Times Colonist from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada • 66

F6 TMEB-OQLONBT FfKy, Octob 7, 1904 mk 'I I G1 HmII EI Fire victims 'fW Official, abovo. omove body after arty-moming residential fire Thursday in Windsor, in fcfc jjM i which Cameron bin, 4, and his brother, David Venables, 3, died. At right, Easter Qilmore HQ kisses her son Ro'rt, 7, at Grand Rapids. Michigan, hospital, not long before his death. Easter, her daughter Shaw mda and Robert were in a fire that killed another child and one adult.

One of Canada's oldest locomotives, No. 29 Shopthe I SILVEH bVWBO I AVIOVtM0 coupon I (ftfMrtiUflMMM I survives blaze, likely to be history showpiece PIC A FLIC VIDEO 328 Cook 382-3338 By Tom McDougall The Canadian Press DJVNON Of CONTINUING STUDIES Management Seminars For Public and Non-Profit Sector It proves the skill factor of the men who work here," said Valerie Swanson, the Durango and Silverton's marketing co ordinator. At the Salem Hillsborough, the burned diescl locomotives are writeoffs The one that had been in operating condition was burned so badly its crankcase exploded, its side panels melted and its springs collapsed. Products of 1946 and 1950, the two diesels had no great historical value. But the business car with an open-air platform on the back was a major historical loss.

It was one of the few cars left in Canada with truss-rod construction tongue-and-groove plank walls held together by turn-buckle rods. "In terms of showing early railroad construction, it was a very significant piece of history," Bowes said. Fortunately, the railway's other operating diesel and all of its operating cars were outside and survived, along with a lot of museum pieces ranging from cabooses to a double-ended snowplow and a 1913 steam crane. The railway's other steam engine, No. 1009, barely survived with nothing but a burned steam hose.

They climbed into the cab and tried out the levers throttle, Johnson bar reversing control, brakes and others All worked They inspected the metal for sags and warps They found none. They refilled the evaporated oil in her wheel-bearing journals, replaced the heat-warped rails in front of her and earlier this week they towed her to a siding. She rolled along fine with no seized bearings. "It wasn't in the hottest part of the fire," Bowes said. "It should be OK." It can definitely be restored as a static display, he said, and it might run again.

Until the railway's board determines how or when to fix up No. 29, it will probably be sprayed with rust-preventing oil. There's a happy precedent for steam locomotives surviving bad fires. In 1989, fire engulfed the roundhouse of the Durango and Silverton narrow-gauge railroad in Durango, a similar operation to Salem Hillsborough but larger. All six of the Durango and Silverton's steam locomotives were inside, some of them severely damaged.

But a six-man crew fixed them all, one at a time. By April, the least damaged was running again. Old No. 29 is one sorry-looking steam loco motive since the big fire But she's not dead and neither are the nos talgic excursions of the historic Salem and Hillsborough Railroad in southeastern New Brunswick No. 29.

built for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1887, was one of Canada's oldest operating locomotives. But then the railway's yardhouse in Hillsborough, N.B., burned to the ground last month with No. 29 inside along with two diescl locomotives, a rare wooden business car, eight other cars and all of the railway's tools and spare parts. No. 29 is begrimed with sooty residue.

The wood trim in her cab is burned off and the massive timbers on her undercarriage are charcoal. Her paint is seared down to the bare metal. For a while, it looked like she might be a goner. But when Ed Bowes and another of the train buffs who run the Salem Hillsborough checked her out, they found good news. Accounting and Finance for Non-Financial Managers TuesdayWednesday, November 1 S16: 9 am to 4:30 pm Fee: $290 Seminar Leader: Richard Mimick, m.b.a.

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