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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.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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...
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!")
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
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.
SD70Dude De Gaulle should have stuffed himself and his "Vive le Quebec libre!" bit where the sun don't shine.
De Gaulle should have stuffed himself and his "Vive le Quebec libre!" bit where the sun don't shine.
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..."
rixflix Sometimes I need closed captioning to understand British You Tube narrators. Rick
Sometimes I need closed captioning to understand British You Tube narrators.
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.
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.
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.
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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!
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.
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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CSSHEGEWISCH No snow blowers for urban streets that I've ever seen. The Illinois Tollway Authority does have winged snowplows in their snowfighting fleet. They have a definite resemblance to a Jordan spreader when the wings are extended.
No snow blowers for urban streets that I've ever seen. The Illinois Tollway Authority does have winged snowplows in their snowfighting fleet. They have a definite resemblance to a Jordan spreader when the wings are extended.
A city near me uses snowblowers to clear out the streets as a clean-up method. Faster than front loaders. Some town and county highway departments have them, and the state definitely does. We're in the "snow belt," so single snowfalls of a foot or more are always a consideration.
Some municipalities have snowblowers that hang on a front loader.
Virtually all plows used on the highways in this area (and many used in cities and villages) have at least a right side wing. Some have wings on both sides. Localities generally use a "wing man," although the state has gone to one-man plows for many routes. The driver operates the wing.
The underbody scraper I saw used in Michigan back in the day is a rarity here.
tree68 adkrr64 Why is it that the front wheels on graders are designed to tilt from one side or the other? I've always been under the impression that it was to better counteract the side force of the blade, particularly when cutting. Note that when used for cutting (ie, grading a road by taking off the top layer) the angle of the blade itself is different than when it's being used for moving snow, when the angle is more dragging than cutting. I don't think that's adjustable from the cab - you have to loosen bolts and adjust the tilt of the blade.
adkrr64 Why is it that the front wheels on graders are designed to tilt from one side or the other?
I've always been under the impression that it was to better counteract the side force of the blade, particularly when cutting.
Note that when used for cutting (ie, grading a road by taking off the top layer) the angle of the blade itself is different than when it's being used for moving snow, when the angle is more dragging than cutting. I don't think that's adjustable from the cab - you have to loosen bolts and adjust the tilt of the blade.
Cutting Edge Engineering has a series of videos detailing repairs being made to a Cat Grader. In this particular video it is demonstrated that the blade can be moved to almost any angle and position that the operator may want for whatever the reaseon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK1Wq1HgSVE
I lost a wooden sleigh to a Blower, fragments and metal-strip runner found down the block.
http://delmarhistoricalandartsociety.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-highway-torch-or-smudge-pots.html
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