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Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2009
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Put these dates on
your calendar!
75th Annual Dinner
Friday, December 4, 2009,
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
See details on page 4.
Annual Meeting
Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Annual Meeting and election of officers,
5 pm at Union Station.
Annual Valentine’s
Dinner-Dance
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
Annual Golf Outing
Friday, June 18, 2010
Glen Eagle Golf Club, Bolton, Ontario
Other Events:
CANADIAN RAILWAY CLUB 102nd Annual Dinner
Friday, February 5, 2010, Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal.
Annual Golf Tournament
It all began Friday, June 19 at Glen
Eagle Golf Club in Bolton with a 7 am
breakfast sponsored by Mechanical
Systems Manufacturing. At 9 am, 238
golfers teed off in a shotgun start under
a planned warm and sunny day.
Lunch was sponsored by the Glen Eagle
Golf Club. At 4:30 pm golfers gathered
in the dining room for an excellent hot
dinner of steak, schnitzel and chicken.
A huge array of prizes, generously
donated by the railway industry, were
drawn by Dennis Ryan, Golf Chairman,
throughout the dinner.
In a short address, Club President, Paul
Kerry welcomed members and guests
and thanked the golf organizing committee for another successful event.
Committee members were: Dennis
Ryan, Bob McKeracher, Dan Jagos,
Remi Landry, Bernie Maskerine,
Kirk McDonald, Ron Hogan, Brian
Kirk, Orest Kobylansky, Alan Lusk
and Alan Wilson. Paul also thanked the
suppliers for providing an outstanding
array of prizes. Donors are listed on
page 3.
In addition, Mechanical Systems ReKerry, President, Toronto Railway Club, welcomes
manufacturing donated a 32” LCD flat Paul
members and guests. More photos on the next two pages!
panel TV as our main raffle prize.
Info & tickets for Canadian Railway Club events:
Jean Corbeil at 514-636-4269 or e-mail:
jean-corbeil@videotron.ca
In this issue...
Annual Golf
Tournament
President’s Profile
75th Annual Dinner
Update
News Briefs
Baseline Construction foursome: Ken Henderson, George Atikian, Duncan Pringle and Vince Benedetto.
And the tournament prizewinners were...
Low net winner Dave Wilfong is congratulated
by Dennis Ryan, Golf Chairman.
The winning team L-R: Dave Sutton, K&K Recycling Inc., Tim Martin, VIA Rail, President,
Paul Kerry, Larry Quinlan, CN and Kevin Morgan, K&K Recycling Inc.
Paul Kerry, golf bag winner Joanne Williamson
and Susan Sherman.
Second place team: John Hirnyj, Lonnie Little, Judy Cavanaugh, Dan Murphy and prize
presenter, Paul Kerry.
Paul Kerry presents prize while Susan Sherman looks on.
Most Honest Golfers Award went to the foursome of Sam Santarsia, Pat Hegarty, Barb
Stock and Stan Yee. Club Second Vice-President Susan Sherman is at centre
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Paul Kerry, Roxanne Kowal and Susan Sherman
Winner of the 32” LCD TV Susan Reed Tanaka
poses with prize donor Bob McKeracher, Mechanical Systems Remanufacturing.
Paul Kerry congratulates winner Ka Lam
Leung.
Golf bag winner is congratulated by Susan
Sherman.
Susan Sherman poses with prize winner Frank
Lafarciola.
2009 Golf Tournament Volunteers (L-R) Ron Hogan, Leslie McKenzie, Kirk McDonald, Brian
Kirk, Lucie Jabour, Bernard Rivest and Carrielynne Kruty, HMM.
PRIZE DONORS
A BIG thank you to all our industry friends who made our golf
tournament a success through their gracious generosity!
Albrecht Inc.
Baseline Construction
Bombardier
CANAC
Canadian Pacific Railway
Cdn. Association of Railway Suppliers
Cando Contracting
Dan Maher
Davanac Inc.
