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NEWSNEWSNEWSVolume 30 Number 2, Spring/Summer 2011
Since 1931
COMING EVENTS Put these dates on
your calendar!
In this issue...
Valentine’s Dance pages 1 - 3
Annual Meeting ........... page 4
News Briefs .................. page 5
March Luncheon .......page 6
2nd Annual Fall Meet & Greet EventThursday, Sept. 29, 2011, Historic Steam Whistle Brewery Roundhouse, 255 Bremner Ave., Toronto (behind CN Tower). Tickets $25 per person (includes light meal and door prizes. Cash bar.To order tickets, email Dennis Ryan, Club Secretary/Treasurer: [email protected]
77th Annual DinnerFriday, December 2, 2011, 7 pm sharp at the Canadian Room, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Watch for flyer and ticket order forms in the mail in October!
For news and updates on events, check our website:
www.torontorailwayclub.com
MAILING ADDRESS:Toronto Railway Club200 Bay St., P.O. Box 64039Toronto, ON M5J 2J0
Valentine’s Dinner DanceThe Toronto Railway Club’s popular dinner, dance and fun casino event was a sell-out again this year with approximately 200 members and guests on hand at the Fairmont Royal York’s Imperial Room Saturday, February 12, 2011. The Club would like to express its gratitude to the numerous corporate sponsors listed on page 2 whose support and generosity continues to make this event a big success. Besides the fun casino, we were entertained by the instructors from Big Bird’s Dance Studio in Mississauga.Club President Remi Landry was on hand to present a fabulous array of door prizes to attendees. Following are some pictorial highlights! More photos on pages 2 and 3.
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Vasie Papadopoulos and Keith Kacsuta.
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And the prizewinners were...
(L-R): Dennis Ryan, Club Secretary/Treasurer, Remi Landry, Club President, Vasie Papadopoulos, Terry Catani, Vice Chairman, Mary Proc, Greg Percy, Immediate Past President, Grace Sheahan, Michael Binns and Orest Kobylanski.
Valentine’s Dinner-Dance continued...A BIG thankyou to our Valentine’s Dinner-Dance corporate sponsors!
Published by the Toronto Railway Club for its members
Toronto Railway Club News
The aims and objectives of the Toronto Railway Club are the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in connection with the construction, operation and maintenance of railways and other forms of transportation, together with the equip-ment and supplies used therewith for the benefits of the members and the companies they represent.
Editorial Committee:
Remi Landry President Dennis Ryan Secretary/Treasurer Mary Proc Director
Editor/Publisher: John Glatzmayer E-mail: [email protected]
Address correspondance to:Dennis Ryan, Toronto Railway Club,200 Bay Street, P.O. Box 64039, Toronto, ON M5J 2J0E-mail: [email protected]
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Jacqueline Lafrano Photography(L-R): Andrey Genyk-Berezowsky, Orest Kobylansky, Alex Daschko, Yuri Daschko, Walter Daschko.Front row (L-R): Maria Filijowycz, Dania Dagenais, Vera Petrashkewych, Maria Waltman Daschko and Marta Yurcan.
Prizes presented by Toronto Railway Club President, Remi Landry.
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N E W S B R I E F SA roundup of news highlights in Canada’s railway industry
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OBITUARY:
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ed HarriS retireSFred Green, President and CEO, Canadian Pacific, announced March 2 that Ed Harris was retiring April 1, and would be succeeded by Mike Franczak as Executive Vice-Presi-dent, Operations. Harris joined CP in 2010 and leveraged more than 30 years of railroad-ing experience to lead CP’s operations team through various enhancements and to devel-op a successor. Harris will continue to act as an advisor to Franczak throughout 2011.CP press release March 2, 2011
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GO Transit is expanding its fleet with a $125 million purchase of 50 new passenger rail coaches to be built at Bombardier’s plant in Thunder Bay. The new bi-level coaches are to be put into service starting late in 2011, will bring GO Transit’s total number of bi-level coaches to 565. Production is sched-uled to commence in June. GO Transit is the operating division of Metrolinx, the Ontario government transit agency which provides commuter rail and bus services in the GTA.National Post, March 15.
