String Lining

[NDG]

CP 8554.

 

Its a great location for this view!

 

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=36044

 

Shows Control Stand, as CP 8554-8555 Retired with Rad end as Front, rest of CP 8549-8556 and CP 8601-10 Converted to Short Hood Front, and the Train Masters.

 

Box ahead of cab is Heater. Cab too small to have inside. 

 

I like the Blue Machine, too.

 

 

Note F on Rad End.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208554-4.jpg

 

Here, too.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208555-1.jpg

 

In storage, for scrapping. Stacks Capped. Cab door opens inward into Niche in hood side.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208555-3.jpg

 

 

Converted. F on short hood end.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208553-1.jpg  

 

Sent CP 8553 East one cold night. Next heard over the Wire it was on fire at Granum, Alta.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208553-3.jpg

 

Crankshaft on running board.

 

In that era, On Third Trick, The Telegrapher at BU could listen in on the Wires from Dunmore, Alta to Penticton, BC, and much more, North and South.

 

 

Converted to Short Hood Front Note F. NOT repainted. at Tadanac.

 

http://www.trainweb.us/galt-stn/cproster/locomotive/8500s/cp8552-1.jpg

 

Head on CP 8900 on Warfield Hill, Scrapped.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208552-2.jpg

 

Saw it go West in Locomotive Consist, just out of Paint Shop. A week later back just ahead of Caboose going for Scrap.

 

 

First H-16 to go.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208500A/CP%208547-3.jpg

 

 

First CP A Unit to go. Tail end Collision,  Hit rear Psgr Train. Two employees killed. Osprey Lake B C. 1955.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%204000/CP%204077-1.jpg

 

 

 

I was trying to read what it said on tank car up on end on CP CWR Train.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.4242516.1546809813!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg

 

 

At least they are not on fire and/or leaking inside the Spirals.

 

Lots of Miles for Southern Route Crews Via Crowsnest 2 nite.

 

Thank You. ( BBB )

 

PS.

 

CN does it, too. Did not stop before going foul. Hit opposing train heading in. Note Points. Signaled.

 

https://media.winnipegfreepress.com/images/TRAIN_190203_CN_train_derails_.jpg

 

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/two-trains-jack-knife-derail-near-portage-la-prairie-503863922.html

 

[SD70Dude]

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.

[SD70Dude]

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.

[Electroliner 1935]

Precision Railroading?

[NDG]

Pile Up Calgary.

 

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/freight-train-derails-at-alyth-yard-in-calgary-1.4242514

 

Thank You.

[NDG]

 

West of the Spirals.

 

OT, OTR.

 

Close Call.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHsUeTTLpCQ

 

Thank You.

[Deggesty]

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.

[cx500]

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.

[SD70Dude]

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!

[Electroliner 1935]

NDG

The Dial Operates These.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZePwin92cI

Oh, did you bring memories back with this post! I remember as a child back in the mid forties, going to my grandmothers where they had an Oak cased crank wall phone and a party line. Then, when I worked on the PRR, using the open wire message line from a camp car in Indiana and connecting to a PRR operator in Columbus OH (156 miles) where she connected me to a carrier system to Cincinnati (107 mi) where that operator connected me to a local phone to talk to my future wife. Then in the 80’s while working with another utility EE who like to tell me (when talking about telephony), he’d refer to Strowger telephone switches, “Remember Charlie, it’s up and over, NOT over and up). And I went on to work with (not for) the local Bell phone company on leased circuits for protection of high voltage transmission lines. And then design and purchase a 50 site microwave system after which I worked on the design of a 600 mile fiber-optic network. In college, I was first taught tube theory and then discrete junction transistor theory. Now, I have more computer power in my cell phone than anyone could envision back then. My mother was born as the automobile was in its infancy, and lived to see men on the moon. Wonder what my kids will live to see.

[blue streak 1]

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.)

 

 

DEGG.  Part of the reason for the NO and SO designations were tarriff ridden.  You still had to call the LD operator for a while.  The telephone office was located on the Tennessee side 6th street so calls to Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis were much more expensive for Tennessee callers as it was INTRASTATE and set by TN department of comunications.  Calls form Virginia were INTERSTATE and covered by FCC rules.

