"CONTENTdm"@en . "Canadian Pacific Railway"@en . "Canadian Pacific Railway Company"@en . "Railroads--Canada"@en . "Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection"@en . "Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Public Relations & Advertising"@en . "2017-12-20"@en . "[between 1978 and 1983?]"@en . "CP Rail News Vol. 8 Number 3 (11 Oct. 1978), Vol. 8 Number 15 (22 Nov. 1978, two copies), Vol. 10 Number 3 (27 Feb. 1980, two copies), Vol. 10 Number 5 (16 Apr. 1980, two copies), Vol. 10 Number 6 (14 May 1980, three copies), Vol. 10 Number 7 (28 May 1980, two copies), Vol. 11 Number 15 (18 Nov. 1981, two copies), Vol. 12 Number 1 (13 Jan. 1982), Vol. 12 Number 2 (3 Feb. 1982), Vol. 12 Number 5 (14 Apr. 1982), Vol. 12 Number 6 (5 May 1982), Vol. 12 Number 14 (27 Oct. 1982), Vol. 12 Number 16 (6 Dec. 1982), Vol. 13 Number 1 (5 Jan. 1983) and Vol. 13 Number2 (26 Jan. 1983)."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chungtext/items/1.0362157/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Enormous slide\nhits Laggan Sub.\nTons of rock and silt\nblock 30-car freight\nBy LARRY BENNETT\nCALGARY \u00E2\u0080\u0094 A blinking light on the dispatcher's board in\nthe Palliser Square central dispatch office was the first indication that something was amiss above the Spiral Tunnels at\nabout 2100 hours, Wednesday, Sept. 6.\nThe light warned of a break in the electronic slide fence on\nCathedral Mountain, above Partridge siding at mileage 128 on\nthe Laggan sub-division, west of Calgary.\nThe cause of the break Back at the tail-end Conductor\ncouldn't be determined, but Roberts and Brakeman Nadasdi\ndispatcher K.W. Enzie knew that\n\"extra 8827 west\" was passing\nthrough the area. Normal procedure called for telephone contact to be made with the operator\nat Field, B.C., and for that\noperator to advise the train crew\nof the situation by radio.\nDispatcher Enzie immediately\nphoned Maureen Smythe, the\nField operator. Conductor Bob\nRoberts didn't receive her radio\ncall, however, probably because\nof poor atmospheric conditions.\n\"Extra 8827 west\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094a 30-car train\nconsisting mainly of empty\ncars\u00E2\u0080\u0094slammed unexpectedly to\na stop, sending the conductor\nand tail-end brakeman Dan\nNadasdi sprawling.\nFollowing the impact Conductor Roberts attempted to contact the head-end by radio.\u00E2\u0080\u0094He\ngot no reply.\nUp at the head-end, engineman\nBob Palser and Brian Materi,\nhead-end brakeman, scrambled\nout of the cab of the lead unit.\nThey both heard the heavy rumbling sound of a slide in progress.\nFollowing a quick inspection\nthey saw that both diesel units\nwere buried window-deep in silt\nand rock. More loose rock continued to cascade down the\nmountain, water was rushing\nthrough the debris and pieces of\nice were visible.\nThe two men left the slide\nscene and made their way to\nField. Brakeman Materi was able\nto flag down a car on the Trans-\nCanada highway and Engineman\nPalser walked down the slope to\nCathedral where he boarded a\ncab-hop stopped in the siding\nand rode back to Field to report\nin.\nbegan to walk to the head-end to\ncheck for the rest of the train\ncrew. On the way they encountered an extra gang staying\nin boarding cars on a back track\nin Yoho Yard.\nRealizing a slide was in progress Conductor Roberts advised Brakeman Nadasdi to suggest\nthat the extra gang take shelter in\nthe mouth of the Spiral Tunnel.\nAt the head-end of the train\nconductor Roberts learned by\nradio from Wes Cudney, yard-\nmaster at Field, that the headend crew was safe and clear of\nthe slide. Following that\nmessage he returned to the tunnel.\nThe roar of rocks plummeting\ndown the dark and rain enshrouded mountain continued until midnight.\nWhen Mike Stroick, superintendent for the Calgary Division,\nwas informed of the situation at\nCathedral Mountain he immediately issued orders that no one\nwas to venture into the slide path\nuntil it was established it was\nsafe to do so.\nAfter an examination of the\narea by Mr. Stroick and other divisional officers it was determined\nentry into the area was safe. The\nall clear order was issued at\nabout 0230 Thursday.\nMr. Stroick, Louis Visocchi,\nroadmaster from Banff, and Ber-\nnie Zinger, surfacing gang\nforemen, walked up to the Spiral\nTunnel to deliver the all clear to\nthe personnel within.\nTrack clearing work commenced at sunrise Thursday.\n(Additional stories and pictures on\npages 4 and 5)\nCharities Donation Fund\nsets goal of $110,000\nTarget for the 1978 Montreal area's eighth Annual Employee\nCharities Donation Fund is $110,000.\nOnce again under the directorship of Lloyd J. MacDonald, the\ncampaign opened Oct. 2.\nF.D. Turner, chairman policy committee, for the fund, expressed the hope that Mr. MacDonald and his co-ordinators and\ncanvassers will receive enthusiastic support in putting the 1978\ncampaign over the top.\nMr. MacDonald said he couldn't stress strongly enough the\nneed to meet this year's objective.\n\"If we could count on each and every employee to contribute\nto the fund, we would certainly do our share,\" he said. He went\non to stress the fact that by contributing through the payroll\ndeduction plan, a small amount each pay day throughout the\nyear would make it easy for the employee to donate painlessly\ntoward a worthy cause and meet the objective at the same time.\nCanvassers will call upon employees, providing them with\nforms to fill out for the payroll deduction plan. Anyone wishing\nto donate by cash or cheque may do so and obtain receipts for\ntheir 1978 tax returns. Receipts for payroll deductions will be\ngiven for 1979 tax purposes.\n(Photo: Nicholas Morant)\nPartridge Slide: Shale and silt piled up against two locomotives at the west end of Yoho Yard, just\nsouth of the highway overpass.\nTerminal opens...\n...at Thunder Bay\nCoal trains unloaded\nwith automatic ease\nBy FRED DRAPER\nTHUNDER BAY \u00E2\u0080\u0094 A CP Rail\nunit train carrying 10,900 tons of\nbituminous coal from the Byron\nCreek mine in Corbin, B.C. arrived at Thunder Bay, Sept. 14 to\ncoincide with the official opening of the new $70 million\nThunder Bay terminal.\nThe 105-car train completes\nthe 2,600-mile round trip in six\ndays\u00E2\u0080\u0094with four hours to take on\na load of coal at the mine and six\nhours to dump it at Thunder Bay\nfor trans-shipment by lake carrier\nto its final destination at Ontario\nHydro's generating station in\nNanticoke, Ont.\nUnder its contract with Ontario\nHydro, CP Rail will haul more\nthan 22.5 million tons of coal\nfrom mines in Western Canada to\nThunder Bay over the next 15\nyears.\nThe unit train enters the site\nand proceeds around a 2.5 mile\nloop track to the positioner\nbuilding. The positioner building\nhouses a large semi-automatic\nunit, called an indexer, which\ntakes over from the train's own\ndiesel power to move the entire\ntrain and position each car, one\nat a time, in the dumper.\nThe dumper turns each car 160\ndegrees to unload the coal.\nRotary couplings eliminate the\nneed to uncouple the cars and\nthe entire train proceeds until\neach car is unloaded. In winter\nthe coal cars will be heated in\ntemperature of 82 degrees C.\n(180 degrees F.) in a ten-car long\nthaw shed to ensure the frozen\ncoal will break loose from the\ncars.\nAt speeds of up to 4,000 tons\nper hour, the coal moves from\nunder the dumper on a conveyor\nsystem to a stacker which travels\nthe length of the site on a fixed\n2,500 ft. track to pTfe the coal. On\nthe same track, another machine\ncalled a reclaimer reverses the\nprocess to \"reclaim\" the coal,\nwhen required, onto a central\nconveyor. The conveyor moves\nthe coal at a rate of up to 6,000\ntons per hour to a surge bin, and,\nin turn, to the ship loader which\n(See \"Terminal\" page 4)\nAerial View: The 236-acre McKellar Island site of Thunder Bay\nTerminals Ltd., with its marine berthing facility shown in the\nforeground. Partially-filled coal beds are seen at top centre.\nCP Rail News\nwins awards\nDURANGO, Colo. - CP Rail\nNews was named best newspaper at the Association of\nRailroad Editors 56th annual\nconference held here last\nmonth.\nRail News was also cited for\nbest use of black and white\nphotography.\nThe ARE awards are open to\nall railway industry publications in Canada, the United\nStates and Mexico.\nYou look much better in safety glasses\n m (Photo: Nanaimo Daily Free Press)\nSmile that beguiles: One smile from Shannon Torhjelm would surely have been thanks enough, but\nthe Georgia Strait Girl Guides decided to add a plaque in showing Capt. Donald McKechnie their appreciation for the ferry ride aboard CP Rail's Princess of Vancouver from Nanaimo to Vancouver. CP Rail's\nBritish Columbia Coastal Steamship Service has for the last three years made special arrangements for\nthe more than 200 guides who make the yearly trip to attend the Canada-U.S. jamboree. Looking on are\n(left to right) International adviser for the Georgia Strait Guide division Margaret Anderson, Katrina Gardiner and Wendy Besson.\nInstant TV replays\nimprove efficiency\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Freight-filled rail\ncars are about to join professional athletes in videotape instant replay stardom when CP Rail\nstarts televising freight\nmovements this fall.\nFreight trains aren't exactly\nsit-com material, so the Nielsen\nratings won't be disturbed. But\nthat wasn't the intent. TV\ntechnology is expected to increase the speed and efficiency\nof CP Rail freight movement\nacross Canada.\nSuch progress will result from\ninstallation of \"electronic eye\"\nclosed-circuit television systems\n(CCTV) at major rail yards around\nthe country. Agincourt Yard in\nToronto is scheduled to unveil\nCP Rail's first CCTV in\nDecember. Feasibility studies\nare underway for St. Luc in Montreal and applications to other\nmajor yards such as Alyth in\nCalgary will be looked at in the\ncoming year.\n\"The new system, designed,\ndeveloped and engineered to CP\nRail's specifications by the Closed Circuit Television Corporation\nof Montreal, a subsidiary of ADT\nSecurity Systems, will enable\nrailwaymen to read car initials\nand numbers with better than 95\nper cent accuracy at train speeds\nup to 60 miles per hour,\" said\nTom Munford, CP Rail's manager\nof Communications. \"This is accomplished by making a video\ntape recording of the train in a\nseries of individual frames\nsimilarto motion picture film.\"\nThis will eliminate the need for\ncar checkers to be available to\nwrite down or check off-car\nnumbers when trains arrive or\ndepart. The use of a video tape\nrecorder will allow the yard clerk\nto review the train movement\nwhenever he needs the information.\nThe playback unit is modified\nso that, despite the speed of the\ntrain passing the camera, the\nyard clerk can adjust the\nplayback to a comfortable speed\n(6-8 mph) or stop it to look more\nclosely at a faded or dirty\nnumber.\nThe system will improve efficiency in yard operations by providing readily available and accurate information about the sequence of cars on arriving and\ndeparting trains.\nTerminal detention costs will\nbe pared because trains will be\nable to move in and out of yards\nat speeds of up to 20 mph, which\nis the maximum permissible yard\nspeed.\nThis new application of CCTV\nis further evidence of CP Rail's\ndrive to improve freight transport\nefficiency while upgrading the\naccuracy of car location data\navailable to its customers.\nInstallation and the five-year\nrent and maintenance contract\nwill entail an outlay of close to\n$900,000 over five years but the\nsystem is expected to offer yearly savings of about $225,000 in\nlabor and terminal detention\ncosts.\nMr. Munford said company\ntests in Agincourt Yard proved\nthat the new CCTV with its individual picture allows car\nnumbers to be read more accurately than either the 14-year-\nold three-camera standard TV\nsystem without video tape\nrecorders or a checking clerk\nstanding at track-side.\n\"Of 100 cars going by, the yard\nchecker missed four numbers,\nthe clerk reading off our current\nTV system missed four numbers,\nwhile a checker using the new\nsystem missed just one number,\nand that number was badly worn\naway in any case,\" said Mr. Munford.\nCCTV's improved accuracy will\nalso provide more accurate information for storage in central\ndata banks. This data is needed\nfor efficient car management and\naccounting, thorough costing\nstudies, and rapid provision of\nshipment information to CP Rail\ncustomers.\nCanadian Pacific\nfamily matter\nCardy elected president CP Hotels\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 A. Gordon Cardy has been elected president\nand a director of Canadian Pacific Hotels Limited to succeed\nDonald W. Curtis, who has resigned.\nMr. Cardy entered the hotel business in 1945 in Toronto and\njoined CP Hotels in 1968 as general manager of the Royal York\nHotel.\nHe became a vice-president of CP Hotels in February, 1971.\nSoo Line expands track upgrading\nSoo Line Railroad Company has expanded its planned 1978\ntrack upgrading program by $2,000,000. The money will be spent\non grain gathering branch lines in North and South Dakota this\nsummer.\nThe additional outlays for rail and ballast on four branch lines\nwill increase Soo's total expenditures this year for branch line\nimprovements in the Dakotas to nearly $3,000,000.\nMarathon buys shopping centres\nMarathon Realty Co. has purchased two shopping centres\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nin Toronto and Calgary\u00E2\u0080\u0094at undisclosed prices, bringing to 33\nthe number of shopping centres the company now owns\nthroughout Canada.\nThe Dufferin Mall Shopping Centre in Toronto has been purchased from a group of investors. In Calgary, Marathon bought a\n306,000-square-foot inclosed mall on a 25-acre site in the city's\nnorthwest district.\nThe company has sold several residential properties in Vancouver, also for undisclosed prices. The properties include a\n534-unit apartment building, a 72-unit apartment building and\nMarathon's interests in condominium properties.\nMarathon Realty Co. is a unit of Canadian Pacific Investments\nLtd.\nSoo Line adds 350 covered hoppers to fleet\nSoo Line put 350 additional 100-ton capacity covered hoppers\nin service last month filling orders for grain loading which were\nrunning at the highest pace since 1974.\nNearly all of the approximately $12 million in new hopper cars\nordered for delivery this year have been distributed to country\nelevators in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana. The cars,\nwhich had originally been scheduled to go into service earlier\nthis year, were delayed due to a strike at the manufacturer's\nplant.\nStudy of switching\nUpdates cost data\nWINNIPEG \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail analysts\nhave begun work on a two-year\nstudy of switching operations to\nupdate switching cost information in response to the requirement of a federal government\ncommission on grain transportation costs.\nPreliminary work has been\ncompleted at some terminals and\nis currently underway at Thunder\nBay. Vancouver will be studied\nnext, followed by other terminals.\nGREATER DETAIL\n\"The aim of the study is to\ngather detailed information by\ncommodity on switching from\nthe men who perform the switching, as well as the documents\nthey use,\" said R.J. Shepp,\ngeneral manager, operation and\nmaintenance for the Prairie\nregion.\nA member of the study team\nreviews the record of work performed with the yard foreman\nand the yardmaster at the completion of each assignment.\n\"By working with the yard\ncrews and referring to their work\nassignment sheets, we'll be getting an accurate outline of how\nthe work is performed from the\npeople who do it,\" said Mr.\nShepp.\nNEW TECHNIQUE\nThis technique deviates from\npast switching studies, in which\nobservers rode engines to record\nthe amount of time involved in\nmoving each car. An important\nelement in the success of the\nstudy is the co-operation received from the crews involved.\nThe study results from a re\nquirement of the Canadian\nTransport Commission, with\nrespect to grain handling, that\nCP Rail develop current information on the cost of switching.\nIn testimony before the recent\nSnavely Commission, it had been\nargued that the railway's cost information did not fully reflect the\nextent to which the cost of handling grain differs from that of\nother commodities.\n\"The current study is unprecedented in scope and duration,\" said Mr. Shepp. Future\nplans call for the study to cover\nterminals across the entire CP\nRail System where yard engines\nare used.\n\u00E2\u0082\u00ACteimwtm\n3\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A7illeii#\nSupervising editor,\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nLen Cocoficchio\nEditorial assistant,\nCorrespondents,\nMorrie Zaitlin, Vancouver\nLarry Bennett, Calgary\nMickey Potoroka, Winnipeg\nBill Lidstone, Toronto\nStephen Morris, Montreal\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nfFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. Ait fetters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP- Rail News, Pubiic\nRelations and Advertising Dept,\nWindsor Station, Montreal, Que.,\nH3C3E4.\n Growing workload\nkeeps center busy\nTranslation specialists\nhandle variety of tasks\nBy SHIRLEY WHITTET\nThe translation center at Windsor Station headquarters is a\nbusy place.\nThe workload includes everything from translating correspondence on a daily basis to\nCanadian Pacific publications,\nannual and quarterly financial\nreports, all printed material\nrelating to personnel, and pension matters.\n\"And we are always on the\nlookout for qualified translators,\" said Therese Deschenes,\nassistant manager, administrative services. \"There is a dire\nneed for expert translators but,\nunfortunately, they are very\nscarce.\"\nShe explained that the demand\nfor translators in the Montreal\narea is so great that it's almost\nimpossible to find an experienced one unemployed or willing to\nchange place of employment.\nThe center, which is at the service of all departments of Canadian Pacific, has come a long\nway since its inception in 1968\nwith a staff of two translators and\none director. There are now\nseven translators, including\nActing Director Chrystiane\nCoulombe, whose typing needs\nare met by Administrative Services' word processing centre.\n\"What many people fail to\nrealize,\" Mrs. Deschenes told CP\nRail News, \"is that there is such\na variety of technical terms to be\nmastered and so much time must\nbe spent in research for the proper terminology in the other\nlanguage.\"\nThrough experience in the\ntranslation center, some of the\ntranslators have gradually\nbecome specialized in certain\nareas, such as mechanical and\nfinancial, among others. Particular aids in translating company material are specialized dictionaries, any prepared or\npublished material on the subject in French, and other\ntranslators who are familiar with\nthe subject in hand. Once such\ntranslations have been done, the\ntranslators set up their own terminology files or glossaries for\nfuture reference. To make matters more difficult, French terminology is unavailable in some\nfields.\nMrs. Deschenes stressed the\nfact that co-operation from\ndepartments using the translation center's services would\ngreatly facilitate their work.\n\"They (the departments) need\nto identify their needs and to\nforecast long and short term projects. This way, we can set\nrealistic timetables, taking into\nconsideration the translation\nprocesses. We have to allow\nmore time for major translations\nand these should always be\ndiscussed in advance with Mrs.\nCoulombe\u00E2\u0080\u0094never just sent\nthrough the mail at the last\nminute,\" she said.\n\"Lack of planning that results\nin an urgent translation being\ndone under pressure makes it difficult to turn out perfect work,\"\nshe added.\nDepartments can also help\nmake things run more smoothly,\nfor themselves and the center, by\n(See \"Increased\" page 4)\nCommuter courses\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 College credit\ncourses are being conducted\naboard CP Rail commuter trains\nagain this fall following a highly\npopular spring semester.\nThe courses, elementary and\nintermediate French, are being\ntaught on a specially modified\nrailway passenger car incorporated into a regularly\nscheduled commuter train from\nMontreal's West Island.\nThe commuter classroom car\nis open only to registered\nstudents and faculty from John\nAbbott College's centre for adult\neducation. It is soundproofed\nand outfitted with special educational equipment.\nThe school car classroom,\navailable to commuters boarding\nbefore or at Beaconsfield station,\nis the only one operating in\nCanada and is based on a concept developed by provincial\ngovernments and the Canadian\nPacific Railway during the 1920s.\nDuring that time and until the\n1950s, CP Rail operated school\ncars in remote areas of Canada,\nparticularly in northern Ontario.\nThe cars provided the only\neducation to children where no\nschools existed.\nTeachers lived in the cars and\ntaught students on a rotation\nbasis in specific areas.\nProgram Off the ground: A recent performance appraisal training session at the Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina was led by Bob Decicco (standing). Seated (left to right) are: Jim Cuin, labor relations,\nMontreal; Mike Parson, assistant co-ordinator, grain movement, Winnipeg; Ed Champoux, mechanical\ndepartment, Montreal; Roy Peters, assistant divisional engineer, Saskatoon; Bob Budd, mechanical\nsupervisor, Wilkie; and Dan Hill, locomotive foreman, Saskatoon.\nPerformance appraisal\na successful project\nGood ideas pay: Suggestion awards ranging in amounts from\n$25 to $1,178 were presented recently to this quintet of Weston\nShops employees. Heading the list was A.J. Perrault, machinist, who\nearned $1,178 for modification of the tool holder on wheel lathes. In\nthe picture, from the left, are: G. Lobb, machinist, $25; R. Larkin,\nmachinist, $25; G. Nickel, laborer, $210; D. Dueck, electrician, $40,\nand Mr. Perrault.\nThe term \"performance appraisal\" has an ominous ring for\nsome people. And no wonder. All\ntoo often appraisal is delayed until the final\u00E2\u0080\u0094and fatal\u00E2\u0080\u0094stage\nwhen the employee suddenly is\ntold his work has been unsatisfactory and he is no longer\nneeded.\nBut there is a positive side to\nemployee evaluation; a side that\nCP Rail is developing this year\nafter a highly successful pilot\nproject at Ogden Shops in 1977.\nREVIEW OF STRENGTHS\nThe company is trying to take\nthe ominous ring out of the term\nby turning job appraisal into not\nsimply an identification of\nweaknesses, but a review of\nstrengths and a tool by which\nresponsibilities can be clearly\noutlined.\nCP Rail's performance appraisal system will be tested in the\nPrairie region and at Weston\nShops this year after the pilot\nproject at Ogden Shops proved\nthe program to be well worth expansion.\nOfficers throughout the region\nand at Weston Shops will meet\nwith their supervisors face to\nface to discuss responsibilities\nand performance\u00E2\u0080\u0094 including accomplishments.\nOrganizers are confident the\nprogram will not only encourage\nemployees to develop to their\nfullest capabilities through work\nplanning and review, but will promote objectivity in judgments\nmade about performance and\nprovide management with insight to the aspirations and\npotential of employees.\n\"The major thrust of the program,\" said W.J. Munford,\nmanager, personnel development, Montreal, \"is to do three\nthings: Make sure the individual\nhas a clear understanding of\nwhat his job is\u00E2\u0080\u0094objective of\nprocedure, responsibility,\nauthorities and reportability;\nidentify his strengths so that\nthey can be put to best use; and\nidentify his weaknesses so that a\nprogram can be worked out for\ntheir improvement.\"\nTo get the program off the\nground, a series of five-day\ncourses are being conducted for\nregional officers at the Hotel\nSaskatchewan in Regina, under\nthe guidance of Bob Decicco of\nIndustrial Relations, who has\nmoved to Regina to inaugurate\nthe system, with Gordon\nMcMasteras the training officer.\nThe same type of program is\nbeing conducted at Weston in\nWinnipeg under R. Bryant,\nmanager of main shops, and L.M.\nMaines, works manager, with\nBernie Cook as training officer.\nClasses are being limited to 10\npeople to ensure the personal approach which was so effective in\nthe Ogden pilot project. It also\nlimits the number of people away\nfrom their jobs at one time.\nIn introducing the appraisal\nsystem in the region's operation\nand maintenance department,\nR.J. Shepp, Prairie region general\nmanager, said he is confident it\n\"will markedly improve the way\nwe evaluate, motivate and communicate with other people.\"\nHe went on to explain that the\nperformance appraisal system is,\nin essence, designed to ensure\nthat every officer has an opportunity to sit down with his or\nher supervisor at least once a\nyear to candidly discuss performance.\n\"This program is a way of\nassuring people regular feedback on how they are doing their\njobs,\" said Mr. Shepp, \"and it is\nbound to improve morale. In industry it is a well-known axiom\nthat as morale improves, so does\nperformance.\n\"You might argue that every\nsupervisor conducts some kind\nof performance appraisal as part\nof his normal routine,\" said Mr.\nShepp. \"But this program makes\nthe process formal and expands\nit into a regular annual examination of the individual's total performance. It's an acknowledgement of his strengths, as well as\nhis weaknesses.\"\nValuable Cargo for West: Worth $3 million, a large turbine\nmanufactured by Westinghouse Co. at Hamilton, Ont. is pictured in\nParkdale Yard, Toronto. The 377,000-pound shipment was enroute to\nPacific Petroleums Ltd. at McNeil, Alta.\n Translating team: Taking a \"photo break\" in the translation bureau are (I. to r.) Lyliane Launay,\nMartine Goyot, Jacques Dermine, Chrystiane Coulombe, Claire Dion, Carolyn Harder and Andr^e Moreau.\nIncreased demand for translation\ncreates challenge for section\n(cont. from page 3)\nhaving one person assigned to\nco-ordinate the work for translation and who could be called\nupon for further information or to\ndiscuss needs. The same person\ncould also set priorities and so\neliminate conflicting deadlines.\nThis would help keep communication lines between\ndepartment and translation center on an even keel.\nMrs. Coulombe added that\nsource material\u00E2\u0080\u0094documents,\nnotes, explanation of terminology and booklets concerning\nthe subject under translation-\nwould be of tremendous help if\nprovided along with the final\ncopy to be translated. This is particularly true if translation is from\nEnglish to French.\nWith the increased demand for\nFrench translation, one third of\nwhich is done for CP Rail alone,\nthe center has been faced with a\ngood many challenges. For instance, the mechanical department has produced a series of\nequipment maintenance\nmanuals on which training and\ntests are based. The same is also\nbeing done for maintenance of\nway training.\nTranslation of these is a major\nundertaking which is now in progress. And no easy task, either,\nwith numerous technical terms.\nTranslation and compilation of\nglossaries can take from a year\nto 18 months to complete.\nPension Rules and Regulations was one of the first jobs\ntackled by Canadian Pacific\ntranslators. Then came a series\nof labor agreements, some still in\nthe process of being translated\ninto French. All personnel\nmanuals, including the Code of\nBusiness Conduct, and a good\nmany operating manuals\u00E2\u0080\u0094such\nas the Uniform Code of\nOperating Rules\u00E2\u0080\u0094have been\ntranslated. Working timetables\nfor the Province of Quebec are\nnow bilingual, thanks to company translators.\nTerminal ready for the future\n(cont. from page 1)\nplaces the coal in the lake\nfreighters at a rate up to 8,000\ntons per hour.\nThe company will run one train\nper week from the Byron Creek\nmine to Thunder Bay until early\n1979, when a second unit train\nwill be added to the service.\nAs it makes its way across the\nsteep grades in the mountains of\nBritish Columbia and Alberta, the\nunit train serving Byron Creek\nmine is powered by four 3,000-\nhorsepower locomotives on the\nhead-end and two locomotives\nand a robot car in mid-train. The\ntrain makes a brief stop at Dun-\nmore, Alta., where the mid-train\npower is removed before completing its journey across the\nprairies and on to Thunder Bay.\nCleanup operations\ndelayed by weather\nDumper hOUSe: A unit train loaded with western Canadian\nbituminous coal in the dumper house at Thunder Bay Terminals. The\nsemi-automatic indexer unit, which positions the cars in the rotary\ndumper, is shown at upper left.\nIn 1980, the railway will introduce a third unit train for Ontario Hydro. This one will\ntransport lignite coal from\nLuscar mine in Bienfait, Sask., to\nthe Thunder Bay terminal,\noperating twice-a-week with a\nturnaround time of three days.\nBienfait is 700 miles west of\nThunder Bay.\nTo prepare for the heavy unit\ntrain from the Luscar mine CP\nRail has spent millions of dollars\nto complete major track, ballast\nand tie upgrading programs over\n150 miles of railway line at the\nEstevan subdivision in Saskatchewan.\nThere were 368 gondola cars,\n16 locomotives, one robot car\nand five cabooses purchased for\nthese unit trains.\nThe rail cars are 105-ton\ncapacity steel gondolas built by\nNational Steel Car Co. Ltd. of\nHamilton, Ont. The locomotives\nwere made by General Motors of\nCanada Ltd. at London, Ont.\nCoal unit trains operated by\nboth CP Rail and CN Rail will\nmove over CP Rail waterfront\ntrackage in Thunder Bay en route\nto and from the terminal. Recent\nexpansion of CP Rail's line and\nyard capacity in Thunder Bay has\nensured a smooth flow of trains\nto and from the terminal located\non McKellar Island.\nCATHEDRAL MOUNTAIN \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWhen nature unleashes its\nawesome powers there is little\nman can do to prevent the\nresulting devastation.\nOn Wednesday, Sept. 6, at\nabout 2100 hours a massive ice\nwall at the foot of an immense\nice field\u00E2\u0080\u0094about 9,200 feet above\nsea level\u00E2\u0080\u0094just below the sum-\nmet of Cathedral Mountain collapsed, freeing millions of\ngallons of water to plummet to\nthe valley floor below.\nCarried by the rushing water\ncame hundreds of thousands of\ncubic yards of rock and silt. As\nthe water-borne rock and silt\ncrashed downward it swept away\neverything in its path.\nRumbling down the mountain\nside the slide crossed the CP\nRail mainline three times and the\nTrans-Canada Highway once. Hitting the tracks first at Partridge\nsiding it gauged out a chasm 40\nfeet deep and 80 feet wide, leaving only the mainline and siding\nrails to precariously span the\ngap.\nFurther down the mountain, at\nYoho Yard, two locomotives of a\n30-car extra train were engulfed\nin the tumbling and flowing slide.\nThe two locomotives and the first\nthree cars of the train were\nderailed and partially buried.\nDepth of debris covering the yard\nfor nearly half a mile was 20 feet.\nAs it crossed the Trans-\nCanada Highway below Yoho,\nslide depths measured up to\neight feet.\nCrossing the tracks for a third\nand last time at Cathedral the\nmainline was buried to depths of\nnearly six feet.\nFollowing first report of the\nslide, rail officers of the Calgary\nDivision worked throughout the\nnight, first to assess the extent\nof damage and then to determine\na plan of action for the clean-up\noperation to follow.\nAn auxiliary train from Alyth\nYards at Calgary was dispatched\nfor Stephen Wednesday night\nwith orders to stand-by for the\nclean-up. Arrangements were\nalso made to have leased heavy-\nduty earth movers at the scene of\nthe slide by dawn. A second auxiliary train from Field arrived early Friday.\nAt daybreak Thursday, weather\nconditions remained poor\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nrain continued and water still\ngushed down the slide path.\nIt took 45 hours from the time\nof the slide for a total of nearly\n100 men, two auxiliary trains and\n18 earthmovers to clear the\ntracks, reconstruct the road bed\nat Partridge siding and dig out\nand re-rail the two locomotives\nand three cars.\nThroughout the clean-up\noperations work was hampered\nby bad weather, ranging from\nchilly temperatures and rain during the day to light snow at night.\nHelping maintain efficiency\nduring the massive clean-up\noperation was CP Rail's communications department radio\nequipment. Throughout the day\nand night the air was filled with\nthe constant crackle of radio\nsignals. One rail official is\nreported to have said, \"if it\nweren't for those radios we had\non hand we might still be there\ntrying to clear each section\u00E2\u0080\u0094one\nat a time. Good communication\nwas essential to the operation.\"\nThe slide area below the summit of Cathedral Mountain is well\nknown to experienced\nrailroaders. Many have dubbed it\nthe three level slide, because it is\nuniquely situated in a position\nwhere one slide can cover the\ntracks in three places.\nLARRY BENNETT\n(Photo: Nicholas Morant)\nDiesel barriers: Locomotives, showing broken rail, acted as a\nbarrier against slide which rests on opposite side.\n(Photo: Larry Bennett)\nBack On track: An auxiliary crane is in action, lifting one of the\nslide-stalled locomotives back into position on the rails after the slide\nrubble had been cleared away.\n Slide blocks line in three places\n100 men take 45 hou rs\nto clear away rubble\nOnce a railroad has been constructed, a constant vigil must be\nkept. Men and equipment must\nbe available to fight a battle with\nnature to keep the tracks clear.\nAt Cathedral Mountain, on the\nCP Rail line through the Rocky\nMountains, adjacent to the Spiral\nTunnels, the battles have been\nhard fought and the victories\nshort-lived.\nOn Sept. 6, at 2100 hours the\nbursting of a natural ice dam at\nthe foot of an immense glacier\nbeneath the summit of Cathedral\nMountain triggered a slide of\nwater, rock and silt that blocked\nthe mainline in three places.\nIt took nearly 100 men 45 hours\nto clear the devastation and reopen the line.\nFor CP Rail, the battle of keeping the tracks open beneath\nCathedral Mountain is not a new\none. The area at which the slide\noccurred is infamous to many experienced railroaders. It has\ncome to be known as the three\nlevel slide\u00E2\u0080\u0094because one slide\ncan cover the mainline in three\nplaces.\nAccording to Alec Price, assistant regional engineer for the\nPacific Region, stationed at Vancouver, the three level slide has a\nhistory of causing problems. Major slides occurred at the same\nlocation in 1925, 1927, 1946, 1962\nand 1978. Several less severe\nslides also occurred during the\nsame time period.\nMr. Price says that the slides\nare a result of the combination of\na period of warm weather and\nheavy rains. The major slides at\nthis location have occurred in\nAugust or September\u00E2\u0080\u0094when\nweather conditions seem to be\nmost conducive.\nIrony and a twist of fate,\nhowever, created a unique situation at the most recent three\nlevel slide. Among the nearly 100\nmen on duty during the clean up\nwere Bob Younger, divisional\nengineer, Calgary Division and\nAlec Price, assistant regional\nengineer for the Pacific Region...\n... In 1946 the counterpart for\nMr. Younger's duties and the\ncounterpart for Mr. Price each\nshared the same last names. In\n1946 each man's father was on\nduty.\nThe three level slide site has\nalso been witness to acts of\nheroism involving railway personnel. In 1925 an engineman\nnamed Seth Partridge heard the\nrumble of a slide above the roar\nof his locomotive. He stopped\nthe train on the \"high level\" track\nand ran downhill warning the two\noccupants of a rest house at\nYoho. The slide buried the\nbuilding moments after it was\nemptied.\nPartridge siding bears the\nname of Seth Partridge to commemorate his brave deed.\nStory:\nLARRY BENNETT\nPhotos:\nNICHOLAS MORANT\nRoad Closed: Rock forms a formidable barrier on siding at Yoho\nYard.\nPartridge Siding: View of slide damage looking westward,\ntowards Upper Tunnel.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\nValley forged: Ground is shown cut\nslopes are in background.\n''mmm i:,s <:\nunderneath track at Partridge Siding. Mount Ogden\nSwept away: Scene half-mile east of Upper Portal, UpperTunnel, looking towards Cathedral Mountain\nspire\u00E2\u0080\u0094below which slide started.\nRock bottom: Aftermath of slide, which crossed mainline three times, is shown.\n The talking trunk...\n...and other cases\nStories from the baggage car\nBy NICHOLAS MORANT\nLike the little conundrums in\nChristmas crackers... it goes like this:\nWhere would you find a man at work surrounded by wicker baskets containing\nmagazines, nut bars and soft drinks, two\nbarking dogs, several cylinders of oxygen\nrolling about on the floor, suitcases,\ntrunks and parcels, a chimpanzee, a corpse and maybe 20 huge milk cans fresh off\nthe farm?\nWell, if you're an old railroader, you'd\nguess rightly enough \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the baggage car,\nof course. This was the workhorse of the\npassenger trains of yesteryear and still is\nto a certain degree.\nYou just name it, sooner or later you'd\nfind it there up front next the engine,\nregardless of rules and regulations which\nmight state clearly that it shouldn't be\nthere at all. This writer recalls vividly the\nday they shipped the remains of a well\nknown Canadian Pacific official, Montreal\nto Lethbridge, in an urn and under supplies label!\nThe baggageman, in his coveralls, standing in the doorway of the car as a local\npassenger train rolled into a small town,\nwas a familiar sight to everyone. He'd be\nholding the hand rail in one fist and a\nbatch of OCS mail in the other and on the\nfloor beside him would be a variety of\nbags, a perambulator and, if he was\nunlucky enough, three monstrous trunks\ncontaining the \"lines\" of the travelling\nsalesman who was back in the smoker\nplaying one last hand before reaching for\nhis coat to get off.\nThe baggageman didn't rate as highly\nas the engineer with small boys, but there\nwas envy in their eyes just the same. The\ntrain baggageman was also a bit of a\nreporter, gathering bits of local news\nfrom agents or operators who would\ncome up beside his car with their trucks\nto exchange loads. So, in a sense, he\nbecame a balladier without a guitar and\nthese are some of the stories he's told.\nNEWS BUTCHER\nTo some extent sharing the confusion\nof life in the baggage car was the news\nagent, \"news butcher\" as he was\nsometimes known. For it was he who\nkept his wares in the wicker baskets\nwhich he locked dutifully each time he\nreplenished the basket hung around his\nneck.\nTo make a living on this job one\nmustered every possible talent and there\nwas just no place for trust nohow. The\nnewsie knew full well that it was an unfortunate train crew that went without\nfresh cream in their coffee (if you will\nremember all those milk cans mentioned\nearlier in this story). These were rarely\nlocked for the (shall we use the word?)\n\"loan\" was never sufficiently high\nenough to affect the dairyman's monthly\nearnings.\nThe news agent was undoubtedly the\noriginator of re-cycling, so popular with\nthe younger generation today. He could\nsell and resell a single copy of \"Elsie's\nAdventures in the Belfrey\" any number of\ntimes on a round trip. What farmer who\nhad slyly bought such trash was going to\nbring it home? So it would be surrep-\nticiously hidden under the seat of the\ndaycoach in which he was riding or\namong some paper towels. But the nose\nof the newsie would search it out inexorably and back it would go on sale.\nThe business training afforded a good\nstudent of human nature, the knowledge\ngained in book-keeping set out by the\nrailway, plus a little business initiative\nmade several newsies known to this\nwriter near millionaires. They played the\nmarkets with the same acumen they\nplayed their customers!\nAn instance of business initiative\nwould be a popular custom of loading\nseveral crates of eggs on the pilot of the\nlocomotive at the country turn-around\npoint. These would be retrieved quickly at\nthe terminal before the engine left for the\nroundhouse and sold later in the city at\n\"country prices\".\nMEETING PLACE\nThe baggage car was a meeting place\nfor train crews, wandering roadmasters\nand assistant superintendents. Here you\ngot to read the train orders and it was\nwhere you heard wonderful stories, too!\nLike the one about the little man who\nturned up at the Calgary baggage room\nand shyly checked a chimpanzee. The\nanimal, a performer in a sideshow at the\nStampede, was moving on to another job\nin Winnipeg. It was in a cage but the\nowner was concerned because, as he put\nit, \"She gets lonely and raises hell\nsometimes.\"\nTurned out he was right. Shortly after\nthe train moved out, she reached through\nthe bars and started tearing off every baggage check within reach. Some of these\nshe ate, others she simply distributed\ngenerally within the area but leaving the\nbaggageman in a bit of a quandary as to\nwhere certain pieces of baggage were\ndestined.\nThen the little chimp started to howl\nand so they called in the trainer who said\nsomething along the lines of \"l-told-you-\nso\", and resolutely produced an old\ngarden hammock from a battered suitcase. This he hung across the bars in the\nupper part of the baggage car. He then\nclimbed into the hammock, was joyfully\njoined by the chimp who put her arms\nround him and slept peacefully all the\nway to their destination.\nCORPSES\nRemains of those who have departed\nthis world are still carried to their resting\nplaces in baggage cars and are respectfully handled by everybody. Absolutely\nnothing is ever placed atop a coffin by\nbaggagemen.\nGoing the rounds for many years was a\nstory about a trainman. He was always\nnameless, like so many legends, but he\nwas said to have a better than average\nability to throw his voice.\nHe would be seated beside his conductor at the forward end of the\ndaycoach. Immediately at his back a\nsmall room upon whose door was\nemblazoned the word \"Women\". Staring\ninnocently straight ahead, he would rap\non the back wall with his fist and startled\npassengers would hear the voice of a\nman, of all things, crying out for help.\nThe conductor, in on the gag, of\ncourse, would ignore this. Finally, a\npassenger would come forward to report\nthat there seemed to be someone locked\nin the room.\nThe trainman would go through a long,\ndrawn out routine of knocking timidly at\nthe door, unlocking it with his key, slowly\nopening just a crack \u00E2\u0080\u0094 ending with a\ndramatic swing to reveal nobody there.\nThe unfortunate passenger, none the\nwiser, would return to his seat with a badly wounded ego.\nThis same ventriloquist was reputed to\nhave pulled a similar trick when some\nundertaker's assistants were unloading a\ncoffin from the baggage car in a small\nSaskatchewan village one evening. As\nthey carried their load to a nearby truck\nthey heard sepulchral groans and cries of\n\"Let me down easy, boys\".\nWhat happened is lost in antiquity but\nthere is something real and lasting about\nthe prankster. He has passed this scene\nnow but his name was Trainman Joe Cunningham and there are three living people\nwho bear witness to the truth of these\nstories.\nOne is a retired conductor, H.J. Arthur,\npresently living at Outlook, Sask. who\nknew Joe very well and describes him as\n\"one of those people whose personality\nallowed him to get away with things\nwe would never have dared to try.\"\nFITS OF LAUGHTER\nA.F. Fryers, superintendent, CP Rail at\nMoose Jaw, recalls Joe worked the\nRegina-Colonsay branch for some years\nprior to his passing on in 1967.\n\"When trunks or large cases were being unloaded from the baggage car,\"\nrecalls Mr. Fryers, \"it was his favorite\npastime to throw his voice and make it appear someone was inside shouting Let\nme out!\"\nRetired baggageman A.W. Knisley,\nnow living in Calgary, remembers how\nJoe would keep young passengers in fits\nof laughter with his trickery and stories\nup in thedaycoach.\nFear of the supernatural lies within all\nof us. Picture a group of sturdy Calgary\nbaggagemen about to open the door of a\nbaggage car which they know carries no\ntrain baggageman, is \"loaded with mail\nand a coffin with remains\", according to\nword they've had in advance from Vancouver. Just as they are about to throw\nback the door they hear a scratching\nnoise, then a number of regularly spaced\nthumps.\n\"Nobody wanted to open the door\",\nrecalls baggageman Cyril Stenson, now a\nmember of CP Rail baggage room staff.\n\"Finally someone said, gee whiz, the\nguy's dead, open the bloody door.\"\nWhen it was thrown back, there was\nthe little dog, wagging his tail, complete\nwith excess baggage check on his collar,\ngrinning (so it seemed) at the trick he'd\nplayed on those great big, gullible baggage smashers who'd not been notified\nof the extra occupant of the baggage car\nout of Vancouver the previous evening.\nShow horse shows the way\nHANEY, B.C. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 In just over a\nyear and a half, Gary Moorcroft,\nsenior pricing analyst, Pacific\nregion, and his wife Julie, have\nbecome a force to be reckoned\nwith in B.C. horsemanship.\nWith a love for show horses, a\nlittle capital and much determination, the Moorcrofts have\ntaken an 11-year-old\nthoroughbred gelding named\nTranscend to the top rank in\nBritish Columbia's show horse\ncompetitions.\n35 RIBBONS\nIn 1977 the Moorcrofts entered\nTranscend in 26 B.C. division\nchampionships. The horse placed in 62 classes \u00E2\u0080\u0094 earning 20\nfirst and 15 second place ribbons.\nThese achievements led to the\ncouple and their horse being\nnamed the 1977 Canadian Horse\nShows Association's B.C. Champion in the 'hack' division, with\njudging based on a series of\nmanoeuvres for performance,\nposture, looks, handling and the\nrider's ability to control the\nanimal.\nTraining and competing takes\nup most of the Moorcrofts' spare\ntime and they will often travel 100\nmiles to get to a weekend competition.\nWhile the Moorcrofts believe\nTranscend is not of Olympic\ncalibre, they still harbor hopes to\nride in the 1980 Games. The\nowner of a young Trakehner\nhorse has offered to sponsor the\nMoorcrofts \u00E2\u0080\u0094 supplying them\nwith a horse that could be a contender for the Moscow Games.\nJulie has been riding since\nchildhood. Gary purchased\nTranscend in 1976 and became\nofficial trainer, manager and\ngroom for horse and rider.\nSTRONG-WILLED\nTranscend, who previously\nwas a competition jumper, is an\naggressive and strong-willed\nanimal. This led to a mismatch\nwith his former owner, resulting\nin handling difficulties and the\neventual sale to the Moorcrofts.\nJulie seems to be more com-\npatable with Transcend and both\nhorse and rider have developed a\nknack for winning B.C. horse\nshows.\nWinning team: Transcend, B.C.'s champion hack show horse, its\nrider Julie Moorcroft and her husband Gary proudly display some of\ntheir division championship ribbons while Delta alderman E. Burnett\n(acting Captain Cook during the municipality's Captain Cook\nbicentennial celebrations) holds the reins. Gary acts as official\ngroom, trainer and manager for horse and rider.\n People and places in the news\nAngus thinkers are Winners: Suggestion Awards have been\npresented to four Angus Shops employees for their money-saving\nand work-improvement ideas. From left they are C Paquette, carman,\nwho received $75. for improvement to a scissors type lifting device;\nA. Soumis, electrician, $85. for safety racks used in auxiliary\ndepartment; F. Corriveau, machinist, $35. for a pressure switch\ninstalled on a milling machine; and M. Schryer, assistant foreman,\n$385. for modification on cylinder heads sand blasting machine.\nSuggestions pay Off: C.R. Pike, chief mechanical officer (centre right), recently presented suggestion award cheques totalling $2,196. to eight Winnipeg employees at Weston Shops. Top money winner was Stanley P. Walker, machinist, whose idea for a modification to rabbits on in-shop pullers in the\npaint shop earned him $1,181. From left are: L.M. Maines, works manager; Ray Larkin, machinist; Dezso\nRakonczai, frogfitter; Larry F. Ledarney, machinist helper; R.W. McCreedy, shop engineer; Stanley P.\nWalker, machinist; A.G. Vulcano, works manager, Ogden (formerly at Weston); Mr. Pike, Alex Gray, general\nlocomotive foreman; Alfred Hintz, carman; Peter Michalishyn, pipefitter; Antoni Tomsxak, carman, and\nR.C DeVuono, assistant works manager. Missing from photo is Garnet Lobb, machinist.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSupport for Winter Games: Representatives of four Canadian\nPacific companies recently presented a $10,000 cheque from Canadian Pacific Ltd. to help finance the Canada Winter Games to be held\nat Brandon next February. Shown at the presentation at Red Oak Inn,\nBrandon, are (I. to r.) Alex Matheson, president of the Games' committee; Mac L. Aberdeen, superintendent, Brandon Division, CP Rail; and\nBill Moore, vice-president of the Friends of the Games. The plaque\nheld by Mr. Aberdeen bears the Winter Games symbol and was\npresented to the company by the Games' committee as a token of appreciation.\ntJt^Sm\n4*1\n(Kamloops News photo)\nFinal run: Locomotive engineer\nLeonard Gardner Smith of\nKamloops waves good-bye to 40\nyears of railroading as he prepares for his last run on the\nCanyon Division.\nouggesxion awaros at ugoen: Nine ogden shops\nemployees between them won $2,000 in suggestion awards. Attending the ceremony were R.A. Lindblad, general car foreman; K.T.\nDrummond, general locomotive foreman, and B.J. Cattani, assistant\nworks manager, who made the presentations. In photo above are (I. to\nr. seated) Alec Low, retired blacksmith; Roelof Roest, machinist; N.S.\nJaswal, carman welder; B.S. Sandhu, carman; (standing I. to r.) Mr.\nLindblad, Albert Schmick, foreman; H.W. Simpson, assistant\nforeman; A.E. Mackay, assistant foreman; J.H. Blackstock, assistant\nforeman; Mr. Drummond and Mr. Cattani. Not in photo is winner\nVictor Bull, assistant foreman.\nGolden wedding: Mr. and Mrs.\nJ. Henri Maurice of Rawdon,\nQue., were recently honored by\nfamily and friends after 50 years\nof marriage. Mr. Maurice, now 84,\njoined the company in 1918 as\nswitchman at Sort in Yard, Montreal. He moved to St. Luc in 1958\nwhere he remained until retirement after 40 years' service.\nOrient Express rides again: This could be a scene from the photographic archives of the famous\nOrient Express (Paris to Istanbul) before the turn of the century. But it isn't. The \"passengers\" are actors\nand actresses in a scene from a television feature filmed at the Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The show follows a businessman and his family taking their first journey on the world-renowned Express. In the course of the story, the young daughter dreams of future super trains. Stills used were obtained from Omer Lavallee, corporate archivist. Footage showing freight cars in action came from the\ncompany's Multiplicity film while Japan's high-speed Bullet were used in the dream sequence. Not a network show, the film is scheduled for the Ottawa area on Oct. 27 and will appear at intervals in various centres across Canada.\nAnniversary: Married in August,\n1928, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Dubois,\nof Montreal, recently celebrated\ntheir 50th wedding anniversary.\nMr. Dubois worked at Angus\nShops for over 49 years, retiring\nas material foreman in 1972. The\ncouple's daughter, Mrs. Pauline\nGingras, is assistant office\nmanager at Angus Shops, where\nshe has been working since 1956.\nMr. and Mrs. Dubois' fathers\nwere Angus Shops men-\nFrederic Dubois, electrician,\n1918 to 1943, and Pierre Mouton,\ncraneman, 1904 to 1935.\nAt last: Now Mr. and Mrs. Floyd\nL. Shantz can enjoy leisure time\ntogether. Mr. Shantz retires after\n36 years of service as conductor\nat South Edmonton.\n Recent rail retirements\nA helping hand: Mary Easton gets some help from J.S. Smith,\ndeputy chief engineer, Montreal, as she unwraps her retirement gift.\nMary joined the company in 1948 as cashier in Windsor Station\nRestaurant. In 1960 she transferred to the chief engineer's office as\nregister clerk and took full charge of the office files where she faced\nthe formidable task of successfully revamping the entire filing\nsystem. Mary-Lou, as she is known to the staff, plans on moving to\nNorth Bay to be with her relatives and friends.\nOperator retires: Lloyd G. Fairbrother, operator at the 12 Street\nTower, Calgary, retired after 41 years service. Mr. Fairbrother, who\nwas an operator for the past eight years, spent most of his rail career\nas a leverman. He is seen conferring with one of his younger successors, Operator Heather McKinnon, daughter of a CP Rail conductor.\nThe last board tO Saw: Donald Harvey (r.) carpenter with\nWindsor Station's building services, Montreal, saws his last board as\nManager Charles McGaw lends a helping hand. Mr. Harvey began\nworking for the company at Angus Shops in 1949 and transferred to\nWindsor Station in 1962. He has taken early retirement to return to his\nbirth-place, St. Johns, Newfoundland.\n8\nJohn Akey, trackman, Smiths Falls\nDiv.; Moses Akman, carman, freight\nshop, Angus; F.M. Anderson, B&B\nforeman, Saskatoon.\nE.C. Baker, chargeman, motive\npower, Kerrobert; Cyrille Belanger,\ntrucker, Montreal Wharf; J.C. Boden,\nyardman/yard foreman, Alyth; Pierre\nBrochu, carman, passenger, Angus;\nE.J. Bryant, machinist, air brake,\nAngus.\nM.K. Caulfield, accounting &\nrecords supervisor, insurance & fire\nprotection, Montreal; E.L. Chambers,\nlocomotive engineer, Roberts Bank,\nCanyon Div.; H.C. Clark, carman,\nToronto Yard; E.W. Coulter, conductor, Brandon Div.; Antonio\nCourtemanche, electrician, Diesel\nelectric, Angus, W.K. Curtis, statistician, chief engineer's office, Montreal.\nZbigniew Dabrowski, carman,\nToronto Yard; Marcel David,\nmachinist, Diesel erecting, Angus;\nRosario Desjardins, carman helper,\nGlen Yard; Paul Dionne, electric truck\noperator, stores department, Angus.\nGerhard Ens, yard foreman,\nCalgary.\nJ.D. Ferguson, chief clerk, CSC,\nToronto Yard; C.W. Fetterley,\nlocomotive painter, Ogden; Roger\nForget, carman, St. Luc Yard; R.A.\nFoulston, conductor, Medicine Hat.\nR.L. Gardiner, yardmaster, North\nBay; Alfred Gauthier, senior clerk,\nDiesel department, Angus; Maksy-\nmilian Glen, trackman, Sudbury; D.M.\nGuinn, yard foreman, Vancouver.\nG.D. Hale, conductor, Kentville,\nN.S.; R.J. Hales, mobile supervisor,\nEspanola, Ont.; C.V. Harden,\npassenger trainman, Medicine Hat;\nW.F. Harris, trackman, Regina; P.R.\nHenderson, yard foreman, Sudbury;\nRoger Huot, assistant storekeeper,\nSt. Luc Diesel; C.W. Husband, red\ncap, Windsor Station, Montreal.\nW.T. Kennedy, yardman/yard\nforeman, Alyth; J.A. Kirkham,\ntrackman/truck driver, Smiths Falls;\nAdolf Klimuk, carman, Toronto;\nWilliam Kucher, maintainer,\nmaintenance of way shop, Winnipeg.\nRobert Lamb, boilermaker,\nRevelstoke; Gaston Langdeau, yard\nforeman, St. Luc Yard; George\nLangdeau, trainman, Farnham, Que.;\nJacques Lariviere, carman, freight,\nAngus; J.H. Lavereau, towerman,\nMarathon Realty, Port McNicoll, Ont.;\nS.O. Lebanon, locomotive engineer,\nBrandon; J.A. Lefebvre, sheet metal\nworker, Angus; Marcel Lefebvre, car\nman helper, St. Luc Yard; Jean\nLegault, carman, freight shop, Angus;\nAlbert Lenoski, craneman, Weston\nShops; Paul Leonard, carman, steel\nshop, Angus; H.E. Locke, storekeeper, Saskatoon; D.A. Longtin,\nmachine operator, maintenance of\nway, Montreal Div.; J.A. Longtin, carman, St. Luc Yard; Alexander Low,\nblacksmith, Ogden; Alexander Lucak,\nlocomotive engineer, Sutherland;\nW.P. Luttrell, carman, car department, Toronto.\nGuiseppe Maffei, trackman, Toronto; F.G. McCafferty, telephone clerk,\nSaint John; N.H. McFarlane, conductor, Calgary; Gordon McKay, yard\nforeman, Moose Jaw; J.S.\nMcKechnie, locomotive engineer,\nWinnipeg Div.; John McMullan, shed\nforeman, Place Viger, Montreal;\nAugust Meider, trackman, Regina;\nHarold Meredith, car cleaner, Glen\nYard; E.H. Metcalf, cashier, CSC,\nThunder Bay; G.H. Millette, locomotive engineer, Farnham; A.E. Minotti,\ncarman, helper reclaim dock, Angus.\nHie Neculica, carman, freight,\nAngus.\nEmilien Ouimet, carman, freight,\nAngus; R.C. Owens, electrician,\nBCCSS, Vancouver.\nC.R. Painter, enginehouse laborer,\nMcAdam; Alfred Paolucci, carman\nhelper, Glen Yard; L.F. Parks,\nlocomotive engineer, Alyth; F.C.\nPisani, engine handler, Toronto;\nSteve Pomeranski, locomotive\nengineer, Winnipeg.\nGustave Robicheau, sectionman,\nWeymouth, N.S.; Raymond Rosa, carman, Sherbrooke.\nMarcel St. Martin, section foreman,\nWaterloo; W.J. Silk, assistant\nforeman, car dept., Toronto; M.H.\nSpurr, lab technician, St. Luc Yard;\nN.P. Stewart, machine operator, London Div.\nJ.A. Theriault, carman, freight,\nAngus; Maurice Theroux, mobile\nsupervisor, CSC, Sherbrooke; CM.\nThompson, deputy regional engineer,\nVancouver; Lucien Thouin, machinist,\nDiesel erecting, Angus.\nAdrien Valiquette, senior mail\nclerk, Windsor Station, Montreal;\nConstant Vaillancourt, carman,\nQuebec.\nJ.T. Wiebe, yardman, Winnipeg\nDiv.; J.L. Williams, locomotive\nengineer, Moose Jaw Div.; F.E.\nWorthington, trainman, Orangeville,\nOnt.\nEdward Yoki, carman helper, Toronto.\nRecent appointments\nPeople on the move\nJ.B. Chabot succeeds J.J.F.\nCote as manager\u00E2\u0080\u0094special projects, Atlantic Region marketing\nand sales.\nDisbursement\nAccounting\nchanges\nThe manager disbursement accounting for CP Rail at Montreal\nrecently announced that the\npositions of supervisor data centre, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg\nand Vancouver are now abolished. As a result, the following appointments and changes have\ntaken place:\nJ.L. Rochon, formerly supervisor, Pacific Region Data Centre, is now chief accountant,\nAtlantic Region, Montreal.\nD.A. Donegani, Eastern\nRegion, Toronto, and R.S. Dixon,\nPrairie Region, Winnipeg, remain\nat their posts with the new title of\nchief accountant.\nR.A. Marks, formerly assistant\nmanager disbursement accounting, Montreal, is now chief accountant, Pacific Region.\nH.E. Carter has been appointed manager expenditure\ncontrol at Montreal headquarters. He will be responsible\nfor the continued development\nof systems to enhance control\nover expenditures.\nR.J. Nadeau succeeds Mr.\nCarter as assistant manager\ndisbursement accounting.\nC.A. Pompizzi was named administrative assistant to the\nmanager disbursement accounting.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nD.R. Evans is now trainmaster,\nRevelstoke Division, with headquarters at Revelstoke, B.C.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nA.T. Stenersen has been named supervisor, accounting, Inter-\nmodal Services, with offices in\nMontreal.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nF.R. Sheenan has been appointed office manager, Vancouver and Canyon Divisions,\nPacific Region.\nC.L. Jones succeeds Mr.\nSheenan as assistant office\nmanager, Canyon Division.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nH.E. Trltes has been appointed\nmaster mechanic. Brandon Division, at Winnipeg headquarters.\n%\nHonored: Alex McDermott, terminal supervisor, CP Intermodal\nServices, Calgary, for the past 13\nyears, retired recently. He joined\nthe sleeping and dining car services in Winnipeg 44 years ago\nand became assistant terminal\nsupervisor, Piggyback Services,\nat Fort William in 1959. He was\npresented with a parting gift by\nJ.B. Allen, region manager, Intermodal Service.\nGood Luck: Nick Geigerfr.), section foreman, Lethbridge,\nreceives best wishes and a retirement gift from Roadmaster P.M.\nDzioba. Mr. Geiger has worked\nfor the company for the past 39\nyears.\nAlf Ferguson has been appointed general manager, marketing\nand sales, Eastern Region,\nToronto. Formerly general manager, pricing, Montreal, he is\nshown thanking his associates\nand friends who honored him\nwith a gift and reception at Went-\nworth Curling Club prior to departure for Toronto. Presentation\nwas made by D'Alton Coleman,\nassistant vice-president, marketing and sales.\n Interim arrangement\nPass privileges\nare unchanged\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 VIA Rail Canada will honor CP Rail passes and\nreduced rate orders under an interim arrangement reached last\nmonth.\nUnder the arrangement, which remains in effect until a final accord\nis worked out, former pass and reduced rate privileges remain un-\nNine-month\nincome up\n$9 million\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail's income for the first nine months of\n1978 reached $51.5 million, an increase of close to $9 million over\nthe same period last year.\nMost of the increase came in\nthe second quarter, when freight\nvolume was on the rise. In the\nthird quarter, the growth of\nrevenues was barely more than\nenough to match the rise in\noperating expenses, according\nto the Canadian Pacific Ltd.'s\nthird quarter financial report.\nCP Ltd. consolidated net income for the first nine months of\n1978 also rose sharply over income for the same period last\nyear, from $187.6 million in 1977\nto $233.5 this year.\nEarnings of every group except\nCP Ships were up. The most\ndramatic increase came from CP\nAir whose nine-month income\nwas $23.4 million, up from\n$5,257,000.\nchanged.\nWith the integration of Canadian National Railways' Super\nContinental and CP Rail's The\nCanadian, however, VIA Rail has\naltered routes and schedules.\nThe Canadian now operates\nout of Toronto, connecting Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg,\nRegina, Calgary, Banff and Vancouver along CP Rail lines, but\nno longer serves Montreal or Ottawa. CP Rail pass or reduced\nrate ticket holders in the Montreal area will board the Super\nContinental at CN's Central Station. Those from Ottawa will\nboard the former CN train at\nUnion Station.\nThe Super Continental travels\nbetween Montreal, Ottawa,\nCapreol, Sioux Lookout, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton,\nJasper and Vancouver along CN\nlines.\nThe two trains meet at Winnipeg, both eastbound and westbound, to allow passengers to\nmake connections. Sleeping cars\nwill be exchanged between the\ntwo trains without disturbing\npassengers, while coach and\nDayniter passengers will have to\nswitch trains in some cases.\n(See \"Route\"page 2)\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^^mmm^^mr^mmw^^\nEasy does it: A 125-ton capacity mobile crane gently lowers a\nnew 47-foot railway span over Coleman Road near Shawnigan on the\nEsquima/t and Nanaimo Railway's Victoria subdivision.\nRail, Dominion Bridge crew\ninstalls span in seven hours\nSHAWNIGAN, B.C. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 A new\n47-foot railway span is in place\nover Coleman Road near Shawnigan, installed in just seven\nhours by a 16-man crew from CP\nRail and Dominion Bridge.\nLocated two miles north of\nShawnigan, the bridge replaces a\ntemporary tressle built to handle\nrail traffic after the original struc\nture was damaged in a road accident in August 1977.\nThe 60-ton atmospheric\ncorrosion-resistant steel span\nwas assembled by Dominion\nBridge at its Annacis Island\nplant, complete with concrete\ndeck, and transported by flatcar\nto the Vancouver waterfront\n(See \"Ferry\"page 2)\nwmmmmmm\nLast hurrah: Engineman R.A. Rourke uses conductor J.J. McNeil's hat to wave goodbye as The Canadian leaves Vancouver station for the last time. Trainman V.J. D'Andrea looks on. More stories and photos\non pages 4 and 5.\nDouble tracking underway\non Lake Louise project\n- -LAKE LOUISE, AKa. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Work is\nnow well underway on CP Rail's\ndouble tracking project between\nLake Louise and Stephen, B.C.\nThe project involves construction of 5.5 miles of new westbound main line track and relocation of the 'Wye' and storage\nTransferred employees\noffered Rail News\nHome delivery of CP Rail\nNews is being made available\nto former employees of CP j\nRail transferred to VIA Rail\nCanada.\nSparked by a growing list of\nrequests, CP Rail News is inviting transferred employees\nwho would like to continue\nreceiving the paper to notify\nthe editor, in writing, at: Windsor Station, Room 117, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3E4. Home\nmailing address must be clearly printed.\ntracks from Lake Louise to\nEldon.\nWhen completed in 1980, the\n$13.9 million project will conclude the first phase of a\nprogram to increase main line\ncapacity by reducing grades and\nby double tracking at key locations between Calgary and Vancouver.\nIncluded with Lake Louise in\nthe first phase of the main line\nimprovement program are two\nprojects scheduled for 1979 completion in British Columbia\u00E2\u0080\u00944.5\nmiles near Revelstoke and 11\nmiles near Salmon Arm. Total\nvalue of all three projects is over\n$40 million.\nA second phase would include\na 19-mile construction project in\nthe Beaver River Valley where\ntechnical studies are continuing\non a possible eight-mile tunnel.\nThe contract for clearing and\ngrading of the main line right of\nway between Lake Louise and\nStephen, and for the new Wye\nand storage tracks at Eldon, 10\nmiles east of Lake Louise was\nawarded to Loram International\nLtd. of Calgary.\nLoram crews began at Eldon in\nmid-October, and work was completed up to sub-grade by the\nfirst week in November.\nBallasting and track laying will\nbe done in the spring of 1979.\nMeanwhile, Loram crews have\nmoved to the main line portion of\nthe project where clearing and\ngrading work will continue\nthroughout the winter. Grading\nfor a revision of the existing main\nline to accommodate construction of a new bridge across the\nBow River is to be completed\nthis month and clearing and drilling related to blasting operations\nis also underway.\nBlasting and rock work will be\ndone during the winter season\nwhen traffic on the Trans-Canada\nHighway is light. Construction of\nbridge abutments is scheduled\nto take place during low water\nperiods.\n'Hands off is better than hands off\n 55****'\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n(Photo: Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic)\nChanging hands: The Homestead Village being developed at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum\nrecently had a 65-year-old CP Rail boxcar and some tracks added to the station, grain elevator, livery\nstable, electric power plant and other features of early Prairie life on display. A railway waybill representing the transfer of ownership was presented by R.J. Shepp (right), general manager of operation and\nmaintenance for CP Rail's Prairie region, to Bill Early, the museum's vice-chairman. Also taking part in the\npresentation were (from the left) M.L. Aberdeen, superintendent of CP Rail's Brandon division and David\nMcKeand, a director of the museum and one of its founders.\nRoute and schedule changes\nwith integration of services\n(Cont. from page 1)\nA VIA chartered bus operates\nbetween Sudbury and Capreol to\npermit transfers between the two\nlines before Winnipeg.\nCP Rail passes and reduced\nrates are being honored on VIA\nchartered buses, as well as on\nVIA Transcontinental trains 3 and\n4 operating between Montreal\nand Winnipeg via Capreol and\nVIA Transcontinental trains 1 and\n2 between Toronto and Winnipeg\nvia Sudbury.\nCP Rail passes and reduced\nrate privileges are honored only\non trains 1 and 2 between Winnipeg and Vancouver.\nOn all trains other than the VIA\nLetting off\nSTEAM\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail News, No. 9,\nVol. 8, July 12, carries a picture of\na rail inspection car taken in\n1913.