Thank You.
FYI.
NDG CP 8413 GP7. 1953. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/YVcAAOSwkhtcvig~/s-l1600.jpg Used as trade in on CP 5015 GP35 1965.
CP 8413 GP7. 1953.
Was that CPR GP7 wrecked?
Got the Hoop! 1973.
NDGGot the Hoop! 1973.
That was about the time I'd watch 'em pick up orders on the fly from the crane at Rantoul, IL (ICG). Every now and then, the agent would have to hoop up an order manually.
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...
Hello NDG , and ALL. Thank you for your kind thoughts and concerns.
I like that "Way better times for Lachine" picture.
Very similiar to this picture which we can call "Way better times for Ottawa"
OER 1003 on Sparks Street 1950's.
^Welcome back - just knew a North Country miner would kick a germs ass!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Great to have you back Vince!
And those were better times indeed, Ottawa's current crop of electric railway vehicles are not handling the Canadian winter very well:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lrt-trains-unreliable-says-report-1.5038832
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Hot damn! Vince is back!
Welcome home, Miningman! The place wasn't the same without you!
Thanks Balt and Dude.. all you guys are simply great.
Yeah of all the places to rip up a Streetcar system doing so in Ottawa'had to be the stupidest one. Nations capital, tourists, civil servants, commerce, you name it.
Now they think it's a big new progressive green deal with something that they had working well and foolishly lost 65 years ago.
Isn't that always the way when people decide to re-invent the wheel?
And over-engineer it at the same time?
As far as I'm concerned those who want to build a light-rail line could do a hell of a lot worse than pull out any surviving blueprints of 100 year old trolleys and interurbans and just re-produce 'em.
Hell, Mr. Edison's Lackawanna MU's lasted fifty years! With 1930 technology!
How can you improve on that?
SD70Dude Great to have you back Vince! And those were better times indeed, Ottawa's current crop of electric railway vehicles are not handling the Canadian winter very well: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lrt-trains-unreliable-says-report-1.5038832
Same For Me!!!! Too!!
Gotta Go!
Good to see you back!
Made Complete at 2046 PDT.
Hope things are going well for you.
Flintlock76 Hell, Mr. Edison's Lackawanna MU's lasted fifty years! With 1930 technology! How can you improve on that?
Some of South Shore's current fleet of MU cars are approaching that mark. NICTD 1-48 were placed in service in 1980 and I believe that they have gone through a mid-life overhaul. There is no current plan to replace them.
Good to have all the linestringers, including both Vince and NDG, posting regularly here. And elsewhere.
Some thoughts on the above^
1) as if 1942 wasn't dark enough with news from the war very worrying daily, Nazi subs terrorizing the Atlantic and our shores and who knows what's to come, they have to deal with a very heavy debilitating winter storm.
2) Paul Tomkowicz-- I knew many many folks like him. Salt of the earth. Hope he had peace in retirement, great tomatoes in the garden and interesting adventure on his motorcycle.
Can you still get 6 soft boiled eggs like that at a restaurant? Something tells me no way, but maybe. Some great Kosher food places in Winnipeg, little left of it today though.
I can feel that Streetcar ride, the lighting and heating in the car, solid and dependable, timeless.
And now for something (almost) completely different.
We've probably discussed these before, the original dome car, decades before shotwelded stainless steel became famous:
And some more CP passenger train equipment:
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/four.htm
Article on dome car history:
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/scenic_dome_cars_history.htm
https://www.apnews.com/65f442d5a6be4fe09ea1e3776cdefde3
The 150th anniversary of one of the greatest engineering and construction achievements of the 19th Century, and not a damn thing about it on any of the news sites I look at. Disgraceful.
Just the usual things about D.C. shenanigans, sports, and celebrities.
Well, we know where their priorities are, and where they think the public's priorities are.
And it goes without saying if it wasn't for the "Canadian Content" here, so well supplied by Miningman, NDG, and SD70Dude I'd have no idea what's going on up there either!
Yes Wayne, noticed the same. Not a word anywhere on any network. Maybe something comes up over the weekend.
Sesquicentennial items often are overlooked. You would think with the Big Boy arrival that would be a big deal for the media but I suppose not.
Well we didn't forget. Union Pacific and a whole lot of others didn't forget.
MiningmanYou would think with the Big Boy arrival that would be a big deal for the media but I suppose not.
Trains? You mean they still have them? (Common public perception)
tree68 Miningman You would think with the Big Boy arrival that would be a big deal for the media but I suppose not. Trains? You mean they still have them? (Common public perception)
Miningman You would think with the Big Boy arrival that would be a big deal for the media but I suppose not.
There's something different about you... ...did you get a haircut!?
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