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Posted by NDG on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 9:22 AM
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Posted by tree68 on Friday, June 3, 2022 9:56 PM

blue streak 1

Actually we had a large building  that had painted white a large arrow with airport name also white and mileage 12-1/2 miles.

Unless you're that guy that painted "Welcome to [can't remember the place]" on his roof, except he lives no where near the city he put there...

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Posted by NDG on Thursday, June 2, 2022 6:48 AM
Outremont Arrow.
 
Yes!
 
Brought to mind Arrow and Name atop Gas Holder 
( judging by shadow of Cage, a Rising/Falling version )
in Outremont ( Montreal ) a similar identifier. C. 1947.
 
CPR Roundhouse adjacent.
 
 
Google.
 


 
 
North End Cartierville Airfield. c. 1947
 
Canadair Works, Bottom of Photo.
 
 
CNR Electric Left Right, Top Val Royal Station.
 
Montreal Tramways Cartierville 17 beneath CNR Top Right.
 Streetcar Facing North Bois Franc Road. 
 
Tramways Spur to Aircraft Factories on Bois Franc Road.
 
Streetcar traveling West to Aircraft Plants Bois Franc Rd. C. 1959.
 
 
Thank You.
 

 

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, June 2, 2022 12:11 AM

Actually we had a large building  that had painted white a large arrow with airport name also white and mileage 12-1/2 miles.

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Posted by NDG on Monday, May 30, 2022 8:02 PM
FWIW
 
Writ Large.
 
Station Names were written large back in the day in the event an aeroplane became lost and it's Pilot
had to reorient himself.
 
 
More historic images, here.
 
 

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, May 30, 2022 6:48 PM

NDG
A Near Thing.

Worst part is that they probably bragged about it to their friends - after they changed their shorts...

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Posted by NDG on Monday, May 30, 2022 11:26 AM
A Near Thing.
 
 

Thank You.

 

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Posted by NDG on Monday, May 30, 2022 6:26 AM
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Posted by SD70Dude on Monday, May 30, 2022 2:39 AM

The littlest Train Master?

The A1A GMD1s also had smaller wheels on their centre idler axles.

Greetings from Alberta

-an Articulate Malcontent

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Posted by NDG on Saturday, May 28, 2022 6:58 AM
Rare Diesel on ebay.
 
 
 
CLC-F-M H-10-64. CN 1615 CRG-12b  CLC 1951.
 
Passenger Train P E I.
 
One of Three with S/G 1615-17. No MU.
 
Note LOWER Journal on Idler Axle.
 
This Class was used to Dieselize much of Montreal and Southern Counties. Electric.
 
 
 
One was wrecked, One was to be Preserved, but Scrapping had begun.
 

Thank You.

 

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Posted by NDG on Thursday, May 26, 2022 8:24 PM
 
 
 
You Bet!
 
Probably trucks lined up at right angles loading up, too.
 
FYI.
 
80 Year Land Mark Gone.
 
This Telephone Pole set in 1942 now replaced.
 
From the pre-Dial days of Open Wire and Magnetos.
 
 
Note weather-worn top.
 
Ety Potash Train went East.
 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, May 26, 2022 3:59 PM

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Too Quiet.
 
Riding around on my 4-8-2 Bike today Idly wondering why there have been
FEW TRAINS for two days..
 
Then remembered this big mess East of the Divide about 170 miles to the East.
 
 

Should be a well fertilized roadbed for a short span.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by NDG on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 11:01 PM
Too Quiet.
 
Riding around on my 4-8-2 Bike today Idly wondering why there have been
FEW TRAINS for two days..
 
Then remembered this big mess East of the Divide about 170 miles to the East.
 
 
 
Sure quiet in a Rwy. Town when most of the Jobs and the Yard Engine are gone.
 
Turntable and part of Roundhouse still here.
 
Three 3 Cranes, two in Storage incl 250-Ton w 12-wheel Depressed Centre  Flat.
 
 
Sad.
 

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Posted by NDG on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 9:44 PM

Thank You, Sir!

I learned to drive a bike in Montreal and am not afraid of traffic.