Toll calls from VA phones to VA locations were Interstate and lower than calls from say other VA locations such as Gate City.  Deregulation of phone companies and their tolls changed all that.

[Deggesty]

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.

[tree68]

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.

[NDG]

tree68

 

 

NDG

My Extension Phone.

 

 

Reminds me of that video showing youngsters trying to figure out a dial phone...

 

 

 

 

Thoughts for a quiet, pensive day spent in Reflection.

I see what you mean.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhel13sDBk

 

The Telephone Companies had meetings in town halls to illustrate to the audience on how to use the Dial Telephone.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF6_vuHxhPo

 

The Dial Operates These.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZePwin92cI

 

Dial Comes to Town.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmFCb4CBKQ

 

 

FWIW.

 

I THOUGHT the NE Wood Dial Wall Sets were scarce, but they appear regularly on ebay.

 

N393G  Sold on ebay.

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SFkAAOSwa1hcJAfK/s-l1600.jpg

 

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/adYAAOSw7OdcJAlf/s-l1600.jpg

 

Listed as;

 

Northern Electric Model N393G Working Apartment Telephone.

 

Many 393 sets were upgraded 293s with more modern components and painted Black.

 

 

 

Thank You.

[tree68]

NDG

My Extension Phone.

Reminds me of that video showing youngsters trying to figure out a dial phone...

 

[NDG]

 

OT.

FYI.

 

My Extension Phone.

 

Northern Electric N393BA. Wood Case. 4H Dial.

 

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/3a/62/813a62aa830af940926559d42443f19c.jpg

 

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=10361.0;attach=79777;image

 

The Western Electric version was pressed tin.

 

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/1/1216/01/1_e72371f49d5de5b8a07be4f08f60d574.jpg

 

Note Directory Hook.

 

Telephone Directories once had corner holes to hang on these hooks with a loop of string.

 

Thank You.

 

[NDG]

 

Happy New Year.

 

Its a New Year, Now.  BFD.

 

Was napping en Famille avec M. Kat

 

He's now Holding His Breath waiting for the ' The Big Change For The Better. '

 

 

Thank You, Sir!

 

I did NOT know the History behind the CP Rail on CP 4104. Assumed it was done @ Ogden Shops.

 

Thank Goodness they LEFT OFF the Multi Mark and the Candy Stripes. Hideous on ANY A Unit.

 

Ditto same on B Units and the Train Masters.

 

CP 4104 went from CPR Calgary to the Roundhouse @ Lethbridge for a few years. I visited it there in 1977, another story.

 

 

CP 4104 Cab Photos @ Coquitlam on it's ' Turn ' on the way to Nelson. Scroll Down.

 

http://www.okthepk.ca/dataCprSiding/articles/201311/month00.htm

 

While at Ogden Shops, apparently the CPR Opposed Piston People who had not yet Retired put some time in on it and Fired it Up.

 

It was again painted by CPR as it looks now.

 

A Front Crest and S/G reinstalled.

 

 

 

FWIW.

 

CP 8711 was the LAST CP OP to receive the old scheme.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208700A/CP%208711.htm

 

The CP 8709 group received Wide Spaced Yellow Stripes on Nose as per RS18s. Modelers Note.

 

Narrow Spaced Stripes, as here.

 

http://www.railpictures.ca/upload/cp-gp9-8635-and-h24-66-train-master-8905-work-alyth-yard-in-calgary-ab-with-a-cut-of-cars-an-unusual-pairing-but-quite-regular-there-were-three-gp-tm-sets-assigned-to-work-the-alyth-yard-hump-i

 

 

 CP 4104 Should have been @ Spencer to represent Beloit.

 

 

Mr Kat is still Holding His Breath.

 

Pauvre Batard ( Fr. )

 

Thank You.

[Miningman]

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! 

[cx500]

Miningman

Do 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..........

[Miningman]

NDG-- Do you know how 4104 got that paint and CP Rail lettering ?

[NDG]

 

FYI.

 

Here are two more Diesels on Google.

 

One to right Ex Essex Terminal No 101 et al.  Alco GE Dec 1941.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1205513,-83.0826788,74m/data=!3m1!1e3

 

 

Essex Terminal 101. 1947.