metrolinX aCQuireS Cn Commuter rail SeGmentMetrolinx, Ontario’s regional transporta-tion agency, has purchased a section of CN’s Kingston Subdivision rail line east of Toronto Union Station for $299 million. The line is composed of the two and three-track rail corridor east of Union Station in downtown Toronto to a junction near Whites Road in Pickering, Ont., where the line con-nects with GO Transit’s separate right-of-way. Metrolinx’s President and CEO Bruce McCuaig said, “Owing this rail corridor section better positions GO to improve service, better control operations and plan future service growth.”CN press release March 30, 2011
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annual meetinG At the Toronto Railway Club annual general meeting Monday, January 31, the following new slate of of-ficers were elected for 2011.
President: Remi Landry, Chief Rail Operations - GO Transit
Past President: Greg Percy, Vice-President, Operations, GO Transit
First Vice-President: Bernie Maskerine, Senior Director Business Development - Transit - SNC - Lavalin O&M
Second Vice-President: Brian Kirk, Vice-President Finance, Hallcon Corporation
Secretary-Treasurer: Dennis J. Ryan, Managing Director, Supply Management, National Steel Car Ltd. (retired)
DIRECTORS elected for 2011James D. Allen, Principal, JDA Consulting
Chuck Best, Vice-President Sales Canada, Wabtec Corporation
Thomas Budd, Deputy Practice Manager, Rail & Transit, Hatch Mott MacDonald
Dan Jagos, Senior Project Engineering Co-ordinator, AECOM
Orest Kobylansky, General Superintendent, Toronto Transit Commission
Allan Lusk, Service Administration Manager - Reefer Sales & Service (Toronto) Inc.
Bob McKeracher, President, Mechanical Systems Remanufacturing
Ken Peel, Barrister and Soliciter
Randy Pocrnick, Vice-President & General Manager, Leasing Business Unit, Procor Limited
Jan Polley, General Manager, Trillium Rail-way
Mary Proc, Vice-President, Customer Service and Human Resources, GO Transit
Susan Sherman, Vice-President, URS Cor-poration
Bill Thompson, Regional Sales Manager, Canada, Timken Canada L.P.
Tom Twigge-Molecey, Construction Manager-Canadian Pacific
Your Committees 2011Communications & Advertising - Mary Proc, Brian Kirk, Dennis RyanMembership & Attendance - Remi Landry, Greg Percy, Mary Proc, James Allen, Ken Peel, Jan Polley, Tom Twigge MoleceySuppliers - Daniel Jagos, Chuck Best, Bob McKeracher, Randy Pocrnick, Brian Kirk, Alan Lusk, Bill Thompson, Susan ShermanLuncheons - Bernie Maskerine, Susan Sherman, Mary Proc, Thomas Budd, Ken Peel, Tom Twigge MoleceyValentine’s Dance - Mary Proc, Dennis Ryan, Thomas Budd, Orest Kobylansky, Dan Jagos, Jan PolleyAnnual Dinner - Dennis Ryan, Bernie Maskerine, Remi Landry, Thomas Budd, Mary Proc, James Allen, Ken Peel, Jan PolleyAnnual Dinner Entertainment - Randy PocrnickGolf Tournament - Dennis Ryan, Bob McKeracher, Dan Jagos, Alan Lusk, Remi Landry, Bernie Maskerine, Brian Kirk, Orest Kobylansky, Chuck Best, Bill Thompson, James Allen, Tom Twigge Molecey
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Finance & Review Committee - Brian Kirk, Bob McKeracher, Dennis Ryan, Greg Percy, Remi LandryPosition Review Committee - Greg Percy, Remi Landry, Bernie MaskerineMeet & Greet (Fall Social) - Orest Koby-lansky, Bill Thompson, Dan Jagos, Christo-pher Jones, Mary Proc, Dennis RyanExecutive Committee - Greg Percy, Remi Landry, Bernie Maskerine, Brian Kirk, Dennis Ryan
CP announCeS FirSt Quar-ter reSultSCompared to the first quarter of 2010, Canadian Pacific Railway said total revenues of $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 2011 were essentially flat. Operating expenses were $1.1 billion, an increase of $94 million. Operating income was $109.2 million, down $97.4 million from the first quarter of 2010. Net income was $33.7 million, down $67.3 million from a year earlier. The company said average fuel price was $3.12 US per U.S. gallon, an increase of 28 per cent.Fred Green, President and CEO said, “The first quarter was an extremely difficult winter with weather-related outages significantly constraining our capacity and our service to customers. Demand is strong and we have additional resources coming online to meet our customer’s growth.”Canadian Pacific press release April 21, 2011
