Plows
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| Date | Statement | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1886-01-22 | 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 | 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 | 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...) | |
| 1893-07-26≥ | 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 | 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...) | |
| 1893-11-04 | 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. The two reports may describe the same plow; the sources do not say. | 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. ...) | |
| 1896-10-16 | Four new snowploughs have been built at the company's workshops in Ottawa, for use on the line this winter. The Eganville Leader quotes the Renfrew Mercury. | Eganville Leader 1896-10-16(Transcribed by Colin J. Churcher in 'Local Railway...) |