Castonguay Train Blues: Paul Simon - Train in the distance

lundi 11 avril 2011

Paul Simon - Train in the distance

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Baggage car traffic : illustrating customs and necessary rules and regulations of the baggage department and the parcel traffic of railroads in this country and in Europe by , Marshall Monroe Kirkman, (1842-1921) Published in 1878
British railways; their organisation, and management by Hugh Munro Ross Published in 1904
Canada Southern Railway by Canada Southern Railway Company Published in 1882
Canada and the Grand Trunk, 1829-1924 : the genesis of railway construction in British America and the story of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada from its inception to its acquisition by Canada. by Henry Almon Lovett, (1866-1944) Published in 1924
Chemins de fer dans la province de Québec par Edmund James Flynn 1847-1927 Publié en 1897
Collection of receipts by Intercolonial Railway (Canada). Traffic Dept Published in 1880
Confessions of a railroad signalman by James Octavius Fagan, b. 1859 Published in 1908
French railways by Robert Alfred Hardcastle Collier, 3rd Baron of Monkswell (1875-1964) Published 1911
Grand Trunk Railway system time tables railways and steamships by Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada Published in 1920
Historical memoir of the Western railroad by George Bliss, (1793-1873) Published in 1863
History of the express companies: and the origin of American railroads. Together with some reminiscences of the latter days of the mail coach and baggage wagon business in the United States by Alexander Lovett Stimson, (1816-1906) Published in1858
Intercolonial Railway of Canada : the great Canadian route to the Lower St. Lawrence and the Atlantic seaboard by Matthews-Northrup Company Published in 1885
Jubilee memorial of the railway system. A history of the Stockton and Darlington railway and a record of its results by Jeans, James Stephen, b. 1846 Published in 1875
Letters and recollections of John Murray Forbes; by John Murray Forbes (1813-1898), Mrs Sarah Hughes Forbes, Published in 1899
Life and labours of Thomas Brassey, 1805-1870 by Sir Arthur Helps, (1813-1875) Published in 1888
Northern railway of Canada and Great rail & lake connections by Northern Railway Company of Canada Published in1878
Personal recollections of English engineers, and of the introduction of the railway system into the United Kingdom Published in 1868
Poor's manual of railroads, 1885
Railway adventures and anecdotes: extending over more than fifty years by Richard Pike, Published in 1884
Railway rates and radical rule : being a series of practical questions vitally affecting the interests of traders and agriculturists throughout the country, and suggested to them for consideration, as electors byJohn Buckingham Pope, Published in 1884
Railway traffic maps : prepared for the course in inter-state commerce by William Arthur Shelton, b. 1878 Published in 1912
Railway train and station service. Describing the organization and manner of operating trains, and the duties of train and station officials by Marshall Monroe Kirkman, (1842-1921) Published in 1884
Railways in the United States in 1902. A twenty-two-year review of railway operations; a forty-year review of changes in freight tariffs; a fifteen-year review of federal railway regulation; a twelve-year review of state railway regulation; and a twelve-year review of state railway taxation by the United States. Interstate Commerce Commission Published 1903
Rapport au sujet de l'affaire Duncan MacDonald entrepreneur de la section ouest du chemin Q.M.O.&O. et le gouvernement de la province de Quebec by Shanly, Walter Published in 1879
Réseau du chemin de fer Grand Tronc du Canada : route de l'international limited. La Seule voie double pour Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Cobalt, Niagara Falls, Montreal, Portland, Boston, New York Published in 1911
Street and electric railways, 1902 .. by United States. Bureau of the Census Published in 1905
The British steam railway locomotive, 1825-1925 by Ahrons, Ernest Leopold, 1866-1926, Published in 1927
The Canadian railway problem by Emerson Bristol Biggar, b. 1853 Published 1917
The Scottish railway strike, 1891: a history and criticism by James Mavor (1854-1925) Published in 1891
The life of George Stephenson, railway engineer by Samue Smiles(1812-1904) & Robert Stephenson, (1803-1859) Published in 1858
The railroad builders : a chronicle of the welding of the States by John Moody (1868-1958) Published in [1919]
The railroads of the United States; their history and statistics comprising the progress and present condition of the various lines with their earnings and expenses. To which are added a synopsis of the railroad laws of the United States, and an article on the comparative merits of iron and steel rails by Henry Martyn Flint, (1829-1868) Published in 1868
The railway conquest of the world by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot, b. 1880 Published in 1911
The railways of Great Britain by Robert Alfred Hardcastle Collier, 3rd Baron of Monkswell (1875-1964) Published in 1914
The railways of Scotland: their present position. With a glance at their past and a forecast of their future by William Mitchell Acworth (1850-1925) Published in 1890
The ways of our railways by Charles Herbert Grinling, Published 1905
The world on wheels and other sketches by Benjamin Franklin Taylor, (1819-1887) Published in1874
Through routes for Chicago's steam railroads : the best means for attaining popular and comfortable travel for Chicago and suburbs by George Ellsworth Hooker, b. 1861 Published in 1914
Track, a complete manual of maintenance of way, according to the latest and best practice of leading American railroads by William Barclay Parsons (1859-1932) Published in 1886
Traffic glossary by Ralph Edgar Riley, 1879; La Salle Extension University Published in 1917
Wonders and curiosities of the railway, or, Stories of the locomotive in every land by William Sloane Kennedy, (1850-1929) Published in 1884