\nI knew Mr. Cotterell and Mr.\nPrice but what makes it particularly interesting is the picture\nof Herb Vollans.\nA number of years ago, I was\ncleaning out an office desk either\nat Grand Forks or Salmon Arm\nand I found a \"Maintenance of\nWay\" rule book. It is leather\nbound, dated \"revised in 1907\",\ninside the front cover is written\n\"H. Vollans, Roadmaster, Vancouver.\"\nThis book has a wealth of information, apparently blueprints\nwere not in general use and were\nnot as essential as now because\nthe measurements, diagrams and\nnames are shown of switches,\nCWtH^IWlt\nNews\nSupervising editor,\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nLen Cocolicchio\nEditorial assistant,\nShirley Whittet\nCorrespondents,\nMorrieZaitiin, Vancouver\nLarry Bennett, Calgary\nMickey Potoroka, Winnipeg\nBill Lidstone, Toronto\nStephen Morris, Montreal\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pen-\nsioners of CP Rail. AH letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nWindsor Static\ncrossings, grade, rails and\nfastenings and signs.\nI wonder if there are any more\nof these books in existence.\nS.B. Harrison\nCranbrook, B.C.\nEd. note: Mr. Harrison\nretired CP Rail roadmaster.\nis a\ntranscontinentals, CP Rail\npasses and reduced rate\nprivileges will be honored, as\nbefore, for travel over existing CP\nRail lines in accordance with current company pass regulations.\nThe arrangement also applies\nto pass holders on the Dominion\nAtlantic and the Esquimalt and\nNanaimo railways.\nFerry transports\nsixty-ton span\n(Cont. from page 1)\nwhere it was loaded aboard the\nCP Rail freight ferry Trailer\nPrincess. The flatcar, with its\nextra-wide load, was rolled\nashore at Nanaimo and dispatched to the worksite at mile 29.8 on\nthe Victoria subdivision.\nTwo heavy-lift mobile cranes\nfrom Victoria \u00E2\u0080\u0094 one 125-ton\ncapacity and the other 30 tons \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwere used on the job.\nAccident prevention takes\nnew direction with contest\nCP Rail ranks among the top\nfive safest railways in North\nAmerica. That enviable record is\na result of the company's hard-\ndriving accident prevention program.\nBut success can breed complacency. In order to keep\nemployees safety-conscious, not\nonly on the job but in the home,\nCP Rail News will kick off 1979\nwith a safety slogan contest.\nThe contest, which will end in\nJune, is open to employees of CP\nRail and their families. Author of\nthe best slogan will receive a\nCanadian Pacific silver coffee\nservice, including a silver tray,\ncoffee pot, cream and sugar\nbowls. The set, from Canadian\nPacific Corporate Archives,\ncomes complete with a chronicle\nof its history.\nMeanwhile, in order to do justice to the outstanding slogans\nthat will no doubt cross the\neditor's desk in the interim, a\nselected slogan will appear in\ncolor on the front page of each\nissue of CP Rail News up to\nJune.\nEntries should be addressed\nto: The Editor, safety slogan contest, CP Rail News, Room 117,\nWindsor Station, Montreal,\nQuebec, H3C 3E4. Slogans\nshould be brief.\nnadian Pacific\nfamily matter\nCNCP Telecommunications wants rates hike\nOTTAWA \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CNCP Telecommunications has applied to the\nCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for an order permitting increases in rates of certain\nmessage, data, private voice and broadcast services as well as\npublic telegram service.\nIn requesting various increases for Telex/Data Telex, Broadband, private wire, broadcast, special assembly, Infoswitch and\npublic telegram service to become effective by April 1,1979, the\napplication estimates that approval by the CRTC would yield\n$7.2 million toCNCPTelecommunications in 1979.\nCP Air defers DC-10s\nVANCOUVER \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Air plans to defer introducing into its carrier fleet two new McDonnell Douglas wide-bodied DC-10s\nscheduled for delivery next summer. Instead, the two planes\nwill be leased to other airlines.\nRacine leases Montreal terminal site\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 A 17-acre site at the east end of Montreal's\nharbour area has been leased for three years from the National\nHarbours Board by Racine Terminal (Montreal) Limited, a newly\ncreated subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited, for j\nthe operation of a new, multi-million dollar common user con-\ntainerterminal.\nFinancial terms of the lease were not disclosed.\nNext stop, Frankfurt!\nAnd conductors think they have passenger problems... try\nthis one on for mileage: \"It shouldn't happen, but it does... and\nnot always on TV: A passenger asked a flight attendant how\nmany more stops were to be made before arrival at Prince\nRupert. He was found to have a Montreal-Vancouver-Prince\nRupert ticket. This happened shortly before the charter aircraft\nlanded at Frankfurt.\" (Last CP Air heard, he had been returned\nvia Winnipeg to be re-directed to his desired destination). From\nCP Air News.\nSafety always: CP Rail Constable Mike Witkowski shows interested children and parents part of a box-car lock at the Investigations department's recent display in a west end Toronto mall.\nInvestigations discovers\na new recipe for safety\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Kids and trains\ncan be a formula for tragedy, or,\nin the right environment, a recipe\nfor safety.\nCP Investigations put the\nrecipe to the test recently in a\nsafety display at Sherway\nGardens, a mall in the west end\nof the city. And the kids ate it up\nwith enthusiasm.\nComplete with movies, a\ndisplay of tools and mock-up of a\nrailway crossing featuring\nflashing lights and operational\n| Safety Standings Jan/Sept 1978 \\nInjury Index\nI Regions 1978 1977\nInjury Index\nDivisions 1978 1977\nMain Injury Index\nShops 1978 1977\nDiesel Injury Index I\nShops 1978 1977 1\nI 1 Atlantic 2.4 6.8\n1 Kootenay .9 12.8 8 Saskatoon 2.2 3.6 15 Brandon 4.1 2.5\n1 Ogden 1.24 2.5\n1 St.Luc(MtL) 0 2.5\n| 2 Pacific 4.3 7.1\n2 Canyon 1.3 8.3 9 Montreal 2.8 9.9 16 Revelstoke 5.2 4.4\n2 Weston 1.24 .9\n2 Winnipeg .7 2.5\nI 3 Prairie 4.5 5.0\n3 Smith Falls 1.4 8.5 10 Sudbury 2.9 6.2 17 Vancouver 6.5 8.8\n3 Angus 5.5 6.8\n3 Toronto 3.1 2.2\n1 4 Eastern 5.1 6.7\n4 Calgary 1.5 5.7 11 Lakehead 3.3 8.5 18 Alberta S. 8.8 3.9\n5 Quebec 1.6 1.4 12 London 3.5 8.4 19 Toronto 9.4 7.2\n6 AlbertaN. 2.1 5.4 13 Saint John 3.6 7.5 20 Moose Jaw 9.8 4.8\n7 Winnipeg 2.2 3.9 14 Schreiber 3.8 2.9\n* Figures Jan/Sept 1977and Jan/Sept 1978 based on injury index\not frequency and severity\nbell, the display entranced both\nkids and their parents while constables Phil Strachan and Mike\nWitkowski got across the\nmessage that railways aren't\nplaygrounds.\n\"We're very happy with the\nresults of the mall display,\" summed up Investigator Gerry\nMoody, the man in charge of the\nsafety program. \"The west end of\nthe city has a fair amount of rail\ntraffic and by placing the show\nhere we are reaching the children\nmost likely to come in contact\nwith the trains.\"\nBoth the West Toronto\nBuilding and Bridges department\nand Toronto Yard in Agincourt\nshare part of the success for\ntheir cooperation with the safety\nprogram, said Mr. Moody. The\nBuilding and Bridges department\nput together a train mock-up\nwhile Toronto Yard personnel\nmoved in 1,000 pounds of track\nfor part of the display's\nsnowmobile safety dramatization.\n B&B foreman demolishes highrise dwelling\nDrastic action was strictly for the birds\nbut only way to evict pesky tenants\nTenant eviction is never a pleasant business. And so it was\nwhen John Targett, regional\nsupervisor, CP Rail Communications at Calgary, decided some\nunwelcome residents would\nhave until fall to raise their\nfamilies and vacate.\nThen, just to make sure the\nunpleasant action would not\nhave to be repeated, Mr. Targett\ndecreed that the high-rise\nresidence with its 18 'apartment'\nunits would be razed to the\nground.\nNow, if that type of drastic action sounds like it's strictly for\nthe birds... well, it is.\nIt all started in the earlier days\nof the rail radio communications\n(point to trains) network when\nthis 80-foot cedar pole with a\n!\\n(Photo: Nicholas Morant)\nBird's eye View: In an odd switch of roles, some men-watching\nbirds look on with regret as these rather large predators with spiked\nfeet get set to demolish their highrise birdhouse.\nrelay antenna at the top, was\nerected at Albert Canyon, B.C. It\nappears that 1972 was a difficult\nyear for woodpeckers to find\nnesting space, so it was that\nholes began appearing.\nHelpful linemen and radio men\nthen commenced a game of\nnoughts and crosses with their\nlong-billed tenants. As soon as a\nhole appeared, someone would\ndon climbing irons, and go up to\nnail a bit of tin across the en-\ntranceway.\nAfter some years, 18 holes appeared, many patched up with\ntin. It began to look like a band-\naid advertisement.\nFor some time, John Targett\nand his crew had been worrying\nabout the physical condition of\nthe post, because woodpeckers,\nespecially the Pileated (yup, he\nof Woody the Woodpecker fame\non kids' TV) create huge holes\nwithin a pole which can rot invisibly.\nFinally, a self-supporting steel\ntower was erected and wired into\nservice. Then, with the help of\nB&B Revelstoke Foreman Pete\nGaetz and his chainsaw the\nwooden structure came crashing\nto earth.\nCross sections taken of the\nnesting areas proved the concerns about safety of the post\nwere well founded. One 'apartment' was 28 inches deep and\nbordered the outside edge by\nabout five inches on one side. It\nwas separated from another by\nabout half an inch (it is not only\nthe modern apartment dweller\nwho suffers from noise through\npaper thin walls).\nOne of the nests revealed an\ninteresting natural history oddity. Surviving the thunderous\ncrash and murderous impact of\nthe fall, protected by the grasses\nof its cradle, lay an unhatched\nrobin's egg\u00E2\u0080\u0094the delicate blue\nshell uncracked.\nEverything is coming up roses\neverywhere Tom Watson goes\nDelicate as a rose? Don't\nbelieve it.\nA Canadian rose bush has\nbeen blooming in England for\nmore than 52 years after travel\nling aboard ship across the\nAtlantic\u00E2\u0080\u0094as a cut flower.\n_lnJ\lovember 1925, a consignment of cut roses grown in\nBrampton, Ont. was shipped by\nWindfall: Ron Lemky, (left), distributor in the Winnipeg Freight\nTariff Bureau, accepts a suggestion award cheque in the amount of\n$765 (less taxes) from G.F. Mcintosh, manager. Mr. Lemky's windfall\nresulted from his suggestion to discontinue purchasing specific\nfreight tariffs. Dollar savings from his suggestion are estimated at\n$5,000 per annum.\nDominion Express (forerunner of\nCP Express) to London, England.\nAccording to a news dispatch of\nthe day, their appearance and\ncondition created a stir when exhibited in the Canadian Pacific\ndisplay window at Trafalgar\nSquare.\nWhen the display was over, the\nbest of the roses was made\navailable to the staff.\nTom Weston, then a young\nclerk, proudly took a bunch of the\nroses home. They were admired\nby his father, a well known hor-\nticulturalist, who established a\nrooted bush from one of the rose\nstems, which he planted in his\ngarden.\nWhen Tom married in 1942, he\nmoved the rose bush to his own\ngarden. Then, 16 years later when\nhe changed residence, the bush\nwent along, too. After 50 years'\nservice, Tom retired on pension\nwith a Gold Pass in 1970 and\nmoved to Sundbury on Thames\nto be near the river\u00E2\u0080\u0094where he\nstill lives. Again, the rose bush\nwent along.\nEach year from June onwards,\nthe rosebush continues to give a\nlovely display of red flowers.\nTom wonders if this is not\nsome sort of bloomin' record.\n(Photo: Nicholas Morant)\nHome Sweet home: Fears that an 80-foot communications pole\nmay have been weakened by birds seeking living quarters proved\nwell-founded. Here, regional supervisor CP Rail Communications at\nCalgary, John Targett (center) and radio technicians Tex Tychon (left)\nand Ron Homan pose with a rather airy cross-section from the pole.\nand\ninswers\nid for it...\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Are Canadian Pacific employees permitted to use the\nCP Police firing range for target practice? If yes \u00E2\u0080\u0094 what are the\ndays and times it is available; if no \u00E2\u0080\u0094 why not?\nJ. Kosican\nJ.C. Machan, Department of Investigation chief, reports that\nthere are only two company-owned ranges used for revolver instruction and practice\u00E2\u0080\u0094one at Montreal and the other at Winnipeg. These ranges are used only by on-duty members of the\nInvestigation department. They are closed to the public\nbecause of the added safety hazard the expanded use would\npose.\nAt other points on the system where the company does not\nhave its own ranges, the facilities of the local police are used.\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 / noticed some heated service box cars painted yellow\nhave a raised roof. Can you tell me what service and type of\ncommodity they are hauling?\nJ.C. Burns\nThere are 25 of these high cube cars hauling canned food products, mostly for Libby-McNeill Co. Ltd., out of Chatham, Ont.\nThe cars feature thermostatically controlled, underslung\nalcohol heaters. They were originally built for transporting beer\nin Ontario, which required a high-volume car (hence the raised\nroof to increase capacity). The service was discontinued after it\nproved uneconomical, however, the high cube cars proved\nsuitable for hauling canned food products.\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 What did it cost the company for The Canadian? I had\nthe privilege to work on the first Canadian out of Toronto Union\nStation. A very proud day for all railroaders. Now it is put in\nmothballs.\nF.C. Powell,\nToronto, Ont.\nCanadian Pacific's 173 stainless steel passenger cars were\nmanufactured by the Budd Co. of Philadelphia, the only company equipped to turn out the then revolutionary new cars, at a\ncost of $40 million. To enable Canadians to have as large a share\nof the order as possible, 24 Canadian firms supplied $7,000,000\nworth of components for the cars, ranging from roller bearings\nto lavatory fixtures.\nIt should be noted that The Canadian is not destined to lie in\nmothballs. Canadian National Railways' passenger train, the\nSuper Continental and The Canadian have been integrated\nunder VIA Rail Canada. The streamliner will connect Toronto,\nSudbury, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Banff and\nVancouver along CP Rail lines, but will no longer serve Montreal\nor Ottawa.\nQuestions? Write the Editor, CP Rail News (You Asked for It),\nRm. 117, Windsor Station, Montreal, Que. H3C3E4.\n Days Of Old: The first transcontinental passenger train arrives on July 4, 1886 at\nCanadian Pacific's western terminal, Port Moody, B.C. It ushered in an era of rail\npassenger service that was to last more than 92 years. In photo to the right, The Canadian gets its last goodbye as it starts out across the country on its final run.\nlIllL.\nmmSmm.\nx^xm^^-^^m^x\n^^mmm-aMmMm:-\nm^^-mmmmmx.\n^xmmmmmmmmmm...\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0m: ^xm \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -mmimm::\nmmmm M:;XmeXXs y/:m\nmm>mmmmmm.\nwmxmMiwm;xx<\nThrough the Rockies: The streamliner winds its way across\nthe Stoney Creek Bridge on the eastern slope of the Selkirk Range in\nBritish Columbia.\nFamily effort: The Collins brothers, selected to work The Canadian as porters from Winnipeg to Vancouver as part of the promotional activity for the transcontinental^ inaugural run in 1955, are\ngreeted by N.R. Crump, then vice-president of the company. Left to\nright are Dave, Dick, Fred and Frank Collins.\n'We were on our toes'\nrecalls Dick Collins\nVANCOUVER \u00E2\u0080\u0094 When The\nCanadian pulled into Vancouver\non its inaugural run in 1955, aside\nfrom carrying company officials,\nnumerous dignitaries, the press\nand passengers, the streamliner\ncarried a crew of 35.\nFour brothers, all natives of\nVancouver \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Dick, Dave, Fred\nand Frank Collins \u00E2\u0080\u0094 were aboard\nworking as porters when the\ntranscontinental arrived in the\ncity.\n\"We were all based at Vancouver and between us had 75-\nplus years of seniority and good\nservice records,\" Dick Collins\nrecalls. \"While we normally\nmade different runs,] as part of\nthe promotional activity for the\ninauguration, we were selected\nto work the train in from Winnipeg.\n\"It was a hectic trip because of\nthe day and night activities.\nThrongs of people would be at\neach station, all eager to look at\nthe new train. Dignitaries and the\npress would come aboard and we\nwere constantly on our toes making sure that everything was up\nto standard.\"\nA revolution in rail travel\nushered in by streamliner\nAmid the pageantry and the\nfanfare a new chapter in Canadian railway history was being\nwritten.\nIt was a paradox no one could\nhave foreseen on that day 23\nyears ago when The Canadian,\nshimmering in its polished stainless steel coat, rolled smoothly\nout of Windsor Station in Montreal for its inaugural run across\nthe country.\nAs the streamliner on April 24,\n1955 ushered in a new era for\nCanadian Pacific and \"a revolution in Canadian rail passenger\ntravel\" for the public, on Oct. 28,\n1978 it signalled yet another\n\"revolution\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the beginning of\nthe consolidation of all rail\npassenger services in Canada\nunder VIA, and the end of an era\nfor Canadian Pacific.\nThe Canadian came on the\nscene during the post-war\neconomic boom when lifestyles,\nand styles, were changing quickly. The railway was no exception.\nThis excerpt from a 1954 press\nrelease told the story of the\nlatest vogue in rail passenger\nservices: \"Canada's iron-horse-\nage passenger coaches are being converted into rolling resort\nhotels \u00E2\u0080\u0094 minus the swimming\npool \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in a major face-lifting\nthat's putting millions of dollars\nworth of glamour onto Canadian\ntracks.\"\nIt was glamour on the\noutside\u00E2\u0080\u0094scenic dome cars, a\ntravelling art exhibit in the mural\nlounge, observation sections\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094and under all those attractions, as never before seen on\nCanadian rails, some formidable\nadvances in technology that\nmade it all work.\nSwing hangers were specially\ndesigned to bolster suspension,\nproviding a smoother ride by\nreducing the car body roll and improving safety.\nThe tight-lock coupler, the\nStandard H Type, was introduced\nto Canada. It eliminated slack in\nthe coupler contour, which\nminimized jerks and vibration\nbetween cars, also cutting out\nnoise caused by slack.\nDraft gears were introduced\nfor sound-deadening, and the\ntrains were outfitted with CF\ntype disc brakes, invented by the\nmanufacturer of The Canadian's\n173 passenger coaches, the\nBudd Company of Philadelphia.\nBut in the public's eye, The\nCanadian was, as then company\nVice-president N.R. Crump said,\n\"An entirely new concept of\nrailway travel.\"\nAmong the attractions of this\nnew concept:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Designed to add to the relaxing atmosphere of The Canadian\nwas a hidden-speaker public address system, the first of its kind\nto be used aboard a train in\nCanada. The system offered soft\nAt the helm: Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau and N.R. Crump, at\nthe time vice-president of the company, enjoy a few laughs at the\ncontrols of The Canadian during inaugural celebrations on April 24,\n1955.\nmusic and was used for commentary on Canada's countryside.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Tail-piece of the trains was\ntheir most spectacular\ncharacteristic, a 24-seat, upper\nlevel dome, enclosed in heat-\nresistant, glare-proof glass giving passengers full, 360 degree\nvision. Forward end of the dome\ncar were three double bedrooms\nand a drawing room with a\npassageway leading under the\ndome and past a glass-enclosed\nbeverage room. Each of these\nlounges featured an original portrait of a provincial park by a\nrenowned Canadian painter, the\n18 murals forming a permanent,\ntravelling art exhibit.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Past the mural lounge,\nbehind the raised dome, lay a\nstreamlined observation section\nand a curved staircase leading to\nthe dome.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Gyralites, mounted on the\nleading diesel unit of each train\ndirected white beams skyward\ncontinuously from dusk to dawn\nin an oscillating pattern resembling a figure 8.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Plastic interior wall lining\nwas the latest in design. It made\ncleaning easy, and eliminated\nthe necessity of periodic repairs.\nIt was luxury fit for a king, or as\ncircumstance would have it, a\nqueen. The royal family has on\nnumerous occasions taken in the\nCanadian countryside aboard the\nstreamliner.\nTours of Canada over the rails\nby the British monarchy date\nback to Queen Elizabeth H's\ngrandparents, but few have ridden in the luxury afforded the\nreigning monarchy aboard The\nCanadian. Indeed, during a 1901\ntour by the Duke and Duchess of\nYork (later to be King George V\nand Queen Mary) a picture taking\nsession had the royal party perched above the cow catcher on\nthe front of the locomotive.\nThe Canadian had become an\ninstitution in Canada, a status it\nearned almost as it rolled off the\nassembly line. As one veteran\nreporter wrote in 1955 as he viewed the train during its inaugural\nrun, \"Still only a few hours old,\nThe Canadian is already an institution. This train has elegance.\nIt has beauty. It has an air...\"\n Some good memories: Montreal-based employees wave certificates presented in appreciation of\ntheir service aboard The Canadian as they prepare to take the streamliner on its last run across the country as a CP Rail train.\n'Canadian\nthe best,'\nO'Connell\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Conductor,\nThomas O'Connell, has been\nwith CP Rail over 35 years. Few\nchanges have meant more to him\nthan the end of The Canadian as\nit was known.\n\"I've been on many Canadian\nPacific passenger trains and met\nmany prominent people over my\ncareer but few compare to my\ntime on The Canadian,\" he recalled.\nMr. O'Connell has spent most\nof his career on the Montreal-\nOttawa service with his home terminal being Ottawa.\n\"Growing with the company in\nthe old days was a challenge and\na responsibility. It was hard being a trainman or conductor and\nbringing up a family.\"\nMr. O'Connell, like many\ndedicated employees, did\nmanage to do just that despite\nthe many nights away from\nhome.\n\"The Canadian started in 1955\nand up until now was the pride of\nthe Taitwayr^Tfre^aintes^ ~^teeH\ntrain was new to Canada back\nthen but even today many people\nremark of its fine condition.\"\nMr. O'Connell remains with CP\nRail and will work aboard VIA\nRail's new transcontinental train\nwhich originates from CN Rail's\nCentral Station.\nA job well done: Just prior to the Toronto departure of the last\nCP Rail transcontinental, the crew of The Canadian gathered in the\ndining car for the presentation of commemorative certificates by R.S.\nAllison, Eastern region vice-president, CP Rail. Shown left to right\nare: (standing) Brian Drainville, Mr. Allison, John Bryk, Thomas Pat-\nsula, Joe Formenton and Bernard Burke, (seated) Len Spencer, Bill\nRankin, Tom Brown, Aldo DeNicolini and Charles Arnold.\nTicketing team: Employees at the Calgary ticket office display\ncertificates marking their efforts on behalf of the company in serving\nthe travelling public. Left to right are Kim Evans, Connie Frouws,\nSheryl Keith, Alberta South division Superintendent D.G. Stewart,\nCinday Joevenazzo (seated), Dolaine Beau champ, Bill Adam, Ruby\nKaminski, Warren Bobier, Brian Dickson, Mike Boberg and Calgary\ndivision Assistant Superintendent CE. Minto.\nRail enthusiasts\nturn out to say\nadieu Canadian\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Some people\nclaimed it was almost a day of\nmourning as CP Rail's The Canadian left Windsor Station for the\nlast time.\nRail enthusiasts and the\ncurious came Oct. 28 to see the\nstainless steel train close\nanother chapter in railroading\nhistory.\nOn hand for a brief ceremony\nwas Louis Fortin, superintendent, Montreal Division.\nMr. Fortin praised the\nemployees who had devoted\nmany years with CP Rail\npassenger services. Afterwards,\nspecial certificates were\npresented to the onboard personnel as a tribute to their years of\nloyal service.\nA large number of passengers\nboarded the train to travel only a\nfew stations, determined to ride\nthe last Canadian.\nAt 12:05 the stationmaster\ngave the engineman the green\nlight and then, with bell ringing\nand two short blasts of the horn,\nthe train slowly pulled away.\nAs the familiar tail sign \"CP\nRail, The Canadian\", slowly\ndisappeared, some people mingled around the platforms realizing\nthat after 23 years The Canadian,\nas it was known, would be no\nmore.\nSpecial day: The last inbound run of The Canadian at Toronto had\nspecial significance for Engineer Norm Schroeder. For (Stormin'\nNorm', shown in front of Locomotive 4066 with trainman John Standing, it was the last run for the No. 2 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and for himself, as he entered\nretirement with the last CP Rail Canadian arrival into his home terminal.\nEnd Of the line: Vancouver crew members pose with The Canadian as they prepare to take the streamliner on her last trip east as a\nCP Rail train. Left to right are day coach attendant Jim Gaines, sleeping car attendant Ed Purins and park car attendant J.M. Tulloch, who\nwas with one of the first crews to work The Canadian.\nProud moment: Winnipeg passenger services personnel display\ncertificates commending their dedication in serving the public over\nthe years. Left to right are: Gordon Stenhouse, supervisor passenger\noperations; Victor Maryk, supervisor passenger services and Howard\nBeam an, baggage agent.\nLast Canadian OUt Of Winnipeg: It was a day of ceremony and special attention for the on-train\npassenger crew that manned the last Canadian to leave Winnipeg's CP Rail station for Vancouver, Saturday, Oct. 28. J.W. Malcolm (far left), Prairie region vice-president, was on hand to present certificates to\ncommemorate Rail's passenger operations.\n The train jacknifed...and Murray chuckled\nA day in the train dynamics simulator\nteaches old hoggers some new tricks\nByBILLLIDSTONE\nCHAPLEAU, Ont. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Engine-\nman trainee Pat Connelly set his\nthrottle on six as his train, all 35\ncars and 5,700 tons of it, came\npast the mile 101 marker in the\nNemegos subdivision, south of\nthis Ontario town.\n\"You had better watch yourself going through the rock cut\nup ahead,\" advised his road\nforeman, Murray Hazen. \"You've\ngot 45 mile an hour track there,\nand if you take this train through\nthere over 50, you've got real\ntrouble.\"\nBalancing his power against\nthe weight of his train, Pat tries\nto hedge his speed, not wanting\nto sacrifice too much momentum\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 momentum he'll need a few\nmiles farther on.\n\"You had better set your\nbrakes, Pat,\" advised Murray,\n\"let's see what will happen.\" The\ntrain starts losing acceleration as\nPat touches the brake, activating\nthe air brake system back down\nthe train; he knows it will take a\nminute or two for the full effect\nof his braking to be felt.\nSuddenly he realizes, too late,\nwhat is going to happen.\nMagnified by the composition of\nthe train, between full and empty\ncars, the braking effect works\ndown through the train, building\non itself until the buff force exceeds 250,000 lbs. and throws\nthe train off the track like so\nmany kiddies'toys.\n\"You've got them lined up\nsidewise for sure now, Pat,\"\nchuckles Murray, his hands vividly miming 30 jacknifed cars.\nChuckles?\nYes, chuckles, while the other\nfour men, witnesses to this major\nderailment, sit back and chuckle\ntoo. Pat's train beeps at him and\nkeeps going.\nCP Rail's newest teaching\ntool, a train dynamics simulator,\nhas just finished its first day,\nshowing Pat Connelly and other\nenginemen in Chapleau ways of\nbeing better and safer at their\njobs.\nBrake at the ready: Engineman Keith Scott, a 31-year CP Rail\nveteran from Chapleau, Ont., readies the brake switch while the TV\nmonitor (background) displays a train simulation. The mobile train\ndynamics simulator he's operating recently made its debut in this\ntown.\nSome of the simulator's equipment may be familiar to many\nenginemen in CP Rail. To the left\nis a standard, SD-40-2 control\nstand, to the front a television\nmonitor. On the right is the two-\ntape mini-computer, the heart of\nthe system. Still on the right but\nbehind the engineman is a telex\nkeyboard used for programming\ntrain type and make-up for the\nanalyser, and a command consol\nwhere the operator controls the\ndisplay.\nCLASSROOM ON WHEELS\nAll this equipment used to\nmake its home in Montreal's\nWindsor Station in the office of\nDow Alexander, manager, Track/\nTrain Dynamics. The situation is\nreversed now, though, as on its\nfirst trip Mr. Alexander is piloting\nthe analyser's new home; a 32-\nfoot GMC TransMode classroom\non wheels.\nAnd that's what is new, and\nmost beneficial, about the train\ndynamics analyzer. It's mobile\nexperience-on-wheels that can\nand will reach enginemen\nthroughout the Eastern and\nAtlantic regions in the coming\nmonths. Both Dow Alexander\nand Frank Smith, supervisor,\nEngineman Training Eastern\nregion, travelled with the\nmachine on its first trip from\nToronto to Chapleau and both\nhave words of praise for the concept.\n\"The TransMode vehicle\nitself,\" says Mr. Smith, \"is\nperfect for the job with seating\nfor 10 and a rear air bag suspension that cradles the delicate\ncomputer parts. The system can\nwork at any of our enginemen\nhome points.\"\nThe system's mini-computer is\nthe heart of the new teaching\nconcept with taped programs\nsimulating track conditions\nanywhere in the rail system, according to Dow Alexander.\n\"Five years ago the railways in\nNorth America began paying a\ngreat deal of attention to the\nphenomenon known as train and\ntrack dynamics; the play of\nforces through a train and how\ncar placement and handling affect a train's stability. Our own\nstudy at CP Rail brought to light\na great deal on this subject.\n\"From this work,\" continued\nEleven Congolese railway trainees\nhead into home stretch of program\nMONTREAL - Eleven\nFrench-speaking Congolese\nrailway management trainees are\nheading into the home stretch of\nan eight-month training program\nwhich has featured practical and\ntheoretical courses on railway\noperations.\nThe program, sponsored by\nthe Canadian International\nDevelopment Agency and the\nAgence Transcongolaise des\nCommunications, is being conducted by Canadian Pacific Consulting Services Ltd. (CPCS) of\nMontreal.\n\"This program is an alternative\nto sending consultants\noverseas,\" said Denis Belisle,\nvice-president, business\ndevelopment, CPCS. \"It is largely\nexperimental, but we believe by\nbringing the trainees here they\ncan gain a basic understanding\nof our methods, tools and skills.\nThis will give them the confidence to make effective plans\nand managerial decisions when\nthey return to their country in\nDecember.\"\nThe major areas of the programs include telecommunications and radio systems; modern\nport management; building, track\nand bridge maintenance and\ndiesel machinery maintenance.\nThe Congolese trainees arrived in Montreal in May and immediately began five weeks of introductory courses on CP Rail\nand Canadian society in general.\nThis was followed by a 12-week\nperiod where each student was\nplaced in various areas of the\nrailway and other organizations\nfor on-the-job training.\nThe students are now completing several months of\nclassroom training at the University of Sherbrooke and at a\nFrench language CEGEP in Montreal.\nRailway specialists serving on\nthis project have been drawn\nfrom CP Rail and other corporate\nstaff groups within Canadian\nPacific.\n\"The overall objective of these\nprograms is to develop human\nresources and to upgrade the\nabilities of middle management\npeople in the emerging countries\nso that they will be able to\noperate railways safely, efficiently and productively,\" said Mr.\nBelisle.\nThere's the link: Manager, Track/Train Dynamics, Dow Alexander (left) points out the connection between the computer and the\ncontrol mock-up in CP Rail's new train dynamics simulator to Frank\nSmith, supervisor, Engineman Training, Eastern region.\nMr. Alexander, \"we have been\nable to program the train and\ntrack profiles recorded in the\ncomputer. When an engineman\nor trainee sits down at the control stand in our mobile\nclassroom, he can visualize both\nthe landscape, track conditions,\nmileage points and the problems\ncoming up.\"\nTV MONITOR\nThe TV monitor facing the\noperator is divided into sections.\nAcross the top of the screen is\nshown a white-line-on-green-\nbackground simulation of the\ntrack being used in a test marked\noff in miles and showing both\ngrade variations and curves. On\nthe left upper screen is simulation of the train type (looking like\na line drawing of boxes) being used.\nTonnage and number of cars\nand whether they are empty or\nloaded appears on screen before\nthe start of a simulation. To the\nright and center of the screen the\ncomputer shows the acceleration being applied in terms of\nmiles-per-hour per minute gained\nor lost.\nBeneath the upper left hand\ncorner train simulation are the\ntwo electronic graphs that show\nthe drag force (pulling force of\nthe engine on the train) and the\nbuff force (the force generated\nby the rear of the train pushing\non the engines). Below this graph\nis the brake power display which\nportrays the effects of brake applications on the train.\nBalancing these forces and the\npower needs of a train are the\nsigns of good railroading.\nIt's not only trainees that\nbenefit from the analyzer.\nEngineman Keith Scott, with 31\nyears experience at the throttle,\nput it this way: \"I've always\nthought you should never let a\ntrain run ragged, with too much\nslack, and this machine has\nshown me why. I've also tried a\ncouple of different manoeuvers\nhere at the trickier sections of\ntrack on my run that have shown\nme some new ways I can handle\nmy trains.\"\nAlthough there are no\nstatistics ready yet, this kind of\nlearning and experience is paying off. \"Since we've started\npassing on what we now know\nabout track and train dynamics,\"\nexplains Mr. Alexander, \"there\nhas been a sizeable reduction in\nthe number of 'unknown cause'\nderailments as well as a lowering\nof major accidents to minor accidents.\n\"Now we'll be able to spread\nthis training across the whole\nsystem. Between the new\nTransMode vehicle and the\nearlier mobile system that's now\noperating in the Prairie region,\nwe should be able to reach all our\nenginemen and trainees.\"\nQCR man is honor grad: Adrien Vachon (r.), of Daaquam, Que.,\nsection foreman for Quebec Central Railway, receives his\nmaintenance of way training certificate from G.W. Partridge, assistant regional engineer, Atlantic Region, after graduating with honors\nfrom the training school at St. Luc Yard. Looking on at centre is J.A.\nGagn6, supervisor, maintenance of way training.\n On the move across the system\n\"/ remember When...\": Centenarian Jim McCombs recounts\nthe good old days of railroading before he retired from the company\n35 years ago. His eager listeners are D.G. Stewart (I.), superintendent,\nAlberta South, and J.M. Patterson (r.), general manager operation and\nmaintenance, Vancouver, who brought a birthday greeting from F.S.\nBurbidge, company president.\nDidn't want Royal Train\nCentenarian recalls the days\nwhen West was jumping\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMEDICINE HAT \u00E2\u0080\u0094 This\nSeptember, J.A. \"Jim\" McCombs\nreached an important milestone\nin his life\u00E2\u0080\u0094his 100th birthday.\nStill in good health and high\nspirits, Mr. McCombs was born\nin Ontario and when still a youth\ncame west with his two brothers\nand joined the railway.\n\"We beat it out West. We were\ntold it was really jumping here-\nstarted as a brakeman and after\nonly three months I got on as\nrelief conductor for a fella who\nwas on four months sick leave,\"\nhe said. \"I was only a sprout in\nseniority but I hit it lucky.\"\nHe was a conductor out of\nMedicine Hat for virtually all of\nhis 40 years with the company\nand accumulated close to 300\nmerit marks. He was known as\nsomeone to rely on for handling\nbad order cars, making on-the-\nspot repairs to avoid delays, and\ngeneral watch-dogging the company's interests.\n\"I just did what had to be\ndone,\" he recalls. \"I always got\non with the superintendents.\nWell, except maybe one\u00E2\u0080\u0094we had\na few clashes!\"\nHowever, he didn't always like\nthe tasks set forth by his\nsuperintendents. In 1939, he\nment that others would have\njumped at\u00E2\u0080\u0094the chance to work\nthe Royal Train tour.\n\"I gained some notoriety that\ntime,\" he chuckles. \"I didn't\nwant the job and told the super\nso. I was on my last 10 years and\nlooking for pension dollars, not\nhonors. Branch line paid a little\nA celebration: Fred Oliver and\nhis wife Olive recently marked\ntheir 50th wedding anniversary at\nSeal Beach, Calif., where they\nhave been living since 1970. Mr.\nOliver worked for CP Rail from\n1919 until his retirement from the\npattern shop at Montreal in 1969.\nmore than main line.\n\"But the super said 'Mac,\nyou've been checked out by\neveryone from Scotland Yard to\nour own police for this train and\nyou're going to be on it. So I moved to the main line a few months\nbefore the Royal train came\nthrough. No one wanted it said\nthat the railway took a conductor\noff a branch line to ride the Royal\nTrain!\"\nJust the year before, in 1938,\nMr. McCombs earned the title\nDoc McCombs, the travelling\nobstetrician, when he helped\ndeliver a boy child on board near\nEmpress, Alta.\n\"No one else seemed to want\nto help so I had to pitch in,\" he\nsaid. A couple of years ago I met\nthe lad with his two children\ndowntown here and he came up\nto me and thanked me for giving\nhim a start.\"\nToday a spry 100, Mr. McCombs lives with his daughter\nMrs. A.L. McDougall and until\nlast winter did much of the\ngardening and even shoveled\nsnow.\n\"I'm slowing down this year.\nThat hard winter last year\u00E2\u0080\u0094so\nmuch snow and ice I just didn't\nget enough exercise,\" he said.\nthy\u00E2\u0080\u0094olcL birdT -J~ve\nsmoked for 83 years. Haven't\ntouched liquor, though, since I\nwas around 20\u00E2\u0080\u0094felt so bad after\na bender I said to myself 'that's\nit' and haven't touched a drop\nsince.\n\"You know, I don't feel any different now than I did 30 years\nago. I've been pretty lucky.\"\nK. Audrain recently became\nacting trainmaster, South Branches, with headquarters at Brandon, Man.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nFrank DeCarlo has been promoted to the position of senior\nmarketing representative, at\nToronto, reporting to D.M.\nThompson, marketing director \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nsteel.\nMr. DeCarlo brings to this position extensive experience ranging from railway operations to\nsales and marketing. He will be\nresponsible for marketing CP\nRail's services in the transportation of steel and related commodities.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nF.A. \"Fred\" Louks was recently promoted to senior industrial\ndevelopment officer, Eastern\nRegion, reporting to C.J. Timms,\ndirector, industrial development.\nMr. Louks brings a great deal\nof experience in industrial\ndevelopment and engineering to\nhis new position. He is now\nresponsible for CP Rail's industrial development activities in\nMetropolitan Toronto, the\nMunicipal Region of Durham,\nHamilton and the Niagara Peninsula of the Toronto, Hamilton\nand Buffalo Railway.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nMrs. Chrystiane Coulombe\nwas appointed director, translation centre, Montreal, effective\nSept. 20.\nE.A. LACOSTE\nE. BARLOW\nE.GEMMELL\nNew system car management centre\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Coincident\nwith the implementation of the\nsystem car management centre\nat headquarters, the following\nappointments became effective\nOct. 1,1978.\nE.A. LaCoste was appointed\nmanager equipment planning\nand utilization. He is responsible\nfor car service matters; planning\ncar distribution associated with\nthe Weekly Car Forecasting and\nEmpty Car Routing programs;\nplanning freight car repairs and\nthe development of performance\nindicators for use in measuring\nfleet productivity.\nE. Barlow was named manager\nequipment control with responsibility at System for day to day\ncar control activities including\nthe application and monitoring of\nweekly distribution plans in conjunction with the distribution\ncentres.\nE. Gemmell became director\ncar management programs with\nresponsibility for the development, planning and implementation of programs to improve\nfreight car management administration and equipment control.\nMARKET PLANNING\nGene M. Peretz has been appointed manager market planning, Montreal.\nMr. Peretz brings considerable\nCP Rail marketing know-how to\nthis appointment, his last position being manager freight sales\non the Atlantic Region.\nAs manager market planning,\nMr. Peretz is responsible for\nrevenue planning, market\nanalysis, and service and equipment planning in support of CP\nRail's marketing activities\ndesigned to ensure optimum profit and service from railway\noperations system wide.\nAn early run into retirement: The six passenger services\nemployees above are congratulated on their combined service of 204\nyears by L.L. Coates-(rj, supervisor passenger-services, Montreal.\nFrom left are J. Girdauskas, J.H. Silcott, C. McNeil, W. Baran, L. Pepin\nand H. Paquette. Representing another 74 years' service are F.\nDaoust and R. Wedge who were unable to be present. The men, who\nare all taking early retirement, are shown beside The Canadian only a\nfew days before the crack train was turned over to VIA Rail.\nPensioner recalls \"Hungry 30s;\"\nnow has days of double gold\n#\nHonored: Mr. and Mrs. Harvey T.\nPotter of Calgary were honored\nat a Golden Wedding dinner\ndance recently. The Potters were\nmarried in 1928 and in 1930 Mr.\nHarvey joined the company's\ndistrict irrigation department at\nStrathmore, later working at\nnumerous points in the western\nprovinces. He retired in 1971.\nLONDON, Ont. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Ernest\nMalton has two 50th anniversaries to his credit. One was 50\nyears with CP Rail\u00E2\u0080\u0094for which he\nreceived a Gold Pass\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the\nother his 50th wedding anniversary which he celebrated this\nfall.\nMr. Malton and his wife Doris\nwere married in Toronto where\nMr. Malton started work in the\nWest Toronto boiler shop in\n1920, under Allan Dixon. He completed his apprenticeship at\nLambton Shops under R. Miller\nand was then promoted to boiler\nforeman at London in 1943.\nHe transferred to St. Luc,\nMontreal, in 1954 and retired,\nback at London, in 1971 after\nmore than 50 years of service.\n\"During the horrendous period\nof the so-called 'Hungry Thirties'\nI retubed both water tube boilers\nin the basement of the Canadian\nPacific building at the corner of\nKing and Yonge streets, working\nunder Mr. Jack Storey, then chief\nengineer,\" he told CP Rail News.\nHappy day: Ernest and Doris\nMalton at their home in London,\nOnt., on their 50th wedding anniversary this September.\nKennedy joins CPCS\nto spend two years\nin Costa Rica^\nVANCOUVER \u00E2\u0080\u0094 T.V. (Vern)\nKennedy has joined Canadian\nPacific Consulting Services as\nproject manager on a two year\nrailway rehabilitation program in\nCosta Rica.\nFormerly deputy regional engineer, Pacific region, Mr. Kennedy\nwill be in charge of coordinating\nand managing the renovation of\n110 kilometres of track for the\nCosta Rican Railway.\nMr. Kennedy joined the company 34 years ago at Saskatoon\nas a building inspector. In 1946\nhe moved to Nelson, B.C. as a\ntransit man. Transferred to Victoria in 1953, he held the jobs of\ndivision engineer, B&B master\nand assistant superintendent of\nthe Esquimalt and Nanaimo\nRailway simultaneously.\nMaking a full circle, Kennedy\nreturned to Saskatoon as division engineer in 1964 and\nbecame assistant superintendent in 1966.\nHe also served as assistant\nsuperintendent, Brandon and\nassistant regional engineer out\nof Winnipeg, moving to Vancouver as assistant regional\nengineer in 1968.\n Recent rail retirements\nA.C. Bain, laborer, locomotive\ndept., Ogden Shops; W.J. Barry,\nchecker, shed operations, Lambton\nfreight terminal, Toronto; Florian\nBelanger, boilermaker helper, St. Luc;\nM.J. Belanger, ass't roadmaster,\nNorth Bay; Romeo Belanger,\nmachinist helper, St. Luc; Max Bilan,\nlocomotive engineer, North Bay; A.D.\nBingham, track maintenance\nforeman, Revelstoke; Rodolphe\nBlouin, carman, Trois Rivieres;\nWilliam Bonner, locomotive engineer,\nWinnipeg; Metro Burdynuik, engine\nattendant/ass't foreman, Ignace,\nOnt.\nW.A. Cadieux, locomotive\nengineer, London; R.J. Clipperton,\nsupervisor, CSC, Thunder Bay;\nTomasso Coletta, car cleaner, Co-\nquitlam, B.C.; Frank Coulterman,\ntrainman, Smiths Falls Div.; D.G.\nCrombie, grain handler, Saint John\nWest, N.B.\nR.C. Dagg, locomotive engineer,\nPenticton; Emile Demers, helper\nmachinist, Angus; Jacques Demon-\ntigny, car cleaner, Glen Yard; Hector\nDesjardins, laborer, reclaim dock,\nAngus Shops; H.E. Dewey, conductor, Smiths Falls Div.; CE. Doyle,\ninvestigator, Vancouver; Hermas\nDupuis, baggagemaster, Sudbury;\nRobert Durrant, track maintenance\nforeman, Moose Jaw Div.\nPaul English, trucker, Montreal\nWharf; R.J. Evans, electrician, motive\npower, Calgary.\nGeorge Farray, SC porter, Montreal; Jean Favreau, conductor,\nQuebec Div., St. Luc; Alexander\nFeniuk, carman, St. Luc Yard; A.W.\nFenn, carman, Weston Shops, Winnipeg; D.P. Forbes, head clerk,\ntransportation, Winnipeg; Gerard Fortin, carman helper, St. Luc Yard.\nF.C. Gable, carman, Weston Shops,\nWinnipeg; Norbert Gallant, carman,\nfreight car shop, Angus; W.A. Geddie,\njanitor, baggage, Winnipeg; N.S.\nGeiger, track maintenance foreman,\nLethbridge; Rene Gelinas, helper\npipefitter, passenger, Angus Shops;\nH.W. Gildart, yard foreman, London;\nDavid Girard, section head, stores,\nFeels good: Lucien Guilbault,\nforeman at Outremont-Tormon\nfreight terminal, takes it easy in\nhis retirement gift after 38 years'\nservice. He began working as a\nhandler at Place Viger (Montreal)\nin 1940 and has been shed\nforeman at the Outremont-\nTormon terminal since 1967.\nAngus Shops; Mary F. Gold, clerk, car\nservice, CSC, Victoria; Henri Grenier,\nassistant chief clerk, CSC, Montreal.\nJ.S. Hagan, foreman, boiler shop,\nOgden Shops; E.M. Hampshire,\nsupervisor of advertising, Montreal;\nE.W. Hawkes, locomotive engineer,\nVancouver; William Hayer, blacksmith, Weston Shops, Winnipeg; R.H.\nHeggie, manager, planning &\nanalysis, Atlantic Region; R.H.\nHenderson, locomotive engineer,\nBrownville, Me.; R.W. Henson, conductor, Orangeville, Ont.; William\nHnatiuk, boilermaker, Angus Shops;\nJ.M. Hodgdon, signal maintainer,\nWinnipeg.\nJohn Jankowski, track maintenance foreman, Bassano, Alta.; A.E.\nA gift from the artist: Chuck Gardner accepts a painting\nof a steam locomotive from artist Arthur L'Abb6, who is also carman at Glen Yard. The painting was one of several gifts Mr.\nGardner received from his company associates.\nTour of Europe and the UK\nis in retirement plans\nfor Chuck Gardner\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 James S. \"Chuck\" Gardner, assistant to\ngeneral foreman, Glen Yard, was recently on the receiving end\nof a retirement presentation at Glen Yard here.\nIn addition to a painting presented to him by the artist, Mr.\nGardner received a travelling bag, a cheque, a scale model of a\npassenger car truck, a telescopic wheel jack complete with a\npair of wheels, and a model of a stainless steel dome passenger\ncoach.\nMr. Gardner's entire railway career has been at Glen Yard\nwhere he started as a car cleaner with the car department in\n1951. He was promoted to carman helper that same year and\nafter working in various capacities from 1955 to 1965, he\nbecame assistant foreman and temporary car foreman until\n1969 when he was promoted to permanent car foreman. In 1970\nhis title was changed to assistant to general foreman.\nDuring his retirement, he plans to tour Europe and the United\nKingdom where he had served in World War II.\nJenner, general manager, Intermodal\nServices, Montreal; Maurice Jodoin,\nhelper machinist, air brake, Angus\nShops; Ernest Johnson, yardman,\nVancouver; W.E. Johnson,\nlocomotive engineer, Moose Jaw;\nL.G. Jones, machine operator,\nmaintenance of way, Virden, Man.\nJohn Kabatoff, carman helper,\nNelson; Fred Kasarzew, carman,\nOgden Shops; W.W. Krawchuk, carman, Weston Shops; Mike Kuzina,\ncarman, Weston Shops.\nOH. Labreque, sales liaison\nmanager, marketing & sales, Ottawa;\nGeorge Lachapelle, machinist, wheel\n& truck, Angus Shops; E.L. Landry,\nmachine clerk, Cartier; Lucien La-\npointe, helper, cement worker, B&B,\nAngus Shops; T.L. Law, ice & heater\nforeman, Revelstoke; Graham\nLawson, purchasing agent, Montreal;\nJ.A. Lawson, assistant foreman,\nWeston Shops; J.L. Leblanc,\noperator, Sherbrooke, Que.; Leon\nLeger, trucker, Place Viger; David\nLoewen, laborer, Alyth, Calgary.\nDorothy Martin, financial security\nprogram administrator, Montreal;\nGabriel Mathias, yardman, Outre-\nmont; A.S. McArthur, conductor,\nSmiths Falls; D.D. McBay,\nupholsterer, Vancouver; Thomas\nMcFarlane, ass't perishable inspector, Winnipeg; H.J. McGaughey, sec-\ntionman, Newburg, N.B.; L.G. Mearon,\npassenger conductor, Winnipeg; G.A.\nMersereau, signal helper, Saint John;\nC.K. Meyers, conductor/trainman,\nKenora, Ont.; Antimo Mignacca,\nengine cleaner, Glen Yard; C.G. Mills,\nyard foreman, Moose Jaw; J.J.\nMulligan, locomotive engineer, North\nBay.\nFrank Naud, laborer, B&B, Angus\nShops.\nJ.J. O'Connor, locomotive\nengineer, Toronto.\nJ.L. Paquette, helper machinist,\nDiesel erecting; Gerard Pelchat,\nblacksmith, Angus Shops; Guy Piche,\noperator, Montreal Division; Yvon\nPimpare, machinist, air brake, Angus\nShops; Theophile Piquette, chauffeur, Angus Shops; John Podolsky,\nelectrician, Winnipeg Yard; Arthur\nPoirier, car cleaner, Glen Yard.\nW.H. Roman, pipefitter, Ogden\nShops, Calgary; Doris M. Rourke, billing cler, operating, West Saint John.\nP.E. St. Antoine, carman, St. Luc\nYard; J.A. St. Pierre, sheet metal\nworker, Angus Shops; J.N. Saucier,\nlaborer, sheet metal shop, Angus;\nE.H. Schindel, swing operator, Red\nDeer, Alta.; Joseph Slobodian, carman, Weston Shops; O.E. Spencer,\nlocomotive engineer, Winnipeg Div.;\nArnold Staehr, sectionman, Bassano,\nAlta.; R.H. Steinbart, industrial clerk,\nWinnipeg, Div.; Opilio Stopponi,\nlaborer, passenger, Angus Shops;\nW.B. Strait, mobile checker, CSC,\nToronto.\nJ.A. Tarte, conductor, Winnipeg;\nG.E. Theriault, conductor, Aroostook,\nN.B.; Helene C. Trippel, rate clerk,\nTrail, B.C.\nT.L. Verge, garage mechanic, car\ndept., Toronto Yard.\nTony prepared his last meal\naboard The Canadian\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 DC Chef Anthony \"Tony\" Chorny was wished\n\"bon voyage\" by his friends and colleagues when he made his\nlast trip to Sudbury aboard The Canadian last month.\nTony started with the old SD&PC Department in 1943 and\nfrom 1950 until 1962 he was in charge of the lunch counter at\nthe CP Rail station in Sherbrooke, Que. During that time his wife\nworked along with him and both became well known to Sherbrooke citizens and train passengers alike. When the lunch\ncounter was closed, the Chornys returned to Montreal, leaving\nbehind many friends.\nSince 1962, Tony worked as chef on various trains and completed his service, after some 35 years, as dining car chef on\nThe Canadian between Montreal and Sudbury. Before his last\ntrip L.L. Coates, supervisor, passenger operations, presented\nTony with a gift on behalf of his colleagues.\nSafety-minded foreman: B&B Foreman Jack Stadel^of^\nMedicine Hat retires after 43 years of service. Above, he receives aT\nsouvenir plaque from B&B Master Jim McLeman. Jack began as a\nlaborer in 1935 and has since worked as sectionman, welder's helper,\nB&B laborer, bridgeman, relieving B&B foreman, bridge crew foreman\nand yard foreman. He is well known by the men who worked for him\nas a person interested in the safety of his crews.\n\"~\"W\nReefer inspector: Cecil J.H.\nHodson, senior perishable inspector, checks reefer car heater\none last time before calling it a\nday after 48 years with CP Rail.\nHe began in 1930 as a telegraph\nmessenger in Regina and has\nbeen at Vancouver since 1945.\nCompiles last tariff: W.A. \"Bill\" Porcher(c) freight tariff compiler, marketing and sales, Winnipeg, accepts a gold special and joint\ntariff, CP Rail W.A.P. No. 65, and best wishes from I.S. Ramsay (r.)\ngeneral manager, marketing and sales, and G.F. Mcintosh, manager,\nfreight tariff bureau. The special gold tariff was compiled by\nmarketing and sales personnel to mark Mr. Porcher's retirement after\nmore than 49 years with the company. His future plans include travel,\nstarting with a winter in sunny Mexico.\n I*\nPostage paid Pod D*\nThird Troisfcme\nB-11\nMontreal, P.Q.\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nFastway hits $1 billion mark\nBy LEN COCOLICCHIO\nMONTREAL - Almost two\nyears to the day after kicking off a\ncomputerized waybilling system,\nthe $1 billion mark has been\nreached, along with the millionth\nwaybill.\nThe system, called Fastway,\nuses minimal information to prepare a waybill in seconds from details stored in a computer bank.\nFastway has reduced invoicing\ntime by up to seven days for certain customers.\n\"The speed and efficiency of\ncomputerized waybilling has proved itself to be a major boon not\nonly to the railway but also to its\ncustomers,\" said Ron Gnam, project manager, Fastway development. \"The shipper who needs\nthe freight charges before he can\nbill his own customer stands to\nbenefit greatly from the speed\nand efficiency of Fastway.\"\nMore than 400 shippers are\nnow participating in the system.\nSome 4,000 freight movements\nare waybilled and invoiced daily.\nFastway has replaced almost\ncompletely the former billing system for repetitive shipments that\nrequired a new waybill for each\nmovement as if it had never happened before.\nWith Fastway, CP Rail analyzes\nthe regular rail movements of its\nThe inventor of the Fastway system leads quite a varied\nlifestyle. In his off-hours, Larry Leach is a part-time\nlay minister. Mr. Leach is profiled in a special CP Rail\nNews feature on page 3.\ncustomers, identifies the repeating information in those movements, and uses it to prepare indi-\nvidual shipping patterns for\nshipments, which are stored in a\ncomputer at the railway's Montreal\nheadquarters. Participating customers are asked to approve their\nprepared patterns.\nWhen a customer has a shipment to make, he calls one of the\n21 CP Rail customer services cen\ntres (CSC) at key areas throughout the country, giving his pattern\nnumber, car number and weight\nof the shipment.\nThe computer refers this information to the already stored pattern, determines the rate, calculates the freight charges, and\nsends the complete waybill to a\nprinter located in the CSC. The\nshipper's car is then ready to\nmove.\nI\nIfr\"*?!\nmX^\n\\n,\n-\n^%\nm:\nRapid transit: The first consignment of German-built electric transit cars for Calgary's new 7.7-mile light rail transit line are unloaded at\nVancouver's Centennial Pier recently. Five pairs of aluminum-bodied cars, each capable of carrying 136 passengers at speeds of up to 120 km I\nhr., were moved to Calgary by CP Rail.\nStore Trophy and cash\nhighlight safety win\nin Montreal contest\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The Main Store Safety Trophy and a $500 cash\nprize went to employees of Angus Stores for having the lowest\nnumber of lost-time injuries in 1979 among the three main stores\nin the department \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Angus, Weston and Ogden.\nThe competition was initiated in early 1978 by G.H. Cockburn,\nmanager of materials in Montreal, to recognize employees'\nachievement in reducing the annual number of lost-time injuries.\nAngus Stores had only four accidents resulting in lost-time injuries last year.\nSafety trophy: Shown at Angus Stores displaying the Main \"The success of a safetV Pro9ram dePends on management\nStore Safety Trophy are (from left, front row): J.M. Bentham, J.P. participation, dedication of the members of the safety committee\nDeighan, G.H. Cockburn, Rene Descormiers, and L Bourassa. and fuN co-operation of all employees,\" Mr. Cockburn said. \"At\nStanding at the back are Serge Duval, Michel Tremblay and Angus Stores, all elements are in evidence as they achieved a 60\nClaude Pinard. per cent reduction of injuries in 1979.\"\nMeanwhile, the waybill information stored in the computer creates records for shipment tracing\nsystems and is available for immediate updating of accounts receivable. A copy of the waybill for train\nmovement can be transmitted to\nany of the more than 100 terminals\non the railway system.\n\"Fastway eliminates for the\nshipper the costly, time-consuming task of having to prepare\nindividual bills of lading for every\n(See \"Some\" page 2)\nSafety pays\nat Transcona\nWINNIPEG - Working 728 days\nwith no lost-time injuries pays off.\nSo the employees at Transcona\nyard found out recently when\nthey established a new safety\nrecord for their work unit.\nThey topped the old record by\n336 days, and celebrated with\ntheir spouses at the International\nInn.\n\"They've done it,\" said welding\nplant supervisor Mike Petrynko.\nAttendance has been high at\nsafety meetings and there has\nbeen a strong interest in the\nrailway's safety program, he\nnoted.\nMr. Petrynko, along with assistant supervisors Charlie McFarlane\nand Walter Pollick and Prairie region officials began a program of\nsafety awareness and backed it\nwith gifts of pens and pushbutton\nmeasuring tapes.\nFREE DINNER\nMore than a year ago, they made\nthe promise of a free dinner in return for a continued safe record.\nThe welding plant is a busy\nplace where two shifts a day work\nto produce continuous welded\nrail for all points west of Thunder\nBay: Total sfaltTn trie\"p'lanT'ancT\nthe Transcona yard, with which it\nshares land and track in the northeast corner of Winnipeg, numbers\nabout 70.\nPrior to the renewed safety\ndrive, injuries were far more common, with nine lost-time mishaps\nrecorded in 1975. Eye injuries\nwere frequent.\nAs for a repeat performance of\nthe dinner next year, Mike\nPetrynko says it's a safe bet.\nI\nyou\nthother\nguys..,\nother guy\n Some large companies changed\njust to opt into the Fastway system\nBillion-dollar baby: The customer service centre at Winnipeg\nwas the site of a milestone this month as the two-year-old Fastway\nreached the $1 billion mark in computerized waybilling. Reviewing a\ncomputer readout of the millionth waybill just processed by biller Cindy\nSaxon are Claude Closs, CSC supervisor, and Ron Gnam, project manager, Fastway development\n(Cont. from page 1)\nrepetitive shipment,\" said Mr.\nGnam. \"The advantages of this\nsystem have led some large\ncorporations to change their accounting system to take advantage of Fastway.\"\nFastway began as a pilot project\nin the Ottawa area in September\n1977, and was later gradually expanded to full implementation in\nall CSC's by October 1979. The\nmillionth waybill was processed at\nthe Winnipeg facility.\nComputerized waybilling for\nshipments has become a railway\ntrend in North America. In the\nUnited States, a central computer\nin Washington, D.C. is the exchange point of standardized\nwaybill information for shipments\nof all participating roads.\nParticipating roads requiring\nwaybill information on a shipment\nbefore it comes on line simply\nrequest the data from the central\ncomputer.\nCP Rail expects to tap its Fast-\nway system into the Washington\nexchange some time this year.\nEasy insulation of water heater\ncan mean energy, money savings\nBy DON HOLLM\nReducing the amount of your\nhot water consumption is one\nway to conserve energy and save\nmoney. Another way is to insulate\nyour hot water tank and pipes.\nAll exposed hot water pipes\nshould be insulated. There are\ngenerally two types of hot water\npipe insulation available. The\nmost expensive type is a tube of\nfoam with a slit cut lengthwise.\nThis tube is slipped on over the\npipe and taped. The least expensive type is a plastic or foil\nbacked strip of fiberglass which\ncomes in rolls. One end of the\nstrip is taped to the pipe to hold it\nin place.\nThen you wrap the strip around\nthe pipe, overlapping each layer\nas you move along the pipe. According to the government you\nwill save about $3.70 for every 10\nfeet of pipe wrapped, giving a payback in a few months. Additionally you will find that you won't\nhave to let the water run as long\nto get hot.\nBoth types of insulation are\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nFred Dafoe\nEditorial assistant,\nShirley Whittet\nCorrespondents,\nMorrte Zaittin, Vancouver\nLarry Bennet, Calgary\nMickey Potoroka, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nOP Rait News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pen*\nsioners of CP Rait. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rait News, Public\nRelations and Advertising Dept.,\nWindsor Station, Montreal, Que.,\navailable in most hardware or\nbuilding supply stores.\nAnother item that should be insulated is your electric hot water\nheater. While most heaters already have one inch of fiberglass\nunder the outer sheet metal shell,\naddition of another three-and-a-\nhalf inches will save you about\n$30 per year (at 3.0 cents/KwHr)\nfor a 40 gallon tank and more if\nyour tank is uninsulated or larger.\nSaskatchewan Power sells insulation kits to their customers\nfor about $10. In other provinces\nyou can buy the pieces and make\nand apply the kit yourself.\nThe following information from\nthe Tennessee Valley Authority\nshows you how.\nBefore you add the insulation,\nyou may want to adjust the thermostat down to 140 to 150\u00C2\u00B0F, after you have shut off the power to\nthe heater at the fuse box. This reduction will also help to save\nenergy in addition to extending\nthe life of your heater.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nC- Place around heater.\nB. Cut a sample piece\nSafety Precaution:\nDon't cover the temperature pressure relief valve with insulation.\nInstructions:\n1. Measure water heater's circumference (distance around) and\nheight. Add 20 inches to the\ncircumference measurement.\n(Fig. A)\n2. Buy the amount of insulation\nneeded. (Actually, you'll probably have to buy a roll and this\nwill likely be far more than you\nneed. So you might like to\nshare a roll and its cost with a\nneighbor.)\n3. Cut a sample piece. Be sure\nyou've cut the correct length.\nIt should go completely around\nthe water heater without lapping or being compressed.\nNow cut enough pieces of this\nlength to fully cover the unit,\nall around and from top to bottom. (Fig. B)\nD. Cut piece for top\n4. After cutting the required number of pieces, you're ready to\nput them around the water\nheater one at a time. (Fig. C)\n5. With the paper or foil on the\noutside, stack one piece on\ntop of the other and tape until\nthe heater is enclosed.\n6. Cut a round piece for the top.\nCut as necessary to fit around\npipes, then tape in place. (Fig.\nD)\n7. To aid future service, mark location of access doors to the elements, drain valve, and electrical connections.\nCAUTION: For safety reasons, do\nnot apply the above instructions\nto a gas-fired water heater. Contact your gas company.\nMaterials Needed:\n1. 31/2\" R-11 blanket type\n2. Duct tape\n3. Scissors or knife\n4. Tape measure\nLonely traveller makes tracks\nin apparent search for love\nEach working day, scores of travellers save wear and tear on\ntheir cars and nerves by riding commuter trains. But it is rare\nwhen a passenger rides the train not for business reasons, but in\nan apparent search for love.\nRecently, CP Police in Montreal took into custody one such\ntraveller who did not have any visible means of support and who\nrefused to buy a ticket.\nMeet Shakespeare, an adventurous canine who would almost\nbecome human to find love.\nWell, so says his owner, Louis Cyr, who was flabbergasted\nwhen he learned Shakespeare had abandoned all four-footed\ntradition and hopped a commuter train from the suburbs.\n\"Incredible,\" he said. \"She's about eight months old and I'd\nguess it's that time of her life when she's beginning to feel the\ncall of love. That's probably why she ran off \u00E2\u0080\u0094 she's never been\nout of the back yard before.\"\nShakespeare not only went out of the back yard, but she\nscuttled her way through a five-day, 50-mile exploration of\nMontreal and into the hearts of at least two temporary guardians.\nThe first one apparently was a commuter, whom Shakespeare followed onto the train unnoticed.\nWhen she was apprehended by Constable Ludwig Barck \u00E2\u0080\u0094yes,\nthat's right \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the two-tone snuffler was delivered to Canadian Pacific's public relations department. Officials there rustled some\nbones, biscuits and balls and took the part-Dalmatian, part-Sa-\nmoyed for frequent sojourns to fire hydrants.\nLocal radio and television stations found out about the happy-\ngo-lucky traveller, and soon were digging for a story.\nTwo days later, Shakespeare's owner appeared, listening with\ndisbelief to accounts of his pet's big-city flirtations.\nMr. Cyr's five-year-old daughter, Joy, who had lost the sight in\nboth eyes due to cancer, was \"heartbroken when Shakespeare\nleft, but was really excited when she heard she was found\nagain.\"\nIt is not known whether Shakespeare met any attractive males\nin her adventure, but says Mr. Cyr: \"We'll soon find out.\"\nShould Shakespeare have pups, one has been promised to a\npublic relations employee as a gesture of thanks.\nThus ends another CP Rail \"tail of love.\"\nFRED DAFOE\nCollared Canine: Constable Ludwig Barck keeps a smiling\nvigil over Shakespeare.\n Larry's Sunday sermons save\na small suburban church\nLARRY LEACH\nDay chief dispatchers meet\nfor first time at seminar\nMONTREAL - A bit of CP Rail\nhistory was made recently with\nthe winding up of three two-week\nmanagement seminars for chief\ntrain dispatchers. The first seminar saw all 14 day chief dispatchers together at head office\nhere for what is believed to be the\nfirst time in the history of the company.\nFrom November until the second week of December, all 49\nchief dispatchers met to discuss\nproblems and exchange ideas under the leadership of Les Marlin, a\nformer chief dispatcher now on\nspecial duty with the transportation department.\nJ.C. Gaw, manager, rules, training and time services, also had a\nhand in the overall organization\nof the seminars.\n\"They are designed to improve\nthe management capabilities of\nthose attending, as well as to\nbroaden their outlook on the company's overall objectives,\" he told\nCP Rail News.