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Showing posts with label caboose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label caboose. Show all posts
Friday, November 3, 2017

The Love/Hate Relationship of Caboose Life

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Riding in the caboose seemed to me to be the ideal workplace. Travelling in a self-contained comfortable world all your own. As fate woul...
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Saturday, June 17, 2017

CN International Service Cabooses

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With the advent of U.S. Federal Railroad Administration Safety Glazing Standard Part 223 for cabooses operating in the United States, CN ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

CN's Millhaven Spur

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Ten miles west of Kingston, CN's 1.5-mile long Millhaven Spur branches off the south track at Mi 186.6 Kingston Sub. Loyalist Township ...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

CP Angus Shops Vans

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CP 's Angus Shops turned out one 'Angus' van per day starting in 1970, at a cost of $40,000 each. All-steel welded construction...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

CN Cabooses

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Canadian National rostered over 700 steel cabooses. Featuring modern conveniences like electricity from axle-driven generators, improved se...
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Eric Gagnon was born in Montreal, Quebec and has lived in Kingston, Ontario most of his life. Much time was spent trackside when not in school, college or practising as a medical laboratory technologist. Married with two children, Eric is also an HO-scale modeller, musician, avid reader and blogger, having launched his Canadian railfan blog Trackside Treasure in 2008. Eric's first book Trackside with VIA:The First 35 Years, published in 2011, was followed by two more in 2012: Trackside with VIA:Cross-Canada Compendium and Consist Companion. In 2017, Eric published his fourth book, Trackside with VIA - Research & Recollections, followed by his two-volume Trains & Grains series in June, 2018, then two books on Kingston's waterfront history - Smoke on the Waterfront in November 2020, and Stories on the Waterfront in August, 2021.
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