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NEWSNEWSNEWSVolume 30 Number 3, Fall, 2011

Since 1931

COMING EVENTS Put these dates on

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In this issue...

49th Annual Golf Tournament ................... 1 - 3

President’s Profile ............. 4

Meet & Greet event ........... 5

May Luncheon................. 6

News Briefs ..................... 7

Annual Meeting & Election of OfficersMonday, Jan. 23, 2012, 5 pm, Toronto Terminals Railway, Suite 1400, 50 Bay St., Toronto, ON

77th Annual DinnerFriday, December 2, 2011, 7 pm sharp at the Canadian Room, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto. Watch for flyer and ticket order forms in the mail in October!

For news and updates on events, check our website:

www.torontorailwayclub.com

MAILING ADDRESS:Toronto Railway Club200 Bay St., P.O. Box 64039Toronto, ON M5J 2J0

49th Annual Golf Tournament

Valentine’s Dinner-Dance & CasinoSaturday, February 11, 2012, Imperial Room, Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto.

The Club’s 49th annual golf tournament, took place Friday, June 18 at the Glen Eagle Golf Club in Bolton. The day began with a 7 am breakfast sponsored again this year by Mechanical Systems Remanufacturing. At 9 am, 260 golfers teed off in a shotgun start under beautiful, sunny skies.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. Throughout the dinner, tickets were drawn for a huge array of prizes, generously donated by the railway companies and their suppliers.In a short address, Club President, Remi Landry welcomed members and guests and thanked the golf committee, chaired by Dennis Ryan, for their efforts in organizing another successful event. Golf committee members were: Bob McKeracher, Dan Jagos, Remi Landry, Bernie Maskerine, Brian Kirk, Orest Kobylansky, Alan Lusk, Chuck Best, Bill Thompson, James Allen and Tom Twigge Molecey. Remi also thanked the railways and the sup-pliers for providing an outstanding array of prizes. Donors are listed on page 2.

The grand prize raffle draw for a 40” LCD flat panel TV donated by Mechanical Systems Remanufacturing, was won by Mark Lediard of Wabco in Stoney Creek. See photos on pages 2 and 3.

President’s foursome (L-R): Sean MacMillan, GO Transit, Remi Landry, President, Matt Hol-land, GO Transit. Absent: Adam Burns, TTR.

Past President’s foursome (L-R): Bob Young, Bombardier Transportation, Greg Percy, Past Presi-dent, Craig Haswell, Bombardier Transportation and Al Robinson, Genivar.

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Golf Tournament continued...

A Big Thanks to volunteers (L-R): Barb Stock, Diane Sirois, Paula Harper, Lucie Jabour and Bernard Rivest.

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PRIZE DONORS A BIG thank you to all our industry friends who made our golf tournament a success through their support and sponsorship!

National Steel Car Ltd.OERHAOntario Southland RailwayOutdoor OpportunitiesOWSPandrol Canada LimitedPapazian-Heisey-MyersPGM RailPlan GroupPortec RailPrincipal AccessProcor Ltd.Rail America (GEXR)Rail America (OVR)Rail TechRail TermReefer Sales

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PLATINUM SPONSORS: Mechanical Systems Remanufacturing, PNR RailworksGOLD SPONSORS: Glen Eagle Golf Course & Pro Shop, VIA Rail Canada

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The raffle grand prize - a 40” LCD TV donated by Mechanical Systems Remanufacturing was won by Mark Lediard of Wabco (left).

(Above left): Shawn Maillot of PNR presents locomotive painting to Phil Herbeson with Remi Landry looking on; (centre) smiling Cliff Languay poses with his raffle prize and at right, Remi Landry presents Jason Becket, Phil Kelly and Brent Anderson with packs of golf balls.

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And the golf prizewinners were...

Putter prizewinner Paula Harper.

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 equip-ment and supplies used therewith for the benefits of the members and the companies they represent.

Editorial Committee:

Remi Landry President Dennis Ryan Secretary/Treasurer Mary Proc Director

Editor/Publisher: John Glatzmayer E-mail: [email protected]

Address correspondance to:Dennis Ryan, Toronto Railway Club,200 Bay Street, P.O. Box 64039, Toronto, ON M5J 2J0E-mail: [email protected]

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Prizes presented by Toronto Railway Club President, Remi Landry.

Second winning foursome P. Gagne, R. Bounsall, D. Pipe and B. Mellon (one was absent) each received a golf bag from Remi Landry (second from left).

Winner of a new putter Rose Azzopardi (centre).

(Above left): Remi and Shawn with putter prizewinner Jason Becket, Elaine Logan with raffle prize and prizewinner Joe Sabino, Sherwood Electromotion (centre far right).

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Remi Landry with winning foursome - drivers - Andre Dagenais, Mario Peloquin, Doug Weather-bee and Orest Kobylansky.

Remi and ladies’ foursome winners - Rose Azzopardi, Elaine Logan, Pia Zonni, Roxanne Kowal with Shawn Maillot of PNR.

Putter prizewinner Angela Ian-nuzziello with Remi and Shawn.

Second putter prizewinner Nick Violin is flanked by Remi and Shawn.

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PROFILE…Remi Landry, P.Eng.President, Toronto Railway Club

A New Brunswick native, Remi grew up in Grande Anse, a small town on Chaleur Bay be-tween Bathurst and Caraquet, NB. He attended the University of Moncton where he obtained a Civil Engineering degree.