\nThe daily sessions ran under\nMr. Marlin's direction, and some\nof the presentations included the\nposition of chief train dispatcher,\ntransportation services, engineering, grain handling, dangerous\ncommodities, marketing and\nsales, handling dimensional traffic, car management, profit analysis, collective agreements and\nsafety as well as several sessions\non the Uniform Code of Operating\nRules.\n\"Reports received so far indicate that these seminars have\nbeen highly beneficial,\" Mr.\nMarlin said.\nBy SHARON DOHERTY\nEvery Saturday night, Larry\nLeach, supervisor of operation development, writes a church sermon usually inspired by current\nevents or the pressure of a stalking deadline.\nLarry, an employee for 37 years\nand a part-time United Church lay\nminister, is up early Sundays practicing the sermon, adding emphasis \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and sometimes a little fire\nand brimstone.\nJust before 11 a.m. he drives to\nMaple Hill United Church, a tiny\none-story building standing\nstrong on a lofty suburban street\nin Montreal North. He talks quietly with friends as the congregation of 50 assembles and at 11\nsharp he takes his place at the\npulpit.\n\"They asked me to fill in for a\nwhile until they found a new minister,\" Larry says, showing a modest grin that lights up his face.\n\"That was 13 years ago. I'm still\nhere. Guess they liked me.\"\nLiked him, they did.\nWithout him in fact, say some\nchurch elders, there would be no\nlittle Maple Hill United Church.\nMonths after Larry gave his first\npart-time sermon, he and several\nchurch organizers rolled up their\nsleeves and got down to the\nnasty business of getting a debt-\nplagued church back on its feet\nand away from the encroaching\nthreat of amalgamation into\nlarger parishes.\nMaple Hill had a long history of\nmoney problems and a\nsuccession of ministers. For the\ncongregation, mainly old folk not\nfond of change, getting accustomed to new ministers every\nyear or so was difficult.\nWith Larry's help the congregation paid off the church debt. The\nchurch community became more\norganized. Outings and bazaars\nwere held to help the church and\nthe needy.\n\"Last year, after a long haul,\"\nLarry says, \"church organizers\nburned the mortgage.\"\nAnd Larry can be proud.\nMaple Hill United Church will\nnot close or be consumed by\nneighboring parishes. Old and\nyoung folk can stay where they\n\"There have been\nsome special moments and sometimes a little miracle.\"\nsay they belong in the modest\nchurch hall, sipping coffee with\nfriends, making plans for one activity or another and worshipping\ntogether.\nLarry didn't think much of religion when he was a boy growing\nup in Chalk River. His preoccupation was more with trains.\n\"Both my dad and my grandfather were CPR men. It was natural for me to work for the railway.\n\"I don't know why I stayed with\nthe church at the beginning. I\nguess as much as I like my work, I\nneeded more to sustain my interest. Like everyone, I guess I\nneeded an outlet.\n\"It became almost like a vocation after a time. I guess it has to\nbe a calling of sorts or a special\nreason, otherwise it would be difficult getting over the awkward and\ntough times.\"\nWorking for the railway comes\nfirst though, Larry adds. \"I can't\nalways be at the church and the\nparishoners understand that.\n1\nThey're very good about it.\" He\ndoesn't miss many Sunday sermons, but if he must two or three\ntimes a year there is always someone to fill in for him.\nAfter inheriting Maple Hill, Larry\nstudied theology, scripture and\npsychology at McGill University's\nLay School of Theology. As a lay\nminister, he performs most church\nfunctions but is not ordained and\ntherefore can not conduct marriage ceremonies, christenings or\nfuneral services.\n\"I'm not a holy man,\" says Larry,\ndesigner of CP Fastway, CP Rail's\ncomputerized waybilling system. I\ndon't go around preaching out of\nthe church. I just live what I believe. I care about people.\"\nIn his plush Montreal office, dotted with plants and rich with the\nsmell of perked coffee, Larry\nlooks like a preacher man, tall\nand poised in a three-piece suit\ncomplete with a treasured CPR\ntimepiece winding its way in and\nout of his vest pockets.\n\"There've been some rewards to\nmy work with the church. I don't\nwant to recall all the details,\" he\nsays. \"But there have been some\nvery special moments and sometimes a little miracle.\"\nThe trend to traditional value\nsystems has already begun, Larry\nsays. People will come back to\nthe church in larger numbers\nseeking the lost gift of life and a\nspecial reason for living.\n\"The pendulum always swings\nback.\"\nLarry fiddles with the round\nglass face of the timepiece. He\nhas plenty of energy, more than\nenough patience and an important message to get across.\nHe'll wait.\nDeep diSCUSSion: The 14 day chief dispatchers of CP Rail at one\nof the study sessions in Montreal.\n.:m \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"':'.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nAt the pulpit: Larry Leach gives one of his sermons at Maple Hill United Church.\n Letters\nEleven is enough: For the Cleary family, eight children were certainly not enough.\nThings changed with the diesels;\na turn-of-the-century glance\nSir, - After reading CP Rail\nNews dated July 11, 1979, and\nfinding an article by Nicholas Morant with reference to Field, B.C.\nand the Field Hill, the man mentioned (Mr. Ed McCombs) I must\nadmit I never met but I thought I\nwould say the following:\nMy father was a shipwright,\nworking in the River Clyde, and\nemigrated to B.C. to work in Vancouver at his trade. He eventually\nended up building ships for the\nCPR at Nakusp. From there he\njoined the B&B gang at Revelstoke. He was caught in the big\nslide at Rogers Pass.\nI was hired as a callboy at Field\nB.C., and was laid off each fall\nand rehired each following spring\nuntil 1914 when the war broke\nout.\nI then worked for Foley, Welch\nand Stewart building the Con-\nnaught tunnel. I was a flunky in\nthe dining room first, then a\nplumber's helper, then I became\nan engineman on the engine that\nunloaded the rock from the tunnel. The engineer's name was Ed\nKitelinger and the brakeman was\nJim Garvin.\nThis was December, 1916\nwhen I started as a wiper at\nRogers Pass and my mate was\nCurly McLeod.\nThe men I remember from\nthose days were Dan McLeod,\nWhat say you?\nIf you have something to say\nabout CP Rail or the railroad\nlife, why not drop us a line?\nWe'd like to hear from you.\nWrite The Editor, CP Rail\nNews, Room 135, Windsor Station, Montreal, Quebec.\nH3C 3E4.\nFrank Cranston and Jim Warnock\nand several others whose names\nescape me. I eventually married a\nGait, Ont. girl and spent five years\nat Field. In 1926 I moved to Revelstoke and in 1929, the Depression\nhit and most of our generation\nwere hit hard.\nThings began to pick up in\n1939 and I was promoted to fire-\nLaunches pose\nsmall mystery\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Can anyone please\nshed any light on two or more\nmotor launches which it is believed were used by the company on Lake of the Woods to\nferry passengers and their baggage from Kenora to Devil's\nGap lodge?\nThe name Nipigonian has\nbeen traced, but no other details except that she was replaced by Misty Maid, a 26-foot\nlaunch built at Vancouver in\n1953.\nAny scraps of information as\nto when the service began or\nended, or details of the\nlaunches would be most welcome in order to set the company record straight.\nGEORGE MUSK\nMr. Musk is retired from our\nLondon, Eng., offices where he\nwas formerly with Canadian Pacific Steamships. He requires\nthe above information to include in historical files he is\ncompiling for the company. Replies may be addressed to him\ndo CP Rail News, Room 135,\nWindsor Station, Montreal,\nQue., H3C 3E4. - Ed.\nman and engineer during the war\nperiod.\nI will deviate a little and mention Roxy Hamilton. In 1912 I was\nrecalled as callboy at Field. I got\nroom and board with Mrs. Hamilton. Her sister, Mrs. Gove, also\nlived there. I got to know Roxy\nand his frequent visits to the Monarch Hotel.\nOne thing I must emphasize is\nthat the men working during this\nperiod were mostly boomers; the\noperators and switchmen were\ngood railway men.\nI must mention the Hill train\ncrew that was used exclusively for\nhill work. The first hill I can remember was Sam Goalby's. At\nthis time there was another run\non oil shares in the Turner valley.\nWhen the slump came, Sam used\nthe shares to paper the walls of\nthe caboose. The next name I can\nremember was Rorie McLennan,\na Hill con; then the last one, Jack\nMcComb. He later left for Calgary\nto go on a passenger run.\nMACHINES\nThere were mallet machines\nused on the Hill during this period\n(1950-1955). When they were\nworking they couldn't be seen for\nsteam leaks. As one engineer who\nworked on this power said, you\ncould pick huckleberries off the\nrunning boards when in motion.\nI could mention lots of things\nthat happened during the period\n1911-1961 when I retired. The\nchanged conditions along with\nthe arrival of the diesels are unbelievable. I met many friends at\nthe pensioners club in Toronto,\nmany of them running trades who\nI enjoyed meeting.\nI would like to hear from any of\nthem who want to keep in touch.\nA. McKENZIE\nCambridge, Ont.\nEight was\nnot enough\nfor Clearys\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I am enclosing a photo of\nthe family of pensioner James\nCleary, his wife and their 11\ndaughters.\nAs secretary of the Canadian\nPacific Pensioners Toronto Club,\nI was able to persuade Mr. Cleary\nto let me have the photo in order\nto send it to you so you could\npublish it in the CP Rail News if\nyou so desired.\nMr. Cleary started with the CPR\non Sept. 8, 1948.\nHe was promoted to assistant\ncar foreman Jan. 1, 1956. He retired on Jan. 1, 1977.\nA family such as his is certainly\nunique. They are all married but\nthree, and these three are still living at home.\nI am sure your readers would\nbe pleased to see this unusual\nphoto.\nThe Canadian Pacific Pensioners Toronto Club holds meetings\non the second and fourth\nWednesdays of each month at\nthe headquarters of the Canadian\nCorps Association, King and\nNiagara Streets in Toronto and all\nvisitors from out of town are\nassured of a hearty and warm welcome at our meetings.\nHERBERT STITT\nSecretary\nWallets, babies and cakes\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094With reference to your Dec. 12 issue of CP Rail News, \"Returned Wallet Saves Life of York University Student/'Trainman\nBobMacleodand his wife are to be highly commended for their action in finding the owner of the wallet and returning it to him.\nIt was a highly virtuous action.\nThe incident brought to my mind the account some months\nago about a mother placing her baby on the cartop before putting things in the trunk, then driving away with the baby still on\nthe c\niped off to the ground which was noticed\niwing car. He picked it up, attracted the\nand handed the baby to her. Fortunately,\nled up and was unharmed,\nit but only with a large cake. We were go-\nicnic site down the lake. We had a basket\ns, which was put safely inside the launch.\nShortly, the bab^\nby the driver of a\nattention of the mo\nthe baby was well t\nI had a similar inc\ning in my launch to\nto hold most of the\nBut the cake was\nabout it, until whei\nplop.\nSpecial cars no better\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I have just read \"Specially Designed Containers Will Aid Door-\nto-Door Service,\" and to me it does not provide any better service\nthan the standard 20- or 40-foot container.\nAll it does is create problems.\nTwenty- and 40-foot is, as far as I know, a world standard which\nmeans you can ship any container anywhere. Now you have 44'3\" containers, which means nobody else has the right equipment to move\nthem. Besides, I can see now that CP will have problems keeping the\nspecial cars where they should be and also the highway chassis.\nMr. Scott states that a smoother ride is provided through the use of\ncushioned railcar couplers. Cushioned couplers can be installed on\ncars which are now running and if somebody would have thought of it\nthey could have been standard when the standard rail container\nchassis were built.\nThe standard 40-foot containers are not that often loaded to full volume capacity. To me, I think the extra 4'3\" is not worth the effort and\nmoney spent.\nPlease accept this as my own view. Maybe we can hear more about\nthe containers as to understand the gain.\nPETER LAUMER\nToronto, Ont.\n Car management.\n.around the clock\nOld-fashioned know-how aids system nerve centre\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Space-age technology is being combined with\nold-fashioned railway know-how\nto create a centralized car control\nsystem that substantially improves freight car utilization and\ndistribution to customers.\nFrom an operations nerve\ncentre called system car management in the railway's Montreal\nheadquarters, the information\nstorage and quick access capabilities of the computer world help\nCP Rail's transportation department to monitor thousands of\ncars around the clock, forecast\ndemand and prepare weekly car\ndistribution plans.\n\"The system car management\ncentre is designed around the theory that the empty car in demand\nis just as important as the loaded\ncar,\" said J.H. Geddis, chief of\ntransportation. \"Today the\nempty freight car enjoys the\nstatus of a corporate asset because that's the car available to\nmeet customer demand.\"\nThe new system has been responsible for a steady improvement in car utilization. This year,\nDaily Snapshot: The car management team gets a quick, overall picture of the fleet situation across the\nsystem on this board in the equipment control centre. The board is updated daily.\nGovernor-General Schreyer\nhosts investiture ceremony\nOTTAWA - Georges H. Legault,\nchief of investigation, W. \"Wes\"\nMummery, chief mechanical officer, and Joseph M. Pelletier, electrician, Angus Shops, were admitted to the Order of Saint John of\nJerusalem as Serving Brothers in\nthe 1079 investiture ceremony\nheld here recently.\nTen other Canadian Pacific\npeople-were recognized with Priory Votes of Thanks \u00E2\u0080\u0094 five from CP\nRail, two from the investigation department, two from CP Air and one\nfrom CP Transport. Officiating at\nthe ceremony was His Excellency\nGovernor General Ed Schreyer,\nPrior of the Priory of Canada.\nAdmission to the Order of St.\nJohn is granted in recognition of\nthe support and encouragement\ngiven by worthy individuals to the\nworks of the order \u00E2\u0080\u0094 both in the\nfield of first aid and in other\n' areas.\nThe Priory Vote of Thanks goes\nto a list of people who are being\nthe first full year of operation for\nthe car management centre, overall car utilization is expected to\nimprove by five per cent based on\nperformance figures for the first\nsix months of 1979.\nTo get the nearest available car\nto a shipper, the 69,000 freight\ncar fleet is monitored around the\nclock, along with the 10,000 foreign cars on the railway's system\nat any given time. Monitoring is\ndone from the more than dozen\ncomputer terminals in the car\nmanagement centre.\nThe computer terminals, linked\nwith customer service centres\nthroughout the country and with\ncar distribution centres in key locations, keep car management\nstaff up-to-date on supply and demand at the touch of a button.\nThe distribution centres provide a destination for every empty\ncar in the fleet, sending cars from\nareas where they are in surplus to\nwhere they are in demand. The\ncar movements follow a weekly\ndistribution plan based on a de-\nmand-and-supply forecast from\nthe car management centre in\nMontreal.\nRecently the railway took the\nempty car distribution system a\nstep further with the introduction\nof XT trains, high-priority empty\nfreight trains. The XT, the first of\nits kind in Canada, is designed for\nthe quick retrieval of empty cars\nfrom Western Canada.\nAveraging 90 cars in length and\nleaving five times weekly from the\nVancouver terminal bound for Toronto, the XT trains, in only a few\nmonths of full operation, have reduced critical transit time of\nempty equipment by up to 25 per\ncent.\nWelcomed to Order: Wes Mummery, the company's chief mechanical officer (r.) is congratulated by Commissioner L.H. Nicholson,\nBailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St. John, on his admission to the\nOrder as Serving Brother. Looking on from left are Chief Georges\nLegault, Investigation, Montreal, also admitted as Serving Brother, and\nDr. W.L. May, chief of medical services, in his capacity as chairman of\nCanadian Pacific Special Centre of St. John Ambulance.\nMeanwhile, the empty freight\ncar fleet is tracked on a 36-foot-\nwide, color-coded, magnetic\nboard in the equipment control\nsection of the car management\ncentre. The board is a scale\nmodel of the railway network and\nis divided into four regions with\ntheir corresponding time zones.\nIt is updated by staff at regional\ncontrol desks who co-ordinate\nmovement of cars between regions to meet demand for the\nfleet.\nAs well, separate monitoring\nsections for specialized equipment such as covered hoppers\nand automotive cars are responsible for ensuring top utilization\nof high-demand equipment.\nWhile computer technology has\nimproved day-to-day car utilization, its information storage capability has also enabled the railway\nto perform accurate analysis of\nlong-term performance by car\ntype.\n\"It's important to know how\nmany trips you managed to get\nfrom a car type. But, just as important is to establish the productivity we expect down the road,\"\nsaid Mr. Geddis.\nThe car maintenance program\nhas also contributed to the improved fleet utilization. A systematic monthly maintenance program reduces unexpected bad\norders by scheduling regular repairs in main shops for car types.\n\"The result of the tight fleet\ncontrol and planning procedures\nunder the system car management centre approach is we get\nmore done with fewer cars. And it\nmeans we are better prepared to\nmeet shipper demand,\" said Mr.\nGeddis.\nhonored in appreciation of their\ncontributions to the first aid training program. In this case, it was\nfor their work in the Canadian\nPacific Special Centre of St. John\nAmbulance, which came in for\nspecial mention itself at a Priory\nCouncil meeting preceding the investiture.\n\"We were singled out as having\na 50 per cent increase in training\nover the past year,\" said Dr. W.L.\nMay, chairman of Canadian Pacific Special Centre and chief of\nthe company's medical services.\n\"We were congratulated for having the best increase on record\nfor Canada.\"\nCERTIFICATES\nReceiving the Priory Vote of\nThanks certificates for CP Rail\nwere Edward W. Bay, assistant superintendent, Kootenay Division;\nHenry Burns, electrician, Weston\nShops; J.A. Gagne, supervisor,\nmaintenance of way training, St.\nLuc Yard (now retired); George\nHarwood, supervisor, shed operations, Lambton; R. Keith Leavitt,\nsub-inspector, Investigation,\nSaint John; Edward J. Merriam,\ngeneral car foreman, Thunder\nBay; and Frank Rusling, staff sergeant, Investigation, Montreal.\nCertificates also went to J.C.\nAlexander, foreman, shops, and\nMrs. Yvonne Marie Wiley, flight\nattendant, both of CP Air, Vancouver, as well as to Ray H.\nNorman, driver, CP Transport,\nVancouver.\nServing Brother: Joseph M. Pelletier (I), of Montreal, is invested\nin the Order of St. John by His Excellency Governor General Ed\nSchreyer. The ceremony took place at Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa.\nMr. Pelletier has been with the company since 1963 and is an electrician at Angus Shops.\n I 1 lip\n! Ill\nContinuous Search: Using special infrared light-detecting meters, members of the energy conservation committee carry out spot checks on pipe joints. Above, Al McFayden is looking for both leaks and heat\nlosses caused by broken insulation.\nOgden tackles energy crunch\nwith three-phase program\nBy LARRY BENNET\nHeat and lighting are two essentials to the operation of any facility, from the smallest corner\nbusiness to a major railway shop. As the energy required to provide these essentials becomes\nmore scarce, its conservation becomes extremely important.\nAt CP Rail's Ogden Shops in Calgary, several\nenergy conservation measures have been adopted\nas part of a system-wide program.\n\"The steps to save energy taken here at Ogden\nShops are part of a three-phase program set out in\nMontreal two years ago,\" said B.J. Cattani, assistant\nworks manager.\nThe program is intended to make CP Rail more\nenergy-efficient in its operations. The three phases\nrepresent graduated stages in the overall improved\nutilization of energy. Phase one includes identifying\nand correcting the most obvious energy wasters\nsuch as poorly closing windows and doors and\nbadly placed or needless electrical lighting.\nPhase two involves some research and planning\nto isolate and correct less obvious energy wasters,\nsuch as checking heating pipes and leaks and the\nimproved utilization of machinery.\nPhase three covers major conservation projects,\nsuch as the replacement of ordinary incandescent\nlighting with florescent or sodium vapor lights.\nProjects under all three phases of the program\nhave been carried out or are in process at Ogden\nShops.\nEnergy-saving projects have included the installation of photo cells on many lighting fixtures. The\ncells automatically turn off lights once the intensity\nof natural lighting is great enough to provide safe\nworking conditions. When light intensity drops, the\nlights are automatically turned back on. Such devices are used both in shop interiors and at several\nexternal points throughout the shop grounds.\nNEW LIGHT METER\nLighting studies have been carried out with the\naid of a newly purchased light meter. All unnecessary lights have been turned off. Studies have also\nbeen conducted to determine working patterns and\nemployees have been instructed to turn off lights in\nareas where no one is working. Where necessary, ex-\nisting lighting has been up-graded and incandescent bulbs have been replaced with florescent. high-pressure sodium or mercury vapor\nfixtures.\nIn some areas, overhead light has been eliminated\nor reduced and light fixtures have been placed on or\nnear individual work benches or machines.\nWindows not providing lighting essential for safe\nworking conditions and determined to be sources of\nheat loss have been blocked up and insulated. A skylight running the length of the main locomotive shop\nhas been blocked up and insulated to reduce a major heat loss. Alternate lighting, where necessary,\nhas been provided through installation of new light\nfixtures.\nAn infra-red light detecting meter has been purchased to aid in the search for heat loss and leaks\nfrom the shops heating system.\nEnergy losses detected with the new meter\ncaused by poorly insulated pipes and leaking joints\nhave been corrected by addition of insulation and\nappropriate repairs.\nElectric motors have been installed in the heating\nsystem to replace aging and inefficient steam\ndriven engines used to maintain the system's circulation. Shop heater fans and filters are cleaned more\nfrequently than in the past to ensure maximum efficiency and thermostats have been placed in locked\ncovers to minimize unnecessary heating changes\ncaused by unapproved re-adjustment.\nAn electrically powered materials-handling vehicle\nhas been in use for a year and has established an impressive record of maintenance-free service.\nLong a leader in the use of informational signs for\nsafety, Ogden Shops has embarked on a massive\ncampaign of in-plant signage to encourage all employees to save energy by shutting off lights not in\nuse and turning off machines when a job has been\ncompleted.\n'LOT MORE WE CAN DO'\n\"We believe we have been very successful in our\nmeasures to conserve energy, but there is a lot\nmore we can and will be doing. This Earth has only\nso many natural power sources that can be harnessed and used. It is important than none of those\nsources be needlessly exploited,\" says Al McFa-\ndyen, powerhouse engineer and chairman of the\nshop's nine-man energy conservation committee.\nThe energy conservation committee meets\nmonthly to discuss ways to help save energy. Often\na seemingly simple suggestion can have far reaching effects.\n\"In the air brake shop we were able to achieve a\n35 per cent reduction in the consumption of electricity needed to light the facility simply by reducing\nthe number of lighting fixtures used,\" says George\nMorrice, electrical foreman and energy conservation\ncommittee member.\nFollowing a suggestion to the committee and a\nsubsequent lighting study, it was determined that 35\nof a total of 100 lighting fixtures (each 400 watts)\ncould be turned off without adversely affecting the\noverall lighting pattern,\" he adds.\n\"In many instances by converting to fluorescent or\nsodium vapor lights we have been able to not only\nreduce the watts of our light fixtures, but also to increase the intensity of light as well,\" he concluded.\nDuring the past year the shop's energy conservation measures have contributed to a three per cent\noverall saving in electrical consumption and a 10 per\ncent reduction in the amount of natural gas used for\nheating.\nAs part of a pilot project, special slow-moving fans\nhave been ordered for installation in the paint shop.\nThe purpose of the fan installations will be to recirculate warm air from near the ceiling back down\nto the shop floor.\nSTUDY TO BE DONE\nIf the fan installations function as hoped, a study\nwill be conducted to determine where else such\nunits might be used.\nDuring the warm months of the year, additional\nenergy savings have been realized by shutting down\nnon-essential portions of the heating system, including some boilers in the power house.\nOn weekends, during the rest of year, boiler pressure is reduced and kept only high enough to provide steam power for essential services such as the\nsteam operated emergency water pumps used in\ncase of a fire.\nIn addition to the numerous energy-saving measures carried out at the shop, each employee has\nbeen encouraged to learn about energy conservation in his home. Last year, everyone working at the\nshops was provided with copies of all the literature\nprinted by the federal government concerning home\nenergy conservation.\nPressure Check: Al McFayden, chairman of Ogden Shops' energy\nconservation committee, checks boiler pressure in the power house.\nPart of the energy-saving program involves reducing boiler pressure on\nthe weekends.\nLoading: An energy conservation billboard is loaded onto Ogden's\nspecial electric materials-handling vehicle.\nSave, Save: The message of \"Save Energy\" hangs over the head of\nAl McFayden as he scoots by in the new vehicle.\n Radio systems manager signs off\nafter communications career\nMONTREAL - Carl S. Major is\nCP Rail Communications' first retiree since the department was\nestablished 10 years ago.\nWith the company since 1952,\nMr. Major began his service as a\ngas engine maintainer in Vancouver and the following year he\nwas promoted to engineering assistant with CP Telecommunications at Montreal. In 1970, he transferred to Rail Communications as\nradio systems supervisor and he has\nbeen senior radio systems manager since Jan. 1, 1978.\nMr. Major's 17-year career with\nTelecommunications involved a\nwide range of activities in microwave and radio as well as being\ninstrumental in doing the path\nprofile for their trans-Canada microwave system. Before joining\nCP Rail in 1970, he was involved\nin the railway's mobile radio sys-\nRetirement SOUVenir: Carl Major, senior radio systems manager,\nis delighted with one of his gifts from fellow employees and associates\nwho gathered at Le Chateau Champlain recently to bid him farewell.\nFounder member of CUT\nterns. During his nine years with\nRail Communications, he played a\nmajor part in planning, designing,\ninstalling and commissioning\npoint to train systems, providing\ncommunications in the Con-\nnaught Tunnel and licensing the\ngrowth in the company's radio\npopulation to some 8,000 -10,000.\nAn outstanding event in Mr.\nMajor's career was recalled by\nT.E. Munford, manager of communications:\n\"1953 was in the early days of\ntelevision and it seems that CP\nTelecommunications had been\ngiven a contract by the CBC to\nprovide coverage of a football\ngame on very short notice. To do\nit, they had to mount an antenna\non top of the very high CBC tower\nin Toronto. Dominion Bridge Co.\nwas unable to design and build\nthe bracket to hold the microwave antenna in time.\nDID IT HIMSELF\n\"Carl decided he could do it\nhimself and proceeded to collect\nthe materials he needed and in no\ntime installed the bracket anchan-\ntenna in time to save the contract. He was so confident of his\ndesign that he walked out on one\nof the boom arrangements at the\ntop to tune the antenna himself.\"\nScoff retires after career in raii economics\nMONTREAL - W.G. Scott, general manager, pricing economics,\nfor marketing and sales here, recently joined the company's retirement ranks.\nFrank Steingart\ncalls it a day\nafter 34 years\nWINNIPEG - Frank H. Steingart, assistant maintainer in the\nmaintenance of way repair shop,\nWeston Shops, retires after 34\nyears with the company.\nHe was honored on his last day\nat work by a retirement party\nwhere he was presented with a\ngift on behalf of fellow employees.\nHe also received mementos from\nhis sons \u00E2\u0080\u0094 an engraving of a\ntrain and a wristwatch.\nMr. and Mrs. Steingart hope-4o\ndo some travelling in their spare\ntime. Mr. Steingart expects to\ncontinue doing his woodcraft\nwork along with enjoying his\nother hobbies.\nWhen he joined CP Rail in 1960\nhe was no stranger to railway economics. After receiving the degree of Master of Arts in economics from the University of Toronto\nin 1938, he engaged in transportation studies at the University of\nCambridge in 1939. After com\npleting military service with the\nRoyal Air Force Bomber Command in 1945, he served as an\neconomist with the Bureau of\nTransportation Economics at Ottawa from 1946 through 1948;\nand from 1949 through 1950, he\nwas director, traffic analysis for\nAir Canada at Montreal.\nHe became economist for the\nRailway Association of Canada in\n1951 to 1959. During 1955 he was\non loan to the Royal Commission\nof Canada's Economic Prospects\nin the capacity of transportation\neconomist. He was a founder\nmember of the Canadian Institute\nof Traffic and Transportation in\n1957 and was chairman of its\nScholarship Committe until 1959.\nWith CP Rail, he began as manager, traffic research, until 1967\nwhen he was appointed assistant\ngeneral freight traffic manager,\nrates. He became assistant general manager, pricing in 1969 and,\nin 1972, he was appointed general manager, pricing. With the reorganization of the pricing department in 1975, he was appointed\ngeneral manager, pricing economics.\nOn the move across the system\nKeith Seeney, former superintendent at Sudbury, is now located at Saskatoon. He succeeds\nS.P. Josefchak who died suddenly in December, 1979, after\nsome 37 years' service. He had\nbeen superintendent at Saskatoon since 1977.\nJohn P. Kelsall succeeds Mr.\nSeeney as superintendent at Sudbury, Ont.\nM.S. \"Bud\" Andrews takes over\nas superintendent at Schreiber,\nOnt.\nG.H. Geddis' appointment to assistant superintendent Transportation, Winnipeg, became effective Feb. 1.\nF.S. Baker succeeded Mr.\nGeddis as administrative assistant\nto vice-president, Prairie Region,\nWinnipeg.\nN.J. Laliberte replaced Mr.\nBaker as assistant superintendent,Winnipeg Division, with headquarters at Winnipeg.\nK.W. Edwards succeeds Mr.\nLaliberte as superintendent at\nBrandon, Man., while T.F. Waver\nreplaces Mr. Edwards at Min-\nnedosa, Man.\nPaul D. Gilmore is now administrative assistant to the vice-president, Eastern Region, Toronto.\nHe joined the company in 1970\nand has had extensive experience\non Eastern Region, working as\nroadmaster, trainmaster, assistant superintendent and deputy superintendent. Before his appointment he was assigned to special\nduties for the vice-president.\nW.A. Wright has been named director, market development, at\nMontreal headquarters of Inter-\nmodal Services.\nMr. Wright's previous position\nwas that of marketing representative, CP Rail pool car traffic, Eastern Region, Toronto.\nBasil Huxham was recently appointed internal audit manager,\nVancouver, with offices in Granville Square.\nD. Walker has been appointed\nmanager profit planning in the office of the director disbursements\nand general accounting, Montreal.\nHe was previously senior project\nanalyst for manager profit analysis.\nCelebrate 60th anniversary: Charles and Sadie Hi/lyard are\nshown at a family supper in Calgary. Mr. Hillyard, who worked for CP\nRail for more than 50 years, retired from Ogden Shops as a layout man\nin 1961. He and his wife, the former Sadie Seright were married in Calgary in 1919.\nWed 50 years: Mr. and Mrs.\nRene Perreault of Montreal are\nshown on their 50th wedding anniversary which they recently celebrated. Mr. Perrault retired in\n1968 after working at Angus\nShops since 1942.\n60 years: John Davison of Victoria, B.C., and his wife Agnes\npose with their youngest son,\nRon, at their 60th wedding anniversary party. Mr. Davison formerly worked as boilermaker in\nAlyth Shops, Calgary.\nFormer agent receives telegraph key\non diamond wedding anniversary\nMOOSE JAW - The key to happiness\" was evidently discovered\nmore than 60 years ago by Mr.\nand Mrs. Joseph W. Krause of\nthis city. To commemorate their\ndiamond wedding anniversary,\nMr. Krause was presented with a\ndifferent kind of key \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a telegraph key mounted on a plaque.\nMr. Krause's familiarity with a\ntelegraph key began in 1915\nwhen he entered CP Rail service\nas assistant agent at Balgonie, 15\nmiles east of Regina. The 79-year-\nold Mr. Krause retired as station\nagent in 1961.\nAt a recent ceremony in honor\nof the couple, Stan Harris, supers\nintendent, Moose Jaw Division,\npresented the gift and a congratulatory message on behalf of\nPrairie Region Vice-President\nJ.W. Malcolme. Also on hand was\nthe Krause's son Glenn, a railway\noperator at Wilkie, Sask.\nTHREE GENERATIONS\nSix Krauses, covering three\ngenerations, have given the company a total of 198 years of service. This includes Glenn who is\nnow the only member of the family still with CP Rail.\nPresented With key: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Krause are shown\nwith their 60th wedding anniversary gift which was presented by Superintendent Stan Harris (I.). At far right is the couple's son, Glenn.\n People in the news\n(Photo: Lee Burkitt, C ran brook Daily Townsman)\nLast run: Herb J. Conroy, conductor on the Kootenay Division,\nboards the train for his last run out of Cranbrook before retiring after\n38 years on the move. He signed on as trainman in 1941, after spending five years as a teacher. Mr. Conroy became a conductor in 1946\nand has worked out of Cranbrook throughout his railway career. His\nretirement plans include some travelling with his wife, Betty, and devoting time to working with Cranbrook's senior citizens.\nPrevost: Yard foreman at Cote\nSt. Paul, Que., P.O. Prevost calls it\na day after joining the company at\nCalgary in 1952. He transferred to\nCote St. Paul in 1959 as assistant\nsuperintendent.\nPurcell: Donald F. Purcell's career as an electrician began at\nGlen Yard in 1948 and ended\nthere in January this year. In 1967\nhe worked for a short time in the\nSt. Luc Yard car department.\nA model gift: Victor T. Main (r.), record clerk, CSC, Calgary,\nreceives one of his retirement gifts from M. M. Stroick, superintendent,\nCalgary Division. It is a model railway constructed by Brenda Gold,\nCalgary Stockyard biller clerk, and her husband Don. Victor joined the\ncompany in 1939 at Calgary where he spent his entire career, beginning with the freight office and later moving to CSC.\n8\n;|l||lll|:a;.\nTlVO On One last run: When 8806 pulled into Red Deer terminal\non Dec. 13, 1979, Conductor Lloyd Davies (I.) came up to the head-end\nto join Engineman Norman Sinclair in the cab window for this \"last\nrun\" photo. Mr. Sinclair, who spent 39 years with CP Rail, plans to do\nsome gardening, hunting, fishing and travelling. Mr. Davies, with 32\nyears' service, is a \"hobby farmer.\"\n(Photo: Lee Burkitt)\nSteps down: Conductor Frank D.\nSeely of Cranbrook is ready to descend from a caboose for the last\ntime after 32 years with CP Rail,\nwhich he joined as trainman at\nLethbridge. From 1954 to 1968,\nhe divided his time between Leth-\nbridge and Cranbrook, but since\nthen the latter has been his permanent home.\n40 Years: J.J. Pi Ion (I.), agent,\nGatineau, Que., receives retirement congratulations from D.M.\nDrouin, transportation officer,\nMontreal Division. Mr. Pilon began service in 1940 as relieving\nstation helper at Smiths Falls. He\ntransferred to Laurentian Division\nin 1942 and was assistant agent,\nMont Laurier, before moving to\nGatineau.\nMigneault: Lucien Migneault\ncalls it a day after some 34 years\nat Glen Yard, Montreal, where he\ngot his start as car cleaner in\n1946. He was promoted to carman helper in 1947 and has been\ncarman since 1951.\nHonored: A retired locomotive\nengineer, Jim E. Jones of Richmond, B.C., and his wife Myrtle\nwere honored on their 50th wedding anniversary, Jan. 5, by relatives and friends. Formerly of Leth -\nbridge, Mr. Jones worked for CP\nRail for 47 years before retiring in\n1967, when he moved to Richmond.\n*v\nMorganti: J.T. Morganti (I.),\nbunkhouse attendant, Glen Yard,\nMontreal, shares a parting laugh\nwith General Foreman G. Belanger. Mr. Morganti retires after\nworking at The Glen since 1951\nwhen he began service as engine\ncleaner.\nKraft: William \"Billy\" Kraft retiring car inspector in the traffic\nyard at Winnipeg, was presented\nwith a plaque commemorating his\n37 years of service.\n50 years Of Service: Albert Deans, Montreal, was presented with\na silver tray by C.R. Pike (r.), vice-president, operation and maintenance, to mark the 50 years he has served the company. His wife\nEdythe and several CP Rail officials attended the ceremony at Windsor\nStation headquarters. Mr. Deans started his career as office boy at\nAngus Shops in 1930. In 1934 he began his apprenticeship as an electrician; saw military service from 1942 to 1945, and is now working as\nan electrician in the governor room at Angus Shops.\n 1+\nThird Trotsieme\nclass classe\nB-11\nMontreal, P.Q.\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nCP Rail up $30 million\nCanadian Pacific\ndeclares income\nof $508 million\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Canadian Pacific Limited has reported final\nconsolidated net income for 1979 of $508.1 million, or $7.06 per\nordinary share, compared with restated income of $349.8 million, or $4.85 per share, in 1978.\nRecords were set with earnings\nof rail operations in Canada and\nthe United States, of ocean shipping, telecommunications and\nmany of the resource and manufacturing activities of Canadian\nPacific Investments Limited.\nCP Rail had net income of\n$93.7 million, an increase of $30.2\nmillion. Revenues rose $190.6 million, or 13 per cent, primarily because of a record volume of\nfreight and improved prices.\nRevenue growth was particularly significant for coal, piggyback, potash, iron and steel and\nsulphur. Rail expenses rose\n$160.4 million, or 12 per cent, reflecting mainly continued escalation of wage rates, pension costs\nand material and fuel prices.\nCP Trucks lost $1.9 million,\ncompared with a profit of $2.2 million in 1978, due largely to labor\ndisruptions. Results of the Express division were severely affected by a strike which shut\ndown operations for six weeks\nand by a slow return of business\nafter the strike.\nCanPac International Freight\nServices Limited had an improvement in earnings that was largely\nattributable to its customs brokerage and freight forwarding division.\nNet income from CP Telecommunications amounted to $6 million, compared with $3 million in\n1978. Revenues increased $11.8\nmillion, primarily as a result of volume growth in Telex and leased\nservices but also because of improved rates.\nHigher costs for wages and benefits and for leased facilities accounted for the major portion of\nan $8.8 million increase in expenses.\nNet income from CP Air, after\nthe deduction of dividends of $3.2\nmillion on the outstanding preference shares, was $13.1 million,\n(See \"Ships\" page 3)\nCalgary safety award\nsparks scholarship\n(Photo: Nicholas Morant)\nTight ZOIIS: Photographed at work in the Laurie tunnel and snowsheds west of Revelstoke, B.C., the\nClearance Measuring Device mounted on a flatcar is part of a new survey of track clearances throughout the\nMountain and Canyon divisions. Forty-five symmetrical \"feelers\" provide a series of individual records of\ntrackside projections, which will eventually be used to set standards for system high-wide loads.\nSperry car searches for track faults\nCALGARY - A cheque for\n$3,000, part of a major system\nsafety award, will be used to create\na scholarship fund for the children\nof railway employees working for\nthe Calgary division.\nThe safety award for the second best overall safety record for\n1979 was presented to Mike M.\nNANAIMO, B.C.- The Sperry\ncar, a yellow, self-propelled rail-\ntesting car, has been making its\nway across Vancouver Island trackage.\nThe car, equipped with sophisticated electronic equipment, is\nused annually by the railway to\ntest for flaws and faults in the rail.\nThe Sperry car and its crew of\ntechnicians are hired by CP Rail\nfrom Automatic Industries Inc. of\nConnecticut as part of the\nrailway's annual works program.\nThe 1980 works program on\nVancouver Island is expected to\ntop $2 million, an increase of\n$300,000 over 1979 spending.\nWork includes the repair, replacement and upgrading of bridges,\nretaining walls, culverts and\ntrack.\nTwo bridge projects in Victoria\nare scheduled for completion this\nyear and will see CP Rail spend\napproximately $125,000.\nAnnual maintenance of culverts\nand retaining walls will cost almost $100,000. As a result of\nheavy rains and flooding last December, an additional $125,000\nwill be spent to repair and replace\nretaining walls and culverts just\nsouth of Malahat.\nTrack maintenance activities on\nVancouver Island include the installation of almost 30,000 feet of\nrail at various locations, most of it\n100-pound rail to replace 85-\npound rail on curves.\nAlmost 45,000 tons of ballast\nwill be applied to 30 miles of line\nand 40,000 rail ties are to be replaced this year across the territory.\nTrack inspection: The 'Sperry' car - a yellow, self-propelled rail\ncar and its crew of technicians makes its way to Vancouver Island.\nStroick, superintendent, and the\nemployees of the Calgary division\nby W.W. Stinson, executive vice-\npresident and J.M. Patterson,\nPacific region general manager.\nTwo major system safety\nawards are presented annually to\nrailway divisions which have the\nfewest number of injuries during\nthe previous year.\nThe awards consist of trophies,\nplaques and cash awards to be\nused in a way decided by the employees of the winning divisions.\nIn the past, the cash awards have\nbeen used for employee and family picnics or parties.\nFOR CHILDREN\nThis year the employees of the\nCalgary division decided to use\nthe cash award in a manner that\nwould benefit their children. The\nscholarship will be available to\ndependents of Calgary division\nemployees and will be based on\nacademic achievement. One\naward will be made yearly.\nNearly 2,000 people are employed in the division, which includes Alyth Yards, Alyth Diesel\nShop, the Calgary Terminal and\nmainline track running from Alyth\nYard in the east to Field, B.C.\n(See photo page 3)\n VDU's aid accuracy\nof daily fleet count\nByLEN COCOLICCHIO\nA new computerized reporting system that immediately transmits information on bad order and repaired cars over visual display units (VDU's) has been installed at all key repair facilities\nacross the system.\nThe new system enables repair\nshops to report details on bad order cars as they are detected by\ninspectors and as the cars are released for service following repair.\nBad order reporting over VDU's\nis 97 per cent accurate, an improvement of 10 per cent over the\nprevious manual systems.\n\"Bad order reporting over\nVDU's gives all segments of the\nrailway immediate access to the\nfleet situation and eliminates\nwhat used to be a lot of confusing\nand sometimes conflicting paperwork,\" said Alf Chasse, head of\nan interdepartmental task force\nthat developed the system.\nApproximately 10 per cent of\nthe 68,000-car fleet annually requires repairs classified as general or heavy. These repairs cost\nthe railway $54 million in 1979.\nThere are three classifications\nof bad order \u00E2\u0080\u0094 light, general and\nheavy \u00E2\u0080\u0094 based on the number of\nman-hours required for repair.\nBAD ORDER CARS\nCar inspectors regularly examine the fleet for bad order cars.\nWhen damage is detected, extent\nis assessed and cars are categorized in one of the three bad order classifications and forwarded\nto the appropriate repair facility.\nThe information is immediately\nfed to the nearest bad order reporting facility where it is entered\nby VDU into Canadian Pacific Lim-\nited's teleprocessing network.\nOnce entered into the network,\nthe information is automatically\navailable to any other section of\nthe railway where a VDU screen is\nlocated.\nDetailed car information already stored in the teleprocessing\nnetwork is used to verify and automatically correct bad order data\nentered on the VDU.\nThe bad order reporting system\nhas been linked to the railway's\ncar type quota program designed\nto keep main shops supplied with\na steady flow of cars requiring repair. Cars designated for repair\nunder the quota program are\nautomatically entered into the\nreporting system.\nELIMINATES DELAYS\nThe new system also reports a\ncar's release to service immediately following repair. This eliminates possible delays between\nthe car's actual time of release\nand when it is reported ready for\nservice.\nDetails of its release are available on VDU screens in customer\nservice centres where cars are\nassigned to shippers.\n\"The computerized system\nhands the job of reporting bad orders and repairs directly to the\nsource of the information \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the repair shops,\" said Mr. Chasse.\nVDU's have been installed in 16\nrepair facilities across CP Rail's\nsystem.\nThe VDU's replace reporting\nsystems requiring manual completion and forwarding of forms\nwhen the damage is initially discovered and later updating of the\ninformation. Working with Mr.\nChasse are John McKenna, project manager, Info Systems; Ray\nBeirnes, car co-ordinator, mechanical department; and Gerry\nHughes, assistant manager, data\ncapture and procedures \u00E2\u0080\u0094 rail.\nS. BERGERON B. DESGROSEILLER\nAngus Winners: From a group of 230 apprentices training at\nAngus Shops under the direction of J. P. Savard, supervisor of training,\n16 have won prizes for their excellence in technical training and shop\nwork during the 1978-79 period. The four highest marks went to Alphee\nRossignol, carman, with 92.3 per cent; Frangois Thibault, machinist,\n90.3 per cent; Serge Bergeron, blacksmith, 89.7 per cent, and Benoit\nDesgroseiller, pipefitter from St. Luc, 88.7 per cent. Presentation of certificates and prizes took place at Angus Shops.\nInstant info: VDU's like this one at Angus Shops in Montreal have been installed in repair facilities\nacross the system, ending the time-consuming task of completing forms on each repair.\nPrice controls drive costs higher\nBy DON HOLLM\nWhy should the price of Canadian oil increase, and how would\nthat make more available? This is\noften asked these days.\nIn the past, when the government held down the price of any\nproduct, a shortage usually resulted, which got worse until the\nprice controls were lifted. Then\nthe price shot up.\nThis justified spending more\nmoney to produce more of the\nproduct or to convert to other\nproducts. As more was produced\nor less consumed, the shortage\ndisappeared.\nThe government holds prices to\nplease voters, but we pay in the\nend with shortages and a final\nprice which is higher than it\nwould have been without controls.\nCanada has many sources of\nenergy and many opportunities to\nuse it with little change to lifestyles. But many of these projects\ncan not be justified at today's artificially low oil prices.\nMost people will only insulate\ntheir house to the thickness\nwhich saves them as much as\nthat money would have earned\nthem in the bank. If the price of\nheating oil was double what it is\nnow, they would add twice as\nmuch insulation and save twice\nthe energy.\nIf oil cost twice as much, we\nwould also not have to borrow\nmoney to subsidize imported oil.\nThis money and the extra money\nspent for Canadian oil could be\nManager, Bmployee Publications\nEditor,\nFred Dafoe\nEditorial assistant,\nShirley Whittet\nCorrespondents,\nMorrie Zaitlin, Vancouver\nLarry Bennett, Calgary\nMickey Potoroka, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rait News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising Dept.,\n\, Montreal, Que.,\nH3C 3E4.\nused to make our homes and industry more energy-efficient as\nwell as to develop new sources of\nenergy.\nAfter we consume the oil that\nCanada borrowed money to subsidize, all we have left is a loan to\npay back. If we had used this\nmoney to insulate our houses, we\nwould have yearly savings that\ncould be used to pay back the\nloan.\nAfter that, we could pocket the\nsavings. While it would cost us a\nlittle more in the short term, we\nwould be much better off in the\nlong run.\nHigher prices alone won't solve\nour problems. The extra money\n/\nfrom increased oil prices must be\nused to improve our energy self-\nsufficiency.\nThe following numbers show\nwho got what share of the 97.9\ncents that a gallon of regular gas\ncost in Toronto in Sept., 1978. I\nwonder how much of the government's share was used to reduce\nour gasoline and oil consumption.\nSome 16.5 cents went to the oil\ncompanies for refining, marketing, operations, distribution and\nprofits. Then, 20 cents were\ncrude oil costs for exploration,\nproduction and transportation.\nThe federal and provincial governments claimed 52.8 cents,\nwhich left 8.6 cents for dealers for\nsalaries, overhead and profits.\nCanadian Pacific\nfamily matter\nTelecommunications agreement signed\nMONTREAL - Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Limited have signed a formal\npartnership agreement in relation to CNCP\nTelecommunications.\nThe agreement, which is subject to statutory and regulatory approval, will replace existing arrangements which have provided for\nthe pooling of telecommunications revenues\nfrom the two companies for a number of\nyears.\nCanadian National and Canadian Pacific\nhave equal interests in the CNCP partership.\nJ.G. Sutherland has been named president\nand chief executive officer of CNCP Telecommunications. J.G. SUTHERLAND\nCP Ships gets new vessel, port of call\nContainer shipping operations have been expanded with the chartering of a fourth vessel and the addition of Hamburg as an additional European port-of-call.\nThe addition of the 19,863 dwt. CP Hunter, which has a carrying\ncapacity of 700 TEU's, will increase CP Ships container carrying\ncapacity by 25 per cent.\nBeckley becomes Soo chief\nThomas M. Beckley has become the chief\nexecutive officer with the title of president of\nthe Soo Line Railroad Company. He su-\nceeded Leonard H. Murray, chairman and\nchief executive officer, who retired after 35\nyears of railroad service.\nMr. Beckley's career with railroads began\nin 1952, when he was appointed assistant\ngeneral solicitor of the Duluth, South Shore\n& Atlantic Railroad Company, a predecessor\nof the Soo Line.\nA 1948 graduate of the Harvard Law\nSchool, Mr. Beckley earned his under-\nCKLEY graduate degree from Yale in 1943.\n People hope J. Mann\nwill overspend budget\nJohn Mann would dearly love to give a $25,000 award to a Canadian\nPacific employee with a worthy suggestion.\n\"Each time I open an envelope containing a suggestion, I say to myself: 'I hope this is the one,\" said the head of Suggestion Plan for the\nlast 14 years.\nMr. Mann is probably the only department head encouraged to overspend his budget. Money seems to burn a hole in his pocket.\n\"After receiving, there is nothing better than giving. It's a nice feeling,\" he said.\n\"But really, we are not giving money away but paying for good\nideas.\"\nThe maximum award for a suggestion has been more than doubled\nfrom last year to $25,000.\nAnd once again, Mr. Mann has organized a suggestion blitz for the\nmonth of May.\nAs an incentive, employees submitting valid suggestions during May\nwill receive a smart-looking coffee mug bearing the words \"Canadian\nPacific Suggestion Plan.\"\nMr. Mann is also striving to improve the quality of suggestions.\n\"We wish to encourage employees to discuss their suggestion with\ntheir supervisor prior to submitting it,\" he explained.\n\"Besides the possibility of improving the suggestion, experience has\nshown that the likelihood of it being adopted is substantially increased\nwhen this is done.\"\nLast year more than 500 suggestions were received during May \u00E2\u0080\u0094\ndouble the number received during May the previous year.\nMr. Mann hopes the trend continues.\nFor the Scholarship: The system divisional safety plaque and a cheque for $3,000\nresentatives of the Calgary division recently at a ceremony at Alyth Yards. In the center,\nident W.W. Stinson hands the awards to Superintendent Mike M. Stroick.\nwere handed to rep-\nExecutive Vice-Pres-\nThese men want to retire with 10 fingers each\nTo a PR man whose worst injury was a case of writer's\ncramp, I've always thought of\nsafety as a routine aspect of\nany railway training program.\nSo to gain a better insight\ninto why safety is important to\nthe award-winning Kootenay\nDivision, I recently spent two\ndays at Cranbrook, B.C. for a\nfirst-hand look.\nTheir recent accomplishments are impressive -\nfirst in the system (for the second consecutive year) for best\naccident prevention achievement; first in the Pacific region\nfor both maintenance of way\nand maintenance of equipment safety performance, and\na close second on the region\nfor running trades' safety record.\n\"Are you going to come out\nand watch us work today?\" asks\nCranbrook Roadmaster John Sun-\ndby. I'd been waiting for the offer.\nWalking along the track, I\ntalked safety with one section-\nman. He has the deadpan, experienced look of someone who\ntakes his work most seriously. For\nsome reason, he reminds me of a\nsectionman I met several years\nago near Trois Rivieres, Que. who\ntold me emphatically: \"I have 10\nfingers and I plan to take them all\nwith me into retirement.\"\nLater, about 15 miles up track, I\njoin up with a B&B force installing\na new bridge span over the Elko\nRiver. Scolded for being improperly dressed, I count six men who\nSafety sticker: Cranbrook roadmaster John Sundby uses his\nhard hat to publicize the safety\nformula in the Kootenay Division,\nwhich finished 1979 first in the\nsystem in accident prevention\nachievement.\nremind me I need a hardhat. Another chastises me for taking photographs too close to a freshly\nheated rail.\nAnd a third fellow, eyeing me\nsuspiciously from the start, seems\nanxious for the moment I step on\na rail so he can holler \"foul.\"\nHumiliated somewhat, I conclude rather quickly that these\nguys really care, and come hell or\nhigh water, no PR man from Vancouver was going to be a blot on\ntheir precious safety record.\nBack in Cranbrook (without incident), I join the head table for\nthe much-awaited safety luncheon hosted by Superintendent\nMartin A. Lypka.\nW.W. Stinson, executive vice-\npresident from Montreal, is the\nfeatured speaker. I'm reminded\nby a couple of veteran railroaders\nthat years ago, such a senior company officer would never have\ntravelled such a distance merely\nbecause of safety. Mr. Stinson\ntells them: \"If I could bottle the\nsuccess formula for safety in the\nKootenays, I'd travel to all the\nother divisions to spread it\naround.\"\nDuring the course of lunch, I\nspot roadmasters Sundby, Veirs\n(Windermere), Melon (Sparwood),\nJankowic (Golden), Coschizza\n(Nelson) and Wenzel (Castlegar)\nall sitting together. Seems strange\nto see them without overalls, hard-\nhats and safety boots.\nCranbrook Locomotive Foreman W.S. McCormack presents\nSuperintendent Lypka with a surprise gift. Speeches of praise and\nappreciation abound.\nSomeone kibbitzes: \"If we can\nget that PR man to stop eating\nfor a moment, I think we can get\nhim to agree that safety is a\nserious business.\" I swallow\nquickly and nod my head convincingly.\nFor 848 employees of this\nsouthern B.C. territory stretching\nfrom Crowsnest west to the Village of Midway, I conclude that\nsafety is indeed more than a rou-\nTalking Safety: W.W. Stinson (I), executive vice-president, stops\nby the Cranbrook locomotive shop to talk about the Kootenay Division's safety accomplishments with Foreman W.S. McCormack (center), Superintendent M.A. Lypka and Gerry Wolfe, regional director of\naccident prevention.\nNew CODStdhleS: Seven constables recently finished an intensive three-week training course in Montreal. Above, from left: Sub/Inspector L. Lecavalier (instructor); Constables R. Eburne, D. Scouten and R. Bailey; Sub/Inspector H. Boucher (instructor); Constables D. De-\nraiche, L. Malo, L. ivanski and J. Donovan; and Sub/Inspector J.D. Robitaille (instructor).\ntine matter. In fact, it is the single\nmost evident source of pride and\ncomradeship among a fiercely\nloyal group of people who consider themselves a family.\nIf one gets hurt, they all seem\nto suffer.\nI come away thinking I'd been\nsold a pretty good bill of goods.\nSafety is something we live with\nevery moment of every day. Not a\nrevolutionary thought perhaps,\nbut a serious one.\nAt the airport, Martin Lypka\nthanks me for coming. \"See you\nnext time, Charles.\"\nSeemingly as an afterthought,\nbut actually well-calculated, he\nadds: \"But don't forget your hard-\nCHARLES GORDON\nShips show\n1979 profit\n(Cont. from page 1)\ndown $6.9 million from 1978. Revenues increased $80.6 million or\n17 per cent, reflecting mostly\ngreater passenger traffic.\nThere was only a minor increase in passenger yields. Expenses rose $85.2 million or 19\nper cent. Contributing factors\nwere increased flying operations\nand escalation of labor and fuel\ncosts.\nCP Ships earned $26.3 million,\ncompared with a loss of $8.7 million in 1978. This was attributable\nmainly to Canadian Pacific (Bermuda) Limited which had earnings of $25.2 million after a loss of\n$8.2 million in 1978.\nMarkets continued to improve\nthroughout 1979, particularly for\nproduct tankers, after five years\nof record depressed conditions.\nCP Steamships Limited had net income of $1.2 million compared\nwith a loss of $486,000 in 1978.\nCanadian Pacific's share of\nearnings of the Soo Line Railroad\nin the U.S. was $17.8 million, compared with $14.8 million in 1978.\nMiscellaneous income amounted to $18.6 million, a reduction of\n$1.9 million as a result of decreased gains on sales of properties.\nNet income from CP Investments amounted to $334.5\nmillion, up $100 million from restated 1978 income of $234.5 million.\n \nOn the edge: Heavy rains through the week of March 10 caused 100 feet of the retaining wall to collapse and close the mainline 12 miles west of North Bend. Bridge and building forces worked around-the-\nclock to install a temporary 105-foot trestle. The line was re-opened in three days.\n Pension\nchanges\nokayed\nIn conformity with the Canadian\nHuman Rights Act, which governs\npension regulations, the following\namendments to the Canadian Pacific Limited pension plan have\nbeen approved effective March 1,\n1980.\nThe age limit to join the plan\nhas been extended above 40\nyears of age. Current employees\nwho were age 40 or over at date\nof entry and who are currently in\nthe service of the company will be\ngiven until the end of the year to\njoin the plan, provided they can\naccumulate 60 months of pensionable service before retirement.\nThese amendments concern\nsome 1,800 employees who have\nnot been eligible to join because\nof their age.\nThe survivor's allowance will\nnow be payable to \"all spouses\"\ninstead of to \"widows and dependent husbands\" onty:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe common law spouse will\nqualify for a survivor allowance after three years instead of five, in\nthe case of a contributor prohibited by law from marrying by reason of a previous marriage. In the\ncase of a contributor not prohibited by law from marrying, the\nmaximum period is one year\nrather than five.\nLetters\nDimensional move: Two motorized sections of a subway\nmaintenance train destined for the Toronto Transit Commission are unloaded from the Barber Line vessel Menestheus onto specially modified\nflatcars at Saint John, N.B. Ties and rail were installed\naccomodate the TTC cars. Maintenance equipment\nhoisted from the ship's hold.\non the flatcars to\nis shown being\nBreak-in a red-faced time\n^ for railway's 'call girl'\nOGDEN CREW BEFORE 1915?\nHelp sought in identifying photograph\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 With this letter I've included an old photograph found\nin my parents effects after they\npassed away, and I wonder if your\npublication could help me find\nout more about it.\nMy father, Walter Browning, is\nReader likes\nrobot cars,\ncoal trains\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 As a recent retiree after nearly 40 years with the\ncompany, I have enjoyed your\nseries of articles by Paul Thurston pertaining to the coal transportation by robot-powered\ntrains, as I was fortunate to be\none of the \"originals\" in this\nmethod of operation.\nKeep up the good work.\nGLEN G. TOOMBS\nOkanagan Centre, B.C.\nin the front row seated at the far\nleft and I'm pretty sure the gentleman at the far right of the same\nrow is Mr. R. Middleton, long our\nnext-door neighbor in Calgary.\nHe spent most of his working\nlife with the CPR as an engineer.\nI have a suspicion that the\nbearded gentleman sixth from the\nright in the second row is my\ngrandfather Thomas Browning. If\ntrue, the photo is pre-1915, since\nhe died that year.\nAs to location, Dad worked in\nthe tender shop before moving to\nthe loco shop at Ogden. From the\nposition of the windows in the far\nwall, the door design and condition of track in the foreground, I\nwould say the photo was taken\nshortly after the tender shop was\ncompleted.\nAny help your readers can supply concerning this photo would\nbe much appreciated.\nPERC W. BROWNING\n84 Donn Ave.\nStoney Creek\nOnt. L8G 3S3\nLet us hear from you\nDo you have anything to say about the railway or the\nrailway life? If so, we'd like to hear from you.\nAny unusual experiences or thoughts of general interest\nare welcome in the Letters to the Editor section. The briefer they are, the better the chance for publication. Letters\nlev are\nSir, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I have been employed\nwith CP Rail for over a year now. I\nstarted out in the calling bureau. I\nknew nothing at all about the\nrailway or trains when I first\nstarted. I didn't know that a caboose was a \"van\".\nWhen I first started out a guy\nhad telephoned and said that he\nhad missed his van. I asked what\nwas wrong. Did he have a flat tire\nand if he did why doesn't he get a\ncar somewhere else for his business? He quickly told me what a\nvan was and that train wheels\ndidn't have flat tires.\nI was embarrassed to say the\nleast.\nWhenever I had to get a hold of\nthe hostle on midnights, I'd get\non the radio and call for the \"hustle\" because that was what I\nthought they were saying. Boy\nwas I ever embarrassed when I\nfound out that I was saying hustler instead of hostler.\nThat was they way it was for me\nwhen I first started out up in the\ncalling bureau. When I was asked\nwhat I did for a living, I'd say that\nI worked for CP Rail up in the calling bureau and they'd say: \"Oh,\nyou're a call girl.\" I'd get very red\nin the face. Now I say that I'm a\ncrew clerk and it saves the embar-\nrassement.\nSome people say that we crew\nclerks have an easy job. Well that\nisn't true. Sometimes it's frustrating, especially if you're working\nthe mainline, to try and get men to\ngoto work.\nA lot of them are picky. If they\ndon't get a time card they'll book\noff on you. If it's a weekend, they\nbook off on you. We answer a lot\nof calls within an eight-hour shift.\nGuys are always asking how many\ntimes out they are. \"What's hap\npening? When's the next time\ncard? If it's a drag, forget it!\"\nThey get terribly upset if the railroad is busy, and they've only\nbeen in town for one day.\nIf we're really slow and they\nhave been in town for three or\nfour days, they say things like:\n\"Are you guys on strike?\" \"Did\nthe railroad quit running?\" \"Is\nthere a wreck somewhere?\"\nYou just can't win either way.\nThey always phone up and say:\n\"How many times for crew 5?\" I'll\nsay something like: \"Eleven times\nout.\" It might be 7:30 in the ven-\ning, and he'll come back with a\nstatement like: \"Will I be good till\nmidnight?\" Boy, what a dummy!\nSometimes I'll say, \"What do you\nthink?\" or \"Of course, do you think\nwe'll run 11 trains between now\nand midnight?\"\nThey usually hang up on me or\nstart to laugh. You really have to\nhave a lot of patience and the capacity to tolerate these guys.\nThe thing that really bothers\nme is that the crew clerks of\nAmerica don't get any credit for a\njob well done. We do our job the\nbest we know how. So come on\nguys, next time you phone up,\nuse a little comon sense and stop\nasking silly questions. And be\nnice, we are only human and we\nhave a job to do.\nIf you wish to publish this,\nplease withhold my name and the\ncity. I know a few other crew\nclerks in various cities throughout\nCanada and they all feel the same\nway I do.\nPlease don't get me wrong, despite all the hassles, I still love my\njob and plan to stay for a long,\nlong time.\nNAME WITHHELD\n Beware of boating hazards,\nCanada Safety Council warns\nGraduates: New Canadian Pacific constables completed basic training in Montreal recently, following an intense three weeks. From left:\nConstables M. Churchill, L. Giroux, J. Sevigny, E. Shepard, E. Smith, J.\nPupieri; Investigator R.A. Jolly; Staff Sergeant H.J. Vibert; Constable K.\nFacey; Chief Security Officer R. Boulet; and Constable S. Rinder.\nRailroad transportation\nmost efficient method\nThe American Public Transit Association, in its just-released\n1978-79 edition of the Transit Fact Book, analyzed the efficiency\nof various types of transportation and in doing so, proved a point\noften made by railways \u00E2\u0080\u0094 that rail transit is by far the most\nenergy-efficient mode of public transit.\nThe following table illustrates that point.\nPropulsion energy required to move 200 commuters\n10 miles in line-haul service\nMany boat operators are not\naware of the legal implications of\nsome unsafe practices. The Canada Safety Council reminds boaters that the law holds them responsible for the dangerous\noperation of the boat or any other\nwater vehicle.\nPower-driven vessels must\nkeep out of the way of sailboats,\nrowboats and canoes, but every\noperator must keep a proper lookout and take every precaution required by the ordinary practice of\nseamen or by the circumstances\nof each case.\nThe Criminal Code of Canada\nprovides for imprisonment or punishment on summary conviction\nof anyone operating a boat, air\ncushion vehicle, water skis, surf\nboard or any towed object in a\nmanner dangerous to navigation,\nlife or limb.