgAx6uaF3HdyD9VCNSuz6HIUTQG0KF0_M9-aWQDlS8luKj9PU/w640-h478/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.06.30.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I can't be sure, but the above photo is either taken in Kingston as the freight cars are added to the mixed-train consist, or perhaps they're being cut off in Tichborne. Finally, CP 485 with passenger cars, plus 417 backing two boxcars and two passenger cars into the Ontario Street ex-K&P station across from City Hall:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNcefM6KwUMjm3oiq7n3hvFIPWfBAv-UpbNvi_xJnIVKIPEPmXfqORS0V5MSebCIBSQ5t-c03qEYCgDre82Bzu5jlAkSWJiMWMGhimlSiY3ZOkK9THwDzTHjgBzvia86wTCgD2ssFU0XSbe8Q4cruNorDAQTbRfQZSLXgdz-4B75_3dFIh3HDixFNHeg/s1028/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.12.25.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="1028" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwNcefM6KwUMjm3oiq7n3hvFIPWfBAv-UpbNvi_xJnIVKIPEPmXfqORS0V5MSebCIBSQ5t-c03qEYCgDre82Bzu5jlAkSWJiMWMGhimlSiY3ZOkK9THwDzTHjgBzvia86wTCgD2ssFU0XSbe8Q4cruNorDAQTbRfQZSLXgdz-4B75_3dFIh3HDixFNHeg/w640-h428/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.12.25.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIpbuKdvfj6jPP9RDVtsZ9bgV4fDmuipFvI-KOkP_A7cnDf0mOKFnWFhxgFJoDMOx1SJ-Kut7Vbj2vgpT0OZqOmuaE7w5LpqLUnL2AU0uTB5EiWj9B7MV35Z-SUOzCPjitUzkzp23fVkB-npNwIIYv3U4sFw0nk0yYD6SK2O20gJ2GRdrhecOIKjKCuxU/s1032/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.11.16.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1032" height="556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIpbuKdvfj6jPP9RDVtsZ9bgV4fDmuipFvI-KOkP_A7cnDf0mOKFnWFhxgFJoDMOx1SJ-Kut7Vbj2vgpT0OZqOmuaE7w5LpqLUnL2AU0uTB5EiWj9B7MV35Z-SUOzCPjitUzkzp23fVkB-npNwIIYv3U4sFw0nk0yYD6SK2O20gJ2GRdrhecOIKjKCuxU/w640-h556/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.11.16.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyW_AEuAf5L97ZBKNYh3-P18l7X0ron1J31Hm7dj2psKK2FIYeVFHgFicejEVJt2y9t6Twyp_7kvUhPWpzUsfYg8qbVCJOjaU36zhKu_Q5xUjJ5TbdfIdQvoYDOoVL86bXsv86mFxPdimInR1F7_Rc81F5esJW2YzdA_eoQqER6NXK9wnbE3k21oSEPvQ/s1034/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.13.43.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1034" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyW_AEuAf5L97ZBKNYh3-P18l7X0ron1J31Hm7dj2psKK2FIYeVFHgFicejEVJt2y9t6Twyp_7kvUhPWpzUsfYg8qbVCJOjaU36zhKu_Q5xUjJ5TbdfIdQvoYDOoVL86bXsv86mFxPdimInR1F7_Rc81F5esJW2YzdA_eoQqER6NXK9wnbE3k21oSEPvQ/w640-h610/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.13.43.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOyoGl6J5Qr-H5hPuMrNDuzScW_46xt5u3WyT5n5x5wBbEJ2f9ajX1_-PQDohuTVbZu9RdIxBtIB9zCp_kG09N4jFG02YDdCixk7UgMS2BzKqgvz2TK2i_phvv6PFLPdNd4Lb33LibHbrRMTi8gjtzukuUnKhg050yBiA75BYkHeIoZ_COfEELgWMB7I/s1026/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.14.37.