Biggest fear are cars, and logging trucks w logs sticking out.

Many do not know Road Rules.

Street Car Tracks and Rain.

Did not know there was a term for that ' Crowding ' or what ever, went eight miles today, weather cool. Mr. Kat dozed, I think.

Usually drive Gears and Chain until teeth wear so much the chain skips when pedalling hard.

One day I was in traffic at speed  and decided to use Left Turn Hand Signal to alert motorist On Block I was Turning Left.

 Left Arm Horizontal out like Semaphore as per the Road Rules for Left Turn.

Lady approaching thought I ' Put the Board On' Her, Slammed on the Brakes and just by great luck averted a BIG Tail End crash in HER Lane.

By using a Bike calculate I have SAVED over $60,000 since I sold my Car.

Gasoline $1.99 C/Litre, Diesel $2.12 C/Litre. Don't know what it is @ Commercial Truck Card Locks.

Have NOT driven a Motor Vehicle for 3 1/2 Years.

Still have Air Ticket for Trucks, and for Motorcycle but banned from Driving at Night re vision.

 

Anyway.

 

Bears out, Lilacs bloomed this morning.

 

Thank You.

 

 

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 4:51 PM

I liked the Biopace chain rings.  Then again, I never 'split' with them... just stayed on one ring and twiddled the front derailleur a bit the relieve the 'scrooping' as I got to one edge of the rear cluster or the other...

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Posted by NDG on Sunday, May 22, 2022 2:19 PM
Small Town Find!
 
Behind a a Service Station where I rarely go, even on a 4-8-2 Bike,
I found an Air Dispenser that does NOT take Coins and dispenses AIR,
( albeit at High Pressure ) for FREE!
 
Thank You.
 
BTW.
 
1991 Norco Bigfoot.
 
Bike I still use, altho' Biopace Chain Ring is long worn out and gone, at least Twice.
 

https://www.mtbr.com/media/1991-norco-bigfoot.1493649/

 

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Posted by NDG on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 7:28 PM
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Posted by NDG on Monday, May 16, 2022 10:03 PM
Streetcar Track Remnants.
 
As Mr. ACD points out most large cities have Streetcar
 and Interurban, let alone Wharfand Freight Remnants to
 Refrigerated Warehouses and such buried away to
 reappear decades after.
 
Here is what might be an interesting link in the city 
of Vancouver, B C.
 
 
 another in Nelson, B C.
 
 
 
And Steam in Kamloops.
 
 
 
From this Site.
 
 

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, May 16, 2022 7:07 PM

NDG
Streetcar Track Puller. 
When the end came for streetcars the rails were often left in
place, and paved over.
 
Other times they were extracted from streets and taken away
for scrap.
 
Many methods were devised to remove the rails.
 
Here is one used in Verdun, Montreal utilizing a large
Hydraulic Cylinder and a Internal Combustion power plant.
 
 
Same location on Google.
 

Thank You.

B&O in Baltimore had tracks laid in the middle of Pratt Street as well as Key Highway out of Locust Point Yard North to downtown and ultimately continuing East on Pratt Street.  In the early 1970's it was not uncommon to see two B&O yard jobs working various customers on Pratt Street - the engine from Locust Point handled the water side customers, the other engine from Mt. Clare andled the land side customers.  Service was stopped about 1976-77 when the Harbor Place redevelopment was started.  At that time the rails stayed in the roadways.

One cold, rainy morning during rush hour, a rail broke out of the street on Pratt Street and speared a automobile, killing its unfortunate driver.  After that it was a rush program to get the rails pulled out of Pratt Street.  Tracks stayed in Key Highway until the middle 1980's when McCormick (the spice people) closed their Key Highway facility and moved to Hunt Valley in suburban Baltimore County; the Key Highway facility was actively switched until it was closed - then the rails were taken up.

 

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by NDG on Monday, May 16, 2022 1:54 PM
Streetcar Track Puller.
 
When the end came for streetcars the rails were often left in
place, and paved over.
 
Other times they were extracted from streets and taken away
for scrap.
 
Many methods were devised to remove the rails.
 
