Chronology
Every dated history fact across the site, in date order. Precision varies — some dates are just a year — so ordering within a year is approximate. Showing all entity types.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-01-07 | Bank Street | "An explosion of serious proportions was narrowly averted shortly before five o'clock this morning, when firefighters extinguished a small but fiercely blazing pool of gasoline which threatened to ignite a gasoline-filled tank car in the Bank street railway yards." Yard helper Michael Rantis's clothing caught fire and he put it out by rolling in the snow; nearby freight cars were hauled to safety by an engine driven by Engineer E. Emard, and Yardmaster J. R. Timlin helped fight the blaze. The fire was believed caused by a loose cap on the tank car whose spray reached a brakeman's hot lantern. | Ottawa Citizen 1948-01-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-01-31≥ | Graham Bay | By 31 January 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: Two men escaped when "a 12-ton Fournier Storage van plowed into a moving CNR freight train at Graham's Bay" last night, at the railroad crossing intersecting Highway No. 15, about one mile southwest of Britannia. | Ottawa Citizen 1948-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-02-16≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 16 February 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Crashing into a fast-moving Ottawa-Montreal CNR freight train at a level crossing on the Russell road one-and-a-half miles east of Hurdman's bridge a few minutes after nine o'clock Saturday night, three persons were injured, all critically." The car skidded on the icy road into the middle of the train, which had left Ottawa at nine o'clock; the conductor was Alexander Callender and the engineer Edward Kemp. | Ottawa Citizen 1948-02-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-03-26≥ | Casselman | By 26 March 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The New York-Montreal-Ottawa CNR train due in The Capital at 12.45 p.m. yesterday, pulled into Union Station more than an hour and a half late at 2.20 p.m. The delay was caused by a breakdown of the huge locomotive at Casselman. Passengers waited while an engine was rushed from Ottawa and coupled onto the stranded train." | Ottawa Citizen 1948-03-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-07-02≤ | Bank Street | From 2 July 1948 (the issue date), the paper announced: Nine special trains were to bring crowds to Ottawa on the morning of 12 July for the centenary of the Carleton County Orange Lodge at Lansdowne Park: "A temporary railway station will be provided at the siding on Carling avenue, west of the Experimental Farm, where King George and Queen Elizabeth stepped from the Royal train nine years ago for their Ottawa visit." | Ottawa Citizen 1948-07-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-07-02≥ | Ottawa Central Station | By 2 July 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: About 120 boys left "yesterday morning" for the Ottawa Boys Clubs camp at Mink Lake, two special cars on the C.N.R. Eganville train, which "was pulling out of the Union Station" when a father and mother and a Citizen photographer sprinted down the platform with a 10-year-old camper; "a soft-hearted conductor signalled to a stop." | Ottawa Citizen 1948-07-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-07-09≥ | Arnprior | By 9 July 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: Robert Moore, 10, of Braeside, "was instantly killed and his father suffered severe head lacerations and shock when a truck smashed into Canadian National eastbound No. 90 passenger train at the Russell street crossing in Arnprior yesterday afternoon." | Ottawa Citizen 1948-07-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-07-20≤ | Maxville | From 20 July 1948 (the issue date), the paper announced: A special C.N.R. train would leave Ottawa at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, July 31, for the Highland Games in Maxville, returning from Maxville at 11.30 p.m.; "the return fare on special CNR train is $1.40 and not $2 as announced in a recent advertisement". On 30 July "a strong demand" for tickets was reported, the train leaving Union Station at 10.30 a.m. daylight saving time. | Ottawa Citizen 1948-07-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1948-07-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-08-06 | Graham Bay | Ronald Samuel Sealy, 40, of Montreal, "was critically injured shortly after 9 o'clock this morning when his automobile crashed into a speeding CNR train at the Graham's Bay crossing on Highway 15, some 12 miles west of Ottawa." The locomotive of the train to Barry's Bay was extensively damaged and the train delayed more than an hour until another was sent from Ottawa. The conductor was M. J. Reid, the engineer H. Sheehan. | Ottawa Citizen 1948-08-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-09-06≥ | Alexandria | By 6 September 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Canadian National Railway transportation and freight services were disrupted for more than seven hours shortly before three o'clock Sunday morning, when an eastbound CNR freight train crashed into the rear of another CNR freight standing in the yards less than a mile from Alexandria station." No one was injured; an empty caboose was demolished and a wrecking crew from Montreal worked until well after 9 p.m. | Ottawa Citizen 1948-09-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-09-21 | Eastmans | One coach of the C.N.R. passenger train No. 48 from Ottawa to Montreal, which left Ottawa at 8.45 a.m., "partially left the rails at Carlsbad Springs, eight miles from Ottawa, at 9 a.m." The train was not damaged and no one was hurt; the coach was switched on to a siding and the train arrived in Montreal about three hours late. | Ottawa Journal 1948-09-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1948-12-03≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 3 December 1948 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A backing freight train pushed an automobile, driven by Robert Johnson, 362 Bell street, into a ditch at the Booth street CNR level crossing just before midnight, but the driver and two other occupants of the car escaped injury." The rear of the caboose struck the car; damage was estimated at $250. | Ottawa Citizen 1948-12-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1949-01-19≥ | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company | By 19 January 1949 (the issue date), the paper reported: At the 15th annual meeting of the Canada Atlantic Railway Old Boys' Association "since the Canada Atlantic Old Boys first got together again in 1935", held "yesterday" at the Chateau Laurier with more than 30 members, E. Calcutt, a onetime engineer, was elected president, W. H. Taylor first vice-president, R. E. Merkley second vice-president and H. E. Landon secretary-treasurer; C. Rowley Booth, grandson of J. R. Booth, was named honorary president. During 1948 15 members had died; the reunion was planned for 10 August. | Ottawa Citizen 1949-01-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1949-02-01≥ | Arnprior | By 1 February 1949 (the issue date), the paper reported: Two prominent residents "missed death by a narrow margin, when their automobiles collided at two different points in town, with a Canadian National Railways freight train" at noon "yesterday": Percy J. Lindsay's car on Russell street, hit by the train backing east from the local depot, and then J. A. MacKlem's, two blocks away. "This was the fourth railway crossing accident in Arnprior within two weeks." Brakeman Gregory Gaffney leaped from the rear car. | Ottawa Citizen 1949-02-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1949-06-30≥ | Casselman | By 30 June 1949 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury returned "a verdict of accidental death" "last night" into the level crossing accident of 21 June that killed Onesime Patenaude, 76, and Edmond Tessier, 41, both of Lemieux, Ont.: their light panel truck "was struck by a passenger train on a crossing about 200 feet from the Casselman station". | Ottawa Citizen 1949-06-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1949-07-19 | Bank Street | Armand Paquette, 40, "suffered a fractured right leg and injuries to his right arm shortly after 8 a.m. today when the old model coupe in which he was a passenger swerved to avoid an oncoming freight train and straddled a ditch a scant 20 feet from the CNR level crossing at Carling and Kirkwood avenues." The freight, Extra No. 5053, was travelling southwest; the engineer was Patrick Garvey and the conductor John Dumais. | Ottawa Citizen 1949-07-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1949-08-03≥ | Rideau Junction | By 3 August 1949 (the issue date), the paper reported: Four young people were hurt when a three-ton truck "struck the side of a Montreal-bound freight train on the River road at Hurdman's Bridge and was hurled twenty-five feet into a gully" shortly after midnight. The truck, driven by Roger Poulin, 21, hit the sixth last car of the 46-car freight, under Conductor Wannamaker and Engineer Miller, and the train continued on its way; it was flagged down at Alexandria in case its brakes were damaged. Fay Young was credited with warning the driver and then getting help. | Ottawa Citizen 1949-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1950-02-02 | Bank Street | "A trailing brake beam snagged against a switch point, derailed two CNR gondolas laden with anthracite early this morning and hurled them against the steel bulwarks of the Bank street subway bridge." The accident happened shortly after 8.30 as the morning freight from Montreal was about to cross the bridge into the yards; the leading gondola rode up on the centre bulwark and the second rammed the end of the bridge, narrowly missing a fall to the street below. | Ottawa Journal 1950-02-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1950-05-08≥ | South Indian | By 8 May 1950 (the issue date), the paper reported: "The Canadian National Railway station at Limoges which was threatened by live embers from the fire, was given some protection by a CNR freight train which was moved up and down the track to ward off the live sparks." | Ottawa Citizen 1950-05-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1950-08-22 | Renfrew | People living near the railroad depot at Renfrew found it hard to sleep early in the morning because "there were no haunting noises of the train whistles and the shunting back and forth of freights": "Some 50 men have walked out on strike as did others in stations across Canada." Buses carried the passengers and only first class mail and medicine left the district each afternoon. | Ottawa Citizen 1950-08-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1950-08-25≤ | Bank Street | From 25 August 1950 (the issue date), the paper announced: "The 38 flat cars owned by the exhibition show will be made up into a train in Bank street yards and hauled by a CNR engine to the New York Central yards - a distance of about half a mile." During the railway strike only a train crew, a roadmaster, a crossing watchman, two switch tenders and some loaders were ordered back to move the World of Mirth out of Ottawa, according to C.N.R. officials. | Ottawa Journal 1950-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1950-11 | Canada Atlantic 4-6-0 #636 | Scrapped | Railroad History #147 |
| 1950-11-21≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 21 November 1950 (the issue date), the paper reported: A car collided with a westbound C.N.R. freight train at the Gladstone Avenue level crossing "near the American Bank Note Company late yesterday afternoon"; Ruth Waldrron, 35, was slightly injured. "There was no watchman, and no signals were employed at the crossing"; it was "the fourth level crossing accident to occur within the Ottawa city limits during the past few weeks". | Ottawa Citizen 1950-11-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1951-01-01≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 1 January 1951 (the issue date), the paper reported: The Canadian National Railways train No. 1, Vancouver-bound from Montreal and due in Ottawa at 10.20 p.m., "had to be halted two miles east of Hurdmans Bridge with a broken wheel 'tire' on one of the rear coaches" on Saturday night and was delayed more than four hours; divisional superintendent Gordon T. Dunn said there was no derailment. | Ottawa Citizen 1951-01-01(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1951-03-02 | Maxville | "One man was killed and his father miraculously escaped serious injury when the CNR No. 2 flyer from Vancouver smashed into a milk truck at a level crossing here at 9.15 this morning." John Cuillerier, 22, was driving; "both wig-wag and bell signals were working at the