He knocks 'em down and he gives 'em a whack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8_Ybbrn5A
RIP.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Met Eddie Shack a couple of times, got his autograph. A legend like Stompin' Tom. 2020 just keeps on rolling the hits.
Whooooo! Had me scared for a moment, I thought Ernest Borgnine was going to make an appearance!
I love it when a little Canadian content shows up, keeps things interesting.
Sorry for your loss boys. It's sad when we lose legends.
He looks distressingly like Stalin on ice as depicted on that lunchbox.
Overmod He looks distressingly like Stalin on ice as depicted on that lunchbox.
Jeez, you're right! I didn't notice.
I wonder if Stalin played hockey when he was a kid? Soccer maybe? Or maybe he was one of those weirdos who pulled wings off flies?
Space Time Clear the Track Here Comes Shack
Are those doghouses on the tops of those EMD's?
Same me, different spelling!
It's a Canadian thing... beer, coffee, doughnuts and bacon storage.
pennytrains Are those doghouses on the tops of those EMD's?
Winterization hatches. The locomotive version of sticking cardboard in front of your car's radiator.
The drawing is actually quite accurate, but I'm surprised the lead unit has ditchlights. The artist must have been going off a photo from the mountains, at the time the ditchlights were removable and were only used on CN west of Jasper, Alberta.
All Canadian modellers put winterization hatches on their F's, Geeps, FA's ... always got asked at NTrak meets ( Stateside) what they were.
Easy peasey add on
.......and yes Penny we are all friends here, good and respected friends so thanks for the sentiment and reminding us.
SD70DudeThe drawing is actually quite accurate...
Then we should get Dave Goding to explain the special truck details, particularly on the rear. I still haven't quite figured out how the wheels ride on the railhead, let alone storm through the mountains like the RCMP in polar winter conditions, but if you say so I'm all ears to learn how.
The whole thing has acquired an attractive slant, I think including those stripes which I don't remember as being so rakish. It is completely in keeping with the theme, though.
I had looked long and hard at those ditch lights, as they are much larger and, for want of a better word, can-like, than the usual approaches I'm familiar with on F units... some of which are just awful, like chipmunk faces. That isn't something a lunchbox artist would likely invent. I think you are correct about detachable lights... and this might make it possible to find an original photo from which the artist worked.
(I think he also had a 3D model of one for reference, but one of the small-scale plastic battery toy type -- that rear truck becomes suspiciously familiar 'prototype' if so...)
Incidentally thse little bunker-style boxes up top are not winterization hatches for REAL Canadian winter. THIS is more like it. I submit to you that SP in its heyday needed nothing more dramatic to conquer mountain weather!
Miningman All Canadian modellers put winterization hatches on their F's, Geeps, FA's ... always got asked at NTrak meets ( Stateside) what they were. Easy peasey add on
MILW's FP7A/F7B with Winterization Hatch:
Jones 3D Modeling Club https://www.youtube.com/Jones3DModelingClub
Overmod SD70Dude The drawing is actually quite accurate... Then we should get Dave Goding to explain the special truck details, particularly on the rear. I still haven't quite figured out how the wheels ride on the railhead, let alone storm through the mountains like the RCMP in polar winter conditions, but if you say so I'm all ears to learn how.
SD70Dude The drawing is actually quite accurate...
I'll lend him some artistic license, and the lower wheel rims appear to be hidden in shadow, so the sun must be high in the sky and behind us, or would it be spotlights in the arena in this case?
If you believe it is derailed, Eddie is racing the train for a loose puck and has laid a few of his trademark whacks on the lead unit. He'd better hope no one saw, or he might get way more than 2 minutes.....
Overmod The whole thing has acquired an attractive slant, I think including those stripes which I don't remember as being so rakish. It is completely in keeping with the theme, though.
The stripes look accurate enough to me, and he actually got the correct number of them. Though the forward porthole is not quite in the right place, it should be in the black, not the red.
https://railpictures.net/photo/319328/
Overmod I had looked long and hard at those ditch lights, as they are much larger and, for want of a better word, can-like, than the usual approaches I'm familiar with on F units... some of which are just awful, like chipmunk faces. That isn't something a lunchbox artist would likely invent. I think you are correct about detachable lights... and this might make it possible to find an original photo from which the artist worked. (I think he also had a 3D model of one for reference, but one of the small-scale plastic battery toy type -- that rear truck becomes suspiciously familiar 'prototype' if so...)
The big ditchlights look suspiciously similar to these, you'll probably recall this particular photo from our other thread on ditchlights a little while back. Maybe it was the shot the artist used, but he did mess up a bit on the locomotive number, CN's FP9's were all in the 6500 series.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cnr_diesel/6501.jpg
Overmod Incidentally thse little bunker-style boxes up top are not winterization hatches for REAL Canadian winter. THIS is more like it. I submit to you that SP in its heyday needed nothing more dramatic to conquer mountain weather!
You probably know this already, that is one of a limited number of units that were modified specifically for snowplow service in the southwestern Ontario 'snow belt'. Some GP9's and RS-18's also recieved similar snow shields, but the F7's are most famous for it.
Eddie Shack on Podcast
Pure Canadiana ... how do you get potatos out of the ground in Sudbury? .. you blast them out! That is correct. Should be a Jeopardy question/answer. Final Jeopardy!
Pic of Eddie looking like Stalin as Overmod pointed out.
MiningmanEddie Shack on Podcast Pure Canadiana ... how do you get potatos out of the ground in Sudbury? .. you blast them out! That is correct. Should be a Jeopardy question/answer. Final Jeopardy! Pic of Eddie looking like Stalin as Overmod pointed out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAazMwbkXl4&t=1h45m32s
Well it is said that everyone has a dopelganger somewhere in the world.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Young Stalin
Donuts....great little read, grab a donut and take a break reading it
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