Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper viewing our 3 simulators.
My classroom
Entrance to the Geology Lab...my main hangout outside of the classroom.
Well I'm a bit clumsy at this yet, using Imgur.
You can sort of get the flavour. That is the PreCambrian Lab where we store our core and have a complete "library" of important core samples throughout the North Of Saskatchewan. We have special ventilation and shielding to handle the many radioactive core boxes. Great place and open daily for the public.
My students moved about 100 boxes of core, U, Au, and Massive Sulphides to the event tents.
That's our CEO with a Federal Minister of Western Development ( obviously full fledged members of the Illuminate, but he really is a great guy), cutting a "chain" because a ribbon won't do for a Mining School. Faux anyway as it was plastic!
Once I was required to make these photos "public" on the internet in order to post in the forum I started getting loads of comments from people who must sit on that Imgur site just ready to pounce! Fascinating to say the least.
Have many more but do not want to bore everyone to tears.
Our new place, however, Rocks!
NDG CN 9000 F3. Manual Transition.
9000 is still around today, still has manual transistion, 24RL brakes and a 567B (rebuilt to BC) engine. Still runs like a champ. In operation on this year's opening weekend at the Alberta Railway Museum:
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/617523/
Fireman is looking back to watch for photographers who like to roam the track like ants when we are open. More 9000 shots at the Museum, with FP9 6514, which has since been repainted to 1950s passenger colours:
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/334216/
With operational ten-wheeler 1392:
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/446012/
With F9B 6614 (also since repainted) in the background:
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/336408/
And wearing the stripes & noodle when still in freight service, note clip-on ditchlights:
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/366453/
And great shots too Miningman, keep them coming!
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Test...Ok it worked!...Loading core samples from our PreCambrian Lab to haul over to the event.
This will take a while ...please don't despair!
Right. Ok ..well seems I have a project...needs to be done anyway
Thank you very much RME.
Think we talked about this before but the process was not clear and time may have been a factor. If I'm marking a pile of papers things tend to slip.
Miningman... suggest exactly the steps I need to do to get this resolved.
The pictures have to have their own Internet URLs ("Universal Resource Locators") and the tools on the forum link to your pictures on the Web just as they do when you paste images you find from other sites.
However, if you're not running your own Web server or similar tool, your pictures only have filenames and reside in local storage. You have to fix this by posting them to "the Internet".
There are many 'free' photo hosting services. Join one, and then upload the pictures you want to link to the forum to the account you set up. You can then open one of these pictures, copy the address that shows in the browser for it (which is the URL referenced above), paste it into the window in the "image" button tool above the window you type posts into, and confirm. You should see a representative image appear at the point you're typing.
I think the people that are right-clicking and pasting images on this forum are doing so from a hosting site, not their own computers. But I would be fascinated to see that Kalmbach is supporting inline files.
Got the great blizzard of '88 again.
I have many pictures of the big 2 days of events here at the school and received more from our marketing department today. I have them on my iPad in "Photos" and in an email from marketing.
Cannot "copy and paste" to this forum.
If you would like to see the pics private message me and I will forward them by email to any email address.
..or, suggest exactly the steps I need to do to get this resolved.
Brick pavers between and alongside the rails were a fairly common practice. In some cities, the rails were just paved over some time after abandonment or bus conversion. It resulted in a higher crown on the street.
In the meantime, here is. Hamilton Street Railway Brill.
Most of the tracks were encased by brick. They made one heck of a mess when they tore up the rails throughout the city.
I will get some pics posted likely tomorrow...can't go direct to this site, have to wait until I get to my desk at work. Crapple indeed.
NDGFor those that might be interested.
Definitely included me!
Well here I go again with trying to post pics from apple devices. Need some time, but will post some pics. Still at the Core Day event ...fish fry was great but presentations too long! My students did me super proud..did an excellent job. Lordy I'm tired.
NDG- Looking forward to your Hamilton stories, I also ran on the last of the HSR and well remember the tracks being ripped up.
Thank You.
MiningmanWas reluctant to include pictures because folks would howl " what has this got to do with trains".
This is the famous String Lining thread, known long ago as 'the NDG reminiscence channel'. No one will complain when you flesh out your images with some pictures - it's part of the story that, indirectly or directly, affects the flavor of Canadian railroading experience.
RME- Was reluctant to include pictures because folks would howl " what has this got to do with trains". Will put some, a sampling, up here today at the conclusion.
MiningmanRegarding last personal note:
Where are the pictures???
Regarding last personal note:
Best part was the very start which 99.9% missed. At 4:05 am along the shores of the lake at the College, just before dawn, a native Cree, who holds title to things spiritual, performed what is known as a Whistle Ceremony. I am not native at all, but this was moving and made total sense to me. Inherently understood. No brainer. Very good. He is one of our co-ordinators.
