For the second time in two months, an online crafting event for my wife meant an anticipated three days trackside: March 21-23, 2025. My goals were to visit some Kingston railfanning locations I hadn't been in awhile, and to catch some doublavay Venture eastbounds. Each train was listed by time, direction, train number if known and notes in Part 1,
Day One.
In Part 2, it's Day Two and in this third pop-up post it's freight cars I photographed on those two day's trains!
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| Day One - Irving lumber aboard AOK 29813 on No 305 |
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| Day One - CNPX 160193 on CN No 731 |
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| CITX 151566 |
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| NKLX 201887 |
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| More Irving lumber on CN No 305 |
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| Day One - CR TTGX 981037 on CN No 271 |
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| Day Two - GACX 54158-54163 on CN No 372 |
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| Wheel flatcar AOKX 44125 on CN No 372 |
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| Day Two - Lebel lumber on CN No 305 |
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| W&W AEX 23898 |
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| GAEX 100293 blue pole flatcar |
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| Day Two - PHLX 107 on CN No 306 |
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| PHLX 183 |
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| PHLX 200 |
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| WC 85061 |
Running extra...
On May 1, I was pleased to present my Paralysis Analysis PowerPoint presentation to the 75 Zoom attendees participating in the Virtual Prologue of the Railway Modellers Meet of British Columbia (
RMMBC). Thanks to blog partner Marc Simpson for the invitation and fellow presenters blog partner Matthieu Lachance and Chris van Der Heide for their presentations on weathering and 3D car printing and prototypes, respectively. I had to have a nap, as my time slot began at 2245h, three hours later than Pacific Time! I'm looking forward to taking in the second evening
Prologue on May 15. Feedback:
On May 7, I was pleased to be a volunteer
Heritage Fair judge at my grandsons' school. Neither of them were participating, being too young for the Grades involved: 5-7-8. Feedback for this one was in the form of a nice hug from my older grandson who was touring the displays, a signed Thank You card from all the participating students and juice and cookies from the teachers co-ordinating the Heritage Fair. One lad's display on the Canada-Denmark "Whiskey War" did
not include free samples, and I don't think the two displays on Maple Syrup did either!
Today is VE-Day. Eighty years ago, the Germans finally gave up. The CBC coverage of the Liberation of Holland largely by Canadians has been excellent. Major-General Richard Rohmer at 101 years of age valiantly made the trip with a small group of centenarian veterans to honour the 7,600 Canadians who gave their lives in the pursuit of peace in that then-devastated country.
First past the post...
It was good to chat with former fellow Whig editorial board member (and renowned local historian and author) Peter Gower at the Heritage Fair. Not only has Peter devoted his time in the past to preserving Kingstonians' contributions to World War I
and historic Kingston objects in book form, but in the present he inquisitively wondered why on a recent train trip CN freight traffic had been non-existent!
2 comments:
Great post, Eric. For my fellow Americans, who look at this site, I want to again point out that V.E. day in Canada was the end of almost six years of war, not the four plus we had in the U.S. WWI was five years for Canada and nineteen months in the U.S. We owe a huge debt to our Canadian neighbors and friends. Thank you all! CP and CNR contributed greatly to Canada's efforts.
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for your kind comments. Yes, though we've been arm-in-arm as nations, it did seem that Britain started, Canada followed by obligation, and the US arrived fashionably late to win the war. Except in Iraq - we passed on that one. Fortunately, the traditional pull of 'for King and Country' diminished as more Canadians were actually born in Canada throughout the 20th Century. So many lives needlessly lost in human wave attacks, yet the next war yielded The Greatest Generation in whose shadow we've sheltered since.
Indeed, the railways were at their busiest during the war years, with many passenger trains operating in sections due to increased wartime passenger traffic.
Thanks,
Eric
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