1004's knuckle has the adapter slot, so it could be used to haul equipment with link-and-pin couplers.
Can't have been many of those left in the 1960s!
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_facilities/baldwin_ydengs_1948.jpg
B B B.
Great stuff!
I've probably posted this before, but BCER 961 came to Edmonton and helped build our LRT system:
http://www.barp.ca/bus/alberta/ets/lrt/2000/etsrbmow/2001/ets2001-cromdale-07-11-80-100014.JPG
From here:
http://www.barp.ca/bus/alberta/ets/lrt/2000/indexa.html
I saw it while stored by the Edmonton Radial Railway Society at Fort Edmonton Park, but they later gave it to a group in Southern B.C, who ended up selling it to another group in its original home of Oregon.
http://www.dailydetroit.com/2016/07/09/detroit-river-tunnel-michigan-central/
NDG-- -38 and wind chill -48 currently here... no flippin way I'm going out, have my own apple pie and ice cream. Pie from deli.. $6.99 and nice French Vanilla.. can have it whenever I want and lots too!
But.. no social contact or getting out so it's a wash. However who wants to go out in that?
NDG-- -38 and wind chill -48 currently here
WOW! Isn't that bad, here. Just below freezing and the streets are bare.
Had Soup and a Meal and some social contact. Shared a smile or two.
Whilst walking home saw a Drag go West w a CP 5000 and a CP 2200 with a sizeable train.
Life goes on.
Thank You.
The Kat Purred and met me at the door. Then we had a postprandial nap, together.
MiningmanBut.. no social contact or getting out so it's a wash. However who wants to go out in that?
Get into amateur radio - I just had some social contact with several folks (I was net control for a regular morning get together) whilst sitting in my pajamas...
We do get together for some face-to-face gatherings, too.
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...
Exact location is here: 50.647394, -113.772536
NDG-- Do you know how 4104 got that paint and CP Rail lettering ?
MiningmanDo you know how 4104 got that paint and CP Rail lettering ?
It was painted at Ogden; probably the owner paid CPR to do it in the paint shop. Graphics either provided by the owner or a very sympathetic fellow employee. And please, it never received "CP Rail" lettering. As a traditionalist you should know better than to use the term in this context..........
Well thanks. Suppose I should have said " that whatever that is CP Rail thingie painted on the side" because that is certainly what I was thinking.
Assume that's some kind of protective primer on the loco itself.
Well whatever.. Happy New Year!
OT.
FYI.
NDGMy Extension Phone.
Reminds me of that video showing youngsters trying to figure out a dial phone...
tree68 NDG My Extension Phone. Reminds me of that video showing youngsters trying to figure out a dial phone...
NDG My Extension Phone.
Thoughts for a quiet, pensive day spent in Reflection.
It's been suggested that it won't be long before kids don't understand this icon:
There was a time when you could buy an old fashioned handset to plug into your cellphone. They are still available. Then again, with all the hands-free laws, you wouldn't want to use one while driving...
Of course, the real old-timers may remember actual car phones.
I remember the telehones with a handcrank and operator at a switchboard. I never used one, though. The first one I used was one with a dial (three digits and a party line). One Sunday, cousins from a much larger town were visiting, and a teen-age girl asked how the dial system worked; I was so thunderstruck at the question I could not answer.
Thw first two or three years I was in college, Bristol had the system whereby the caller was asked what number was wanted. Before I graduated, a dial system, with the prefix NO for numbers on the Virginia side and the prefix SO for numbers on the Tennessee side, was installed. (Warning--be sure to use the letter "O" and not the zero.) Since then, even in small towns, I have used, first, dials, and now, buttons to call.
Johnny
Deggesty Before I graduated, a dial system, with the prefix NO for numbers on the Virginia side and the prefix SO for numbers on the Tennessee side, was installed. (Warning--be sure to use the letter "O" and not the zero.)
Before I graduated, a dial system, with the prefix NO for numbers on the Virginia side and the prefix SO for numbers on the Tennessee side, was installed. (Warning--be sure to use the letter "O" and not the zero.)
NDGThe Dial Operates These. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZePwin92cI
tree68 It's been suggested that it won't be long before kids don't understand this icon:
CN still uses those for radio handsets on locomotives. Even brand-new ET44AC's fresh from the factory have them!
I have more modern phones in the house, but the one beside the computer as I type this is a basic black rotary dial. Still works fine, even dialing out, but it seems the outside world often has not made their systems backwards compatible. Those automated answering systems just can't handle pulse, only tone works!
And when the power goes out and my cordless phone no longer works, that old black relic retains the ability to communicate.
I wish I had asked for my desk phone when I retired; it was pushbutton, of course--but it RANG!
In my two-room apartment, I have a desk phone by my relaxing chair that is connected to the the local system and a satellite base telephone (also connected to the local system) which gets its power through an outlet that is always on (connected to the emergency power supply in the building) and three satellites--one on my desk, one by my bed, and one in the bathroom (I just don't run as fast as I used to).
Going back to hand-cranked phones, one day when I was in grammar school, I was in the janitor's room and saw the old telephone from the previous system. I gave him a quarter for it and took it home. A few years later, when the building at the back of the lot was being fixed up as something of a workshop, two of my brothers and I installed a telephone between the house and that building, using a metal clothesline as one side of the line and the ground as the other side. With that telephone on the back porch and an army field telephone in the building, we could communicate btween the house and the building.
Precision Railroading?
Some precision balancing that's for sure!
I hope that jumbo tank car is empty, those usually carry really nasty things like LPG and anhydrous ammonia.
NDG CP 8554
FYI, another view of 8554 in her current state. I also like the blue thing, but can't decide if it is a trackmobile, MOW equipment, or both:
http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=36044
The photographer has found his way to some good locations:
http://www.railpictures.ca/author/trapper
Also Miningman informes me that he is the latest to be troubled by the ongoing IT issues, and is currently unable to log in. Sigh.
Thank You. ( BBB )
PS.
The short crane arm on the blue machine suggests that it's a piece of M/W equipment, possibly as part of a tie gang.
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