crossing". The train, two hours late and not stopping at Maxville, was estimated at 50 to 60 miles an hour; the engineer was Robert J. Eno. | Ottawa Citizen 1951-03-02(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1951-03-23≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 23 March 1951 (the issue date), the paper reported: "A derailed CNR freight car at the Lloyd street crossing on Booth street last night tied up traffic for about an hour." A section of track caved in on the west side of the crossing shortly before eight o'clock; a work crew put the car back on the rails by 9.15. | Ottawa Journal 1951-03-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1951-05-11 | Chadiere Junction | Victor Miron, 11, of LeBreton Street, "climbed the 23 foot CNR trestle on Preston Street" with two companions and was struck and killed at 4.40 p.m. by the Ottawa-bound Pembroke Flyer (train No. 9, locomotive No. 5059) crossing the trestle on its way to Union Station; the two others leaped down the embankment. The engineer, Gilbert Orange, was unaware of the accident. | Ottawa Citizen 1951-05-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1951-05-26≥ | Chadiere Junction | By 26 May 1951 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury found that Victor Miron "met his death by injuries suffered on a railway bridge at Young and Preston Streets", adding "evidence shows the boys were previously warned, and we attach no blame", and recommending more adequate warning signs at such danger spots. The train crew said the train was coasting at ten miles per hour as required within the city, the bell ringing and the whistle silent under a city anti-noise by-law. CNR Chief Constable B. B. Harris said youngsters were constantly warned off the right-of-way. | Ottawa Citizen 1951-05-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1951-09-14≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 14 September 1951 (the issue date), the paper reported: Ernest R. Martin, 60, a C.N.R. yard foreman, "was crushed to death yesterday afternoon, when he lost his balance and fell between two boxcars" while directing the spotting of a car of malt into the siding at the rear of Brading's Breweries, a spur line; the train was going about a mile an hour, heading west. On 9 November a coroner's jury decided he "had to place himself in jeopardy" to do his job and recommended that all sidings be inspected and made safe; the tracks were only 11 inches apart at that point and the siding had since been changed. | Ottawa Citizen 1951-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1951-09-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1951-11-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1951-10-10 | Bank Street | "The Prince and The Princess are here! Her Royal Highness, The Princess Elizabeth... stepped off the Royal Train at 10 a.m. at Island Park Drive with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh." | Ottawa Citizen 1951-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-01-09≥ | Bank Street | By 9 January 1952 (the issue date), the paper reported: A motorist "crashed through the railway barrier on Bronson Avenue shortly before midnight, missing an oncoming freight by a matter of inches." The railway attendant said the car was travelling north on Bronson just as the guard rails were being lowered; damage to railway property was estimated at $100. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-01-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-01-23≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 23 January 1952 (the issue date), the paper reported: Hugh M. Kelly, 17, escaped uninjured when his automobile "skidded into the path of a CNR locomotive, at the Gladstone Avenue level crossing, near Preston Street" about six o'clock last night on the icy pavement; the car was pushed along the tracks and damaged to over $300. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-01-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-01-25≥ | Bank Street | By 25 January 1952 (the issue date), the paper reported: Jean Paul Chenier swerved his car from the path of a moving freight train "yesterday evening" on Clyde Avenue, Westboro, at 6.10 p.m., but the rear end caught an overhanging step of one of the freight cars and the car was heavily damaged (about $2,000). The engine was No. 2620 under Engineer Fred Hampel. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-01-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-01-31≥ | Bank Street | By 31 January 1952 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Four CNR freight cars were derailed during switching operations in the Bank Street yards, east of Bronson Avenue, early Saturday evening." The cars were part of a freight train proceeding to Montreal; no one was injured and a wrecking crew worked until 2 a.m. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-01-31(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-02-28 | Ottawa Central Station | Governor-General designate Vincent Massey "arrived with a 'bang' at Union Station this morning. His special six-car train backed into the station too fast and crashed into a special disembarking platform erected for the arrival. No one was injured, but a few CNR officials were flustered." | Ottawa Citizen 1952-02-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-03-29≥ | Bank Street | By 29 March 1952 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Four CNR freight cars, part of a through freight train proceeding west through Ottawa from Montreal, were derailed during switching operations at Bank Street Yards, just east of the Bronson avenue crossing, Friday night." Superintendent G. T. Dunn said the derailment happened at 7.40 p.m. during "doubling over" of through freight 401; all cars stayed upright and a wrecking crew had cleared it by 2 a.m. | Ottawa Journal 1952-03-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-04-11 | Vars | Gisele Charbonneau, 11, died and six other children of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Charbonneau of Vars were injured when their panel truck was struck by a speeding westbound C.N.R. freight at the Vars crossing on Good Friday, 11 April; they were on the way to mass at Vars from the family farm 1 1/2 miles away. