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Calgary GM New Look Coach Preserved.
Thank You.
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.
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.
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.
Seattle has a thriving trolleybus-trackless-trolley system.
King County Metro trolleybuses share the downtown transit tunnel with Sound Transit LRV’s.
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.
Thanks, Balt.
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Class ’ New Look ’ GM Autobus my Father and myself rode, 1960, in one-time Salmon Paint scheme.
Astounding!! So Modern.
Air vents below windows inside to reduce Misting and Fogging.
https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/pics/montreal-2025gmnl2-luke.jpg
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, CNR Central Station of CNR Electric Operation beyond bus.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cnr_electric/MRT_gallery.htm
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cnr_self-propelled/one.htm
At this time, 1959ish, these still operated at Rush Hour until recently.
Preserved.
Montreal Tramways Company No. 975. American Car and Foundry. Gasoline.
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Just like old light bulbs - it will flicker on from time to time.
Looks like some centerbeams went on the ground at Tower 55 in Ft. Worth yesterday.
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”…[^o)]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?