OBITUARY A. ANDREW MERRILEES 1919-1979
43 years today, Andrew Merrilees, the founder of one of the great Junction Railroad companies, which until a few years ago sat at 189 Old Weston Rd died on this date, on December 3, 1979. who was probably Canada’s leading railway historian.
He began 1946, Andrew Merrilees Ltd., a company which bought and sold used railway equipment.
Two of the companies reclamation projects the Hull Electric Railway (1947) and the 1949-1950 removal and marketing of the tracks of the North Yonge Railways. The reporting marks on the companies freight cars were AAMX.