 

https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/MAT-03059

 

http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/ET%20101%20Windsor%20ON%209-25-66%20PAC352.jpg

 

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0604/et101.jpg

 

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1463.htm

 

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDiesels/index-CP.html

 

http://www.windsormodelrailroadclub.com/?page_id=313

 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/ont/hearn.htm

 

http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr985.htm

 

 

The Central used to cross right to left to USA. Top.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1226325,-83.085963,590m/data=!3m1!1e3  

 

Central Steel Here.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1312394,-83.0205062,3a,75y,29.02h,57.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIUelVScEUDGCSWqitauUww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Thank You.

[NDG]

 

Exact location is here:  50.647394, -113.772536 

 

Mazeppa.

 

Thank You for posting the co-ordinates re the CLC B Units, et al.

 

I was aware the locomotives had been moved to ' a Gas Plant ' and had been given the name of the location ( Mazeppa ), but, had forgotten, as life and the Caravans move on.

 

I did NOT really KNOW where Mazeppa was until this topic came up.

 

FWIW.

 

At Aldersyde to the North the CPR used to have a Junction where the West branch went South to just West of Fort MacLeod. We used to RDC down that back in the day and connect with No 979, the Placard Tank Train for the Divide and the UP/SI.

 

The steel now ends here ( Duh! ) looking North.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.6012578,-113.875665,3a,51.3y,2.85h,83.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suf8cnvjuzbYKxsosA_dLKQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Not far to the South is High River where CP 4104 spent many years before it also moved on. Good that it was moved before the steel was lifted.

 

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDiesels/CP4104_Museum_of_the_Highwood_1984-a.jpg

 

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDiesels/CPR4104_Front_High_River1984-b.jpg

 

The LAST A Unit painted in the Grey and Tuscan in the WEST, 1969.

 

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDiesels/FM014.jpg 

 

From this Site.

 

http://yourrailwaypictures.com/OldDiesels/index-CP.html

 

 

Just heard from Dr L. 2 day. 

 

Thank You.

 

 

 

[tree68]

Miningman

But.. 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.

[NDG]

 

 

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.

 

[Miningman]

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]

Aussi.

 

I'm very tired right now and have had two naps after lunch, but, plan to go for dessert @ Denny's in an hour or so.

 

Aches and Pains in my eighth Decade. Lots of hurt re recent setbacks and losses, and the Aloneness that follows when they Mark Off for the last time.

 

W the snow and ice I do not want to FALL, the end of so many Seniors.

 

I was in Edmonton when Mt St Helens erupted, and my flight back was almost cancelled re ash, only one that DID land that day.

 

We tried to chase ETS 2001 but, we were facing the wrong way and traffic was terrible. It was called ' The Space Oddity ' re the Movie aeons ago.

 

Too bad ETS did not keep it as a rolling museum for display, a State of the Art Transit outfit w a 100 year old locomotive.

 

So much good Data and photos are appearing on line every day, its hard to keep up!

 

Many images are of Railway Interest, and it is great to put them out there for those that might be interested.

 

 

I had always been looking for a good still of the CP 1801 head on, the video was not that clear.

 

Nice view CP 1802 w coupler shroud, here.

 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photographs.html

 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/us/bm_cpr_pool.htm

 

 

Canadian Locomotive Company sent their Demo Set across Canada to show it off in B C in late 1951, but I have never found any photos of them en route.

 

Plenty of coverage on the EMD F Unit Demo around the same time, and some on the MLW A-B-B-A Demo set.

 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/GMD/history.htm

 

Time for ice cream and Apple pie.

 

Great world out there, and on the 'Net.

 

Thank You, Sir.

 

The Kat has been pensive and is reflecting, aussi.

 

 

P S More, It never ends. Look for one item, find another.

 

http://www.dailydetroit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/PostcardDetroitMIElectricMotorEmergingTunnelDetroitRiver1911-640x409.jpg

 

http://www.dailydetroit.com/2016/07/09/detroit-river-tunnel-michigan-central/

[SD70Dude]

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.

[NDG]

OT.

 

CLC.

 

The Columbia and Cowlitz Ry. was a short line and they always do things differently shifting cars with Push Poles and home made Drawbars for tight curves where couplers could never mate smoothly.