\nType\nof vehicle\nPassengers\nper vehicle\nNumber\nof vehicles\nBtu* per\npassenger\nmile\nTotal\nBtu\nHeavy rail car\n200\n1\n103\n205,060\nHeavy rail car\n100\n2\n205\n410,120\nTransit bus\n67\n3\n517\n1,040,250\nTransit bus\n40\n5\n867\n1,733,750\nVanpool\n10\n20\n1,389\n2,777,800\nVan pool\n6\n33\n2,314\n4,583,370\nCarpool\n4\n50\n2,224\n4,484,000\nAverage automobile\n1.3\n154\n6,898\n13,810,720\n^British thermal units\nLuther S. Miller, editor of Railway age magazine, points out\nthat \"even the most energy-efficient system in the world is\ngrossly inefficient unless people use it \u00E2\u0080\u0094 people who would normally be driving their cars to work.\" But he noted that as the\navailability of public transit systems grows, there is less demand\nfor automobile gasoline.\nThe Public Transit Association says that during peak periods,\nbuses are 15 times more energy-efficient than cars, and large\nheavy rail cars can be 53 times more fuel-efficient than the average automobile.\nTransfer of funds: Frank\nRoberts (I), president of VIA Rail\nCanada and Jack Anderson, CP\nRail's vice-president, industrial\nrelations are shown signing an\nagreement which transfers some\n$11 million to the VIA pension\nfund, protecting pension rights\nand privileges of about 625 employees transferred to VIA before\nJan. 1, 1979.\nBeating the drum is just one part\nof Gerry's swift community life\nGERRY IVANY\nBy GEORGE SMELLIE\nSWIFT CURRENT \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Looking after railway customers in a\n3,000-square-mile territory can leave a person with little energy\nfor community activities.\nBut this is not the case with Gerry Ivany, Swift Current-based\nmobile supervisor with the Moose Jaw customer service centre.\nThe list of Gerry's activities in his community is so extensive\nand varied that one wonders how he finds time for his work with\nCP Rail. But railway customers in the area south and east of\nSwift Current can count on this man to see to their needs and\nfind answers to their shipping problems.\nWhen the work day is over, Gerry may be found on a softball\nfield or at the hockey rink, beating the drum or attending a Chamber of Commerce executive meeting.\nGerry is a charter member of the seven-year-old Drum and\nBugle Band of the Swift Current Shrine Club. That calls for two\npractices a week (he tolds a medallion recognizing over 70 per\ncent attendance). He also has other Shrine activities, which have\nincluded service at one time or another as secretary-treasurer,\npublicity director and provincial curling chairman.\nDuring summer months he spends two evenings a week coaching minor girls' softball, and he is also an active worker for the\ncommunity's annual exhibition, Swift Current Frontier Days.\nGerry remains active in the Swift Current Chamber of Commerce, although he is less involved now than during the seven\nyears he served as a director and one year as president.\nFor his own recreation, Gerry skipped a rink with the Swift Current Curling Club for nine years but, as with some of the other activities, he is now finding less time for this.\nGerry also has an apparent talent as a publicist. He is a former\npublicity director for minor hockey in Swift Current. His major\ncontribution in that field was in 1976, when he spent a busy year\nas publicity chairman for the Saskatchewan Summer Games.\nYou might say Gerry Ivany is living proof of the old saying: \"If\nyou need a job done, give it to a busy man.\" He can still be\ncounted upon if you need to arrange a shipment into or out of\nhis territory, for resolving a customer's complaint or for keeping\nin touch generally with the people and local governments in his\narea.\nThis offence includes operating\na vessel when impaired; towing a\nperson on water skis after dark or\nwithout another person keeping\nwatch; and failing to stop at the\nscene of an accident.\nCharges can be laid against a\nreckless operator by \"laying an information,\" a procedure which requires making a sworn statement\nbefore a Magistrate or Justice of\nthe Peace.\nMeanwhile, the Safety Council\nwarns that a lifejacket which has\nnot been maintained in good condition may fail in an emergency\nsituation.\nThe covers of lifejackets filled\nwith Kapok can be damaged by\nrough treatment and water will\ncome in contact with the Kapok\nfibres. These can become waterlogged and lose their buoyancy.\nLifejackets made from unicellular foam, while more durable than\nthe Kapok-filled type, can also be\ndamaged by rough treatment and\ntend to shrink with age or excessive exposure to heat and sunlight.\nIt is the boater's responsibility\nto take proper care of the life-\njacket. The following tips may\nserve as guidelines:\n* Do not abuse the jacket by using it for any other purpose\nsuch as a seat cushion, boat\nfender or kneeling pad.\n* When the jacket is dry, it\nshould be stored in a well ventilated, cool area.\n* When it is wet, hang it up to\ndry in the open air or in a well\nventilated area. It should not\nbe left to dry in front of a radiator or other source of direct\nheat.\n* Harsh detergents or cleaning\nfluids should not be used to\nclean lifejackets. Dry cleaning\nshould also be avoided.\nIan Sinclair\nre-elected\nas chairman\nMONTREAL - Ian D. Sinclair\nwas re-elected chairman and\nchief executive officer of Canadian Pacific Limited at a meeting\nof the board of directors held\nfollowing the annual general meeting of shareholders.\nF.S. Burbidge was re-elected\npresident of the company.\nElected to the executive committee were W.J. Bennett, O.B.E.,\nF.S. Burbidge, W. Earle McLaughlin, Paul L. Pare, Claude Pratte,\nQ.C., Ian D. Sinclair and Ray D.\nWolfe.\nDirectors re-elected at the\nshareholders meeting were F.S.\nBurbidge, H.J. Lang, The Hon.\nJohn N. Turner, P.C., Q.C.,\nKenneth A. White and Ray D.\nWolfe. David Kinnear, whose term\nexpires in 1981, has retired and\nStanley A. Milner was elected to\ncomplete Mr. Kinnear's term.\nIn practice: Marcella Szel, assistant regional counsel for the Canadian Pacific law department, catches up on paper work from her Calgary office. Ms. Szel, who heads a department of four solicitors, joined\nthe company two and a half years ago after articling and later practicing law with Code Hunter in Calgary. She admits her position is unusual on the Calgary legal scene in which women solicitors are still a\nminority. Even more unique is the fact that three of the four lawyers in\nher department are also women.\nBack to the U.K.: An armoured personnel carrier is being given\nthe once-over by Roy Ware, marketing and sales representative from\nMedicine Hat, Alta. One of a dozen being returned to the United Kingdom from the British Army Training Unit at Canadian Forces Base Suf-\nfield, the carrier was shipped with army tanks and other military vehicles.\n People and places in the news\n^';s^^^^pii^i'i\nAn introduction: Supervisor of training, J.P. Savard, introduces\nhis wife Fernande to his friends and associates in Angus Shops at\na recent reception to mark his retirement.\nTraining supervisor retires\nafter 42 years of service\nand 1,200 apprentice grads\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Jean-Paul Savard, supervisor of training at\nAngus Shops, takes early retirement after a CP Rail career which\nsaw some 1,200 apprentices graduate from his training classes.\nHe began working at Angus Shops as an apprentice carpenter\nin 1938, and the year 1942 found him in the drawing office at Windsor Station.\nLike many other CP Rail people, Mr. Savard went into active service with the RCAF in World War II. On his return in 1946 he resumed work in the drawing office. He became apprentice instructor in 1962 with the motive power department, Windsor Station. In\n1964 he moved to Angus Shops as supervisor of training.\nThree-generation rink: When Ron Hellwig (2nd from I.), assistant co-ordinator, car service, Calgary, entered a rink in the Western\nTransportation Bonspiel at Calgary Curling Club he made it a family affair. Ron's 75-year-old father, Art Hellwig (I.), a retired CP Rail employee, threw lead rocks, with sons Scott (far r.) curling 3rd and Mark\n2nd. They won third prize in the C event.\nFore! Retiring Albert Schmick,\nforeman, No. 1 car shop at Ogden\nShops, is ready to tee off, thanks\nto fellow employees. He joined\nthe company in 1940 and served\nwith the Canadian Forces from\n1942 to 1946. Mr. Schmick was\nappointed assistant freight car\nforeman in 1950 and car shop\nforeman in 1977.\nTrained Company Officers: Albert \"Zimmy\" Zimmerman (c),\ngeneral yard master, Toronto, caffs it a day after 36 years with CP Rail.\nHe began his career as yardman, Toronto, in 1944; was promoted to\nyard foreman in 1951; named assistant general yardmaster in 1963 and\ngeneral yardmaster in 1968. A number of officers, including W.W. Stinson, executive vice-president, trained under him in the Toronto area.\nHe is shown with W.H. Smale, assistant superintendent (I.) and A.A.\nBoyar, superintendent, Toronto Division.\nTelling it like it isn't? Henry Viau (I.), carman helper, Glen Yard,\ngets a laugh from an apparently tall tale being told by his supervisor,\nAssistant Foreman, Robert Benoit (r.), while General Foreman G. Belanger listens in. Mr. Viau calls it quits after working for the company\nsince 1936. He began as laborer at Montreal Terminals then moved to\nGlen Yard later the same year. With the exception of two months at Out-\nremont Yard as crew boy and military service from 1942 to 1946, he\nhas been stationed at The Glen.\nAppointments\nKaren McNamara was recently\nappointed co-ordinator off-line\ncar services in the office of chief\nof transportation, Montreal.\nBarbara Price has been promoted to analyst equipment utilization in the same department.\nF.C. Pevere has been named office manager in the Smiths Falls\nDivision general office at Smiths\nFalls. He succeeded G.G. Spooner\nwho retired.\nAnniversary\nLYNDONVILLE, Vt. - Alphonse\nJ. Perrault and his wife Cecile\ncelebrated their 64th wedding anniversary here on April 26.\nA former general agent at St.\nJohnsbury, Vt., Mr. Perrault has\nbeen retired since 1959 after\nworking for 42 years on the Farnham Division.\n\"I have worked at all stations\non the division except seven of\nthem,\" he said.\nOuellette: Maurice G. Ouellette\nsays good-bye to his friends at\nWindsor Station just before his\nlast run into retirement. Conductor Ouellette began with CP\nRail in 1940 on Farnham Division.\nHe worked on Trains 41 & 40,\nMontreal-Megantic, for four years\nbefore going to VIA where he concluded service on Trains 11 & 12.\nEnds quarter century of service: Miss d.g. Ross, maintenance of way clerk, Sherbrooke, Que., accepts her retirement gift from\nJ.V. Rivest, superintendent-manager, while A.L. Hallam, office manager, looks on. Miss Ross began work in the district accountant's office, Sherbrooke, in 1955 and later transferred to the general office of\nQuebec Central Railway as a steno-clerk. She has been maintenance\nof way clerk since 1974.\n Recent rail retirements\nGerard Allain, freight handler, West\nSaint John, N.B.; P.W. Andrews, conductor, Brownville Jet., Maine; R.W.\nArmstrong, carman helper, Toronto\nYard; Maurice Aumont, carman\n(freight), Angus Shops.\nP.J.M. Barr, conductor, Brandon.\nMiss I.M. Calder, clerk, chief accountant's office, Vancouver; D.K. Callahn,\ntracing clerk, transportation, Calgary;\nJ.A. Carson, ass't general yardmaster,\nToronto; Marcel Chagnon, carman, St.\nLuc Yard, Montreal; Edward Cooper,\ncar foreman, Coquitlam.\nA.E. Deman, conductor, Cranbrook;\nF.B. Dewitt, resthouse attendant, McAdam, N.B.; Michel DiCesare, car\ncleaner, Glen Yard, Montreal; CE.\nDion, trackman, Quebec Central\nRailway; Giovanni Distefano, rail classifier and material checker, St. Luc\nYard, Montreal; Fernand Ducharme,\nhelper machinist, diesel erecting,\nFarewell honors: Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Thomas take time out to smile\nfor the photographer at a reception held in their honor. Mr. Thomas\nwas presented with gifts and best wishes from friends and associates.\nBegan at Quebec City\nThomas leaves purchasing\nto retire after 46 years\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Joseph \"Joe\"\nRaymond Thomas, assistant purchasing agent, purchases and materials at Windsor Station headquarters, is retiring after 46 years\nwith the company.\nMr. Thomas got his start at Quebec City as relief cashier in the\nChateau Frontenac Hotel in 1934.\nDuring World War II he was assigned to temporary duty with the\nDepartment of Munitions and Supply. Returning to the company in\n1946, Mr. Thomas worked in various positions leading up to becoming purchasing agent. In addition to his railway duties, his\nassignment included purchasing\nfor the hotel department, steamship commissary supplies, dining\ncar supplies and all equipment for\nChateau Frontenac.\nWhen CP Rail closed its branch\nat Quebec City, Mr. Thomas was\ntransferred to Montreal as assistant purchasing agent where he\nwas responsible for CP Air purchases, until that company made\nother arrangements, as well as for\ndining car supplies, steel, movement of household effects, furniture and a vast variety of other\nitems, of which stationery was\none of the largest.\nConductor Katz was photographed on the steps of a CP Rail\npassenger car when he visited Windsor Station recently.\nRetirement is not for Katz\nafter 35 years on the rails\nMONTREAL - Larry Katz, a CP Rail sleeping car conductor\nwith over 35 years of service, recently hung up his VIA Rail uniform and went on pension. Larry said he has no intention of retiring and he told CP Rail News that he plans to embark on a new\nventure.\nHe joined the company as a sleeping car conductor in 1944\nand has worked on every one its lines where there is sleeping car\nservice \u00E2\u0080\u0094 from Halifax to Vancouver, including the former CP\nRail Toronto run. He also worked on a number of \"specials.\"\nLarry began his VIA Rail service in November, 1978, working\naboard The Canadian.\n\"I have met a lot of nice people over the years and have enjoyed really good associations and co-operation while working\nfor CP Rail,\" he said.\nWhen asked about his experiences and about the many passengers he looked after over the years, he said: \"If I could hire a\nghost writer, I could turn out a best-seller.\"\nAngus Shops; Emile Duplessis, carman, St. Luc Yard.\nS.J. Ellis, carman Helper, Winnipeg.\nK.B. Fenwick, checker, Lambton\nFreight Terminal, shed operations, Toronto.\nLeopold Girard, general stock supervisor, materials department, Angus\nShops; William Green, yard foreman,\nWinnipeg Div.\nW.H. Hall, elevator shoveller, Saint\nJohn; W.C Hilts, carman, Weston\nShops, Winnipeg.\nD.A. Innis, ass't roadmaster, Saint\nJohn.\nS.G. Jardine, mechanical supervisor, Farnham, Que.; W.G. Jones, locomotive engineer, Toronto.\nMike Kepa, roadmaster, Nanaimo,\nB.C.; K.F. Klassen, track maintenance\nforeman, Vauxall-Medicine Hat; L.L.\nKrogh, signal maintainer, Coquitlam.\nLionel Lachapelle, carman, steel\nLighting the way: Bob Rogal, division roadmaster, Vancouver, will\nhave no problem lighting his way as his wife Elaine holds an antique\nrailway lantern presented to him on his retirement. Mr. Rogal joined CP\nRail in 1930 as a section laborer in Druid, Sask, and has worked in all\nfour western provinces during his career.\nshop, Angus Shops; Lucien Lalumiere,\njanitor, Windsor Station; Guy Laroche,\nconductor, Farnham, Que.; Harry\nLatta, locomotive engineer, Lakehead\nDiv.; Oscar Leblanc, trainman, Chapleau, Ont.; D.H. Llywarch, conductor/\nyardman, Vancouver, B.C.; H.A. London, handler (freight), West Saint\nJohn.\nP.A. Mickler, track maintenance\nforeman, Wilcox, Sask.; O.E. McDer-\nmott, locomotive engineer, Lethbridge;\nA.R. McDonald, swing operator, Portage La Prairie; H.M. McEwen, bridge-\nman, Smiths Falls, Ont.; Joseph\nMcKee, yardman, Alyth Yard, Calgary;\nHarold McParland, locomotive engineer, Schreiber, Ont.\nIsaac Neustater, roadmaster, Assi-\nniboia, Sask.\nFernand Paradis, laborer, planning\nmill, Angus Shops; Alfred Peters, locomotive engineer, Alyth Diesel\nShops, Calgary; Louis Petrucci, yard\nforeman, Brandon; M.A. Piche, track\nmaintenance foreman, Choiceland,\nSask.; J.F. Powell, conductor, Toronto.\nAlain Racicot, clerk, data capture &\nprocedures, Windsor Station Montreal;\nH.D. Raymer, tinsmith, Brandon;\nEdouard Ricignuolo, machinist helper,\nDiesel Shop, St. Luc Yard; R.J. Rivers,\ncarman, Oshawa, Ont.; Carmine Ro-\ntondo, machine operator, Montreal\nTerminals; R.A. Rutledge, trainman,\nLethbridge.\nW.V. Shaver, sales representative,\nNorthland Services, BCCS Northland,\nVancouver; William Singer, conductor,\nKamloops; A.A. Somerfeld, carman,\nMP&RS, Moose Jaw; Michael Sta-\nsienko, trackman, Medicine Hat; Paul\nSzczerbacewicz, boilermaker helper,\nCalgary; John Szucs, machine operator, Ogden Shops.\nLorenzo Talotti, laborer, Cranbrook;\nJohn Taupert, assistant track maintenance foreman, Medicine Hat; H.R.\nTherriault, conductor, Chapleau; J.E.\nThompson, carman, Toronto Yard; S.\np. Tokar, crew clerk, yard office,\nWinnipeg; Frederick Turczak, carman,\nWeston Shops; Lionel Tremblay, carman, North Bay.\nW.E. Wells, yard foreman, Calgary;\nW.G. Whalen, carman, Windsor, N.S.;\nG.V. White, carman, Nelson; E.C\nWitcher, supervisor, accounts receivable, Calgary; Boleslaw Wojewoda, machinist helper, Ogden Shops; W.L.\nWood, assistant foreman, Ogden\nShops.\nAlbert Zimmerman, yard foreman,\nToronto; Frank Zuchkan, carman,\nThunder Bay.\nHonored On last run: Locomotive Engineer Frank W. Alexander is seen on the Ottawa Station platform following his last run after 36 years. He holds the plaque marking his service which began as fireman in\n1944. He was later promoted to locomotive engineer, and since 1973 he has operated freight and passenger\ntrains between Chalk River-Ottawa-Montreal.\n 1+\nThird Troisiama\nclass classe\nB-11\nMontreal, P.Q.\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nCP Rail breaks new ground with Honda deal\nCar compound improvements\nmean increased through-put\nBy PAUL THURSTON\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail has spent $250,000 on improvements\nto its automobile compound here to help Honda Canada Inc.\ndistribute cars to its Canadian dealers.\nUnder a new contract, CP Rail is moving Hondas from the\nwest coast to a newly-paved part of the compound in the\nToronto suburb of Scarborough, near the main city freight yard.\nDuring a recent visit to the\ncompound with Honda Canada\nPresident Saichiro Fujie, the two\nrailway officials inspected a newly-\npaved parking area which can accommodate more than 1,000 cars.\nCP Rail crewmen Frank Anderson and Jack Laing had just finished positioning several carloads\nof 1982 Hondas at an unloading\nramp, and preparations were underway to move the cargo onto\nthe parking area.\nLARGE CAPACITY\nGrading of the entire 22-acre\ncompound was carried out before\nasphalt was applied to 10 acres\nof parking lot and an access roadway. The area now used by Honda\nhad been finished in stone chips.\n\"Paving makes it easier to move\ncars quickly and contributes to\noverall efficiency,\" said Mr.\nManion. \"Elimination of the stone-\nchip surface also reduces the risk\nof damage.\"\nOverall capacity of paved and\nunpaved portions of the compound is 3,500 vehicles.\nTwo other foreign manufacturers \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Toyota and Mazda \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nhave leased separate parts of the\ncompound while some Toronto\nretail dealers use other areas for\nreceiving and storage. CP Rail's\nagreement with Honda is not a\nlease but does guarantee the\nmanufacturer space according to\nits needs.\nWith the Honda contract in\nforce, the yearly through-put of\nthe compound, located on Canadian Pacific property, will increase by about 55 per cent.\nActual unloading of incoming\ncars and the day-to-day supervision of the compound have been\nsub-contracted to Hansen's Forwarding, a company experienced\nin these fields. Unloading was\npreviously carried out by individual manufacturers.\nIrnpofted automobiles account\nfor about one quarter of new car\nsales in Canada, and Honda ships\nabout 18,000 cars a year for distribution through Toronto.\n\"The large-scale Honda movement is new to CP Rail and gives\nus more opportunity to use equipment that would otherwise return\nempty from Western Canada,\"\nsaid John Kelsall, general manager of operation and maintenance for the Eastern Region.\nVehicles produced in central\nCanadian factories are carried\nwest on specially-designed multilevel railway cars which are not\nsuitable for other types of traffic,\nnoted Bill Manion, automobile\nmarketing director for CP Rail's\nEastern region.\n\"This contract represents a\nstep in the right direction for overall railway capacity,\" said Mr.\nManion.\nGlittering Hondas: CP Rail has spent $250,000 on its Toronto car compound to help Honda Canada\ndistribute its vehicles. (Canada Wide photo)\nNew service inaugurated\nRifle price\nnow $695\nDue to the terrific response\nto the Canadian Pacific Centennial Winchester Commemorative rifle, we have increased\nour order and the factory has\nauthorized a price reduction.\nThe new price is $695 and we\nare pleased to pass this saving\nonto the employees of Canadian Pacific.\nAll those employees who\nhave made their deposits at\nthe old price of $800 will be\ncredited with the difference\nand will be allowed the new\nprice. See our supplement in\nthis issue.\nCommemorative\nInvestments\nCorporation Ltd.\nGO Train uses company line\nBy STEPHEN MORRIS\nMILTON, Ont. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The first regularly-scheduled GO Transit passenger train to operate on CP Rail\nlines ripped through a ceremonial\nbanner here Oct. 25 to inaugurate\nthe commuter service to and from\nToronto.\nAt the controls were CP Rail\nveterans Vince Campbell and\nFrank Bunker who were accompanied in the locomotive cab by\nInaugural train: GO Train 4 rips through a banner at Milton, Ont.,\nto officially begin the first regularly-scheduled GO Transit commuter\nservice on CP Rail lines.\nAttractive studies program expanded\nBy JAMES CAMPBELL\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Canadian Pacific's Full-time Studies Program,\nwhich offers eligible employees\na leave of absence with pay to\nfurther their education, has been\nexpanded to include a cooperative studies option.\nThe new option permits an employee to alternate between a\nsemester in class and a semester\non the job until a degree is completed.\nLearning institutions offering\nthe co-op studies program have\nbeen encouraged by the results\nbecause the student is able to\napply the theory he or she is\nlearning to practical use in the\nwork environment. Companies\nalready involved in the program\nare pleased that valuable employees continuing their education are not away from the workplace for great lengths of time.\nThough the program is an\nattractive one, eligibility requirements are very high. And as one\nof 17 employees who have\ngraduated through the six-year-\nold Full-time Studies Program\nsays: \"It's no free ride.\"\n\"The company paid my salary,\nbooks and tuition but it was up\nto me to take advantage of this\nlargesse and do well,\" says\nMichel Therrien, a marketing\nanalyst at Montreal, who started\nas a clerk with CP Rail in 1969.\n\"Anyone who wants to enter\nthe program should realize that\n(See \"Co-op\" page 2)\nMICHEL THERRIEN\nChairman and Chief Executive\nOfficer F. S. Burbidge, Executive\nVice-President R. S. Allison, and\nOntario's Minister of Transportation and Communications, James\nSnow.\nCalled GO Train 4, the commuter service operates three\ntrains to Toronto during the morning rush-hour with an equal number returning to Milton in the\nevening. Along the 31.22-mile\nroute are seven new train stations. The Milton-Toronto run is\nthe fourth Go Train service operating in the Toronto area.\nMANY SPECTATORS\nMeeting the inaugural train at\neach of the stations were municipal, provincial and federal officials. Also on hand were hundreds\nof spectators.\nThe new rail service is the\nresult of five years of planning\nand construction which has cost\nthe Ontario government $60 million.The service can be expanded\nto five trains a day as passenger\ntraffic increases.\nAlong the route \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail's\nmain line \u00E2\u0080\u0094 much upgrading has\ntaken place so the trains can operate comfortably and safely at\nspeeds up to 75 miles an hour.\nThirty miles of 100-pound bolted\nrail has been replaced with 136-\npound continuous welded rail and\nmore than 280,000 tons of ballast\nhas been installed. A three-track\nholding yard has been built at\nGuelph Junction, seven miles\nwest of here, to store the trains\nand a new dispatching office has\n(See \"New\" page 2)\n Life after work varies for retirees\nAwarded 20-year medal: A 20-year Long Service and Good\nConduct medal was presented to Constable John Harrison (second\nfrom left) of investigation, Atlantic Region. In attendance (from left\nto right) were: Sub-Inspector Personnel Louis Lecavalier; Staff\nSergeant H. J. Vibert; Superintendent J. G. Collins, and Regional\nInspector R. K. Leavitt.\nPolice honored: Regional Inspector R. K. Leavitt (right), of investigation, Atlantic Region, congratulates Constable W. R. Clayton\n(left), after presenting him with a 25-year bronze clasp and Constable\nM. J. Hodge was presented with a 20-year Long Service and Good\nConduct medal.\nCo-op option added\nto studies program\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nthe selection process is rigorous\nand going back to school is\ntough. It requires dedication and\nstamina,\" he adds.\nMichel had completed the\nequivalent of two years of the\nBachelor of Commerce degree\nprogram at night before returning\nto school on a full-time basis in\nSeptember 1980. He recently\ngraduated from Concordia University here with very high\ngrades.\nNow that he has completed\nhis studies, Michel says he looks\nat his future with CP Rail with\ngreat optimism.\nJoan Moran and Donna Reid,\nof personnel development, the\ndepartment administering the\nprogram, stress that only employees who have an established\n\"academic track record\" will be\nconsidered.\nIMPORTANT RESOURCE\nBoth women also stress that\nthe Full-time Studies Program is\nconsidered by senior management as an investment in an important resource \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the employee.\nAnd before making this investment they must be convinced the\nemployee will continue working\nwith the company after he or she\nhas graduated.\nThe program is open to employees of all entities of Canadian Pacific Limited and is not\nonly restricted to those wishing\nto complete their university education. Advanced technical training at a recognized learning institution may also qualify under the\nprogram.\nEmployees wishing further information should contact the\npersonnel development department in Montreal at 395-7331.\nMEDICINE HAT \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Retirement\nmeans many things to many people and the six railroaders who\nwere honored Oct. 9 at the UTU\nLocal T-460 banquet at the Moose\nLodge, will enjoy theirs in many\ndifferent ways.\nR. C. Wiedeman was hired in\nJune 1942 as a trainman and conductor in the freight service at\nEmpress, Calgary and Medicine\nHat.\nIn 1977 he became a conductor\non the passenger service between Medicine Hat and Field,\nbut says when VIA Rail changed\nthe passenger train from a day\ntrain to a night one it was time\nfor him to retire.\nNEW CHALLENGES\nBeing local chairman for the\ntrainmen in the '50s and '60s was\na daily challenge and now that he\nhas retired he hopes to become\ninvolved with CP Rail citizens\nsports and recreation and face\nthe new challenges that present\nthemselves each day.\nF. J. Middleton was hired out\non Aug. 26, 1939, then served\noverseas during the Second\nWorld War.\nUpon his return to the railroad\nin 1944 he served on the passenger train until his retirement on\nJan. 9, this year.\nA. L. McMichael hired on at\nMoose Jaw on Aug. 19, 1944. Ten\ndays later he transferred to Medi-\nr ^ %\nRailroaders honored: Roy Cowan, president of UTU Local T-460\n(left), and retiring railroaders: H. H. Burden, A. L. McMichael, Bob\nCampbell, and R. C Wiedeman, were all set for a night's fun at a\nbanquet in their honor. Unavailable at photo time were E. G. McCredie\nand F. J. Middleton. (Photo by Robin Schlaht)\ncine Hat as there was more work\nin the city.\nMr. McMichael also worked on\nway freights and mixed trains out\nof Calgary, Empress and East\nCoulee for six years.\nTIME TO SPEND\nHe retired from passenger service Jan. 9, this year after being\nactive with the Brotherhood of\nRailroad Trainmen, now UTU, as\nvice-chairman of the conductors\ngrievance committee.\nHe now spends his time on his\nfarm and out at his cottage at\nElkwater.\nLevel crossing accidents\nprompt Alberta campaign\nEDMONTON \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"Operation\nLifesaver\" is, in more ways than\none, a level-headed program.\nA national campaign officially\nlaunched in Ottawa in September, Operation Lifesaver is aimed\nat reducing the number of level\ncrossing accidents in Canada.\nThe program was introduced by\nTransport Canada, The Railway\nAssociation of Canada and the\nCanadian Transport Commission\nin co-operation with the Canada\nSafety Council.\nSTEERING COMMITTEE\nIn Alberta, where the problem\nhas been particularly acute \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthere were 138 crossing accidents in the province during 1980,\nresulting in 20 deaths and 68 injuries \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a steering committee is\nbeing formed to set up a provincial public awareness program.\nCo-chaired by Bob Novikoff,\ngeneral manager, Alberta Safety\nCouncil, and Ross Hogg, Alberta\nTransportation Safety Branch,\nthe program will focus on education, enforcement and engineering to promote level crossing\nsafety.\nRoger Cyr, national director\nfor Operation Lifesaver, recently\nmet with various Alberta organizations to discuss development\nof the Alberta campaign. Included in the discussions were safety\nofficers from CP Rail and CN Rail.\n\"Despite railroad and CTC upgrading of level crossings, the\nnumber of accidents has remained static,\" Mr. Cyr said\nduring the meeting. \"We would\nlike to see a sizeable reduction\nin the number of accidents.\"\nMr. Cyr stressed that public\neducation is the key to Operation\nLifesaver's success.\nSimilar programs are already\nunderway in New Brunswick,\nBritish Columbia and Saskatchewan.\nH. H. Burden worked with the\nbridge and building gang in Sept.\n1946 but a month later transferred\nto yard service which he worked\nuntil 1969 when he became relief\nyardmaster.\nHe became permanent yard-\nmaster a year later and held that\nposition until his retirement on\nJan. 16, this year.\nHis farm now keeps him busy\nand one of his favorite pastimes\nis curling.\nACTIVE IN UNION\nBob Campbell was a trainman\nat Empress from Dec. 7, 1945,\nuntil 1955 when he moved to\nMedicine Hat.\nHe officially retired in January\nof this year and until that time\nworked through freight as a\ntrainman then conductor.\nHe was very active in the\nunion, first with the Brotherhood\nof Railroad Trainmen in Empress\nand then with the United Transportation Union in Medicine Hat.\nTRAVEL PLANS\nMr. Campbell served overseas\nfor three years during the war,\nbut returned to the railroad on his\ndemobilization.\nHe was chairman of the Medicine Hat Family Day celebration.\nHis hobbies include woodwork\nand gardening.\nE. G. McCredie plans to do a\nlot of travelling in his motor home\nnow that he's retired.\nHe was hired on Aug. 30, 1946,\nand worked in Empress for 10\nyears before coming to the Hat.\nMr. McCredie worked freight\nand passenger and retired as\nconductor on the Burstall Way\nFreight. (Reprinted from the\nMedicine Hat News).\nNew GO Train inaugurated\nFirst ticket: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer F. S. Burbidge\n(left) receives a large rail ticket as a souvenir from L. H. Parsons,\nchairman of GO Transit.\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nbeen set up at Toronto's Union\nStation.\nThough much has been done,\nwork along the route is continuing. Another 30,000 tons of ballast\nwill be installed next year and the\nrailway is putting in eight miles of\nnew track in a busy area near\nToronto to prevent any delays.\nWhen all the work is completed,\n123 new turnouts, 63 of them\ndesigned for high-speed operation, will also have been installed.\nMr. Burbidge praised GO Transit as a model of transportation\nand regional planning which has\ncaptured the attention of city\nand transporation officials across\nNorth America.\n Information meetings held\non Rogers Pass project\nBy MORRIE ZAITLIN\nVANCOUVER \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail has\ncompleted a series of public information meetings about its\nplans for the Rogers Pass grade\nimprovement project.\nThe $500 million project will\ninclude driving the longest railway tunnel in the western hemisphere \u00E2\u0080\u0094 9.01 miles. It also calls\nfor another tunnel one mile long,\n11 new bridges and 21 miles of\nnew track.\nFrom mid-September to the\nbeginning of October, almost\n3,000 people visited the CP Rail\ninformation centres set up at\nRevelstoke, Golden, Calgary and\nVancouver. The exhibit featured\nan 18-minute videotape detailing\nenvironmental, technical and financial aspects of the construction job.\nINFORMATIVE\nBecause the capacity improvement work will take place mainly\nwithin Glacier National Park\nboundaries CP Rail has been\nworking with environmental consultants and parks personnel to\nminimize the impact of the project on the environment during\nconstruction and afterwards during railway operations.\nThe exhibit material, including\narea maps, charts and large scale\nphotographs, was designed to be\nboth informative and interesting.\nA specially-designed booklet on\nthe construction project was prepared and other related literature\nwas available to the public.\nCanadian Pacific engineering\nand public relations personnel\nWe are\nCI Ift^CCTlAIIC\nwere on hand at the information\ncentres to answer questions.\nThe display opened in Revelstoke Sept. 16. More than 800\npeople, including many local CP\nRail employees, took the opportunity to browse through the exhibit area. Glen Swanson, CP Rail\nPacific Region assistant general\nmanager, operation and maintenance, Mike Wakely, special\nprojects engineer and Peter Holu-\nbar, project supervisor, were\npeppered with questions on the\ntunnel job.\nWELL ATTENDED\nRevelstoke Mayor Al McCaskill,\nwho is also a CP Rail employee,\nand area member of parliament\nSid Parker, came to the showings, along with representatives\nof the Brotherhood of Locomotive\nEngineers, United Transportation\nUnion, Parks Canada and local\nmedia.\nIn Golden, B.C., the turnout to\nthe public information days was\nagain good. Almost 700 people\nvisited the information centre, including 14 classes from Golden\nSenior Secondary School.\nThe exhibit was then packed\nup, and moved to Calgary, where\nanother 800 people came to see\nthe presentation.\nMEDIA ON HAND\nRailway customers and senior\nofficers from both the CTC and\nParks Canada attended a private\nsession. Reporters from both Calgary newspapers were present\nand local CBC-TV morning show\nhostess, Liz Pommer, interviewed\nGlen Swanson.\nThe exhibit was then moved to\nVancouver. Close to 600 people\ncame by to watch the film clip,\nexamine the photographs and\nmaps and ask more questions.\nGuests included train buffs and\npensioners, business people,\nhousewives, children and journalists. Officials from the CTC,\nTransport Canada and various\nprovincial ministries were on\nhand.\nThe Vancouver media was well\nrepresented at the centre's first\nday in Vancouver and a special\nreport on the project was broadcast on CTV television's nationwide \"Canada A.M.\" show.\nGood idea: Suggestion awards totalling $445 were made recently\nto five Ogden Shops employees for suggestions ranging from a safety\nstrap on a ten ton electric jack to flex fittings on an air compressor.\nShown here following the cheque presentation are: (from left) Robert\nColley, pipe fitter, Ronald Liversuch, machinist, Albert Spoletini,\ncarman, and Gerald Jones, machinist. John Hunter, pipe fitter, the fifth\naward winner, was not available for the picture.\nWinged Weathervane: A former CP Air converted Douglas C-47 being hoisted to her final resting\nplace, a very tricky job which went off with no mishaps. An appropriate plaque will be mounted telling\nthe story of CF-CPY. (Photo by James Whyard)\nFormer CP Air plane\nRejuvenated 'faithful old bird'\nperched on airport pedestal\nAfter years of military and commercial service, a CP Air converted Douglas C-47 has become\nthe largest weathervane in the\nworld.\nAbout 40 years ago, the aircraft\nwas flying the Indo-China routes\nfor the USAAF transport command; today CF-CPY is a monument to years of service in the\nCanadian North.\nSold at the end of World War II\nto Grant McConachie for his\nfledgling Canadian Pacific Airline, it was converted to civilian\nDC-3 in 1946 and given the Canadian registration letters. For 15\nyears the plane flew CP Air's\nscheduled routes throughout Can\nada, and when larger aircraft\nsuperseded it on the main lines,\nCPY moved north to Whitehorse,\nand served on the Yukon routes\nto Mayo and Dawson City.\nIn 1960, sold to Connelly-\nDawson Airways, CPY was based\nat Dawson City and continued to\nfly northern routes; in winters, on\nskis, the plane served Old Crow\nand the early seismic and oil exploration camps in the Eagle\nPlains, through which the new\nDempster Highway now runs.\nFrom 1966 to 1970 the aircraft\nwas based at Whitehorse again,\nowned by Great Northern Airways. She made her last flight in\nNovemberof 1970 when an engine\n$45 million deal\nlanded by CPCS\nBy LEN COCOLICCHIO\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Canadian Pacific Consulting Services Ltd.\n(CPCS) has been awarded a $45\nmillion, five-year contract to assist in the design and supervision\nof the upgrading of a railway and\ntelecommunications network in\nSouth Sumatra, Indonesia.\nThe network will serve as the\ntransportation infrastructure for\nthe giant Bukit Asam coal mining\nproject, scheduled for completion in 1985. The Bukit Asam\nmine will produce a minimum of\n2.5 million tons of mineral coal\nannually. The coal will supply a\npower generating station at Sura-\nlaya on the western tip of the\nIsland of Java.\n\"The development of coal as\nan alternative source of energy is\nof great importance to the Indonesian economy. The coal transportation project will allow Canadians to play a vital role in this\ndevelopment,\" said R. A. Shea,\nvice-president, CPCS.\nA resident team of 25 senior\nrailway, telecommunications and\ntraining specialists will be assigned to Indonesia for periods\nof one to five years. Sofrerail of\nFrance and Indonesian engineering firms will also assist the Indonesian state railway in the design\nand upgrading of the railway and\ntelecommunications network.\nThe project involves transporting coal 255 miles by rail from\nthe Bukit Asam mine in South\nSumatra to a new port at Tarahan\nwhere it is transferred to ship for\nthe final leg of the journey to the\ngenerating station at Suralaya.\n\"This contract represents the\nfifth transportation related project\ncarried out by CPCS in Indonesia\nin the last seven years. That\nrecord indicates the confidence\nthe Indonesian government has\nin the ability of Canadians to help\nthem plan and meet their long-\nterm transportation requirements,\" said Mr. Shea.\nThe contract follows a feasibility study of the Bukit Asam\nmining project and support facilities conducted by MCS Consultants, a consortium of Canadian\nengineering firms and CPCS.\nGolden anniversary: Mr. and\nMrs. George Parsons recently\ncelebrated their 50th wedding\nanniversary. Mr. Parsons, former\nyard foreman, Winnipeg Yards,\nretired in 1972 after 30 years of\nservice.\nfailed during takeoff (no damage\nwas done), just a month before\nthe company went bankrupt. She\nhad 35,581 hours logged, most of\nit in the North. CPY was among\nthe assets acquired by Northward\nAirlines, which used the grounded\nplane for spare parts.\nIn 1977 the Yukon Flying Club\nundertook the project of restoring\nthe faithful old bird, with the intention of mounting it on a rotating pedestal at the entrance to\nthe Whitehorse airport. After\nyears of effort, painstaking labor,\nand scrounging for parts, the interior was stripped, the engine\nmounts put in place, and the original CP Air colors restored. Two\ncranes cautiously lifted the airplane with two sets of cables\nand slowly, carefully placed her\non the specially-designed based,\nwhich fits into the space once\noccupied by the gas tanks.\nEngineers said it couldn't be\ndone, but Bob Cameron, who\nsparked the project, Keith Byram\nwho designed the pedestal, and\nEd Jacobs, who put it together,\nmade it work. CPY is now the only\nDC-3 in the world mounted on a\nsingle, rotating pedestal, which\nallows the aircraft to weathercock\ninto the wind.\nVisitors driving along the Alaska Highway into Whitehorse from\nthe south this year may be somewhat startled to see a DC-3 coming at them, flying low and slow,\nfor CF-CPY is just a few yards\nfrom the road, at the entrance to\nthe International Airport. One\nthing for sure, there'll be lots of\npictures taken. (Reprinted from\nAlaska magazine)\nRail News\nwins award\nCP Rail News has been\nawarded the Association of\nRailroad Editors' Distinguished\nAchievement Award for the\n\"Best Newspaper.\"\nThe award, a wood and leather plaque, was presented during the annual conference of\nthe association in San Diego\nOct. 12-15.\nThe association is made up\nof editors representing railroads in Canada, Mexico and\nthe United States.\n Recent rail retirements\nWarm Wishes: Antonio Guadagnolo and his wife Lily celebrated\ntheir 50th wedding anniversary Sept. 19 and decided the Windsor\nStation party was a good place to celebrate. Mr. Guadagnolo retired\nafter more than 45 years with the building services department in 1973.\nA job well done: Georgette Gagnon began her career with\nCanadian Pacific in 1944 as a typist in the steno bureau at Windsor\nStation. At the time of her retirement, Miss Gagnon was a stenographer\nin the statistical section, office of the vice-president.\nCongratulations: Rosario Lefebvre, a carpenter at Glen Yard,\nrecently retired with 31 years of\nservice\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ii a\nDue to circumstances beyond\nour control, two errors appeared\nin our Vol. 11, No. 13, Oct. 7, 1981\nissue. In the retirement photo of\nLeslie C. Simpson, he was shown\nbeing presented with a gift by\nRalph Hewson, diesel inspector,\nSmiths Falls and not Harwood A.\nBennett as stated in the outline.\nIn the second error, the wrong\nphotograph accompanied the cut-\nline about the retirement of Victor\nStubbs. The correct photo appears in this issue. We regret any\ninconvenience caused by these\nerrors.\nRoger Beaudry, locomotive engineer, operating dept., St. Luc Yard;\nJohn W. Beesley, checker, shed operations, Lambton Shed, Toronto; Elmer\nO Benner, conductor, operating dept.,\nCalgary; William J. Berry, special representative, public relations dept.,\nToronto; Adrien Boulet, laborer, planning mill, Angus Shops; Allan Bradley,\ntrackman, M of W dept., Toronto Division; Collin A. Brooks, conductor,\noperating dept., Calgary.\nHarold F. Campbell, yardmaster,\noperating dept., Nelson; Walter M.\nCampbell, district manager, marketing\n& sales, Philadelphia; William D.\nCardiff, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Toronto Division; Leo Char-\nlebois, bridgeman, M of W dept.,\nMontreal Division; Marcel Chayer,\ndispatcher, intermodal services, Lachine, Que.; Wilfred James Colley,\nassistant superintendent, operating\ndept., Regina; John T. Connolly, conductor, operating dept., Moose Jaw\nDivision; Henry W. Cook, shop engineer, motive power, Ogden Shops;\nAllen J. Crockford, operator, operating\ndept., Sault Ste. Marie; Charles E.\nCurran, electrician, car dept., Sudbury\nDivision.\nDavid Dueck, electrician, mechanical dept., Weston Shops; Vernon W.\nDunlop, operator, operating dept.,\nManyberries, Alta.; Gerald Durocher,\ntrack maintenance foreman, Montreal\nDivision.\nWilliam Fedoroniak, Sr., grain distributor, Lakehead Division; Remi\nFrechette, carman, freight car dept.,\nAngus Shops; Gordon Freeman, car\ncleaner, car dept., Glen Yard.\nJean L. Gagnon, machinist helper,\ndiesel erecting dept., Angus Shops;\nHarry M. Gamble, carman, car dept.,\nToronto Yard; Gordon L. Garbutt,\nwork equipment supervisor, operating\ndept., Coquitlam, B.C.; John M. Gillis,\nconductor, running trades, Coquitlam;\nRobert Godin, trainman, operating\ndept., Schreiber Division; Nikolaus\nGut, track maintainer, M of W dept.,\nToronto Division.\nGeorge Harrington, checker, shed\noperations dept., Toronto; Denis\nHenault, carman, car dept., Montreal;\nDonald F. Hill, yard foreman, operating dept., Nelson, B.C.; Norman J.\nHinton, manager planning, Toronto;\nHarry L. Hudson, office manager,\ncoastal marine operations, Vancouver.\nAlbert Interlino, B&B carpenter,\nMontreal Division.\nEwen M. Kerr, conductor, operating\ndept., Smiths Falls; Franklin D. Kirby,\nconductor, operating dept., Brown-\nville Junction, Maine.\nHenri Lamarre, trucker, operating\ndept., Place Viger, Montreal; Marcel\nLeclair, carpenter, B&B dept.,\nMontreal Division; Mychajlo Lymycz,\ncarman, mechanical dept., Weston\nShops.\nPhilip Mattes, carman, mechanical\ndept., Weston Shops; Elmer G.\nMcCredie, conductor/trainman, operating dept., Medicine Hat Division;\nDonald O. McDonald, electrician,\nAngus Shops; Herbert McGowan,\nsuperintendent, investigation dept.,\nVancouver; Alex D. McLeod, conductor, Moose Jaw; Gerard Menard,\nhelper electrician, diesel electric\ndept., Angus Shops; Roy I. Mitchell,\nstores inspector, Weston Shops;\nJames Moyes, locomotive engineer,\noperating dept., Kamloops, B.C.; Leslie Mundy, clerk, system manager,\nrevenue and agency accounting,\nMontreal.\nDmytro Oleksiuk, carman, car dept.,\nOgden Shops; Donald K. Olsen, livestock yardman, Alberta stockyard,\nCalgary.\nFinishing up: Maurice Deslongchamps, mechanical assistant, car\nengineering at Windsor Station recently retired with 38 years of\nservice. Mr. Deslongchamps was active in the development of passenger car equipment in the '50s and later in the development of the\nsteel cabooses.\nLast day: Victor Stubbs, carpenter, car department, Glen\nYard at Montreal recently retired\nwith 34 years service.\nJulien Parent, carman, car dept.,\nVallee Junction, Que.; Norman Parfitt,\nchief clerk, Customer Service Centre,\nVictoria, B.C.; Walter Pozniak, air\nbrake cleaner, motive power, Ogden\nShops.\nNorman G. Ridley, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Moose Jaw;\nRene Rivest, carman, St. Luc Yard;\nMaurice Roberge, carman, car dept.,\nSt. Luc Yard; Alice I. Robinson, clerk,\nsystem manager, revenue and agency\naccounting, Montreal; Paul E. Rochon,\ncarman, steel shops, Angus Shops;\nNick Romanchuk, carman, rolling\nstock, Saskatoon; Dmytro Romaniuk,\ncarman, car dept., Thunder Bay;\nDonald V. Rose, regional mechanical\nofficer, Atlantic Region; David Ros-\nsiter, chief clerk, CSC, Lethbridge.\nJohn W. Sangster, assistant mechanical supervisor, operating dept.,\nMcAdam, N.B.; James Sibley, locomotive engineer, operating dept.,\nLondon; John S. Smith, deputy chief\nengineer, office of the chief engineer,\nMontreal; Arvo R. Soon, operator,\noperating dept., Coquitlam; Grant W.\nSomers, conductor, operating dept.,\nChapleau, Ont.; Jean P. Souliere, carman, freight dept., Angus Shops.\nRodolphe Therrien, helper machinist, air brake dept., Angus Shops;\nGerald F. Thompson, carman, car\ndept., St. Luc Yard; George F. Trem-\nblett, conductor, operating dept., Toronto; Paul Turgeon, carman, freight\ncar dept., Angus Shops; Ronald V.\nTurner, assistant foreman, freight car\ndept., Angus Shops.\nLeo Vaillancourt, carman, freight\ncar dept., Angus Shops.\nRonald W. Walker, assistant general\nmanager, marketing and sales, Toronto; James F. Wall, machinist,\nmotive power, Toronto Yard; Capt.\nWilliam Warden, master, BCCSS, Vancouver; George E. White, conductor,\noperating dept., Calgary; Orest Wil-\nganowski, train machine clerk, Winnipeg.\nPhilip P. Youwe, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Kamloops, B.C.\nMichael Zalusky, carman helper,\nmechanical dept., Weston Shops.\nANP THE MOST\nJftPORTANT5EWSE\n' ]} \ OF ALL\n The building of a nation... people from\nmany lands brought together by the\npromise of a future of freedom. 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Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nCPRall H\nNews\nVolume 12\nNumber 1\nJan. 13, 1982\nIdea earns Sliva top award - $25,000\nBy JAMES CAMPBELL\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Cornel Sliva,\na 40-year-old senior joint facility\nclerk with the chief accountant's\noffice here, is used to working\nwith figures. So when he recently\nreceived a five-figure boost to\nhis personal savings in the form\nof a $25,000 suggestion award\n_-cheq.ua-he remained quite composed.\nIt was the highest award ever\nmade by Canadian Pacific's Suggestion Plan and the 23-year\nveteran with the company said a\nwild spending spree is not in his\nimmediate plans.\n\"I have a few debts to pay off\nand I plan to put the rest in the\nbank,\" he said in an interview\nprior to a presentation of the\ncheque by President W. W.\nStinson.\nASSESSMENT\nMr. Sliva had suggested that\nan arbitrary fee he^ assessed by\nthe company against municipal\ngovernments for the maintenance\nof railway crossing signals which\nfall within their territorial limits.\nUp until now, charges were made\nto the municipality when maintenance or repairs were per\nformed, but more often than not,\nthese costs were absorbed by\nCP Rail because there was no\nsuch fee structure.\n\"I've worked for the company\na long time,\" explained Mr. Sliva,\n\"and it's become natural for me\nto try and find ways of improving\nthe work.\n-Honestly, when I thought of\nthis new idea, I wasn't concerned\nwith whether or not I'd get money\nfor it. It just seemed the right\nthing to do,\" he said. \"Of course,\nit paid off for me personally, just\nas other people could be re-\n(See \"Top\" page 2)\n(Photo by Nicholas Morant)\nSilhouette Of work: Jack Wood's B&B gang strikes a heroic pose in silhouette with their massive\nauxiliary crane on the Lacombe subdivision, near Nevis, Alberta. They are doing a routine job, renewing\nheavy decking timbers on this trestle across Tail Creek out on the prairie east of Red Deer.\nMBS rules improve communications and safety\nauthorize trains or engines to\nenter a maintenance area with\nthe approval of a work foreman.\nAll five subdivisions had previously been on Train-Order\nRules. Under that system, the\ntrain order spells out the movement of the train, including speed\nlimits, the locations at which it\nwould meet other trains, and the\nprocedures to follow.\n\"The flexibility of this (MBS)\nmethod allows almost instantaneous changes in train movements as situations arise,\" said\nAl Birkett, director of rules, training, and accident prevention in\nthe Prairie Region.\nHe said the MBS will \"expedite\nmovement of traffic and enhance\nthe productivity of men working\non the track.\"\n(See \"Enthusiasm\" page 4)\nBy KEN EMMOND\nCP Rail has introduced Manual\nBlock System (MBS) rules to five\nsubdivisions in a move designed\nto streamline communications\nbetween dispatchers and train\nand work crews, and to improve\nsafety for maintenance crews.\nThe system was introduced\nNov. 15 on all three subdivisions\nof the Esquimalt and Nanaimo\nRailway \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the 18-mile Lake Co-\nwichan subdivision, the 39-mile\nPort Alberni subdivision, and the\n140 miles of the Victoria subdivision. It also went into operation\non 100 miles of track on the\nWilkie subdivision and on 131\nmiles on the Hardisty subdivision,\nboth in the Saskatoon Division.\nUnder MBS rules, a dispatcher\ngives out train operation orders\nby radio. He tells train crews\nwhether they can enter a block,\nand whether they have to proceed at reduced speed.\nThe dispatcher must make sure\na block has been cleared of traffic before allowing a train to\nenter it.\nThe dispatcher also grants\ntrack occupancy permits to protect men doing track maintenance, so that flag protection is\nrarely needed. As a safety precaution, a dispatcher can only\nPresentation: President W. W. Stinson shares a few words with\nCornel Sliva and wife Olga following the presentation of the highest\nsuggestion award to Mr. Sliva.\nGas pipeline work\nbrings in revenue\nConstruction of the $1.2 billion natural gas pipeline across\nQuebec and to the Maritimes could mean an additional revenue\nin excess of $2 million for CP Rail.\nThe railway has already shipped\n7,000 tons of 30-inch diameter\npipeline to a storage site near\none of the company's team tracks\nin Boisbriand, 10 miles north of\nMontreal, and an equal quantity\nof pipeline to another site at\nL'Epiphanie, off the eastern tip\nof Montreal Island.\nBIDDING HARD\nCP Rail has also won a contract from the pipeline builders,\nTrans Quebec and Maritimes\nPipeline Inc. (TQM), to transport\nthe 80-foot lengths of pipeline to\na site at Louiseville, 41 miles\nnortheast of Montreal and is bidding hard to win the right to ship\nthe pipeline materials to another\nsite at Trois-Rivieres, 80 miles\nnortheast of Montreal.\nAfter Trois-Rivieres, the pipeline will follow a route through\nQuebec territory served exclusively by Canadian National.\nHowever, when construction\nreaches Edmundston, N.B. as\nscheduled next year, CP Rail will\nbe trying hard to earn other contracts to haul the pipeline to sites\nbetween Edmundston and Saint\nJohn, N.B.\nThe decision to award the\nshipping contracts is based\nheavily on the storage sites the\nrailway proposes, says J. Carrol\nBourque, industrial development\nofficer with marketing and sales\nin Montreal.\n\"The requirements for a site\nare much more complicated than\nthey would appear at first view,\"\nhe explains. \"The land must have\na solid base and have good\ndrainage, be fairly close to the\npipeline construction site, be\neasily accessible by major roads\nso that the large trucks being\nused to carry the 80-foot lengths\nof pipeline can get to and from\nthe site efficiently and, above all,\n(See \"CP Rail\" page 2)\nTask Of Unloading: Industrial Development Officer J. Carrol\nBourque discusses unloading of pipeline sections at Boisbriand with\nPatrick Emery, senior supervisor, pipeline, of Trans Quebec and Maritimes Pipeline Inc. (Photo by Maurice Quinn)\n Joint award: Seated in front are assistant division clerks Monica\nMcDougall, Rose-Marie Losfeld and Valerie Sisti and machine room\nsupervisor Ross Mcintosh, four of six joint suggestion award winners.\nKathleen Glenen, assistant division clerk, and Lucienne Lear, assistant\nsenior clerk, were unavailable for the photo. Standing behind the\nwinners are (from left) J. L. Rochon, chief accountant, Atlantic Region,\nJ. A. Sabourin, manager expenditure accounting, and K. S. Hand,\nassistant chief accountant.\nTop idea rewarded\nemployees to improve things\nwhenever they can.\n\"People are finding better ways\nto get their jobs done. They are\ngiven as much freedom as possible and are encouraged by the\nsupervisors of this office to think\nthis way. I feel quite good about\nit,\" he said.\nCommented Mr. Stinson during\nthe presentation ceremony:\n\"We have a suggestion plan\nthat benefits both the company\nand the employees and I hope\neveryone makes more use of it.\"\nJohn Mann, manager of the\nsuggestion awards program, was\nunderstandably pleased with the\naward. The more money the suggestion plan pays out to employees indicates that more money is\nbeing saved by the company\neach year through the employees'\nsuggestions.\n\"The suggestions have been\ngetting better and better. And\nMr. Sliva's award is an excellent\nexample of just what a well\nthought-out suggestion can mean\nfor both the company and the\nemployee,\" he said.\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nwarded for a money-saving suggestion.\"\nMr. Sliva adds that some of the\ncredit should go to his wife Olga.\n\"She spent some time in checking the figures with me to ensure\nthat the new procedure was\nindeed viable.\"\nMr. Sliva says he has other\nideas in mind that he might submit to the suggestion plan but so\nfar he is keeping his cards, or\nshould one say ledger, close to\nthe vest.\nENCOURAGEMENT\nHis confreres don't have idle\nminds either. Six members of the\nchief accountant's office staff\nalso earned $144 each for a joint\nsuggestion regarding merchant's\ninvoices. They are assistant division clerks Monica McDougall,\nRose-Marie Losfeld, Valerie Sisti\nand Kathleen Glenen; assistant\nsenior clerk Lucienne Lear and\nmachine room supervisor Ross\nMcintosh.\nJ. L. Rochon, chief accountant,\nAtlantic Region, encourages his\nPeople and Places in the news\nRene Turgeon has been appointed assistant regional engineer, Atlantic Region, with headquarters at Montreal.\nFloyd Smith has been appointed mobile supervisor, Revelstoke Division, with headquarters\nbeing moved from Salmon Arm\nto Revelstoke. He succeeds Frank\nSmuin who retired.\nDoug McFarlane has been appointed trainmaster, Revelstoke\nDivision with headquarters at Revelstoke.\n7. W. Brown has been promoted\nassistant superintendent at Coquitlam.\nS. M. Becker has been appointed to the new position of\nassistant general yardmaster \u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncrew handing, at Revelstoke. This\nposition will assume the authority\nand responsibility for handling\nrunning trades crews and supervision of crew clerks. It will also\ndeal with hiring, training and attendance of personnel and will\nwork in conjunction with and report directly to the general yard-\nmaster.\nJohn David Leslie has been appointed assistant general yard-\nmaster at Revelstoke.\nGordon J. Lark has been appointed chief dispatcher and\ntraffic supervisor at Grand River\nRailway Company and Lake Erie\n& Northern Railway Company,\nwith headquarters at Cambridge-\nPreston.\nJohn L. Moisan has been appointed system supervisor, general merchandise, damage prevention services, office of chief of\ntransportation at Montreal.\nE. P. Wahl has been appointed\nregion manager, intermodal services, Pacific Region with headquarters at Vancouver. Mr. Wahl\nwill be responsible for all intermodal activities relating to domestic containers and trailer\nplans I to V, as well as the terminal\noperations of import/export container traffic.\nFred D'lppolito has been appointed assistant car foreman,\nwith headquarters at Revelstoke.\nR. E. Lucas has been appointed\ndistrict manager, marketing and\nsales, at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr.\nLucas will be responsible for directing marketing and sales activities, as well as the profitable\ngrowth of international and overhead traffic in his district.\nR. J. Szyja has been appointed\nassistant manager, damage prevention services, with headquarters at Montreal.\nG. W. Fabok has been appointed senior analyst equipment\nutilization, with headquarters at\nMontreal, succeeding G. L.\nWalker, transferred.\nJoseph Bachynski, carman, car\ndept., Ogden Shops; Paul R. Badeau,\nagent, operating dept., Brownville\nJet., Maine; Pietro Basztanyk, track\nmaintainer, Montreal; Georges Bilo-\ndeau, locomotive engineer, operating\ndept., Trois-Rivieres, Que.; Fred L.\nBinda, conductor, operating dept.,\nMoose Jaw; Lee Bobyk, assistant accountant, customer service centre,\nThunder Bay; Frederick J. Broaderip,\ngeneral supervisor, chief mechanical\nofficer, Montreal.\nDouglas Churchill, assistant foreman, car dept., Toronto; Murray W.\nCookman, signal foreman, signals\ndept., West Toronto; Nicola Commis-\nso, track maintenance foreman, M of\nW dept., Schreiber; Wesley D. Cud-\nney, conductor, operating dept.,\nMedicine Hat.\nWilliam G. Dawson, carman, mechanical dept., Weston Shops; Stanley L. Dean, locomotive engineer,\nfireman, operating dept., Brownville\nJet., Maine; Edward C. Dennis, locomotive engineer, operating dept.,\nSudbury; Joseph Duchnicki, machinist, mechanical dept., Winnipeg;\nErnest E. Dunn, conductor, operating\ndept., Revelstoke; Johannes Dykstra,\npipefitter, mechanical dept., Weston\nShops.\nJohn W. Fraser, yardman, operating dept., Parkdale, Ont.\nIwan Galenda, painter, Winnipeg\nDivision; John Getz, trackman, M of\nW dept., Medicine Hat.\nTakashi Higuchi, classified laborer,\nmotive power, Chapleau.\nWilliam Iwanicha, carman, rolling\nstock, Sutherland, Sask.\nCP Rail bids\nfor pipeline\nshipments\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nbe available to TQM for the\nperiod of time they need it.\"\n\"All these things must be verified and guaranteed before the\nsite is proposed,\" he says.\nWhen the first shipment arrived\nat Boisbriand, Mr. Bourque was\non hand to watch the unloading\nand storing of the steel pipes\nmanufactured by Stelco of Wel-\nland, Ont.\n\"After watching them unload\nand store the pipeline, I had a\nbetter idea of what TQM required\nfrom us. This knowledge will\nserve us well in selecting future\nsites,\" he said.\nCrews using a crane had the\npipeline unloaded from CP Rail\nflatcars and stored at a specially-\nprepared site adjacent to the\nBoisbriand siding within a day.\nIn addition to selecting numerous unloading and storage sites\nalong the pipeline route, CP Rail\nhas also put together an attractive rates package for the transportation of the pipeline and will\nco-ordinate these shipments with\nStelco's production schedule.\n\"Putting this package together\nwas a joint effort between the\noperating, pricing and marketing\nand sales people here in Montreal and in our Hamilton office,\"\nsays Mr. Bourque. \"Without this\neffort, we would not have a\nchance of winning these important contracts.\"\nSolution\n(Cont'd, from page 4)\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A28|diuex9 joj. 'ueiupjeA e jo\n'mojo em6ua em jo euo eq pinoo eq\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 uewuieji e A||en;oe sj uoiiejisniu\nei|l ui ueui j8luo eu.; jeq; umjuoo\noi 6u!i|}ou si 8J8U.1 -op pinoqs jopnp\n-uoo e A|uo qojqM 'je^ojj s4je6uessed\ne 6mqound uees eq ueo | 'jopnp\n-uoo e jo wjojmn em ui pessejfj\nyOlOnQNOO :s| uouednooo A|/\|\nWilliam F. Kinney, rail terminal\nsupervisor, operating dept., Newport,\nVermont.\nFernand Lacelle, carman, St. Luc\ncar dept., Montreal; Emile Lapointe,\nlaborer, motive power dept., Megan-\ntic; Jean P. Leblanc, trainman,\noperating dept., Sherbrooke; Adam\nLees, locomotive engineer, operating\ndept., Alyth; Rosario Lefebvre, carpenter, car dept., Glen Yard; Ernest J.\nLepine, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Chapleau; Frangoise Le-\nveille, assistant supervisor, information systems, Montreal.\nMacDonald R. MacKenzie, operator, Parksville, B.C.; Albert Mallett,\ntrack maintenance foreman, M of W\ndept., Digby, N.S.; Kenneth A. Mason,\nconductor, operating dept., Nelson,\nB.C.; Roy H. McMillan, trackman, M\nof W dept., Chesterville, Ont.; Edwin\nMiller, track maintenance foreman,\nM of W dept., Burstall, Sask.; Kazuo\nMorita, classified laborer, motive\npower dept., Chapleau; Charles E.\nMorris, senior clerk export, operating\ndept., Glen Yard; Kenneth L. Myers,\nconductor, operating dept., Moose\nJaw.\nH. J. Naylor, electrical designer,\nbuildings, office of the chief engineer,\nMontreal; Leonard J. Nieckarz, district manager, marketing and sales,\nDetroit.\nW. F. Paffard, assistant superintendent, operating dept., Nanaimo, B.C.;\nAngelo C Pimentel, leading track\nmaintainer, M of W dept., Gait, Ont.\nJohn Rak, carman, car dept., Winnipeg.\nDouglas R. Scarlett, electrical\nsupervisor, Toronto; John Slobodian,\ncarman, mechanical dept., Weston\nShops; Edward F. Smolak, switching\nsupervisor, Winnipeg.\nReginald K. Tupper, sales representative, marketing and sales, Montreal.\nJohn T. Whitton, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Schreiber, Ont.\nWarm Wishes: Jim Ross (right), supervisor office services, manager disbursement accounting, at Windsor Station recently retired\nwith 42 years of service. At a reception given in his honor, J. A. Sabourin, manager, expenditure accounting presented Mr. Ross with a\npainting.\nSeminar told:\nBetter use of cars\ncan step up profits\nMeeting the \"Challenge of The\nEighties\" through progressive car\nutilization was the theme of CP\nRail's car management seminar\nheld recently at Le Chateau Mon-\ntebello. Approximately 70 operating personnel, including 41 supervisors and staff from Customer Service Centres across the\nsystem, attended the seminar.\nTed Gemmell, program coordinator, said the support of the\nregions in making operating\nofficers and CSC personnel available was the major contribution\nto the success of the get-togeher.\nIn his opening remarks, C. R.\nPike, vice-president, operation\nand maintenance, stressed the\nneed for \"better fleet management\" with \"utilization better\noriented to profitable business\".\nHe emphasized the seriousness of the program, expressed\na desire to see \" a sense of increased urgency in car utilization\" and charged those in attendance with taking this message\nback to the regions.\nAssistant Chief of Transportation Frank Spencer told the\ngroup that effective car management is uppermost in the strategy\nof all successful railways today.\nThey know that to meet the\ndemands of tomorrow their organization must reflect the knowledge to meet the challenge, he\nsaid, adding CP Rail has the\npeople and the knowledge to\nmeet this task.\nChanges and general trends\ngeared toward making the railroads a stronger, more viable\nindustry were identified by guest\nspeaker John Robinson, executive vice-president and secretary\nof the Association of American\nRailroads. He said the real challenge of the '80s is to develop\na dedicated group of knowledgeable railroaders willing to innovate and seek solutions to traditional car management problems.\nNEWS\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nTimothy R. Humphreys\nEditorial assistant,\nLise Baillargeon\nCorrespondents,\nMorrie Zaitlin, Vancouver\nRalph Wilson, Calgary\nDaly de Gagne, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising Dept.,\nWindsor Station, Montreal, Que.,\nH3C 3E4.\nCPRailXA\n Anatomy of a crossing accident\nHorror grips locomotive engineer on 'routine run'\nBy GEORGE SMELLIE\nIt seemed like a routine run\nfor Number '445' last June 25.\nThere was nothing unusual\nabout calling out a train crew in\nthe dead of night, or in the fact\nthat it was still dark when they\narrived at the Kenora yards to\ntake charge of the westbound\nfreight.\nThe routine brake tests and\npull-by inspections as the train\nheaded west in the early light of\ndawn gave no hint of anything\nout of the ordinary about to\nhappen. The first hint did not\ncome until a couple of hours and\nnearly one hundred miles of track\nlater.\nThe train was approaching\nCloverleaf, not much more than\na dot on the Manitoba map, and\njust one of hundreds of level\ncrossings on the main line\nthrough the Prairies. Locomotive\nengineer Gus Hollinsworth had\n^egurr^uTrdin g~?n^^\nengine bell at the sign a quarter-\nmile east of the crossing.\nGus estimated he might have\nbeen about seven or eight telegraph pole lengths from the crossings, still sounding the whistle,\nwhen he first spotted the distinctive yellow coloring of a school\nbus approaching the crossing\nfrom the south.