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1026" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOyoGl6J5Qr-H5hPuMrNDuzScW_46xt5u3WyT5n5x5wBbEJ2f9ajX1_-PQDohuTVbZu9RdIxBtIB9zCp_kG09N4jFG02YDdCixk7UgMS2BzKqgvz2TK2i_phvv6PFLPdNd4Lb33LibHbrRMTi8gjtzukuUnKhg050yBiA75BYkHeIoZ_COfEELgWMB7I/w640-h628/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.14.37.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm8EIswEGRlsXVqjwmzjfA6EuMyJPIQoHbQ57Vm3nKTD4NGFRg3HLEaE-P-mw6QSZuhbwPvDAigApn8X47xF0TwzOk2egVhDQ_iXsJ9ugyki-Mqz92u0EA_Z_wG8sKnfHOMHz2b3hfP_8bUMMUmiLWhQW6A0ZQP2P-SbC3OYolz0Au28tU9JGG4XHFZ9s/s1030/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.16.54.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1030" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm8EIswEGRlsXVqjwmzjfA6EuMyJPIQoHbQ57Vm3nKTD4NGFRg3HLEaE-P-mw6QSZuhbwPvDAigApn8X47xF0TwzOk2egVhDQ_iXsJ9ugyki-Mqz92u0EA_Z_wG8sKnfHOMHz2b3hfP_8bUMMUmiLWhQW6A0ZQP2P-SbC3OYolz0Au28tU9JGG4XHFZ9s/w640-h606/Screenshot%202023-12-03%20at%2010.16.54.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Comparing the photos that George Lilley took with what was published in the Whig, well, there is no comparison. Only one of the above photos, cropped, was included in the article featuring the June 11 ride, published on June 15 (click on image for larger, readable version)...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUBfaKSyQ4DJL152U_g-qDnX3PcsciLEAKYmjRHYbkFRRap3MvcFXr54dI0UTmzfEFakMPTaLkev0VLgFFROy3yejGW50p5-V4akTjVTg8BS4-62A6PYCHwp7gPfh69IJ5LrlcQW8_B9anyPrKnoCwPppN_Wm4E5bRTvSJxlvsti5-vM4M9Q7QJ9Try7E/s7021/CP_mixed_train_trip_June_15_1957.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7021" data-original-width="3642" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUBfaKSyQ4DJL152U_g-qDnX3PcsciLEAKYmjRHYbkFRRap3MvcFXr54dI0UTmzfEFakMPTaLkev0VLgFFROy3yejGW50p5-V4akTjVTg8BS4-62A6PYCHwp7gPfh69IJ5LrlcQW8_B9anyPrKnoCwPppN_Wm4E5bRTvSJxlvsti5-vM4M9Q7QJ9Try7E/w332-h640/CP_mixed_train_trip_June_15_1957.jpg" width="332" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">...another June 15 ride was published on June 17:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3fKjBOAfug2Z_sXgb4452tZgHS3T1BVUb1c1rCz86xclXbbO4oHd5U3vXe7Im5raziQALvijck8lyzXKzBBMsXVB2qSKBlprlnQhPuoE0HPIeI3k6MKsnFkaCYmKV3OPVtCL0o7HDvfqwnZhiiRUDGzwXsZIa4KYbUCHr_ZjaUiS7s7TJaE19p310z0/s6851/Last_run_of_CP_day_mixed_train_on_June_15_1957.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6851" data-original-width="3063" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3fKjBOAfug2Z_sXgb4452tZgHS3T1BVUb1c1rCz86xclXbbO4oHd5U3vXe7Im5raziQALvijck8lyzXKzBBMsXVB2qSKBlprlnQhPuoE0HPIeI3k6MKsnFkaCYmKV3OPVtCL0o7HDvfqwnZhiiRUDGzwXsZIa4KYbUCHr_ZjaUiS7s7TJaE19p310z0/w286-h640/Last_run_of_CP_day_mixed_train_on_June_15_1957.jpg" width="286" /></a></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11822288099043790296noreply@blogger.com0