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Category:Canadian Gypsum
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. Typically the small private gypsum company locomotives operated in quarries around Windsor and at the marine loading docks in Hantsport to shunt gypsum cars on company spurs and sidings for loading and unloading. DAR locomotives took the gypsum cars from the quarries to Hantsport.
Steam
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 0-4-0 saddle tank steam 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] Canadian gypsum would also sometimes buy older DAR locomotives for quarry work. No. 555, a 4-6-0, was reported by Colin Churcher as being sold to Fundy Gypsum in 1947.[3] Another 4-6-0 No. 503 was sold to Canadian Gypsum at Windsor in March 1947.[4]
Gallery
Canadian Gypsum Company locomotive No. 6, early in its career.
Canadian Gypsum Company locomotives No. 6 and 7, unknown date.
Canadian Gypsum Company locomotive No. 3, circa 1935.
Canadian Gypsum Company locomotive No. 5, circa 1935.
Diesel
After WW II, Canadian Gypsum's operations in Windsor and Hantsport went under the name of Fundy Gypsum. In later years the company operated small 25 industrial diesel locomotives at Mantua and Hantsport. These included General Electric 25 tonners, Nos. 640, 641 and 642 (originally Canadian Gypsum 9, 10 and 11) and General Electric 45 tonners Nos. 646 and 647 (originally Canadian Gypsum 14 and US Gypsum 10).[5]
Gallery
Canadian Gypsum Company diesel locomotive working within the mine area, circa 1947.
Canadian Gypsum Company diesel locomotive working within the mine area, circa 1947.
Canadian Gypsum Company diesel locomotive shunting CPR gypsum gondola cars.
Fundy Gypsum No. 640 at the Miller's Creek facility at Mantua, August 1978.
Fundy Gypsum 25 tonner No. 642 at Mantua in July 1994.
Fundy Gypsum 25 tonner No. 642 at Mantua in July 1994.
Fundy Gypsum 45 tonner No. 647 at Hantsport in July 1994.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Steven Duff, "The Wacky and Wonderful Portage Flyer", Classic Trains Fall 2010, page 41-43, courtesy Matthew Keoughan
- ↑ The Portage Flyer, Muskoka Pioneer Village
- ↑ Colin Churcher's Industrial Locomotive Roster, page 31.
- ↑ Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- ↑ Earl Roberts and David Stremes, Canadian Trackside Guide, Bytown Railway Society, p. 2-26
