January-February 1958

DIESELS  CHALK  UP  RECORD

 

Aristocrats of the rails are these three Canadian Pacific Railway diesel units, the first in Canadian railroading to have travelled over 1,000,000 miles each, or the equivalent of two round trips to the moon plus two trips around the world at the Equator. These units, shown pulling the "Frontenac" out of Windsor Station for Quebec City, have been in service since 1952, mainly on trans-continental runs in which they have hauled all types of trains, including freight and the crack transcontinental streamliner "The Canadian". Except for routine overhauls and maintenance inspections, they have been in continuous operation since they began working nearly six years ago.

Company Orders New White Empress

 

The Empress of Canada - Date? Photographer?

The Company announced recently that a contract has been signed with Vickers Armstrongs for construction of a new 27,500-ton "White Empress" liner to cost approximately $23 million. She will sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Montreal in the spring of 1961. This new liner, largest in the Canadian Pacific fleet, will carry 200 first-class and 875 tourist passengers, and will also be specially constructed for winter cruise service. The ship will be fully air conditioned. Contract negotiations were entered into by Canadian Pacific and Vickers Armstrongs last July and since then appreciable work on hull design has been carried out at Vickers ship-model experiment tank at St. Albans, Herts. The new liner will be built at the naval yard Walker-on-Tyne with machinery to be built at Barrow-in-Furness. The name of the new "Empress" has not yet been chosen.

The Empress of Canada - Date? Artist?

RMS Empress of Canada was an ocean liner launched in 1960 and completed the following year by Vickers-Armstrongs of Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd. This ship, the third CP vessel to be named Empress of Canada, regularly traversed the transatlantic route between Liverpool and Canada for the next decade. Although Canadian Pacific Railway was incorporated in Canada, the Atlantic (and pre-war Pacific) liners were owned and operated by the British registered subsidiary Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd. and were always British flagged and manned - Wikipedia.
 

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