\nNew satellite system solves\nproblems posed by slides\nBy RALPH WILSON\nGLACIER, B.C. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Ever since\nCanadian Pacific first pushed\nthrough the Rocky Mountains\nduring the 1880's, dealing with\nmud and snow slides has been\na perplexing problem.\nNot only do avalanches create\nhazards for train crews operating\ntheir mile-long freights, they also\ndisrupt crucial communication\nlines between Revelstoke and\nGlacier \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a key rail link.\nLast month, in conjunction with\nBC Tel and Telesat Canada, CP\nRail leased and installed its first\nsatellite earth station here.\nNow, rather than having to\ndepend on telephone lines strung\non poles along the tracks, train\ncrews will be able to communicate directly with their dispatchers via Telesat's Anik-B satellite\npositioned in a geosynchronous\nor stationary orbit 22,300 miles\nabove the equator.\n\"Under the old system, whenever there was a mudslide or\nNew Communications tOOl: Superintendent of Communications John Targett is seen here with CP Rail's first satellite earth\nstation.\nsnowslide, the poles invariably\ncame down. Obviously, that made\noperations extremely difficult for\nus,\" said John Targett, superintendent of communications in the\nPacific Region, who handled the\nlocal installation of the earth\nstation and administration of the\nproject.\nWith the satellite system, when\na locomotive engineer wants to\ncommunicate between Revelstoke\nand Glacier, his voice transmission will travel along an underground telephone line to Telesat's\nsatellite dish at Forest Lawn, near\nCalgary.\nHyrTRTUALLY INSTANTANEOUS\nThe signal is then beamed to\nthe Anik-B satellite where it is\nbounced back to earth to be\npicked up by CP Rail's 12-foot\ndiameter dish at Glacier, 50 miles\nwest of Golden, B.C. Despite the\ndistance travelled, the communication link is virtually instantaneous.\nBecause CP Rail's earth station is located in a national park,\nMr. Targett's department consulted with Parks Canada to determine which structures would\nbe most suitable.\n\"We took special effort to\nconstruct structures \u00E2\u0080\u0094 towers,\nbuildings, etc., \u00E2\u0080\u0094 that would be\naesthetically pleasing and blend\nin with the environment,\" explained Mr. Targett.\nThe result was the selection of\ngreen building materials that\nalmost disappear against the\nbackdrop of tall pines.\nLeasing the earth station here\ncosts the railway about $12,000\na month. However, it's money\nwell-spent when the cost of upgrading pole lines and restoring\ncommunications after avalanches\nis taken into consideration.\nAftermath: The rear of the ill-fated school bus was sliced open\nby Number '445'.\nThe bus slowed and stopped\nat the crossing. No problem.\nAfter a pause long enough for\nthe bus driver to have looked\nboth directions up the track, it\nstarted to move into the crossing.\nThe driver had not seen the train!\nGus, his heart sinking, threw\nthe train into emergency, neutralizing the pull of the diesel units\nand applying emergency brakes\nthroughout the train.\nAll circumstances were right\nfor a quick stop. There were 131\nempty cars in the consist, which\nmeant they would brake more\nquickly and help drag the train\nto a halt. The track, at that point,\nhas a slight uphill grade. Weather\nThe impact threw\nthe student out the rear\nof the bus...\nconditions under a sunny summer sky were perfect.\nBut the train was only about\nthree pole lengths from the crossing, in Gus' estimation, when\nhe began the emergency brake\napplication. The train could not\npossibly stop before reaching\nthe crossing, now occupied by\nthe school bus. With horror, Gus\ncould see movement in the back\nof the bus, and that suggested\nthere were children aboard.\nUnknown to him at that time,\nthere was just one \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a grade\nnine student. She had seen the\ntrain's headlights, called to the\ndriver and begun to move forward\nfrom her seat at the rear of the\nbus. The driver heard the warning, spotted the train and accelerated.\nThe lead engine sliced the rear\nend off the bus. It was 7:42 a.m.\nThe bus was lifted and spun\naround until it lay crossways on\nthe road with the rear end in the\nditch. The impact threw the student out the rear of the bus, onto\nthe grass in the ditch.\nWhen the train stopped, Gus\nnotified the dispatcher, and ran\non rubber legs the thousand feet\nback to the crossing. There he\nfound the bus driver tending to\nthe cuts that were the girl's only\ninjuries. His legs gradually got\ntheir strength back.\nFour months later, Gus was\ninvited to join the bus driver and\nstudent to re-tell their story to a\nManitoba Department of Education conference for school bus\noperators. Since all were alive\nand well, it was a happy occasion, but the warning message\nfor other school bus drivers was\nclear.\nGus was asked about the distance required to stop a train.\nWhile his had stopped in about a\nquarter of a mile, a fully loaded\ntrain in other circumstances\ncould require a mile to a mile\nand a half, he said.\nIt was a sobering moment for\nall. What if the train had been\nfully loaded and could not have\nreduced speed so quickly? What\nif the engineer's reaction time\nhad been any slower? What if the\nbus driver had not accelerated?\nWhat if the tracks had been wet?\nWhat if the girl had not begun\nto move forward in the bus?\nNEWS' new look\nAs Canadian Pacific enters its second century of operation,\nthe staff of CP Rail News feels it is time to give the newspaper\na new image. But the changes in store for readers are more\nthan just cosmetic.\nMaking its debut on page 4 is a new puzzle called \"Occupation\nPlease\" and while this issue's puzzle is fairly easy to solve, we\ncan assure readers it will get progressively more difficult as the\nyear wears on.\nOn the planning board is a series of articles about CP Rail\npeople, the work they do in their divisions and main shops and\ngeneral interest articles we hope will not only inform, but entertain you and your family.\nThis is your newspaper and though we cannot comply with\nall of our readers' requests because of limited space, we would\nbe interested in hearing about someone or something you feel\nother readers would like to read about.\n Marine containers altered\nfor livestock shipments\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Hi\nIf;\n'\u00C2\u00A7x ': ||||\nsaajBiWB\nCattle business: Checking out a modified container are Steve\nCymet, CP Rail marketing manager, Vancouver (in the doorway) and\n(on the ground from left) Brant Hurlburt, Fort Macleod Auction Mart;\nDan Stirling, CP Rail's freight sales, Alberta; Cliff Knight, Agriculture\nCanada representative of Fort Macleod, and Norm Spencer, CP Rail\ndistrict sales manager, Lethbridge.\nOCCUPATION c\u00C2\u00A3)\nPLEASE\" Q\nMY NAME IS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:\nN. A. MARTIN\nDOC C. TURNO\nMY OCCUPATION IS:\nCALGARY\u00E2\u0080\u0094CP Rail has been\nexperimenting with modified marine containers for movement of\nlivestock from Western Canada\nto Ontario. And, the experiments\nhave proven quite successful.\nIn the first shipment, 96 head\nof feeder cattle were loaded in\ntwo containers on a single flat\ncar at Fort Macleod, Alberta. The\nsecond shipment, involving 106\nhead in the same two containers,\noriginated in Brooks, Alberta. In\neach case, the cattle arrived at\ntheir Ontario destinations in top\ncondition. The shipments were\nmonitored en-route by Agriculture Canada, as well as by CP\nRail.\nThe 89-foot flat car that carries\nthe two 40-foot containers is\nhandled the same way as a regular stock car. The containers\nwere modified by CP Rail to meet\nAgriculture Canada standards for\nthings such as ventilation and\nloading arrangements.\nThe test shipments were carried out during the fall-run\nof livestock sales in Western\nCanada. The results could lead\nto a proposal by CP Rail for the\nuse of shipper-supplied containers, on flat cars provided by the\nrailway.\nThe containerized cattle experiment was one of a number\nof moves made by CP Rail, in\nco-operation with the Western\nCanadian livestock shippers last\nfall, to help overcome the capacity problem that develops each\nyear as producers sell off their\nfeeder herds during a brief six to\neight week period. This usually\ncreates serious car utilization\nproblems with not enough cars\nto meet peak demands, yet too\nmany cars for the traffic offered\nduring the balance of the year.\nIf the container system proves\npractical over the long-run, it\ncould provide at least a partial\nsolution to the utilization problem.\nHere's all you do:\nUnder this cartoon is a list of names. To find his or her occupation,\nsolve the anagram of each of the names (i.e. by arranging all the\nletters in each name) to spell out each occupation. Then examine\nthe cartoon carefully for clues and select the one occupation that is\nmore appropriate to the illustration.\nThe answer is on page 2.\nSteered in: Cattle are seen being\nloaded into a modified marine\ncontainer.\nEnthusiasm greets new system\n(Cont'd, from page 1)\nMr. Birkett was enthusiastic\nabout the way things have been\ngoing in the first three weeks of\nMBS operation in the Saskatoon\nDivision.\n\"The initial results are better\nthan anticipated,\" he said. \"The\ngeneral acceptance of the system\nby the people involved is producing excellent results. Everybody seems to be quite pleased\nwith it \u00E2\u0080\u0094 crews, dispatchers, and\nmanagement.\"\nSMOOTH TRANSITION\nMilton Morrow, assistant superintendent of transportation for the\nPacific Region, said, \"We've had\nno problems. The transition went\nsmoothly and orderly.\"\nUnder the MBS, it is essential\nthat there are no gaps in communication. As a result, three communications towers had to be\ninstalled on Vancouver Island,\nand three were added in the Saskatoon Division. A fourth tower\nwas moved to a new location in\nthe Saskatoon Division.\nTraining of crews and dispatchers began in October, and\nby mid-November there were\nabout 400 Saskatoon Division\nemployees and about 150 in the\nPacific Region that had become\nfamiliar with MBS.\nPreparing tO leave: Bill Wells pauses a moment before his final\ntrip to Boston as custodian of a group of subway cars.\nWord 'retirement' absent\nfrom Wells' vocabulary\nBy KEN EMMOND\nTHUNDER BAY, Ont. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 It's\nbeen nearly five years since Bill\nWells reached mandatory retirement age, but he's managed to\nkeep right on working for most of\nthat time.\nMr. Wells, who will be 70 next\nMarch, was about to retire five\nyears ago when he was granted\na one-year extension as assistant\nmechanical supervisor at Ignace,\nOnt., a 31/2-hour drive from here.\nA year later, he did step down,\nbut was back at work again before the year was out \u00E2\u0080\u0094 this time\nas mechanical officer for Hawker-\nSiddeley Inc.'s Canadian Car\nDivision.\nHawker-Siddeley was starting\ndelivery of 190 subway cars for\nthe Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston, and\nneeded someone to ensure that\nthe cars arrived at their destination in mint condition.\nEarly last month, Mr. Wells\ncompleted delivery of the last six\ncars.\nVIGILANT\nOn each trip, Mr. Wells would\ninspect the subway cars three or\nfour times between Thunder Bay\nand Schreiber, Ont., to make sure\nthere were no malfunctions as\nthey logged their first few miles.\nAfter that the inspections were\nless frequent, but he would take\nadvantage of crew changes or\nother stops to take a look at the\ncars.\n\"This is just like a trainman's\njob,\" Mr. Wells explained in an\ninterview just before his final trip.\n\"It's their job to watch that running gear.\"\nBecause of the many design\ndifferences between subway cars\nand CP Rail fleet cars, special\nhandling was needed.\nEach group of subway cars \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand there were never more than\n10 in a single shipment \u00E2\u0080\u0094 was\nattached to a special 40-car train\nthat never travelled more than 40\nmiles an hour.\nTo accommodate the different\ntypes of couplings used on sub\nways, CP Rail used specially-\nadapted gondola cars equipped\nwith a subway car coupling on\none end and a regular rail car\ncoupling on the other.\nFor Mr. Wells the work has\nmeant a spartan existence for\nhim in the caboose during the\nsix-day, 1,300-mile trips.\n\"Going between Thunder Bay\nand Montreal I've got to be like\na conductor,\" he said. \"I have to\ntake enough lunch to keep me\ngoing to Montreal.\"\nIT'S BEEN FUN\nThe cars travelled east to\nMontreal and Farnham, Que.,\nthen south to Wells River, Vt.,\nwhere the CP Rail line ends.\nFrom there they travelled on the\nBoston and Maine Railroad to\nDeerfield, Mass., on the outskirts\nof Boston. Mr. Wells stayed with\nthe cars all the way.\n\"It's been fun, and it's been\ngood working with both railroads.\nThe crews have been co-operative,\" he said adding the work\nseverely cut into his fishing time\nthough.\nBut if Mr. Wells has his way,\nthere may not be much time for\nangling in the years to come\neither.\n\"I'd like to get something else\njust as soon as I can,\" he said.\n\"I don't know just where it's going\nto come from, but if something\ncomes by \u00E2\u0080\u0094 wide loads, expensive cargo, or anything \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I'd be\nmore than interested.\"\nRail ordered\nThree hundred track miles of\nrail costing more than $40 million\nhas baen ordered from Algoma\nSteel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.\nApproximately 81,000 39-foot\nlengths of the rail will be joined\ninto quarter-mile-long sections of\ncontinuous welded rail (CWR) at\nCP Rail's welding plants at Transcona, Man. and Smith Falls, Ont.\nDelivery is underway and will be\nspread out over the next nine\nmonths.\n 1+\nCanada Posies\nBulk Ennombre\nthird troisfeme\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nCPRailH\nNews\nVolume 12\nNumber 2\nFeb. 3,1982\n(Photo by Nicholas Morant)\nMystery: This gravestone suddenly appeared, then disappeared.\nLonely memorials\nin\nBy NICHOLAS MORANT\nAt the western end of Lake Wapta, a few miles east of Field,\nB.C., stand two crosses surrounded by a small chain fence.\nFor many years these graves have been maintained by track\npersonnel, often in their own time.\nThese are typical of numbers of such resting places along\nCP Rail lines across Canada. Most of them are shrouded in the\nmystery born of passing years.\nThe Wapta site, nestled in a\ngrove of trees beside Cathedral\nMountain, has the appearance of\ncontaining two graves but proof\ncould only come by exhumation.\nIt was quite common during the\nearly days in old world countries\nto mark the site of a fatal accident\nwith a cross.\nOn it would appear the name\nand age of the deceased often\ngiving the name of the hometown.\n(As recently as ten years ago,\nsuch a cross was erected near\nKeremeos, B.C., beside the highway following a fatal automobile\naccident. It has since been removed.)\nOne of the Wapta crosses carries a partly decipherable inscription done with a penknife. It\nreads: \"IGOR GROZENIA\", then\na damaged word, followed by,\nKOWENA AUSTRIA 1912\". It\nends with two letters \"BU\". The\nother cross has no lettering. The\nNational Geographic Atlas does\nnot list a town by the name of\nKowena.\nThe late Edward Feuz, the\nfamous CPR Swiss Guide who\nlived in nearby Golden, B.C., distinctly recalls \"a man was killed\nnear the water tank at Hector\nwhen I was a young man in my\n(See \"Tales\" page 8)\nIsolated pupils learned ABC's\nin railway's mobile school car\nBy GENE GLISKY\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Even for a public\nrelations office well accustomed\nto unusual phone calls, this one\nwas a gasper.\n\"I'm suing you for one million\ndollars,\" shrills a female voice.\n\"Uhh, yes ma'am, what seems\nto be the trouble.\"\n\"I'm only kidding,\" says the\nvorceT^But it's about how ybu^are\"\nusing my 75-year-old neighbor,\nthe celebrity, in your television\ncommercials.\"\n\"Umm, you're still kidding,\naren't you ma'am?\"\n\"No I am not,\" she says, \"and\nwe're all very excited and\nthrilled.\"\nCALLER'S NEIGHBOR\nWhen the dust settles and a\ncertain level of calm is restored,\nwe find that the dark-tressed\nyoung teacher whose photograph\nwas featured in one of Canadian\nPacific's television advertisements about Northern Ontario\nschool cars is indeed the caller's\nneighbor.\nAnd she is active and well and\nwilling to reminisce about her experiences as a teacher in this\nuniquely Canadian episode.\nTo cost $7million\n\"XlmI< ^ >I<\nRuth Barker recalls the soot-caked cabs of the steam\nlocomotives she cleaned and the pranks men played on her\nand 25 other girls hired at Alyth Diesel Shop 30 years ago.\nRuth is the last of the women to retire. See page 6.\n New printing press\nimpro ves production\nThe Central Reproduction Bureau in Montreal has acquired\none of the most advanced, multipurpose printing presses available.\nThe printer, an ATF-Davidson\n702 Perfector, can print two sides\nof a piece of paper simultaneously. The paper is fed into the machine from a 600-pound roll and\nthe printer automatically slices\nthe paper in half once the printing\nis completed.\nPRINT MORE\n\"CRB is always looking at ways\nof increasing production and the\n'Perfector' is just one example,\"\nsays Bill Gratto, supervisor of\nprint production. \"It allows us to\nprint far more than we could\nbefore and in a far shorter time-\nspan.\"\nThe decision to buy the $55,000\nprinter was made after the equipment successfully completed a\n30-day evaluation period. The unit\nproduces such items as the company's telephone directory and\ncredit card bulletins.\n\"This new piece of equipment\naffords us the capability to better\nserve Canadian Pacific offices\ncoast to coast,\" says Mike Quinn,\nsupervisor of printing and micrographics.\nTop achievers: Steve Hadnagy (left) and Ross Pinell are two of\neleven employees who were presented with ITATC Certificates of\nRecognition.\nEleven top employees\nreceive\nEleven CP Rail employees have\nbeen awarded the ITATC Certificate of Recognition for significant\nachievement in their apprenticeship programs.\nTwo of the employees, Ross\nPinell and Steven Hadnagy, received their awards at the International Apprenticeship and\nTraining Conference (ITATC) held\nin Florida last October. Mr. Pinell,\na machinist apprentice from To\nronto, and Mr. Hadnagy, a carman apprentice (now a supervisor in training( from Ogden\nShops, took part in a panel discussion at the conference about\ntheir work and training at CP Rail.\nACHIEVEMENTS\nThe Certificate of Recognition\nhonors those who have shown\nsignificant achievement in their\napprentice or training programs.\nNominations are based on the\nresults of shop evaluations and\ntheory examinations.\nThe nine other employees who\nhave been awarded the certificate\nbut did not attend the conference\nare:\nKeith Gingerysty, electrician\napprentice, St. Luc; Glen Price,\nelectrician apprentice, Toronto;\nLawrence Zlomanchuk, electrician apprentice, Winnipeg; Barry\nRodomsky, carman apprentice,\nSutherland; Robert Vandepol,\nmachinist apprentice, Alyth; John\nYablonowski, carman apprentice,\nWeston; Derek Ternowetsky, machinist apprentice, Weston; Lawrence Pietrantonio, electrician\napprentice, Angus, and David\nHesse, machinist apprentice,\nAngus.\nWarm wishes: Romeo Cicioli,\nsupervisor, facilities planning and\ndevelopment at Montreal has\nretired with 41 years of service.\nMr. Cicioli is shown here with his\nwife, Juliette, at a reception given\nin his honor.\nSolution\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0jeLiojedsip lejoiijo ue ueu,; j9u,;bj\niue6e je>|0!i e eq pinoo 96ess9iu\n9l|} 9Ui 6u!puei| 9U0 9l|l \"gAOLU 91]}\nUO Sj 9A|;0UJ000| ALU 9|!UM 'MOpUjM\nqeo }i|6u 9i|} ye uoinsod Aw wojj\n6u!u,oe9J 'pgjiue A|9}eudojdde 'uggs\n9q ueo | 'J99U|6u9 9A!;owooo| e sy\n'U33NION3\n3AI10IAI0001 ;s| uouednooo A|aj\nTaking aim: Joe Gribben, 38, is one of Canada's top full-bore, high-power rifle shooters. He uses the\nscope beside him to determine wind conditions. (Photo by Hugh Allan)\nGribben's well-trained eye\nearns him title 'marksman'\nBy DALY DE GAGNE\nNine hundred metres is far\nenough that most people would\nhave problems seeing the bulls-\neye clearly, let alone hitting it.\nBut not Joe Gribben, a production control supervisor at the\nWinnipeg diesel shop. Since he\nbegan competitive target shooting with full-bore, high-power\nrifles in the late '60s, he's accu-\nCongratulations: Frangoise Le-\nveille, assistant supervisor, data\ncontrol, information systems, at\nMontreal, has retired with 40\nyears of service. In 1941, Miss\nLeveille joined the keypunch staff\nin the accounting machine bureau and progressed through a\nvariety of clerical positions. She\nwas promoted to assistant supervisor in January 1980.\nmulated more than 100 awards.\n\"I shoot at about five competitions a year but usually practice\nonce or twice a week, sometimes\nthree times,\" says Mr. Gribben,\nwho uses an Australian 7.62 mm\nSportco rifle.\n\"Like most sports, there's a\nlittle bit of luck involved. But I\nthink mainly it's the degree of\nconcentration.\"\nLast year had been good for\nMr. Gribben. He won the Lieutenant Governor's Medal at the\nannual three-day Manitoba Provincial Rifle Association full-bore\nmatches, as well as aggregate\nawards for highest point totals\nafter two and three days of competition.\nINTERNATIONAL MEETS\nDuring the last five years, he's\nshot in national matches in\nOttawa, sponsored by the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association,\nand, in 1979, was one of 18 members on the Canadian Bisley\nTeam which represented Canada\nin international competition in\nBritain.\nDepending on specific events,\ntarget distance ranges from 300\nto 900 metres. Mr. Gribben explains there are usually two competitors who shoot alternately at\nthe same target, with each person allowed from seven to 15\nshots.\nMrnxB\nOnce a match begins, competitors must remain in the\nstomach-to-the-ground shooting\nposition until it's over, says Mr.\nGribben.\n\"Out there on the field, it's\nmainly a game between you and\nthe wind. The wind is a big\nfactor. It changes direction and\nvelocity all the time.\"\nWIND FACTOR\nWhen the wind is higher than\neight miles an hour, flap indicators help competitors calculate\nhow best to line up their shots.\nAt speeds less than eight miles\nan hour, Mr. Gribben explains,\n\"you can detect wind changes\nbetter by watching the mirages\nthrough the (telescopic) scope\nrather than the wind flaps.\"\nThe telescopic scope is independent of the rifle and is used\nfor assessing wind conditions\nand keeping track of where previous shots have struck the target. The rifle's sights, which can\nbe adjusted to take into account\nwind conditions, are used for\naiming.\nFor each shot, the competitors\nnote the wind speed and direction, how their sights were adjusted and where the bullet\npierced the target. By taking this\ninformation into account when\nplanning subsequent shots, Mr.\nGribben says a shooter can improve his accuracy.\nApart from the satisfaction\nwhich comes from shooting well,\nMr. Gribben has found that the\nesprit de corps among the\nshooters he competes and practices with has enhanced his enjoyment of the sport.\nGolden Anniversary: William Stewart and his wife Molly recently\ncelebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at Vancouver. Mr. Stewart,\nwhose career spans more than 49 years, retired in 1968 as superintendent, motive power and rolling stock, Pacific Region.\nNEWS\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nTimothy R. Humphreys\nEditorial assistant,\nLise Baillargeon\nCorrespondents,\nJane Mudry, Vancouver\nRalph Wilson, Calgary\nKen Emmond, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising Dept.,\nWindsor Station, Montreal, Que.,\nH3C 3E4.\nCP Rail 14\n Demers7 'mini7 railway occupies farm\ny\nM-mXMX\nAll Clear: Jim Demers checks to see the switch is correctly set before guiding his home-made\nlocomotive along the track. (Photos by Maurice Quinn)\nProject gets conditional go-ahead\nCP Rail has received conditional approval by\nthe Canadian Transport Commission to proceed\nwith its planned $500 million tunnel project\nthrough Rogers Pass.\nInterim approval to go ahead with the project\nwas given by the CTC's railway transport committee following three days of public hearings in\nRevelstoke, B.C.\nFull approval of the project to expand the railway's double-tracking capacity in the West is\nsubject to the railway meeting certain environmental and construction conditions that will be\ncontained and explained in the committee's written decision to be issued soon, said the committee.\nMeanwhile, R. S. Allison, executive vice-president, CP Rail, has reiterated the company's position that the railway will only proceed with the\nRogers Pass project if a way can be found for\nCP Rail to be compensated for multi-million-dollar\nlosses it incurs annually moving export grain\ntraffic.\nThe Rogers Pass project would be the biggest\nsingle rail-building project since Canadian Pacific\ncompleted the transcontinental railway 100 years\nago.\nThe work will include driving two tunnels with a\ntotal length of about 10 miles, building 11 bridges\nand laying 21 miles of new main line track through\nthe Selkirk Mountains of eastern B.C. It will take\nfour years to complete and provide jobs for up to\n800 workers.\nThe project is part of a 10-year, $7 billion\ncapital investment program planned by CP Rail for\nreplacement, improvement and expansion of its\nrail plant and equipment to meet transportation\ndemand during this decade.\nStinson says:\n'Ability to change key to success'\nAbout 300 members of the\nCanadian Pacific Pioneers Association packed the ball room of\nthe Chateau Champlain hotel in\nMontreal Dec. 15, to hear President W. W. Stinson address their\nannual luncheon.\nIn reviewing the company's\npast, Mr. Stinson praised the contributions of employees, past and\npresent, and said adapting to\nchange is one of the reasons\nCanadian Pacific is still the most\nprominent company in Canada.\nMAP PRESENTED\n\"Adapting to changing times\nis the hallmark of this company,\"\nhe told the audience. \"Change is\ndifficult. One naturally feels more\ncomfortable with the status quo.\nBut you cannot build a company,\nor a country for that matter, if you\nare not willing to take change and\nrun with it.\"\nGift: Company President W. W. Stinson accepts the gift of a full-\ncolor map of Montreal from out-going association vice-president\nDick Griffiths.\nFollowing his speech, the association's retiring vice-president\nDick Griffiths presented Mr.\nStinson, a history buff, with a\n100-year-old, full-color map of\nMontreal. The linen-backed map,\nwhich measures three-feet by one\nfoot, 10 inches when opened up,\nfolds up into a neatly-bound book\nmeasuring about five inches\nsquare.\nMeanwhile, another 300 members of the Vancouver chapter of\nthe Pioneers Association gathered before the holidays to celebrate their 26th annual Christmas\nluncheon at Hotel Vancouver.\nThey came to hear Glenn\nSwanson, CP Rail's assistant general manager of operations and\nmaintenance, review the railway's\nB.C. operations. Association\nPresident Edward Miles presented a year-end report to the\ngroup.\nThe association was founded\nin 1939 and pensioners have met\nregularly since then at their club-\nroom at CP Rail's Vancouver station. The clubroom is open three\ndays a week so members travelling through Vancouver can drop\nby and make use of the facility.\nHome-built sub-division\nprovides decades of fun\nBy STEPHEN MORRIS\nCHAPLEAU, Ont. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 You won't find the Demers sub-division\nlisted in CP Rail's timetable. But it's here.\nThe 1/3-mile line runs passenger service on an \"as required\"\nbasis. It is the longest privately owned 15-inch gauge railway\nin Canada.\nIt's also the dream of CP Rail\nemployee Jim Demers.\nJim, a 36-year veteran locomotive engineer, constructed the\nminiature railway more than 20\nyears ago to entertain his five\nchildren.\nBut although his children have\ngrown up, the man who has a\npassion for building things still\noperates the little railway.\n\"It was an idea that popped\ninto my head at the time,\" said\nJim. \"Most children have HO-\ngauge railways on little boards.\nI thought this would be different.\nBesides, I enjoy it still.\"\nConstructing the mini CP Rail\nline wasn't easy. For many\nmonths Jim had to search across\nCanada and the United States for\nproper rail to construct the\nbranch line.\nHe finally managed to find 12-\npound rail from mines in northern\nOntario and Quebec.\n\"Rail this light is not only rare\nbut expensive,\" said Jim. \"I had\nthe rail, the next challenge was\nbuilding a level roadbed for the\nline.\"\nNUMBER '4043'\nIt took a year to complete the\nline. In addition to the main line,\nwhich snakes across his five-\nacre property, Jim had also built a\nturnaround and spur line to a car\nshed.\nWith the track laid, it was on\nto the next phase.\nSelf-taught in wood and metal-\nwork, he began building a power\nunit to pull the passenger cars,\nalso built from scratch. The passenger car can carry six children\nor three adults.\n\"The engine had to be powerful enough and yet safe and easy\nto operate,\" said Jim. \"The sheer\nweight would make it handle like\na train and one mistake could\ncreate a derailment.\"\nJim decided to construct a\nreplica of the CP Rail Alco series\nengines built in the 1950s and\nused in freight and passenger\nservice.\nThe engine, numbered '4043',\nwas recently repainted into the\nnew CP Rail colours.\nA gasoline engine powers the\nfour sets of wheels which provide\ndirect traction. The automobile\ntransmission he used has three\nforward speeds and one reverse\nspeed which are connected by\nchains to universal joints.\nJim even built the braking system using a compressor from a\nrefrigerator. The system holds\n110-pound pressure which activates a system similar to that of a\nreal train.\nWheels for the miniature train\nhad to be ordered from North\nCarolina. Jim ordered 43 wheels,\njust in case he decided to expand the railway. The locomotive\nfeatures roller bearings while the\npassenger cars have plain\nbearings.\nLACK OF PASSENGERS\nWith a grin, Jim said the maximum permissible speed is about\n10-15 mph but, he remembers\nonce or twice the train did 30.\nThe railway's lack of passengers, partly because his children\nhave grown up, means the little\ntrain doesn't operate as frequently as it used to.\nBut when the family gets together, the grandchildren and\nchildren make sure there's no\nshortage of locomotive engineers\nor passengers.\nTo make the trip more fun,\nJim ran the line through his little\nfarm. Passing through gates, passengers are treated to sudden\nstops to allow mother duck and\nher brood to cross the track. Occasionally, the conductor must\nremove a prize chicken that has\nnested in the middle of the right-\nof-way.\nSafety is always a concern on\nthe Demers sub-division, just as\non CP Rail. In it's 20-year operation there has been only one\nminor derailment... and that was\nat a switch.\nJim's wife notes he's a remarkable man.In between his job of\nhauling 100-car freight trains out\nof Chapleau, Jim has found time\nto build a gas station, a house\nand a hangar for his airplane.\nHis next project? You guessed\nit. Build his own airplane.\nXrm-WXXXXm\nXm. XXXmrnxm-'om\n^x^xxxmym\n,,-,,'-J & -, .\"Ik, \",.{ '\n. ;\n> -XXX \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 X: Xx. m \'. tXmXmm U A ; mm:m. .' --W:,.. X :: #W ;\nmmmmmmmxx'i\n:XXXXXX .:t . XX.\nFowl Crossing: The animals on Jim Demers' five-acre farm have\ngotten used to his miniature train.\n Fostering a child in need 'rewarding', says Cheryl\nBy JAMES CAMPBELL\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 If you were to\nsee CP Rail's Cheryl Scavone at\nwork in freight claim's Place du\nCanada office, you might wonder\nwhat she has in common with an\nEast African Masai warrior.\nCheryl, who recently turned 28,\nbecame the sponsor of Tipanko\nSakimpa, a young Masai, seven\nyears ago when she heard about\nthe work of the Christian Children's Fund of Canada.\n\"I've always been fascinated\nby Africa, its inhabitants and cultures. So when I discovered that\nthe Christian Children's Fund\nwould allow me to sponsor a\nchild anywhere, naturally I chose\none in Africa,\" she said in an\ninterview.\nTipanko lives in the heart of\nMasai country, the vast region of\nw^'\nUnited: After one unsuccessful\nattempt, Cheryl Scavone (right)\nmeets Tipanko as the youngster's\nparents and friends look on.\nCheryl has been sponsoring the\nyoung Masai warrior for seven\nyears now.\nsavanna and dry bush, stretching\nfrom the edge of Nairobi, to way\nover the border almost to Tanga\nin Tanzania. Within this region\nlive a couple of hundred-thousand herdsmen.\nCheryl, secretary to the system\nmanager, freight claims, started\nwith the company around the\nsame time that she became Ti-\npanko's foster mother. She has\nspent a lot of her spare time\nlearning Swahili \u00E2\u0080\u0094Tipanko's native language \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and has made\ntwo trips to Africa for the purpose\nof seeing Tipanko.\n\"I didn't get to see Tipanko on\nmy first trip there because of\ncrossed wires but I succeeded on\nthe second and was welcomed by\nhis family. We exchanged gifts\nand I received a lovely tribal\nnecklace from Tipanko's mother,\"\nshe said.\nGOOD FEELINGS\n\"When we met, we all joined\nhands. But when I arrived at his\nhome, I bowed my head and she\nrested her hand on it, as is tribal\ncustom.\n\"There was a lot of good feeling even though the Masai have a\nlong-standing aversion to change\nand white people \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a holdover,\nI suspect, from the colonial days\nof British rule when the tribe\nwas relegated to inadequate\nreserves.\"\nCheryl also had the opportunity\nto introduce some North American traditions the Masai were\nunfamiliar with.\n\"I taught Tipanko and his\nschoolmates \u00E2\u0080\u0094 even the teacher\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 how to play baseball. No one\nknew a thing about it. I had\nbrought a glove, ball and bat as\na gift to Tipanko. You should\nhave seen the awe and fear on\nSafety activities earn 'spike'\nCP Rail has been awarded the International Golden Spike\nby the National Safety Council in the United States for outstanding public and employee safety activities conducted\nduring 1980. The award was only announced recently.\nIt was the 26th consecutive year the railway has won the\nGolden Spike.\n\"It is evident that public and employee safety are of prime\nconcern to CP Rail,\" said Vincent L. Tofany, council president.\n\"CP Rail's participation in community safety and off-the-job\nsafety programs sets an excellent example for others in the\nindustry.\"\nSome national company safety programs which led to the\naward were:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 School presentations \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Canadian Pacific policemen visited\nschools to demonstrate the dangers of trespassing and\nvandalism.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Winter sports seminars \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Again, CP police visited snowmobile and cross-country ski clubs across Canada and parts of\nthe United States to show the hazards of practicing winter sports\non railway property, particularly on the rights-of-way.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 'Near miss' program \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Road and yard crews were encouraged to report description or licence number of a vehicle whose\ndriver took an unnecessary risk at a road crossing. The report\nwas followed by a registered letter to the driver explaining the\nseriousness of the incident and in some cases, the report was\nforwarded to local authorities.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 'Be seen-be safe' campaign \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Designed to counteract the\nhazards to which children are exposed during fall and winter\nperiods when daylight hours are progressively shorter.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Off-the-job safety \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Magazines and brochures dealing with\nhousehold hazards and offering defensive driving and general\nsafety tips were mailed directly to the employees' home.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Public education \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail has taken an active role in\nOperation Lifesaver, a five-year public education program designed to increase public awareness of rail/highway crossing\nhazards and improve driver and pedestrian behavior at these\nintersections.\nThe company uses a wide variety of techniques to communicate its safety message to the public. These include audiovisual productions, posters, pamphlets, lectures and displays.\nThese programs are taken to schools, clubs, associations, the\nmedia and any other group concerned with public safety\nawareness.\nthose children's faces. When I hit\nthe ball the first time, they all ran\nfor cover! Now I hear they all play\npretty well,\" she said.\nTipanko was only about two,\nand ill, when Cheryl sponsored\nhim. With the $18 a month that\nCheryl contributes through the\nfund, he now receives regular\nmedical treatment and is a student at the Enkijape school in\nLoitokitok, Kenya. The school is\nat the base of the largest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro.\nLETTERS EXCHANGED\n\"It's not usual for a Masai to\nlet someone else support him.\nThe Masai are a very proud\npeople. But when I first sponsored Tipanko, his family had\njust weathered a killing decade\nof floods and droughts. So they\ngratefully acquiesced,\" she explained.\nCheryl's monthly payment pays\nfor Tipanko's schooling, his\nschool uniform and two square\nmeals a day. The money is meted\nout by the local Catholic mission\nrather than his parents because\nthey have a different concept of\nlife's priorities and would probably use the funds to enlarge their\nherd. Cheryl also sends funds for\nitems, she feels Tipanko needs,\nto the priest at the Mission, who\nthen purchases the gifts for\nTipanko.\nTipanko and Cheryl exchange\nletters regularly. Tipanko's letters\nare written in Swahili and accompanied by translations into\nEnglish by his teacher. Tipanko's\nletters describe his life in Masai\ncountry and his schooling.\nWinning Smile: Tipanko is seen here in front of his home in East\nAfrica. Cheryl Scavone has taught the youngster and his friends a\nfavorite North American pastime \u00E2\u0080\u0094 baseball.\n\"Tipanko is proficient in worship and art and he has an important responsibility \u00E2\u0080\u0094 tending\nthe school's animals. It's against\ntheir beliefs to kill animals but\nthey keep large herds of cattle\nbecause milk is such an important part of their diet.\"\nT-SHIRTS GIVEN\nThe cow, in particular, has a\nspecial significance for the Masai.\n\"The cow is seen as the means\nand, pretty much, the object of\nlife. God presented the cattle of\nthe world to the Masai, and the\ncows are treated duly,\" she said.\nWhen Canadian Pacific gave\nits centennial T-shirts to employees, Cheryl requested two \u00E2\u0080\u0094\none for herself and one for\nTipanko.\n\"He loved it. I presented it to\nhim when I went over. Right away,\noff came the school uniform and\non went the T-shirt. Later, the\ncompany made the generous\ngesture of sending over 100 T-\nshirts for all the school children,\"\nshe added.\n\"Well, the company's centennial is over, but I bet you wouldn't\nknow it if you visited Tipanko's\nschool.\"\nCheryl has a message for those\nwho wish to become involved:\n\"The experience of sponsoring\na child in need is rewarding, spiritually. I don't have children of my\nown and Tipanko is my only\nfamily. I hope other people contribute to the Christian Children's\nFund. The experience will help\nthem grow.\"\n:w\n\\nJ\n(Photo by Jon Thordarson, The Winnipeg Sun)\nIdentical newborns: Winnipeg's first set of 1982 twins \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Jennifer Dawn and Nicole Marie \u00E2\u0080\u0094 don't\nseem to be able to agree on how to react to the fuss they're getting these days. The girls were born in\nGrace Hospital Jan. 4 to Shelley Uslck. Her husband Lonnie, 25, is a machinist's helper at Weston Shops.\n (Photo by Bob Kennell)\nWhat Say you: John Cooper, of public relations' distribution department, jokingly confers with the\nstatue of his great great uncle, Lord Mount Stephen, about a newspaper story on the economy. George\nStephen was the first president of the company. Mr. Cooper has retired after 41 years service.\n'Uncle' Lord Mount Stephen\nfounded a family tradition\nBy PATRICK FINN\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 If Lord Mount\nStephen were still president of\nCanadian Pacific, he would summon John Cooper to his executive suite for a chat.\nTogether they would smoke\ncigars, down a celebration drink\nor two and discuss company and\nfamily matters.\nFor after all, Lord Mount Stephen, first president of the railway, is Mr. Cooper's great great\nuncle on his mother's side. And\nMr. Cooper, who has been with\nthe company for 41 years, retired\nlast month at the age of 60.\nNEVER MET HIM\nMind you, Mr. Cooper, who\nworked in the public relations\ndepartment's distribution centre,\nnever met Lord Mount Stephen.\nHe died in 1921, the year before\nMr. Cooper was born.\n\"My mother's grandmother and\nLord Mount Stephenwere brother\nand sister, and my mother used to\nsit on his knee,\" says Mr. Cooper,\nadding that the great railway\nfinancier used to live on Dorchester near Stanley, not too far\nfrom Windsor Station, before\nmoving to what is now the Mount\nStephen Club on Drummond.\nThe old Dorchester mansion\nhas been demolished, but the\ngreat man has not been forgotten\nby his heirs. Mr. Cooper notes\nthat he and many other descendants still collect financial benefits from Lord Mount Stephen's\nestate, as will their children in\nthe future.\nOTHER PERSONAGES\nWhile Mr. Cooper never had\nthe opportunity of rubbing shoulders with Lord Mount Stephen, he\nhas met a number of other formidable personages in the public\nrelations department, or what\nused to be called the general\npublicity department.\nJoining the company during the\nperiod when Sir Edward Beatty\nwas chairman and D. C. Coleman\nwas president, Mr. Cooper\nworked for Dr. John Murray Gibbon, the general publicity agent,\nand an accomplished author,\ncomposer, folklore enthusiast and\nnature Tover\n\"Mr. Gibbon had a buzzer on\nhis desk, and if he buzzed once,\nhe wanted his secretary, and if\nhe buzzed twice, he wanted an\noffice boy,\" Mr. Cooper recalls.\n\"He buzzed me one day and I\ncame in. Mr. Gibbon kept working and mumbled, then pointed to\nPeople and Places in the news\nA. J. Tetz has been appointed\nassistant mechanical supervisor\nwith headquarters at Field, B.C.\nM. D. Roney has been appointed director management\nsystems with headquarters at\nMontreal.\nW. S. Fuessel has been appointed administrative assistant\nto general manager, operation\nand maintenance, Pacific Region,\nwith headquarters at Vancouver.\nIn his new position, Mr. Fuessel\nwill be responsible for the current administration and co-ordination of regional plans and\npolicies in the operation and\nmaintenance field.\nD. A. A. Reid has been appointed assistant division engineer, Winnipeg Division, with\nheadquarters at Winnipeg.\n/?. J. Szyja has been appointed\nassistant manager, damage prevention services, with headquarters at Montreal.\nGreg Fabok has been appointed senior analyst equipment\nutilization, with headquarters at\nMontreal.\nJ. M. Lemire has been appointed regional engineer, Atlantic Region, with headquarters at\nMontreal, succeeding R. E. Grant,\nretired.\nhis inkwell. He wanted it filled.\nThat was the first time I saw him.\"\nMr. Cooper left the department\nto join the Royal Canadian Air\nForce in 1942, and when he came\nback in 1946 J. H. Campbell was\nthe manager. J. E. March was the\nnext manager, then general managers D. B. Wallace, I. B. Scott\nand Robert Rice.\nDuring the last four decades\nthe public relations operation\nchanged considerably as it undertook a wide variety of projects,\nMr. Cooper recalls.\nSome landmark activities include the establishment of a motion picture bureau, the transfer\nof the company's exhibition unit\nto public relations, and organization of the centennial Family Days.\nCLOSE LINKS\nDuring his career, Mr. Cooper\nhas managed to establish close\nlinks with the company in his personal life. He recalls meeting his\nfuTure wife\" in the coffee shop\nnear the old Alouette Room in\nWindsor Station. She worked in\nthe car accounting department.\nMarried in 1949, the Coopers\nhave three children, two girls and\na boy. One of the girls is married\nand teaches in Powell River, B.C.\nTheir youngest daughter lives at\nhome and their son recently\nmoved to Powell River.\nWhen he retires, Mr. Cooper\nplans to move west \u00E2\u0080\u0094 to the\nOkanagan region. He is looking\nfor a place with a few fruit trees\nto keep him busy.\n\"I have enjoyed working with\nCanadian Pacific,\" says Mr.\nCooper, who may well be the only\ndescendant of Lord Mount Stephen working for the company.\nAt one time, there was another\ndescendant working for the sleeping car department, he recalls.\nIt seems quite clear that Mr.\nCooper has been through the\nyears \"a company man\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in\na praiseworthy sense. Certainly,\nLord Mount Stephen would have\napproved of the way Mr. Cooper\nhas kept up the company and\nfamily traditions.\nI An ear to the rail.)\n# he Alberta government is mulling over the idea of a highspeed \"super train\" to whisk passengers between Calgary and\nEdmonton.\nA 60-foot-wide median along Highway 2 between Red Deer\nand Edmonton beckons to be used as a natural right-of-way,\nsays the Alberta Report magazine, adding that the tracks could\nrun adjacent to the highway the rest of the way.\nThe train service, should preliminary studies bear fruit, could\nbe patterned after France's new TGV \"le Train a Grande\nVitesse\" which made its debut last year.\nAdvocates of the Alberta project would like to see the 178-\nmile train trip along the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor completed\nin 90 minutes, the time it now takes to travel the distance by air.\nThe TGV, the pride and joy of French National Railroads,\ntravels the 260 miles from Paris to Lyon in a shade under two\nhours, surpassing Japan's famed, 130 mph Shinkansen super\nexpress, for a long time the world record holder.\n^ % %\nSuccessful campaign: Kudos to the many co-ordinators and\ncanvassers who donated their time to raise nearly $175,000\nduring the Employee Charities Donation Fund (Montreal) campaign held Sept. 14 to Oct. 9.\nLucia Greig, who co-ordinated the campaign, reports that the\ntotal is a gratifying increase of $15,000 over last year when\ncompared to the same employee group. Chateau Flight Kitchens\nat Dorval, CANPAR, CPCS, Canadian Pacific Enterprises, CP\nAir, Marathon and the Atlantic Region had particularly successful campaigns.\nThe money will be put to good use. About 70 per cent of the\nfunds are allocated to Centraide while the remainder is distributed to 18 other charitable organizations.\n^ ^ *\nOnce upon a time: There was a story of the young assistant\nsuperintendent who approached an old locomotive engineer\noiling up his locomotive outside the roundhouse \u00E2\u0080\u0094 using the\nlight of a flare to illuminate his task. The young man said: \"My\ngood man, do you realize that those flares cost this railroad\n$1.35 each?\" The oldster paused, cast a good look at the\nblazing fusee and replied: \"Yep, I guess they would . . . Well\nworth it too.\"\n* % *\nSpice to life: For the past 10 years, former CP Rail'er Walter\nEast has been making sure children crossing Ness Avenue at\nCentury Street in Winnipeg do so safely. But Mr. East, who\nretired after 27 years with the company, added a little spice to\nhis job as crossing guard when he reported for duty dressed as\na clown at Halloween. The youngsters were delighted and the\naction was recorded with a photograph published in The\nWinnipeg Sun newspaper. Incidentally, the Easts celebrated\ntheir 52nd wedding anniversary Nov. 23.\n* * *\nPortrait in blue: The centennial T-shirts distributed to employees for the Family Days last summer surely made a hit down\neast in the Saint John Division. All headquarters' employees\ndonned the pale blue \"chemises\" Sept. 15 to celebrate \"T-Shirt\nDay.\" A cloudless sky provided an excellent backdrop for many\na souvenir portrait in blue.\n* * *\nGridiron presentation: In case you missed it, Edmonton\nEskimo runningback Neil Lumsden won the Canadian Pacific\naward for the outstanding Canadian player in the Grey Cup. The\nprize: A trip for two to any destination on CP Air's global route\nsystem and a trophy.\n^ ^ *\nFood for thought: Crossties magazine, a monthly publication\nby The Railway Tie Association, passes along this little piece\nof advice.\n\"It's time to diet when you nod one chin and two others\nsecond the motion.\"\n Doubts erased by above-average marks\n(Photos by Arnold Harrington)\nTeaching the three R'S: This is the photo which appeared in one of the company's centennial\ncommercials and prompted the one-in-a-million telephone call. Florence Bell is seen here helping one of\nthe many students she and her husband Cameron schooled in CPR School Car No. 50.\nRuth Barker, last of the 26,\nremembers pranks and soot\nBy RALPH WILSON\nCALGARY \u00E2\u0080\u0094 At 61, Ruth\nBarker is \"the last of the 26.\"\nOn Jan. 8, she joined the ranks\nof the retired, 30 years after starting as a wiper/laborer at the\nAlyth Diesel Shop.\n\"I was one of 26 girls hired at\nthe time (1951-52),\" she recalled\nin an interview. \"But eventually,\nthe rest of them quit or got married. I'm the last of the 26.\"\nDuring the war years, about a\nfifth of Alyth's workforce was female. But, aside from office staff,\nthe number of women working in\nthe shop dwindled steadily in the\nyears that followed.\nWorking in a traditionally male\nbastion caused few problems for\nRuth, who quickly established\nherself as a hard worker. \"It was\nkind of strange in the beginning.\nWe weren't really treated as\nequals and the men were always\npulling pranks but, after a while,\nthat changed and I got used to it.\"\nRuth also learned to adjust to\nshift work. She started on the\nmidnight shift, cleaning soot-\ncovered steam locomotive cabs.\n\"It was certainly a lot harder\nI\nPunching OUt: Ruth Barker started at the Alyth Diesel Shop 30\nyears ago earning 97.9 cents an hour \u00E2\u0080\u0094 good money in those days,\nshe says.\nthen. I was ready to quit a number of times, but I stuck it out,\"\nshe said.\nWith dieselization, the job became somewhat easier.\n\"Before they brought in the\ndiesels, you'd end your shift completely black. You'd have to wash\nyour clothes every night.\"\nSome of Ruth's co-workers\ndidn't fare too well.\nWORK WAS HARD\n\"At the time, we had to do\neverything on our hands and\nknees. It was very hard work and\na lot of the girls didn't want to\nwork, especially if they found\nthey had to work Saturdays or\nSundays,\" she explained.\nAlthough the work was hard,\nthe pay was good.\n\"I started at 97.9 cents an hour\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 which was very good money in\nthose days. Your dollar could\nsure buy a lot more then.\"\nRuth believes the quality of\nwork has declined since the\n1950s.\n\"People don't work nearly as\nhard as they used to. In those\ndays you had to work hard. You\nhad to, if you wanted to keep your\njob.\"\nA native Calgarian \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a rare\ncommodity in this oil-fired boom\ntown \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Ruth has no firm plans\nfor her retirement but says she\nand her husband will likely take a\ntrip in the New Year.\nRailway teachers feared\nthey would not succeed\n(Cont'd from page 1)\ncar concept began many years\nbefore, in 1926.\"\nA CPR engineer, W. R. McAdam, was the driving force, according to Mrs. Bell. He loved\nchildren and often spoke to them\nwhen his train was waiting at a\nsiding along the remote line north\nof Lake Superior. It became obvious to him that these children\nof railway workers, trappers and\nprospectors had no school facilities anywhere near their homes.\nCONCEPT IS BORN\nA man of action, he journeyed\nto Toronto and thumped on the\ndesks of the premier and the minister of education. Dr. J. B. McDougall, school inspector for the\nnorth, travelled to the area to\ninvestigate. And the school cars\nconcept was born.\nCanadian Pacific converted\ntwo first-class coaches, equipping them with classroom facilities and living quarters, and donated them to the cause. Walter\nMcNally was the first teacher on\nCar No. 1, as School Car 50\nbecame known. When he died in\n1944, the Bells took over.\nTIGHT SCHEDULE\nThey served such tiny communities as Fluorite Forks, Mata-\ngama, Rideout, Ramsay, Tophet,\nNemesis and Devon, Mrs. Bell\nremembers. The car would be\ncoupled to a freight train and\ndropped at a siding. There it\nwould stand, as the children gathered, and remain for a week. Mrs.\nBell and her husband would cram\nsix weeks of teaching into one,\nassign \"homework\" and then\nmove on to the next community.\nWhile at school, many of the children, ranging in age from six to\nlate teens, would eat and sleep\nin the car. Soma camped out,\nweather permitting, or were billeted with CPR employees.\n\"At first, I thought we would\nnever succeed,\" says Mrs. Bell.\n\"It seemed that although we\nworked so very hard it would be\nall forgotten when we come back\nsix weeks later.\"\nBut the children were so amazing, she beams. Most of them out-\nstudied and out-achieved their\nregular-school city cousins. Their\nscholastic records were consistently above average.\nAs she studies the classroom\nphotographs, reproduced for her\nfrom the company's archives, her\neyes light up. Uncannily, she begins to put names to all the young\nfaces. She recalls their illnesses,\ntheir families, their joy at receiving graduation diplomas. She\nwonders what has happened to\nthem all.\nRETURNS TO SCHOOL\nFor in 1949, little more than\nfour years after Florence Bell became the mobile schoolmarm of\nthe north, her husband died. On\nthe job, at Ramsay, early on a\nSaturday evening, he was stricken\nwith a heart attack and died before medical aid could reach him.\nLeft alone, she stayed on for a\nwhile longer, and then moved to\nteaching at regular schools in\nlarger centres.\nShe retired from teaching in\n1971. Living alone in a bright,\nsunny apartment overlooking\nLake Ontario in Toronto's east\nend, she continues to be involved\nin learning. She is enrolled at\nUniversity of Toronto, taking a\nhistory course. She is thinking of\nwriting a book about her school\ncar experiences.\nAnd what has happened to the\nschool cars?\nRecords show that by the late\n'50s permanent schools had\nsprung up in the northern communities. Car No. 50 was removed\nfrom service and scrapped. Its\nsister car, No. 51, however, was\ndonated in 1967 to the Canadian\nRailway Museum at Delson, Que.,\nas a permanent monument to\nteachers such as Florence Bell.\n/ & * * -\nPast adventures: Mrs. Bell is now enrolled at the University of\nToronto and can still recall the names of the students shown in the\nabove picture.\n William J. Andrews, conductor, operating dept., Moose Jaw; Edward D.\nAronyk, machine clerk, CSC dept.,\nSouth Edmonton; Louis P. Audet,\ntrainman, operating dept., Quebec.\nAnne Blessing, senior telephone\noperator, Toronto; Gerald Boutin,\nleading hand, car dept., St. Luc Yard;\nLeo H. Breen, conductor, operating\ndept. Toronto Yard; Ovila Brillant,\nlocomotive engineer, operating dept.,\nChapleau.\nMurray R. Cunningham, assistant car\nforeman, car dept., Port Coquitlam.\nMaurice Deslongchamps, mechanical assistant, chief mechanical officer, Windsor Station; William M.\nDixon, chief clerk, CSC dept., Medi-\nDuo retires: Two yard foremen\nat Moose Jaw have retired after\na combined service of 78 years.\nRoy Matthews (left) began service\nin 1939 and was promoted to yard\nforeman in 1952. Al Smith started\nhis career with CP Rail in 1945\nand was promoted to yard foreman in 1950.\ncine Hat; Roger Dorion, tracer material, freight dept., Angus Shops.\nJamesina H. Easton, typist, operating dept., Sudbury.\nFilippo Figliomeni, class laborer,\nmotive power, Schreiber.\nJean L. Gaboriault, assistant section foreman, M of W dept., St. Johns-\nbury, Vermont; Arthur L. George,\nyard foreman, operating dept.,\nEdmonton.\nMichael K. Hanried, janitor, operating dept., Winnipeg Division; Adrien\nHenault, bricklayer, B&B dept.,\nAngus Shops; Leo Hofman, machinist helper, works manager, Weston\nShops.\nWilliam W. Jenkins, carman, mechanical dept., Weston Shops.\nRobert J. Kieley, trucker, operating\ndept., Fredericton; Roy M. Kissack,\nbosun, BCCSS, Vancouver; Sam\nKorol, operator, Edmonton.\nGaetan Langevin, electrician, maintenance dept., Angus Shops; Mycha-\njlo Lesko, trackman, M of W dept.,\nNorth Bend, B.C.; John Luscombe,\ninvestigator, investigation dept.,\nToronto.\nMurray D. MacFarlane, head export\nclerk, operating dept., West Saint\nJohn, N.B.; Gilles Masse, yardman,\noperating dept., Trois-Rivieres, Que.;\nElwood R. McCleary, B&B foreman,\noperating dept., Brownville Jet.,\nMaine; Garnet I. Moore, trucker, operating dept., Fredericton, N.B.; Dennis J. Morrish, trainman, operating\ndept., MacTier, Ont.\nAnthony Persoage, locomotive engineer, diesel shop, Winnipeg; Tony\nV. Poch, track maintenance foreman,\nM of W dept., Pincher Creek, Alta.;\nRoland Pouliot, blacksmith, Angus\nShops; Harden C. Priestman, conductor, operating dept., Brownville\nJet.; Hugh M. Pushie, locomotive\nengineer, operating dept., Alyth Diesel Shop.\nOCCUPATION^)\nPLEASE\" Q\nMY NAME IS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:\nCHRIS D. PEAT\nVICTOR GEONE LEMOINE\nMY OCCUPATION IS:\nHere's all you do:\nUnder this cartoon is a list of names. To find his or her occupation, solve the anagram of each of the names (i.e. by arranging\nall the letters in each name) to spell out each occupation. Then\nexamine the cartoon carefully for clues and select the one occupation that is more appropriate to the illustration.\nThe answer is on page 2.\nJames H. Ross, supervisor, office\nservices, manager disbursement accounting, Windsor Station; Wilfred J.\nRozon, assistant roadmaster, M of W\ndept., Chesterville, Ont.\nEmil Sajna, carman, car dept., Toronto Yard; Leon S. Sauchuk, mechanic, car dept., Montreal Division;\nGiovani Scalena, machinist, mechanical dept., Weston Shops; John\nSchreiber, trackman, M of W dept.,\nProvost, Sask.; Kenneth H. Schruder,\ntrackman, M of W dept., Smiths Falls;\nJulian M. Scott, checker, operating\ndept., West Saint John; Samuel H.\nSturby, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Thunder Bay.\nNorman H. Teale, machinist, motive\npower, Ogden Shops.\nAngelo Venir, class laborer, mechanical dept., Cranbrook; Lucien\nVincent, carman helper, reclaim dock,\nAngus Shops.\nJohn Williams, locomotive engineer, operating dept., MacTier, Ont.\nA job well done: Armand Rainville, an operator at St. Luc Yard,\nhas retired after 40 years of service.\nCartwright retires: Locomotive Engineer Bob Cartwright, who started with the company in 1945 as\na wiper, has retired from the Toronto Division, He is seen here holding granddaughter Lani. Standing next\nto him is son Robert Jr. with grandsons (from left) Avan, Ryan and Clayton in the foreground.\n.. n\nLast day: Anthony (Cisco) Chi-\nkowski (left), carman, car department at Winnipeg recently retired\nwith 35 years of service. Congratulating Mr. Chikowski is John\nSawyer, general car foreman at\nWinnipeg.\nEnd of line: Armand Dufresne,\nconductor at Farnham, Que., has\nretired after 42 years of service.\nHappy day: Cathie Fyte, office manager to the comptroller at\nWindsor Station has retired after 44 years of service. Miss Fyfe began\nher career in the communications department, she transferred to the\naccounting department some 18 years later. She then became secretary to the vice-president and comptroller. Up to that time, being a\nsecretary to a vice-president had been a traditionally male role. She\nwas appointed office manager to the comptroller in 1979.\n Ted escapes injury\nFlying nail destroys hard hat\nBy KEN EMMOND\nWINNIPEG \u00E2\u0080\u0094 They don't hold\ninquests when there are no victims, so no one will ever know\nwhy the nail Ted Truszynski was\ndriving flew up and destroyed his\nhard hat instead of going into the\nconcrete wall one day last June.\nMr. Truszynski was using a cartridge-powered nail gun to pin a\nboard to the wall when, for some\nreason \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a structural defect in\nthe concrete, or perhaps the nail\nstruck a rock \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the nail flew\nback.\n\"The whole thing blew up,\"\nrecalled Mr. Truszynski, a member of the Weston Shops bridge\nand building crew.\nMr. Truszynski's hat saved him\nLlfesavmg cap: Ted Truszynski, a B and B crew member at\nWeston Shops, receives a Gold Cap Award from Russ McCreedy, the\nshop engineer at Weston.\nfrom serious injury or death,\nwhile his plastic face shield protected him from a shower of concrete fragments. The only injury\nhe sustained was a bruised arm.\nAs a result, the 28-year-old\nfather of two joined a select circle of workers on Dec. 11 when\nshop engineer R. W. McCreedy\nof the Weston Shops presented\nhim with a Gold Cap Award.\nAPT TO FORGET\nMr. Truszynski's foreman,\nWayne Skrumeda, said the protective gear was almost certainly\nthe difference between life and\ndeath.\n\"He probably would have been\na goner now,\" said Mr. Skrumeda,\nwho insists that his men resist the\ntemptation to pass up safety\nequipment to work more quickly\nor comfortably.\n\"We stress safety in the Weston Shops,\" the foreman said.\n\"We have a safety meeting every\nThursday morning ...\n\"I always insist that the men\nhave a p.a.t. (power activated\ntool) certificate, and that they\nwear face guards, safety glasses\nand a hard hat.\n\"But people are not machines.\nThey're apt to forget.\"\nAnother gold hat: Wearing a hard hat also saved Michel Lan-\ngevin, an apprentice pipefitter at Angus Shops, from serious injury.\nWhile helping a companion install a three-foot-long pipe on a locomotive, the pipe slipped from his companion's hands and fell on his\nhead. Mr. Langevin was presented with the \"gold hat\" award.\nTales lurk in railside graves\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nearly twenties\". Since Edward\nwas at the time of the interview\nin his late nineties the 1912 date\nisn't too far out of line.\nHector station stood some five\nhundred yards from the grave-\nsite. Whether or not Grozenia\nwas the victim of this accident is\nnot known.\nUntil quite recently, there was\na very simple marker at the west\nend of Redgrave yard, some miles\neast of Golden. It literally escaped\nthe rising tide of progress when\nthe Mica Dam site created a 90-\nmile lake requiring the railway to\nrelocate trackage.\nDave Williams of Revelstoke\nrecalls that the grave was vandalized some years ago and that\nhe took the time to put it back\nin shape.\nGRIM HUMOR\nThe inscription, faded over the\nyears and defaced by the vandals,\nread: \"J. MclVER 1886\". There\nwas, Mr. Williams says, another\ngrave \u00E2\u0080\u0094 possibly two \u00E2\u0080\u0094 behind\na white picket fence at Beaver-\nmouth. Today Beavermouth is\nunder 30 or 40 feet of water,\nas a result of the Mica Dam\nbackup.\nThere is also a large and well\nknown graveyard at Donald, B.C.\nnear the Columbia River bridge.\nIt serves as the resting place for\na good many early rail pioneers\nand is reputed to contain a number of plots devoted to Chinese\nworkers, many of whom died, it is\nsaid, from an outbreak of smallpox.\nThroughout history, the finality\nof death has been the subject of\ngrim humor of incorrigible pranksters. Some years ago, a cast\ncement gravestone suddenly appeared at the west portal of the\nUpper Spiral Tunnel. There was\na bold inscription, topped by two\nbones (distinctly of the deer family) which read \"ANDRO, the\nHOBO KING 1908-1962\".\nAs quickly as it appeared it\nvanished again. The fact that an\n8\nextra gang was spotted on the\nsidetrack at nearby Yoho and that\nthey were engaged in pouring\nconcrete footings had to be purely coincidental! It was Andy Mon-\ntalbetti, roadmaster at that time,\nwho pointed this out. He suggested it was a joke of some kind\nwith \"family implications\" originating in their crew cars.\nSCATTERED ASHES\nAn interesting case, in connection with graves, appeared in the\nfiles of the superintendent's offices in Calgary a few years ago.\nWithin the town limits of Chancellor, Alberta, beside CP Rail\ntracks, a final resting place was\nofficially disturbed. Research revealed that the simple cross\nmarked the remains of one Mytro\nBorys and that he died in 1913.\nA CPR laborer, he was crushed\nto death in a fall of rails from a\nflat car.\nSince the town of Chancellor\nwas expanding, the remains were\nexhumed officially and reburied.\nBut for all those years, the little\ncross with his name on it was\ncarefully maintained by several\ngenerations of laborers who followed in his steps.\nTony Silvene, of Victoria, B.C.,\nwas locomotive engineer for\nmany years on the Esquimault\nand Nanaimo Railway and, like so\nmany of his fellow travellers who\nhave climbed the Malahat grade,\npassed through the summit tunnel and admired the magnificent\nview. Following his death, a last\nwish was fulfilled when his ashes\nwere scattered along the tracks\nat the viewpoint. Bert McNeil,\nretired chief clerk with the E & N,\nwas a witness to the ceremony.\nLater, he said, a siding was\nnamed in honor of \"Engineman\nSilvene.\"\nOne wonders how many graves\nand markers there are along\nCanadian Pacific lines, and how\nmany of those who died in the\nearly days rest in forgotten rail-\nside places.\nNot a forgotten place: Shrouded in the mystery born of passing years, one of many weather-beaten\ncrosses stands solemnly along a CP Rail track. (Photo by Nicholas Morant)\n CPRail 14\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0+\nBulk Ennombre\nthird troisleme\nclass classe\nFM-2S2\nETL Centre-Ville\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nVolume 12\nNumber 5\nApril 14, 1982\nNews\nSafety On the mind: Carman Bill Prevada, a member of the Brandon Division safety committee, guides a set of\nwheels onto a car. Mr. Prevada is one of 17 mechanical department employees who have not had a lost-time\naccident in 13 years.\nOn-the-job accident figures\nshow a marked improvement\nBy TIMOTHY R. HUMPHREYS\nCP Rail's overall on-the-job safety\nperformance last year improved 40.9\nper cent over 1980, according to\nyear-end figures released recently.\nAlthough the number of lost time\ninjuries increased slightly in 1981,\nfrom 1,137 in 1980 to 1,177, their\nseverity, measured in the number of\ndays lost or charged per million man-\nhours, dropped significantly from\n4,180 in 1980 to 1,275 last year. This\nresulted in the railway achieving an\ninjury index of 5.2 in 1981, a marked\nimprovement over the 8.8 injury index registered in 1980.\nPROGRAM IS WORKING\nThe injury index takes into account\nthe frequency and severity of injuries\nand serves as a barometer by which\nthe company monitors the safety performance of each region, main shop\nand division.