NDG FYI. Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Collapse. Oct. 7, 1941. https://www.sootoday.com/columns/remember-this/the-railway-disaster-that-almost-shut-down-shipping-1176905 http://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Capture.png http://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/2016/10/16/3312/ https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/images/LC/tspa_0107912f.jpg https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0107912F&R=DC-TSPA_0107912F&searchPageType=vrl On Google. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sault+Ste.+Marie,+ON/@46.5096084,-84.3565618,4381m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4d36311508818c7b:0xc55b0eb513db21cd!8m2!3d46.5136494!4d-84.3357526 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Soo_Locks_International_Bridge_2010-04_USACE.jpg/1024px-Soo_Locks_International_Bridge_2010-04_USACE.jpg https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=truss/internationalrail/#photosvideos Thank You.
FYI.
Thank You.
Critical location for the war effot. Looking at the picture of the collapse, I am wondering what the bridge inspection requirements were at the time, as it looks like the connections between the parts of the span failed.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
The black SD40-2's were ex-Southern locomotives that went to CP after coming off lease. At about the same time, CP also picked up some white SD40-2's from KCS that were relettered but not renumbered.
Check out these photos. Was EHH secretly successful in acquiring Norfolk Southern? Did Canadian Pacific secretly and silently buy all the Union Pacific stock? These leased units will no doubt turn heads!
3249 leased 1991 GATX purchased 6/1992 (ex NS nee SOU 3249). SD40 EMD 75615-6 1975 Long hood forward leaves no doubt as to its ancestry. Renumbered 5480 5/1993 Retired 10/2003 Sold 8/2004 NRE Capreol Resold 6/2007 ALL (Brazil)
3252
5430 acq. 3/14/1994 (ex GATX 2008 nee MP 3195) Sold 5/26/1999 LLPX 4406 Part of GATX 2000-2009 leased previously.
Also here is the very short lived dual flags paint scheme.
it turned out to be quite controversial as both sides felt it disrespected their flags.
It actually looked much better in person than it did in pictures. Nonetheless it is gone gone gone ain't never coming back.
5492 ex MKCX 9418 SD40M-2 EMD/MK nee CO 7531:2 EMD 37208 3/1971
Congratulations! Also nice to have you back.
Geez two # 2338's... well someone was thinking to get that shot!
And a couple small updates from my part of the world, CN 1392 passed her internal boiler inspection last week and will soon be officially hydro-tested (both are annual requirements here). A unofficial "prep" hydro was done today and everything looked good.
Looks like it will be a good year out at the Alberta Railway Museum, if we can only get through this cold!
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
98/06/07 may have seen the last revenue service runs of Class I ALCO/MLW power, but it would take another 12 years for the last one to leave the roster.
The holdout was CN 2338, a M636 which was kept at Toronto's MacMillan Yard until 2010, initially as a backup Y2K generator. (remember that "crisis"?)
After the last ES44DC's were delivered someone managed to get a shot of two 2338's posed side by side:
From here:
http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/2010/dec10/dec10cn.htm
Here's one for M636C and Alco fans. All MLW lashup for the last time.
Note: Three units worked back to Montreal on separate trains while 1838_4216 returned dead on 926.
Really enjoy all the stuff here. Hope it goes on as long as possible. Lots of fun stuff to learn.
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
Great stuff NDG. I wish we had a guy in every city across our 2 lands that can bring personal account and experiences backed with historical photos and talk about the way it was done, its meaning and how it looked at the time like you do.
Here and there we get some. It's important to record these things before that window is lost. I'm not talking about historical societies and such, but one step past that, personalized accounts and explanations.
Where are the Pacific Electric/ LA guys? Got to be a million things there.
Good good! Maybe it's just on my 'puter. So how did you reply?
Luv that story and the picture with the streetcar and Mack bus, which I had not noticed until it was pointed out. Amazing how much change there has been, a society transformed.
Miningman For NDG from Mike ( Wanswheel) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/world/canada/montreal-quebec-french-in-canada.html
For NDG from Mike ( Wanswheel)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/world/canada/montreal-quebec-french-in-canada.html
Once Again Thank You Sirs for the Link!
Are there Troubles afoot mayhaps?
Time will tell.
Merci!
Plateau.
Merci, Encore!