Cn FirSt Quarter HiGH-liGHtSCN said revenues in the first quarter of 2011 increased by six per cent to $2,084 million and carloadings were up three per cent. CN’s operating income increased seven per cent to $645 million and net income of $668 mil-lionwas up 31 per cent over the first quarter last year. First quarter 2011 results included an after-tax gain of $254 million from a rail-line sale to Metrolinx, a Toronto area transit agency.Claude Mongeau, President and CEO said, “Despite a very challenging winter, CN pro-duced a solid first quarter performance thanks to further gradual improvements in the North American and global economies and a well-executed winter operating plan. Looking for-ward, CN anticipates a strong demand from most business segments for the balance of the year.”CN press release April 26, 2011
Long-time member of the Canadian Railway Club and Treasurer for the past 17 years, Don Cuming, passed away April 23, due to com-plications from open-heart surgery. A New Brunswick native, Don joined CP Rail in Saint John in 1957 and later worked in CP’s purchasing department in Montreal. He was Manager of Admin-istration in the Purchasing Department when he retired from CP in 1993. Don will be remembered by his many friends in the Canadian and Toronto Railway Clubs.
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GO TRANSIT ELECTRIFICATION STUDYPrécis of remarks by Karen Pitre, Project Director Electrification Study, Metrolinx, at the Toronto Railway Club luncheon meeting, Fontana Gardens, March 24.
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Karen began by saying the electric ques-tion had been studied on several occa-sions in the past with no business case or environmental case found at the time. The benefits didn’t outweigh the need to expand and maintain the system.What’s different now, she said, is that a multi-disciplinary Community Advisory Committee was established in 2009 and a comprehensive Terms of Reference was developed.In January 2010 a one year, intensive $4 million study was initiated.The study was based on MP40 locomo-tives and ten bi-level coaches with 489 train trips per day (a 250% increase over today plus 140 air rail shuttle trips per day).The findings determined that electric locomotives are the most cost effective compared to the diesel option and that electrifying the entire length of corridors would be the best course as infrastructure costs the most.On the environmental and health side, it was found that a fully electrified system reduces total greenhouse gas emissions in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area by 0.32%.Noise reduction was relatively small - only 3 decibels difference (89 dB for diesel locomotive vs. 86 dB for electric).The total capital cost of electrifying the entire GO network was estimated at $4.2 billion.
Due to faster acceleration and decelera-tion with electric locomotives, average time saving per passenger trip was between 2.4 and 2.8 minutes.The electrification study concluded that there were transportation benefits related to reliability and speed, marginal health benefits plus small economic, environ-mental, social and community benefitsThe study recommended proceeding with electrification of the Lakeshore and Georgetown corridors initially. The two major challenges identified were: build-ing infrastructure in an operating rail corridor and the potential negative visual impacts of building overhead catenaries, substations and autotransformers.
President Remi Landry thanks Karen Pitre following her presentation to close to 200 members and guests at the luncheon.
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