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It is blue hour at Thessaloniki, the air is sticky and the mercury has just dropped below 100.
There was no better pastime in the evenings than to spend the after dinner hours on the station platforms, watching the action while taking the occasional sip from the Heineken can. The "Baby ALCo" A-206 cannot hide its multigauge versatility, keeping a decidedly low profile against the three long-distance coaches which made up that night's train 1743 to Edessa. The DL532B model was offered for all gauges from 914 mm through broad gauge.
The burble of the inline 6-251 engine and the occasional hiss from the air brake compressor resonated from the arched roof. And the neon lights attracted a drove of insects looking for a meal and a mate.
On the evening of June 22, 1995 almost every departure was a show. I even phoned a friend from the platform having him listen the beautiful noise. Trains left in all directions until midnight, most of them with ALCo/MLW power. When I returned with my digital tape recorder in 1998 slow orders dampened the joy somewhat. But boy, that cute little Baby ALCo made a jump start into the night. Making one wish to have been on the train. Preferably in the first coach.
One of the many small coalmines in Sichuan province and elswere in China. All hard work is still done by hand. In 2005 they uesed a multigauge track (from 300mm and 700mm!) when the are in the process to change to bigger waggons.In 2009 this mine was closed.
China, April 2007 (scanned slide)
One of the many small coalmines in Sichuan province and elswere in China. All hard work is still done by hand. In 2005 they uesed a multigauge track (from 300mm and 700mm!) when the are in the process to change to bigger waggons.
China, Nov. 2005 (scanned slide)
The CBH class is a class of diesel-electric freight locomotives designed and manufactured in the United States by Motive-power in Boise, Idaho, for Western Australian grain growers' co-operative CBH Group.
Gauge
1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in): CBH001–CBH017
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in): CBH118–CBH122.
These tracks are dual gauge but #118 is a standard gauge unit of 3300 HP.
The engine blocks for the prime movers were cast in Germany and sent to the Cummins engine plant in Daventry, England, for final machining and assembly. At the end of the manufacturing process, the prime movers were hot tested before being fitted to the locomotives in Boise.The engines meet US tier three emission standards
Some of the rails to the Longmont sugar mill are still in place and other sidings are pretty well torn up. All rails are rusting. A rail yard sign lies ripped out and on the ground to the left. Yep, ol' Bunker Hunt was a genius when he invested in GW. He found out sugar beet mills were on the way down. Americans are finding sugar laced foods may be poisons and mechanized food plants can't sell their GMO and hormone laced foods over seas.
At the end of the Great Western rail road sidings lies the Longmont Sugar Plant remains. It was built in 1906 as the flagship of the Great Western Company and began its long run among America's budding industrial might. Colorado's "Great Western Railway" puffed it's way from Longmont east across Colorado's eastern plains and threaded all the Great Western sugar processing factories together. In front of me was switching for the mill yards and behind, the connection to what weas originally the *Colorado Central then Colorado Southern and Burlington tracks. A connection to the Denver, Longmont & Northwestern narrow gauge that eventually turned west and accessed Hygiene and Lyons was highly improbable; it doubt it made it to a multigauge section or crossover. Here the remnants do little more than provide excess car sidings. This route had left the sugar mill yards in Longmont (to the segment already posted) on it's eastward journey in the day. The line used to pass left through a cut in the hill through what used to be a feedlot we called Stink Hill. Feedlots used to greet our visitors with bovine aroma who came to Longmont from every direction.
Along the routes, great sugar beet depositories were created to store the beets for eventual pick up. The sugar beet processing campaigns in the fall used to employ hoards from many other professions including agriculture. Tons of the sweet beets from our irrigated fields were shuttled to the depositories and eventually great processing plants during the campaigns. The plant's Steam whistles always whistled noons as well as the shifts that ran through entire days. As a child I remember watching "Little Toot" the small industrial steamer shuttle railroad cars of beats to the washing facility that head ended the production line. The "Sugar Tramp" line must not have run for decades.