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-04-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1952-05-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-05-14 | Ottawa Central Station | Percy L. Bonner, chief dispatcher of the C.N.R. Ottawa division, and his staff worked in a three-roomed office "near the Besserer Street entrance of the Union Station", at the top of a long flight of iron stairs, issuing the orders that move all trains in and out of Ottawa; Bonner had 39 years of railroading. Photographs showed freight No. 402 bound for Montreal, hauled by two diesels and leaving the Bank Street station, taking orders on a hoop, and the "Clock" from which division watches are set. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-05-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-05-14 | Bank Street | At the Bank Street station "Yardmaster T. J. 'Tom' Drummond inspects the 'proceed' signal that will permit a freight to go through his station. Although the signals are set at the station, the yardmaster must await the message from the dispatcher before signalling movement of trains." A 4,500 ton freight, No. 402, hauled by two diesels, would be in Montreal in less than three hours after leaving the Bank Street Station. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-05-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-05-16≥ | Vars | By 16 May 1952 (the issue date), the paper reported: A coroner's jury at Rockland found "the failure of truck driver Bernard Charbonneau, 22, to take proper precautions was the reason for a crash at the Canadian National Railways crossing at Vars on April 11". The driver said he was watching an idle freight on a spur line west of the crossing and did not look to the right; the section foreman and station agent said the crossing signal light was working. The verdict was given "last night". | Ottawa Citizen 1952-05-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-06-11 | Graham Bay | Cecil Woods, 21, "was pronounced dead on arrival at the Civic Hospital" after his empty truck struck train No. 89, proceeding west to Pembroke, at the Graham Bay crossing about 9.11 a.m., half a mile west of Ottawa. The three-car train, travelling about 35 miles an hour and not stopping at the Graham Bay station, halted 150 yards on with a broken steam pipe; a new locomotive was brought and it reached Pembroke about 11. "There is no 'wig-wag' at the crossing but a warning sign is clearly visible." Train No. 89 leaves Union Station at 8.40 a.m. for the Ottawa Valley run. | Ottawa Citizen 1952-06-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-09-10≥ | Arnprior | By 10 September 1952 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Service on the Canadian National Railways branch line from Ottawa to Pembroke and Barry's Bay was disrupted today as the result of a freight derailment just east of the CNR bridge at Arnprior at 10 o'clock last night." Six cars of a slow-moving ballast freight travelling west jumped the rails just before the bridge; trains were rerouted via Beachburg. | Ottawa Journal 1952-09-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1952-09-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1952-10-07 | Barrys Bay | "Daily Highlight: Policeman, doctor, priest, taxi drivers, everyone turns out to meet the noon train from Ottawa at Barry's Bay. Engine 5072 pulls in with two express cars and passenger coach, brings mail and parcels, turns on 'Y', and heads back to Ottawa." | Ottawa Citizen 1952-10-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-01-12≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 12 January 1953 (the issue date), the paper reported: W. J. Bleackley "narrowly escaped injury or death and his car was wrecked when it was struck by a CNR passenger train at the Riverside Drive crossing just west of the Russell road, about 12.15 a.m. Sunday." | Ottawa Journal 1953-01-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-03-06 | Hawkesbury Branch | Walter McLeod, 34, a trucker of Morrisburg, "was burned to death in the cab of his semitrailer shortly before noon Friday when the truck crashed into the side of a CNR mixed freight" at the crossing about two miles north of Vankleek Hill; the truck burst into flames and derailed eight of the freight cars, and an express-passenger coach was destroyed by fire. "Mainline traffic between Ottawa and Montreal will not be affected by the crash as it occurred in the side line between Glen Robertson and Hawkesbury." | Ottawa Citizen 1953-03-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1953-03-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-05 | Canada Atlantic Baggage Mail Express Car 13 | Retired | Lepkey p301 |
| 1953-05-06≥ | Alexandria | By 6 May 1953 (the issue date), the paper reported: Albert Vaillancourt, 43, "died instantly last night when his car collided with a CNR freight train at a level crossing in Alexandria" at 11.05 p.m. The eastbound freight was pulling out of a siding; "with the train on a siding... the automatic electric warning signals were not in operation" and skid marks showed for 66 feet. | Ottawa Citizen 1953-05-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-06-24≥ | South Indian | By 24 June 1953 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Ontario Provincial Police apprehended three men yesterday in connection with an afternoon break-in of the CNR station at Limoges, Ont. Less than $25 was reported stolen." Station agent Albert Bessette noticed the money missing on his return from lunch. | Ottawa Journal 1953-06-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-12-04≥ | Eganville | By 4 December 1953 (the issue date), the paper reported: August Vituski, about 30, of Cormac, "was seriously injured when the car he was driving was struck by a CNR freight train at a level crossing one mile west of here last evening" in heavy fog, at about 8.30 p.m.; the westbound freight was Extra No. 2567 under Engineer John Harper. | Ottawa Citizen 1953-12-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-12-07≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 7 December 1953 (the issue date), the paper reported: Jack Jerome, 25, "escaped serious injury Saturday evening when his car was struck by a train on Booth Street at the CNR crossing near Lydia Street", the impact pushing the car 35 feet along the rails. | Ottawa Citizen 1953-12-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-12-10 | Bank Street | "When the new cross-town super highway is built, it will parallel one railway track of the Canadian National Railway, alongside the old right of way." The Federal District Commission said both the highway and one cross-town