Following his graduation in 2004, Remi joined CN Rail in Montreal as an Engineer-ing Supervisor working on a variety of projects. Later during that same year Remi was relocated to Toronto where he kept working across Eastern Canada in their Engi-neering Department as well as gaining experience in the Transportation Department.Remi left CN at the end of 2007 and subsequently spent a few months with the MMM Group – Marshall Macklin Monahan, a major Canadian engineering and project management firm. In March 2008, he joined The Toronto Terminals Railway Company Limited (TTR) as Manager of Rail Operations. In June 2009, he was pro-moted to Assistant Director of Operations, and in March 2011, was promoted again to Director of Operations.April this year was an especially big month for Remi! He married his fiancée, Cyn-thia at a beach resort in Cuba, and in the same month joined GO Transit as Chief of Rail Operations. Remi and his wife Cynthia reside in Toronto. In his spare time, Remi is an avid golfer and during his youth and at university, played a lot of hockey up to and including AAA level.As President this year, Remi has continued the work of his predecessors to modernize the Club and bring it up to new business and social levels.“While membership has been stable for the past few years,” he said, “we need to keep working hard at promoting events and activities to maintain and grow our membership. The Toronto Railway Club is an excellent opportunity for networking and for keeping abreast of new processes and technologies impacting the railway industry.”

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(Photo right): Toronto Railway Club President Remi Landry (centre) with George Huggins (left) and James “Bud” Hymas, both from Toronto Terminals Railway.

ANNUAL MEET & GREET EVENT The Toronto Railway Club’s second annual meet and greet event was held Thursday September 29th at the Steam Whistle Brewery in the historic locomotive roundhouse behind the CN Tower. It was close to a sell-out with over 300 in attendance. Steam Whistle staff served up barbequed burgers, chicken and excel-lent salads which was followed by draws for door prizes. The event was chaired by Orest Kobylansky of TTC. Our thanks to the sponsors listed below who supported this event with a wonderful array of prizes.

Winner of Leafs tickets Rich Wolfs-gruber (centre) Bombardier.

Ken Black and Bruce Wilson, VIA Rail(L-R): Felix Munoz-Garcia, GO Transit, Dave Pipe, Michelle Chilakos, Robbie Robinson, Melissa Veljovic and Rocco Colangelo, all from Bom-bardier Transportation.

Winner of VIA Rail tickets Ted Bailey (centre).

Winner of Bills NFL tickets Richard Wong, TTC (centre).

Andrew McDonald of CN (centre) winner of VIA Rail tickets.

Winner of a pair of NHL hockey tickets Bob Harford, GO (centre).

iPad draw winner Andy Bertolo of TTC (centre).

Val Chapman (centre) winner of Steam Whistle six-pack.

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A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR 2011 MEET & GREET SPONSORS!

GOLD: Bombardier Transportation, PNR Railworks,Wow Brand Products

SILVER: Hallcon Corp., VIA Rail Canada, SNC Lavalin, Interfleet Technology, Mechanical Systems Remanufac-turing, MHard Enterprises Inc., Eastway Inc., The Toronto Railway Club.

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MAY LUNCHEON MEETING

(Left) guest speaker at the May 5th luncheon meeting Chuck Donohue, Executive Director, Facilities Management Division, City of Toronto, gave members and guests a very informative Powerpoint presentation on the progress of the Union Station revamping. Some photos are reproduced below.Chuck pointed out that twice as many passengers annually use Union compared to Pearson airport and that GO Transit passenger numbers, currently 43 million, will double over the next 20 years. In addition to GO, 20 million TTC subway pas-sengers and 2.4 million VIA passengers use Union every year.Expansion beneath Union will enable the GO concourse to expand from the current 30,000 sq. ft. to 110,000 sq. ft. while commercial real estate space will grow from 35,000 sq. ft. to a proposed 153,000 sq. ft.

(Top photo): shows how the track level is being supported by temporary columns during construction of the new transit concourse and pedestrian retail level underneath the station.(Middle photo): artist’s conception of the new GO Transit glass atrium train shed.(Photo right): guest speaker Chuck Donohue is thanked by the Toronto Railway Club’s First Vice-President Bernie Maskerine following Chuck’s presentation.

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N E W S B R I E F SA roundup of news highlights in Canada’s railway industry

GO PRESIDENT GARY McNEIL NAMED 2011 TRANSPORTATION PERSON OF THE YEAROn September 14, GO Transit President, Gary McNeil was named the 2011 Transportation Person of the Year by the Transport Association of Canada (TAC) as part of its 2011 Canadian Transportation Awards Program, which is support-ed by Transport Canada to recognize leadership, excellence and achievement in all transportation modes.The Person of the Year Award is presented annually to an individual who has assumed a leadership role contributing to the improvement or advancement of Canada’s transportation industry. TAC recognized McNeil for contributing to GO Transit’s ridership growth and rider satisfaction.

“I am honoured to accept this award,” says Gary McNeil, “It is a testament to GO Transit’s incredible and hard working employees who are dedicated to ensuring our customers get to where they need to be – and safely. I am proud to be a part of GO Transit and am proud to receive such prestigious recognition for the organization.”

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