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The life of a railroader is often spent waiting.
Waiting for the call to go to work. Waiting for your train to be ready. Waiting for clearance to depart.
Sometimes, more time is spent waiting for other trains than they spend in motion!
I read these three books back-to-back recently: “Satellite Image”, “Strange Sally Diamond”, and “The Long Defeat”.
Winnipeg had an airborne visitor – a rare one, at that. One of the two flyable Lancasters in the world visited the Gateway to the West this week.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Lake of the Woods Railroaders Museum in Kenora, Ontario.
Finally a book about the rest of the train! Locomotives get all the attention, but it’s the cars behind the engines that make the money.
On April 26, 2024 a very rare train left Calgary, Alberta to make history.
Whenever I hear one of the classic Asia songs, “Heat of the Moment”, “Sole Survivor”, or “Only Time Will Tell”, I think of Dungeons & Dragons, and in particular I think of giants and Drow elves.
Soft summer sounds
Red winged blackbirds singing
Bees buzzing between flowers
Wind whispering secrets
Here are a few slides I purchased showing CN RS-18 locomotives in the 1970s.
The RS-18 was built by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) as the Canadian version of the Alco RS-11. These locomotives had an 251B diesel engine under the long hood powering the traction motors driving all four axles. Just over 350 were produced, mostly for CN.