Here is one used in Verdun, Montreal utilizing a large
Hydraulic Cylinder and a Internal Combustion power plant.
 
 
Same location on Google.
 
 

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Posted by Overmod on Saturday, May 14, 2022 11:31 AM

Have to love the late-Fifties sci-fi B-movie introduction!

Interesting to compare this with the recent 'Not a Boring Competition' for rapid tunnelling methods...

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Posted by NDG on Friday, May 13, 2022 3:13 PM
Ripple Rock. 1958.
 
OT.
 
For M.M.
 
 

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Posted by NDG on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 11:53 AM
Ventilation Shaft CNR Mount Royal Tunnel.
 
Much has been written about Canadian Northern/CNR 's Mount Royal Tunnel.
 
 
 
 
 
And So On.
 
Not often visited is the Surface Ventilation Shaft  Building.
 
 
 
Ventilation Shaft  Building appears in this 1947 image at Top Left under Numbers 12 - 27.
 
Approx. 20 x 20 structure to left of larger building on Corner.
 
 
Was guarded by Sentry during War.
 
 
Triangle w Curved Side.  New Construction now to East.
 
 
Tunnel Exit. North End. 1947. CPR Double Track, Above.
 
 

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Posted by NDG on Monday, May 9, 2022 12:35 PM
A Survivor.
 
Back in the Mid  Eighties I Trained down to the Coast and had some time to kill in Vancouver.
 
Immediately noticed how many things had changed and decided to travel by City Bus over the Lions Gate Bridge to visit the PGE/BCR Shops.
 
 
Much gone at this location.
 
This Photo SHOWS their H-10-44, ex Columbia and Cowlitz, facing the shop.
 
 
Absent were the Railway Research Shays.
 
 
 
And the Two Hunsletts.
 
 
Back on the Bus.
 
Decided to return Downtown by the Second Narrows Bridge.
 
 
Rail Second Narrows Bridge.
 
 
 
 
Whilst wending back Downtown on the GM Coach along the shore, pondering all what was not, looking out the window at the large Grain Elevators beyond the tracks along the Shore.
 
 
 
There were no trains in the way, and Just by Chance, thru a small slot, saw a CP 539 Switcher lurking in the Elevator.
 
We heard they were EXTINCT on CPR!!  BUT!!
 
 
Scroll Down.
 
 
A GREAT FIND, as Second Generation had claimed so many as happened w Steam not all that long ago.
 
A Mission for the 'Morrow!!
 
The next day we rounded up Two 2 Mountain ( 4-8-2 ) Bikes and cycled down to see!.
 
Yes, it was REAL!
 
Then we found out the truth.
 
The locomotive had been sold to the Elevator and never repainted.
 
( He had never been in the Cab of a Diesel so old. )
 
Controller Handle Hanging by it's Key on the Controller itself. 
 
 
Just Wonderful w appropriate exclamations.
 
Shut down for Track Work, Track dug up both ways.
 
Another for the Torch when no longer needed or worn out.
 
Wrong.
 
It was sent the Squamish, Preserved and Repainted and Survives Today.
 
 
A Survivor.
 
 
Thank You.
 
P.S.
 
The Vancouver New Look GM Coaches had lost their Chiming Fare Boxes which audibly rang out the coin fares deposited,
 
Roster.
 

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Posted by NDG on Friday, May 6, 2022 10:45 PM
Fusees.
 
Thank You, Sir.
 
The last GREEN Fusees, 5 Minutes, on a Hand Dowel I saw were c. 1965 in manufacture from C-I-L. in lockers, in Cabooses which had BINS for Fusees and Track Torpedoes.
 
As I understand GREEN Fusees 5 Min on a Stick were intended for Passenger Service and to be used more for Hand Signalling in congested Yards and Interlockings whilst Leading a Backing Passenger Car Draft a fair distance using Backing Hose w whistle into a Terminal.
 
Local Operating Conditions would dictate.
 
When traveling SLOW in Train Order Territory with NO ' Tail End ' by Train Order, you were obliged to toss out Red Fusees from rear of Caboose regularly to Protect Your Tail End on the move.
 
