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 non-revenue equipment.
| Date | Subject | Statement | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1886-01-22 | Plows | A winged snow plough of a new design is being used these days by the Canada Atlantic railway. It was run through Hurdman's cut yesterday at the rate of forty miles an hour. A freight was stuck in the cut. After elevating the snow about twelve feet it threw the bulk fully forty feet from the track. It was built in the C.A.R. Mechanical department, and is the invention of a leading official of the railroad. Mr. Linsley went out this morning to see the plough at work. | Ottawa Free Press 1886-01-22(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1888-01-03 | Plows | The Canada Atlantic Railway Company have just received from their car shops three new snow ploughs. | Ottawa Journal 1888-01-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1888-02-10 | Plows | The Canada Atlantic Railway has just completed and put on the road a fine new snow plough which will replace the large winged plough which was badly damaged at St. Polycarpe. The new plough was made at the company's Elgin street workshops. | Ottawa Citizen 1888-02-10(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher, 'Local Railway I...) |
| 1893-04-01 | Steam Shovels | A new, self-propelled steam shovel arrived for use in constructing the Parry Sound railway, to be moved to Carp once the frost was sufficiently out of the ground; it was expected two shovels would work outward from Carp in both directions. A second, larger steam shovel, "The Marion" (three-yard capacity), arrived shortly after for grading the line between Ottawa and Arnprior, with gravel cars being readied for the work. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-04-01(Also in the Renfrew Mercury of 7 April. Transcribe...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-04-10(On "The Marion". Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher ...) |
| 1893-07-26≥ | Plows | By July 26, 1893, a large gravel plow built at the C.A.R. sheds (the first attempt to build a plow of that magnitude in Ottawa, the new engine mounted on a flat car) had left, on Monday, July 24, for work on the construction lines of the Parry Sound railway. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-07-21(Plow under construction. Transcribed by Colin J. C...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-07-26(Left "on Monday last". Transcribed by Colin J. Chu...) |
| 1893-08-25 | Plows | A second large gravel plow for the Parry Sound railway was built in the C.A.R. car shops on Elgin street (the second built there that year): it was expected finished early in the week of August 7 but was not ready before the end of that week, the frame having yet to be sheeted with iron; by August 25 it was being sheeted with iron, mounted on a flat car, to be taken up the Parry Sound shortly. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-03(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-08(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-25(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1893-09-20 | Steam Shovels | Two steam shovels were working on the Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound line, one at Willis' pit near Arnprior and the other at Carp village. | Ottawa Journal 1893-09-20(Article headed "$75,000 in rolling stock". Transcr...) |
| 1893-11-04 | Plows | The frame work of a large new snow plow, with flanges on both sides "of the most approved make", was begun in the C.A.R. mechanical shops on August 19, 1893; by November 4 a fine snow plough was being put into shape for work that winter, the box built and awaiting wings and fore lift. | Ottawa Free Press 1893-08-19(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Ottawa Free Press 1893-11-04(Almost all the work then being done in the C.A.R. ...) |
| 1894-06-30 | Steam Shovels | The company has purchased another steam shovel of the Marion build, which will probably start work in a few days at the far end of the line. The shovel has just arrived in the Ottawa yards and is to match the same style as the one purchased last year. Another gravel pit has been purchased just above Eganville and from it will be taken the ballast for that portion of the line. | Ottawa Free Press 1894-06-30(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-09-04 | Steam Shovels | The steam shovel which is at work on the O.A. & P.S. R construction, moved from Brennan's gravel pit to Montgomery pit, about thirty miles further west. | Mercury 1896-09-04(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...),Mercury 1896-09-09(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1896-10-16 | Plows | Four new snowploughs have been built at the company's workshops in Ottawa, for use on the line this winter. | Eganville Leader 1896-10-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
| 1898-12-17 | Hand Cars | The company have equipped the line with new hand cars. These cars are all manufactured at the shops in Ottawa, and are of the latest improved design, being fitted up with ball bearing wheels and calculated to run at a speed of 30 miles an hour. | Ottawa Free Press 1898-12-17(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |
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