\n\"These figures indicate that our\ncurrent safety program is working.\nHowever, much work remains if we\nare to reduce the number of job-\nrelated injuries further,\" said John\nSadler, superintendent of accident\nprevention for the system.\nWith 35,000 employees, more than\n70,000 pieces of railway equipment\nand 38,400 kilometres of track laced\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 On-site safety inspections are an\nimportant part of Revelstoke's safety\nprogram. Page 5.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Safety officers meet to exchange\nideas on how to improve accident prevention program. Page 8.\nacross the country, achieving an excellent safety record is an arduous\ntask requiring an all-out effort by\neach and every employee, said Mr.\nSadler.\n\"As redundant and simple the\nmessage 'Stop, look and listen' might\nseem, we must all heed this advice in\norder to continue to make the railway\na safe place to work,\" he said.\nThe safety statistics came to light\nwith the announcement of the railway's system and regional safety\naward winners for 1981. A total of\n$17,500 will be awarded to the system safety award winners.\nInside the News\nThe cairn at Hawk Lake, which bears the verses of Rudyard Kipling\nabout \"The Sons of Martha\", is the handiwork of Harry Falconer\nMcLean, an enigmatic and controversial figure, writes Nicholas\nMorant in the second of two parts. See page 6.\n* * *\nThe Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a silver dollar commemorating\nthe majestic bison and the vitality of Regina, which celebrates its\ncentennial this year. Regina was originally called \"Pile O'Bones\"\nbecause Indians used to dump the bones of the bison killed in the hunt\nat a burial ground there. When the Canadian Pacific Railway arrived,\nthe settlement was renamed Regina in honor of Queen Victoria. See\npage 2.\nBeginning with the system awards,\nthe 1981 winners are:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Prairie Region. With an injury\nindex of 4.01 last year, the Prairie\nRegion edged out the Eastern Region by 0.05 points to win the System\nRegional Safety Trophy. The Prairie\nRegion's 1981 injury index was a\n43.5 per cent improvement over\n1980 \"and demonstrates the dedication and hard work of all the divisions\non the region,\" said Mr. Sadler.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Smiths Falls. Again Superintendent Dick Burroughs has steered his\ndivision to the safety forefront with his\nsecond consecutive win of the System Divisional Trophy and the $4,000\nmonetary award. The division's 600\nemployees handle train movements\nover 855 kilometers of track and recorded an impressive 0.8 injury index\nlast year compared with a 1.7 index in\n1980.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Brandon. A runner-up to Smiths\nFalls as the best division on the system, Brandon Division has garnered\nthe System Divisional Safety Plaque\nand a cash award of $3,000. It placed\nthird in 1980 and managed to trim\nits injury index to 2.1 to win the\nplaque for 1981. \"A dedicated effort\nby all the staff and a good working\nprogram are responsible here,\" commented Phil Juneau, assistant superintendent of accident prevention.\n\"What must also be noted is the\ntremendous improvement by the running trades which brought their injury\nindex down from 38.7 to 17.8.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Ogden Shops. Some 1,115 employees work at this busy 157-acre\nsite and when a visitor enters the\ngrounds he can't help but think safety\nbecause of the numerous posters\nand billboards placed around the\narea. \"It is this awareness that\nhelped Ogden win the 1981 Main\n(See \"Overall\" page 8)\nRailway fine-tunes\nwestern operations\nCALGARY \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail is fine-tuning its rail operations on the key\nmain line corridor between Calgary and Vancouver to move as much\nfreight tonnage as it can until planned improvements can be completed, a senior CP Rail executive said recently.\nJ.D. Bromley, vice-president of the\nPacific Region, told the annual meeting of the Western Transportation\nAdvisory Council that CP Rail is aiming to squeeze \"every remaining bit\nof capacity out of its system\" until the\n$500-million-plus Rogers Pass tunnel and track improvement project\ncan be completed.\n\"To gain maximum tonnage\nthroughput we're looking at the operating times of trains, train meets, signals, roadbed structure and every\nother aspect of the operation,\" he\nsaid. \"Every added ton we can move\neach day will shorten the period of\nlimited capacity that will exist until the\ntunnel is completed.\"\nBOTTLENECK\nBecause of steep grades and the\nneed to use pusher locomotives, the\nRogers Pass area is the major bot\ntleneck encountered by freight trains\nbetween Calgary and Vancouver.\nThe railway is already running\nheavier tonnage on many trains as a\nresult of reducing three other gradients in the mountains, and an $8\nmillion project to provide five miles of\ndouble track is planned this year to\neliminate train delays in the Revelstoke area.\nMr. Bromley said that none of the\nmeasures being taken \"is a substitute for the Rogers Pass Project \u00E2\u0080\u0094 or\nfor having the financial resources to\nput more than $7 billion into improving the CP Rail system over this decade.\"\nSolving the problem of grain revenues is critical, he said, because\n\"as future capital needs have been\ngrowing, so has the financial burden\ncaused by the losses from grain\ntransportation.\"\nTops in Curling: Locomotive Engineer Bruce Kennedy, at left,\nand his teanmates hold up the Silver Broom they won in the world\ncurling championships. The other members of the winning rink, from\nBruce's left, are Bob Nicol, Rick Lang and Al Hackner. (UP/ photo).\nBruce helps sweep rink\nto 'Silver Broom' win\nBy KEN EMMOND\nCP Rail Locomotive Engineer Bruce Kennedy has come home a\nworld champion.\nBruce is a member of the rink that won the coveted Silver Broom at\nthe world curling championships April 4 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,\nWest Germany.\nIt was Canada's second world championship in three years and a first\nfor the Thunder Bay, Ont., rink skipped by Al Hackner, a CN Rail\nswitchman. The other members of the rink are Bob Nicol and Rick Lang.\nBruce says his job as a locomotive engineer gives him plenty of time\nto curl and is one of the main reasons he could be a part of the world's\ntop rink this year. He plays lead.\n\"I have enough seniority now,\" said the 33-year-old bachelor before\nleaving to play in the Silver Broom tournament which ran from March 29\nto April 4.\n\"I have a midnight job and my weekends off so I can curl.\"\nJudicious choice of holiday time can help too.\nBruce took a week off in January for the zone play-offs, and two\nweeks off last month to play for, and win, the Brier in the Canadian\ncurling championships. He arranged a leave of absence to play in the\nworld championships.\nThe Silver Broom culminates a season of cash bonspiels and club,\nzone, district, provincial and national meets.\n Pacific Region upgrading\nRail gangs get new quarters\nBy JANE MUDRY\nVANCOUVER \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Pacific Region\nhas bought 30 new crew boarding\ncars worth $2.5 million to lodge its rail\ngang doing upgrading work this\nsummer.\nThe mobile units, which feature\nwell-equipped sleeping, eating and\nrelaxation cars, will be \"home-away-\nfrom-home\" for the 90-man crew replacing about 225 kilometres of track\nin British Columbia and Alberta.\n;- mmm\n^.mmxxxx\n: mmxmx\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:, xrnnm-''\nmmmiim--\nIS j t\n\"The cars have the best design of\nany we've looked at and are bright,\ncomfortable with lots of room to move\naround,\" said Bob Morrish, regional\nengineer.\nTOUGH AND DURABLE\nThe boarding cars, which were\nbuilt by Mobile International Co. of\nTulsa, Oklahoma, are shock-\nmounted on 25-centimetre-deep\nsteel channels and have been designed to fit on open-deck flat cars.\nCrew boarding Cars: Maintenance crews at Vancouver give Pacific\nRegion's new boarding cars a final inspection before they are put on stream.\nMr. Morrish said the accommodations \"are an overall better product\nthan any we've used before. Construction is similar to that of an aircraft's fuselage \u00E2\u0080\u0094 tough and durable.\"\nThe maintenance crews in Vancouver have been giving the units a\nthorough inspection to ensure that\neverything from showers to kitchen\nfacilities are in working order. The 30\nunits are being pressed into service\nthis month.\nThe equipment consists of 12\neight-man sleepers, four supervisor\nsleepers, a cook car, a provision car\nwith walk-in refrigerator, three dining\ncars, two toilet and wash units, two\nrecreation cars, two locker cars, a\nfuel car and one electrical power\ngenerating car.\nThe units are air-conditioned and\nhave heat tracers in the hot water\nsystem to prevent freeze-up in cold\nweather.\nThe upgrading work in the Pacific\nRegion this summer consists of replacing track at 19 locations including\nShuswap, the Cascade and Nelson\nareas of B.C., and Red Deer and\nLeduc in Alberta.\nThe silver dollar is available in two finishes.\n(90415) Proof \u00E2\u0080\u0094 brilliant field and mat relief presented in an\nattractive black case.\n(90416) Brilliant Uncirculated \u00E2\u0080\u0094 brilliant field and relief\npresented in a transparent capsule.\n(90414) Uncirculated Set\nThis 6-piece set \u00E2\u0080\u0094 from the one-cent coin to the nickel dollar -\nis sealed between layers of transparent polyester film.\nTHE BISON\nCANADA'S NEW COMMEMORATIVE\nSILVER DOLLAR\nTo commemorate the centennial of the founding of Regina, the\nCanadian Government has authorized the minting of a commemorative silver dollar. The reverse of the coin, designed by\nHuntley Brown of Markham, Ontario, depicts a bison skull and\nthe Saskatchewan Legislative Building. The obverse bears the\neffigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, designed by Arnold\nMachin.\n(90412) Proof Set\nThis 7-piece set includes the silver bison and the nickel dollar to\nthe one-cent coin. Each piece bears a brilliant field with mat\nrelief. This set is presented in a black genuine leather case.\n(90413) Specimen Set\nThis set includes all 6 pieces from the nickel dollar to the one-\ncent coin, the very best struck by a pair of dies. The coins are\nindividually encapsulated and presented in an attractive case.\nRETURN TO: Royal Canadian Mint\nP.O. Box 454, Station \"A\", Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIN 8V5\nCorrespondence English \u00E2\u0096\u00A1 French \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nCode Item description\nQuantity\nUnit Price\nin Cdn $\n90412 Proof Set\n$36.00\n90413 Specimen Set\n$11.50\nMETHOD OF PAYMENT (check only one)\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A1 Enclosed is my certified cheque/money order, including Provincial sales tax,\nmade payable to the Royal Canadian Mint.\nPlease charge my credit account:\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A1 MasterCard \u00E2\u0096\u00A1 Chargex/Visa \u00E2\u0096\u00A1 American Express\nMy credit card account number: Expiry date 1 L\n0309\n90414\nUncirculated Set\n$ 6.00\nProof Silver Dollar\n90416 Brilliant Uncirculated\nSilver Dollar\nSignature\n(Order form must be signed by the cardholder to be valid)\nName\nProvincial tax (Canadian residents,\nadd Provincial sales tax where applicable)*\nTOTAL\n3.C. 6%; Sask. 5%; Man. 5%; Ont. 7%; N.S. 8%; N.B. 8%; Nfld. 11%\nCity\nSales tax exemption number\nImportant Notice \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The Royal Canadian Mint (Mint) reserves the right to refuse or to limit\norders or to change prices if, for any reason, it should be found necessary to do so. The Mint is\nnot responsible for any duty which may be charged on items upon entry to a foreign country.\nTel.: Office\nOrders must be postmarked no later than November 30, 1982.\nValid in Canada and the U.S. only.\nEndorsement: Alberta Transportation Minister Henry Kroeger details\nhis government's support for Operation Lifesaver.\nAlberta lends its support\nto 'Operation Lifesaver'\nBy RALPH WILSON\nEDMONTON \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The Alberta government has thrown its support behind Operation Lifesaver, a national\nprogram aimed at reducing the number of level crossing accidents.\nAt Operation Lifesaver's kick-off\nluncheon, held March 10 at the\nChateau Lacombe, Alberta Transportation Minister Henry Kroeger told\nabout 70 media and transportation\nofficials his department will lend\nwhatever assistance is needed to\nassure the program's success.\n\"Safety at railway crossings, as\npart of the total collision statistics in\nthe province, is a major concern,\" he\nsaid. \"I assure you that Alberta\nTransportation endorses the efforts\nof Operation Lifesaver and will participate and co-operate in every way\npossible.\"\nAfter successful implementation in\nthe United States where, since 1978,\nfatalities at crossings were reduced\nby 25 per cent, the program was introduced in Canada by the Railway\nAssociation of Canada and Transport Canada in co-operation with the\nCanadian Transport Commission\nand CP and CN Rail.\nThe Alberta program is directed by\na steering committee co-chaired by\nthe Alberta Safety Council and Alberta Transportation Safety Branch.\nLevel crossing safety has become\na major concern in Alberta, the result\nof an alarming number of deaths and\ninjuries. Last year the province recorded 145 crossing collisions in\nwhich 18 Albertans lost their lives.\nAnother 112 were injured.\nRoger Cyr, national director of Operation Lifesaver, who also addressed the CP Rail-sponsored luncheon, praised the efforts of the\nAlberta steering committee. He\nstressed, however, the motoring\npublic must realize that nearly all the\naccidents in Alberta could have been\navoided had motorists adhered to\nsafe driving habits.\n\"Investigations have shown that\nnegligence on the part of the motorist is the principal cause of these\naccidents,\" he said. The solution, he\nadded, is through education.\n\"Operation Lifesaver's goal in\nCanada is to join all provinces, as\nwell as federal authorities, in a nation-wide effort to reduce deaths, injuries and property damage resulting\nfrom rail/highway crossing accidents.\nI am pleased to see that the need for\nan Operation Lifesaver program in\nAlberta has been recognized,\" he\nsaid.\nAppointments\nOffice sen/ices merged\nRoyal Canadian Monnaie royale\nMint canadienne\nCanada\nThe office services of the marketing and sales and operation and\nmaintenance departments in the\nAtlantic Region have been amalgamated.\nAs a result the positions of assistant office manager, operation and\nmaintenance, and assistant office\nmanager, marketing and sales, have\nbeen abolished.\nIn announcing the amalgation,\nVice-President G. E. Benoit reports\nthat E. G. Fortin has been appointed\noffice manager to the vice-president,\nAtlantic Region at Montreal succeeding J. I. Scott, who has transferred.\nYvon Pilon has been appointed\nassistant office manager, Atlantic\nRegion at Montreal.\nIn other appointments on the\nsystem:\nA. R. Kneeshaw has been\nappointed assistant director of purchasing at Montreal.\nKen Harman has been appointed\npurchasing agent at Montreal.\nMarianne Maloney has been\nappointed supervisor, records management at Vancouver, succeeding\nR. M. Burnham, promoted.\nLouise Bovet has been appointed\nsupervisor, word processing at Vancouver.\nR. M. Burnham has been\nappointed supervisor, personnel, at\nVancouver, succeeding W. H. Clark,\nretired.\nLes Kalmar has been appointed\nmanager property accounts, office of\ncomptroller at Montreal, succeeding\nW. J. Emmett, retired.\nE. B. Wakaruk has been\nappointed assistant superintendent,\ncar service at Vancouver.\nH. S. Robertson has been\nappointed director of purchasing,\nsucceeding Donald Fahey, retired.\nNEWS\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nTimothy R. Humphreys\nEditorial assistant,\nLise Baillargeon\nCorrespondents,\nJane Mudry, Vancouver\nRalph Wilson, Calgary\nKen Emmond, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising Dept.,\nWindsor Station, Montreal, Que.,\nH3C 3E4.\nCPRailH\n House is a 'gallery'\nArtist strives for perfection\nWmm IhHH W\nAt the easel: Joan Niemi has been known to spend 16 hours non-stop at\nher easel.\nSettlements reached\nTentative labor settlements\nhave been reached between CP\nRail and unions representing the\nrailway's 26,500 operating, non-\noperating and shopcraft employees.\nMemoranda of settlement,\ncovering a two-year period retroactive to Jan. 1, have been\nsigned by the company and the\nunions and are subject to ratification.\nThe agreements call for a 12\nper cent wage increase this year,\na nine per cent increase in 1983\nand cost of living provisions\n(COLA) is both years.\nThe settlements also cover improvements to the employees'\nvacation schedules, health and\nwelfare and dental plans and a\nnumber of other benefits.\nNegotiations will continue with\nthe Rail Canada Traffic Controllers, representing 800 CP Rail dispatchers, and the Canadian Pacific Police Association representing 200 employees.\nf\nBy STEPHEN MORRIS\nSCHREIBER, Ont. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Joan Niemi\nis an artist and, like most serious\nartists, she has a dream \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a dream\nto paint the perfect picture.\nJoan, whose husband Elymer\nworks at the CP Rail Station here,\ndoes scenics and her subject is the\nrugged Northern Ontario landscape\naround the north shore of Lake Superior.\n\"Every artist has a hidden desire to\nbecome famous,\" says Joan. \"I\nguess I'm a bit like anyone else, but\nit's not my ultimate goal. Words cannot describe what's in an artist's\nheart or makes her drive for perfection.\"\nElymer says his wife is obsessed\nwith this drive.\nJoan will sometimes spend 16\nhours at her easel, without a break,\nrather than lose the \"flow\" and,\noccasionnally, he has found her\nasleep with paintbrush in hand.\n, / >P, X . - ; 4\nx*m::t\nINSPIRATION\nFor inspiration in her quest, Joan\nkeeps a portrait of the internationally-\nacclaimed artist, Ken Darby, near her\neasel.\n\"His striving for perfection is what\nkeeps me going. Eventually I will\ntranslate on canvas what I feel,\" she\nsays.\nJoan says that until the perfect\npainting is done, she wants to keep\nas many of her works as possible.\nFinding places to hang the paintings is a bit of a problem. There are\n26 on the lower level of their house\nand the attic studio walls are almost\ncovered with the finished canvasses.\nIt's any wonder the couple compares their home to an art gallery.\nElymer says having this many\npaintings does have its advantages.\n\"Instead of painting or wallpapering,\nwe rotate Joan's paintings, adding\nnew ones and moving others\naround.\"\nx\n#\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,\nft\nI\nii\nJ\n. :\nMay blitz approaches\nTwo-year-old Kevin Lariviere just couldn't wait for the snow to melt in his\nbackyard before trying out the family barbecue and the attractive apron\nbeing offered by Canadian Pacific's Suggestion Plan to those employees\nwho submit suggestions during the upcoming annual May blitz.\nKevin is the son of Wendy Lariviere, senior dividend clerk with the office\nof the vice-president and secretary at Windsor Station. The apron was\nspecially-designed for this year's May Suggestion Blitz.\nTo qualify for the apron, the employee's suggestion must be submitted\non a suggestion form and received by the Suggestion Plan office next\nmonth. If the suggestion is being sent OCS the address is: Suggestion\nPlan, Windsor Station, Montreal, Quebec.\nThe suggestion can also be sent Royal Mail to: Canadian Pacific\nSuggestion Plan, P.O. Box 6042, Station 'A', Montreal, Quebec. H3C\n3E4.\nLast year, 450 suggestions were submitted during the month of May.\nCheck for fire hazards\nduring spring clean-up\nThe coming of the robin signals the\nstart of the annual spring clean-up on\nthe railway.\nCanadian Pacific's department of\ninsurance and fire protection says\nthe clean-up is an opportunity to inspect the premises and \"eliminate all\nundesirable conditions which might\ndevelop into fire hazards\".\nThe following pointers can be applied to the home as well.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Check all premises, including\nout-of-the-way places (particularly\nstorage cupboards), and dispose of\nold papers, unused clothing, empty\npaint cans and other rubbish.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Clean up yard areas of winter\naccumulation of rubbish and dispose\nof it in a safe manner.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 During the inspection, keep an\neye out for other conditions which\nmight develop into fire hazards and\narrange to have such conditions\ngiven immediate attention.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Be sure all fire extinguishers are\nfully charged, in their proper location\nand ready for immediate use.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Examine all private hydrants and\ntry them under full pressure: at the\nsame time, thoroughly flushing the\nunderground mains. Lubricate the\nworking parts and see that the drains\nare in order.\nA job well done: Charles Fecteau, a carman at Angus Shops, has\nretired after 40 years with the railway.\nLast day: Andrew G. Gullickson,\nassistant superintendent at Nelson,\nB.C., has retired after 40 years. He\nbegan his career in Revelstoke and\nhas served at Beavermouth, Kootenay Division, Revelstoke Division,\nVancouver and Nelson.\nSOLUTION\n(Cont'd from page 6)\nH3IHSVO B SB LU|L|\nAjiiuep! o\ 6u!u,jou si 9J9uj_ 9|dwBX9 joj\n'uewe6B66eq b jo }ue6e }9>pi} b eq p|noo\n}9>p!M ei\\ pujqeq ubw 9i|i ->pBq Auj\nUO 9}BJ0 B 6u|}0} IUB | 'UIUS AlU JO 9A99|S\n9i|} uo >jJBiu-!}|niu b qi|M pgjnpjd\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0aaiaNVH\nIHOIBHd ;S| uoiiBdnooo A|/\|\nbl3iaNVH IHOIdUd 'H3IHSVO\n:9JB SLUBJ6BUB 91]} 0} SUO(}n|OS 9l|l\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Ensure all sprinkler systems are\noperational with control valves open\nfully. Check the sprinkler alarms and\narrange for resumption of weekly\nalarm tests.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Check all water control valves\nand outside post indicator valves to\nensure they are open. Also, lubricate\nand adjust them where necessary\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 It takes so little to touch off\nflammable liquid vapors, dust, lint\nand powder. Obey \"No Smoking\"\nsigns: they are standing guard over\ncritical fire dangers.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Frayed cords, loose connections, broken plugs, switches or outlets are fire danger signs and should\nbe reported. Temporary wiring\nshould not be hung over nails, wrapped around metal pipes, near heat,\nmoisture or oil, or across passageways. Damaged insulation and electric sparks can cause fire.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Vapors from low flashpoint liquids such as gasoline, naptha and\nalcohol can be explosive. Keep only\nsmall amounts of these liquids at\nyour work area in approved non-\nexplosive safety cans. Larger\namounts must be kept in approved\nstorage cabinets or specially designed rooms. Make sure there is\nadequate ventilation. Check for ignition sources like heaters, electrical\nequipment torches.\n Diesel shop earns\ntrophy and cash\nBy STEPHEN MORRIS\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Employees at the\nToronto Diesel Shop, all 280 of them,\nhave a lot to cheer about.\nFor the second year in a row, the\nshop, one of three diesel shops on\nthe system, has been awarded the\nReaional Diesel Shop Trophy and\n$2,500 for attaining the lowest injury\nindex.\nJoe Gagne, manager, and Morris\nPrice, program co-ordinator spearhead the diesel shop's safety\nprogram.\n\"We know that everyone here is\nconvinced that safety isn't a fad but\nsomething that starts at the top and\ngoes down. From our senior officers\ndown, safety is number one,\" says\nMr. Price.\nCOMMUNICATION\nMr. Gagne believes there isn't any\nparticular secret to making a shop\nsafety conscious. \"It takes common\nsense and work,\" says Mr. Gagne.\n\"We think the safety program is two-\nway communication between supervisors and employees.\"\nHealth and safety committees help\noversee the program. Regular\nmonthly meetings for all three shifts\nare an opportunity for everyone to\nknow what has happened and to ex\nchange ideas on what can be done to\nmake the shop even safer.\n\"Films and general discussion at\nthese meetings make employees\nmore safety-minded both on and off\nthe job,\" explains Mr. Price. \"I care,\nJoe cares, we all care. And that\nmakes the difference.\"\nAn added incentive is a $20 draw\nheld each monthly meeting. Any employee who has had an injury is automatically eliminated from the draw.\nKeeping the system safety trophy\nand being number one means thinking up ways to keep everyone interested.\nMr. Price and Mr. Gagne have developed a program whereby a \"one-\non-one\" discussion is held when an\ninjury occurs. It is hoped that knowledge gained from this discussion\ncould prevent another accident from\nhappening.\nTraining new employees to be\neven more safety conscious is also a\nmajor objective at the Ontario diesel\nshop.\n\"The competition for this award is\npretty tough,\" says Mr. Gagne. \"But\nwe'll try and make it three in a row this\nyear.\"\nOther shops competing for the\naward are in Montreal and Winnipeg.\nAt the Revelstoke Dh\nB&B Crew: Rick Milne (left) and Brock Phillips construct a wooden box to\nkeep tools from bouncing around in the back of a truck. Both are members of\nBrandon's B&B crew. The division won the System Divisional Safety Plaque.\nBrandon safety committee\nfosters healthy attitude\nSafety draw: Bruno Pelaia, an engine cleaner who is retiring soon from\nthe Toronto Diesel Shop, draws the name of the lucky winner of $20 at the\nshop's monthly safety meeting as Joe Gagne, manager, (right) and other\nemployees look on.\nBy KEN EMMOND\nThe Brandon Division logged the\nsecond-best safety record on the\nsystem in 1981, but Superintendent\nMac Aberdeen points out that last\nyear's performance was part of a\ntrend that began in 1978.\n\"Four years ago, a division safety\ncommittee was formed here comprised of a member from each of the\nunions and an officer from each department,\" he said. \"It is believed to\nbe one of the first division committees formed at CP Rail.\"\n\"The employees appreciated it\nand so did the officers because it was\na chance to exchange ideas. We paid\nparticular attention to the employees'\nideas as most of their suggestions\nwere sound and practical,\" said Mr.\nAberdeen.\n\"We started slowly but the staff responded enthusiastically... Once we\ngot them going we couldn't stop\nthem.\"\nThe turnaround in the division's\nsafety performance became evident\nin 1980 when Brandon placed third in\nthe division race for the System Divisional Trophy.\nDivision Accident Prevention Coordinator George McBumey agrees\nthe safety committee has played a\nmajor role in improving the division's\nsafety record and in fostering a healthy attitude towards safety.\n\"This method has worked well for\nthe Brandon Division,\" said Mr.\nMcBurney. \"An example of this is the\ntremendous performance of the running trades during 1981.\"\nLast year, there were nine lost-\ntime injuries in the running trades\nemployee group here compared with\n20 recorded in 1980.\n\"The division is looking forward to\nmeeting last year's safety performance. With every employee on the\ndivision working safely, we should\nachieve this goal,\" he said.\nOn-site ir\nBy JANE MUDRY\nREVELSTOKE \u00E2\u0080\u0094 On-site inspections by two health and safety committees of union and management\nrepresentatives has increased \"personal awareness of safety\" among\nemployees here, so much so that the\nRevelstoke Division has won the\n1981 Safety Achievement Award\nTrophy and $4,000.\nThe award is presented to the entity \u00E2\u0080\u0094 division or main shop \u00E2\u0080\u0094 which\nregisters the greatest unit reduction\nin the personal accident frequency\nratio based on the number of lost-\ntime injuries per million man-hours of\nwork.\nRevelstoke Division's frequency\nratio dropped 10.1 points to 16.8 in\n1981 with the running trades group\nrecording the greatest improvement\nwith an accident frequency ratio of\n13.2 last year, compared with 39.7 in\n1980.\nCHALLENGE\n\"The efforts of every employee\ncontributed to our achievement,\"\nsaid Superintendent Jack White.\n\"Improved safety had the support of\nall officers and supervisors with\neveryone getting behind the challenge of making the workplace\nsafer.\"\nFor the past year and a half, the\ntwo 12-men health and safety committees, at Revelstoke and Golden,\nhave been conducting monthly inspections to clean up any safety\nhazards on the worksites and uncover any potential dangers.\nJohn Ascoli, a carman and member of the committee here, said: \"The\ncommittee made people more a-\nware; it stressed safety and the importance to take time to think.\"\nOne of the key figures in the division's success is Fred Christoffer-\nson, former division safety coordinator, who is now regional accident prevention co-ordinator stationed at Vancouver.\nMr. Christofferson stressed the importance of communication and a\ntwo-way exchange of information between management and labor in\nmaintaining a safe workplace.\nIt's hard to escape Ogden's safety m<\nVoice On the phone: Accident Prevention Officer Don Palmer is the first\nto admit safety is a co-operative effort at Ogden Shops where it is hard to\nescape the safety message.\nBy RALPH WILSON\nCALGARY \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"Safety, Don Palmer,\" says the voice on the phone.\nAt Ogden Shops, the words and\nthe name are synonymous.\nMr. Palmer, the Moose Jaw-born\naccident prevention officer, has\nserved with the company for 11 years\nand, from the number of certificates\nand citations decorating his spartan\noffice, he knows his stuff.\nCO-OPERATIVE EFFORT\nBut Mr. Palmer is the first to admit\nsafety is a co-operative effort, the result of sound management, regular\nprograms and meetings and constant reminders.\nThis co-operation led to a safety\nrecord in 1981 unrivalled by any\nother main shop across the system.\n\"We've put a lot into it. It's an ongoing program. You can't let up for\none minute,\" he said.\nLast year, Ogden recorded only 20\nlost-time accidents. With about 1,000\nemployees working in three shifts\naround the clock, that's a phenomenal performance. The efforts at Ogden\nresulted in an injury index of 3.4, a\nfigure calculated through a formula\ninvolving frequency of injury, based\non the number of injuries per million\nman-hours, and severity, based on\nthe number of days lost due to injuries.\n\"A zero index is Utopia. I'd be very\nsuspicious of any area that gets a\nzero. That's more good luck than\ngood management,\" Mr. Palmer\nsaid.\nAt Ogden, it's difficult to escape\nsafety messages \u00E2\u0080\u0094 they're everywhere. More than 100 large safety\nbillboards adorn shop walls; huge\nmurals, painted by employees, hammer home safety tips. Even shop\nboxcars and tank cars carry brightly-\ncolored messages. Every available\nspace is used.\nBut the effort doesn't stop there.\n\"We hold weekly meetings, hosted\nby each line supervisor who has 20 to\n25 men under his responsibility. Every Monday morning for twenty minutes we have a different safety\ntheme. There are 50 topics in all,\ncovering virtually every area of safety,\" said Mr. Palmer.\nThese range from general safety\npractice and job awareness to more\nspecific topics such as tool use and\nelectrical hazards.\n\"Even so, the job's getting tougher.\nIf you let up, guys get hurt for stupid\nreasons. That's why our main thrust\nis to get the employees to respect\nsafety laws,\" he said.\nWhat may seem a rather obvious\nduty \u00E2\u0080\u0094 general housekeeping \u00E2\u0080\u0094 is\ncentral to Ogden's safety program.\nGOOD HOUSEKEEPING\n\"Housekeeping is a major concern. There's a general clean-up\nonce a week and each worker is encouraged to keep his area clear of\nmaterial. By doing that you cut down\non tripping and stumbling and that\ncuts down on a lot of your accidents,\"\nMr. Palmer said.\nAlthough the company plays a major role in ensuring employee safety,\nMr. Palmer insists it's employee attitude that's most important.\n\"We must, of course, provide a\nsafe working environment for our employees. But it's up to the employee\ntoo. It's only common sense. The employee has an equal responsibility,\"\nhe said.\nSafety, Mr. Palmer maintains, is\nsimply good working habits. An employee who pays attention to what\nhe's doing is protecting himself from\ninjury. Psychology, too, plays an important role.\n\"Everyone's dealing with the eco-\n ision\nspections reduce accidents\nncreased awareness: Carman Walter Maki is seen here using a single-car air brake tester while in the inset (from left)\nNeal Foot, assistant superintendent, Jack White, superintendent, and Cecil Darby, assistant superintendent, discuss Revel-\nstoke's safety performance which has improved with the ehlp of on-site safety inspections.\n\"Part of the accomplishment is due\nto competition between departments,\" he added. \"The idea was to\n'keep it clean' so that when inspections happened, the department\nwouldn't be caught with any obvious\nhazards. This competition led to personal pride by departments.\"\nCecil Darby, assistant superintendent, mountain subdivision, noted\nthat most accidents seem to happen\nin the last hour of duty. \"I've found\nstatistics prove it. Whatever the\nreason is \u00E2\u0080\u0094 tiredness, distraction or\ndesire to go home \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the last hour of\nduty is the key.\"\nNeal Foot, assistant superintendent, Shuswap subdivision, said increased personal involvement by the\n^ssage\nnomic conditions. Often this means\nthe employee's mind is not on the job.\nThat's why we maintain a constant\nawareness program. The line supervisors have a heavy load to carry\nkeeping the employees' minds on\ntheir jobs.\"\nMr. Palmer stresses the need for\nemployees to report even the smallest of injuries. A small cut, he warns,\ncan lead to infection and lost time.\n\"A couple of dollars worth of Band-\nAids for a cut or two can make all the\ndifference in the world. A worker is no\ngood to us if he's sick. We need him\nhere,\" he said.\nMr. Palmer is a fair, albeit, firm\nsafety officer. Failure to wear safety\nboots, glasses or a hard hat is a serious offence in his books and can\nresult in disciplinary action.\nWorks manager Angelo Vulcano is\nthe driving force behind Ogden's successful safety program. As far as he's\nconcerned, there's simply no excuse\nfor accidents.\n\"Of course, accidents will happen.\nIt's inevitable. But it's Don's job to\nmake sure they don't happen very\noften. It's tough work but we've got to\nget through to the employees. It's\ntheir lives and their livelihood,\" Mr.\nVulcano said.\ndivision's supervisors also contributed to Revelstoke's success.\n\"Whenever an accident occurred,\nthe supervisor would respond immediately and talk to the injured employee to determine the reason,\"\nsaid Mr. Foot. \"Corrective action\nwould be taken, if necessary, to prevent additional persons being injured.\"\nTIP OF ICEBERG\nThe $4,000 which accompanies\nthe trophy will be used to establish an\nEmployee Assistance Committee to\ncounsel employees who have financial, marital or addiction-related\nproblems, he said.\nSuperintendent White said that\nwhile Revelstoke can enjoy its cur\nrent achievement \"you can't let your\nguard down.\"\n\"The statistics just show the tip of\nthe iceberg of total accidents,\" he\nsaid. \"There is a potential danger in\nevery so-called minor accident, even\nthe ones that result in no lost-time.\n\"We must strive to reduce the total\nnumber of accidents that occur \u00E2\u0080\u0094\neach is potentially serious, even fatal. We must therefore reduce the total number of accidents, not just the\nlost-time ones,\" he said.\nThis type of determination has\nproven itself in the past. In 1977,\nAlberta North Division won the Safety\nAchievement Award Trophy. The division superintendent was Jack\nWhite.\n(Anew to therail.)\n^V\t\n\s fossil fuel prices escalate, the idea of electrifying Canada's railway's has been revived.\nPeter Detmold, special consultant to the vice-president of industry\nrelations at CP Rail, is chairman of the committee charged with studying the economic viability of electrification.\nIt's a mammoth task requiring the committee to gather data on the\ncapital costs of building an electrified rail system and to determine the\nfuel savings, operating capacity, efficiency and national benefits of\nsuch a plan.\n\"There's no immediacy to invest in an expensive electrical system\nnow because the financial return wouldn't be worth it,\" he told Canadian Transportation and Distribution Management magazine recently.\n\"It may take as long as 30 years to decide on going ahead with\nelectrification. It may not be our top priority at the moment, but it's a\npriority,\" he said.\nOn the electrification committee are representatives from the federal\ngovernment, the provincial governments of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta\nand Manitoba, as well as officials from several hydro-electric companies and CN Rail.\nMr. Detmold told the magazine preliminary findings by the committee wouldn't be unveiled until the end of the year, at the earliest.\n\"This is too important for a superficial dash. People won't have\nconfidence in the study if it's done in that manner,\" he said.\n* * *\nTipping in the loo: Japanese National Railways inaugurated its first\n\"tip toilet\" Dec. 1 at Yokohama Station, reports Railway Gazette International, but it's too early to determine whether other such facilities will\nbe created in Japan.\nOf 4,700 passengers using the new toilet facilities at Yokohama\nStation the first day, only 658 left a tip.\nIn Holland, the Dutch expect to place a 25 cent coin in the saucer\nprovided after using such facilities. But in Britain the expression to\n\"spend a penny\" has largely become redundant as most public toilets\nare free of charge, except, that is, for British Rail's \"superloos\" provided at some major stations where a charge much greater than 1p is\nlevied.\n* * *\nSeventh heaven: To paraphrase: One man's music is another man's\nheadache. As the bells rang out on Parliament Hill for 15 long days last\nmonth, at least one man seemed delighted.\nLiberal Whip Charlie Turner, fondly known as \"Choo-choo Charlie\"\nbecause of his earlier career as a CN Rail locomotive engineer, was all\nsmiles as he stalked the corriders reverberating to the sound of the\nbells, reported the Ottawa Citizen.\nAs one of his colleagues put it: \"Charlie's in seventh heaven \u00E2\u0080\u0094 he\nthinks he's found the biggest level crossing in the world.\"\nThe bells were silenced at 2:28 p.m. St. Patrick's Day.\nOn the job: Boilermaker Dave Gorst, who works in Revelstoke, prepares to\nmake a weld. Revelstoke won the 1981 Safety Achievement Award Trophy and\n$4,000.\n* * *\nStereo headsets: As more and more people head for the parks and\nstreets to walk, jog and cycle this spring, many will be bringing their\nmusic with them in the form of lightweight stereo headsets.\nThe Canada Safety Council warns that the use of these sets are\nreally only safe in situations such as playing in the park, or watching a\nballgame, says Rick Green, the council's manager of communications.\nTheir potential danger is illustrated in the death of a 17-year-old\nToronto youth who was struck by a CP Rail freight train while jogging\nand listening to his stereo headset He didn't hear the train.\nThe safety council emphasizes the headsets themselves are not\nhazardess, but can be dangerous in certain situations.\n\"They shut out noises you should hear to warn you of danger,\" says\nMr. Green. \"Even if you turn the volume down while you're out for a\nwalk or jogging or whatever, they restrict your ability to hear things until\nthey're almost on top of you.\"\n* * *\nOnce upon a time: This is the story of four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.\nThere was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that\nSomebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.\nSomebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.\nEverybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that\nEverybody wouldn't do it.\nIt ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody accused Anybody. And on that note...\n The Sons of Martha cairns\nVerse a clue to McLean's motive\nBy NICHOLAS MORANT\n(Second of two parts)\nThere are several fieldstone\nmonuments bearing Rudyard Kipling's verses about \"The Sons of\nMartha\" around the country \u00E2\u0080\u0094 all of\nthem the work of one Harry Falconer\nMcLean.\nMcLean carried a secondary set of\nbusiness cards introducing himself\nas Harry \"Big Pantz\" McLean. Also in\nhis wallet was a piece of paper with a\nverse which, later in this story, puts\ninto focus McLean's motive for building the mysterious cairns like the one\nat Hawk Lake.\nCharles Hyson, a retired electrical\nsuperintendent who worked for\nMcLean for 20 years, said the often\narrogant, self-centred contractor\npresided over eight companies \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmost of them during the depression\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 three of which were based in the\nUnited States.\nThe companies grossed more than\na half a billion dollars in contracts\nwhich included the building of the\npower dam at Abitibi, Quebec, an extension of the New York City water\nsystem into the Catskill Mountains\nand two railroads at Flin Flon and\nJames Bay.\nADEPT BUSINESSMAN\nYet Harry McLean was not a civil\nengineer; nor could he have joined\n\"The Sons of Martha.\"\nHe was an adept businessman\nwho knew the value of promotion and\nused his colorful personality to the\nfullest.\nThis was the same man who, with\nsome business associates, walked in\nToronto's Royal York Hotel and\nwaited for \"Frenchie\", a well-known\nmaltre d'hotel of the era, to greet\nthem at the Imperial Room.\nWithout a word, McLean and his\nfriends seized the unsuspecting hotel\nemployee, grabbed the tails of his\nformal jacket and ripped it unmercifully into two pieces.\nCoatless, the maitre d'hotel\nescorted the party to their table.\nThe imperturbable waiter took it in\nstride for he knew his customer all too\nwell. Tomorrow would bring a new\ncoat and a $100 tip.\nOne of McLean's \"empires\" was\nthe Grenville Crushed Rock Company which produced ballast from the\nproperty at East Hawk Lake owned\nby the Canadian Pacific Railway\nCompany.\nNot only did the company produce\nthe ballast, but delivered and laid it\nalong the railway's right of way using,\nfor the most part, equipment owned\nby McLean.\nIn those days the quarry machin-\nTribute: This is the plaque on the\nHawk Lake cairn built by Harry\nMcLean.\nery operated on rails. There were ten\nlocomotives around the pit and more\nthan 200 workers lived in the nearby\n\"company village.\"\nThe Grenville company boasted it\nhad one of the first diesel-electric\npower plants in Canada.\nFor some time, the CPR station\nwas part of the village, but was later\nmoved after a blast in the quarry\nhurled a 50 kilogram rock into the\nstation agent's bed \u00E2\u0080\u0094 fortunately unoccupied at the time.\nMcLean was always outspoken in\nhis admiration for his laborers. Referring to them as \"my working stiffs\",\nhe maintained these were the guys\nwho, with the aid of huge Marion\nsteam shovels, the monster rock\ncrusher, the locomotives and the rolling stock, actually did the work and\nmade it all a success.\nFATALITY\nWhen one of his men was lost in an\naccident beside one of the steam\nshovels, it seems entirely typical of\nMcLean's character that a cairn\nwould appear outside the quarry at\nHawk Lake.\nBut the inscription implies the person who died at Hawk Lake was a\nmember of the Sons of Martha.\nApparently this was not so, but everyone could see \"Big Pantz\" McLean\norganizing the whole affair, seeking\nout a good foundry, arranging for the\nstone work...\nHe never attended the unveiling\nceremonies because he detested\nofficial functions. He sent a friend in\nhis place.\nDuring the First World War,\nMcLean was heavily involved with\nthe Canadian government and, on\none occasion, was asked to investigate wartime railroading problems.\nHe drew a good fee for his services\nbut donated his cheque to the mess\nfund of the-engineering regiment\noverseas.\nThen there was the taxi driver who\noffered his fare a place to sleep on his\nsofa because all the hotel rooms in\nHalifax were booked. McLean\ngratefully accepted and, before leaving in the morning, handed a $500\ncheque to the driver's wife.\n\"Put that away for the youngster to\nget him started on a college education. He's going to need one,\" he said\npointing to the couple's son in a nearby crib.\nIf there was one thing McLean\ncould not tolerate, it was what he re-\nfered to as the \"idle rich.\"\nThere are many tales, some of\nthem true, of McLean throwing $20\nbills from hotel windows, but at the\nRoyal York Hotel a somewhat different episode took place.\nMcLean and some friends were\npassing along the mezzanine overlooking the lower lobby. A number of\nthe \"idle rich\" mingled below.\nIt is said McLean had had a few\ndrinks and was feeling no pain; to this\nman of action, the sight of someone\ndoing nothing irked him.\nHe started throwing small change\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 no bills but pennies and dimes.\nThose below started scuffling for the\nmoney.\nTHE IDLE RICH\n\"Look at those lazy SOB's fighting\nfor pennies,\" he shouted in contempt\nas he left.\nMcLean is also credited with a\nnumber of firsts.\nHe was the first to come up with a\nsuccessful approach to building railroads over permafrost areas (Flin\nFlon and James Bay) and was the\nfirst to produce an industrial motion\npicture with sound, a film about the\nAbitibi power project.\nMcLean died in nearly total seclusion in a small Ontario town. And like\nthe stories about him, a clue to why\nhe built the monuments in tribute to\n\"The Sons of Martha\" didn't die with\nhim.\nOn a piece of paper, in his wallet,\nalong with his famous business\ncards, was written a short verse.\nThe poet is unknown, but the original copy is a mysterious little dedication, much akin to the late Jimmy\nDurante's sign-off message: \"Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you\nare!\"\nThe verse read:\nAnd Martha's sons will be there\nJust as natural as earth\nBuilding a bridge to Heaven,\nFor the Boss that knew their\nworth.\nInvestiture: Governor-general Edward Schreyer recently presided over the Investiture of The Order of St. John\nat Notre Dame Basilica in Ottawa. Attending were: (from left) W.W. Stinson, president of Canadian Pacific, who was\npromoted to commander; A. W. Lourie, regional mechanical officer, Atlantic Region, who was admitted as a serving\nbrother; Dr. Wm. L. May, chief of medical services and chairman of the Canadian Pacific Special Centre; J.P. Kelsall,\ngeneral manager of grain policy administration, who was admitted as a serving brother, and A.G. Volcano, works\nmanager at Ogden Shops, who was also admitted as a serving brother. Gov.-gen. Schreyer is Prior of the Priory of\nCanada.\nWarm Wishes: Representing a total of 148 years service, four Alyth\nDiesel Shop employees recently retired. John Reddekop, (left) Alyth Diesel\nShop manager is seen with pensioners (from left), George Locket, electromechanical instructor, 29 years service; Sebestyen Brenner, assistant engineer, 33 years; W. Ray Hicks, electrician, 41 years and Walter E. Bradfield,\na machinist with 45 years service.\nTr'lO retires: With more than 118 years of combined service, three\nconductors at Revelstoke have retired. They are (from left) Arnold Abramson,\nwith 36 years of service, Len Abear, with 36 years of service, and Stan\nWebster, with 46 years of service. \t\nOCCUPATION c\u00C2\u00A3)\nPLEASE\" O\ng g g ft q t?.\nXr^aJ^d^^vA\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\nMY NAME IS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:\nGERALD H. THIFERN\nERIC ASH\nMY OCCUPATION IS:\nHere's all you do:\nUnder this cartoon is a list of names. To find his or her occupation, solve the anagram of each of the names (i.e. by arranging\nall the letters in each name) to spell out each occupation. Then\nexamine the cartoon carefully for clues and select the one occupation that is more appropriate to the illustration.\nThe answer is on page 3.\n \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nsal Si\nI\nt\nOF\nHappy 50th: J. S. McNabb and his\nwife Dagne recently celebrated their\n50th wedding anniversary. Mr.\nMcNabb retired in 1972 as locomotive engineer on the Canadian running between Thunder Bay and\nIgnace. He had worked for the company for 47 years.\nPent'lCtOn dUO: Palmer Sather (left) and his wife Dorothy are\nseen here with Merle Calder and his wife Eileen on the employees' last\nday of work.\nRail way men retire\nTwo employees with a combined service of 77 years have retired at\nPenticton, B.C.\nLocomotive Engineer Palmer Sather has called it quits after 42 years\nand Trainman Merle Calder is retiring after 35 years.\nMr. Sather started with the railway in 1940 as a wiper, was promoted\nfireman two years later and then became a locomotive engineer. He has\nworked at every railway terminal in British Columbia and was local\nchairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for 10 years.\nRetirement plans for Mr. Sather and his wife Dorothy include visiting\nrelatives in Scandinavia.\nMr. Calder has worked mainly in the Penticton area, though he has\nalso worked out of Revelstoke.\nGolden anniversary: Mr. and\nMrs. J. R. Weaver recently celebrated their 50th wedding\nanniversary. Mr. Weaver joined CP\nRail in 1928 and retired as a supervisor on the Schreiber Division in\n1974.\nRailroaders: Paul Nimigon, roadmaster on the Toronto Division shares a\nhearty laugh with his son Paul, a trainmaster on the division, on the elder\nPaul's last day of work. Mr. Nimigon, who worked at CP Rail for 40 years, and\nhis wife will spend their retirement years in Peterborough, Ont., enjoying the\noutdoor life of travelling, gardening and fishing.\nWarm wishes: Napoleon Gauthier,\na laborer at Angus Shops, has retired with 38 years of service.\nA few words: Robert Paul, an\nassistant supervisor in the customer\nservice centre at Sudbury, has retired after 42 years of service.\nA job well done: Roger Paradis, a machinist at Angus Shops, has\nretired after 40 years of service. His entire career was spent at Angus where\nhe started in 1941 as an apprentice machinist.\nRetired: Leo Breen (left), general\nchairman UTU for the Atlantic and\nEastern Regions, has retired with 40\nyears of service. Wishing him well is\nAlex Boyar, former superintendent,\nToronto Division, who is now acting\ngeneral manager for the Eastern Region.\nFinishing Up: Jacques Arpin, supervisor of expediting at Angus Shops,\nhas retired with 40 years of service. Mr. Arpin started in the materials\ndepartment in 1942 as a helper and retired as an experienced and well-\ntravelled supervisor. His travels took him from Montreal to Megantic, Sherbrooke, Sudbury and back to Angus.\nCongratulations: Ken Jones (centre), mechanical supervisor at the\noperations centre in Montreal, has retired after 41 years of service. Mr. Jones\nis the first employee to retire from the 9-year-old system operation centre,\nwhich is staffed by mechanical and transportation personnel. Congratulating\nMr. Jones are J. H. Geddis (left), chief of transportation and D. F. Haney,\nassistant chief mechanical officer.\nEnds career: Walter Nackoney, a\ntrainman-conductor, has retired after 37 years. Mr. Nackoney has\nworked in Penticton and Medicine\nHat, but most of his career was spent\nat Brandon.\n CPRail H\nI*\nBulk Ennombre\nthird troisieme\nclass classe\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nVolume 12\nNumber 5\nApril 14, 1982\nNews\nSafety On the mind: Carman Bill Prevada, a memberofthe Brandon Division safety committee, guides a set of\nwheels onto a car. Mr. Prevada is one of 17 mechanical department employees who have not had a lost-time\naccident in 13 years.\nOn-the-job accident figures\nshow a marked improvement\nBy TIMOTHY R. HUMPHREYS\nCP Rail's overall on-the-job safety\nperformance last year improved 40.9\nper cent over 1980, according to\nyear-end figures released recently.\nAlthough the number of lost time\ninjuries increased slightly in 1981,\nfrom 1,137 in 1980 to 1,177, their\nseverity, measured in the number of\ndays lost or charged per million man-\nhours, dropped significantly from\n4,180 in 1980 to 1,275 last year. This\nresulted in the railway achieving an\ninjury index of 5.2 in 1981, a marked\nimprovement over the 8.8 injury index registered in 1980.\nPROGRAM IS WORKING\nThe injury index takes into account\nthe frequency and severity of injuries\nand serves as a barometer by which\nthe company monitors the safety performance of each region, main shop\nand division.\n\"These figures indicate that our\ncurrent safety program is working.\nHowever, much work remains if we\nare to reduce the number of job-\nrelated injuries further,\" said John\nSadler, superintendent of accident\nprevention for the system.\nWith 35,000 employees, more than\n70,000 pieces of railway equipment\nand 38,400 kilometres of track laced\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 On-site safety inspections are an\nimportant part of Revelstoke's safety\nprogram. Page 5.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Safety officers meet to exchange\nideas on how to improve accident prevention program. Page 8.\nacross the country, achieving an excellent safety record is an arduous\ntask requiring an all-out effort by\neach and every employee, said Mr.\nSadler.\n\"As redundant and simple the\nmessage 'Stop, look and listen' might\nseem, we must all heed this advice in\norder to continue to make the railway\na safe place to work,\" he said.\nThe safety statistics came to light\nwith the announcement of the railway's system and regional safety\naward winners for 1981. A total of\n$17,500 will be awarded to the system safety award winners.\nInside the News\nThe cairn at Hawk Lake, which bears the verses of Rudyard Kipling\nabout \"The Sons of Martha\", is the handiwork of Harry Falconer\nMcLean, an enigmatic and controversial figure, writes Nicholas\nMorant in the second of two parts. See page 6.\n* * *\nThe Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a silver dollar commemorating\nthe majestic bison and the vitality of Regina, which celebrates its\ncentennial this year. Regina was originally called \"Pile O'Bones\"\nbecause Indians used to dump the bones of the bison killed in the hunt\nat a burial ground there. When the Canadian Pacific Railway arrived,\nthe settlement was renamed Regina in honor of Queen Victoria. See\npage 2.\nBeginning with the system awards,\nthe 1981 winners are:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Prairie Region. With an injury\nindex of 4.01 last year, the Prairie\nRegion edged out the Eastern Region by 0.05 points to win the System\nRegional Safety Trophy. The Prairie\nRegion's 1981 injury index was a\n43.5 per cent improvement over\n1980 \"and demonstrates the dedication and hard work of all the divisions\non the region,\" said Mr. Sadler.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Smiths Falls. Again Superintendent Dick Burroughs has steered his\ndivision to the safety forefront with his\nsecond consecutive win of the System Divisional Trophy and the $4,000\nmonetary award. The division's 600\nemployees handle train movements\nover 855 kilometers of track and recorded an impressive 0.8 injury index\nlast year compared with a 1.7 index in\n1980.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Brandon. A runner-up to Smiths\nFalls as the best division on the system, Brandon Division has garnered\nthe System Divisional Safety Plaque\nand a cash award of $3,000. It placed\nthird in 1980 and managed to trim\nits injury index to 2.1 to win the\nplaque for 1981. \"A dedicated effort\nby all the staff and a good working\nprogram are responsible here,\" commented Phil Juneau, assistant superintendent of accident prevention.\n\"What must also be noted is the\ntremendous improvement by the running trades which brought their injury\nindex down from 38.7 to 17.8.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Ogden Shops. Some 1,115 employees work at this busy 157-acre\nsite and when a visitor enters the\ngrounds he can't help but think safety\nbecause of the numerous posters\nand billboards placed around the\narea. \"It is this awareness that\nhelped Ogden win the 1981 Main\n(See \"Overall\" page 8)\nRailway fine-tunes\nwestern operations\nCALGARY \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail is fine-tuning its rail operations on the key\nmain line corridor between Calgary and Vancouver to move as much\nfreight tonnage as it can until planned improvements can be completed, a senior CP Rail executive said recently.\nJ.D. Bromley, vice-president of the\nPacific Region, told the annual meeting of the Western Transportation\nAdvisory Council that CP Rail is aiming to squeeze \"every remaining bit\nof capacity out of its system\" until the\n$500-million-plus Rogers Pass tunnel and track improvement project\ncan be completed.\n\"To gain maximum tonnage\nthroughput we're looking at the operating times of trains, train meets, signals, roadbed structure and every\nother aspect of the operation,\" he\nsaid. \"Every added ton we can move\neach day will shorten the period of\nlimited capacity that will exist until the\ntunnel is completed.\"\nBOTTLENECK\nBecause of steep grades and the\nneed to use pusher locomotives, the\nRogers Pass area is the major bot\ntleneck encountered by freight trains\nbetween Calgary and Vancouver.\nThe railway is already running\nheavier tonnage on many trains as a\nresult of reducing three other gradients in the mountains, and an $8\nmillion project to provide five miles of\ndouble track is planned this year to\neliminate train delays in the Revelstoke area.\nMr. Bromley said that none of the\nmeasures being taken \"is a substitute for the Rogers Pass Project \u00E2\u0080\u0094 or\nfor having the financial resources to\nput more than $7 billion into improving the CP Rail system over this decade.\"\nSolving the problem of grain revenues is critical, he said, because\n\"as future capital needs have been\ngrowing, so has the financial burden\ncaused by the losses from grain\ntransportation.\"\nTops in Curling: Locomotive Engineer Bruce Kennedy, at left,\nand his teanmates hold up the Silver Broom they won in the world\ncurling championships. The other members of the winning rink, from\nBruce's left, are Bob Nicol, Rick Lang and Al Hackner. (UPI photo).\nBruce helps sweep rink\nto 'Silver Broom' win\nBy KEN EMMOND\nCP Rail Locomotive Engineer Bruce Kennedy has come home a\nworld champion.\nBruce is a member of the rink that won the coveted Silver Broom at\nthe world curling championships April 4 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,\nWest Germany.\nIt was Canada's second world championship in three years and a first\nfor the Thunder Bay, Ont., rink skipped by Al Hackner, a CN Rail\nswitchman. The other members of the rink are Bob Nicol and Rick Lang.\nBruce says his job as a locomotive engineer gives him plenty of time\nto curl and is one of the main reasons he could be a part of the world's\ntop rink this year. He plays lead.\n\"I have enough seniority now,\" said the 33-year-old bachelor before\nleaving to play in the Silver Broom tournament which ran from March 29\nto April 4.\n\"I have a midnight job and my weekends off so I can curl.\"\nJudicious choice of holiday time can help too.\nBruce took a week off in January for the zone play-offs, and two\nweeks off last month to play for, and win, the Brier in the Canadian\ncurling championships. He arranged a leave of absence to play in the\nworld championships.\nThe Silver Broom culminates a season of cash bonspiels and club,\nzone, district, provincial and national meets.\n is suggestion month\n<*?\nf?\nK&*\n^\n CANADIAN PACIFIC employee suggestion form\nCANADIEN PACIFIQUE formule de suggestion du personnel\nFOR OFFICE USE ONLY:\nRESERVE AU BUREAU:\nNUMBER/N\u00C2\u00B0\nForward to:\nEmployees' Suggestion Plan\nCanadian Pacific, Windsor Station\nMontreal, P.Q. 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H3C 3E4\nVolume 12\nNumber 6\nMay 5, 1982\nRogers Pass Project\nDispatcher honored: Dispatcher Stan Taylor (left) received a certificate of merit from Fire Chief Lloyd Moist (right) and Winnipeg Mayor Bill\nNorrie for rescuing a baby from a fire.\nTaylor rescues infant\nfrom burning house\nBy KEN EMMOND\nLast Feb. 12 CP Rail Dispatcher\nStan Taylor was enjoying his day off\nwork when a neighbor rushed into his\nhouse, shouting that there was a fire\nnext door.\nMoments later, Mr. Taylor was on\nhis hands and knees, crawling\nthrough the smoke-filled house,\nsearching for a 10-week-old baby.\n\"It was just lucky we got the baby\nout of there,\" said Mr. Taylor afterward. \"That baby just gave a little\nwhimper at the right time. I just padded over and started feeling around\nand found this little bunting bag.\"\nOn March 23, Mr. Taylor was\nawarded a certificate of merit by\nWinnipeg Mayor Bill Norrie and Fire\nChief Lloyd Moist.\nMayor Norrie called the rescue a\n\"tremendous example for the\ncitizens of Winnipeg,\" and said Mr.\nTaylor entered his neighbor's house\n\"at considerable risk to himself.\"\nFire Chief Moist said the baby\nwould likely have died had Mr. Taylor\nnot braved the blinding smoke to rescue him.\nMr. Taylor said he was a little taken\naback by all the publicity he has received.\n\"I thought there would be just the\nfire chief, the mayor, and myself at\nthe presentation, but there were TV\ncameras, microphones, radio... It\nscared hell out of me,\" he said.\nMr. Taylor, 54, started with CP Rail\nas a call boy in 1944. He has been a\ndispatcher since 1963.\nFox presents detailed plans\nto federal environment panel\nBy DON BOWER\nDetailed plans for the proposed\n34-kilometre double-tracking project\nthrough Rogers Pass have been presented to the Federal Environment\nAssessment Review Panel.\nCP Rail's Chief Engineer John Fox\noutlined the plans at hearings held by\nthe panel April 13-17 in Vancouver,\nRevelstoke, Golden and Calgary.\nThe plans detail the engineering\nand construction program for the\n$500 million project and also cover\nthe railway's program of controls\nwhich are designed to mitigate any\nadverse environmental effects during construction and operation of the\nline.\nThe Rogers Pass project will include two tunnels, one of them 14.5\nkm long through Mount MacDonald,\n13 bridges and 34 km of new track.\nIn his remarks to the panel, Mr. Fox\nsaid the grade improvement project\nisotvital importance to the economy\nof Western Canada and work must\nbegin this month to be completed by\nlate 1986.\nBetween 1965 and 1980, the railway experienced significant in-\n'Para-chemics' to be trained\nto help out at derailments\nEDMONTON \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail plans to\nset up 12 specialized rapid-\ndeployment teams across Canada\nfor responding to derailments involving chemical products, a senior executive said April 21.\nC.R. Pike, vice-president, operation and maintenance, told a conference on petrochemicals the railway's\nplans involve having an initial team\nformed and equipped by early fall.\nThe initial team will undergo evaluation across Canada and all 12\nteams will be in place by the summer\nof 1983.\nThe teams will be able to confirm\nand identify chemical hazards and\ntheir extent, carry out minor repairs\nand assist in other aspects of\nemergency work.\n\"These teams will have a major\ncapability \u00E2\u0080\u0094 to move quickly to the\nscene of a chemical derailment,\" Mr.\nPike said.\nCreation of the teams would supplement the existing roles of railway\nemergency crews, who are primarily\nequipped for clearing derailments,\nand chemical industry emergency\npersonnel who are called on to handle chemical products.\nMr. Pike termed the new railway\nteams \"para-chemics\" who would\nnot take the place of the chemical\nindustry crews.\nEach team will have its own four-\nwheel-drive emergency vehicle\nequipped with radio-telephone and\nretractable rail wheels for use when\nroad access to a derailment is not\navailable. The vehicles' emergency\ngear, including breathing apparatus,\nchemical suits and hazard detection\nequipment, will be packaged for ease\nof transfer to a helicopter where\nnecessary.\nCP Rail has also conducted more\nthan 200 safety seminars across\nCanada in the last year to familiarize\ngovernment, fire and police personnel with dangerous commodities normally handled by rail through their\nareas, and to deal with information\nand communication procedures between railway and emergency\nforces.\ncreases in westbound traffic through\nRogers Pass resulting from the emergence of Western Canada as a major supplier of coal, grain, sulphur,\npotash and petrochemicals to major\nmarkets around the world.\nWith dramatic increases in this\ntraffic being forecast for this decade,\nthe producers of these and other\ncommodities now undertaking plant\nexpansion projects must be assured\nthat railway capacity will be adequate\nto meet their transportation requirements, he explained.\nTo meet this predicted growth in\ntraffic, timing of the Rogers Pass project is critical.\nWinter construction cannot be\ndone until construction forces are\nunderground and the 1982 work\nprogram must start this month to\nallow completion before winter.\nThe work at the west portal of the\n14.5-km tunnel under Mount MacDonald is most critical in this regard\nsince a delay at the portal would set\nback work on this main tunnel by a\nyear. The surface work must also be\ncompleted this year to allow the project to proceed on schedule.\nThe 1982 work schedule includes:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 excavation of the east portal of\nthe Rogers Pass tunnel.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 construction of the west portal of\nthe Rogers Pass tunnel.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 clearing the surface route right-\nof-way and construction of access\nroads along the surface route.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 carrying out required geotech-\nnical investigation.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 finalizing all engineering on the\nsurface route.\nBoth CP Rail and Parks Canada\nrecognize that rehabilitation of the\nwork area through Glacier National\nPark is a major concern, said Mr.\nFox, and final engineering will in-\nclude environmental and reclamation\nfeatures.\nMr. Fox explained that the route for\nthe new line was selected because it\n(See \"Rogers\" page 3)\nPipe train beats deadline despite weather\nBy RALPH WILSON\nNORTH PORTAL, Sask. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Spring\nwas already more than two weeks\nold, but in this tiny border town in\nsouthern Saskatchewan, the only\nsign was the date on the calendar.\nOvernight on April 8, heavy arctic\nwinds had blown in, often gusting to\nmore than 65 kilometres an hour.\nWith the winds came driving snow\nand sub-zero temperatures. Visibility\nfor most of the night and the next day\nwas at or near zero.