Thank You.
NDGt's leading Right hand rail brushing my left Cheek and Nose.
Wow! Talk about a wake-up! I think I would still be shivering today.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk_-RK_jlzc
Safety First.Decades ago I was in a Run Thru Caboose talking to the Conductor.This Caboose had a Diesel- Electric Power Plant beneath the Carbody to power the Lights, Markers Ditch Lights Refrigerator and Stove.There were also Oil Burning Heaters.The Caboose was on the Main Line and there was a Siding between it and the Station, the Siding holding about 50 Cars 40 Ft. and provided access to the North and South legs of the Wye.The Wye was used to Turn Engines, Ploughs, MoW Equipments and such, but was Specifically used to Turn end-dumping Wood Chip Cars as their Doors had to be on South End for Chip Dumper @ Kraft Pulp Mill at this location.The Chip Dumper was similar to a Turntable but Hinged upwards at it's South end, the Car door opening as on a Dump Truck, the Wood Chips cascading into the Pit and blown onto large piles as to their type.The Mill put out 600 Tons of White Pulp a day back then which were moved in wrapped Bales in 40 Foot Boxes, 8 Ft Doors preferred for Fork Lift Loading, Propane. Brown Stock Pulp could be manufactured when quality of Chips lower.
https://www.basininstitute.org/home/image.html?zn=7&id=3e6f599a562e0236890cb0b3bd7243d5
AFAIK. These CP 343400 Chip Cars were amongst FIRST NEW cars to wearCP Rail Action Red Paint and Multimark 1968-69.
The Dumper also handed Trucks.Previously the Mill had a Home Made Switcher made from a small CPR Tender, Chain Drive on top of Truck w GM Diesel which swiveled w Truck.Crestbrook Switcher No. 003, Chain Drive Diesel in Coal Bunker, Right End. Note Coal Sheet Rivet Line.
Floor filled w Concrete.
https://www.basininstitute.org/home/image.html?zn=7&id=06e496091b46cc8b5b3ee8f68c86e847
I left the Caboose and jumped off bottom step, noise from Diesel beneath concealing approach from Left of a High-Nose GP9 running long-hood first.I did not look and all but stepped in front of Unit, it's leading Right hand rail brushing my left Cheek and Nose.
Bell under Pilot Diagonal Corner on F End.Almost.Safety First.
blue streak 1Strange that it could be determined that SUV was also trying to cross tracks?? Chain reaction that took back of of trailer into SUV. Determining how that happened is questionable.
Being a bit more judgmental: the SUV driver may have seen the truck coming across, and assumed that if the truck driver thought it was OK to cross with all that length and slow speed, she could dart across the other way while all his length was still on the crossing as a 'gauge' of sorts. That might have been logical if she could see the oncoming train, but her first real view of it over the flatbed, had she been looking, would have been a few tenths of a second at most before the impact...
SD70Dude NDG Train hits semi trailer, hits SUV at Grade Crossing, Fatal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cp-rail-train-hits-vehicle-maple-ridge-1.6427708 Thank You. That crossing looks like a terrible setup, with a curve and trees on one side and a very short distance to an intersection on the other.
NDG Train hits semi trailer, hits SUV at Grade Crossing, Fatal. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cp-rail-train-hits-vehicle-maple-ridge-1.6427708 Thank You.
That crossing looks like a terrible setup, with a curve and trees on one side and a very short distance to an intersection on the other.
In the article it is stated that RCMP and the local police agency are requesting dash cam or other videos of the incident. Don't Canadian locomotives have forward facing video cameras like many US locomotives have?
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Grand Trunk Pacific construction video. This looks a lot like the Wabamun lake area about 50 miles west of Edmonton, in particular the lakeshore curve shot just after the 7 minute mark is a dead ringer for the curve just east of the village of Whitewood Sands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyfDHIsdKxg
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Strange that it could be determined that SUV was also trying to cross tracks?? Chain reaction that took back of of trailer into SUV. Determining how that happened is questionable.
Overmod Edmonton trolleybuses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMBG4ELc6k An American equivalent was Dayton, which I think still operates them with dual-mode "NexGen" coaches.