Survived Day 1 of the festivities and ceremonies. 6 speeches of acknowledgements and congratulating each other, and how great the future will be. Always about the money. Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. Politicians and CEO. Cut a ceremonial chain ( it was plastic!) with bolt cutters. Applause. Photos, ...head for the fish fry.
Amazing how much posturing goes on. Fascinating to observe.
Continues on tomorrow with "Core Days", lots of industry, seminars and presentations on mining and exploration here in the North. Mostly geologists this time, real eggheads, half of which couldn't find sand if they fell off a camel, but that's ok. The other half can!
It is my students that will set up and man the core, being a library and representation of every major find here in the North. High grade Uranium with high grade shielding! Play with the instruments for the great unwashed. Always a hit. Gold, base metals, rare earths. Hope no one develops an eye in the back of the head a month latter. That's a joke, there are plenty of myths and misconceptions when it comes to the mining industry and more so with Uranium.
The fish fry was and will be yet again what everyone is really thinking about. Then mingling and more posturing, this time in the name of science, however, still all about the money.
Now...If we could only get a switch put in at Prince Albert directing a new line and traffic straight shot up to the North, I can confidently state we can supply sustained loads from our resources until the cows come home.
That's quite the bridge...steel girder and trusses, and the stonework is beautiful on the supports. Very nice for a modelling scene.
Is that you on the bridge standing? Doubt it, looks earlier in time by the way he is dressed. Also appears to be a younger person, perhaps a boy, sitting on the edge...pretty dangerous location, what if a train came along?
I did not terribly mind the multimark, especially when it first arrived on the scene...it was co-ordinated nicely with the Ships, Trucks, Hotels and Airline.
"Orange is beautiful"...great theme tune for CP Air.
The Grey and Maroon was nice and I did like the script lettering when it came. It really did not "wear" well and looked like heck if it was oily and dirty. It required a clean locomotive, but unmatched in striking appearance when it was so.
In time I favoured back to the Grey and Maroon. Sure do miss the maroon passenger cars with the gold lettering..that spoke of places even just sitting there. Still have them on the executive train but it used to be for us plebians.
The new logo, much like the first new logo will not wear well on the loco's either. Not excited about it at all. Meh.
Whatever, it's their money.
FWIW- UP did it right, minimal screwing around, stuck with Armour Yellow and the Shield. Just rolled over everyone with all the mergers, D&RGW, SP, C&NW and so on. Timeless.
Personal Note
2 big days upcoming starting tomorrow am. Grand opening of the newly constructed "Mine School"..ribbon cutting and unveiling of the big bronze logo over the main entrance..lots of hoopla, government folks, probably Brad Wall ( he's the Premier of Saskatchewan), Federal Ministers and all that stuff. My "home" classroom, the Geology Lab, all set up with numerous displays manned by my senior students.
Big Fish Fry! For all, come one come all.
Next day is all industry reps for something we call "Core Days"...special presentations and seminars, all day event. Many have been sponsors and contributors to the building of the new school. More Fish Fry!
Our enrolment is 95% Native students from all over Northern Saskatchewan and elsewhere across Northern regions.
Bugs are out!
Thanks guys. There were over a hundred miles of electrified operations by Vale/Inco in Sudbury. Sadly the wires came down mid 2000's but three of the electrics are preserved.
Two are in nearby Capreol at the railway museum there, along with CNR Bullet Nose Betty 6077 4-8-2 Mountain and an Ontario Northland 4-6-0.
Another is at the Fort Erie Museum along with famous celebrity status CNR 4-8-4 6218, which last time I saw her looked shabby as heck and I hope this has been rectified.
INCO 117 has just interchanged loads of nickle ore with Canadian Pacificand is heading back to the mines with emptys, at Lavack, ONT. 9/16/1993.Jack D. Kuiphoff
Indeed, and thanks for the VALE shot! Familiar with their Brazilian heavy-haul operations but had no idea they had anything in the same paint in North America.
Miningman Other big big multinational Mining Companies in Canada, with smelting and refining capability are International Nickel (INCO) in Sudbury, Ontario, now the Brazilian owned Vale' ; . . . . . . The largest Gold producer in terms of ounces, for years was always INCO and they were not even a gold mine...it just came along in the ore and for many years the gold paid all the up front costs of the many mines and extensive operations and 33,000 employees. Everything else, which they really mined, was "gravy". . . . All these big big outfits relied heavily on industrial type railroading and they all had steam, extensive electric and diesel locomotives. . . .
Other big big multinational Mining Companies in Canada, with smelting and refining capability are International Nickel (INCO) in Sudbury, Ontario, now the Brazilian owned Vale' ; . . .
. . . The largest Gold producer in terms of ounces, for years was always INCO and they were not even a gold mine...it just came along in the ore and for many years the gold paid all the up front costs of the many mines and extensive operations and 33,000 employees. Everything else, which they really mined, was "gravy". . . .
All these big big outfits relied heavily on industrial type railroading and they all had steam, extensive electric and diesel locomotives. . . .
- PDN.
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