Detroit River Tunnel Patnership
Donohue Railroad Equipment
Expressway
Fasken Martineau (Dumoulin)
First Union Rail
Giffels Associates Ltd.
Glen Eagle Golf Course
Glen Eagle Golf Course - Pro Shop
Hallcon Corporation
Hatch Mott MacDonald
Hydra-Nor International
Impact Cleaning Services
JayChris Indus-Rail Supply
Knorr Brake
Koni Dampers
Mass Electric Construction Co.
McCabe Promotions
Mechanical Systems Remanufacturing
North American Equipment Sales
Oil Well Supply
Outdoor Opportunities
Pacific Northern Rail Contractors
PGM Rail Services
Portec Rail
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Principle Access Security Solutions
Rail America-Goderich Exeter Railway
Rail Term
Reefer Sales
Ronsco Inc.
Sherwood Electromotion
SNC Lavalin ProFac
Strongco Equipment
Timken Canada Limited
Toronto Terminals Railway
Trinity Rail Group
VAE Nortrak
VIA Rail
WABTEC Corporation
Westcode
Whiting Equipment
Toronto Railway Club News
Profile…
Paul Kerry
President, Toronto
Railway Club
Meet our new President for 2009 - Paul Kerry, Area Manager Business Development, Canadian Pacific Railway. He takes over the reins from Susan Reed Tanaka,
Manager of Engineering, Toronto Transit Commission.
Born in Uxbridge, Ontario, Paul grew up on the family farm just north of CP’s
Dagmar Station located between Uxbridge and Port Perry. He attended the
University of Waterloo, graduating in 1985 with a degree in Civil Engineering.
Following graduation he joined CPR’s research department at the Montreal
head office.
In 1991, Paul moved to Toronto to join CP’s Business Development Group where
he participated in a variety of assignments including network and facilities capacity planning, network rationalization - line abandonment and shortline sales,
long-tem strategic planning and industrial development where he was closely
involved in the Toyota Woodstock private siding railway construction project. Paul
has held the post of Area Manager Business Development since 2003.
Paul is married to Nancy and they have two children, Emily, 13, and Robert 11
and they reside in Mississauga. Paul enjoys the great outdoors and one of his
favourite pasttimes is boating and fishing. He has been a member of the Toronto
Railway Club since the early nineties when he moved to Toronto and a member
of the executive since 2004.
Published by the Toronto Railway Club
for its members
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 equipment
and supplies used therewith for the benefits of the
members and the companies they represent.
Editorial Committee:
Paul Kerry
Dennis Ryan
Kirk McDonald
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Editor/Publisher: John Glatzmayer
E-mail: jglatzmayer@cogeco.ca
Address correspondance to:
Kirk McDonald, Toronto Railway Club,
P.O. Box 114, Union Station,
65 Front St. West, Suite 414,
Toronto, ON M5J 1E6
E-mail: kirk.mcdonald@ttrly.com
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As President this year, Paul’s number one priority has been planning and preparing for the celebration of the Club’s 75th Annual Dinner on December 4th.
•TRACKMOBILE®
“Our goal,” he said, “is to make the dinner especially worthy of the important
event it signifies - our seventy-fifth consecutive annual dinner! To mark the occasion, the Club is publishing an 80-page commemorative book authored by
Railway Age contributing editor Greg Gormick. For more details, or to participate
as a sponsor, see the article on page six.”
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Call Kirk McDonald at 416-864-3440 ext.223
DEPRESSED GLOBAL ECONOMY IMPACTS CN, CP SECOND
QUARTER RESULTS
vehicles arriving in 2011. Final assembly
will be carried out at the Bombardier production facilities in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
CN reported a 15 per cent decline in revenues
to $1,781 million for the quarter ending
June 30, 2009. Carloads declined 22 per
cent and revenue ton-miles 14 per cent with
weakness in almost all market segments,
the company said. Net income dropped $72
million to $387 million in the quarter and
included a deferred income tax recovery of
$28 million.
