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the acton free prett wednesday august 7 1968 electric railway museum in n unique tourist attraction for ar jo tar rkm4t hook a ride on the unique trackmoblle the ontario electrical railway historical association uses to pull the electrical street cars at its nassagaweya location driver is secretary bill watson the trackmoblle cn ride either on the rails or on the road merely by switching wheels i staff photo owiv ttoy so far on the first quarter mile of track laid down in the outdoor electric railway museum is comfort station the o e r h a expect to erect a facsimile of an old station on the guelph line staff photo rr are already installed ready to supply power to run the electric railway system staff photo the oldtorontosuturbanrall- wav will come to ufa anln on a mile and a half atrip of track in maaaagawejratownsmp between the fonrtb una and the guelph una members of the mi blectrlcal rauwa htatoiical asaoclalloa have bean working ml a protect i thai area atnce 1993 to recreate an era when the electric railway was one of the mad important instruments in urban anfiuburban development after tnuph toll by 100 members of the association the project is now at thi point where completion a expected in another year visualise a strip of track one end a half miles lone li old fashioned street cars and trolleys running on it from a station built on the guelph une below so slderoed a quarter nule of the track is already completed aloof with a hufe steel car barn which houses several old street ears power will be supplied front three huge transformers and a large generating unit purloined from the old oahaw street rail way all the labor on the project nee been dona by the members themselves working mostly on sundays fortunately they have a number of electrical engineers who were able to install the complex generator and trans formers overhead wires will be installed in september on a una of poles partially in now when the tracks are completed and refurbishing of old cars completed the entire system should be ready to go into operation moat of cor members are from torooto aald secretary bill watson and they come from every walk of life clerks engineers some railwayman and a sprinkling of almost au arlo occupation the association is rlcal beld together by a common bond a deaire to preserve the electric railway era for generations who would never have a chance to participate in it impetus waa given the form ation of the oerha in 1953 when the impending destruction of two notable examples of the straetcarbuluera art one of them he last operable wooden trolley car in use in toronto was being planned rt was built in 1910 the other was a double- end fourwheeler from the dim past the torontoclvic railway the oerha was launched when be two old street cars were acquired both are now in the nassagaweya car barns the nassagaweya property was chosen as the site for the as sociations museum since a half mils of the former toronto suburban railway ran through it the old radical une fanned out from toronto basslne through streetsvtlle george town acton edeo mills and ended in guelph the property which had lain derelict atnce 10s5 had reverted to nassagaweya township for non payment of taxes the original four acres has been extended by the acquisition of an additional 12 acres of land simultaneously the association has been building up a large exhibit of streetcar relics in the barns now are an interurban car from montreal part express and part coach embellished with stained glass clerestory windows and exotia wood panelling from several of the electric rallwaya in southern ontario have como pieces of work equip ment onceuaed for maintenance cat restoration and building coflitrucllonhsve kept the mem- berr of the association busy over the past 10 years and rtow ii looks like the project la nearlng the operating stages excitement is inereas j were only here on sundays and theres been a tremendous amount of work done in ihe past few years the secretary said one of the members john mills has written a book entitled niagara st catharines and toronto railway which tells the etory of the eleeirlerell- ways in ontario his book des- criberamonf other things the old toronto radial line which old residents here remember well we feel we will be adding a unique tourist attraction to the township ur watson said when we gel the une rolling visitors are welcome to the site of the antique railway system on sundays members are al ways ready to ah ow people around and explain the dream thats be ginning to shape up as a realisation theres no charge treasurer nell meconten saidany donations received go back into the pot for development of the unique museum tracks for thi iiectric railway museum bend through a inafy bower in the shady nassagaweya woods theyre laid on the original roadbed of the old toronto suburban railway qono to seed since 1935 staff photo stcmtary bill watson stands alongside the huge genera tors members of the ontario electric railway historical associ ation look apart in oshawa shipped and reassembled in a cement block bulldina on the guelph line staff photo rouino stock of old trolleys and street cars is moved back into the large barn where the historical display includos the last operable wooden trolley car in use in toronto staff photo former toronto transit commission crane car cl is moved through acton on it way to the ontario electric railway historical associations nassagaweya museum oerha photo arthur a johnson od omomitiiit open tvery wednesday and saturday 34 mill st i acton 53asao 24 hour towing service tires and batteries service and repairs gasoline and oil richs bp service on hwy 7 at 5th line of fujuealnej renny and dick voskamp 8532940 poison ivy poison ivy is scattered widely cross the province aad thrives particularly well on sandy solu if you have poison ivy around your farm do not try to burn it because this releases the poison into the smoke which could set tle on your aun and 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