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EVENTS Put these dates on your calendar!
Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2008
Since The Toronto Railway ClubThe Toronto Railway Club
1931
Other Events: CANADIAN RAILWAY CLUB -
In this issue...Golf Tournament PictorialNews BriefsAnnual Dinner UpdateOctober Luncheon Meet-ing Report
Monday, Jan. 26, 2009 Annual Meeting and election of officers, 5 pm at Union Station.
101st Annual Dinner Friday, February 6, 2009, Hotel Bonaven-ture, Montreal.
Info & tickets for Canadian Railway Club events: Jean Corbeil at 514-636-4269 or e-mail: [email protected]
Annual Valentine’s Dinner-DanceSaturday, February 14, 2009 Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
74th Annual DinnerFriday, December 5, 2008, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto. See details on page 4.
Annual Meeting
Annual Golf TournamentThe Club’s popular annual golf tournament took place at the beautiful Glen Eagle Club in Bolton on Friday, June 13 under ideal conditions - sunny skies and warm temperatures! The tournament had approximately 244 golfers teeing off in a 9 am shotgun start with great prizes up for grabs at many of the holes.
The tournament wrapped up with an excellent hot dinner of steak, chicken and schnitzel, followed by the awarding of golf prizes and a large assortment of raffle prizes. Toronto Railway Club President Susan Reid Tanaka (shown at left) welcomed the golfers and guests and thanked the members of the tournament organizing committee: Al Lusk, Bernie Maskerine, Christopher Jones, Dan Jagos, Bob McKeracher, James Allan, Paul Kerry, Brian Kirk, Ron Hogan, Dennis Ryan and Kirk McDonald. On behalf of the Club, Susan also thanked the many suppliers who generously donated an magnificent array of prizes. The prize donors are listed on page three. More photos next page!
The golf tournament raffle grand prize - a 32” LCD TV donated by Wabtec Corp. - was won by Ian Massi of GO Transit, shown above (centre) being congratulated by Chuck Best and Brian Hoath of Wabtec Corp.
Friday, June 19, 2009 Glen Eagle Golf Club, Bolton, Ontario
Annual Golf Tournament
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Golf Tournament Highlights continued
Trio of golfers who won the “Most Honest Team” prize are pictured with tour-nament committee member, Kirk McDonald.
Tournament Chairman Dennis Ryan pictured with one of the hole prizewinners.
Club First Vice-President Paul Kerry with trio of prizewinners.
Susan Reid Tanaka and prizewinner Judy Cavanaugh
Susan Reed Tanaka presents prizes to the winning foursome of James D. Allan, David Allan, Scott Allan and Jon Drohan. The team had a score of 16 under par.
Prizewinner and Club Second Vice-President Greg Percy.
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Thanks to tournament volunteers Don and Chrisia Brownlee, Bernard Rivest and Leslie McKenzie. Missing from the photo are Lucie Jabour, and Carrielynne Kruty.
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Hydra-Nor InternationalIEC Holden Inc.Impact Cleaning ServicesJarislowsky FraserJaychris Indus-Rail SupplyKnorr BrakeLondon Rail ServiceMass Electric Construction Co.Mechanical Systems RemanufacturingMichael Walker AdvertisingMotor Coils Mfg.National Steel Car Ltd.Oil Well SupplyOntario Southland Railway Inc.Ottawa Central RailwayOutdoor OpportunitiesPBD Sales AgencyPGM Rail ServicesPNR RailworksPortec RailPrinciple Access Security SolutionsProcor
Rail America-Goderich Exeter RailwayRail America-Ottawa Valley RailwayRail America-Southern Ontario RailwayRail CareRail TermReefer SalesRonsco SupplySafetranSherwood ElectromotionSimplex GrinnellSNC Lavalin ProFacStandard Car TruckTimken Canada LimitedToronto Terminals RailwayTrinity Rail GroupUMA EngineeringVAE NortrakVeolia TransportationVIA RailWABTEC CorporationWestcodeWhiting
PRIZE DONORS A special thanks to all our industry friends who made our golf tournament a success through their gracious generosity!
Club Secretary Dennis Ryan and Past President, Barry Bahm.
Prizewinner Elaine Logan and Paul Kerry Susan Reid Tanaka presents another prize.
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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 equipment and supplies used therewith for the benefits of the members and the companies they represent.
Editorial Committee:
Susan Reed Tanaka President Dennis Ryan Secretary Kirk McDonald Treasurer
Editor/Publisher: John Glatzmayer E-mail: [email protected]
Address correspondance to:Kirk McDonald, Toronto Railway Club,P.O. Box 114, Union Station, 65 Front St. West Toronto, ON M5J 1E6E-mail: [email protected]
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74th ANNUAL DINNER
Friday, December 5, 2008, Canadian Room, Fairmont Royal York Hotel.
Entertainment: Mike MacDon-ald, one of the top funny men in Canada.
Dinner Chairman, Paul Kerry, Area Manager Busi-ness Development, CP.
