Many thanks for solving the mystery. We could not come up with any location in Canada, on any railroad, that came even close to matching that postcard claiming to be "along the CPR line".
John
Thank You.
FYI.
Didn't think much of that 'railroader culture', did he?
Is he on record anywhere commenting on EHH?
OvermodDidn't think much of that 'railroader culture', did he? Is he on record anywhere commenting on EHH?
Was EHH leading CN in 1986? I don't think so.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACDWas EHH leading CN in 1986? I don't think so.
NDGEnd of Tokens on TTC.
Now watch the explosion of 'collector' tokens for sale on eBay at inflated prices! (Perhaps TTC should get in early...?)
I can make purchases using my smart watch (although I haven't set that up yet).
An app for fares can't be far behind.
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NDGSuggest this Baldwin is In Transit, Dead, Drained?, From the Baldwin Works near Philadelphia to it's new home at American Steel and Wire.
Dead, most likely. I don't see any MU receptacles. Drained - probably depends on the time of year, although the chimney coming from the cab might well suggest it's cold outside. The plywood was likely a temporary replacement for the regular door so the chimney could be run. Looks like a box of spare parts (?) on the front running board.
The Wikipedia listing for Baldwin shows American Steel and Wire receiving a DS-4-4-750, but lists the road number as 20. It would have been built between 1949 and 1951. I can't make out the builder's number on the running board.
ASW redirects to Birmingham Steel, suggesting that the locomotive was headed for Alabama?
Lack of MU on a switcher was not that unusual at the time, especially on a steel mill switcher.
Locomotive is likely photographed at Eddystone, readied to be run with the typical messenger on board to... wherever the original customer plant was located.
Extremely valuable in showing how a locomotive to be shipped this way, on those trucks and bearings, would have been fitted out for the trip.
Aside from the stack, the boat has a distinct resemblance to the SS North American and SS South American of the Georgian Bay Line.
NDGSS Keewatin moving to Lake Ontario.
According to a Canadian friend who is familiar with the effort, she's going to Hamilton first, then to Kingston. But I can't find her at all on the marine traffic sites...
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-78.5/centery:43.5/zoom:10
Short jaunt for me if I decide to go see her.
She's a dead ship that hasn't been in service since 1965. The marine 'Automatic Identification System' (AIS) that tracking sites rely upon is an innovation from the 1990's and 2000's. You needed to be looking up one of the two tug's if you wanted to track her.
The McKeil Marine tug Molly M1 was towing her while the tug Manitou handled the stern assist from Port Huron to the lower Detroit River, with the Vigilant 1 taking over stern duties the rest of the way to the Heddle Marine shipyard at Hamilton, ON where she's to be drydocked.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:379808/mmsi:316001096/imo:5118838/vessel:MOLLY_M_I
She should head to Kingston this Fall. Hopefully she'll find it to be a good home and not end up being evicted like the museum ship CCGS Alexander Henry was a few years ago...
Leo_AmesYou needed to be looking up one of the two tug's if you wanted to track her.
I was... The posts on FB were from several days ago, so it was anyone's guess where the assemblage actually was.
Found Molly M1 in Hamilton on vesselfinder.com with a nice photo of the three vessels arriving.
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 Found Molly M1 in Hamilton on vesselfinder.com with a nice photo of the three vessels arriving. Rick
The tug is still in Hamilton as I write this.
Sorry about assuming you were looking up the ship herself instead of one of the towing tugs.
There's AIS deadzones where coverage is poor. Maybe the tow was transiting through an area where they disappeared off MarineTraffic.com or such until getting in range of a VHF AIS transceiver.
About the only tool available in such instances is to hope that another tracking site like https://ais.boatnerd.com/ is picking up what you're looking for. If you didn't try that and ever are following something in the future and encounter the same issue, it often works out for me to change over to a different tracking source.
I hope I'll be able to catch a glimpse of the tow from the Tibbetts Point lighthouse this Fall, since I don't go to Canada anymore. I'm tired of being hauled in and searched every time I enter Canada. Squeeky clean record, but some sort of mistake is in their database that apparently has me redflagged for extra scrutiny every visit (or being honest and telling them I'm railfanning or ship watching put me on some list).
Leo_AmesSorry about assuming you were looking up the ship herself instead of one of the towing tugs.
I'm not offended in the least - sometimes stuff like that is useful to remind one of a forgotten resource. I do use Boatnerd from time to time as well. There's another AIS site that is focused on the Lake Huron area, too.
Not sure she'll be visible from Tibbetts Point.
I may come home from Michigan through Ontario this year. Been skipping that for the past few years, opting to stay south of Lake Erie...
More CP OP Power on ebay.
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