The NAIL was SUPPOSED to stick in Tie ( Not Concrete, Nor Metal, DUH! ) at a 45 Degree angle.
 
( Last time I looked North Switch Track Three 3 Fort Steele Yard had STEEL TIES. C. 1996. )
 
Another Train Three 3 Units, who had just set off 4000 Tons in a storage Track, could be overtaking you at Track Speed, or MORE, whilst you ground along at Single Digit ranges.
 
Some MoW  Flagging Rules required Caboose to Replace Torpedoes before Yellow Over Red Flag Exploded by YOUR Train.
 
 
CP 8605 could have hit a Rock. Rocks larger than Microwaves were SMALL in the Mountains, as those F Unit CN 9000 Guys KNOW West from Jasper!!
 
 
Medium Rock, Kootenay Division.
 
 
 
CN 9344, W Front MU purchased to Rebuild. Did not happen.
 
 
 
CP 4506 was SECOND Unit as I recall, Lead Unit made it across Wash Out at Abutment. We scoped it all out at the time.
 
For Modellers.
 
Cooling Air Duct Roof some, but NOT ALL CPR H-16-44s and NO Train Masters.
 
 
On Scrap Dock w Traveling Crane. CP Ogden Shops, Calgary 1976.
 
Electrical Cabinet w Vent Louvres, Top, visible thru Window.
 
Curved Cut Out ahead of Number was Heater and Fan on Running Board. = got really Cold and often froze when engine idling at - 40 C = No Heat in Cab,
= Friction Tape on Doors, Cigarette Packages to scrape Mail Slot in Frost on Windows inside.
 
Older Geeps had Heater Fans in Electrical Cabinet and really SUCKED!!
 
For some reason CP 8714 received a Rectangular Tubular Duct, Dude!
 
 
 
 
 

Thank You.

 

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Posted by SD70Dude on Friday, May 6, 2022 5:34 PM

Did the crew on 4506's train make it out?

Looks like part of 8605's pilot has been dented back, maybe it came into contact with the rail on some rough track?

Thanks for confirming that there really were green fusees, I've never seen one in person and even the yellow ones are rare now.  

Greetings from Alberta

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Posted by NDG on Friday, May 6, 2022 3:09 PM
Various CPR Updates, Information from Internet.
 
CPR Station Golden. Looking East. 1965.
 
 
Concrete Pumphouse Building and Storage Tank for Bunker Oil for Steam Locomotives.
 
GP9 and CLC Cab Unit on hand.
 
Ebay..
 
CP 8603 Golden B C. 1971. Train Eastbound.
 
 
 
Station roof above Radiators.
 
CLC Diamond Builders Plates later removed and Sold to Collectors.
 
Track to left Kootenay Central Branch/ Windermere Sub South
to Colvalli 166.7 Miles. Parallels Columbia and Kootenay Rivers.
 
Ford Bronco. Left.
 
 
CP 8418 Cranbrook 1980.
 
 
 
AFAIK.
 
This was the LAST Unrebuilt GP7!?
 
Run off of end of Yard Lead and sent in for Rebuild.
 
 
CP 4506 Old Fort Steele. 1974.
 
Fell thru washed out Abutment, Wild Horse Creek,. Scrapped Here.
 
 
 
 
 
CP 8605-8718 Cranbrook, 1974.
 
 
CP 8605 Converted from Long Hood as Front c. 1961.
 
Bulge Roof CP 8718 to Right of Horn is Air Duct welded to roof of
cab to conduct cooling air from Short Hood into top of Electrical Cabinet in Cab.
 
Original openings were in Cabinet Sides and let Heat and Gases into Cab. Crews Shoved Train Orders and Rags into slots, some of which fell into Relays and caused Fires.
 
With Pipe Extension on Train Line, if left down and not put up on Foot Board
as is shown, Glad Hand would drag over Hard Surface Roads and not
couple, or WORSE, NOT UNCOUPLE, and tear Piping out from under Unit.
 
Builders Plates have now been Removed and Sold to Collectors.
 