The plant could have been named Ozymanius. Those were the days when city fathers advertised their industries with etchings of great smoky industrial stacks much the way righties do now. professing the way vast quantities of coal could be transported and burned into an increasingly CO2 laden atmosphere. The days of laborers with coal smudged faces and lungs may not yet be obsolete. We probably need a massive coal fired plant right in Salt Lake city. Now, there is increasing evidence that sugar may be as much of a poison as is the coal and CO2 laden lungs asnd atmosphere. At least to those who would care and don't profit from China's coal industries... Poisons can only be designated poisonous if one can't profit by it's proliferation! One man's poison is another man's investments in Wall Street. It has been said that there was no incidence of type II diabetes before the refinement of sugar.
* Crofutt's Grip-Sack Guide to Colorado for 1885, Research Version. (C) 2006
One of the many small coalmines in Sichuan province and elswere in China. All hard work is still done by hand. In 2005 they uesed a multigauge track (from 300mm and 700mm!) when the are in the process to change to bigger waggons.
China, Nov. 2005 (scanned slide)
A small coalmine in Sichuan province (China). All work is still done by hand. In 2005 they uesed a multigauge track (from 300mm and 700mm!) when the are in the process to change to bigger waggons.
China, Nov. 2005
9.7.2022 National Railway Museum - Port Adelaide - South Australia track work - building new triple gauge turn-out in NRM south yard - gang trolley (p1206508)
At the end of the Great Western rail road sidings lies the Longmont Sugar Plant remains. It was built in 1906 as the flagship of the Great Western Company and began its long run among America's budding industrial might. Colorado's "Great Western Railway" puffed it's way from Longmont east across Colorado's eastern plains and threaded all the Great Western sugar processing factories together. If front of me was switching for the mill yards and behind, the connection to what weas originally the *Colorado Central then Colorado Southern and Burlington tracks. A connection to the Denver, Longmont & Northwestern narrow gauge that eventually turned west and accessed Hygiene and Lyons was highly improbable; it doubt it made it to a multigauge section or crossover. Here the remnants do little more than provide excess car sidings. This route had left the sugar mill yards in Longmont (to the segment already posted) on it's eastward journey in the day. The line used to pass left through a cut in the hill through what used to be a feedlot we called Stink Hill. Feedlots used to greet our visitors with bovine aroma who came to Longmont from every direction.
Along the routes, great sugar beet depositories were created to store the beets for eventual pick up. The sugar beet processing campaigns in the fall used to employ hoards from many other professions including agriculture. Tons of the sweet beets from our irrigated fields were shuttled to the depositories and eventually great processing plants during the campaigns. The plant's Steam whistles always whistled noons as well as the shifts that ran through entire days. As a child I remember watching "Little Toot" the small industrial steamer shuttle railroad cars of beats to the washing facility that head ended the production line. The "Sugar Tramp" line must not have run for decades.
The plant could have been named Ozymanius. Those were the days when city fathers advertised their industries with etchings of great smoky industrial stacks much the way some politicians do now. professing the way vast quantities of coal could be transported and burned into an increasingly CO2 laden atmosphere. The days of laborers with coal smudged faces and lungs may not yet be obsolete. We probably need a massive coal fired plant right in Salt Lake city. Now, there is increasing evidence that sugar may be as much of a poison as is the coal and CO2 laden lungs asnd atmosphere. At least to those who would care and don't profit from China's coal industries... Poisons can only be designated poisonous if one can't profit by it's proliferation! One man's poison is another man's investments in Wall Street. It has been said that there was no incidence of type II diabetes before the refinement of sugar.
* Crofutt's Grip-Sack Guide to Colorado for 1885, Research Version. (C) 2006
One of the many small coalmines in Sichuan province and elswere in China. All hard work is still done by hand. In 2005 they uesed a multigauge track (from 300mm and 700mm!) when the are in the process to change to bigger waggons.
China, Nov. 2005 (scanned slide)
9.7.2022 National Railway Museum - Port Adelaide - South Australia track work - building new triple gauge turn-out in NRM south yard - Steve Gordon + Greg Mayman (p1206513)