track would be left "as long as the CNR has railway-yards and industries to serve in the west end of town"; the highway "starts out near Graham's Bay station". "The railway tracks will only function through the center of town and as a service to industries located along the rails." | Ottawa Citizen 1953-12-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1953-12-14≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 14 December 1953 (the issue date), the paper reported: Leo Groulx escaped injury when his truck "was struck by a CNR locomotive at 5.45 p.m., Saturday" at the CNR crossing at the Russell Road; he said he did not see the train or hear the whistle. Damage was $150. | Ottawa Citizen 1953-12-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1954-04-03 | Chaudiere Branch | Joseph Colosante "was slightly hurt when his car plowed into the side of a heavy Diesel locomotive in a spectacular accident at 7.30 this morning" at the CNR crossing on Booth Street; the car, driven by his son Anthony down a slight hill, could not stop on the icy road and hit a diesel shunting engine. | Ottawa Citizen 1954-04-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1954-05-11 | Bank Street | A 1930 coupe pushed by a friend's car was caught by "a crack CNR trans-continental flyer" at "the CNR Echo Drive crossing, near Hawthorne Avenue" shortly after midnight. The 14-coach train, pushed by locomotive No. 6074 (Engineer Albert Bates), "was only backing up slowly" toward "the CNR switches at the Bank Street yard" and pushed the car 95 feet along the rails; the driver, Morris Lepage, 18, was unhurt. A CNR signalman was waving his red lantern at the crossing. | Ottawa Citizen 1954-05-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1954-08-13≥ | Bank Street | By 13 August 1954 (the issue date), the paper reported: Miss Beverly Walker's brakes failed "yesterday evening" and, to avoid "crashing through the lowered CNR gates at the Bronson Avenue crossing", she swerved over the sidewalk into the side of the signal house; damage was $150 to the car and about $50 to C.N.R. property. A freight train was about to start backing up at the crossing. | Ottawa Citizen 1954-08-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1954-10-18≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 18 October 1954 (the issue date), the paper reported: Richard J. Dunlap's Shell Oil tanker was hit by a backing CNR train "at the Riverside Drive crossing" on Saturday night shortly after eight o'clock; he said he saw no lights except in one coach. Damage was $100. | Ottawa Citizen 1954-10-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1954-11-25≥ | Renfrew | By 25 November 1954 (the issue date), the paper reported: Joe Cartier, 18, "escaped with minor abrasions when he was thrown to the road as the three-ton truck he was driving hit the side of the engine" of an eastbound train at "the CNR crossing at the south end of Raglan Street" about 2 p.m. yesterday; the truck was thrown against an automatic signal. Damage was about $600 to the truck, $200 to the engine and $200 to the signal. | Ottawa Citizen 1954-11-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1954-12 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 303 | Retired | Lepkey p301 |
| 1954-12-06≥ | Hawkesbury Branch | By 6 December 1954 (the issue date), the paper reported: Eugene Parisien, a farmer, jumped to safety "seconds" before "the Glen Robertson train" demolished his car at the CNR level crossing on Highway 34 about one mile south of Hawkesbury, on Saturday afternoon; "The train was pulling into Hawkesbury station a short distance away and was not travelling at full speed." The engineer was W. Peachy and the conductor Walter Moselle. | Ottawa Citizen 1954-12-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1954-12-21≥ | Carp | By 21 December 1954 (the issue date), the paper reported: A C.N.R. mixed freight struck a tractor-trailer loaded with beer at the C.N.R. level crossing at Carp at 6.15 p.m. "last night"; the driver, William Giles of Montreal, was hurt, the $10,000 tractor was wrecked, but the trailer of beer was undamaged. The train was travelling east, locomotive No. 2524, Engineer George O'Connor. | Ottawa Citizen 1954-12-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955 | Bank Street | The C.N.R. "transferred its freight marshalling operations from the old Bank Street yards to the new Walkley Road yards on the Capital's southern fringe" in 1955, and "the right-of-way of the old CNR crosstown tracks was then made available for a start last fall on the construction of the Queensway", a $31,000,000 east-west limited access highway. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-01-26 | Kinburn | Murray Findlay "escaped serious injury when a truck he was driving was struck by a CNR freight train at the level crossing in Kinburn", thrown out and shaken up; the bags of grain he was taking to the Leo Cotton elevator were scattered along the roadway. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-01-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-02-04 | Ottawa Central Station | Oswald Patrick George, born in Eganville, was "stepping out of service with the Canadian National Railways this evening" after 21 years as station master at the Union Station, where "literally millions of people have arrived and left"; he greeted visitors including Churchill, Eden, Truman and Roosevelt. With nearly 50 years with the C.N.R. and the Grand Trunk, he went as a brakeman as far as Depot Harbor, was yardmaster at Coteau in the thirties, and was named station master at Ottawa when the depression ended. | Ottawa Journal 1955-02-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-04-14≥ | Moose Creek | By 14 April 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: Fire "last night levelled the CNR station on the Ottawa-Montreal main line here, destroying some baggage and express parcels and railroad telegraphy equipment"; "Four hours later an old abandoned one room shack was also destroyed by fire near the village." The Citizen says it broke out at 11 o'clock and damaged rails and disrupted telegraph communications between Ottawa and Montreal; trains were routed over a passing track. The fire was believed to have started in the station freight room, and a temporary structure was to be erected at once. The station agent was Armand Poulin. | Ottawa Journal 1955-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1955-04-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-04-28≥ | Glasgow | By 28 April 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: Four men were killed and two hurt "as the result of a car-train collision nine miles east of" Renfrew "on Highway 17 and the CNR line yesterday afternoon", shortly after 2 p.m.: the car was struck in mid-section by the engine of "a passenger train running from Barry's Bay to Ottawa", due in Ottawa at 4.50, and tossed 60 feet into the ditch. A slight rise adjacent to the tracks partly blocks the view for 50 to 60 feet. The engineer was M. J. Gaffney. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-04-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-05-06 | William Pitman Hinton | William Pitman Hinton died on 6 May 1955. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-05-07(https://sites.google.com/site/canadaatlanticry/peo...) |