Edmonton trolleybuses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMBG4ELc6k
An American equivalent was Dayton, which I think still operates them with dual-mode "NexGen" coaches.
Thanks! I especially enjoyed seeing the shots on Jasper Ave and 109 St, with the old CP downtown station, overpass and great big neon sign. None of that remains today.
We still have our U2 LRT cars in service, though they have been heavily rebuilt and I don't believe any are still in the original light blue and yellow livery.
Virtual Railfan has a clip up, looks like 5 or 6 or so centerbeams.Perhaps they should start installing rotary couplers on CBs to lessen the number of their coupled neighbors that flip over during "incidents"...
Looks like some centerbeams went on the ground at Tower 55 in Ft. Worth yesterday.
rdamon BaltACD Lithonia Operator During the STB hearings on the Amtrak Gulf Coast issue, various railroad officials have referred to a train performance analysis method know as "stringlining." Does anyone know what that is? The only stinglining I know of is when trains derail on curves. It is mapping out the operation of train schedules on a stringline graph of their operation with the elements showing Trains based upon progrssing time and locations across the track segments being viewed. When was the last time this thread was on topic?
BaltACD Lithonia Operator During the STB hearings on the Amtrak Gulf Coast issue, various railroad officials have referred to a train performance analysis method know as "stringlining." Does anyone know what that is? The only stinglining I know of is when trains derail on curves. It is mapping out the operation of train schedules on a stringline graph of their operation with the elements showing Trains based upon progrssing time and locations across the track segments being viewed.
Lithonia Operator During the STB hearings on the Amtrak Gulf Coast issue, various railroad officials have referred to a train performance analysis method know as "stringlining." Does anyone know what that is? The only stinglining I know of is when trains derail on curves.
The only stinglining I know of is when trains derail on curves.
It is mapping out the operation of train schedules on a stringline graph of their operation with the elements showing Trains based upon progrssing time and locations across the track segments being viewed.
When was the last time this thread was on topic?
Just like old light bulbs - it will flicker on from time to time.
Thanks, Balt.
Still in training.
Lithonia OperatorDuring the STB hearings on the Amtrak Gulf Coast issue, various railroad officials have referred to a train performance analysis method know as "stringlining." Does anyone know what that is? The only stinglining I know of is when trains derail on curves.
During the STB hearings on the Amtrak Gulf Coast issue, various railroad officials have referred to a train performance analysis method know as "stringlining." Does anyone know what that is?
King County Metro trolleybuses share the downtown transit tunnel with Sound Transit LRV's.
Seattle has a thriving trolleybus-trackless-trolley system.
They rode much nicer than current buses. And the seats weren't anywhere near as hard.
We also had an electric version in Edmonton. I think the Illinois Railway Museum has one of these now.
I actually had to go look (no pun intended) to see how a fishbowl was built that late. That 1982 date was within 3 years of GM in the United States giving up on building the New Look's replacement.
Turns out the Canadian GMDD kept producing the older design... many of which, apparently, were sold to the United States even though produced in Canada; very soon after making the Calgary bus, they implemented an 'improved nose' design called the Classic (which didn't sell all that much better than RTS).
The thing that killed them all was their high-floor design.
I wish they'd build some of those in Jasper. Bears get killed on the track every year here too, but it never seems to make the news. There have even been a number of three legged ones over the years, which became that way after getting drunk on rotten grain and then not rolling out of the way in time..... (they like to monopolize a pile of grain and are loathe to leave it even when sober). Then they become even more dependent on grain, since it can't run away.
That poor Inco crew. Did everything right and died just the same.
A conductor lost his foot in a similar injury at the Roberts Bank port a few years ago. He went to kick a misaligned drawbar into place at the last second, missed, and his foot was between the drawbars when the joint made.
SD70DudeGreat to have you back! Here's another example of string lining, with a fatality. I suppose that brings this thread full circle. http://tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2019/r19t0147/r19t0147.html
Here's another example of string lining, with a fatality. I suppose that brings this thread full circle.
http://tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2019/r19t0147/r19t0147.html
15 degree curve is rather sharp - even if it is in yard territory.
Great to have you back!
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