\nAt CP Rail's station, within a\nstone's throw of the U.S. border crossing, a train crew was awaiting the\narrival of Soo Line's train Number\n943. The mile-long freight was hauling eight miles of natural gas pipe,\nbound for Burstall, Sask. and\nEdmonton, Alta.\nPipe shipments are not normally\nunusual events in this oil-laden corner of Western Canada. Pipe is nearly as common as prairie grain. This\ntrain, however, was somewhat different. It had left Panama City, Florida,\nfour days earlier with orders to highball it north in order to make the\n4,827-km journey to Edmonton by\nApril 15.\nOrganizing this type of run is no\nsimple feat. Six railroads, including\nCP Rail, were involved. When the\ntrain left Panama City in northwest\nFlorida, the temperature was in the\nhigh seventies fahrenheit. By the\ntime it pulled into Chicago, weather\nadvisories had been issued. The\nmid-west was about to be hit by a\nwhopper of a blizzard.\n(See \"Pipe\" page 4)\nmSXX\nLong haul: Despite inclement weather, a trainload of pipe for the Foothills natural gas pipeline makes\nnorth to Edmonton. (Photo by Nicholas\nits way\nMorant)\n Railway improvements\nin eastern Canada\nto cost $83.6 million\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 CP Rail plans to\nspend $66.6 million this year on\nbuilding and reconstruction in Ontario and an additional $17 million has\nbeen allocated for new construction\nand improvements in the Atlantic Region.\nIncluded in the Ontario program\nare the laying of 108 kilometres of\nnew rail, the rebuilding of 27 bridges\nand culverts, the construction of a\nstation and track maintenance facility\nat Streetsville and the installation of\n17 hot box detectors to supplement\nthe 36 others already installed\nthroughout the province.\n\"In the past six years, CP Rail has\nspent more than $237 million in\nOntario upgrading and maintaining\nthe railway,\" says D.C. Coleman,\nEastern Region vice-president.\nENERGY EFFICIENT\n\"Rail is an increasingly attractive\nmode for transporting goods because it is energy efficient. This upgrading program helps ensure we\ncan meet traffic demand.\"\nRail is being replaced along 32.7\nkm between Bedell and Smiths Falls;\nfor 12.7 km from Milton to Guelph\nJunction; for 23.6 km from the western part of Toronto to Emery; for 14.2\nkm in the eastern section of Toronto\ninto the railway's main yard in Scarborough and for 24 km between Hur-\nkett and Bowker in Northern Ontario.\nMore than 458,000 railway ties will\nbe replaced as well this summer and\n91,747 cubic metres of ballast will be\nlaid, most of it in southern Ontario.\nBridge replacement projects are\nlocated at or near Port Hope, Smiths\nFalls, Carleton Place, Belleville,\nChesterville, Streetsville, Milton,\nWoodstock, Tilbury, Brantford,\nHavelock, Medonte, Peterborough,\nEnd of road: J. E. Stephenson, a\ntrainman at Souris, Man., has retired\nwith 35 years of service. Most of his\ncareer has been spent in Souris, but\nhe has worked in Vancouver, Minne-\ndosa and Wynyard.\nSolution\n(Cont'd from page 4)\nH31NIVd B Sj 9M 9JB0\n-ipui pinoM \ei\\ seusruq jo jujBd ou sbu.\nau; lajnpjd siu,} \e 6u^oo| A|9J9iu sj ioojs\n9U.} UO p9}B9S UBUJ 9UJ_ |9SB9 9l|J UO |Jl6\n9l|} JO 9Jnpid 9L|J 0} UMBJp Sj U0JJU9UB A|/\|\nJBO 9l|} WOJJ 6ui^JBqUJ9S!P UBUJ B JO 90BJ\n9L|} UO 99699nbS AlU p9d|M A||B}U9ppOB\n9ABU, PUB JBO |IBJ SjU,} JO SMOpUjM\n9L|J 6ujl|SBM LUB | 'H3NV310 dVO B sv\nH3NV310 HVO :si uouBdnooo A|/\|\nHBlNlVd 'H3NV310 fcJVO\n:9jb slubj6bub 9l|} 0\ SUOj}n|OS 9UJ_\nParry Sound, Blind River, Warren,\nStinson, Missanabie, Dublin, Bowker\nand Nipigon.\nThe railway will also spend about\n$2.4 million installing 17 hot box detectors which scan wheel and truck\nassemblies of passing trains and\nwarn crews of overheated bearings.\nEleven of these detectors will be installed on the Oshawa-Windsor corridor.\nBy late 1984, some 80 hot box detectors will be installed on CP Rail's\n4,989 km of track in Ontario.\nATLANTIC REGION\nMeanwhile, the railway is also\nspending more than $17 million this\nyear for new construction and improvement projects in the Atlantic\nRegion.\nA major part of the program involves replacement of close to\n235,000 track ties at a cost of $6.4\nmillion. Of the total, about $2.8 million\nwill be spent to replace 92,000 ties on\nthe Saint John Division, principally\nbetween McAdam, N.B. and Brownville Junction, Maine.\nAnother $2.3 million will be spent\nto replace 87,000 ties at various loca-\ntions throughout the Eastern\nTownships as well as near Quebec\nCity. And in the Montreal area, $1.2\nmillion will go for the replacement of\n37,000 ties at various yard locations.\nA $5 million track laying program\nbegins this month to replace 34.6 km\nof double track rail between\nBeaconsfield and Vaudreuil on Montreal's West Island. Quarter-mile\nlengths of new 136-pound continuous welded rail will replace the\nexisting lighter rail.\nIn addition, about $550,000 is\nbeing spent to replace rail at various\nlocations between Magog and Foster\nin the Eastern Townships.\nMore than $2.2 million is earmarked to replace various railway\nbridges on the region. Major projects,\ninvolving the installation of new steel\nbridge spans, are scheduled at Scot-\nstown, 45 km west of Megantic, Que.\nand at St. Jean and St. Constant,\nsouth of Montreal.\nNEW EQUIPMENT\nAlmost $1 million is being spent to\nacquire 20 new pieces of track\nmaintenance equipment for the region. The equipment includes brush\ncutters, ballast regulators, switch\ntampers and speed swing machines.\nEight hot box detectors will be installed across the region at a cost of\n$900,000. Three devices will be\nplaced in the Montreal area, two near\nTrois-Rivieres, and one each near\nQuebec City, Saint John, N.B. and on\nthe Lachute sub-division between\nGatineau and Hull. The additional\nequipment brings to 11 the number of\nhot box detectors on the Atlantic Region.\nAt the railway's St. Luc yard in\nMontreal, nearly $800,000 is being\nspent for the installation of a closed\ncircuit television system to improve\nthe accuracy of recording all freighl\ncar arrivals and departures.\nThe Atlantic Region employs some\n5,800 people and covers more than\n4,500 km of track throughout\nQuebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, parts of Vermont and Maine, as\nwell as some eastern areas of\nOntario.\nPrincipal traffic on the region includes import/export containers,\nmine and forest products, food, chemicals, fertilizers and manufactured\ngoods.\nCampaign launched: This small Toyota was nearly severed by a train during a simulated crash held to\ngraphically launch Operation Lifesaver in B.C.\nOperation Lifesaver\nDangers of level crossings\nillustrated by car/train crash\nBy JANE MUDRY\nVANCOUVER \u00E2\u0080\u0094 A 9,072-tonne\ntrain slammed into a 590-kilogram\nToyota at the B.C. Railway yard in\nNorth Vancouver March 29 to graphically launch Operation Lifesaver in\nBritish Columbia.\nSome 50 representatives from the\nmedia, government and railways witnessed the simulated accident which\nillustrated how an automobile always\ncomes out second in a confrontation\nwith a train.\nThe boxcar and locomotive, moving at about 8 kilometres an hour,\nbacked into the parked automobile\nwhich was then pushed into a stationary boxcar. The impact nearly severed the car.\nOperation Lifesaver is the nationwide public awareness campaign\nsponsored by the Railway Association of Canada and Transport Canada in co-operation with the Canadian\nTransport Commission, the Canada\nSafety Council and CN and CP Rail.\nPOTENTIAL HAZARDS\nThe campaign is designed to make\nCanadian drivers more alert to the\npotential hazards of railway crossings and reduce the number of train/\ncar accidents.\nIn addition to the simulated accident, the launching was punctuated\nwith speeches by Don Kasianchuck,\nassistant deputy minister of transport; Bill Stroeth, Brotherhood of\nLocomotive Engineers and Roger\nCyr, national chairman of Operation\nLifesaver.\nAccording to Mr. Cyr, \"an annual\naverage of 110 persons are killed\nand 550 others injured, requiring\nmedical attention or hospitalization,\nROGER CYR\nas the result of train/auto collisions\noccurring at railroad crossings.\"\n\"The numbers may not be impressive compared to the overall\nnumber of victims of motor vehicle\naccidents but the results of crossing\naccidents are invariably death, serious physical injuries and extensive\nmaterial damage. There appears to\nbe almost universal apathy on the\npart of the general public toward the\nhazards of rail/highway crossings,\"\nhe said.\nMr. Cyr added that accident investigations have shown that negligence\non the part of drivers, including misjudging safety margins and ignoring\nwarnings, are the principle causes of\naccidents.\nHe said train/car accidents can be\nreduced \"... through a better understanding of crossing hazards, proper\ndriver attention, and the observance\nof warning devices.\"\nThe target group of Operation Life-\nsaver are drivers between the ages\nof 30 and 50, the age group most\ninvolved in this kind of crash; the\naverage age of drivers involved in\nrail/car crashes in B.C. is 42.\nCOMMON CAUSES\nIncreasing the number of controlled crossings does not appear to be a\nsolution to reducing the problem of\naccidents. While 23 per cent of the\n35,500 crossings in Canada are\nequipped with automatic warning devices, roughly 43 per cent of all train/\ncar accidents occur at such crossings.\nCommon accident causes have\nbeen found to be drivers misjudging\nthe speed of trains, racing trains to\nthe crossing, disregarding automatic\nwarning devices and proceeding\naround crossing gates or passed\nflashing lights, and not exercising\ncaution when approaching a familiar\ncrossing.\nOperation Lifesaver highlights the\nfact trains cannot stop in time, but\ncars can. The average 150 car freight\ntrain travelling at 50 km/h needs 960\nmetres to stop while an auto travelling at 90 km/h requires 70 metres to\nstop.\n(Ed. note: In our last issue, the\nphotograph of Roger Cyr, which\naccompanied the story about Operation Lifesaver, was wrongly identified as being that of Alberta Transportation Minister Henry Kroeger.\nWe regret the error.)\nEnd Of line: P. M. (Mac) Forsythe (left), a conductor at Brandon, has\nretired with 35 years of service. Congratulating Mr. Forsythe is K. W. Edwards, assistant superintendent at Brandon.\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nTimothy R. Humphreys\nEditorial assistant,\nLise Baillargeon\nCorrespondents,\nJane Mudry, Vancouver\nRalph Wilson, Calgary\nKen Emmond, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising Dept.,\nWindsor Station, Montreal, Que.,\nH3C 3E4.\nCPRailT<\n Railway gains competitive edge in potash market\nDistribution centre opens\nfor dry bulk commodities\nBY TIMOTHY R. HUMPHREYS\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 A new distribution centre for dry bulk commodities\narriving here by rail has begun operating at Sortin Yard.\nThe facility, one of two CP Rail will\nput into operation this year, illustrates\na new approach to received traffic by\nAtlantic Region's marketing and\nsales team.\nConstruction has started at St. Denis Yard of a second distribution centre, complete with overhead crane, to\nhandle in and out-bound traffic of\nsteel and steel products. It is sche-\nduled to begin operating in\nSeptember.\nA third installation for the distribution of synthetic resins is under consideration.\nENCOURAGING START\nThe Sortin Yard facility was built at\na cost of only $67,000 and in its first\nweek of operation last month, more\nthan 900 tonnes of Saskatchewan\npotash, the principal commodity\nhandled at present, was transferred\nby an under-track conveyor from rail\ncars to trucks for local distribution.\nDonnelly Transport Company is\nhandling truck deliveries throughout\nQuebec, Ontario and northeastern\nUnited States.\nMichel DeBellefeuille, regional\nmanager of marketing and sales\nhere, said the new facility gives CP\nRail a competitive edge in a market\nthe railway found difficult to compete\nin before.\n\"It has been difficult for us to increase our share of the potash market here because only 30 per cent of\nthe fertilizer companies are served\nby our rail lines,\" he said.\n\"The balance are either served by\nCN Rail or have no access to rail lines\nat all.\"\nThe facility is particularly beneficial\nto the smaller fertilizer companies\nwhich have been purchasing their\npotash through the larger firms with\nrailway sidings. These companies\ncan now have their products conveniently shipped to their door at a competitive rate, he said.\nAbout 122,500 tonnes of Saskatchewan potastr is purchased\nannually in Quebec and CP Rail's\nmarket share is about 34 per cent.\nIn 1980, for example, the railway\ntransported 30,000 tonnes by unit\ntrain to Thunder Bay where it completed the remainder of the voyage to\nMontreal by ship. About 11,794 tonnes was delivered directly to Montreal by rail.\n\"At the moment, it is more econo-\nln Operation: Michel DeBellefeuille, regional manager of marketing and\nsales, grabs a handful of potash as the conveyor transfers it into an awaiting\ntruck.\nSortin Yard facility: An overa*\nabove.\nmical for the fertilizer companies to\nreceive their potash by ship and have\nit stockpiled at the harbor as they\nhave done this year,\" explained Ron\nDavid, director of mine products, who\nwas also instrumental in the Sortin\nYard project.\n\"But if the traffic in wheat and iron\nore picks up, the ships will not be as\navailable as they are now; this will\nforce shipping prices up and perhaps\nmake the use of unit trains directly to\nMontreal more economical.\"\nUNIT TRAIN CAPACITY\nThe Sortin Yard operation can\nhandle 35 cars at a time on its 700-\nmetre unloading track and the yard\nitself has the capacity to handle unit\ntrains.\nThe marketing and sales team is\nmaking a concerted effort to corner a\ngreater share of the market in other\nbulk commodities like coke, road salt,\nfoundry coke, coal, phosphate urea,\nsodium nitrate, amonium sulphate\nand calcium.\nMr. DeBellefeuille added that, in\naddition to profitability, the operation\nwill result in less switching of cars to\nprivate sidings and a faster turnaround of equipment \"because the\ncars will be in our hands.\"\n\"But there are two other important\npoints about the Sortin Yard distribution centre,\" he added. \"One is that\nmanagement approved the expense\n/s of the new distribution centre for dry bulk commodities can be seen\n(Photos by Bob Kennell)\nwithout firm commitment from the\npotash suppliers and, in these times,\n-~.4bat-says something about their philosophy regarding the value of intermodal transportation in maximizing\nthe use of railway equipment and improving CP Rail's profit picture.\nGOOD PAY-BACK\n\"Also, our salesmen can now go\nout and sell something concrete, a\nservice we could not provide here before,\" he said, adding the region expects a pay-back on the investment\nat Sortin Yard within a year.\nThe second, and equally important point, said Mr. DeBellefeuille, is\nthe Atlantic Region's effort to gene\nrate revenues from received traffic\nand not just forwarded traffic.\n \"On the revenue plan, only revenues from forwarded traffic are\ntaken into account so it has been the\ntradition of regions to treat received\ntraffic as the responsibility of the region from where it originates. There\nwas little incentive to develop new\nmarkets for received traffic, and each\nregion concentrated on its forwarded\ntraffic,\" he explained.\n\"From a straight railway point of\nview the concerns of both the shipper\nand the consignee must be taken into\naccount so received traffic is just as\nimportant as forwarded traffic,\" he\nsaid.\nPeople and Places in the news\nW. R. Townshend has been\nappointed co-ordinator, equipment\ndistribution at Alyth, succeeding E.\nB. Wakaruk, transferred.\nE. F. Carpenter has been\nappointed supervisor, customer service centre, Medicine Hat, succeeding Edwin Philbert, retired.\nHenry Fuks has been appointed\ndivision engineer, Montreal Division,\nat Park Avenue Station.\nJ. C. (Jim) Holland has been\nappointed district manager, marketing and sales at Philadelphia, suc\nceeding W. M. Campbell, retired.\nMr. Holland will be responsible for\ndirecting marketing and sales activities, as well as the profitable growth\nof international and overhead traffic\nin his district.\nK. H. Hood has been appointed\nsignal supervisor, Winnipeg Division, at Winnipeg.\nC. H. Turner has been appointed\nmobile supervisor at Lethbridge,\nsucceeding E. F. Carpenter, promoted.\nRogers Pass work detailed at hearings\n(Cont'd from page 1)\noffered both geotechnical and operational advantages, and because it\ncould be built with the least disturbance to the environment.\nA compilation of the existing environmental conditions and an\nassessment of effects of the Rogers\nPass project on the environment began in 1978 and is continuing, he\nsaid.\nA report was prepared to meet the\nfederal guidelines for an Initial Environmental Evaluation and presented to the Canadian Transport\nCommission in December. In addition to meeting these requirements,\nwinter wildlife studies were made.\nParks Canada personnel will be\nconsulted in developing the reclamation design so that environmental\nconcerns are incorporated into the\nplanning and operational phases of\nthe project.\nNoting that the control of the construction operations is imperative to\nmaintaining environmental quality,\nMr. Fox said the railway will have a\nfield co-ordinator of environmental\nprotection and reclamation as part of\nthe project's engineering staff.\nI uti i\nMajor WOrk: The extent of the $500 million Rogers Pass project can be seen in the composite shown above which was presented\nenvironment assessment panel.\nto hearings of the\n3\n Warm Wishes: J. H. Mackenzie, assistant purchasing agent at Windsor\nStation, has retired after 44 years of service, 35 years of which were spent in\nthe purchasing department. He is seen here with his wife Mabel and his\ndaughter Andrea at a reception held in his honor.\nOCCUPATION c\u00C2\u00A3)\nPLEASE\" Q\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ny^s\ntewUtti^l\nMY NAME IS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:\nALAN C. CREER\nIAN PERT\nMY OCCUPATION IS:\nHere's all you do:\nUnder this cartoon is a list of names. To find his or her occupation, solve the anagram of each of the names (i.e. by arranging\nall the letters in each name) to spell out each occupation. Then\nexamine the cartoon carefully for clues and select the one occupation that is more appropriate to the illustration.\nThe answer is on page 2.\nDouble retirement: Two veteran\nCP Rail employees at Smiths Falls,\nWilliam C. Richey (left) and Bernard\nJ. Whalen, recently retired on their\n60th birthday on April 2. Mr. Richey\nbegan service as a stenographer in\nthe superintendent's office in 1940\nand has been machine clerk since\n1975. Mr. Whalen began his career\nas a call boy at Smiths Falls and has\nbeen chief clerk since 1978.\nModel gift: R. G. Johnson (right), has retired as locomotive engineer at\nSouris, Man., after 42 years service. Mr. Johnson is presented with a plaque\nby W. N. Marak, trainmaster at Brandon.\nm,mmmw.\nRetiring: Ernest Labreche, a\nmachinist at Angus Shops, has retired with 35 years of service.\nHolds Office: Rocco Alexander Luccisano, assistant cost analyst in the\ncar engineering office at Windsor Station, has retired with 42 years of service.\nMr. Luccisano began his career in 1939 as an apprentice machinist and\nworked in various positions in the mechanical department. In 1961, he won a\nseat as alderman in the Montreal civic elections, a position he still holds.\nCongratulations: Edward Robinson, an assistant terminal manager\nwith Coastal Marine Services, has\nretired after 35 years of service.\nPipe train weathers storm\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nStill, the train orders were explicit.\nExcept for brief stops to change\ncrews and locomotives and to conduct inspections, the train must continue on.\nA special contract between the\npurchaser of the pipe, Nova, an\nAlberta Corporation, and the railroads called for delivery at Edmonton\nby April 15 or severe financial penalties would result.\nThe 3,719 tonnes of pipe \u00E2\u0080\u0094 1,200\npieces in all \u00E2\u0080\u0094 was manufactured in\nMarch by Berg Steel Pipe Corp., of\nPanama City. It would be used by\nNova in its Empress Relocation Project, an upstream facility of the Foothills pipeline.\nThe pipe, ranging between 60 and\n91 centimetres in diameter, was specifically designed to be used in a\nmetering and injection system and\ntherefore had to have particularly\nthick walls. The 1.1 to 2.06-\ncentimetre, heavy wall pipe is not\navailable from Canadian sources.\nThe only plant manufacturing such\npipe is Berg Steel Pipe Corp.\nBy late Friday, April 9, the train had\nAhead Of time: Eight miles of natural gas pipeline is unloaded at Nisku,\nAlberta. (Photo by Ralph Wilson)\ncleared customs at North Portal and\nwas heading west to Swift Current,\nSask. where the train would be split in\ntwo. On Easter Sunday, April 11, the\nload destined for Edmonton rolled\nthrough Medicine Hat, Alta. The next\nday, the pipe was sitting on a siding,\nready to be unloaded at Nisku, south\nof Edmonton \u00E2\u0080\u0094 two days ahead of\nschedule.\n CPRail H\nBulk Ennombre|\nthird troisieme\nclass classe\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nVolume 12\nNumber 14\nOct. 27, 1982\nMudslide knocks out the main Une\nWorkers race against time\nto build temporary line\nBy MORRIE ZAITLIN\nASHCROFT, B.C.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 A chain of events that started with a report that\nthe wheels from two cars on a westbound grain train had jumped the\ntrack turned into a nine-day battle against nature. That's the time it\ntook to restore service on CP Rail's main line after more than two\nmillion cubic yards of earth shifted and gave way along the banks of\nthe Thompson River.\n\"We received the call early\nWednesday afternoon (Sept. 22),\"\nsaid J.J. (Jim) Tarasoff, Kamloops\nroadmaster. \"Extra west, with 101\nL\u00C2\u00AB*~4oaded grain cars had derailed just\nwest of Ashcroft.\n\"A work crew from Kamloops, 50\nmiles (80 kilometres) to the east, was\ndispatched to the scene and began\nits task of rerailing the two cars so the\ntrain could continue to the west\ncoast.\n\"On first examination everyone\nsuspected that a 'sun kink' had\ncaused the rail to buckle and force\nMain shops'\noperations\nshutdown\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The heavy repair\nfacilities in each of CP Rail's three\nmain shops will be closed from Nov.\n15 to Jan. 4 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a total of 33 working\ndays \u00E2\u0080\u0094 due to continuing low traffic\nlevels.\nThe closure will affect about 3,600\nemployees out of a total main shops\nwork force of some 4,300 employees. Earlier this year the shops\nwere closed for a four-week period as\npart of an extended summer closing\nwhich was also due to low traffic\nlevels.\n\"Since January, 1982, Canadian\nrailway carloadings have fallen to the\nlowest level since the 1930s reflecting the ongoing recession m the\nCanadian economy,\" said R.S. Allison, executive vice-president, CP\nRail. \"The continuing low traffic\nlevels apply to almost every railway\ncommodity group and approximately\n10 per cent of our rolling stock is\nbeing unused.\"\nAt Angus Shops in Montreal, the\nclosure will apply to about 1,600\nworkers out of a total of approximately 2,000, 1,100 out of 1,300 at Weston Shops in Winnipeg, and 900 of\n1,000 at Ogden Shops in Calgary.\nThe 700 positions not subject to\nthe shop closures are involved in the\nmanufacture of materials used to\nperform normal running repairs to\ncars and locomotives. The positions\naffected by the closures are primarily\ninvolved in heavy overhauls to cars\nand locomotives.\nThe seniority provisions of union\ncontracts will result in \"bumping\" procedures whereby an employee may\nexercise his or her seniority right to\nmove into another job for which he or\nshe is qualified.\nUnder the terms of union contracts, employees with two or more\n(See \"Main\" page 2)\nthe cars off the track. Yet it was the\nwrong type of day for this to happen...\nit was overcast and cool.\"\nWork crews ballasted, lifted and\ntamped the line, and the train was\npermitted to proceed. A second train,\neastbound, also was granted running\nrights over the track but after the\nlocomotives and 16 cars passed over\nthe spot where the first derailment\noccured, the rail again buckled. The\nhead-end 16 cars were pulled ahead\nand track crews replaced six feet of\nbuckled rail, enabling the train to be\nrecoupled and move on.\nAs night approached three other\ntrains moved under slow orders between mileage 50.4 and 50.7 on the\nThompson sub-division. As each\ntrain passed, it became more evident\nthat the earth under the main line was\nunstable.\nHAIRLINE FRACTURES\nAs the sun came up along i.\nThompson River Valley Thursday\nmorning (Sept. 23) there was enough\nlight to see visible hairline fractures\nrunning up the bank from the river's\nedge, across the right-of-way and on\nup the hillside.\n\"On Thursday morning we began\nto monitor the earth's movement.\nThe track's alignment was shifting toward the river,\" said Vancouver division assistant engineer John Un-\nsworth, who had arrived the previous\nevening.\nThe land was subsiding at about\none inch per hour. Throughout\nThursday track forces were kept\nbusy realigning the track in anticipation thaf the slippage^/vouId stop.\n\"The fracture line was stretching\n200 feet (60 metres) up the hill. By\nFriday evening the rate of movement\nhad accelerated to about four inches\n(10 centimetres) per hour. We knew\nthen we were in for serious problems,\" Mr. Unsworth said.\nSOMETHING WAS AMISS\nTrack maintenance foreman Gerry\nDifonzo had been on the site since\nearly Wednesday. A 331/2-year veteran on the sub-division, he has seen\nhis share of slides, washouts and derailments. But this time he felt something was different.\nHis crew was putting in 12-hour\nshifts, trying to stabilize the earth to\nkeep trains moving throughout\nWednesday, Thursday and into Friday night. They seemed to be fighting\n.a losing battle.\nBy midnight Friday (Sept. 24), his\nmen, the work train and assorted\nequipment were all ordered out of the\narea. It was raining. Fear was mounting that the hillside would give way\nand tumble down onto the track.\nAt 02:00, Saturday (Sept. 25) the\n(See \"Mudslide\" page 7)\nRerouting trains: Some 100 employees, working long, hard shifts, took just nine days to build a temporary rail\nline to accommodate trains delayed when a mudslide wiped out CP Rail's main line near Ashcroft. Above, pre-built\n39-foot (12-metre) track panels are laid atop a new grade. (Story photos by Morrie Zaitlin)\nTrain '255' departs Windsor Station\nas CP Rail's last passenger unit\nBy OMER LAVALLEE\nExactly 101 years and five months\nafter beginning rail services out of\nWinnipeg on May 1, 1883, CP Rail\noperated its last passenger train early in the morning of Oct. 1, 1982.\nWhile responsibility for the provision of inter-city passenger services\nhad been assumed by VIA Rail\nCanada, which had been organized\nfor that purpose in 1978, VIA's terms\nof reference did not include suburban\nservices such as the Montreal\n\"Lakeshore\" trains operating between Windsor Station and Rigaud,\nCue; These continued to be operated\nby CP Rail until the Montreal Urban\nCommunity Transportation Commission (MUCTC) integrated them in the\npublic transit structure effective Oct.\n1.\nThis step does not mean that passenger trains will not be seen on CP\nRail lines. Just as many VIA services\noperate over the company's lines\nunder contract using VIA rolling stock\nbut manned by CP Rail crews, the\nNew Rigaud Line commuter service\nwill be operated under a similar contract to the MUCTC. In due course,\nthe suburban trains will carry the colors and identification of the Montreal\npublic transport entity.\nNEW ERA\nUnlike many last runs, the departure of Train 255 from Windsor Station was not an unhappy occasion.\nTrue, it had its symbolism for historians and train buffs, but the transfer\nof responsibility to the MUCTC marks\nthe beginning of a new era of more\ntrains and greater frequency of service, not to mention the slashing of\nfares to stations situated in the cities\nand towns of the Montreal Urban\nCommunity.\nA number of patrons have been\ntemporarily inconvenienced by the\nclosing of some stations which were\nin close proximity to others, but this\nstep, which was necessary to convert\nthe route into a true rapid transit line,\nwill be remedied by revisions of local\ntransit bus routes in Montreal's West\nIsland, which the MUCTC contemplates for 1983. This, plus inter-\nchangeability of tickets and flash\ncards between trains and connecting\nbuses will not only fully service existing patrons but hopefully attract\nmany new ones.\nHUMBLE BEGINNINGS\nCP Rail service along the\nLakeshore began in the late 1880s,\nfollowing the completion of what is\nnow the Winchester sub-division between Montreal and Smiths Falls in\n1887. The new Canadian Pacific line\nparallelled the older Grand Trunk\n(now Canadian National) Montreal-\nToronto main line which had been\nopened more than 30 years before.\nAt first, trains on the new route\nused the original terminal station in\nthe east end of Montreal, known as\nPlace Viger Station, looping around\nthe west side of Mount Royal through\nOutremont and Mile End.\nHowever, in 1889, a five-mile extension was opened between Mon-_\ntreat Junction'\"(Montreal West) and\nthe new Windsor Station, giving\nCanadian Pacific the opportunity to\ncompete for local traffic with the GTR\n(See \"Last\" page 3)\nGetting ready tO leave: Station Master Andre Masse (centre)\npauses with the crew of CP Rail's last passenger train. The crewmen are\n(from left) Cyril Walker, trainman, Hubert Brasseur, conductor, Basil Kilpa-\ntrick, locomotive engineer, and George Dufford, fireman.\n Retired Burroughs:\nBottom line in safety\nwas never letting up\nBy STEPHEN MORRIS\nSMITHS FALLS \u00E2\u0080\u0094When Superintendent Dick Burroughs retired recently after 44 years with the railway,\nhe left behind a division with a good\nreputation for safety and efficiency.\n\"It's hard to follow someone like\nMr. Burroughs,\" said his successor\nPaul Gilmore, former administrative\nassistant to the Eastern Region vice-\npresident, \"but it's also rewarding to\ncome to a division that is in top\nshape.\"\nMr. Gilmore is now settling into the\njob, a post held by Mr. Burroughs\nsince 1977.\nGREATEST CHANGES\n\"I have been very fortunate in my\nlifetime to see some of the greatest\nchanges in railroading history and\nhelped in some small measure to\nmake some of these changes,\" said\nMr. Burroughs in an interview.\n\"Today, CP Rail has one of the\nfinest operations in the world.\"\n\"At one time Smiths Falls was a\nvitally important mechanical terminal, but that was in the days of steam\nwhen the maximum operating range\nWarm wishes: Carman Maurice\nHebert, of Angus Shops, has retired\nwith 37 years of service.\nHappy 50th: Mr. and Mrs. F.E.\nBenson recently celebrated their\n50th wedding anniversary at Vancouver. Mr. Benson began his\ncareer in 1917 and retired as supervisor, car equipment, Pacific Region\nin 1970.\nSOLUTION\n(From page 8)\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2>pnj}\n-\l\\ B IfllM SP006 6UIAOLU U99S 9q UBO\nI 'NVIABSnOHBHVM e sv H1IIAISNI1\nb sb Luiuj Aji|Bnb oj |bj9uj joeus IfllM S>UOM\n9l| JBLjJ OJBOJPUI 0\ 6UJU.JOU S| 9J9UJ_ \"J9J00J\nB JO |BOjdAj >|SB} B 'JOdBd JBJ JO ||OJ B l^M\n6U|>U0M JOOJ 91T1 UO U99S 9q UBO UBUU V\n'NVlAI3SnOH3dVM :s| uorjBdnooo A|/\|\nNVIAI3SnOH3dVM 'H1IIAISNI1\n:9jb slubj6bub aujj 0} suoj;n|OS 9Uj_\n-i|j\nDICK BURROUGHS\n(of a locomotive) was about 125 to\n150 miles (200 to 250 kilometres),\"\nhe said.\n\"Today, we are, in some respects,\na run-through division and important\nin different ways because we link the\neast coast with the west and are located between the major markets of\nMontreal and Toronto.\"\nWhen he took over the division, Mr.\nBurroughs used the extensive experience he acquired on the Quebec\nCentral Railway and in Montreal,\nSherbrooke, Farnham and Saskatoon to re-organize local operations.\n\"By far our greatest priority on the\ndivision is to move trains on time,\" he\nsaid. \"As a run-through division, we\ncan help trains make up lost time but\nno way can we afford delays.\"\nBut efficiency wouldn't be\nachieved at the expense of safety.\nMr. Burroughs' personal philosophy\nis \"A safe division is a happy division\"\nand the numerous safety awards, including two consecutive awards as\nthe best division on the system, testify to his efforts and that of his employees.\nNOT LETTING UP\nExplained Mr. Burroughs: \"People\nhave always said: 'What's the secret?' or 'You don't have the same\nproblems', but, really, it's just a matter of keeping the program simple\nand not letting up.\n\"The bottom line, of course, is the\nfinal responsibility rests with the employee. In this business, an accident\nmeans loosing an eye, leg or your\nlife. Trains are not toys.\"\nMr. Gilmore, meanwhile, takes\nover with 12 years of experience with\nthe railway. He has worked in the\nengineering department at Toronto\nand was assistant superintendent in\nLondon and Sudbury. In 1978, he\nwas appointed deputy superintendent of the Toronto Division and later\nassumed the position of administrative assistant to the vice-president.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .., ..,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . .......\nEnthralled: The 32-foot-long \"N\" scale model railway designed to show the movement of wheat from Canada's\nprairie provinces to a Pacific seaport captures the attention of these youngsters (above left) at Brandon, Man. Above\nright, student Denis Letourneau (foreground) helps archives assistant C.L. Halsey set up the model display in Car\n'80'. ^^^^^^^^\nCommunity Centennial Train m\nassists In cities' celebrations\nSeven cities across the country celebrated their centennials this summer\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n100 years after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in their communities.\nThe celebrations were held in the Saskatchewan cities of Broadview, Regina, Swift Current and Moose Jaw; at Kenora and North Bay, Ont., and at\nBrandon, Man.\nCP Rail officials took part in official presentations \u00E2\u0080\u0094 100-year-old pieces of\nrail were presented to each of the cities' mayors \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and the railway's Community Centennial Train, prepared by the corporate archives staff, was on\nhand for public viewing in each of the municipalities.\nThe train consisted of three vintage display cars, plus modern railway\nequipment. The vintage cars in the train were the old director car \"Mount\nStephen\", which was constructed in 1926 and designated a historical car in\n1971; Car Number '80', a specialized express car built in 1947 as a mobile\nmuseum; and the familiar red caboose, Number '436954', which was constructed of wood in 1928 and preserved as a historical exhibit when it was\nretired from service in 1974.\nExhibits: A lot of railroaders, like\nJ.C. Williams of Winnipeg, who retired in September after 43 years,\nwere interested in the vintage cars of\nthe Community Centennial Train.\nMain Shops\nto close\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nyears service are entitled to job\nsecurity provisions which, together\nwith unemployment insurance benefits, provide up to 80 per cent of\nnormal income. Those employees\nwith less than two years service are\neligible for regular unemployment insurance benefits.\nNEWS\nPAUL GILMORE\nPresentations: Executive Vice-President R.S. Allison (left) makes a\npresentation to Regina Mayor Larry Schneider (right) as Sir William Van\nHome, played by actor Bob Burke, looks on.\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nTimothy R. Humphreys\nEditorial assistant,\nLise Baillargeon\nCorrespondents,\nJane Mudry, Vancouver\nRalph Wilson, Calgary\nKen Emmond, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench forthe employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising\nWindsor Station, Montreal,\nH3C 3E4.\nCP Rail 14\nDept.,\nQue.,\n Last CP Rail passenger train departs Montreal\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nas far as Vaudreuil, where the two\nlines diverged.\nThe first service, with intermediate\nstops, which included Dorval, Valois,\nBeaconsfield, Ste. Anne and Vaudreuil, was in operation by the autumn\nof 1889. The train actually operated\nbetween Windsor Station and Winchester, Ontario, arriving at the Montreal terminal at 9:45 a.m. and leaving at 5:15 p.m., daily.\nFor a time in the early 1890s, there\nwas an additional stop at a halt called\nBel Air, about one mile (1.6\nkilometres) west of Dorval, but this\nstop had disappeared by 1893. In\nthat year, Canadian Pacific leased\nthe line of the Montreal & Ottawa\nRailway Company, which had been\nbuilt in the late 1880s and whose 17-\nmile (27-kilometre) main line extended from Vaudreuil, via Como,\nHudson and Rigaud, to Pointe Fortune, Que., on the Quebec/Ontario\nboundary.\nRather than operate the Pointe\nFortune line as a separate branch, its\ntrains extended along the Lakeshore\nfrom Vaudreuil to Windsor Station,\nwith two daily-except-Sunday trains\narriving in Montreal at 8:30 a.m. and\nNOTICE\nCP Rail trip passes and long\nservice passes, such as the gold\npass, will not be accepted for\noccasional travel on the MUCTC\nrail commuter service between\nMontreal and Rigaud. Reduced\nrate privileges enjoyed by employees, as well as their dependent sons and daughters, have\nalso been discontinued.\nUsers of the commuter service\nshould also note the following important items with regard to the\nMUCTC's ticketing policy:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2All tickets and CTAM cards\nmust be purchased on a cash\nbasis. Cheques or credit cards will\nnot be accepted.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2No reimbursement will be\nmade to the initial tickets or cards.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2CTAM cards must be obtained\nprior to the initial trip of the month\nas no credit will be provided for\ncash fare to cover the initial trip for\na \"non-agency\" station.\n9:45 a.m., with corresponding departures at 5:15 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. Concurrently, a new stop was added at\nLakeside.\nIn November, 1894, a new station\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 St. Antoine \u00E2\u0080\u0094 was added between\nWindsor Station and Montreal Junction. Named for the adjacent residential community of Cote St. Antoine,\nthe station's name changed to West-\nmount with the renaming of the community, by 1897.\nWhile these trains followed the pattern of today's commuter trains, in\nfact the nature of the traffic was far\nfrom that which we know today.\nThere were few daily travellers.\nEVOLUTION\nIn an era before highways and\nmotor vehicles, the trains were used\nto bring milk and other dairy produce\ninto the city, buyers and sellers to the\nseveral farmers' markets, and\nbusinessmen and private individuals\nmaking occasional trips into the city.\nHowever, the existence of two\ncompeting train services literally\nside-by-side \u00E2\u0080\u0094 those of the CPR and\nthe Grand Trunk \u00E2\u0080\u0094 encouraged the\nmore affluent to rent or purchase\nsummer cottages in the area. This\nsuperimposed a new and different\nsocial class on the bucolic villages\nalong the shores of Lake St. Louis, a\nchange which would in time virtually\nobliterate the old-world, rural nature\nof the original French-regime settlements.\nA summer'home in this area had\nmany advantages afforded by proximity to the water: sailing, bathing,\nfishing and swimming. The most important benefit, however, permitted\nfamilies with children to escape the\ncity in summer, a time of constant\noutbreaks of contagious diseases.\nThe term \"fresh air\" had immediate\nand practical connotations in the\n1980s!\nAt first, the owners of such summer\nhomes tended to remain in the city\nduring the week, visiting families only\non weekends. However, vigorous\nand innovative traffic promotion by\nthe two railways, including excursion\nfares, mileage and \"commutation\"\ntickets, soon made it feasible for the\njourney to and from the city to be made\non a daily basis, and the age of the\nMontreal-area commuter was born.\nIn subsequent decades, it was only\nEnd Of an era: Train '255' awaits commuters before making its final run as a CP Rail passenger unit. The railway\nnow operates the trains for the MUCTC as part of a public transit system. (Photo by Maurice Quinn)\na step further to winterize the summer homes \u00E2\u0080\u0094 many of these can still\nbe found in the older sections of the\nLakeshore \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and the transformation\nfrom urban citizen to suburbanite\nwas complete.\nEXPANDING\nBy 1897, Pointe Claire and\nBeaurepaire had been added to the\nsuburban stops, as well as Little River and Isle Cadieux between Vaudreuil and Como, and Hudson Heights\nand Lavigne between Hudson and\nRigaud.\nIn 1898, Bayview (now Baie\nd'Urfe) was added. After the turn of\nthe century, a station called Golf\nLinks, a mile (1.6 kilometres) east of\nDorval, identified the venue of a new\nand growing sport. This station, later\ncalled Summerlea, and situated at\n55th Avenue Lachine, was closed in\n1962.\n'SHORT LINE'\nOther stations were added in subsequent years\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Cedar Park, llePer-\nrot, Forest Hills (Lachine), Sortin,\nPine Beach, Brucy and Grovehill, as\nwell as Alstonvale, Choisy and Dragon at the outer end. The erstwhile\nPointe Fortune branch became part\nof anew \"short ttne\" between Montreal and Ottawa, in 1898, following\ncompletion of construction westward\nfrom Rigaud through Vankleek Hill\nand Caledonia Springs to the nation's capital.\nThe 7-mile (11-kilometre) section\nremaining between Rigaud and\nPointe Fortune, with an intermediate\nstation \u00E2\u0080\u0094 McLaughlin's \u00E2\u0080\u0094 became a\nSpecially-built: The crew of this Pointe Fortune-Montreal local train\npauses at Beaconsfield in 1895. Number '624' was a 4-6-4 type, side tank\nlocomotive specially-built for this service at the old De Lormier shop. It is seen\nhere running \"tank first.\"\nbranch, and service on it was abandoned in 1941.\nThe transition from a rural environment to \"dormitory suburbs\" took\nplace over many decades, with the\ngreatest exodus from the city to the\nLakeshore communities occuring in\nthe new affluence and prosperity of\nthe post-Second World War era. This\nrapid expansion brought the commuter trains to new ridership peaks by\nthe early 1950s, but it was also their\nundoing.\nThe automobile now came within\nthe budget of every family, and governments responded by unparallel-\nled building of streets and highways.\nThe perceived economies and ack-\nTwice for the gold: Kae and Len Pickell marked their 50th wedding\nanniversary with a family dinner at St. Martin's United Church Hall in Saskatoon. Mr. Pickell, with a career spanning over 50 years, was the recipient of a\nGold Pass in 1967. He was an agent in Sutherland, Sask. at the time of his\nretirement in 1968.\nHand-me-dOWns: A Montreal-bound local train stands at Pointe Fortune, Que., in the 1890s. The locomotive and two cars are \"hand-me-downs\"\nfrom predecessor railways. Service to Pointe Fortune was abandonned in\n1941. (Canadian Pacific archives)\n(Canadian Pacific archives)\nnowledged flexibility of the automobile began to make serious inroads into commuter traffic by the\nlate 1950s. To meet rising costs and\ndeclining revenues, the railways responded by reducing train frequencies and raising fares.\nIn 1957, Canadian National, the\nsuccessor to the Grand Trunk, withdrew its Lakeshore commuter services west of Dorval, to concentrate\non the same problem in other areas\nwhich it served exclusively. About the\nsame time, the New York Central\nRailroad withdrew its own commuter\nservice between Montreal's Windsor\nStation and Valleyfield by way of\nChateauguay and Beauharnois.\nBy 1960, all rail commuter services\nin Montreal had become, in fact if not\nin name, urban transit services. Yet a\nfull quarter of a century was to pass\nbefore governments recognized this\nfact and moved to integrate the commuter train services with bus and\nsubway networks.\nNow, finally, that step has been\ntaken. The change came following\nthe departure of the last scheduled\nCP Rail \"Town Train\" for Vaudreuil,\non the late evening of Sept. 30,1982.\nActually, the need to take a few\nphotographs to record this last run for\nposterity delayed the departure of\nNo. 255 until after midnight, and as a\nconsequence, having lost its timetable rights, the train ran through to\nVaudreuil as a passenger extra,\nbringing to an end ninety-three years\nof train service by CP Rail to Montreal's West Island.\n Shipment for winter: Lance Taffe, ofth\nfor Newfoundland. The snowblowers are among 12,000 pieces of freight handled each day here.\nC? L-CU IIULUII I CI llnl I CXI, ILfCXUO Ol lUWUIUWCIo UUUIIU\ni-m\"\"\ny\nA\nQuick access: Paul Arnold and Jean Ellison find getting information from\nthe CSC's new computer terminals is only a finger's touch away.\n''fx'XAXm^X\n%X%^Xm\n: y \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 my:^;\n\\nm\nSHARON GOLDTHORPE\nHARRY RICHARDS\nKeeping Customers happy: Zona Bret, mobile supervisor, and Making things Spotless: Pat O'Keefe cleans a v\nTaking a break: If it wasn't for the men at the car shops, nothing would move. Among those working at the shop, seen here taking a break, are Logan Woodman, CSC supervisor on the Toronto Division, ensure CP Rail facility at the Toronto Yard's Caboose Shop. The shop,\n(from left) Bruno Ratke, Dave Harman, Walter French, Sam Zina and Al Ferri. (Division profile photos by Maurice Quinn) customers are satisfied with the railway's service. ployees, handles about 150 cabooses a week.\nwhich has 2y em-\nCrack officers and a sharp crew chart division's course\nBy STEPHEN MORRIS\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Probably no other\ndivision on the CP Rail system has\ngone through as many changes and\nexpanded as rapidly as the Toronto\nDivision.\nFrom its beginnings as a hodgepodge of smaller railways such as the\nCredit Valley and the O & Q (Ontario\nand Quebec Railway), the division\nhas constantly expanded and\nchanged.\nStretching some 418 miles (673\nkilometres), it criss-crosses Canada's largest city and spreads into the\ncountry's industrial heartland.\nTo the east, its main line feeds traffic to and from Montreal and the Maritimes. Its western line directs traffic\nthrough the Buffalo and Windsor\ngateways into the United States and\nits northern extension connects\nthe company's east-west\ntranscontinental line\n.; ;V,-;i,- m.XX, ^X?^:,\n(Fourth in a series)\nTechnically, the Toronto Division is\na terminal division. Trains originate\nor terminate here; it has a 432-acre\nmain freight yard with a hump, a one-\nspot and a medium, car repair shop,\na caboose shop, and various other\nyard and shop facilities scattered\nacross the city.\nCHANGES\nThe 2,300 employees on the division maintain and keep the operation\nrunning 24 hours a day, 365 days of\nthe year.\nThe most dramatic and visible\nchanges on the division have occurred in the last 20 years.\nDivision headquarters are still located at Union Station. But the\nphysical location of its main yard and\nshops have shifted from the western\npart of the city to Agincourt, a suburb\nin the east.\nYARDS\nThe old coach and repair shops in\nthe west end have all but disappeared. John Street Yard, once\nthe hub of passenger operations for\nCP Rail in Ontario is almost ghostlike in appearance. The old roundhouse no longer contains steam\nlocomotives and the passenger car\nrepair shop is now used to make repairs to piggyback and container flat-\ncars.\nToronto Yard, the base of operations on the division, is a modern,\nsophisticated facility. With a new\nmulti-million dollar modernization\nprogram, which includes the Yard\nActivity Reporting Decision System\nHead-end experience: With a combined total of more than 142 years service, the waterfront transfer operations are\nin good hands. Seen here on Number '6552' are (from left) Frank Ryan, locomotive engineer, John McDonald, trainman, Cy\nBailey, conductor, and Gord Burton, rear-end trainman.\n(YARDS), the facility proudly boasts\nbeing one of the most advanced in\nNorth America.\nBut beyond the machines and\nsteel there is one important ingredient that makes it all work. That is\npeople.\nAlec Boyar, superintendent, is a 38\nyear railroading veteran who began\nhis career as a trainman in\nEdmonton.\n'This is a tough division and a lot of work\nhas to be done/\nMr. Boyar runs the division much\nas a captain his ship. His division is\none of the few on the system which\nhas a deputy superintendent as well\nas four assistant superintendents.\nOn any given morning you will find\nMr. Boyar and his staff in the office by\n7 a.m.\n\"I certainly don't demand they be\nhere, but this is a tough division and a\nlot of work has to be done. We have\nfound that we can get a lot of the\npaperwork done and discuss problems before normal business hours\nand the phones start ringing,\" says\nMr. Boyar.\nMr. Boyar also displays great respect for his deputy and assistant superintendents. \"Like a ship's captain,\nI can issue the orders, but I need\ncrack officers and a sharp crew to\nmake it go where it should and not\nend up on the rocks.\"\n\"If you look at the North Toronto\nline, we have an average of 50 or 60\nmovements a day and that's only one\nstretch of track,\" says Mr. Boyar.\n\"Add the transfers and the keeping of\nthe main line trains moving and it\nadds up to a pretty busy place.\"\nAs the rock group Bachman Turner\nOverdrive says in their hit song:\n\"We're takin' care of business.\" That\nbusiness, Mr. Boyar points out, rests\nwith Logan (Woody) Woodman, supervisor of the customer service centre here.\nMr. Woodman, another veteran\nwith more than 36 years service, reflects back on how customers were\nserved three decades ago compared\nwith today.\n\"At one time, customer service\nwas the station agent who handled\neverything from selling steamship or\nrailway tickets to loading milk cans\nonto the train,\" says Mr. Woodman.\n\"Now the station agent is a romantic\nthing of the past, having been replaced by a centralized staff with\nenormous amounts of information at\nits fingertips through computer terminals.\"\nMr. Woodman notes that today's\ncustomer service representatives\ncan do more work for more customers and still maintain the shipper-\ncarrier face-to-face contact.\nINDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND\n\"We have in excess of 500 customers to service, which is why we\nhave the largest CSC on the system.\nBeing in the southern Ontario industrial heartland certainly helps and this\nis borne out in the more than 35,000\ninvoices processed each week,\" he\nsays.\nAbout 135 employees call the\nToronto Yard CSC their second\nhome. The downturn in the economy\nhas been felt on the Toronto Division\nbut Mr. Woodman believes this\nposes a challenge.\n\"Shippers can pick and choose\nhow they want to ship which means\nwe must be more aggressive. We\nmust also provide the type of service\nthey expect,\" he says.\nTo provide this service means\nbeing able to supply, or have nearby,\nfreight cars in proper operating condition.\nThis responsibility rests, in part,\nwith Harry Richards, general car\nforeman, and the 400 employees and\nsupervisors who work at the car\nshop.\nThe shop is divided into two sections \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a four-track, one-spot or light\nrepair shop and a three-track,\nmedium repair shop.\nOn an average, about 925 cars are\nhandled by the medium, car repair\nshop each month while the one-spot\nputs through 1,575.\n\"Part of our responsibility is to inspect the trains as they come in or\nbefore they go out to ensure the cars\nare mechanically fit. Those that\naren't are, obviously, cut off from the\ntrain and repaired. About 35 per cent\nof the work involves foreign cars,\"\nsays Mr. Richards. \"During the week\nwe inspect about 18,000 cars.\"\nMr. Richards says most cars are in\nfor minor repairs such as the replacement of a set of wheels. \"It takes\nabout an hour to change one set of\nwheels and we do approximately 400\na month,\" he says.\nWhile Mr. Richards and his staff\ntake care of the cars, nearby at the\ncaboose shop Art Langille, foreman,\nis repairing, cleaning and making\nsure a caboose is fit for travel.\nAbout 150 cabooses are inspected\nand maintained each week by the 29\nemployees at the caboose shop. Recently, a wash station was installed at\nthe facility.\n\"Appearance is important,\" explains Mr. Langille. \"A clean van\nmakes the crews happier and leaves\nan impression with the public. It's like\nyou wouldn't want to ship your china\nin an old truck that was beaten up and\nrusty. It's the same with our trains.\"\nWEAR AND TEAR\nBut even with all this equipment\nyou still need a safe railbed to operate on. Pat Leyne, division engineer,\nand his staff are responsible for the\n418 miles (673 kilometres) of track.\nAs a terminal division, the wear\nand tear is much different than a\nstraight main line. Bridges, grade\ncrossings and general upkeep keep\nthe engineering department's 204\nemployees \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the \"nuts and bolts\"\npeople \u00E2\u0080\u0094 busy.\n\"Our B&B people are dedicated,\nbut that's not new, its more of a tradition,\" says Mr. Leyne. \"We want the\ntrains to operate safely and on the\nbest track possible.\"\nMr. Boyar sums up the division as\n\"a lot of very proud employees doing\nthe best job they can to make the\ndivision the best there is.\"\n'rnXXXm-l\nmm\nMuscles to spare: Cathy Lemieux, who\nworks at the Toronto Yard CSC, is originally from North Bay where her dad, Pat, is\nterminal supervisor. Cathy says that Learning the trade: Apprenticeship programs are a vital ele\nalthough she misses the north, she loves railway. Vic Gauthier, carman welder, (left) shows Danny Alexander,\nthe excitement of Toronto. to the underframe of a boxcar.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n* i: m -\n\"\"\"*\" ii n\nvent of the employee development program on the\nan apprentice, the proper method of making repairs\nF|\n::;;, ^\nMixed traffic: Many an eyebrow raises when CP Rail's Waterfront Local rumbles down the street. The transfer train services many harborfront industries\nand travels along the main street, obeying traffic signals all the while, on its way back to Parkdale Yard.\n %\n4\nl;##i\nQuick access: Paul Arnold and Jean Ellison find getting information from\nthe CSC's new computer terminals is only a finger's touch away.\n)ose working at the shop, seen here taking a break, are\n(Division profile photos by Maurice Quinn)\nKeeping Customers happy: Zona Bret, mobile supervisor, and\nLogan Woodman, CSC supervisor on the Toronto Division, ensure CP Rail\ncustomers are satisfied with the railway's service.\nX.'. WS:M:^P\nMaking things Spotless: Pat O'Keefe cleans a van at the new wash\nfacility at the Toronto Yard's Caboose Shop. The shop, which has 29 employees, handles about 150 cabooses a week.\nrt division's course\nr veteran\nsrvice, re-\nners were\ncompared\n)r service\nd handled\namship or\nmilk cans\nvoodman.\ni romantic\nbeen re-\nstaff with\n'imation at\nputer ter-\nat today's\nentatives\n3 custom-\ni shipper-\nt.\n.AND\n500 cus-\ns why we\nle system,\nrio indust-\nis and this\nan 35,000\nweek,\" he\n; call the\nr second\neconomy\no Division\n^ves this\nd choose\nch means\nssive. We\nof service\n:e means\n/e nearby,\nating con-\n3, in part,\nneral car\noyees and\nit the car\n) two sec-\npot or light\nee-track,\n5 cars are\ncar repair\nshop each month while the one-spot\nputs through 1,575.\n\"Part of our responsibility is to inspect the trains as they come in or\nbefore they go out to ensure the cars\nare mechanically fit. Those that\naren't are, obviously, cut off from the\ntrain and repaired. About 35 per cent\nof the work involves foreign cars,\"\nsays Mr. Richards. \"During the week\nwe inspect about 18,000 cars.\"\nMr. Richards says most cars are in\nfor minor repairs such as the replacement of a set of wheels. \"It takes\nabout an hour to change one set of\nwheels and we do approximately 400\na month,\" he says.\nWhile Mr. Richards and his staff\ntake care of the cars, nearby at the\ncaboose shop Art Langille, foreman,\nis repairing, cleaning and making\nsure a caboose is fit for travel.\nAbout 150 cabooses are inspected\nand maintained each week by the 29\nemployees at the caboose shop. Recently, awash station was installed at\nthe facility.\n\"Appearance is important,\" explains Mr. Langille. \"A clean van\nmakes the crews happier and leaves\nan impression with the public. It's like\nyou wouldn't want to ship your china\nin an old truck that was beaten up and\nrusty. It's the same with our trains.\"\nWEAR AND TEAR\nBut even with all this equipment\nyou still need a safe railbed to operate on. Pat Leyne, division engineer,\nand his staff are responsible for the\n418 miles (673 kilometres) of track.\nAs a terminal division, the wear\nand tear is much different than a\nstraight main line. Bridges, grade\ncrossings and general upkeep keep\nthe engineering department's 204\nemployees \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the \"nuts and bolts\"\npeople \u00E2\u0080\u0094 busy.\n\"Our B&B people are dedicated,\nbut that's not new, its more of a tradition,\" says Mr. Leyne. \"We want the\ntrains to operate safely and on the\nbest track possible.\"\nMr. Boyar sums up the division as\n\"a lot of very proud employees doing\nthe best job they can to make the\ndivision the best there is.\"\nMuscles to spare: Cathy Lemieux, who\nworks at the Toronto Yard CSC, is originally from North Bay where her dad, Pat, is\nterminal supervisor. Cathy says that\nalthough she misses the north, she loves\nthe excitement of Toronto.\nLearning the trade: Apprenticeship programs are a vital element of the employee development program on the\nrailway. Vic Gauthier, carman welder, (left) shows Danny Alexander, an apprentice, the proper method of making repairs\nto the underframe of a boxcar.\nMixed traffic: Many an eyebrow raises when CP Rail's Waterfront Local rumbles down the street. The transfer train services many harborfront industries\nand travels along the main street, obeying traffic signals all the while, on its way back to Parkdale Yard.\n New Office: Tony Maid a, bench carpenter, (left) and Hubert Alain, super visor of the carpentry shop at\noffice in Montreal, the interior of which is seen above at right.\nor Station, study the plans for CP Air's new\n(Photos by Bob Kennell and Maurice Quinn)\nTeam effort transforms downtown site\ninto modern, efficient CP Air office\nBy FRANCINE LECLERC\nMONTREAL\u00E2\u0080\u0094CP Air has opened\na new office here at the corner of Ste.\nCatherine and Peel streets.\nFormerly a drugstore, the interior\nof the premises was completely demolished; the heating, plumbing, air\nconditioning, and electrical systems\nunderwent a complete renovation,\nturning the building into a modern,\nefficient airline office.\nThe office, with its orange tiled\nfloor, and the eight wickets along a\ncounter cover of seamless vinyl, conveys a sense of space and freedom.\nCO-OPERATION\nBesides the ticket office and its\nstaff of nine, the building houses a\nmarketing team headed by J. R. Fortin, manager, administration \u00E2\u0080\u0094\npromotion and interline. Mr. Fortin's\nIn the thiok Of things: Clockwise from left, bench carpenters Fernand Grenier, Italo Foschi, Bernard Campbell and Tony Friio work on CP\nAir's new ticket counters in a successful bid to have all the work completed\nfor opening day July 19.\njob is the promotion of CP Air's services with associations headquartered in Montreal.\nAccording to Corporate Premises\nDirector Gordon Gayda, only a team\neffort made it possible to complete\nthis project within four months.\nThe project started when W. A.\nGenereux, CP Air's manager of properties and facilities in Vancouver,\nasked Mr. Gayda to transform the\nleased building into a ticket office.\n\"For the wickets, as well as the tail\nends of airplanes used for background decoration, our designers\ncreated plywood mockups before\nmaking the real thing,\" Mr. Gayda\nsaid. \"To give the airplane tails the\nmetallic gleam of CP aircraft, we\nordered airplane paint from Vancouver, and our shop painters took\ncare of the rest.\nADJUSTMENTS\n\"When it came to lighting the tails,\nwe had to change our models several\ntimes to get the arrangement and the\nangle right.\"\nThere is a simple design for the\nceiling lights: bulbs under mirrors reflecting back the light. The overall impression is one of depth, as if the\nceiling were at several heights.\nJules Grenier, ticket office manager, points out that the new facility\nhas been operational from the moment of its opening on Monday, July\n19.\n\"The move was carried out\nsmoothly and efficiently. One Friday\nevening, we were selling tickets at\nPlace Ville-Marie, and the next Monday morning we were doing the same\nDetailed: Italo Foschi, bench\ncarpenter at Windsor Station, dresses a grouve on one of the counter\ndrawers.\nthing here, though we had transferred complex electrical installations,\"\nsaid Mr. Grenier. He added that each\nwicket is equipped with a cathode\nscreen terminal connected to CP\nAir's main computer in Vancouver.\n\"Thanks to the technicians of\nCNCP and Bell Canada, the circuits\nwere re-established at the last minute, that is, at 11:45 p.m. the night\nbefore. We really had to work\ntogether to be ready in time.\"\nPensioners\nIf you are retiring, or have retired, and wish to receive CP Rail\nNews every three weeks, send\nyour request, along with your full\naddress (including postal code),\nto:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News,\nRoom 135, Windsor Station, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3E4. There is\nno charge.\n'Oddball' inspection cars draw stares\nBy STEPHEN MORRIS\nTORONTO \u00E2\u0080\u0094 It's certainly different. At first glance you can't tell the\nfront from the back. And at rail and\ngrade crossings it certainly raises\neyebrows.\nOfficially it's called 'M297'. Unofficially, it's the Wickham track inspection car.\nCP Rail has three Wickham vehicles. The 'M297' is assigned to\nToronto, 'M300' to Winnipeg, and\n'M100' to Vancouver.\nToronto's unit was purchased in\n1955 for $7,880 from the Wickham\nCompany in England.\nAlthough common in England, the\n'M297' and its sister units quickly became an oddity on the railway.\nUnlike todays Hi-rail or track in\nspection cars, the Wickhams have\nonly railway wheels and weigh\n66,000 pounds (30,000 kilograms).\nBecause the units cannot be removed from the trr ck they are treated\nlike any other train when operating.\nThe 'M297' was assigned to the\nsuperintendant of the Algoma District\naround North Bay, Ont., in 1955. In\n1959 it came to Toronto and was\nassigned to the Eastern Region.\nThe 12-foot nine-inch-long (four-\nmetre-long) car has dual controls\nallowing it to be operated from either\nend. This permits travel on lines without turntables or Y-shaped tracks for\nturning.\nAlthough the 'M297' was originally\na deep green, it was repainted with\nthe more familiar red.\nKip recalls\npitfalls\nof'solo'\nBy JANE MUDRY\nREVELSTOKE, B.C. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Kip Hollo-\nway's first solo trip as a locomotive\nengineer 10 years ago was a baptism by fire; problems included running with no headlight in the pouring\nrain at night, a broken knuckle and a\nbroken draw bar.\n\"All those problems my first time\nout as a locomotive engineer and no\none else to turn to \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I had to deal\nwith the problems,\" Kip recalled recently. \"Believe me, when I finally got\nhome, I was ready to pack it in.\n\"You might say it was my wife Jill\nwho talked me into continuing; if it\nwasn't for her telling me to take one\nmore trip, I probably would not be an\nengineman today.\"\nINSTRUCTION\nFortunately, Kip's second trip out\nwas better than the first.\nKip was the first locomotive engineer to graduate from the CP Rail's\ntraining program in Canada on July\n14, 1972. His instruction included\nthree months in the classroom and\non the road. Today, the program can\ntake longer to complete depending\non the individual's capabilities and\nexperience.\n\"Jack O'Rouke, a locomotive engineer, who was a long time friend\nbefore he passed away a few years\nago, talked me into signing up. As a\nmatter of fact, I was one of the first\nguys to sign up. I've never regretted\nthe decision, but my first time out I\nsure had my doubts,\" he said.\nHEADLIGHT FAILED\n\"We were heading to Field when\nthe lead unit headlight failed and we\nwere running in pouring rain,\" Kip recalled. \"At that time the track was\nright next to the river. Luckily, there\nwere more units at Beavermouth, so\nwe picked up a new one there.\"\n\"The rest of the way was fine, until\nwe were heading back to Revelstoke.\nThen we broke the knuckle, and the\nfirst draw bar. It tied up the hill for four\nhours,\" said Kip.\nKip handles all types of freight\ntrains and his runs are either east to\nField or west to Kamloops. He started\nwith CP Rail in 1959 and has always\nbeen stationed in Revelstoke.\nWhich way?: Frank Coburn, terminal supervisor, (left) and Bud Bathgate, assistant superintendent, compare notes before taking a trip in the\nrailway's Wickham track inspection car at North Bay.\nProblems: Kip Holloway's first solo\ntrip as a locomotive engineer was\nplagued with problems and the employee admits he was ready to pack\nit in 10 years ago.\n Mudslide poses challenge to resolute workers\n(Cont'd from page 1)\npressure build-up under the earth's\nsurface finally became too great. The\nhillside, slowly eroding at first, finally\n\"saucered\" and the ground below\nopened up.\nTwo huge sink holes were created\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 one at the west end of the slide\narea over 65 feet (20 metres) deep by\n85 feet (26 metres) wide, the other,\non the east end, a fissure more than\n40 feet (12 metres) deep and a foot\nwide (half metre), from the river's\nedge up the hill.\nDANGLING\nThe track above each hole was left\ndangling in mid-air. In between both\nholes the track structure had been\npushed from two (less than a metre)\nto 50 feet (15 metres) out of alignment.\nDuring the previous two days, dispatchers and transportation department personnel in Vancouver, Kamloops, Revelstoke and Calgary had\nbeen busy re-routing traffic over\nCanadian National's line on the north\nside of the river using interchange\npoints at Kamloops and Basque. A\nbacklog of 20 trains had stalled west\nand east of the slide area before the\ninterchange began. Once re-routed,\na steady flow of CP Rail trains moved\non the CN side of the river.\nAt the same time, Vancouver Division Deputy Superintendent CE.\nMinto and other divisional personnel\nwere co-ordinating early efforts to\nInsulate attic right\nand save on heat\nBy DON HOLLM\nWith winter fast approaching and\nthe certainty of higher heating costs,\nit is time to consider putting a little\nmore insulation into your home's attic, if you haven't already done so.\nEnergy Mines and Resources'\n\"Keeping the Heat In\" is an excellent\nsource of information but there are a\nfew pointers, not covered in how-to\nbooks, that I've gleened from friends\nwho have already insulated their attics.