iawmre risy tuies wuf $a3ce on tht Csmadian PctcRatwav ecks - lbvýpoic - - f dcos- cmTxz- aocks xý etnro-n w ere uea$y bit 6v the szn--,sid lnspe rJoc--, Se T smy ùuk soh -;o=kd - The th -mma - f "w danger &dei rteinet b ou w inents on the Cana4iauà eaf i 170,t wa fuumte- hecas e cif -h w--bw msm a, n tc T ci tc th ol th et ri 1-1 I by I3RIAN WINTER, on that spot in October 1869, Staf WrterPrince Arthur, the third son Staff riterof Quieen Victoria, turned the The otorsts ho hd to sod for the 'Nip and Tuck." ~The mon Hig hy to Sir John A. MaïcDonald the ;ted nsday b let1 atn Prime Minister was there, as Weesd upteoldt CNraCPn wel 1as Canada's Governor- prc ue the obabynot PRGeneral LEaron Lisgar and iware that this train was Otros Letnn naking history.- Governor, John Howland., The train, consisting of a 1'hey ail were treated to a liesel engine, a couple of lunch at Trafalgar Castie Ireîht crs nd 'wo <now the ladies' college) !abooses, was thw last train atrtecrmnb ,o run on the "Nîp and Sheriff Nelson G. Reynolds, ruck", a railway which once a director of the new* bonnected Lindsay and Port -raîlway. >erry with Whitby. On the day of the last ride, The tracks from Lindsay however,, the area of that o 'th CPR Une at Yhitby cerernony of 109 years ago vere removed in 1941, but was deserted. he remaining portion of the The train pulled to a stop M lie toWhIty Habor on the south side of Dundas oniud n se as Ia prb Stret, earBeaver Luruber, ontnudl inus rs atu and the officiais neor t upy idstis t disembarked for the 'tWbitbYh.wdnigo rernoval of the first spike lighway 401 this sumfmer, rmtelspoinof-h we Town of Whitby saw a 01<1 "Nip and Tuek." bance te remnove thw old -Ajacnt to the site of the ~eeÛ -years by oely two o<dbric1staion OwPort raizns a d<y Whitby and Port Perry ~ ~ llailway. as the "Nip and :) th1e remnoval of the tracks Tuek" was called officially. rd th use of an interchange The station was built in ine in Oshawa for the 1870, and was the scene of idustries whie-h stifl rque many a reception for ail trafric. and the Town of visiting dignitaries in the 67 hi f v snà Aà lml im19d 1 thcenturv. Lord Dfffprin convert the old railway right-of-way imb parkland and greenheIt. Whtby's hiýstory.-minded [iirector of Developmnent, Forbes -Doc'* McEwen decided that such an occasion could not pass by withoeit appropriate notice, so hie arranged for a' cerernonial -iast train" to take afinalride on the-'Nip and Tuck- from Victoria Street to 1i2unasStreet. About 30 dignitaries îinduding town council and staff, CNR officiaIs and 1 decenmtsof 1kw original dirctos o te -Nip and Tck-boarded thecerernoei- ial train soeth of VicWhra Street and tock* their pae in thw two cabog£kes- A signonothelast caboKrý, red --Trm-Tp andTs last run. leSboh fe 11: trjain -Wth akvbim-thtte trackad inorý tAtgu f orthe t i h w1Rd beeve 1fr à train M oul cm - ciom<ay lime. and Lord Aberdeen, 'both Governors-General of Canada were received by officiai delegations from the town there in 1874 and 1898. The site now lies deserteci, the,,station having been denoliahed in 1970. The last great ceremony at tbis historie site took place close to noon last- Wednesday, as a selected group.of dîgnitaries pulled out' the first spike for the removal of th1e tracks. Mayor Jim Ga.rtshore represented th1e Town of .Whitby and Ray Williams, Vice-President of the Great L..akes Region, represented the Canadian National Railway. Three descendents of officiais 0f the original &&Nip and Tuck" also took part in the spike rezmova1 cerem~ony. These incîuded John Dr Z-Ien, z. 4 . ner Beeve of Whitby Township, who is a Port Whitby and Port Perry flailway). With Nir- Dryden was David Mtudge, of St. Lawrence Street, Whitby a Cout'd on P. 2 SANTA CIM~ TO BE -K