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Danish Trains
My wife and I visited Denmark in September 2019. I was headed to an OSIsoft PI conference in Gothenburg (Göteborg) Sweden and we decided to wrap visits to Denmark and Norway around the conference.
Review: The Sleeping Car Porter
I’ve been wanting to read The Sleeping Car Porter for a while now. When I spotted a used copy of the book, I snatched it up and devoured over the next few days.
Supertramp
Ah, Supertramp, a band that defied description. Were they prog rock? Pop? Blues? I’d say they gave a little bit of everything.
Railways in Liechtenstein
I really should say “railway” in Lichtenstein, since there is only one and it just passes through the country.
The Last Train(s) Into Fredericton
In my sparse railway video collection,I have a VHS tape entitled “Last Train into Fredericton”. This was produced by Digital World Productions, of Manawagonish Road, Saint John. Digital World was (is?) a store selling used musical instruments, CDs, and computer stuff. I have no idea why they made this video but I’m glad they did.
New and Old: BC Rail 4650 to 4654
Back in October 5, 2000, someone* caught several brand-spanking new BC Rail locomotives being shipped through Ontario. These GE-built C44-9W locomotives were the last new locomotives purchased by BC Rail before its absorption into CN. * regretfully I do not know who the photographer was The five locomotives were 4651, 4650, 4654, 4653 and 4652, … Read more
Housekeeping
One thing I find about being a railfan is that I do a lot of housekeeping, rather than actual railfanning.
CN Mountain Region Timetable October 1971
This is the Mountain Region employee timetable for CN, featuring the British Columbia region, effective October 31, 1971.
Detective Work
I love doing “railway detective work”. People will ask me what route an ancestor may have taken when they came to Canada, so I dig into my timetable collection and investigate. Sometimes I will acquire a photograph and try to figure out where it was taken. I bought this photograph of three CN MLW RSC-14 … Read more