Re: Electrification (was Re: CPR D-10 from sunset)
- From: Derek Boles <derekboles@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:24:51 -0500
3.2. Electrification (was Re: CPR D-10 from sunset)
Posted by: "John Sutherland" sutherail@xxxxxxxx sutherail
Date: Mon Feb 9, 2009 4:41 pm ((PST))
CP never got close to "planning" on electrifying around Toronto. In
that era the option was looked at, but for various reasons it was
quickly dropped.
There was some consideration given to electrifying the Toronto
Terminals Railway (jointly owned by CP and CN) around World War I
when the new Union Station was being built. But it never got beyond
the initial discussion stage, undoubtedly for the reasons you
indicate. I'm not aware that CP ever had any specific plans on their
own, at least in Toronto, beyond their involvement in the TTR.
The Canadian Northern Railway, on the other hand, did have more
specific plans on electrifying since they planned on building a line
from Niagara to Toronto that would have entered the city in a long
tunnel to North Toronto Station, which it planned on jointly using
with CP. That was when the CNoR was building its electrified line
through the Mount Royal Tunnel in Montreal. The CNoR had lots of
grandiose schemes that it couldn't afford, which was one of the
reasons it was taken over by CN.
Derek Boles
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