Locomotives have less than a year to go, Likewise Ice House to left.
Tank once for Storing, Heating and Lading Bunker Oil into Tenders, right.
Tank, Spouts and Stand have not long , either.
 
 
 
 
More.
 
 
 
 
Two CPR Stations No Electricity nor Running Water into Seventies.
 
 
 

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Posted by NDG on Thursday, May 5, 2022 7:20 AM
Electric Locomotives.
 
FYI. 
 
 

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Posted by NDG on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 1:08 PM
Transition CPR CLC/F-M 1600 HP Locomotives.
 
CPR CLC C-Line Locomotives were equipped w Westinghouse Electrical Gear.
 
They ' Transitioned ' seamlessly with soft ' Clicks ' from Electrical Cabinet,
which protruded uncomfortably into Cab behind Crew, w smooth Traction at the Rail.
 
C-Lines were GOOD locomotives for Pull and held the rail WELL.  
Smoke from the Traction Motors would climb the sides of the Carbody
at the Stop at the Summit at Yahk, the Junction w the Spokane International/UP
after the previous 2-Hour Pull from Sirdar/Kootenay Landing.
 
Given Sand and even without, C-Lines would get there, or until they Boiled Dry.
 
CPR H-16-44 Locomotives had GE Electrical Gear.
 
When Making Transition at Full Throttle w Full Tonnage, they would Transition
 by Dropping Load, Making Transition and violently picking up Load again
 at Full Revolutions on the OP.
 
The Slack would run in and a ' pause ' could be felt in the Caboose followed 
by a vicious Jolt as train Stretched Out even seventy or eighty cars back.
 
If not ready, the Trainman's head would hit the Rear Cupola window
and spill his Coffee sometimes break the glass.
 
In Rain or greasy Rail, when the Units started to slip, or Sand ran out,
the slack would run in and out rhythmically in Caboose
advertising a Stall, Double and Flag may soon be in order.
 
When Slack a Major Factor traveling FAST, Tail End men sat sorda sideways
w Coffee or Tea out overalleyway between Cupola Seats.
 
Had to RIDE IT to Believe it!!
 
A SUF ' Wood ' Caboose rode nice on Leaf Springs!
 
Cupola had Fusee Racks w Red and Yellow Fusees, and, often
the FIVE 5 Minute GREEN Fusees on a Dowel C I L,  for Hand Signals
rather than a Red or Yellow where the latter two may be confused
 with Caution or Stop.
 
Usually, before Train Radio ( CP 1.  161.475 ) a five foot length
 of Train Order Hoop topped w a Yellow Cloth Flag was in a Fusee Hole,
 the Flag was waved out a Cupola Side Window, depending on curves, 
 to Highball the Head End when passing over Permanent or Temporary Flag
 and Lamp Protected Slow Orders and when Switch relined behind
 and Trainman Aboard.
 
By Night a Lamp was Used, or Yellow Fusee.
 
If Snowing or Fog, Engineer Guessed.
 
Often Telegraph Poles had small Black On White Square Signs
w Numerals 10 20 30 etc. showing car lengths to Siding Switch Stands for Slowing coming in and distance
from Switch Pulling Out and TM back on.
 
Diesels and Radio in our time.
 
FWIW.
 
CP 8552 at Tadanac CM&S Smelter. Location once named Smelter Junction.
Caption is Wrong.
 
 
This locomotive is painted in original scheme w Grey on Rad end
 but has had the Control Stand moved over so the SHORT Hood leads.
 Note ' F ' .
 
Note Sun Awning. Gets hot here and hosts Rattlesnakes.
 
Line branched at this location down thru Switchback to Trail and Up to Warfield
 and Rossland where they once met GN RY.
 
Just out of sight to right is Banjo Signal at Level Crossing.
 
FWIW 2.
 
Just after receiving it's Action Red Paint job,in January 1972,
CP 8552 was sent up to Warfield  4% to Assist CP 8900 Train Master
 and they hit Head On.
 
 CP 8552 in it's shiny NEW paint handled next to Caboose to Calgary,
 and Scrapped.
 
 Thank You.

 

 

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