Canadian Gypsum Company

This category is to contain the railway assets of the Canadian Gypsum Company. See the page Gypsum Trains for more details and photographs of gypsum operations.

Canadian Gypsum was formed in 1924 from the J.B. King Company. Its Windsor area quarries operate as Fundy Gypsum. The company operated a small fleet of saddle tank locomotives. Two of these locomotives, Canadian Gypsum No. 5 and No. 7 were built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1926. They were purchased in early 1948 by the Huntsville and Lake of Bays Railway in Ontario in a deal arranged by railway equipment dealer Andrew Merrilees. Known as the "Portage Flyer", Nos. 5 & 7 operated until 1959.(1) Restored in 2000, the two former gypsum locomotives, now numbered Nos. 1 & 2, now operate in the Muskoka Pioneer village at Huntsville.(2)

No. 555 was reported by Colin Churcher as being sold to Fundy Gypsum in 1947. (3) No. 503 was sold to Canadian Gypsum at Windsor in March 1947.(4)

Gallery

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  Fundy Gypsum No. 640 at the Miller's Creek facility. 8-78

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  Fundy Gypsum 25 tonner No. 642 at Mantua in July 1994.

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  Fundy Gypsum 25 tonner No. 642 at Mantua in July 1994.

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  Fundy Gypsum 45 tonner No. 647 at Hantsport in July 1994.

References and Footnotes

• (1) Steven Duff, "The Wacky and Wonderful Portage Flyer", Classic Trains Fall 2010, page 41-43, courtesy Matthew Keoughan
• (2) The Portage Flyer, Muskoka Pioneer Village
• (2) Colin Churcher's Industrial Locomotive Roster, page 31.
• (3) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

External Links

Aerial view of Wentworth Creeks Mines.