Thank You.
Have to love the late-Fifties sci-fi B-movie introduction!
Interesting to compare this with the recent 'Not a Boring Competition' for rapid tunnelling methods...
NDGStreetcar Track Puller. When the end came for streetcars the rails were often left in place, and paved over. Other times they were extracted from streets and taken away for scrap. Many methods were devised to remove the rails. Here is one used in Verdun, Montreal utilizing a large Hydraulic Cylinder and a Internal Combustion power plant. http://montreal-history.com/sites/default/files/content/images/quiz_tramway.jpg Same location on Google. https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.4671697,-73.5666277,3a,75y,200.22h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqkJENqKR0x6nLqYiPBh96g!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DqkJENqKR0x6nLqYiPBh96g%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D194.48483%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 Thank You.
B&O in Baltimore had tracks laid in the middle of Pratt Street as well as Key Highway out of Locust Point Yard North to downtown and ultimately continuing East on Pratt Street. In the early 1970's it was not uncommon to see two B&O yard jobs working various customers on Pratt Street - the engine from Locust Point handled the water side customers, the other engine from Mt. Clare andled the land side customers. Service was stopped about 1976-77 when the Harbor Place redevelopment was started. At that time the rails stayed in the roadways.
One cold, rainy morning during rush hour, a rail broke out of the street on Pratt Street and speared a automobile, killing its unfortunate driver. After that it was a rush program to get the rails pulled out of Pratt Street. Tracks stayed in Key Highway until the middle 1980's when McCormick (the spice people) closed their Key Highway facility and moved to Hunt Valley in suburban Baltimore County; the Key Highway facility was actively switched until it was closed - then the rails were taken up.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
https://www.mtbr.com/media/1991-norco-bigfoot.1493649/
I liked the Biopace chain rings. Then again, I never 'split' with them... just stayed on one ring and twiddled the front derailleur a bit the relieve the 'scrooping' as I got to one edge of the rear cluster or the other...
Thank You, Sir!
I learned to drive a bike in Montreal and am not afraid of traffic.
Biggest fear are cars, and logging trucks w logs sticking out.
Many do not know Road Rules.
Street Car Tracks and Rain.
Did not know there was a term for that ' Crowding ' or what ever, went eight miles today, weather cool. Mr. Kat dozed, I think.
Usually drive Gears and Chain until teeth wear so much the chain skips when pedalling hard.
One day I was in traffic at speed and decided to use Left Turn Hand Signal to alert motorist On Block I was Turning Left.
Left Arm Horizontal out like Semaphore as per the Road Rules for Left Turn.
Lady approaching thought I ' Put the Board On' Her, Slammed on the Brakes and just by great luck averted a BIG Tail End crash in HER Lane.
By using a Bike calculate I have SAVED over $60,000 since I sold my Car.
Gasoline $1.99 C/Litre, Diesel $2.12 C/Litre. Don't know what it is @ Commercial Truck Card Locks.
Have NOT driven a Motor Vehicle for 3 1/2 Years.
Still have Air Ticket for Trucks, and for Motorcycle but banned from Driving at Night re vision.
Anyway.
Bears out, Lilacs bloomed this morning.
NDGToo Quiet. Riding around on my 4-8-2 Bike today Idly wondering why there have been FEW TRAINS for two days.. Then remembered this big mess East of the Divide about 170 miles to the East. https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/43-cp-rail-cars-carrying-potash-derail-east-of-fort-macleod-alta-1.5914463 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cp-rail-train-derailment-hwy-3-fort-macleod-alberta-rcmp-1.6462783
Should be a well fertilized roadbed for a short span.
The littlest Train Master?
The A1A GMD1s also had smaller wheels on their centre idler axles.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
NDG A Near Thing.
Worst part is that they probably bragged about it to their friends - after they changed their shorts...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Actually we had a large building that had painted white a large arrow with airport name also white and mileage 12-1/2 miles.
blue streak 1 Actually we had a large building that had painted white a large arrow with airport name also white and mileage 12-1/2 miles.
Unless you're that guy that painted "Welcome to [can't remember the place]" on his roof, except he lives no where near the city he put there...
NDGBridge Collapse @ Quebec? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/pierre-laporte-bridge-1.6490632 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laporte_Bridge https://d3e1m60ptf1oym.cloudfront.net/997e1c52-b902-40e4-b084-5f2e02c35356/18-08-13-1004_xgaplus.jpg Thank You.
Nothing lasts like bridges built to withstand the pounding of steam engines.
NDG O. T. For M M. Electric Trucks, Copper Mountain Mine. https://globalnews.ca/news/8913205/bc-mines-electrified-trucks-canadian-first/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtDEbCsBE0 https://new.abb.com/mining/reference-stories/open-pit-mining/trolley-assist-solution-to-meet-copper-mountain-mining-sustainable-development-goals-in-canada https://cumtn.com/operations/copper-mountain-mine/overview/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAiCiFD-Rjg Thank You.
Other mines used to do the same with electric locomotives, and some had portable catenary stands for track that was regularly moved around in the pits.
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/391146/
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/714233/
Edmonton's trolleybuses would climb the hills out of our river valley like they weren't even there. The GM diesel versions (6-71 Detroit with a 2-speed automatic, what a sound!) were slower but always made it, while some other designs were significantly underpowered and crawled or even stalled on occasion.
How have John Augustus Roebling's suspension bridges (Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, 1867; and the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883) lastd so long with no rusting issues? I believe his cables as I understand them are sealed in tar and wrapped with a painted cloth. No rust.
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