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An interurban car from the Philadelphia & Western Railroad, which survived long in the interurban business. The interurban (or radial railway in Canada) is a type of electric railway, with tram-like electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns. [1]
This station was the base of operations and used to store rolling stock from 2001 until 2012. [7] [8] [9] In 2004, the FVHRS agreed to purchase BCER interurban car 1225 from the Southern California Railroad Museum, who had bought the decommissioned car from the BCER in 1958. The car was transferred to Canada in 2005. [10] [11]
Hawker Siddeley Canada, Trenton, Nova Scotia and Thunder Bay, Ontario (to Trenton Works) Ottawa Car Company – interurban cars; Trenton Works, Trenton, Nova Scotia (to Greenbrier 1995) Urban Transportation Development Corporation, Thunder Bay, Ontario
"THE RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK INDUSTRY IN CANADA: A History of 110 Years of Canadian Railway Car Building: PRESTON CAR & COACH CO. LTD., Preston, Ont" – via Nakina.net. Mills, John M. (1977). "Chapter VIII: Preston Car & Coach Company". Traction on The Grand: The Story of Electric Railways along Ontario's Grand River Valley. Railfare Enterprises.
Later Chicago and Interurban Traction Company: Coal Belt Electric Railway [2] DeKalb – Sycamore and Interurban Traction Company [2] 1902: August 1924: East St. Louis, Columbia and Waterloo Railway [2] East St. Louis and Suburban Railway [2] Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company [2] February 2, 1907 [6] March 10, 1930 [7] Later Elgin, Belvidere ...
Boxcab electric locomotive L1, electric interurban 14 and the Port Stanley incline cars are preserved at the Elgin County Railway Museum in St. Thomas. [10] Trailer 3 and motor cars 4 and 8 are preserved at the Halton County Radial Railway, near Rockwood, Ontario. The latter is operational, while the former two are stored awaiting restoration ...
Headlines and photos of the railway inauguration in Montreal's La Presse, November 2, 1909.. The Montreal and Southern Counties Railway Company was established through an act of Canadian Parliament on June 29, 1897, with a mandate to "lay out, construct and operate, by electricity or any other mechanical power except steam, a railway [...] from a point in or near the northern limit of the ...
The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) was an historic railway which operated in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.Originally the parent company for, and later a division of, BC Electric Company (now BC Hydro), the BCER assumed control of existing streetcar and interurban lines in southwestern British Columbia in 1897, and operated the electric railway systems in the region until the ...