ISN’T INSOMNIA FUN?
http://www.ge.com/products_services/rail.html – sorry, not an embed.
Surely these are the mountains of Canada and not Kazakhstan? - a.s.
Al
matt and I have that poster in the train room.It was in trains magazine awhile back.Yes its canada.We did get up real early on sunday morning to see ups 7605 in GE paint(now repainted) on the q 351 westbound.It was the 5th engine in the 9 engine consist going west in fostoria.
stay safe
Joe
Dude, you are my rock. Thank you! allen
Good Morning fellow insomniac’s here on the west coast it is 3:30 and I could no longer sleep.
The photo is taken on the CP mainline and is called Moran’s curve for the CP photographer who donned snowshoes in the winter to get the manificent shots at this point. The location is just west of Banff and Lake Louise and I believe the River is the Bow. Somewhere in my old 35mm slide collection I tried to duplicate similar scenes (not winter) and think I found the exact location he shot from. Now the next time I go to the storage locker will have to look for them.
Al - in - Stockton
I have a new credo: “When in doubt, guess Moran’s Morant’s curve.”
Is it possible that these Engine Builders cannot castrate the locomotives to meet USA Emissions here at home and must resort to International sales to stay afloat?
I wonder if a certain US state has insomnia when these nice engines go over seas where they may roam without a care to killjoy rules.
Last Chance, Can you explain to me your thinking on the first sentence 'cause it baffels me. As for the second I think its nice they bought from GE rather than Sweden, France, Russia or China. Oh, and what are “killjoy rules”?
Thanks, John
Hi, John, welcome newcomer. Hi, Last Chance, the photo that started this thread was taken in Canada using GE-made freight engines complete with leading hood.
The locomotives mentioned by GE don’t look like that – they are being manufactured in Kazakstan. Accuse GE of using an inappropriate Canadian image in their Annual Report.
I do have an image of a Kazakstan (or should I say, more typically European) locomotive without leading hood. If I can’t post it I’ll copy the link:
GE ecomagination site: http://ge.ecomagination.com/site/products/kevo.html
Also http://ge.ecomagination.com/site/downloads/kevo/kevo_onepager_en.pdf
Just so there’s no misunderstanding, those locomotives are being maufactured in Kazkhkstan for Kazakhstan, by GE. GE now makes about half its money outside the US and it is an incredibly diversified global corporation. GE is also modifying the working components of “Soviet-Era” engines to prolong their life – keeping the outer shell and replacing most everything else. I do not know in which country that work is being done. It could be Russia, but I don&#
Al, I believe you are refering to Morant’s Curve.
Careful now, there is a Morant’s curve which is referred to a lot and another curve closer to Banff that Nick used almost as much as the other, the angle and curve are almost the same but notice the background mountains, big difference, If I’m not mistaken in the Banff-Lake Louise corridor there are probably 5 or more scenes similar to the 2 above.
Here are two videos showing CPR 2816, first overlooking Storm Mountain, and then on Morant’s curve. Maybe between the two you can fix the location. There are similar videos on youtube that you can check out if these two don’t nail if for you./
You know, I took THE CANADIAN from Vancouver to Winnipeg years ago, when VIA was operating it every day. But here’s something I don’t recall:
In the videos and photos relevant to this thread, I wonder which way the water is flowing? Or what side of the Continental Divide lies Morant’s curve etc.?
And while I’m on the subject, how far away is Craigellachie [Canada’s verion of “Promontory Point”]? Is it photogenic too? - a.s.
The river is flowing east, toward Calgary. The setting shown in most of these shots is a climb west toward Field and Golden, and then to Rogers’ Pass (not sure of actual order of these…I’d have to look at a map). I think this is the Bow River. If I am wrong, then the river must be flowing parallel to all the valleys between the various ranges, and that direction is SSE.
Craigellachie is about two hours drive west along the Trans Canada from this point, maybe more. I seem to recall that it is even west of Revelstoke.
-Crandell
Thanks! - a.s.
Yes. The plan is to poison the atmosphere in the countries of our enemies.
What a silly thought.
Al
Craigellachie isn’t particularly photogenic in terms of any kind of sweeping/panoramic photography. The actual ‘Last Spike’ site is a Provincial Rest Stop on HWY 1 (Transcanada) a half hour east of Sicamous, BC. The CP ROW is fenced and there is a period CPR caboose on an adjacent siding which may or may not be good to photographers. IIRC there are also information (Point of Interest) signs. It’s well maintained but is a quite confined space.
Hope this helps.
Charlie
Chilliwack, BC
I’ll just leave this here…
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=246817
Also, you don’t need snowshoes for this shot.
Someone may have asked this already,I didnt read all the posts, but how can a country like Kazakhstan afford these locos…?They are one of the poorest nations in that region !
Man ! That blue sky really set off the color of everything else,WOW ! Beautiful my man, beatutiful !
Perhaps they’re poor because they were communist, but now they are capitalist – or at least more unbuttoned. It’s a separate railroad company that contracted for the new diesel-electric units that are to be made by GE in Kazakhstan. Try this:
http://ge.ecomagination.com/site/products/kevo.html
(aha! imbed worked). Note that the locomotive is based more along Continental than English-speaking and other countries’ use in that the K’stan models have no protruding hood. Neither do the Russian jobs that GE is rehabbing but keeping the exterior shell.
I for one also found it intesting that the GE series abroad is not totally innocent of pollution control – they will conform to U.S. EPA Tier II standards. If you believe as some economists do that alleviating pollution is a “luxury good,” then there are some bootstrapping countries that won’t do without some of it, it seems.
GE stock has been in trouble lately but the locomotive division is doing quite well, according to a brief news spot I read today in finance.yahoo.com.
