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Saskatoon’s Electric Transit by Easton Wayman w dust jacket
Saskatoons Electric Transit by Easton Wayman
The story of Saskatoon's streetcards and trolley buses
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket REFLECTIONS from light on some photos
96 pages
Copyright 1988
CONTENTS
Contents 2
Acknowledgements 4
Foreword 5
1: Beginnings 6
2: The Early Years 10
1914 map: Saskatoon Municipal Railway 11
3: The Twenties 31
4: The Thirties 43
1929 Car Lines and Population Served 45
1936 map: Saskatoon Municipal Railway 51
5: The Forties 55
1946 Streetcar Routes 63
6: End of the Line 67
7: Reminiscing 69
8: The Trolley Coach Era 73
1971 Trolley Coach Overhead and Routes 74
Roster of Rolling Stock 78
Roster Notes 79
Fare Rates 80
Index 96
ABOUT THE BOOK
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was founded in 1882 by the Temperance Colonization Society. By 1911, its 12,000 citizens felt the need for an efficient transportation system. This is the story of the Saskatchewan Municipal Railway, from its inception on January 1, 1913 (when 5200 people rode the new mode of transport), to the final runs of streetcars on November 10, 1951, and of trolley buses on May 10, 1974. The SMR operated eight different types of streetcars during its 39 years of existence, acquired new and second-hand from such varied sources as St. Louis Car Co., Ottawa Car Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati Car Co., National Steel Car Co., Preston Car and Coach Co., and Southern Car Co.
You'll see 138 photos of the passenger cars, snowplows, line cars and rail grinders, as well as the trolley buses that came from Canadian Car & Foundry. There's a rare shot inside the shops, showing inspection pits and wheel-changing jacks. Seventeen photos are in full colour. The book's 96 pages include illustrations of tickets and transfers. A full roster of rolling stock, plus an index, are included.
There are trackage and route maps, to help you find the once-familiar routes. The key ones were known as "Mayfair-University", "Pleasant Hill-Exhibition", "7th Avenue-19th Street", and "Avenue H". Later came "Nutana", the short-lived "Haultain", and the long line to the village of "Sutherland", a railway community serving the CPR yards there.
You'll see snowbanks above the car roof-lines; bitter winter cold forcing motormen to rub salt on the driving window to clear a peep-hole; the notorious Long Hill, including photos of the spectacular 1922 derailment when car no. 4, brakes failing, jumped the track on the sharp curve, plunging down the river bank below. You'll hear reminiscences of armed robbery aboard the streetcar, how the electric cars pushed heavy horse-drawn coal sleighs across the Traffic Bridge, and other items recalled by contemporary employees.
You'll see various bridges, in surface and aerial photos, under construction and in use: Broadway Bridge (1932), 25th Street Bridge (whose 1916-installed streetcar tracks never ever saw streetcar service), and the venerable structure of which was said in 1914, "The Traffic Bridge will have to be replaced in the near future", but still stands today!
You'll see CPR's Saskatoon Station and its double-track main line, and many views of SMR cars crossing the trackage. There are photos of track-laying, asphalting of road surfaces, installation of trolley wire, illustrations of interiors of cars; motormen, conductors, shop and car-barn personnel; horse-drawn wagons; early motor vehicles (including the early SMR motorbuses.)
You'll be reminded of the time when motormen earned the grand sum of 28C per hour (1914) and car fares were 5cash, or six tickets for 25.
Pick up and enjoy "Saskatoon's Electric Transit", and relive Eastern Wayman's history of the Saskatoon Municipal Railway, its streetcars and its troll
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