Merci.
NDGMontreal Subway Ventilation.
I love it when people respect historical architecture and are willing to spend a little extra to preserve it.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
NDGMontreal Subway Ventilation. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/victorian-home-metro-1.6659859 Thank You. Aussi. Merci.
Looks like this house has joined the team of hidden ventilation shaft buildings, which includes ones in London (I had passed by those false fronts on a trip to London years ago), NYC (Brooklyn is hightlighed in the link), Paris (those fronts I first heard about on the "Tim Traveler" YouTube channel) and likely other such hidden vents in different cities, since a false residental building fits into the streetscape better than a plain brick & concrete structure.
A fun thing about the French-Canadians is that they still represent the 'pur sang' of pre-Revolutionary France... the French having killed off a substantial fraction of their men in WWi and WWII. It took me a while to realize this. As you get further and further east and north into Quebec, the women get better and better looking, smart, and witty. I have no difficulty with their preserving... well, their colonial French. Not for them the ridiculous rephrasing of the diphthong -oi- post-Revolution, "to follow the spelling" which was erratically derived from the pronunciation at about the same time they were introducing decimal time, calculating distance as a forty-millionth of an erroneous measurement of the earth's circumference at Paris, and cutting off each others' heads! Not for them half the Academie Francaise waiting until the other half went on summer vacation to respell the word for 'onion' to something utterly devoid of historical sense!
I was just a child when de Gaulle tried kissing up to the Canadiens, sending them all sorts of advanced French technology. You have to see Athabascans in a circle around a DS Citroen trying to figure out how to work on it... when pow! out go six gallons of oil and the thing goes flat in the mud to where nobody can get a jack on it to get to the underside. Tabar-r-rnac de tabarnacs!
chutton01NYC
An amateur radio friend worked for NYC transit (power department) for years. You'd be amazed what's hidden in plain sight around the city.
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...
Grain handling sure has changed and a number of new 'super elevators' have been built in the last 10 years. Most have a loop or wye and many have power switches at the entrance. P&H at Viking, Alberta even has their own diamond. Some are also now loading at a constant slow speed, just like coal mines.
Overmod - I don't speak it but I've heard that the Quebec accent and form of speech has retained a lot of older characteristics, to the point where someone from modern France might hear it the same way you and I hear Shakespearian English.
De Gaulle should have stuffed himself and his "Vive le Quebec libre!" bit where the sun don't shine.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
NDG... https://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_handling_in_canada/ ... Thank You.
I can only imagine a 21st Century farmer taking a 1/2 ton pick-up load of grain to the elevator.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Thank You.
My Maman was a WWII war bride. Dad married her in Marseille and they honeymooned on the Cote d'Azur using a borrowed jeep. When our Quebecois friends tried to converse with her she found it nearly impossible to understand.
Sometimes I need closed captioning to understand British You Tube narrators.
Rick
rixflix aka Captain Video. Blessed be Jean Shepherd and all His works!!! Hooray for 1939, the all time movie year!!! I took that ride on the Reading but my Baby caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride.
rixflix Sometimes I need closed captioning to understand British You Tube narrators. Rick
rixflixSometimes I need closed captioning to understand British You Tube narrators.
I remember an anecdote from a while back concerning a "furiner" saying that Americans (ie, US) only know one language.
The retort was that "I speak a pretty good Brooklyn, my Texas isn't bad, and neither is my Carolina..."
I remember seeing a book when visiting my ex's home - "How to Speak New Hampsha..."
SD70Dude De Gaulle should have stuffed himself and his "Vive le Quebec libre!" bit where the sun don't shine.
tree68 Correct. One very hot day walking on one of the avenues ( 6th? ) east side north of times square an open door had very loud machinery going and fans blowing out hot air. Was a motor generator set probably for the subway? chutton01 NYC An amateur radio friend worked for NYC transit (power department) for years. You'd be amazed what's hidden in plain sight around the city.
Correct. One very hot day walking on one of the avenues ( 6th? ) east side north of times square an open door had very loud machinery going and fans blowing out hot air. Was a motor generator set probably for the subway?
chutton01 NYC
tree68I remember seeing a book when visiting my ex's home - "How to Speak New Hampsha..."
Ever hear a native Ridge Runner speak authentic Pittsburgese?
("Yunz don't wear high hills dahntahn to see the Stillers play!")
blue streak 1Correct. One very hot day walking on one of the avenues ( 6th? ) east side north of times square an open door had very loud machinery going and fans blowing out hot air. Was a motor generator set probably for the subway?
Most likely. I've seen videos of firing one of those babies up. Wow.
They handled a lot of amps.
That sounds much more like ventilation shaft fans than a rotary converter.
Those have all sort of exciting zarks as they come up to speed, but ought to be fairly quiet running. There was a large motor-generator just at the IRT tunnel exit by 181st St. that was almost silent in operation - a smooth, well-oiled hum of power.
I found 5300's in Google Bing images. Looks like a CPR class P2(e?) 2-8-2 and would most likely be on that road. Was the class operated system wide or in specific territories?
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NDGCPR Pile Up, Fire. Sask. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/train-derailment-saskatchewan-macoun-rcmp-1.6670857 https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3155188,-103.2643618,3492m/data=!3m1!1e3 Thank You.
Evident that Pivot style irrigation isn't used in the area.
As usual with Shorpy, the image contains some fascinating details. Note the information on the builder's plate.
Looks to me like the unit might have been in a flood of considerable depth. How it came to be out in what appear to be mud flats, with those solid rubber tires, might have been an interesting consideration for the underwriters. I doubt this reflects where the 'cremains' were placed by the insurer after the settlement...
CPR Calls this location Crowsnest.
NDG Image on ebay. Where is this, Please? https://www.ebay.com/itm/155318964458?hash=item2429bb50ea:g:qz4AAOSwObZjoT6c&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4DeQUIo3ygva1BVGpoEtLDNHDqzfVxOgRN%2FJAb91FrcxAQYgjA1oGFcvKmdb9ST5YPhZUIR93IxZ74j88RMoDKW1I8rcMDmfr9MOOyzY6bb1RZr6DgGaaYbTgfQY8Bolj%2Bz3QcgYZGI%2BOCDVW7XA1%2FwUTrhetgObT%2FqGLGiC6IjdgJnY2saVqZgzOm61kqLFPrp8xOr%2FWAF9863%2B0pYc1%2FvzUJkn6tQgKXV8xVgxjS5YuZiyLwwM0Sby1cq3QQx66zsnjWaYH4j02yhxz6c82a9bmm%2BCxoXeJK3595Zc2o4L%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7q0zP2lYQ https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/qz4AAOSwObZjoT6c/s-l1600.jpg Thank You.
This appears to be the Northern Pacific yard at Rice's Point, Duluth MN, looking south-southeast, probably in the 1940-1960 time period. Not a CPR location.
Adding documentation:
https://www.perfectduluthday.com/2012/05/22/view-of-rices-point-1962/
https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/p16022coll69:112#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=3951%2C1059%2C1486%2C926
Look at 1953 1:24,000 scale map:
https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#15/46.7637/-92.1179
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