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Post by BreannaF on Apr 22, 2009 6:25:29 GMT -8
Not photos per se, but there are some in the link, and this might possibly be of interest to someone here: A message from the Yahoo Group "Oregon Street Railways" came to my mailbox this morning, from the folks at The Oregon Electric Railway Museum near Portland: Hello Group Just for the record, on 4/24/09 we (OERHS) are moving British Columbia Electric Ry. interurban 1304 out of the museum at Brooks, OR, and she is on her way to the Fraser valley back home in Canada. I have no doubts that sometime in the future, we will be able to ride her up there! A fine car and very original but she was too big for our railway and we could not obtain the extremely rare electrical parts she needs. Fairwell 1304!. I shall never forget the thrill of running that powerful car! See photo attached in gallery. Mike Parker OERHS I havent been out there in a number of years, so this one doesn't particularly stand out in my mind. But there is a bit of interesting history and a few pictures HERE.
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Post by CN2972South on Jun 19, 2009 16:38:05 GMT -8
Well I did it. I passed my ride along exam. I'm now a fully certified locomotive engineer.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 19, 2009 16:56:22 GMT -8
Well I did it. I passed my ride along exam. I'm now a fully certified locomotive engineer. I'm glad you are now certified loco.....congratulations! Hard work paying off is a good thing.
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Post by Ferryman on Jun 19, 2009 18:39:21 GMT -8
Congrats Tyler!!! When do we get a locomotive tour?
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Post by Mill Bay on Jun 19, 2009 20:18:03 GMT -8
Congrats Tyler!!! When do we get a locomotive tour? Nice, Tyler... now we'll know who's name to look for after the next derailment, . Actually, I'm sure that's probably the last thing any engineer wants to have their name connected to, though.
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Post by CN2972South on Jun 20, 2009 13:19:48 GMT -8
Congrats Tyler!!! When do we get a locomotive tour? Nice, Tyler... now we'll know who's name to look for after the next derailment, . Actually, I'm sure that's probably the last thing any engineer wants to have their name connected to, though. Heheh, yep the last thing I want to think about going down the track. But I have to be prepared for it because s*** happens.
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Post by pscurr on Sept 8, 2009 19:50:11 GMT -8
You never know when to expect the unexpected... Just outside cleaning the bits out of the car after the drive from Kelowna this weekend, when a cyclist stopped to comment on the train switch signal that I have in the front garden and it turns out he is retired conductor from CN.Southern... He has photos on the following web site. Scroll through transportion to trains. www.hankstruckpictures.com/
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 9, 2009 9:24:52 GMT -8
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Post by Freeland on Aug 3, 2010 7:09:13 GMT -8
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Post by CN2972South on Sept 5, 2010 7:33:00 GMT -8
Here's a challenge for any die-hard train know-it-alls out there: Name all the operable parts shown in these next three pictures: Haha, I have no clue what those do, and I'm an engineer. The engineer wouldn't be caught dead shovelling coal, that's the fireman's job. BTW No.7 is oil fired, no shoveling required.
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 5, 2010 8:35:50 GMT -8
The engineer wouldn't be caught dead shovelling coal, that's the fireman's job. BTW No.7 is oil fired, no shoveling required. What would he have been doing then? Checking on the fire? Because a bunch of steam exploded from the cab just then too.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 2, 2010 8:16:56 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 2, 2010 20:20:41 GMT -8
My wife was in Vancouver last weekend and came home Sunday night with that very book in hand. No, it was not a gift for me, but a teaching aid for her to use as a prop for getting Grade 8 kids to show some interest in Canadian history. This just might do the trick, at least with some of them. The book is first rate. The song could be our alternate national anthem!
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Post by Dane on Oct 3, 2010 9:51:09 GMT -8
The side of the old railcar shown in the top photo or three says "Avant Garde" on the side, in the classic yellow-on-green paint scheme. Does anyone have any information on the reason that these railcars are here? Until not that long ago, there was a caboose right near there too, but it's gone now. They're owned by a private individual who used to charter out rail cars. BNSF, as recently as 2008 (and maybe more recently) used his cars for employee specials. One of the cars there in New West is the Parlous Car used on the Royal Hudson from 1997-1999. The car's owner actually created the dinner train concept for BC Rail, which was supposed to operate with his cars. He added a few cars top his fleet in preparation for the government for BCR's lease of his cars, and then a former dinner train in Washington sold a spare complete train set for almost nothing to BC Rail.