| 1955-06 | Canada Atlantic First Class Coach 302 | Scrapped at London, Ont | Lepkey p301 |
| 1955-06-10≥ | Ottawa | By 10 June 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: Centralized traffic control "went into effect on Thursday afternoon" in a room at the Union Station, a joint project of the Federal District Commission and the C.N.R.: "some 28 miles of railway track in the Ottawa terminals are now all controlled from this panel", covering a triangle bounded by Riverside, Hawthorne and Federal and extending to South March; the first train brought in under it was No. 2, the Super Continental, from Bells Corners. The installation cost a million dollars; the operator was J. R. Sine. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-06-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-06-10≥ | Bank Street | By 10 June 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: The new control system "is an integral part of the FDC current railway location project to transfer CNR yard operations from the cross town tracks to new yards along the Walkley Road at the southern edge of the Capital", and the cross-town right of way "is being utilized for a crosstown limited access highway, the 'Queensway'". Superintendent G. T. Dunn said about 20 crews would work from the Walkley Road terminals; the new yard office might be ready by August 1, moving about 25 men. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-06-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-07-18 | Maxville | Advance 401, a C.N.R. freight of 32 cars from Montreal, "thundered through an open switch at the station and turned over" at Maxville at 11.35 p.m. on Monday: the 250 ton locomotive No. 6101 plowed through the yard cinders, smashed through a coal and feed storage shed, and came to rest tilted half buried; 24 cars were demolished. The five-man crew escaped unhurt, Engineer Thomas Bradley having shut off steam; some 25 pigs in a car on a siding were killed. Damage was put at $250,000; the main line was blocked, a passing track kept traffic moving, and Superintendent G. T. Dunn investigated. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-07-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1955-07-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Glengarry News 1955-07-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-09-06≥ | South March | By 6 September 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: John A. Greer, 81, of City View, "died in Civic Hospital Sunday of multiple injuries and shock sustained Saturday when a C.N.R. freight train demolished his car at Bells Corners" at about 5 p.m.; his car stalled on the track as he crossed on the 4th concession road, and two girl passengers ordered out by him escaped. The train was a freight from Barrys Bay to Ottawa, Engineer Daniel McCarthy, Conductor Russell Conly. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-09-06(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-12-23≥ | Arnprior | By 23 December 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: Three members of the town construction crew "had a narrow escape when the nine-ton truck in which they were driving piled into a westbound extra freight, at the Canadian National Railways John Street level crossing about five p.m. yesterday"; the truck slid on the icy road and was carried some 120 feet. Damage was $1,000. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-12-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1955-12-24≥ | Barrys Bay | By 24 December 1955 (the issue date), the paper reported: Raymond Gutoskie, 36, of Barry's Bay, was dead on arrival at hospital after his brand-new 1956 car "was struck by a CNR way-freight" on a county road between Highways 60 and 62; three other men were hurt. The train was travelling west under Engineer Daniel McCarthy. | Ottawa Citizen 1955-12-24(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1956-02-28≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 28 February 1956 (the issue date), the paper reported: Keith Sasseville, 34, "was trapped in his car when it rolled down a 40-foot ravine after ramming into a CNR baggage coach at a local unguarded crossing" at Riverside Drive, west of Hurdman's Bridge, "last night" about 8.30; a train of baggage coaches was being taken from the Union Station. "Ten persons lost their lives in the previous crossing accidents that occurred in the district", the fourth crash in the area within eight days. | Ottawa Citizen 1956-02-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1956-03-12≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 12 March 1956 (the issue date), the paper reported: Mr. and Mrs. Amende Matte of Hull escaped uninjured on Sunday at 5.50 p.m. when their stalled car was hit at the Russell road crossing near Hurdman's Bridge by "the CNR's Super-Continental" travelling at 35 miles an hour on the approach to Union Station. "There are no barriers or mechanical signals at the crossing." | Ottawa Citizen 1956-03-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1956-06-07≥ | Arnprior | By 7 June 1956 (the issue date), the paper reported: A school bus, a C.N.R. freight train and a loaded gravel truck were involved in "a three-way level crossing crash here yesterday afternoon" at 4 o'clock: the engine of the backing train caught the rear of the truck, which was thrown against the school bus waiting at the crossing; no one was hurt. The truck driver apparently did not see the train because a house obscured his view; the engineer was Michael Gaffney. | Ottawa Citizen 1956-06-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1956-09-11≥ | Alexandria | By 11 September 1956 (the issue date), the paper reported: Two persons "escaped with minor injuries when their car rammed into the side of a freight train one mile east of here yesterday morning." | Ottawa Citizen 1956-09-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1956-09-26 | The Pembroke Southern Railway Company | CNR applied to Board of Transportation Commissioners to discontinue passenger and mixed service. Freight to continue daily. | leader |