\nDoing it right the first time. Once\nyou have insulated your attic above\nthe joist level, it will be practically impossible to move around the attic in\nthe future.\nBefore adding any insulation, go\nup and plug all air leaks in the ceiling\nsuch as spaces around pipes, wiring,\nducts and fireplaces.\nThen insulate all the way. Most\ncontractors recommend about R32,\nbut you should aim for an R40 to R50\ninsulation factor. (The type of insulation you use will determine the depth\nof insulation that will be required to\nattain this insulation factor.) Though\nthis amount of insulation is greater\nthan most common specifications, it\nis less than most of the new super-\ninsulated homes.\nAlso, if you are having the insulation blown in, it should cost you much\nless to have R40-R50 insulation\nblown in now rather than having to\npay again in the future to bring it up to\nthis level.\nDoing it yourself and with what?\nWhile insulating is a dirty job, doing it\nyourself is the least expensive way to\ninsulate your attic and you will be\nsure of the quality of work you get. If\nyou have decided to tackle the job\nyourself, you will generally use either\nfiberglass batts, blown fiberglass\nor blown cellulose. The pros and\ncons of each are as follows:\nFiberglass batts are slightly more\nexpensive than blown insulation; do\nnot require power tools to install; do\nnot settle or require baffles on the\noutside edges of the attic like blown\ninsulation; and are fireproof.\nBlown fiberglass settles with\ntime, losing some of its insulating\nvalue; requires baffles; must be installed with a special blower suited to\nthis type of insulation, which is difficult to find; and is fireproof.\nBlown cellulose has a higher R'\nvalue per inch than the other two\ntypes and is good where space is a\nproblem; is prone to water damage\nand settling; requires baffles around\noutside edge of the attic; might become a fire hazard as fire retardent in\nthe material sometimes leaches out;\ncosts less than fiberglass.\nI would recommend laying fiberglass batts between the ceiling joists\nuntil level with the tops of the joists.\nThen layer more batts at right angles\nto the joists.\nIf you decide to blow in the insulation, I would go with the fiberglass\nbecause it will remain fireproof and is\nless prone to water damage. It is\nslightly costlier than cellulose and\nyou may have a hard time finding a\ndo-it-yourself blower to rent.\nHaving it done for you. If you\nhave a contractor blow in the insulation, make sure the number of bags\nand cubic feet of insulation are listed\non the contract and insist that all of it\nis blown into your attic.\nBlowing in the insulation fluffs it up,\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 but it will settle with time giving a\nlower insulating 'R' value. Some contractors may say that enough insulation has been installed and will try\nand refund you the unused insulation.\nIf, for some reason, the contractor\ncannot blow it all in, remember, the\nlabor cost in the contract is for the\ninstallation of all the bags of insulation. Therefore, a proportionate\namount of the labor cost should be\ndeducted as well.\nBe present at the blower at all\ntimes and count the number of bags\nthat are blown in to ensure the job\nisn't \"finished\" while you are away\npreparing coffee.\nIf you can get into the attic beforehand, mark off the finished insulation\nheight on the rafters or trusses so you\ncan check at the end of the job to\nmake sure the insulation is evenly\ndistributed and as a double check to\nensure you got what you paid for. The\ninsulation level may be higher than\nthese marks but never lower.\nCalculating your costs. If you insulate the attic yourself, the federal\ngovernment's CHIP grant will cover\nthe material costs up to $350, excluding provincial sales tax. This grant is\ntaxable at your marginal income tax\nrate.\nA greater subsidy is available to\npay part of the labor costs if you contract out the work. However, when\nmaking a cost comparison between\ndoing it yourself and hiring someone,\ntake the income tax into account in\ncalculating out-of-pocket expenses.\nKeep safety in mind. Wear glasses, gloves and a mask if you do the\njob yourself. A hard hat is advisable if\nyou have a low roof and roofing nails\nprotrude inside.\nThe book \"Keeping the Heat In\" is\navailable free from the Office of Energy Conservation, Energy Mines and\nResources, 580 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ont., K1A 0E4. If you have any\nother questions, you can telephone\ntoll-free to \"Enersave\" at 1-800-267-\n9563 or 112-800-267-9563 in British\nColumbia.\n(Don Hollm is Director, Energy Utilization, with CP Rail in Montreal.)\nrestore the line. When the hillside\nfinally stabilized early Saturday\nmorning Mr. Minto began to muster\nmore men and machines to construct\na detour. Permanent track work\nwould have to come later.\nFive huge 25-cubic-yard-capacity\n(20 cubic metre) earth scrapers, a\nhalf dozen bulldozers, front-end\nloaders, back hoes, graders and\ndump trucks were hired and began\narriving through the weekend.\nTwo work trains, a Burro crane, the\nKamloops auxiliary crane, flatcars\ncarrying track panels and other building material, and cook and sleeping\ncars were already at the site.\nBridge and building forces, track\nand maintenance-of-way gangs and\nan assortment of other specialists \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nranging from signal maintainers and\nsurveyors to pipefitters and welders\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 were summoned to assist, bringing the work force up to about 100\nmen.\nWork continued, round-the-clock\nwith the help of flood lights; the cook\ncar geared up to provide a steady\nsupply of food and hot coffee.\n\"One meal ran into another, as one\ncrew would relieve the ^iext,\" said\ncook Frank Petroni, who normally\nworks as a car inspector at Kamloops\nand is pressed into service as work\ntrain cook in emergencies such as\nthis. Mr. Petroni and bull cooks (helpers) Robert Lockrie and Brad Cane\nalways had something hot in the\noven.\n\"The guys come in tired and hungry, so we've got to be ready with lots\nof good-tasting, energy-building\nfood,\" said Mr. Lockrie. \"You could\nnever tell how many would come in\nduring each break, but it's important\neach man is well fed so he can go\nback out in good spirits.\"\n\"Hot meat pies, roast, steak,\nchops, ham, salad, plenty of bread\nand potatoes, eggs and sausages...\nwe try to serve up something different\neach day,\" added Mr. Cane.\nThe cook car provided an important respite for the crews who came\nin to relax and take a short break from\nthe arduous task of repairing the line.\n\"Everyone was pulling together,\"\nsaid Grant Hoffman, who was driving\none of the company flatdeck trucks\nback and forth from the site to Kamloops throughout the nine day stretch\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 hauling ties, culvert pipe and a\nvariety of other supplies.\nSHIFTING SUBSIDES\n\"Supplies and equipment were\nmarshalled from across the region.\nDrainage pipe from Vancouver and\nEdmonton, a drilling rig from Calgary,\ntie plates, spikes and machinery from\nall over. It all moved to the slide area\ndown a newly-built road cut into side\nof the hill,\" said Mr. Hoffman.\nBy Monday morning (Sept. 27), six\ndays after the line had first closed,\nengineering and geology consultant\nDr. John Krahn, of Calgary, and railway engineers, had surveyed the\narea from land and air to detect if the\nearth's shifting had subsided. Drilling\nwas underway, and Piezometres\n(devices to detect the underground\nwater pressure and earth stability)\nA brief Chance to relax: The cook car provided track forces a place\nto rest and get hot food and coffee before returning to the work site.\nwere installed and their readings evaluated.\nDr. Krahn said the whole Thompson River Valley was slide-prone.\nSimilar, yet smaller slip-outs have\noccured along the rail line for the past\n100 years and, in recent time, annual\nsoil stabilization programs have been\ncarried out by CP Rail along the river\nto protect some of the more obvious\ndanger areas.\nBRIEF BREAKS\nMaintenance-of-way extra gang\nemployees Gary Moses and Tony\nMeysen were two of those at the site\nsince first called to Ashcroft Wednesday. Like most, they had only been\nable to grab brief breaks for sleep\nand food each day. One could see\nfatigue setting in on both men's\nfaces, as the gruelling pace continued.\nWhile they prepared track panels,\nhuge earth scrapers slowly trundled\nby, picking up fill and dropping it into\nthe sink holes. \"These machines are\nawesome,\" Mr. Meysen reflected as\nhe paused for a moment to let a\nscraper rumble by. \"They remind me\nof prehistoric beasts.\"\n\"The work on the railway is hard,\"\nGary Moses said. \"But it's steady.\nBefore I joined CP Rail, I worked in a\nmill, standing in one position all day.\nAt least here we're out in the fresh air\nand can see the results of our labor.\"\nBy Tuesday (Sept. 28) work at the\neast end began to take shape. Work\non the west end was progressing less\nrapidly, however.\nWater-saturated clay and earth\nhad crumbled from the hillside onto\nthe line between both holes. Heavy\nequipment couldn't operate in this\nquagmire and, before grading, the\nmaterial had to be laboriously excavated.\nMeanwhile, more than 3,000 feet\n(914 metre) of eight-inch (20 centimetre) perforated pipe and 36-inch\n(91 centimetre) culvert pipe was\nbeing laid in locations along the hillside and under the track to prevent a\nfurther water build-up.\nBy Tuesday night, survey crews\nset out, flashlights in hand, staking\nthe route the detour track would\nfollow.\nOn Wednesday morning (Sept. 29)\nreal signs of progress had appeared.\nPre-built 39-foot-section track panels\n(12-metre panels) were being laid\natop the new grade at the east end.\n' X ' XX \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\nEnd Of track: Heavy-duty earth scrapers and bulldozers moved more\nthan 100,000 cubic yards of new fill to bring the grade up to original level\nwhere the line was cut.\nComing together: By late\nWednesday, eight days after the\nearth shifted and destroyed close to\n1,750 feet of mainline west of Kamloops, work at building a new temporary detour line begins to take\nshape.\nSome fresh track forces had arrived and ballast cars were marshalled at Ashcroft yard, standing ready\nto move in as soon as possible. That\nevening close to 600 feet (183\nmetres) of track had been laid and\nmen and equipment were concentrating on fill and grade work at the\nwest end.\nTired, yet determined, men who\nhad begun the ordeal could now taste\nvictory and pressed on in back-to-\nback shifts to complete the job.\nThough many were close to exhaustion, safe work practices would mean\nthat not a man would suffer an injury\nthroughout the nine days.\nWhen the earth had first shifted,\ntask co-ordinators, planning the rebuild process like a military man-\neouver, indicated they would have\nline clearance by 23:59 Wednesday\n(Sept. 29). While this goal would be\nmissed by two-and-a-half hours (the\nfirst train travelled over the line at\n02:30 Thursday, Sept. 30) everyone\nhad given their all to return service to\nnormal.\nEarly Thursday morning, flanked\nby some of the men responsible for\nrepairing the line, Roadmaster Greg\nHuestis approached his counterpoint\nJim Tarasoff. He carried a track spike\nthat had been spray-painted green.\nMen gathered around to set the last\ntrack panel in place and watch Jim\nTarasoff hammer in the green spike,\nmarking completion of the job.\nNine days had passed since traffic\nwas first halted and now dispatchers\nand transportation department personnel were chomping at the bit to\nrun trains again on CP Rail line.\nWhile trains were moving once\nmore, clearing crews would remain\non the scene to finish clean-up operations.\nOthers would return to their home\nbases. Plans were already underway\nto build a new permanent line to allow\nnormal operations through the area.\nBut for now, the temporary track, built\nby 100 men working 'round-the-clock\nmeant traffic was running again.\n People and places in the news\nWarm wishes: Walter (Bubbles)\nSlonosky (left), a carman at Winnipeg, has retired with 39 years of\nservice. Congratulating Mr. Slonosky is General Car Foreman John\nSawyer.\nLast day: Bernard Archambault, a painter at Glen Yard, has retired with\n36 years of service. Mr. Archambault was also active as a first aid instructor\nat Glen Yard, and assisted for many years in preparing the Glen Yard Team to\ntake part in annual first aid competitions.\nCongratulations: Lucien J. Cote,\na carman at St. Luc Car Department,\nhas retired with 35 years of service.\nMr. Cote began service as a carman\nhelper at Outremont in 1947, and\nwas promoted to carman in 1949.\nAngus Shops: Twelve Angus Shops employees recently retired with a combined service of 470 years. They are:\n(from left, back row) Marcel Lebel, carman, 38 years of service; Jean Marcel Sauve, carman, 35 years; Germain\nBenoit, carman, 35 years; Joseph St. Jean, carpenter, 38 years; Lucien Lamontagne, machinist, 41 years; Maurice\nBeaulieu, blacksmith, 38 years; Maurice Lavoie, carman, 39 years; (front row, from left) Robert Gauthier, sheet metal\nworker, 41 years; Albert God in, laborer, 41 years; Armand Hebert, helper machinist, 41 years; Hubert Lapointe,\nhelper carman, 42 years; and Paul Emile Berube, machinist, 41 years.\nAppointments made\nDivisions amalgamated\nThe Quebec Division and the\nMontreal Division have been\namalgamated together with the\nadministrative functions of the\nQuebec Central Railway,\nannounced J.B. Chabot, general\nmanager, operation and maintenance on the Atlantic Region.\nAs a result, J.V. Rivest has been\nappointed superintendent of the\nnewly-formed Quebec Division and\nwill be manager of the Quebec Central Railway.\nR. P. Premont has been\nappointed deputy superintendent of\nthe Quebec Division.\nJohn Serena has been appointed\ngeneral car foreman, Quebec Division, at St. Luc.\nGerard Danis has been promoted\nto assistant general car foreman,\nQuebec Division, at St. Luc.\nL. N. Couture has been promoted\ndirector, train operations, Quebec\nDivision, at St. Luc.\n8\nJ. M. Audet has been appointed\nassistant superintendent passenger\noperations, Quebec Division, with\nheadquarters at Park Avenue Station.\nS. K. Carson has been appointed\noffice manager, Quebec Division, St.\nLuc car department.\nS. P. Robinson has been\nappointed deputy division engineer,\nQuebec Division, at Park Avenue\nStation.\nMario Ciamarro has been\nappointed assistant office manager,\nQuebec Division, at Park Avenue\nStation.\nR. J. Bell has been appointed\nassistant superintendent freight operations, Quebec Division, with\nheadquarters at Park Avenue Station.\nMeanwhile, Brian Phi I bin has\nbeen appointed administrative\nassistant to manager expenditure\naccounting, at Windsor Station.\nR. K. Leavitt has been promoted\nto superintendent, Eastern Region,\ndepartment of investigation at\nToronto.\nHarry Boucher has been\nappointed regional inspector, Atlantic Region, department of investigation, at Montreal.\nK. W. LeGrand has been\nappointed assistant chief accountant, Atlantic Region.\nJoseph F. Schulman has been\nappointed director of economic and\nbusiness analysis, in the department\nof research, at Montreal.\nC. R. Pike has been appointed\nvice-president, Prairie Region, replacing J. W. Malcolm who is retiring.\nJ. P. Kelsall has been appointed\nvice-president, operation and\nmaintenance, at Montreal, replacing\nC. R. Pike.\nBest Wishes: Harold Lang, shareholder record assistant in the vice-\npresident and secretary's office at Windsor Station, has retired with 39 years\nof service. Mr. Lang is seen here with his wife Marguerite at a reception given\nin his honor.\nOCCUPATION c\u00C2\u00A3)\nPLEASE\" Q\nMY NAME IS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:\nTIM T. HINS\nU.W. SHEARMOANE\nMY OCCUPATION IS:\nHere's all you do:\nUnder this cartoon is a list of names. To find his or her occupation, solve the anagram of each of the names (i.e. by arranging\nall the letters in each name) to spell out each occupation. Then\nexamine the cartoon carefully for clues and select the one occupation that is more appropriate to the illustration.\nThe answer is on page 2.\n Highlights of 1981 Annual Report\nCanadian Pacific Limited\nPension Trust Fund\nCompany pension costs for 1981 amounted\nto $108,786,992, an increase of $8,145,905\nover the previous year. This figure represents\n14.41 per cent of the company's total\npensionable payroll (the payroll of all\nmembers of the pension plan).\nEmployee contributions to the fund in 1981,\nless refunds, were $29,031,092. The\ncompany contribution includes ad hoc\npaymente^ef4677O37800^which wefe-paic^4e~-\ncertain retired company personnel. This\nadditional amount, it should be noted, was not\npaid out of the pension fund but rather out of\nthe company's current revenues.\nThe Canadian Pacific Limited pension trust\nfund reported net assets at cost of\n$1,541,021,374 at the end of 1981, an\nincrease of $178,522,912 over 1980.\nInvestment income for 1981 including\ncapital gains, was $158,054,971 (see table\ntwo); pension and survivor allowances paid\namounted to $107,434,820; and\nadministration expenses were $3,211,523.\nThe unfunded liability (*) of Canadian\nPacific's pension fund at December 31, 1981,\nas determined by actuarial valuation, was\n$610,000,000 of which $386,000,000 is being\nfunded by a series of annual payments\nending from 1992 to 1993. Another\n$224,000,000 is being funded by equal\nannual payments to 2027.\nDuring 1981, a total of 939 employees\nretired with an average monthly allowance of\n$961.59. Survivor allowances which came\ninto ^act dur4ng4b0-year4otaUed^69 with ^n-\naverage monthly allowance of $203.40 (see\ntable four).\nThere were 1,141 pension allowances and\n431 survivor allowances terminated during\n1981 (see table five). As of December 31,\n1981, there were 17,247 pensioners and\n9,563 survivors receiving allowances from the\npension trust fund.\nThese figures and tables are taken from the\nfinancial statements of the Pension Trust\nFund, audited by Price Waterhouse & Co.,\nand are prepared in accordance with\naccepted actuarial practices determined by\nthe company's actuary, Towers, Perrin,\nForster & Crosby.\nThe current Pension Committee members\nare as follows:\nR.T. Riley, Vice-President Corporate,\nChairman\nR.S. Allison, Executive Vice-President,\nCP Rail\nJ.C. Anderson, Vice-President, Personnel\nJ.P.T. Clough, Vice-President.,\nFinance and Accounting\n413IAILL b\nse LUjLj Aji|enb jou seop s\m jnq 'spunoj siu.\npjooej oi >joop qound e 6uub9m si pjenS\nAiunoos 9i|i -puBL| mBu Aw ui jajsnp\nb 6ujp|oq WB | 9pis }i|6u Aw ye s\ \\eti\nAlU PUB S||BJ9A0 6UUB9M WB | 'HOIINVP B\nsv \"sjnou. 6uiub9|0 9U.1 6uunp >jS9p sjlj sb\nP9JB9S WB I '}U9p!S9Jd-90|AB 6u|>p!W!|/\|\naOHNVP ;S| uoiiBdnooo A|aj\nd3d33>l3l/\ILL 'HOllNVr\n:9jb swbj6bup ou.} o\ suojjnios 9iu\nReady to lift: Three specially-\ndesigned trailers are positioned\nunder CP Rail's double-tracked\nbridge over Queen Street in downtown Toronto. The bridge was then\nlifted and moved 12 feet (3.7\nmetres).\n\"The lessons we learned with this\nmethod of moving a bridge wili help\nus in the future,\" said the division\nengineer.\nSortin Yard expands: The first shipment of plastic pellets from C-l-L\nin Alberta was unloaded at Sortin Yard Nov. 23 to inaugurate the expansion\nof the distribution centre into a \"cargo flow\" operation. The expansion\npermits the transfer of synthetic resins from rail car to tanker truck for local\ndelivery without contamination of the commodity. Tony Levitt, sales manager\nwith CP Transport's Bulk Systems (left), explains the operation of a special\nvacuum pump attached to the truck which transfers the load. Looking on is\nCP Rail's Jim McMahon, marketing representative (right), and Michel De\nBeliefeuille, regional manager of bulk commodities and overseas trade. Bulk\nSystems will handle all the plastic pellets traffic unloaded at the Sortin Yard\ndistribution centre, which has only been open since April.\nNEWS\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nTimothy R. Humphreys\nEditorial assistant,\nLise Baillargeon\nCorrespondents,\nJane Mudry, Vancouver\nRalph Wilson, Calgary\nKen Emmond, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising\nWindsor Station, Montreal,\nH3C 3E4.\nCPRailU\nDept.,\nQue.,\n Rail work out west halts for winter\nPrize: The Pacific Region took first\nplace in this year's President's Trophy Run.\nFun run yarn\nin next News\nSome 150 employees across the\nsystem took part in this year's President's Trophy Run, a series of a 5.9\nmile (10 kilometre) \"fun runs\".\nThe veteran running team from the\nPacific Region took first place with a\nnet team time of 519:02. The System\nemployees team placed second, followed by the Eastern and Atlantic\nRegions respectively. The Prairie\nRegion did not enter a team this year.\nA story and photos of the\nmarathons will be featured in the next\nissue of CP Rail News.\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nportal. The work included building access roads and temporary bridges,\nas well as the clearing of a new right-\nof-way.\nWhen the Rogers Pass project is\nfinished, it will provide new trackage\ndesigned to eliminate the most restrictive bottleneck on CP Rail's main\nline between Calgary and Vancouver.\nWith its reduced grades, the new\nsection of line will allow the railway to\noperate more, and longer, westbound freight trains carrying increased tonnages to the Pacific\nCoast.\nAt Sicamous, B.C., CP Rail freight\ntrains are now rumbling over the\nSicamous Narrows waterway, 44\nmiles (70 kilometres) west of Revelstoke, on a new double-tracked\nswing bridge.\nSWING BRIDGE WORK\nThe 84-year-old manually-turned\nbridge it replaces is being dismantled\nas part of an $11 million project which\nwill include two miles (3.2 kilometres)\nof new main line, siding and storage\ntrack. Work began last year and is\nexpected to be completed next\nspring.\nBuilt higher over the water than the\nold structure, the new bridge doesn't\nhave to be swung open as often to\nallow pleasure craft and barges by on\nthe short waterway which connects\nMara Lake with Shuswap Lake.\nThe bridge also operates a little\ndifferently. Rather than just pivoting\nopen, the new span lifts and turns. An\noperator controls the bridge.\n\"This design makes for a more secure fit at the connections between\nthe swing span and adjoining\napproach spans and will result in a\nlonger life for the rail connections,\"\nsaid Tony Bowman, project supervisor with Special Projects, adding\nmaintenance costs will be reduced\nas a result.\nDuring construction, a \"shoo-fly\" or\ntemporary diversion was built at the\nwest end of the bridge so freight traffic was not interrupted. An average of\n24 trains cross the waterway in both\ndirections each day.\nA 165-ton (150-metric-ton) capacity crane on a flat-bottomed barge\nwas used to position the five 75-foot\n(23-metre) steel spans and two 157-\nfoot (49-metre) swing-span girders of\nthe new bridge.\nLINE RE-OPENING\nThe Okanagan sub-division\nbranch line between Sicamous and\nArmstrong, which has been closed\nsince Oct. 25 while construction was\nunderway, will be re-opened soon.\nMeanwhile, the $8 million bridge\nconstruction and double-tracking\nwork at Twin Butte, 13 miles (21\nkilometres) east of Revelstoke, has\nhalted for the winter.\nOCCUPATION c\u00C2\u00A3)\nPLEASE\" Q\nMY NAME IS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:\nNAT J. RIO\nMIKE E. PETER\nMY OCCUPATION IS:\nHere's all you do:\nUnder this cartoon is a list of names. To find his or her occupation, solve the anagram of each of the names (i.e. by arranging\nall the letters in each name) to spell out each occupation. Then\nexamine the cartoon carefully for clues and select the one occupation that is more appropriate to the illustration.\nThe answer is on page 2.\nA 290-foot (88-metre) steel bridge\nspanning Twin Butte Creek was built\nthis summer and will be double-\ntracked and put into service early\nnext spring. It will replace an aging\nexisting structure which is unable to\nhandle the increased tonnage forecasted for the Vancouver-Calgary\nmain line.\nDAYLIGHTING'\nA smaller bridge over Greeley\nCreek, seven miles (11.3 kilometres)\nwest of Twin Butte, is also scheduled\nto be double-tracked next year.\nThe project will also include the\nlaying of 8.5 miles (13.7 kilometres)\nof double-track between mileage\n113.0 and 115.4 at Twin Butte and\nbetween mileage 117.4 and 112.1 at\nGreeley.\nAt Redgrave, 22 miles (35\nkilometres) west of Golden, B.C., the\nimprovements included diverting the\nmain line to reduce the curvature of\nthe track, adding 2,970 feet (900\nmetres) of new track, extending a siding to accommodate long trains and\n\"daylighting\" a tunnel.\nThe term \"daylighting\" refers to\neither the partial or total removal of\nan existing tunnel to permit trains to\ntravel through open space at increased speeds. About 100 feet (30\nmetres) of the tunnel was removed\nhere this summer.\nThe daylighting operation has increased train speed to a uniform\n35 mph (55 km/hr) over a 12-mile\n(19-kilometre) distance. Previously\ntrains had to reduce speed by 10 mph\n(15 km/hr) when entering the tunnel.\nAt Glenogle, seven miles (11\nkilometres) east of Golden, a 24-foot\n(7.3-metre) bridge was built and the\nsiding extended by 3,000 feet (915\nmetres) to also accommodate long\ntrains which might meet there.\nPealing of\nsummons\nBy RALPH WILSON\nPRIDDIS, Alta. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 It's taken nearly\nthree-quarters of a century, but Anglican parishioners in this tiny hamlet,\n20 miles (32 kilometres) southwest of\nCalgary, can finally attend church to\nrrote, Rbductioa flrojetfE\ncwnsnnsrz\nGrade reduction project: The above map shows where the two\nnew railway tunnels and the second main line will be built, as part of the\nRogers Pass project.\nBird's eye View: This aerial view shows the new bridge at Twin Butte\nCreek, which will be completed next summer. On the right is the existing\nstructure which is unable to handle increased tonnage forecasted for the\nCalgary-Vancouver corridor.\nbrass locomotive bell\nhamlets parishioners\nthe mellow pealing of a brass bell.\nThe bell, cast about 50 years ago\nat Canadian Pacific's Angus Shops\nfoundry, once rang proudly atop the\nnose of a mighty steam locomotive.\nBut, with the advent of diesel power,\nthe locomotive era ended and the bell\nwas removed to storage.\nThere it remained until St. James\nparishioner Ronald Zang\napproached CP Rail with a request\nfor a bell to grace his community's\nquaint, 12-pew church.\nThe bell was shipped from Montreal to Calgary's Ogden Shops\nwhere it was fitted with a new clapper\nand fully restored to its original brilliance.\nSt. James Parish was established\nin 1891 and door-to-door services\nwere held until a church was finally\nbuilt in 1904. The number of\nparishioners has almost quadrupled\nsince the turn of the century \u00E2\u0080\u0094 from\nabout a half dozen to about 25.\n\"If everyone showed up every\nSunday, we'd have a difficult time\nfinding seats for everyone,\" Mr. Zang\nsaid. \"But it's the spirit that counts.\"\nArchdeacon Waverly D. Grant\nconducted a special service to dedicate the new bell Oct. 17.\n Holiday\nsafety\nadvice\n(Cont'd from page 2)\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Do not use lighted candles or other\nopen-flame lighting devices. If electric lighting is not available, the tree\nand other combustible decorations\ncan be illuminated by spot-lighting\nwith a battery flashlight.\nDecorations\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Decorations should be kept to a\nminimum and, where possible,\nshould be of non-combustible material, such as metal, glass, asbestos,\netc. If combustible material is used,\nbe sure it is treated with flame-\nretardant chemicals.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Do not use lighted candles or other\nopen-flame devices on combustible\ndecorations, such as table centerpieces and other decorative displays.\nGeneral\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Smoking, or the use of lighters or\nmatches near combustible decorations should be discouraged.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Christmas wrapping should not be\nallowed to accumulate but should\nbe gathered up and placed in covered metal receptacles until safely\ndisposed of.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Where possible, a suitable fire extinguisher should be kept handy for\nemergency use in case of fire.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Plan what to do if a fire does break\nout.\nRobert A. Beath, locomotive engineer,\noperating dept., Smiths Falls; George R.\nBeaulieu, track maintainer, M of W dept.,\nNorth Bay; Maurice Beaulieu, blacksmith, blacksmith dept., Angus Shops;\nClarence Wilson Bedford, general yard-\nmaster, operating dept., Moose Jaw;\nRheo Belisle, track maintenance foreman, operating dept., Calumet. Que.;\nGermain Benoit, carman, freight dept.,\nAngus Shops; Rene Bernier, trainman,\noperating dept., Park Avenue Station,\nMontreal; Paul Emile Berube, machinist,\nair brake dept., Angus Shops; Roland\nBoisvert, engine attendant, mechanical\ndept., Walkley Yard, Ottawa.\nJohn F. Cano, senior clerk, operating\ndept., Chatham; Leonardo Capuano,\ntrack maintenance foreman, M of W dept.,\nKootenay Division; Winnifred F. Clither-\noe, terminal data entry operator, information systems, Montreal; Leslie A. Col-\nledge, conductor, operating dept., Cranbrook, B.C.; Shirley K. Cook, clerk, customer account receivable, Montreal; Clarence E. Cox, conductor, freight dept.,\nThunder Bay, Ont.\nRaymond Devlin, carman, mechanical\ndept., North Bay; Vincent J. Doyle, conductor, operating dept., Smiths Falls;\nJean P. Dufour, carman, car dept., St.\nLuc Yard; Raymond Dupuis, carman,\nfreight car dept., Angus Shops.\nWilliam H. Emmett, pick up and delivery co-ordinator, shed operations, Lamb-\nton Freight Terminal, Toronto.\nLeslie Feke, track maintenance foreman, M of W dept., Lambton Yard; Walter\nC. Fick, car foreman, car dept., Ogden\nShops.\nRobert Gauthier, sheet metal worker,\nsheet metal dept., Angus Shops; Gerard\nGingras, conductor, operating dept.,\nPark Avenue Station; Raoul Girouard,\nutilityman, intermodal services, Lachine;\nAlbert Godin, laborer, diesel erect dept.,\nAngus Shops; Henry D. Gothard, payroll\nsupervisor, chief accountant's office,\nVancouver; Paul Guay, carman, car\ndept., St. Luc Yard; Gordon L. Gunning,\ntruck-driver-clerk, M of W equipment\nshop, West Toronto.\nWilliam B. Hay, yardman, operating\ndept., Thunday Bay; Armand Hebert,\nmachinist helper, Angus Shops; Mike M.\nHnylycia, leading track maintainer, operating dept., Moose Jaw.\nPearl K. Jack, reclaims clerk, car\ni&v_\nft!\nJubilant Crew: The RCO crew recently replaced 3.2 track miles (5.15\nkilometres) of rail near Toronto in one day.\nRail change-out crew\nbreaks record twice\nCP Rail's 100-man rail change-out\n(RCO) crew established a Canadian\nrecord for laying new rail Oct. 18, just\ntwo days before they laid their last rail\nof the season.\nThe RCO machine is a 220-foot\n(67-metre) monster which simultaneously tears up old rail and replaces it with 1,320-foot (402.3-\nmetre) lengths of continuous welded\nrail (CWR).\nThe machine and its crew replaced\n183 track miles (294.5 kilometres) of\nrail on the Atlantic, Eastern and\nPrairie Regions this season.\nThe record occurred when the\nRCO crew removed and installed 3.2\ntrack miles (5.15 kilometres) of rail on\nthe main line near Toronto.\nGood luck: Jean Paul Paiement, a\ncarman at Angus Shops, has retired\nwith 36 years of service.\naccounting, Montreal; Michael Jaskow,\ncarman, general foreman, Winnipeg\nYard; Leo Jones, laborer and relieving\nterminal supervisor, Mactier, Ont.; William T. Jordan, track maintenance foreman, M of W dept., Brockville, Ont.\nAlexander Kalosza, car cleaner, car\ndept., John Street, Toronto; Keith Kennedy, locomotive engineer, operating\ndept., Thunder Bay; Allan R. Keown, conductor, operating dept., Toronto Yard;\nGrace K. Kulik, clerk, systems manager,\nrevenue and agency accounting, Montreal.\nCharles E. Lamond, planner, car dept.,\nSt. Luc Yard; Lucien Lamontagne,\nmachinist, Angus Shops; Otto Lange,\ntrack maintenance foreman, M of W dept.,\nWilkie, Sask.; Georges Langlade, helper\ncarman, freight dept., Angus Shops; Jacques Lapalme, dispatcher, operating\ndept., Sherbrooke; Hubert Lapointe, helper carman, freight dept., Angus Shops;\nGerard Laroche, carman, freight dept.,\nAngus Shops; Maurice Lavoie, carman,\nfreight dept., Angus Shops; Harold A.\nLawless, locomotive engineer, operating\ndept., Alyth Diesel Shops, Calgary; Marcel Lebel, carman, freight dept., Angus\nShops; Gaston Lemay, operator, operating dept., Sherbrooke; Raymond Lemire,\nsignal maintainer, signals dept., Vallee\nJonction; Donald J. Lightle, yard locomotive engineer, operating dept., Moose\nJaw; Maximilian Litwin, section foreman,\nM of W dept., Edmonton; Rowland A.\nLorimer, director, pension investments\nadministration, pension investments,\nToronto; Stewart E. Lumsden, super-\nIt was the second time this summer\nthe RCO crew broke its own record.\nOn the Keewatin sub-division, about 16 miles (25 kilometres) east of\nWinnipeg, the RCO crew laid 3.088\ntrack miles (4.96 kilometres) of rail\nbefore the work day was over.\nSPIRIT\nRoadmaster Erwin Schroeder recalled at the time \"the spirit of the\nmen\" made this record possible.\n\"At mid-point of the day we realized we were having good production,\" he said. \"I mentioned that, and\nthe possibility we were in sight of the\nrecord, on the radio and the men just\nflew.\n\"The men enabled us to achieve\nthe record. They're a super crew.\"\nvisor, pick up and delivery dept., Lambton\nFreight Terminal; Lucien Lussier Sr.,\nclerk import, operating dept., CSC dept.,\nMontreal.\nDonald E. McAdam, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Minnedosa,\nMan.; Donald G. McCutcheon, conductor, Newport, Vt.; Donald McGinn, clerk,\nmanager expenditure accounting, Montreal; Frank Mizgalski, carman, mechanical dept., Weston Shops; James W.\nMorrison, terminal supervisor, operating\ndept., Sudbury; Roy E. Morton, PGM coordinator, shed operations, Lambton;\nAkira Motoike, trackman, M of W dept.,\nMission, B.C.; Robert A. Murray, carman,\ncar dept., John Street.\nRaymond Nadeau, laborer, freight\ndept., Angus Shops.\nAlex Ostep, carman, car dept., John\nStreet.\nJean Paul Paiement, carman, freight\ndept., Angus Shops; Alexandre Petrec-\nca, track maintenance foreman, Montreal.\nHoward G. Rashbrook, carman helper, car dept., Coquitlam, B.C.; Frederick\nJ. Reid, locomotive engineer, operating\ndept., Oshawa, Ont.; Roland Roberge,\ntrack maintenance foreman, M of W dept.,\nSt. Hyacinthe, Que.\nJoseph Sandrk, yard foreman, yard\noffice, Winnipeg; Jean M. Sauve, carman, freight dept., Angus Shops; Vladimir\nSlonosky, carman, car dept., Winnipeg;\nGordon V. Snell, supervisor, claims locker, CSC, Vancouver; Grant J. Stevens,\nyard foreman, operating dept., Moose\nJaw; Joseph St. Jean, carpenter, B&B\ndept., Angus Shops; Muriel Stockdale,\nassistant chief timekeeper, chief accountant's office, Toronto; James R. Styles,\noperator, operating dept., Sudbury.\nAntonio Taddeo, leading track maintainer, M of W dept., Ignace, Ont.; Paul\nTaillon, sheet metal worker, sheet metal\ndept., Angus Shops; Henri Tousignant,\nyardman, operating dept., Trois-Rivieres,\nQue.; Romeo Tremblay, carman, car\ndept., Quebec Division.\nTerrence D. Vanclieaf, conductor,\noperating dept., Medicine Hat, Alta.; Roy\nC. Wilson, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Alyth Diesel Shops; Harry S.\nWithington, carman, car dept., Toronto\nYard.\nJohn Zdanowicz, carman, freight car\ndept., Angus Shops.\n(An ear to the rail.)\nRemembrance Day last month held something special for 18-\nyear-old Violet Hay, whose dad Bob is a Second World War\nveteran and a CP Rail operator at Portage la Prairie, Man.\nViolet had written a poem about the tragedy of war and won the 1982\nRoyal Canadian Legion Poem Competition. She was also invited by W.\nBennett Campbell, minister of veterans affairs, to travel with 11 other\nyoung Canadians to England and France to take part in ceremonies\ncommemorating the 40th anniversary of the Dieppe raids.\nThousands of Canadian soldiers died or were wounded during the\nraids in a vain attempt to gain a military beach-head on the French\ncoast.\nThe young Canadians took part in a number of memorial services \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nat Brookwood, Runnymede, Brighton, Newhaven, Dieppe, Varenge-\nville, Ste. Marguerite, Pourville, Puys and Berneval.\n\"It was very touching,\" recalled Violet of her August trip to Europe.\n\"When they were going through the ceremony many people showed\ntheir emotions. A lot of people were crying.\n\"Everytime they played the \"Last Post\" I felt like crying.\"\nViolet said the mayor of Dieppe officially greeted the Canadians,\ntook them to city hall, and hosted a concert in recognition of this\ncountry's war effort.\n\"It really made us realize how proud we should be of Canada,\" she\nsaid.\n* * *\nOccupation please: If you had a little trouble trying to figure out one of\nthe anagrams \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and the answer \u00E2\u0080\u0094 to last issue's Occupation Please,\npeeking at the solution can be forgiven. One of the names given was\nmisspelled and should have read: RUPERT H. SOLE. The answer, for\nthose of you who may have tossed the issue in a fit of frustration, was\nUPHOLSTERER.\n^ * *\nTribute: When Mac Aberdeen recently left the Brandon Division to\ntake over as Lakehead Division superintendent, the Brandon Sun said\nin an editorial his contributions to the community will not be forgotten.\n\"Business executives with large, national corporations do not always get involved in the communities in which they reside,\" said the\nnewspaper. \"Mr. Aberdeen's involvement is an example to other\nexecutives that they will get out of a community only what they are\nwilling to put into it.\"\n* * *\nInformation wanted: George Musk, author of \"Canadian Pacific \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe Story of the Famous Shipping Line\", which was published in time\nfor the company's centennial, is scrounging for more information about\nthe company's involvement with ships.\nHe writes: \"The CPR almost certainly operated small motor launches for holiday makers at French River Camp and Nipigon River\nCamp, circa 1923 to 1940.\n\"Have we any pensioners who may have worked at these camps or\nwho may remember the operation and can provide any clues as to\ndates, names, sizes of the launches, where they came from and how\nthey were disposed of \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in fact, any scraps of information that might\nenable me to piece together records for the company archives.\"\nAnyone who can help Mr. Musk can direct their letters care of CP\nRail News.\n* * *\nSport shorts: It isn't CP Rail News' policy to cover sports events\nbecause of the great number of employees involved in various leagues\nand teams and the impossibility of covering all events. However, the\nfollowing deserve a little mention and the rules have been bent a little.\nAlex Mellis, retired master mechanic from the Toronto Division,\nscored a hole-in-one on the 158-yard, 16th hole of North Bay's local\ngolf course... Anthony Lisowski, a pensioner from Weston Shops, took\npart in the ninth annual Senior Olympics this past summer and won the\nfive-pin bowling championship for the fifth consecutive time... And for\nthe Vancouver softball team \"The Ten-tation\", this past season saw\nthe team's winless streak come to an end after three years when they\ndefeated \"The Marathons\" with a score of 10-8. The win occurred July\n5, hours before a total eclipse of the moon. The team is now waiting for\nanother total eclipse to continue their streak.\n \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0099\u00A6'\nBulk Ennombre\nthird troisieme\nclass classe\nReturn postage guaranteed\nCanadian Pacific\nPublic Relations & Advertising\nP.O. Box 6042, Station \"A\"\nMontreal, P.Q. H3C 3E4\nCPRail \u00C2\u00BB\nVolume 13\nNumber 1\nJanuary 5, 1983,\nNews\nPacific running team posts third 'fun run' win\nFor the third consecutive year, a\nteam of runners from the Pacific Region has posted the best net team\ntime for a 5.9-mile (9.5-kilometre)\nrace to win The President's Trophy\nfor 1982.\nTeams from head office in Montreal and the Eastern and Atlantic Regions made earnest bids for the honor during a series of \"fun runs\" in\nOctober and early November, but the\nexperienced Pacific Region team,\nmade up of members from CP Rail,\nCP Air and Marathon Realty, showed\nfine form with a combined net time of\n519 minutes, two seconds.\nThe head office (System) team\nplaced second with a net team time of\n547:40, the novice Eastern team\nthird with a time of 618:24, and the\nAtlantic Region team fourth with a\ntime of 627:05. The Prairie Region\ndid not field a team.\nFASTEST RUNNER\nOf the 143 employees who took\npart, Angus Duncan, of the Credit\nCard Bureau at Windsor Station, was\nthe fastest runner with a time of 33\nminutes, eight seconds. He was on\nthe System team.\nContinued investment vital\nAllison outlines\nrail challenges\nMONTREAL \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The railway is an \"integral and indispensable link\" in\nCanada's production chain and CP Rail accepts the challenge of continuing to\nprovide efficient, competively-priced transportation, R.S. Allison, executive\nvice-president, CP Rail, told the Canadian Railway Club here Dec. 13.\nMr. Allison said 1982 has been a\ntrying year \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"Everyone, not just the\nrailways, was caught off guard by the\nseverity of the decline in the Canadian economy.\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and the railway\nindustry is facing a slow recovery, at\nbest, this year.\nHowever, he warned the audience\n\"we must not over-react to current\nconditions to the point where we\nforget that Canada, in the long-run, is\na growth country with great natural\nresources and great opportunities for\nthe railroad industry.\"\nThe immediate challenge is to adjust to the present while planning for\nthe future.\n\"A heads up posture is essential in\nkeeping a clear view of the longer\nterm challenge which is fundamental\nto our commercial viability,\" he said.\n\"Our task is to produce transportation for Canada. It must be efficient\ntransportation, produced at the\nlowest possible cost if the railway industry is to play its proper role in the\ncontinuing development of the Canadian economy.\"\nIn order to accomplish this \"we\nsaid\nmust remaTn^rofTtab^e,\nAllison.\nIVTrT\nPhone hassles\nprompt idea\n\"Excuse me, may I use your\nphone?\" was one request C.F. Des-\nbiens station operator at Cartier,\nOnt., had heard once too often.\nHe was constantly being interrupted by VIA Rail passengers, work\ngangs, train crews and others who\nwanted to make a call. Enough was\nenough.\n(See \"Rewarding\" page 4)\nAndrew Ivan, a 55-year-old employee with Toronto's Royal York\nHotel, earned the best net time on the\nsystem with 27:10 while running for\nthe Eastern Region team. The\nfemale with the best net time was\n55-year-old Hazel Cameron, of CP\nAir's revenue and accounting department in Vancouver, with 35:34. She\nran with the Pacific Region team.\n(The net times incorporate a formula of handicaps for female runners\nand those over 40 years of age.)\n\"The competition was tough and\nwe had a good turn out at each race,\"\ncommented Steve Cymet, the first\nCP Rail employee on the Pacific Region team to cross the finish line of\nthe 12th annual James Cunningham\n(See \"Fun runs\" page 3)\n\"We cannot let our basic assets\ndeteriorate. Our jobs depend on their\ncontinuing ability to generate revenue.\n\"That is why, even as last summer's layoffs began, we were trying\nto maintain as much of our capital\nspending program as we could,\nespecially the all-important replacement and renewal work,\" he said.\nUp until now, CP Rail has been\nable to keep investing in replacement, and some expansion; but the\ngrain revenue shortfall \"is now so severe that it hampers even the investment essential to maintain the railway plant,\" said Mr. Allison.\nThis is why the railways are hoping\nthe government will provide an interim financial payment pending a\nlegislated solution to the Crow dilemma, he said.\nMr. Allison said he would like to\nsee the grain rate solution based on\nthe profit motive which rewards efficiency and innovation.\n\"It would make the handling of\ngrain attractive to the railway industry. It would allow us to treat our big-\ngesT^ingTe comm6dity\"as~oljr~rjesr\ncustomer. It would give many important projects the green light,\" he said.\nRailwaymen can help meet the\n\"Railroad Challenge\" by ensuring\nthe railway is operated as safely as\npossible, he said.\n\"The credibility of our industry is in\njeopardy whenever we have an accident... Our goal must be to have no\nderailments, and we have to keep\nworking toward this goal.\"\nMr. Allison stressed that personal\nsafety of all employees and officers\non and off the job is just as important.\n\"Accidents are costly, not only for\nthe individual involved but also for the\nrailway,\" he said.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'. life.\n-long refinery reactor\nnew Scotford Spur\nTwelve years WOrk bears fruit: Alberta North Division Superintendent Louis Fortin (left) watches as\ntrainmen M. Lagerway (left on flatcar) and Tony Tibben spot a Shell refinery reactor carried on three flatcars along the\nnew Scotford Spur. On hand for the first train are (from left, inset) Lawrie Allen, CP Rail marketing manager,\nVancouver; Warren Thomas, Reeve of the County of Strathcona; Ron LaMarre, refinery manager, Shell Canada\nScotford Refinery; and Mr. Fortin.\nThree-flatcar\ndelivered on\nBy EARL OLSON\nSCOTFORD, Alberta \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Twelve\nyears of studies, planning and negotiations came to fruition on Dec. 10,\n1982 when CP Rail's new Scotford\nSpuT^eTiTiTTf^opeTaTToTn\nThe new line, serving the County of\nStrathcona Northeast Industrial Sector about 20 miles (32 kilometres)\nnortheast of Edmonton, is a key element in the county's industrial development strategy.\nIt runs virtually through the centre\nof some 10,000 acres of land that is\nzoned industrial, and currently\nserves the existing Diamond Shamrock Alberta Gas PVC plant as well\nas the Shell Canada Scotford Refin-\nevy and Styrene plants which are\nunder construction.\nWhile the current economic downturn has altered the timing of some of\nthe projects planned for the area, the\nfuture remains positive. The county is\ngiving top priority to industrial development and Reeve Warren Thomas says the new rail service is key\nto this objective.\n\"~TheTe~were many CP nail people-\ninvolved in the work leading up to the\nbuilding of the spur, but none derived\nmore satisfaction from seeing it in operation than Marketing Manager L.M.\nAllen of Vancouver.\nPLANNING\nMr. Allen first became involved in\nCP Rail's planning when working in\nEdmonton in 1970. Mr. Allen's involvement continued through subsequent postings, although the appointments took him away from the project. When he became marketing\nmanager in Vancouver, what was\nthen referred to as the \"Fort Saskatchewan Access\" project became\na top priority.\nThe planning goes back to 1970\nwhen a study showed it would be too\ncostly to cross the North Saskatchewan River to provide access to a\nfertilizer plant at Beamer, but access\n-to-^be-Bc>v^Gbemtee^-a^ Sherr'M\nGordon plants in the town of Fort\nSaskatchewan was worth investigating. This was done but at the time the\npotential traffic did not justify proceeding any further.\nBy the mid-1970's, however, with\nexpansion planned at Dow and Sher-\nritt Gordon, a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plant being developed by Diamond Shamrock and the petrochemical market booming, it was time to\ntake another look.\nNegotiations which took place at\nthat time included unsuccessful talks\nwith CN for running rights as\nopposed to building a separate spur.\n(See \"First\" page 4)\nr\nN\ns\nI\nD\nE.\nFrumpy characters sell\ndoodler's safety\nmessages\nSee page 4\nCrossing accidents\ndecline noticeably with\ni campaign\nSee page 4\n's:\n Retiring from company service\nMargaret G. Balderstone, senior clerk,\nlaw dept., Smiths Falls; Aubrey H. Bartin-\ndale, electric truck operator, materials\ndept., Ogden Shops; Jean Beaumont,\nyardman, operating dept., St. Luc Yard;\nFloyd M. Berndt, yardmaster, operating\ndept., Trail, B.C.; Wilfred T. Bishop, relief\nassistant foreman/machinist, mechanical\ndept., Kentville, N.S.; Mario Bonasoro,\nlaborer, freight dept., Angus Shops; Stanley H. Botchar, carman, mechanical\ndept., Weston Shops; Meredith L. Buff-\nman, pipefitter, B&B dept., Smiths Falls;\nRenaud Bujold, tractor maintainer, operating dept., Montreal Wharf; Frank\nBurgess, carman, Glen Yard; Merville\nByers, carman, mechanical dept., Smiths\nFalls.\nBruce H. Carr, clerk, motive power\ndept., Ogden Shops; Leo P. Charette,\nswitching co-ordinator, Angus Shops;\nGerard Claveau, machinist, diesel wheel\ndept., Angus Shops; John B. Coburn,\nconductor, operating dept., Toronto;\nAndre Comminos, keyman, grain door,\nThunder Bay; Raymond Crowley, conductor, operating dept., Medicine Hat.\nWilliam G. Davedoff, able seaman,\nBCCSS, Vancouver; Fernand Desbiens,\nassistant roadmaster, operating dept.,\nCartier, Ont.; Adjutor Desjardins, carman, freight car dept., Angus Shops;\nRetires: Joseph DiGregorio, a carman at Angus Shops, has retired\nwith 37 years of service.\nWarm wishes: Raoul Girouard, uti-\nlityman, Intermodal, at Lachine,\nQue., has retired with 35 years of\nservice.\nMarc Domey, machine clerk, operating\ndept., Farnham, Que.; Kostas Dontsos,\nengine handler, motive power, Toronto;\nJacques Dubord, carman, car dept., St.\nLuc Yard; Roger Duchesneau, classified\nlaborer, diesel wheel dept., Angus Shops;\nJohn E. Dupuis, special duties, chief of\ntransportation, Montreal; Walter Dutton,\nlocomotive engineer, operating dept.,\nRegina.\nArthur O. Fischer, track maintenance\nforeman, M of W dept., Carberry, Man.;\nEileen C. Flynn, clerk, property management, Montreal.\nGaston Gingras, machinist, air brake\ndept., Angus Shops; William A. Grant,\nmaintenance of way clerk, M of W dept.,\nThunder Bay; Mike Gurran, machinist\nhelper, diesel shop, Winnipeg.\nMatthew A. Harrabek, track maintenance foreman, M of W dept., Biggar,\nSask.; William V. Hayes, locomotive engineer, operating dept., Oakville, Ont.;\nWilliam W. Hocking, director, accounting\ndept., BCCSS, Vancouver; Peter Hrech-\nkosy, carman, mechanical dept., Weston\nShops; Ronald S. Hughes, industrial\nclerk, Alyth Yard.\nJohn H. Jones, track maintenance\nforeman, M of W dept., Toronto; Robert S.\nJones, locomotive engineer, diesel shop,\nWinnipeg.\nEnd Of line: Former Lakehead Division Superintendent J.A. Linn congratulates Locomotive Engineer Roy Tapsay (left), who completed 47 years\nof service with a last run into Thunder Bay. In addition to his CP Rail duties,\nMr. Tapsay was Local Chairman BLE, Division 243 Kam.\nAppointments on the system\nJulia Harris has been appointed\nadvertising representative, public\nrelations and advertising, at Montreal.\nWalter Bonk has been appointed\nmanager, customer credit and\naccounting centre, at Calgary.\nJ.A. Linn has been appointed\nassistant general manager, operation and maintenance, at Vancouver,\nsucceeding G.A. Swanson, promoted.\nMichel-Andre Pinard has been\nappointed manager, commuter service, Atlantic Region, at Montreal.\nLeon Bloom has been appointed\nmanager, computer systems audit,\ninternal audit department, at\nToronto.\nP.W. Nelson has been appointed\ndevelopment director, at Montreal.\nHe will be responsible for all areas\nand aspects of computer systems\ndevelopment, including feasibility\nstudies, system design, programming and installation.\nD.L. Jeffries has been appointed\nadvanced business systems director, at Montreal. He will be responsible for office automation, microcomputers, education and information centre activies.\nR. S. Ritchie has been appointed\nassistant to vice-president, operation and maintenance, at Montreal.\nJames M. Mickel has been\nappointed chief, department of investigation, at Montreal.\nGood luck: Leo Paul Charette,\nswitching co-ordinator at Angus\nShops, has retired with 35 years of\nservice.\nWalter G. Kedge, assistant signal foreman, signals dept., Toronto.\nClement Labonte, track maintenance\nforeman, M of W dept., Drummondville,\nQue.; Claude Lajeunesse, storeman,\nstores dept., St. Luc Diesel Shop; Harold\nM. Lang, shareholder record assistant,\nvice-president and secretary's office,\nMontreal; George H. Legault, chief, investigation dept., Montreal; Lawrence L.\nLong, sub-foreman, operating dept.,\nWest St. John, N.B.; Semen Lukatschuk,\ntrack maintainer, M of W dept., Toronto.\nDonald McGill, bridgeman, M of W\ndept., Toronto; Michael Mischiek, assistant roadmaster, operating dept.,\nWindsor.\nYork Pomeroy, B&B foreman, M of W\ndept., Toronto.\nThomas H. Quinn, fireman/locomotive\nengineer, operating dept., Wellcox, B.C.\nRichard A. Rainy, investigator, freight\nclaims dept., Montreal; Anton P. Ren-\nneberg, mobile supervisor, operating\ndept., Edmonton; Walter H. Richardson,\nassistant foreman, motive power, Ogden\nShops; James A. Robertson, machinist,\nmechanical dept., Alyth Yard; Ross S.\nRolfe, enginehouse laborer, operating\ndept., Brownville Jet., Maine; James W.\nRoth, locomotive engineer, operating\ndept., Alyth Diesel Shop.\nDan Sawchuk, roadmaster, operating\ndept., Aldersyde, Alta.; Tony Sawchuk,\nmachine operator, M of W dept., Winnipeg; Jean J. Sirois, conductor, operating dept., Park Avenue Station; Kenneth\nH. Spence, operator, stations, Kerrobert,\nSask.; Clayton F. Springer, track maintenance foreman, M of W dept., Windsor;\nWilliam A. Storr, enginehouse laborer,\noperating dept., McAdam, N.B.; Thomas\nA. Swinden, machinist, locomotive dept.,\nNelson, B.C.\nPeter E. Tempke, carman, operating\ndept., Regina; Fritz Thies, maintenance\nof way training instructor, operating dept.,\nCalgary; Omer Tremblay, car cleaner,\ncar dept., Quebec; Laurie Tufts, assistant\ndirector, technical research, Montreal.\nRobert J. Valley, carman, operating\ndept., Moose Jaw.\nFrancis Walden, mechanical supervisor, motive power, London; Earl J. Williams, pipefitter, locomotive dept., Coquitlam, B.C.\nJohn Yarysz, crane operator, rail reclamation plan, Winnipeg.\nLast ticket: Conductor Jack Coburn, (right) has punched his last ticket\nand retired after more than 35 years with the company. Mr. Coburn began\nwith CP Rail as a trainman in 1947 and worked on the former Trenton\nDivision. In recent years, he had become well known on the VIA passenger\ntrain between Toronto and Havelock. On his last trip he was met by family,\nfriends and railway officers. He is seen here with Superintendent A. A. Boyar,\nToronto Division.\nCongratulations: Laurie Tufts, assistant director, technical research,\nand his wife, Maureen, pause for a photograph at Mr. Tufts' retirement. Mr.\nTufts worked 30 years with CP Telecommunications and 12 years with\nCanadian Pacific's research department, in Montreal.\n%' j*\nLast day: J. V. Boehm, assistant superintendent, at Penticton, B.C., (left)\npresents retiring trainman L. H. Hawkins with a gold-plated switch key in\nrecognition of Mr. Hawkins' 36 years of service.\nNEWS\nManager, Employee Publications\nRon Grant\nEditor,\nTimothy R. Humphreys\nEditorial assistant,\nLise Baillargeon\nCorrespondents,\nJane Mudry, Vancouver\nRalph Wilson, Calgary\nKen Emmond, Winnipeg\nStephen Morris, Toronto\nCP Rail News is published every\nthree weeks in both English and\nFrench for the employees and pensioners of CP Rail. All letters and\nenquiries should be addressed to:\nThe Editor, CP Rail News, Public\nRelations and Advertising Dept.,\nWindsor Station, Montreal, Que.,\nH3C 3E4.\nCPRailH\n Tun runs' are healthy mix of fitness, competition\n(Cont'd from page 1)\nMemorial Seawall race in Vancouver\nwith a time of 35:30,15 seconds faster than his 1981 time.\nJ. D. Bromley, Pacific Region's 58-\nyear-old vice-president, posted the\nbest net time of the CP Rail contingent with a time of 34:56. Illoana\nSmith, a pricing analyst with CP Rail,\nwas the railway's best female runner\non the Pacific Region team with a net\ntime of 40:23.\nRay Robichaud, supervisor, cargo\nautomation, with CP Air was the fastest runner on the Pacific Region\nteam with a time of 33:22. Tony\nDunn, a 49-year-old sub-foreman,\nsheet metal department, at CP Air,\nposted the best net time for the team\nwith 29:50. Hazel Cameron, of CP\nAir's revenue and accounting department, led the women on the team\nwith a net time of 35:34. CP Rail\nmarketing representative Paul Brent\nwas the team co-ordinator.\n\"The four teams had a total of about 150 runners and everyone\nseemed hot to take The President's\nTrophy away from the Pacific Region, but we were successful in holding on to it for another season,\" said\nMr. Cymet, regional marketing director with CP Rail and a veteran of the\nSeawall race.\nThe Pacific Region team also won\na trophy donated by the Atlantic Region this year to the team with the\nmost participants.\n\"It was decided by our team to donate this trophy annually to the region\nwith the most competitors \u00E2\u0080\u0094 restricted to employees \u00E2\u0080\u0094 regardless of\nhow long it takes them to complete\nthe 5.9-mile (9.5 kilometre) course,\"\nsaid Bob Batt, marketing representative and co-ordinator of the Atlantic\nRegion team. \"The purpose of this\ntrophy is to provide an incentive for\nemployees to participate in The President's Trophy run.\"\nThe Eastern Region made a surprising finish despite inclement\nThey're Off: The Eastern Region runners start out on their 5.9-mile (9.5- kilometre) \"fun run\" despite inclement weather. In the centre of the photo with\nthe white outfit is 55-year-old Andrew Ivan, of Toronto's Royal York Hotel, who posted the best net time on the system.\nweather and the necessity to rerun\ntheir race because the original\ncourse around the Canadian National Exhibition grounds was measured\nincorrectly.\n\"We knew going into the competition as a rookie team we would have\na tough time beating the others,\" said\nthe region's team co-ordinator, Gary\nWalker, of transportation in Toronto.\n\"The fact that we were short (the\nfirst time) was heart-breaking,\" he\nsaid. \"The team had given everything\nthey could and then I had to tell them\nit would have to be rerun.\"\nThe weather wasn't the best. On\nthe first run in mid-October the\ntemperature was below freezing and\na strong wind blew off Lake Ontario.\nConditions were worse the second\ntime with winds gusting to 50 miles\nper hour (80 kilometres per hour).\nBut the conditions didn't hinder the\nRoyal York Hotel's Andrew Ivan who\nposted the best net time of all the\nemployees who competed. Steve\nJones, of CP Rail's freight claims de\npartment, was the first of the racers to\ncross the finish line with a time of\n34:50. Sherrill Eisen of pension investments, was the fastest woman\nrunner on the team with a net time of\n41:29.\nMr. Walker was understandably\npleased with his novice team's performance and vowed: \"We'll be back\nnext year.\"\nThe Atlantic and System teams ran\ntogether on a course along the\nLachine Canal bicycle path. A\nsecond race was held in early\nNovember in Hudson, near Montreal,\nfor those unable to make the first run.\nOn the system team Angus Dun-\nSupporters Cheer: Atlantic Region Pricing Analyst Gilles Gagnon, his\narms outstretched, crosses the finish line in reverse.\nWarm-Up: Bob Walker, a pricing analyst in Toronto, gets help from\nSusann Szczurin warming up for the\n\"fun run.\"\ncan was the first to cross the finish\nline with the best time of all company\nemployees who participated in the\ncompetition. Ron Otto, 48-year-old\nmanager of personnel development\nwith industrial relations, posted the\nbest net time, 32:48. Pat Giacomelli,\nrecruitment specialist with management staffing, led the field of women\nwith a net time of 38:45.\nJames Parsons, with CP Rail in\nNewport, Vermont, travelled to Montreal for the \"fun race\" and trailed\nAngus Duncan by a mere 10 seconds\nto be the fastest runner \u00E2\u0080\u0094 net time\nincluded \u00E2\u0080\u0094 on the Atlantic team with\na time of 33:18.\nPierrette Ryan, of the investigation\ndepartment, was the fastest woman\non the Atlantic Region team with a\nnet time of 39:35.\nThe President's Trophy competition dates back to 1980, said Ron\nHunter, of marketing and sales at\nWindsor Station and co-ordinator of\nthe System team.\nEmployees in the Pacific Region\nhad been racing in the Seawall race\nfor a number of years under the name\n\"Roadmasters\". However, runners\nlike Mr. Hunter were eventually transferred out of Vancouver.\n\"About that time (1980), three or\nfour of us had come from Vancouver\nand we decided to put in a challenge\nteam,\" said Mr. Hunter. Times were\nrecorded for each runner and exchanged by telex.\nA set of rules, with a handicap system built in, was established to make\nthe competition as fair as possible for\nall employees.\n\"The losing team had to provide\nthe trophy in 1980 called The President's Trophy. Mr. Stinson (President of Canadian Pacific) is a jogger\nand supported the idea,\" he said.\n(Mr. Stinson, 49, competed for the\nSystem team in 1982 and was one of\nthe top 15 runners with a net time of\n38:19.)\nIn 1981, the Prairie and Atlantic\nRegions fielded teams, but the Pacific Region team has still managed to\nretain the crown.\n\"Teamwork, competition, fitness\nand participation; these words reflect\nwhat The President's Trophy run is\nall about,\" summed up Steve Cymet.\nRace to\nthe finish line to\nSteve Cymet, (centre of frame) regional marketing director on the Pacific Region, crosses\ncomplete the 12th annual James Cunningham Memorial seawall race.\nCalculating\nnet times\nThe formula used to calculate\neach of the net team times incorporated a number of handicaps designed to encourage all\nemployees to take part in the\nannual The President's Trophy\nrun.\nIt worked this way.\nThe net times (in seconds) of\nthe fastest 15 runners, of which at\nleast three must have been of the\nopposite sex and one over 40\nyears of age, were totalled. (The\nwomen's net times equalled 85\nper cent of their actual times and\nthose over 40 years of age had 40\nseconds deducted from their\naetuaL4tmes for each year over\n40.)\nThen, the minutes portion of\neach of the net times registered by\nall other participants was subtracted from 65 to give the number\nof seconds that could be deducted\nfrom this total.\nIn effect it meant that whether or\nnot the participant was a Sunday\njogger or a seasoned runner, their\ntime affected the team's net time\nand could have been the deciding , Runners: A Duncan (left) was\nfactor in determ.n.ng the winner. the fastestrun*erin 7982. ^/-^:*mi-m '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\..i\u00C2\u00B1-j^.:-- v~va\u00E2\u0096\u00A0<-.?\"-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0::-'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 : :I~\nUnder expansion: The Roberts Bank super coal port, seen here from the air, is currently being expanded to\nhandle more traffic. At the bottom right of the man-made peninsula is the existing coal storage/loading facility with its\nsingle-ship berthing area. A 219-foot (200-metre) dock can be seen under construction at the lower right of the\npicture and will serve as a second ship-loading facility. Other sites at the port are also being expanded this year.\nJust outside Mission, the dispatcher in Vancouver, orders Vic to put\nNumber '5824' into a hole, or siding.\nA few minutes later a fully-loaded\ncoal unit train passes on its way to\nRoberts Bank where its load will be\ndischarged onto conveyor belts to\nstorage piles or directly into the hold\nof an awaiting ship.\nThe Fraser Canyon has always\nbeen a challenge to railroaders. Between Hope and North Bend, there\nare dozens of tunnels of varying\nlengths, through which the coal unit\ntrains thread their way.\nAlong the way, the trains pass\nsmall historic towns with interesting\nnames like Ruby, Yale, Saddle Rock\nand China Bar.\nFor Vic and others like him who\nhave made this trip many times, the\n\"Cadillac\" of trains play an important\nrole in getting Canada's coal to\nmarket.\nNorth American tour\nIndian engineers\nstudy rail shops\nA group of 12 senior engineers\nfrom railways in India has completed\na two-month tour of North American\nrail systems, under the guidance of\nCP Rail and Canadian Pacific Consulting Services.\nThe tour began in Montreal Oct. 11\nand ended at Pueblo, Colo., Dec. 10.\nIt was being financed by the Government of India and the World Bank.\nLEARNING\nThe delegates viewed rail operations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary,\nVancouver, Los Angeles, and Chattanooga, Tenn.\nThe group spent Nov. 3 touring\nWeston Shops in Winnipeg, where\nthey inspected CP Rail's car maintenance system and the diesel overhaul operation.\n\"We are learning a different system,\" said P.N. Garg, of Varanasi,\nIndia. \"We would like to increase the\nproductivity of our manpower.\"\nNorbert Desouza of the Western\nZone Indian Railway, Bombay, said\nanother tour objective was to learn\n\"western culture, western exposure,\nand a different way of life. We also\nwant to get a perspective on western\npersonnel management practices\nand principles.\"\nThe Crew: In front of the North Bend station is the crew of Number '5824'\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 (from left) Woody Heer, Vic Kavolinas, Mike Padsadny and Lew Fenske.\nReady to roll: Locomotive engineer Vic Kavolinas boards a coal\nunit train at Roberts Bank super coal\nport.\nPort expansion underway\nThe Roberts Bank super coal port\nis currently undergoing an expansion\nwhich will quadruple its size to 198\nacres (80 hectares) and increase its\ncapacity to handle export coal.\nExpansion is expected to be completed this year on the man-made\nbulk-handling port facility which is divided into four sites. When completed, coal handling capacity on\nsites 1 and 2 will be increased to 33\nmillion tons (30 million metric tons)\nwhile capacity on the remaining sites\n8\nwill be increased to 27 million tons\n(25 million metric tons).\nDredging has been underway\nsince early 1981 with the dredged\nmaterial serving as reclaimed land\nfor three new ship berths. Only one\nberth exists at present.\nDredging operations only take\nplace in the fall and winter months to\nminimize the impact on marine environment.\nThe improvements will cost about\n$150 million and will include new\nloading/unloading equipment for\nboth storage and transfer of the commodity to awaiting vessels.\nThe four-mile-long (6.4-kilometre-\nlong) causeway connecting the island with the mainland is also being\nwidened to allow for more trackage\nand roads.\nThe work is being carried out within\nthe guidelines set by Environment\nCanada. In addition, experimentation\nwith a new dust control system is\nunderway.\nOn tour: A group of senior engineers from railways in India get a good\nlook at a diesel engine truck at Weston Shops during a recent two-month tour\nof North American railway operations.\n"@en . "Newsletters"@en . "CC_TX_218_005"@en . "10.14288/1.0362157"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Montreal : Canadian Pacific Public Relations & Advertising"@en . "Box 218"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-218-5"@en . "CP Rail news"@en . "Text"@en .