Guest speaker, Rob MacIsaac, Chairman, Metrolinx.
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N E W S B R I E F SA roundup of news highlights in Canada’s railway industry.
WEST TORONTO DIAMOND
CPR APPOINTMENTKathryn McQuade has been named Execu-tive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. She joined CP as Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Of-ficer in 2007. Prior to that she had held the position of Executive Vice-President - Planning and Chief Information Officer at Norfolk Southern Corp.CP Press Release September 4, 2008
CN THIRD QUARTER RESULTS EXCEED EXPECTA-TIONSCN reported its third quarter operating results October 21 announcing a gain in revenues of 12% to $2,257 million, a 10% operating income gain to $844 million, and a 14% net income gain to$552 million (all figures in Canadian funds). The company’s operating ratio rose by six-tenths of one point to to 62.6%.
The results for the third quarters of 2008 and 2007 were affected by by deferred income tax adjustments. The company said it managed to offset most of the 60% rise in diesel prices year over year during the quarter with higher fuel surcharges, improved pricing and stronger commodity volumes, but also by aggressively trim-ming whatever fat it could find in its own operations.
E. Hunter Harrison, President & Chief Executive Officer said, “I am extremely pleased with our results. Operational execution during the quarter was outstand-ing, with notable gains in network fluidity, productivity and asset utilization, while we enjoyed good revenue growth across most commodity groups.”
CP THIRD QUARTER RESULTSCanadian Pacific reported net income of $173 million for the third quarter, down from $219 million in 2007 while total rev-enues rose seven per cent to $1.26 billion from $1.19 billion a year ago. Operating expenses were $962 million for the quarter, up from $866 million a year earlier, with the price of fuel the single largest driver contributing to the increase in expenses.The company said freight revenues rose 8% in the third quarter on continued pric-ing strength, inclusive of fuel recoveries. Industrial and consumer products revenues were up 24%, with automotive and inter-modal revenues increasing 16 and 11 per cent respectively. For the first nine months of 2008, total revenues were up 3% to $3.6 billion, in-come decreased 7% to $453 million from $488 million a year earlier and operating expenses were up 8% to $2.9 million.
CN Press Release October 21, 2008
CP Press Release October 28, 2008
CP ASSUMES CONTROL OF DM&ECanadian Pacific Railway announced Oc-tober 30 it had assumed control of Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, an ac-quisition CP made last fall. Fred Green, President and CEO said, “The DM&E’s speed to market, operational efficiency and organic growth reinforces our confi-dence in the strength and potency of this acquisition.” He added, “given the year-to-date performance and our current outlook we are anticipating it will surpass our esti-mate of 15 to 17 cents contribution to our 2008 earnings per share.”
CP news release, Oct. 30, 2008
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Précis of presentation by Canadian Pacific Railway duo Paul Kerry, Area Manager Business Development, and Domenic Bonaldo Project Manager, Engineering Services, at the Toronto Railway Club luncheon meeting at Fontana Gardens in Concord, October 30, 2008.
Building CP’s Rail Access to Toyota’s New Woodstock Assembly Plant.
Using a Powerpoint presentation Paul Kerry and Domenic Bonaldo showed the planning, approval and construction phases of CP’s five kilometre rail access line into Toyota’s new assembly plant near Woodstock.
In his introduction, Paul said that CP Real Estate acquired 70 acres of land for the rail line and started work on the environmental assessment in late 2005.
“The sensitivity of the conservation lands and the Thames River presented the big-gest challenges,” he said. It was CP’s com-mitment to the conservation authority to minimize the disruption of the conservation area. The approval process went very well and in early 2007, CP had all the approvals in place to start construction.
To cross the Pittock Reservoir, Paul said that
October 30th Luncheon Meeting:
(Top photo) Susan Reed Tanaka presents gifts to Paul Kerry (left) and Domenic Bonaldo (centre). (Above) Paul and Domenic display framed pictures of the Toyota Rail Access Project.
TOYOTA ASSEMBLY PLANT
Thames River
Pittock Reservoir
Aerial view of the CP Galt subdivision, City of Woodstock, showing the Toyota plant location, the Thames River and the Pittock Reservoir which the rail line had to cross.
Two 42 meter long steel girders were assembled at the sight and posi-tioned by cranes on the concrete piers. Domenic pointed out that this was the fourth bridge built at this location in the past 100 years.
CP was able to use an old rail corridor that had been the CP mainline until the 1960s when the mainline was relocated to accom-modate the Pittock Reservoir.
“Using this corridor,” he said was a key feature of the CP route design to lessen our environmental impact.”
At this point Domenic took over to show highlights of the construction phase.
One of those highlights Domenic pointed out, was the fact that more than 10,000 square meters of fish habitat were created in the reservoir. “The compensation ratio was pretty close to 2:1 ratio, welcome news for the DFO biologists,” he said.
The rail line access project was completed in September 2008 and trains started mov-ing over the new line in late October.
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