| 1956-10-10≥ | Maria Street Bridge | By 10 October 1956 (the issue date), the paper reported: Four cars of the Super Continental "jumped the tracks while pulling into Union Station" at 6 p.m. "early last evening", just north of the Laurier Avenue bridge, as the train was slowing for the station; the first wheels left the rails at a "double slip switch". Passengers for the west were delayed five and a half hours (the Journal says eight hours, the train leaving at 2.15 a.m.), and the cars were lifted back on by yard cranes. No one was injured. | Ottawa Citizen 1956-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1956-10-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1956-11-12≥ | Eastern Subdivision | By 12 November 1956 (the issue date), the paper reported: A Koffman Truck Leasing van being towed was pulled in front of an oncoming CNR train at the CNR crossing on Riverside Drive about 12.30 on Saturday afternoon; the crash hurled the van 80 feet to the bank of the Rideau River, snapping off a railway signal. Leo Beaudoin, 27, was hurt; damage was $3,500. | Ottawa Citizen 1956-11-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1956-11-17 | Vars | More than 1,000 children and adults left Union Station at 8.30 a.m. on an 18-coach C.N.R. special, the "Freiman Special", to a "mystery rendezvous" at Vars on the C.N.R. main line to Montreal, where Santa Claus arrived by helicopter and rode back to Ottawa through the coaches, the train reaching Union Station at 10.40. It was the first time in Ottawa's history that a special train had been chartered for such a purpose; the C.N.R. had 16 railway police and traffic staff aboard. The Citizen of 19 November counts 1,400 children. | Ottawa Citizen 1956-11-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1956-11-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1957 | Joe Lake | Hotel Algonquin and station destroyed by fire. | Wright(thanks to Jeffrey Smith) |
| 1957-01-18 | Bank Street | Orville Thomas Ryan, 30, a C.N.R. yardman, "died this morning after he was run over and dragged by a diesel engine and four oil tank cars in the Britannia Yards near Duke Street", at about 9 a.m., 50 feet east of the No. 2 switch; he was dragged almost 500 feet. His brother Kenneth Ryan, also a C.N.R. employee, was killed in a similar accident near the Laurier Avenue Bridge in the summer of 1954. | Ottawa Citizen 1957-01-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1957-01-29≥ | Ottawa East | By 29 January 1957 (the issue date), the paper reported: "Suppertime traffic passing through Ottawa East was tied up for more than 30 minutes late yesterday afternoon when the crack CNR transcontinental flyer stalled on the tracks across Main Street and Echo Drive": the brakes of the diesel locomotive seized up as the Montreal-bound train was crossing the two streets, at 3.22 p.m.; an emergency crew repaired them by 3.46. | Ottawa Citizen 1957-01-29(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1957-08-28 | Bank Street | John Paul Lanthier, 26, was critically hurt in "a truck-train crash at the CNR crossing on the Merivale Road shortly before 10 o'clock this morning" when his five-ton sand truck ran "directly into the back of a passing diesel locomotive pulling a freight train bound from Ottawa to Barry's Bay"; the truck was hurled across the highway. "The crossing has no warning signal", and had been the scene of several accidents including a fatal crash about a year earlier. The engineer was Tom Bradley. | Ottawa Citizen 1957-08-28(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1957-11-18≥ | Vars | By 18 November 1957 (the issue date), the paper reported: About 2,000 adults and children travelled on "the special CNR train to Vars" on Saturday morning to welcome Santa Claus, who arrived by Spartan Air Services helicopter; the C.N.R. ran a 20-coach train and it was back at Union Station at 10.30 for the official welcome. By coincidence Governor-General Vincent Massey's private cars arrived on a regular train at the same moment. G. T. Dunn was in charge of the train. | Ottawa Citizen 1957-11-18(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1957-11-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1957-11-26≥ | Chaudiere Branch | By 26 November 1957 (the issue date), the paper reported: A car-train collision "on Gladstone Avenue near Standard Bread Company last night resulted in only minor damage to the car involved and no injuries"; Mrs. Winnifred Rosewarne said she had stopped for the crossing, then proceeded, and CNR brakeman Eric Low said he had blown his whistle. | Ottawa Citizen 1957-11-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1957-12-07≥ | Bank Street | By 7 December 1957 (the issue date), the paper reported: Four airmen were injured "last night in a grinding car-train collision at a crossing on Echo Drive near Hawthorne Avenue"; a CNR signalman waving his lantern narrowly missed being struck. The slow-moving locomotive, under Engineer Ronald Pritchard, caused $600 damage; poor lighting and a light snow contributed. | Ottawa Citizen 1957-12-07(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1957? | Pembroke Branch | "Stripped off two years ago from passenger service was the Pembroke branch. They have not bothered to clean off the tracks from Golden Lake this winter." | Ottawa Citizen 1959-04-26(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-01-09 | Vars | Aurele Surprenant, 25, "leaped from his 1950 auto seconds before it skidded into the side of the fast-moving CNR Continental in the heart of Vars, 20 mile east of Ottawa"; the train did not stop, and chunks of the car's engine were carried almost half a mile. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-01-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-01-27≥ | Ottawa East | By 27 January 1958 (the issue date), the paper reported: Achille Laramee, 54, "was instantly killed at 4.20 p.m. Saturday when struck by a shunting train at the CNR yards near the Ottawa East round house", as a C.N.R. diesel, driven by Phillip Button, pushed two dayliner coaches from the yard; employees riding in front of the first coach called a warning and the bell was sounding. