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Caboose Coffee: June 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Friday, June 21, 2013. The Bunkhouse As An Ever-changing Community. The operator at Boston Bar has given us track one at 'The Bar'. A mile west of the yard, the engine, a brace of SD40-2's rolls onto the Anderson Creek bridge, a long, high, curved trestle spanning the Anderson River. Westbound over Anderson Creek -. Peter Cox - 1970. Beyond the CTC controlled main line switch, the hand-operated switches leading to each of the storage tr...
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Caboose Coffee: March 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Saturday, March 30, 2013. Last Minute Follow Up on the Okanagan Wine Train. Since I posted my last segment on the Okanagan Wine Train, a number of emails have come in from readers who would like to know what happened to the Wine Train. Well, here it is, in a nutshell. But that's not the fate that should befall those beautiful cars. They should be cleaned, painted and put behind a couple of FP9A's or GP9U's, filled with happy train buffs...
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Caboose Coffee: January 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Monday, January 14, 2013. I Stood Up, So Others Could Sit Down. The file I was developing on locomotive cab conditions, and in particular., cab seating, had grown to an almost un-manageable volume. The seat pictured above is almost exactly the same as the one that had caused my spinal injury, and bore the same similarity to the one tested by Dr. Robertson in his study. Photo courtesy www.ScienceDirect.com. By pre-arrangement, I arrived ...
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Caboose Coffee: October 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Thursday, October 31, 2013. A Work of Art, Hidden Behind a Work of Art. That was our old house on Sellwood Road. In the summer, 'the swamp', as we referred to it, was a wonderful place to spend the day. The Tea Bush grew to four feet in height and the bull rushes grew much taller than that. There were frogs and snakes, turtles and bitterns, blue herons, hawks and a great many small birds which nested there. One such cold, winter night, ...
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Caboose Coffee: Time Passes While We Watch
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Thursday, June 5, 2014. Time Passes While We Watch. Watches and railroading go hand in hand., if you'll forgive that clever little pun. She would say "One moment, Please", and be gone. The watch, he would gently slip into the watch pocket that was designed and sewn into the front of the overalls, just about at the center of the wearer's chest. The clasp would then be clipped onto a spare button hole place nearby for the purpose. The Acc...
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Caboose Coffee: Bravery and Courage Defined
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Saturday, October 8, 2011. Bravery and Courage Defined. Photo credit Peter Cox. CN train hits rock slide at Boothroyd on Ashcroft Sub in Fraser Canyon. Let me tell you a story of exemplary courage and bravery of a different sort. Bruce at the throttle on the Okanagan Valley Wine Train in 1999.when business was good! Photo credit Phil Moreau ex CN Rule Instructor @ Kamloops, BC. After leaving the classroom environment in Gimli. The photo...
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Register for Commuter Service ASAP. Choosing Our Future: Sustainability! Register for Commuter Service ASAP. De-Railed" - Canada's Railways. May 22, 2013. The FILM, as presented by Dr. Linda Savory at the University of Victoria, on Thursday 6 June 2013 …. Why BRT vice E&N Commuter? September 30, 2012. Public Response to the Bus Only Lanes. Recently the CRD announced the intention of asking BCTransit …. August 14, 2012. Province releases report of the BC Transit Independent Review Panel. July 11, 2012.
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Northwest Railway Museum Blog: October 2014
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014. And so it begins . . . The Northwest Railway Museum. Steam program officially launched today with the movement of former Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive 924 to the Conservation and Restoration Center. Links to this post. Labels: Canadian Collieries 14. Conservation and Restoration Center. Northern Pacific Railway 924. Monday, October 27, 2014. The locomotive was hot, though the weather was not. Even so, scores and scores came to experience steam at the Northwest R...
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Caboose Coffee: March 2014
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Monday, March 3, 2014. What’s in a Name? Sometime shortly after we’re born, we assume an identity which is partly attributable to the genes we inherit, and partly by the name we’re given. We grow up with the realization that our given names are a good fit with the personalities we develop, or perhaps that isn’t the case at all. As he sat, staring into the small fire that was only large enough to warm his legs, he felt abandoned by his t...
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Caboose Coffee: February 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Thursday, February 21, 2013. Capreol, A Stout Little Railroad Town Cares For Its Own. It was early November, 1956 and the townspeople of Capreol, Ontario were turning out in droves to attend the funerals of a number of the towns' finest young men who had drowned when they were caught in open water as a storm struck their canoes on a hunting trip. Adam Gilmour Sweezy Family Tree. Patrick O’Rourke, aged 27, George Bowness. Some of the sea...
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