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 3, 2010 11:09:22 GMT -8
...and then a former dinner train in Washington sold a spare complete train set for almost nothing to BC Rail. So now he's just pulling a Queen of Sidney and letting them rot?
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Post by Northern Exploration on Oct 3, 2010 11:09:42 GMT -8
There still are a few private rail cars still around. Higgins and Burke or better known as Mother Parkers Coffee owns one that was used by the King and Queen on their pre-war tour of Canada. www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/813446--private-rail-car-steeped-in-nostalgiaI am not sure where it is now, but CN's Presidents car used to be parked immediately behind the Convention Centre here and was still used for special meetings. CN had a large number of them position throughout the country and many if not all have been sold off. I know the one that was positioned in Edmonton was sold to somewhere in the States for tours.
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Post by Mill Bay on Feb 15, 2011 19:03:06 GMT -8
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jul 21, 2011 11:59:37 GMT -8
Tonight I am going to the Railway Children, a play based on the movie. It is in a tent over one of the tracks at the round house railway museum. An old yard shuttle pushes the historical british train into the "theatre" at appropriate points of the play. I will do my best to get some shots of some of the outdoor collection. I believe after the run the train gets to stay at the museum. The museum is very much in its early stages of developement. www.mirvish.com/shows/therailwaychildrenwww.imdb.com/title/tt0066279/www.trha.ca/museum.html
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 25, 2011 16:04:18 GMT -8
This photo is from the guidebook to the 1962 World's Fair. - it shows various area attractions, such as this one. I'm willing to be that Mr. Ferry Nut has ridden this train, if it still existed in the late 1960s or later.
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Post by FNS on Jan 14, 2012 10:24:34 GMT -8
This photo is from the guidebook to the 1962 World's Fair. - it shows various area attractions, such as this one. I'm willing to be that Mr. Ferry Nut has ridden this train, if it still existed in the late 1960s or later. I was only one-quarter to a half year old when the Seattle fair was going on. ;D Portland? Hadn't been there yet until the 1970s or 1980's. Would be interesting to know how long this train lasted.
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Post by lmtengs on Jan 14, 2012 11:15:07 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Feb 25, 2012 23:43:45 GMT -8
How does one know where a train is headed, just seeing it along the track?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 26, 2012 7:44:21 GMT -8
How does one know where a train is headed, just seeing it along the track? The cargo and direction are usually a good location: - coal cars westward mean Roberts Bank. - double-stack westward means a Vancouver area container port
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Post by WettCoast on Mar 11, 2012 20:32:49 GMT -8
BNSF locomotives so far from home... East bound empty CN-BNSF coal train on CN's Bulkley Subdivision (BC North main line) between Pitman & Pacific, north east of Terrace, BC - 8 March 2012 photo © WCK/JST by Wett Coast, on FlickrThis train originates, I believe, from the US state of Montana. In order to export this coal it has to be shipped into Canada, as ports that can handle it on Puget Sound (or elsewhere in the US Pacific North West) apparently do not exist. Furthermore the southern BC terminal at Roberts Bank apparently can't handle much if any of this. Therefore it is moved over a very long and circuitous route to Ridley Terminals at Prince Rupert where finally it gets transferred over to bulk commodity ships for export to Asia. I understand that this train has moved over BNSF lines in the US to an interchange with CN south of Vancouver, BC. CN then moves it north-east over its lines to Tete Jaune Cache (west of Jasper). From there it heads west to Prince Rupert over CN's BC North main line. En route it may pass over CP's lines in the Fraser & Thompson canyons where the CP/CN directional running agreement is in effect. It is also possible that this train travelled north in Montana to Alberta and an interchange with CP, who moved it north to Edmonton, and then west on CN to Pr. Rupert. Perhaps this train has had BNSF, CN & CP power on it during the various segments of its long journey.
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Post by lmtengs on Mar 11, 2012 20:55:06 GMT -8
Generally the reason that coal is shipped through Prince Rupert is due to the shorter over-sea shipping distance. Prince Rupert is 400 miles closer to Shanghai than Vancouver, 500 miles closer to Shanghai than Seattle, and over 1200 miles closer to Shanghai than Los Angeles, which is the location of the US's main coal terminals. That 500 miles difference does in fact equate to lower prices and faster shipping time through Rupert rather than the alternatives, and this is why the seemingly large 'detour' up North is made.
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