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Raison d'être du blog :

Trois frères de mon grand père Antoine Castonguay (nés à Glen-Nevis en Ontario) ont travaillé à Dalhousie Mills au Québec, pour l'entretien des trains, au service des usagers, à l'aiguillage et pour l'entretien des voies ferrées pour la Canadian Pacific Railway Company :

- Pierre Castonguay (en souvenir duquel j'ai été nommé)
- Alexandre Castonguay
- Willie Castonguay

La tradition s'est poursuivie dans ma famille puisque Richard Delay mon beau frère, l'époux de ma soeur Ginette Castonguay, a travaillé pour la Canadian Pacific Railway Company pendant de nombreuses années à Montréal.

C'est en l'honneur de ces hommes des trains que je maintiens ce blog.

C'est aussi en l'honneur de mon père Bernard Castonguay, qui durant toute son enfance, a passé ses étés à Glen Nevis en Ontario chez les Lacombes de la Consession 9 et les Castonguay du hameau de Glen Nevis, tout près de la vieille église Saint Margaret of Scotland avec son cimetière paroissial où son inhumés mes grands parents. À cette époque il écoutait le chanteur Jimmie Rodgers (1897 – 1933), fils d'Aaron Rodgers, un contremaître sur le « Mobile et Ohio » chemin de fer aux USA. Jimmie fut le chantre des voies ferrées et un des fondateurs du style western (l'ancêtre du country). Vous pouvez d'ailleurs entendre un de ses grands succès « Waiting for a Train » datant de 1928 sur cette page. Sans s'en rendre compte, mon père, à travers la musique de Rodgers que l'on surnommait "The Singing Brakeman", m'a appris à aimer la musique de trains. Lorsque j'entends le sifflement du train à l'aube lorsqu'il dévale la voie ferrée à Laval, j'ai toujours cette belle nostalgie de la maison victorienne que nous habitions l'été, Rang St-Patrick entre St-Télesphore et Dalhousie Mills à la campagne dans le comté de Vaudreuil-Soulanges. Un tronçon de rang avec son école de village, sa petite église protestante et son cimetière. Je repense aussi à la grande église de St-Télesphore aux bancs de bois inconfortables et cette inauguration mentionnée dans l'édition du 6 juin 1895 du Progrès de Valleyfield dans laquelle on apprend que monseigneur Fabre, l'évêque du diocèse, s’est rendu le 28 mai 1895 à Saint-Télesphore pour procéder à la consécration de l’église paroissiale dont la construction venait d’être achevée. C'est dans le cimetière adjacent qu'est inhumée Tante Rollande Lacombe et son époux Fernand Giroux. Tante Rollande faisait du journalisme dans le journal local et confectionnait la meilleure confiture de catherinettes de la région. Pour en revenir à Monseigneur Fabre en 1895, il a aussi profité de cette occasion pour se rendre dans chaque rang de la paroisse pour bénir les croix de chemin. Dans le rang St-Georges, il est même passé sous l’arbre croche, cet arbre qui était assez exceptionnel et qui, semble t-il, avait la particularité de former une sorte de viaduc au-dessus du chemin de la Côte St-Georges. On mentionne qu’un homme sans chapeau pouvait passer en dessous et qu’une charrette pouvait aisément y passer.

Voici Alexandre Castonguay, le frère de mon grand papa, sur la voie ferrée de Dalhousie Mills :