CalgaryÕs Electric Transit
Errata
Page 55 caption 4th line word should read semi-convertible.
Page 121 right column, paragraph 3, line 3 insert after Ò—Charles Comba on the latterÕs retirement in August 1946, --Ò
Page 124 left column, paragraph 5, line 4, 5 and 6 should
read: ÒIn the fall of that year, September 1949, R.H. Wray became
Transit Superintendent succeeding C.V.F. Weir who terminated in
August 1949.
Page 133 map inset top center 4th St. SE should read 4th St. SW.
Page 133 map the street extending below or south of 33rd Avenue SW in Altadore should be labelled 20th St. SW.
Page 156 caption 3rd line last word should read Pengrowth.
Page 166 left caption, last word should read 174.
Page 165 right caption should read: Below: On September 3rd 1981 --.
Page 163 caption 2nd line strike out words Òwas unique to that vehicle andÓ.
Page 162 right column, 3rd paragraph, line 9 should read Saturday May 30th.
Page 201 left caption, line 1 should read Above: Number 448 is on route 3 at 8th Avenue --.
In writing the Acknowledgements the significant contribution of John F. Bromley was inadvertently omitted. John is a Toronto author and photographer with a strong interest in rail transit. He is co-author of Fifty Years of Progressive Transit – A History of the Toronto Transit Commission and author of TTC Õ28 - The Electric Railway Services of the Toronto Transportation in 1928. His photographic byline appears in International and North American electric railway publications. He has assembled a fine collection of street railway colour and black and white photos and shared some of his Calgary subjects for the enlightenment and enjoyment of readers of CalgaryÕs Electric Transit.
His own photographs of early LRT operations in Calgary helped to clarify the application of striping across the ends of the original LRVs. Most Calgary LRVs went into service with ÒVÓ stripes at each end. At the time of printing we were aware of only one LRV on the roster with stripes running straight across the ends. Note the photo of LRV 2001 on page 163. John pointed out that the straight striping across the front of LRV 2001 was not unique to that vehicle. Indeed he has an in-service photo of LRV 2009 with straight striping across the front. His field notes, however, indicate that trailing end of the same vehicle on the occasion of that photograph featured ÒVÓ stripes. We have also learned that LRV 2002 carried straight stripes across its ends. A photo of a damaged LRV 2002 appeared in the Calgary Herald of June 1, 1981 illustrating the straight stripe. The text in the first paragraph on page 163 may account for LRV 2009 bearing straight stripes in John BromleyÕs photo.
Colin K. Hatcher and Tom Schwarzkopf
March 29, 2010.