NDG
May 25, 2022, 9:44pm
2681
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.
NDG
May 25, 2022, 11:01pm
2682
Too Quiet.
Riding around on my 4-8-2 Bike today Idly wondering why there have been
Then remembered this big mess East of the Divide about 170 miles to the East.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/43-cp-rail-cars-carrying-potash-derail-east-of-fort-macleod-alta-1.5914463
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cp-rail-train-derailment-hwy-3-fort-macleod-alberta-rcmp-1.6462783
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.
http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/cpr_rolling/414503.jpg
Sad.
Thank You.
Should be a well fertilized roadbed for a short span.
NDG
May 26, 2022, 8:24pm
2684
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.
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.5156851,-115.7580163,3a,90y,188.88h,90.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxIuF_2lMUWi03zj9mA2zyQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Note weather-worn top.
Ety Potash Train went East.
Thank You.
NDG
May 28, 2022, 6:58am
2685
Rare Diesel on ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/255556418068?hash=item3b80597a14:g:N3AAAOSw~d9ikZHc
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/N3AAAOSw~d9ikZHc/s-l1600.jpg
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.
http://www.trainweb.org/elso/msc_604.htm
http://www.cwrailway.ca/cnrha.ca/sites/default/files/databook-1964-09(1).pdf
One was wrecked, One was to be Preserved, but Scrapping had begun.
Thank You.
The littlest Train Master?
The A1A GMD1s also had smaller wheels on their centre idler axles.
NDG
May 30, 2022, 6:26am
2687
NDG
May 30, 2022, 11:26am
2688
tree68
May 30, 2022, 6:48pm
2689
Worst part is that they probably bragged about it to their friends - after they changed their shorts…
NDG
May 30, 2022, 8:02pm
2690
FWIW
Writ Large.
Station Names were written large back in the day in the event an aeroplane became lost and it’s Pilot
https://www.jkcc.com/saskpict/saskpict1/caron-min.jpg
More historic images, here.
https://www.jkcc.com/saskpict/chapter3S.html
Thank You.
Actually we had a large building that had painted white a large arrow with airport name also white and mileage 12-1/2 miles.
NDG
June 2, 2022, 6:48am
2692
Outremont Arrow.
Yes!
Brought to mind Arrow and Name atop Gas Holder
CPR Roundhouse adjacent.
https://archivesdemontreal.com/greffe/vues-aeriennes-archives/jpeg/VM97-3_7P15-31.jpg
Google.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Outremont,+Montreal,+QC/@45.5264326,-73.6153868,1223m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cc919846073fde3:0x7c0d0e05ad919a15!8m2!3d45.5142856!4d-73.6090113
North End Cartierville Airfield. c. 1947
Canadair Works, Bottom of Photo.
https://archivesdemontreal.com/greffe/vues-aeriennes-archives/jpeg/VM97-3_7P24-26.jpg
CNR Electric Left Right, Top Val Royal Station.
Montreal Tramways Ca
tree68
June 3, 2022, 9:56pm
2693
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…
NDG
June 14, 2022, 9:22am
2694
NDG
June 14, 2022, 7:35pm
2695
Streetcar Interior, Montreal Tramways One Man Car 1653. On ebay.
There are not many colour photographs of Streetcar Interiors
As can be seen, they were usually bright and airy.
The Seats are woven Rattan.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/394112515098?hash=item5bc2efbc1a:g:X9kAAOSwI~5ipoeX
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/X9kAAOSwI~5ipoeX/s-l1600.jpg
Thank You.
Nothing lasts like bridges built to withstand the pounding of steam engines.
Other mines used to do the same with electric locomotives, and some had portable catenary stands for track that was regularly moved around in the pits.
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/391146/
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/714233/
Edmonton’s trolleybuses would climb the hills out of our river valley like they weren’t even there. The GM diesel versions (6-71 Detroit with a 2-speed automatic, what a sound!) were slower but always mad
How have John Augustus Roebling ’s suspension bridges (Cincinnati Suspension Bridge, 1867; and the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883) lastd so long with no rusting issues? I believe his cables as I understand them are sealed in tar and wrapped with a painted cloth. No rust.