Sunday, April 25, 2010

8829 idling on the waterfront

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Sunday afternoon, 8829 was in the Rupert yard idling, waiting for a crew. I thought I'd do something different and decided to upload the...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

CN 2699 engine failure

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Canadian National locomotive number 2699 is a 212 t...
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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Wye Oh Wye - turning locomotives

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BC Rail 4610 is seen entering the North end of the wye in Rupert with 2525 as the trailing unit. 2525 becomes the lead unit once it exits th...
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Hand brake......what hand brake?

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Just had to post this video clip of a group of Norfolk Southern locomotive going past a level grade crossing in the dark. Can you spot the p...
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Why they mark cars with rotary couplers?

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The answer is so they avoid an accident like the following that happened at dumper 31 Westshore property at Roberts Bank. A snafu, first ...
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

SD40-2 working the waterfront

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Well once again the rail barge is in from Alaska so I managed to get a couple of quick shots of SD40-2 number 5293 pulling the cars to be lo...

Did you say Train or Grain

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Well not much going on today along the waterfront so I decided to go visit some longshoreman friends of mine out at Prince Rupert Grain whe...
Monday, January 18, 2010

This just Blows! Part 1

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I have no idea who took these photos but I had to post them. Note: No revenue loads attached to the plow. South Saskatchewan short line rail...

This just Blows! Part 2

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I couldn't resist posting these photos along with the following caption. Note: No revenue loads attached to the plow. Sou...

Hockey weekend gone bad!

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Well as you already know my son Garrett and I were in Smithers over the weekend for Hockey. Unfortunately his weekend was ended early during...