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M Wed April 9 1975 Ready to roll in 1976 Ml IAIO by Gordon Murray The Credit Valley Railway will live again thanks to the efforts of the Ontario Rail Association Beginning In 1976 the Rail Association will be running weekend excursion trips from Georgetown to Cheltenham and both the locomotives and coaches used on the seven mile railway will be of the vintage variety The Ontario Rail Association came into existence In the spring of and since that time Its members have and refurbished three locomotives and over a dozen passenger cars There arc around members of he Rail Association and cording to Don Wilson one the directors they come from all walks life The Roll Association got off the ground in when they purchased a steam locomotive formerly belonging to Canadian Pacific Railway from Neil McNish a Toronto lawyer who was storing the locomotive In a shed in Bolton The steam locomotive No was built In 1883 and ran both In New Brunswick and Ontario before Its retirement In i960 This locomotive was taken to Milton where Rail Association members began working on at Sherwood Humes Next the Rail Association acquired another locomotive which was almost completely rebuilt and even steamed up This locomotive number had also ended Its career In I960 From there the Association began passenger cars and bought them from both Canadian Notional and Canadian Pacific They also bought a business car complete with bedrooms Tcmoglmi from Ontario Northland and have fixed up this stately old car to vintage condition Most of the other cars have also been refurbished to look as they did in the early 190 With the trains all rebuilt and ready to go the Rail Association began to run excursion trips around Ontario and also look for a permanent home for their trains They received per mission to use seven miles of unused rack between Georgetown and Cheltenham They will run trains on the weekends on that line All or the cars to be used on the Credit Valley Railway are named after spots along the line like Georgetown Terra Cotta and Glen Williams The name Credit Valley Railway was chosen because of the location of the tracks and as a means of preserving the name of an old rail firm which was eventually ab sorbed by Canadian Pacific