Canadian Pacific Railway announced a
second quarter net income of $157 million,
up 2 per cent over the same quarter of 2008
due to a gain of $69 million on the sale of
CP’s interest in the Detroit River Tunnel
Partnership. Total revenues for the quarter
were $1.0 billion, down 21 per cent while
operating expenses were down 23 per cent
to $797 million. For the first half of 2009,
net income was $220 million, down 10 per
cent and total revenues fell 17 per cent to
$1.7 billion.
TRC TO PUBLISH COMMEMORATIVE BOOK IN CONJUNCTION
WITH ITS 75TH ANNUAL DINNER
CN Press Release July 20, 2009 and
Canadian Pacific Press Release July 30, 2009
CN and Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corp. announced an agreement
May 15 to acquire locomotives and passenger cars to re-equip the Agawa Tour Train
that runs north of The Sault into spectacular
Canadian Shield country. CN, which operates the train, is acquiring three locomotives,
eight coaches, two café/lounge cars, three
club cars and a presentation coach from Ansco Investment Company. The new equipment will enter service during the current
tour season and the $10 million fleet renewal
will be jointly funded by CN and the Ontario
government’s Northern Ontario Heritage
Fund Corporation.
BOMBARDIER TO SUPPLY 204
STREETCARS TO THE CITY OF
TORONTO
Bombardier Transportation announced June
30 that it had signed a contract with the Toronto Transit Commission for the supply of
204 low-floor streetcars to replace the City
of Toronto’s aging fleet. The contract is valued at approximately $851 million. Deliveries are scheduled to take place between
2012 and 2018, with the first prototype
Bombardier News Release, June 30, 2009
The Toronto Railway Club has hired Railway
Age contributing editor, Greg Gormick, to
compile a special 80-page publication to
commemorate its Seventy-Fifth Annual Dinner to be held at the Fairmont Royal York on
December 4, 2009.
The club is also seeking corporate sponsors
to help defer some of the costs of the project.
Anyone interested in participating in this
special commemorative edition is asked to
contact Kirk McDonald, Treasurer, at 416864-3440, ext. 223.
CN AND SAULT STE. MARIE TO
BUY NEW EQUIPMENT FOR
AGAWA CANYON TOUR TRAIN
CN News Release, May 15, 2009
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LUNCHEON MEETINGS
March Luncheon
Thursday, March 26, 2009, Fontana
Gardens, Concord.
May Luncheon
Thursday, May 7, 2009, Fontana
Gardens, Concord.
World leader in providing high
quality freight car and locomotive
products to the railroad industry.
1570 Ampere, Suite 504, Boucherville, QC J4B 7L4
Tel.: 450-641-7870 or 1-800-387-5311
Fax: (450) 641-0827
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Guest speaker, Greg Gormick, Contributing
Editor, Railway Age spoke about “The Rail
Advantage: Taking the Message to the Street.”
Following is a précis of his address.
“In short, our railways and rail transit systems
are doing well in virtually every area except
one: communications.
It’s my personal belief that, with few exceptions, the industry is doing a poor job.
My friend and colleague, Paul Thurston, now
retired from CP after a career of more than 30
years, feels the decline of rail communications
occurred when freight and passenger were separated in the late 1970s.
There are three key audiences who need to hear
your message: public, media, government. Politicians respond chiefly on the basis of votes;
they tend to not show interest in anything that
doesn’t connect to voters. Voters get much of
their information from the media. And there’s
your formula: connect with the public through
the media to get political approval. It means you
have to be equally good at public, media and
government relations.
Although I disagreed with much of what Paul
Tellier did during his presidency of CN, there
was one thing in which I was in complete agreement. Shortly after he took the helm, I interviewed him for Railway Age. He told me that,
as a newcomer to the industry, he was shocked
at how backward the railways were in their public, media and government relations. He said,
“This shall change at CN” – and it did.
The result was that CN thrust itself into the public eye through advertising, public events and
speeches by its executives.