NDGLooking South. Bank Angled Corner. Left. https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4843575,-73.6303229,3a,32.4y,127.66h,90.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNC5WBZGfIqO8BW7u5XlRBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Was Monteal the only system to not have headlights on PCC cars? Most photos I have seen and most cars i've seen had the single center headlight and some of those also had the two front downwash lights. According to the caption on page 70 of the 1980 book "PCC THE CAR THAT FOUGHT BACK" by Stephen P. Carlson & Fred W. Schneider III, Montreal cars were "Unique" in not having a headlight. Does anyone know why?
AgentKidcrews working out of Alyth on Mixed trains on branchlines used to use friction tape to seal the front door ahead of the fireman on GP-7's and '9s.
NDGSwathed in that Tacky, that word, again, Friction Tape, a Duct Tape of Yore??
Now, a challenge for the internet picture sleuths. I have only ever seen one picture in a BRMNA book.
During the winters of '61-'62 and '62-'63, or one winter either way, crews working out of Alyth on Mixed trains on branchlines used to use friction tape to seal the front door ahead of the fireman on GP-7's and '9s. The crew used the rear facing door behind the engineer. I remember seeing this as a kid. The factory rubber seal on the door just could not deal with the cold prairie wind blowing in. Every able bodied man in those days had a roll for his hockey stick, so finding rolls was no problem at all.
Eventually the company put a stop to this, as it was considered a safety violation. But if you put your shoulder into the door, no way was tape going to hold anyone back.
I anxiously await internet ready photos.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
. . . __ . ______
Miningman As a kid or teen when you saw one you always shouted out "woody". Popular style for a while anyway.
As a kid or teen when you saw one you always shouted out "woody". Popular style for a while anyway.
"Punch Buggy" was always my favourite. My sister eventually forgave me.
Nice to see those pictures of Montreal. That pole at the intersection is a nightmare... 12, or better yet 24, arms! How to service something like that? The Overland Stationwagon is a woody. The wood would ( would wood??) weather quickly and fade, crack and discolour. One had to maintain them like a boat. As a kid or teen when you saw one you always shouted out "woody". Popular style for a while anyway.
Remember various models of vehicles later with Mac Tac applied press on wood substitute? Now that was tacky, pun intended. Looked bloody awful.
Pics all have signs in English. Well that's gone now. The LAW.
Mentioned this before but a betting man would have picked Toronto to lose their streetcars, not Montreal, but the reality was the opposite.
Snowdon Junction. Tramways.
Paul_D_North_JrGlad to share something with you, Mr. NDG. Here's a few more I found of that operation: I think this is of Bingham Canyon, showing the sideways pantograph and the portable pylons for the traction wire and other electric lines: https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Photo/Electric-Locomotive-Ore-Train-Showing-Overhead-System-Pantagraph_43882/ http://utahrails.net/pdf/kennecott-copper_traction-models_march-1976.pdf http://utahrails.net/bingham/bingham-index.php https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738584898/Bingham-Canyon-Railroads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Canyon_Mine Short video, fair quality, 2:36 long of "Kennecott Copper railroad at Bingham Canyon open pit mine, Utah, 1995", at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXGLqTj9h00 Thank You, Sir! - PDN.
Here's a few more I found of that operation:
I think this is of Bingham Canyon, showing the sideways pantograph and the portable pylons for the traction wire and other electric lines:
https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Photo/Electric-Locomotive-Ore-Train-Showing-Overhead-System-Pantagraph_43882/
http://utahrails.net/pdf/kennecott-copper_traction-models_march-1976.pdf
http://utahrails.net/bingham/bingham-index.php
https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738584898/Bingham-Canyon-Railroads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Canyon_Mine
Short video, fair quality, 2:36 long of "Kennecott Copper railroad at Bingham Canyon open pit mine, Utah, 1995", at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXGLqTj9h00
Thank You, Sir!
- PDN.
How many miles of railroad to go from the top to the bottom of the mine?
Glad to share something with you, Mr. NDG.
For those that do not know Victoriaville is home of the famous Victoriaville hockey stick. City long known for its hardwood and superb woodworking. Also home of Jean Beliveau, the long time Captain of the Montreal Canadians and multiple Stanley Cup champion. Also my favourite Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier. I did not know the rails are no longer going to Victoriaville. So sad to hear that.
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