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-01-27(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-04-17≤ | Ottawa Freight Sheds | From 17 April 1958 (the issue date), the paper announced: Over the weekend the C.N.R. "will move out of its 50-year-old local freight office and sheds on Besserer Street in the Union Station area" to a new freight terminus on Russell Road at Alta Vista Drive. The Citizen says the Besserer Street terminus "was built in 1909 by the old Canada Atlantic Railway, which was incorporated in the CNR in 1923", and that the old freight sheds were built in 1919 after the originals burned that year. The Federal District Commission recommended the old facilities be demolished for a 160-car metered parking lot. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1958-04-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-04-21 | Ottawa Freight Sheds | The C.N.R. freight terminal on Besserer Street gave way to the new terminal at Riverside and Alta Vista Drives: "Transfer of freight and records from the old terminal in the Union Station area was completed 'without a hitch' over the weekend", and the first train of 43 mixed freight reached the new terminal shortly after 9 a.m., the keys being handed over by Alan K. Hay of the Federal District Commission. Under an F.D.C. proposal the old terminal would be demolished for a 160-car parking lot. | Ottawa Journal 1958-04-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1958-04-21(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-08-11≥ | Ottawa Central Station | By 11 August 1958 (the issue date), the paper reported: "An FDC suggestion, some months ago, that a new $5,000,000 Union Station be built near Hurdman's Bridge, was turned down by the CNR and CPR within the past few days", the proposed site being two miles from the present station opposite the Chateau Laurier. It was accepted that Union Station would not move to Walkley Road, 7.5 miles from the Chateau, for 25 or 40 years. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-08-11(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-10-23≤ | Middle Subdivision | From 23 October 1958 (the issue date), the paper announced: The C.N.R. passenger trains Nos. 89 and 90 between Ottawa and Barry's Bay were to stop with the change of time on October 26, "the last trip" on Saturday, October 25; mail would go by truck, and the Board of Transport Commissioners would hear the C.N.R.'s application to discontinue the service at Pembroke on November 18. On 19 November the hearing was "adjourned indefinitely" after counsel for the municipalities complained of lack of detailed information, and on 20 November the Journal reported "Ottawa Barrys Bay line continues for a year" and the Arnprior Chronicle "CNR line remains". | Ottawa Citizen 1958-10-15(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1958-10-23(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1958-11-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1958-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Arnprior Chronicle 1958-11-20(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-11-17≥ | Vars | By 17 November 1958 (the issue date), the paper reported: More than 1,500 children and about 500 adults "boarded a special train which took them to Vars to welcome the jolly old saint" on Saturday; "Pulling the long train was engine No. 6206 a big, ancient steam locomotive like those which have hauled the Santa Claus Special the past two years." Nearly 5,000 cookies and 2,500 soft drinks were served aboard, and Santa walked through the 21 coaches on the way back. The Citizen of 14 November announced the special, 18 cars, leaving Union Station at 8.45 a.m. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-11-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Citizen 1958-11-14(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-12-08≥ | Vars | By 8 December 1958 (the issue date), the paper reported: Four cars of a Montreal-Ottawa train "roaring into the Capital at 70 miles an hour" left the rails at 11.17 a.m. on Saturday "a mile and a half east of the village" of Vars, injuring 10 persons; the derailment cut the main line for nearly 16 hours, destroying 310 feet of track and badly damaging another 2,700, from mile 116.4 to 117.1. Officials suspected a chipped rail damaged by an earlier train in near-zero temperatures; the three coaches and the parlor-dining car plowed a half-mile furrow but stayed upright, and the train would otherwise have reached the Vars station. A way-freight from Coteau Junction was used to carry the injured to ambulances. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-12-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1958-12-16 | Maxville | "Six cars of a 56-car freight train left the rails on the CNR line just west of Maxville early this morning" at 5.20 a.m., two carrying high octane gasoline and two kerosene, which spilled into the ditches; a defective truck under the leading tank car was thought the cause, and the main line and a siding were ripped up for a quarter of a mile. The noon train from Montreal to Ottawa went by way of the C.P.R. tracks. | Ottawa Citizen 1958-12-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Journal 1958-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1959 | Brule Lake | Tracks gone | Fleming Thompson, Wayne. "Tribute to an Old Village" North Renfrew Times. 1976-01-07 |
| 1959-02-12 | Middle Subdivision | J. W. G. MacDougall, C.N.R. commission counsel, told a meeting at Arnprior of Ottawa Valley municipalities that "the railway was ready to inaugurate a new, modern train service between Ottawa and Barry's Bay"; if the public did not patronize it, the C.N.R. would ask the Board of Transport Commissioners for discontinuance. J. J. Greene, Arnprior, representing the municipalities, said railways "can be sold, just like soap chips". The meeting decided the new service would begin on March 1, leaving Barry's Bay at 5.30 a.m. and reaching Ottawa at 8.30, returning at 5.30 p.m., on a trial of at least six months, with a self-propelled diesel railiner over the 112-mile run. | Ottawa Citizen 1959-02-12(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Eganville Leader 1959-02-13(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |