Ottawa Citizen - 3 January 1957 - ALL QUIET IN OTTAWA - Tied up in the CPR's Ottawa West yards, these steam locomotives represent trains that normally radiate in all directions from Canada's capital. Now they remain silent on a side track for the duration of the strike. Visible evidence of the strike in the Ottawa Union Station is the sign, shown on the right, that says "All Canadian Pacific train's CANCELLED."
 
Ottawa Citizen - 3 January 1957 - ALL QUIET AT SMITHS FALLS - The scene above in the front of the passenger station at the Smiths Falls CPR depot Normally lined with taxis at the time the picture was taken an hour and a half after the strike deadline, the area was free of all but one car. CPR police stood guard inside the lighted waiting room. On the right, the huge sprawling marshalling yards behind the station are a strangely quiet scene In this normally busy divisional point. Ordinarily the yards see over 50 passenger trains a day along with the same number of freights and 20 yard engines. Smiths Falls provides work for 1,800 CPR employes, all of whom are out of jobs except the express and telegraph staffs. Photo by Fred Gorman.
 
Ottawa Citizen - 5 January 1957 - MAY PERMIT MOVING OF CPR FREIGHTS - Smiths Falls. Picket lines of locomotive firemen were expected to yield today long enough to permit the transfer of two freight cars in the strike-bound Canadian Pacific Railway yards here to a track of the Canadian National Railways, a half a mile away. The operation, probably unique in the three-day strike that has resulted in a nation-wide shut-down of the CPR, had the approval of the company and the railway union involved. On the two cars was a shipment of materials needed by Ontario Hydro at Cornwall which had been tied up here in transit from Toronto when the strike started on Wednesday. Included was a draft tube liner, in two sections of 11 tons each, which will be installed in a Cornwall powerhouse. STRIKER IN CREW. One of the striking firemen was to be in the cab of a yard engine which was to move the cars to an interchange track to be picked up by a CNR freight train. Also in the special crew would be an engineer, a foreman, and two yardmen. The CNR was scheduled to take the cars to Cornwall via Napanee tonight. Roy Allport, chairman of Local 391 of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers here, had charge of the movement on berhalf of the brotherhoods. Mr. Allport was permitted to cross firemen's picket lines Friday morning to discuss the arrangement with A.W. Harris, superintendent of the CPR Smiths Falls Division. NEED NOT URGENT. An Ontario Hydro official at Cornwall told The Citizen yesterday that the huge steel liner was not urgently needed but its arrival would be welcomed at the project where its installation was being awaited. Concreting and turbine-erecting crews at the site were not being held up by the delay in shipment of the liner at the present time, he said, but indicated any prolonged delay would interfere with work progress. He said the equipment had been ordered from English Electric at Toronto. Moving the heavy cylinder from Smiths Falls by trucks would involve serious hazards. A road would have to be built across the CPR yards here. It was considered possible that the trucks, once loaded and on their way by road, might encounter bridges that would not hold the load. The liner is nearly 14 feet high ands almost 24 feet at its widest. Accompanied by a photo with the following caption: There was a good possibility that striking railway union men would relent long enough today to permit this vital seaway equipment to be moved from Smiths Falls to the St. Lawrence. If this is done, the two cars shown would be the only CPR freight cars turning wheels in Canada. The 22-ton draft tube liner, in two sections, were destined for the Ontario Hydro powerhouse at Cornwall. CPR crews would move the cars a half-mile from Smiths Falls to CNR lines.
 
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