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CP westbound freight @1300 headed by SD40, M636, M630 (5525-4713-4565)
This one may not have the right leader in some folks' opinion, but for me a "straight" SD40 is just as good. This fine place along the CP (and CN to my right) Montreal - Toronto mainlines provided a great place to spend a rainy day with a friend, with the Ontario farm country rolling right down to a distantly visible Lake Ontario.
The CAPC (Contemporary Center for the Arts) is based in the Entrepôt Lainé in Bordeaux, a former colonial goods warehouse built in 1824. This hand held shot was taken in low light in one of the upper levels of the building.
The obligation to step aside for the silver grandeur has been fulfilled, and now the revenue must move. CPR eastbound freight departs siding @1147 with 75 cars + caboose behind four SD40-2.
Hot meet on the High Plains east of Calgary, as CPR/VIA westbound #1 "The Canadian" rushes past @1145 behind F40PH, F9b.
After the departure of the westbound version, CPR's eastbound passenger #12 "Canadian" arrives at West Toronto from Vancouver behind FP7, FPA2 (4075-4097.)
CPR depot inside...feast your eyes on a world that hadn't really changed that much for about a hundred years. The train order signal was cranked from those black levers (one for the eastbound signal and the other for the westbound signal.) The location of "standard clocks" were usually listed in the employees' timetable; in a timetable and train order operation, it was vitally important that operating employees kept their timepieces within a certain amount of seconds (I seem to recall 30) of the time shown on the "Standard Clock."
CPR westbound VIA #1 "The Canadian" by eastbound freight @1145. The domes and obsy are properly placed and the train is running where God and Lord Shaunessy intended, on the route of the Golden Rodent.
This low-light, hand-held, photo was taken in the CAPC (Center for Contemporary Arts), which is based in the Entrepôt Lainé, a warehouse in Bordeaux built in 1824.
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the CAPC invited the Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga to create an exhibition based on the museum's past as a warehouse of colonial goods. The exhibits consist of curtains of ropes dyed indigo and suspended from the stone arches of the building.
Located on single track territory equipped with ABS (and not CTC), this CPR depot, about 97 miles west of Medicine Hat and 78 miles east of Calgary, appears to have recently lost its train order signals. There was a junction with the Empress and Irricana Subdivisions, so the Brooks Subdivision mainline wasn't the only route through this place.
CP westbound auto racks/COFC with 100 cars/platforms crosses Nipigon River and CN @1143 behind four SD40-2’s (5679….) The track crossing underneath the bridge belonged to the CN, their "Kinghorn Subdivision" that connected Thunder Bay with the Toronto mainline at Longlac. It has been torn up.
CPR two GP38 (3024-3021) in siding with local or work train, or maybe branchline work on the routes to Empress or Standard. I do know that the Imperial Hotel restaurant supplied me with a tasty grilled cheese sandwich - must have been good enough to take its place in my memory bank some 38 years later! And the hotel still stands, now as the Imperial Hunter Hotel, looking like a nicely kept alternative to the chain hotels that are more common now. For those willing to diverge from the "Trans-Can" to discover these gems of the High Plains, it looks like a worthwhile spot for lodging.
This was probably posted before, but I don't know if I posted the Lightroom version, which is better. On the day after the ferry ride I found these three RS23's (8018-8014-8017) as they stopped to pick up grain on the way to Nipawin. The eastbound CPR grain train was probably going to head south from Nipawin to the connection with the Edmonton-Winnipeg route; from there it was probably to Vancouver or to Thunder Bay. The brakeman is preparing to get off to make the pickup. Having seen me at a couple spots before this, he wanted to tip me off that after they left here, they would cross a massive double deck bridge over the Saskatchewan River. Since the highway had been rerouted over a new bridge, he was concerned that I'd miss it. Also, he advised me that the narrow one-lane old highway through the lower level of the bridge was governed by traffic signals at either end to keep traffic one way. So I had to high-tail it to get there well before the train and GTS. The resulting shot was posted before.
CPR/VIA westbound #1 "Canadian" during station stop. Yes, I was riding it and I didn't spend much time lingering for a photo at this division point - a CPR engineer out of Revelstoke said it was called "Speedy Creek." Being left behind was not to be in my trip plan, and although I was far more friendly to cold back then than I am now, I recall that it was about as frigid as it was when I boarded at Winnipeg. The carmen were going along the platform at Union Station, knocking the ice off the gear underneath the cars.
CPR westbound freight behind SD40-2, M636, M630, rebuilt GP9 (6019-4718- ? -1574.) This time it's a dirty leader, but still an overall consist that can get attention. The CN's Montreal-Toronto mainline is just over on the other side of that hump on the right.
CPR eastbound passenger #12 "The Canadian" approaches "West Toronto" station behind FP7, FPA2 (4075-4097.)
Another from the "Lightroom" files; it could have been already posted although the computer crash took away my old "i-Photo" files that would have that info. Anyway, this editing looks new and improved over the one I have in the Apple Photo file, and I'm sure no one will object to a repeat of flying MLW/Alcos with piggies on a rather sodden Spring day in Ontario. I think I was here from Nebraska on the occasion of my good friend's stag party at the Royal Canadian Legion in Toronto, so the word "sodden" could be interpreted in more ways than one! This eastbound had 95 cars behind 4509-4238, and was making haste along the Toronto-Montreal mainline as viewed from the double wooden humpback bridges just west of Newtonville.
CPR westbound freight behind SD40-2, M636, M630, rebuilt GP9 (6019-4718- ? -1574.) At least the trailing rebuilt Geep is squeeky clean, as well as that forty foot boxcar on the head pin.