In the late 1960s, CP produced a series of imaginative television commercials that highlighted various aspects of the company’s activities.
It questioned the old phrase, “If you build the
better mousetrap, the world will beat a pathway
to your door.” The CP commercial made the
point that you had to do more than just build the
better mousetrap – you had to build your own
pathway.
The time has come to build that pathway by telling the public, the media and the politicians just
what you have to offer.
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Guest speaker, Mary Proc, Vice-President, Customer Services, GO Transit talked about the
new customer service focus at GO.
Using a Powerpoint presentation, Mary began
with some numbers on GO’s current ridership,
55 million passengers per year. The transit system’s goal, she said, was to triple the number of
passengers by the year 2020.
GO’s aim was to be the preferred choice for
inter-regional travel. It currently drives 85 per
cent of its revenue from the farebox, she said.
Mary described GO Transit’s new customer
service focus with improved communications
at stations and customer service representatives
on most trains.
Making an analogy with Westjet Airlines which
she described as an organization that cares
about its customers, she said GO plans to be
a leader in customer service. One of the ways
they would do this would be by surveying GO
customers annually instead of every five years
to get feedback.
Improvements to service and on-time performance were largely dependant on reducing traffic
bottlenecks on rail lines and GO, she said, was
continuing to work closely with the freight railways to eliminate conflicts in train movements.
She also spoke about service improvements
such as increased capacity with longer trains
and longer platforms at many of the GO stations.
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Tel. 905 673 5733 Fax: 905 673 7354
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JAYCHRIS Indus-Rail Supply Inc.
P.O. Box 250, Longueuil, Québec J4K 1Z1
Tel.: Montreal (450) 923-4292 Toronto (905) 943-7465
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271 Hanlan Road
Woodbridge, ON L4L 3R7
Tel: (905) 851-6671
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FOR INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS
189 Old Weston Rd.
Toronto, Ont. M6N 3A5
(416) 656-1333
Fax: (416) 656-6461
Portec Rail Products Ltd.,
172 Brunswick Blvd.,
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Canada H9R 5P9
Ph. 514-695-8500
Fax 514-695-8110
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DAVANAC INC.
1936 St-Régis, Dorval, QC H9P 1H6
Tel.: (514) 421-0177 Fax: (514) 421-0188
7519-C - 30th St. S.E., Calgary, AB T2C 1V4
Tel: (403) 236-7227 Fax: (403) 236-7229
visit our website: www.davanac.com
Standard Car Truck Company
Head Office
325 Lee Avenue,
Baie d'Urfé, Québec H9X 3S3
Tel.: (514) 457-4760 Fax: (514) 457-7111
E-mail: 103067.722@Compuserve.com
Custom designer & manufacturer of various
products catered to the railway industry.
Including
- Fibreglass gear cases
-Onboard waste treatment systems
- Composite floor & interior panels
(plymetal)
Save Time and Money
With NARSTCO Steel Ties
Call Matt Violin at 972-809-6955
www.narstco.com
THE TIMKEN COMPANY
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.
Canton, OH 44706, U.S.A.
Suppliers of railcar suspension
systems and brake shoes.
Serving the rail industry for 105 years.
Now supplying all Canadian customers
direct.
Canadian Office: (514) 428-0312 Fax: (514) 428-0338
Compliments of
Phone: (847) 692-6050 Fax: (847) 692-6050
The
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Manager of Union Station,
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6910 34th Street, Edmonton, AB T6B 2X2
Tel: (780) 413-4281 Fax: (780) 413-4283
Usine: 8250 Rue Bombardier, Anjou, QC H1J 1A4
Tel: (514) 351-1350 Fax: (514) 355-7837
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6 Abel Court, Dundas, Ontario, L9H 7M4
(905) 628-9997 • Fax: (905) 628-9923
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125 Judson Street
Toronto, ON, Canada M8Z 1A4
Phone (416) 253-3700
Fax: (416) 253-3729
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