 

Here is a Roster. 'Til I read this was not aware they had another F-M.

 

http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/CLC.html

 

http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/marks.html

 

http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/

 

 

CLC Boxcar.

 

http://www.abandonedrails.com/Columbia_and_Cowlitz_Railroad

 

At Farnham of the Megantic Route to Maine. Rebadged.

 

https://www.barraclou.com/rail/cars/iatr_clc.jpg

 

Back in the day CP often had an Alco GE RS2  No MU, at Farnham,  a Good reason to visit.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/CP%208400/CP%208401-3.jpg

 

 

First time I viewed D1 in North Van, it still had the F-M emblem on it's nose and a round F-M Builders Plate on each side.

 

Shays under steam, and those Hudswell critters still in use.

 

https://search.nbca.unbc.ca/uploads/r/northern-bc-archives-special-collections/9/6/3/96326e3632790544dcc8bcfdff7c2ccf5de3fedc4bae442cc8e3e92b2e46baf9/2013_6_36_1_010_70.jpg

 

https://search.nbca.unbc.ca/uploads/r/northern-bc-archives-special-collections/7/e/9/7e9da508d4d25da492fd9e9aaa7db1e7e7b206998e7d7ad7253828d8db93993b/2013_6_36_1_010_68.jpg

 

From this Site.

 

https://search.nbca.unbc.ca/index.php/shay-locomotive-115-at-pacific-coast-bulk-terminals-1

 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/bc/vancouver_wharves.htm

 

 

Ditto. Under the Georgia St Viaduct.

 

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/shortline/BCH_Carrall_Street.htm

 

 

Baldwins Galore Down at the Shore. As mentioned here by MM.

 http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_facilities/baldwin_ydengs_1948.jpg

 

 

Another Vancouver Classic. The Marine Building. No Baldwins, Yet. Piers A B-C D to right.

 

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungphotos/items/1.0220179

 

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungphotos/items/1.0218037#p0z1r0f:

 

Pier B-C Left.

 

http://www.panpacificvancouver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Screen-Shot-2012-04-03-at-11.02.31-AM.png

 

 

'USS Cincinnatti'  Four Piper  Pier B-C . Marine Bldg distance.

 

https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/u-s-ship-cincinnati-at-pier-b-c

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cincinnati_(CL-6)

 

Didn't Capt. Queeg of the Ball Bearings have a 3 stacker as a Mine Sweeper w Paravanes in a Novel??

 

Many went to Britain in the War.

 

 

Letters B and C atop towers. All MLW Yard Power, right.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/37908073@N04/3843417843

 

 

The City bus across the Lions Gate bridge had a chiming Electro-Mechanical fare box that counted the coinage audibly. 

 

https://www.insidevancouver.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Lions-Gate-Bridge-1940.jpg

 

 

A Nice view of a Mallet on a trestle.  

 

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/tdn.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/cd/5cd3cdc4-a5c5-11df-a616-001cc4c03286/4c63708e400c3.image.jpg

 

 

B B B.

[SD70Dude]

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!

[NDG]

 

FYI.

 

Why RCC4 is painted in the D&H Passenger Colours.

 

http://www.mountainrailway.com/Roster%20Archive/Robots/BCR%20RCC4-2.jpg

 

Back in 1987 or so we went up the BCR on the Daily RDC to Lillooet as thats as far as we could go to make a safe Meet on the return train in the evening, and still have time for lunch and a walk around.

 

( Lillooet is below the Big Hill of the fatal runaway in 2006.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMxmJ5B4R0g

 

http://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2006/r06v0136/r06v0136.pdf   )

 

We went along Seton Lake where the once sunk BCR MLW was still beached.

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3958585

 

Anyway, in one siding we passed was a Movie Train in the Clear which was being used to film a passenger train.

 

Someone decided a B Unit would add authenticity behind the GM Low Nose on head end and RCC4 was painted up to resemble a VIA Unit.

 

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3958621

 

That is Why.

 

PGE did have another F-M. PGE 1004 ex Columbia and Cowlitz D-1.  PGE RDC Left.

 

http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/index.php?media/pge-fm-h10-44.19796/full

 

Thank You.