VIA/CPR eastbound #2 "The Canadian" passes its westbound counterpart #1 which is in the siding at "Crowfoot"
CPR yard with depot in distance. Dunmore is east - up the hill from - Medicine Hat's significant (at that time) division point. The depot was still a train order office, as the CPR mainline was still ABS and timetable with train orders, all the way from Swift Current, Saskatchewan, to Gleichen, Alberta, 272 miles. There had been an alternate mainline via Empress, but by this time it had been downgraded to a branchline, and eventually severed. There was a short stretch of CTC - seven miles - between here and "the Hat", as Dunmore had a wye that connected to the southern route to the Coast over Crowsnest Pass that carried a smaller share of trains but was important for grain and - farther west - for coal. I'm sure that at least in the steam days there was an active helper district, as the valley of the South Saskatchewan River makes getting in and out of "the Hat" a bit of a challenge.
VIA/CPR westbound #1 "The Canadian" at statiion after power change to FP7, two GP9 (1402-8521-8520.). The effects of the chinook wind had disappeared and we were back to the temps that would be more customary on these high plains. The new power that would take us to Vancouver had been attached and it looks like the mechanical staff was busy making preparations.
CPR eastbound freight #940 approaches the "International Boundary" (check the wide white sign just above the road and left of the depot) and the Soo Line depot at Portal, No.Dak., behind SD40-2, SD40, GP35. The Soo depot, which once was a two story building to accomodate the Customs people as well as the depot staff (and maybe the crews), sure didn't look as nice by now as the CPR's version, and a long platform area actually ran the length of both of them. I asked the Soo guys one day if I might walk the length of the platform to photograph a train on the Canadian side, although it was in view of the Customs officers on the highway. They assured me that it would be wise to go through the highway reporting station as the officers were familiar with the railroad people but they didn't know me.
I took a Google tour of the Portal/North Portal metroplex a couple evenings ago, and of course the depots are gone and the Customs area has been greatly revised with a new building and lots of twisties in the road - maybe to confuse or obstruct would be miscreants from an illegal entry to either country. There had been a brisk trade in illegal liquor during the days of Prohibition, mostly based in the Grand View Hotel (Grand View of what?) down that road to my left. That hotel is also history, as well as the shady activities that seem to follow railroaders' layover towns everywhere. The CP has built a really nice "crew rest" facility on the Canadian side, however, and it seems to be quite large enough to keep the crews from Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan) or Harvey (North Dakota) sheltered in regal splendor.
Five months after that last shot, I returned to Toronto to stand on this hill - known by many viewers here - and see a CPR westbound freight @1300 headed by SD40, M636, M630 (5525-4713-4565.) Sorry about the leader, but I know at least one other person (besides me) who likes that PURE SD40 in all its unaduterated GMD goodness in the position it is in. The crew probably does too. My friend Richard and I were enjoying a little pre-stag party foamage; I had arrived by Amtrak/VIA only the night before, from Alliance, Nebraska, so it was about a 1500-mile trip to be a designated driver (the story would fill a book.) But on this trip and/or a couple others to Newtonville, Rich's fiancee Elizabeth had packed an excellent picnic lunch for both of us...drinks, sandwiches and pastries, everything but the foam, and plenty of that would be in supply at the Royal Canadian Legion that evening!
Première monographie française de l'artiste japonaise Takako Saito, née en 1929 à Sabae-shi et vivant à Dusseldorf.
Ruth Ewan (née en 1980 à Aberdeen) vit et travaille à Glasgow.
"It Rains, It Rains" emprunte son titre à la chanson folklorique « Il pleut, il pleut,
bergère », écrite par le poète, homme politique et acteur révolutionnaire Fabre
d'Églantine, qui aurait récité calmement les paroles de la chanson lors de sa propre
exécution en 1794.
Le projet de Ruth Ewan se compose d’une installation – Back to the Fields, conçue
en 2015, entièrement reconfigurée pour l’espace emblématique de la nef du
CAPC – et d’objets qui dérivent du calendrier républicain.
L'Entrepôt Lainé (autrefois appelé aussi Entrepôt réel des denrées coloniales) est un bâtiment construit en 1824 par l'architecte Claude Deschamps. Il était destiné à l'origine au stockage sous douane des marchandises en provenance des colonies, avant leur expédition à travers l'Europe. Le bâtiment abrite aujourd'hui le CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux et Arc en rêve / centre d'architecture.
Première monographie française de l'artiste japonaise Takako Saito, née en 1929 à Sabae-shi et vivant à Dusseldorf.
The CPR is out distributing grain cars or picking it up between Prince Albert and Nipawin, and the three "Rocket" RS23's probably have some weight to pull around. I'm not sure about the status of this line now, although I believe the eastern part was shortlined to the "Torch Lake Railway" and I don't know what their status is at this time.
Ruth Ewan (née en 1980 à Aberdeen) vit et travaille à Glasgow.
"It Rains, It Rains" emprunte son titre à la chanson folklorique « Il pleut, il pleut,
bergère », écrite par le poète, homme politique et acteur révolutionnaire Fabre
d'Églantine, qui aurait récité calmement les paroles de la chanson lors de sa propre
exécution en 1794.
Le projet de Ruth Ewan se compose d’une installation – Back to the Fields, conçue
en 2015, entièrement reconfigurée pour l’espace emblématique de la nef du
CAPC – et d’objets qui dérivent du calendrier républicain.
L'Entrepôt Lainé (autrefois appelé aussi Entrepôt réel des denrées coloniales) est un bâtiment construit en 1824 par l'architecte Claude Deschamps. Il était destiné à l'origine au stockage sous douane des marchandises en provenance des colonies, avant leur expédition à travers l'Europe. Le bâtiment abrite aujourd'hui le CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux et Arc en rêve / centre d'architecture.