CNR 1982 Bayview GO Trains and a 1961 Timetable

The photos of this post show some of the wide variety of GO Transit equipment operating through Bayview Jct, Ontario in July 1982. 

After the photos, an employee timetable from 1961 shows the traffic on the Oakville Sub through Bayview in 1961 - just after the end of steam and before the birth of GO Transit.

A GP40-2 and a CNR GP40 lead a westbound GO train to Bayview.

In any dispute between a reader and this blogger, 

regarding the description of any locomotive, 

the reader will be adjudicated as being correct.

Probably trailing the same power from the photo above, an eastbound GO train passes.

The lead unit is an FP7A from 1951, equipped with an alternator to provide hotel power to cars.

A control car leads a westbound toward Hamilton. 

An F40PH is pushing the control car as it reaches Bayview.

This Tempo equipment combination was used in southwest Ontario. 

An RS-18 with an alternator added, accelerates east from Bayview.

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A map of the Bayview area from 1967 - north is skewed clockwise a little.

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An Employee Timetable of the Oakville Sub from 1961

From an Official Guide from 1958 are the routes/identities of the trains (above) which were listed that year.

Probably, there was some reorganization of trains after all use of steam locomotives ceased.

5   The LaSalle - Halifax to Chicago (Pool train, Montreal to Toronto)

9   Toronto to Windsor

15  International Limited - Montreal (CPR Windsor Station) to Chicago (Pool train, Montreal to Toronto)

17  Inter-City Limited - Halifax to Chicago (Pool train, Montreal to Toronto)

75  Forest City, Toronto to London

83  Toronto to Windsor

101 Toronto to Niagara Falls

183 Toronto to Windsor

CP 321-329 Toronto to Buffalo

Below: Again, the eastbound segments of certain trains were pooled Toronto to Montreal.

6    Inter-City Limited - Chicago to Montreal 

14  International Limited - Chicago to Montreal

18  Windsor to Montreal

20  The Maple Leaf  - Chicago, London, Toronto

80  London to Toronto

82  Sarnia to Toronto

108 Niagara Falls to Toronto

118 Windsor to Montreal

CP 322-328 Buffalo to Toronto

Below, are the local footnotes for the Bayview area.

CNR 1982 Bayview in July

A hot, hazy, humid July day combined the summer smell of warm brakes and creosote with a variety of sightings.

First, a jiggled image foretelling that the road will be quiet ... so we might consider coming back later.
In the foreground, a patrol foreman is probably on the phone for a permit.
A switcher move with a single boxcar is rolling to a stop signal at Hamilton Jct.

Later, we return and find an extra west.
I believe that's a more daring photographer getting a ground-level view on the 'eight foot'.

Through the haze, the freight can be seen approaching Hamilton Yard around the bay.
Notice the position of those CP boxcars at the overpass - for later.

Built in 1957, this unit was off the CN roster by 1991-2.

When the hot weather arrives people risk their lives.
A brief safety seminar is upcoming from the passing caboose.

from: CNR employee timetable, Oct 1967

Here is a map of the area - north is skewed clockwise a bit.
The photographs in this post are from a pedestrian overpass just east of Bayview.
For later reference: notice the CPR and TH&B railways, represented as dashed lines.

from: Atlas of Canada, 1915, Government of Canada

This map shows the 'railway territories' circa 1915.

Using running rights, a CP train rolls through.

This light freight might be engaged in power and van hopping to the west ...

You can see the power turning under the arched bridge at the left edge of the photo.
The train is probably heading for Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo rails and then probably south-east toward Buffalo

Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Company; employee Timetable 93, Oct 27, 1973. Collection of LCGagnon.

From a 1973 employee timetable, I think you can see the cutoff track leading to the TH&B line north of 'Hamilton'.

The main line of the TH&B leading to Buffalo is shown below, along with passenger and freight trains.

Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Company; employee Timetable 93, Oct 27, 1973. Collection of LCGagnon.

Above: The train order signal special instruction only explains a simple off/on red light train order signal.

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Below: Non-verbal signals - used when voice commands can't be heard, or communicated by radio (eg. for aircraft carrier decks, large cranes, farms, construction equipment, railways) - are often interesting to understand and/or preserve. 

Back in 1973, portable radios were probably not issued to all employees who might be involved with performing either terminal pull-by or running inspections.

Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Company; employee Timetable 93, Oct 27, 1973. Collection of LCGagnon.

CNR 1984 Burlington, Ontario - An October Visit

In 1984 we visited 'Bayview' - the former location of a CNR interlocking tower between Burlington and Hamilton, Ontario. Below, is an unusually nice map of the local railway lines. It comes from the back cover of a 1967 employee timetable.

North is at about '2 o clock' on this map. Toronto is off the map to the right - beyond the Oakville Sub label.

from: CNR employee timetable, Oct 1967

Our vantage point for these photos - taken in October 1984 - was a pedestrian overpass to the vast botanical gardens located in Burlington. If you follow Road 2 (above) on the map where it crosses the railway just east of Bayview ... you will see the overpass of that same road in the next photo. 

A westbound freight stops at the signal at Bayview - that's signal 367N below.

 

Here's the traffic the freight is facing. The Bayview interlocking tower would have been located just beyond the silver instrument case at the left of the photo. Interlocking rods once connected the tower to the switches and signals the tower controlled.

Ahead, is the Oakville Subdivision toward Hamilton. Hamilton is around the bay to the left. The four distant red signals govern Hamilton Junction. Branching off to the right is the Dundas Subdivision which leads to London.

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The rail diesel car which was shown coming from the direction of Hamilton smokes by.

The westbound freight takes his clear signal and heads for Hamilton.

A freight from Hamilton and a passenger train from London continue east toward Toronto.

... no I did not get a separate photo of the 'B' unit in the freight consist.
Back then, taking even this many photos on film of these trains seemed extravagant.

Below are two sections from employee timetables which show the features of the local track as it existed in the late 1960s. That map repeats below for your convenience.

The Oakville Sub trains take up four pages - they are mainly passenger commuter (GO) trains.

from: CNR employee timetable, Oct 1967

from: CNR employee timetable, April 1968

The asterisks above link to additional detail about 'register points' for various trains.

The other symbols on both timetables are defined in the 1962 rulebook:

• B Bulletins and train register 
• C Fuel (think 'coal') 
• K Standard clock, bulletins, train register (someone already used 'C'!) 
• P Telephone (usually to the dispatcher) 
• R Train register 
• V Station protection signal 
• W Water 
• X Crossovers 
• Z Yard limits

In 1915, here is what the railway ecosystem looked like in the area.

from: Atlas of Canada, 1915, Government of Canada