Here are a few of my favourites. First, disused VIA Rail RDCs sitting at the Halifax station. This photo is great not only for the RDCs but also for the view of the old train shed.
Here's a rail removal train in Newfoundland, parked for the weekend. Jon caught the very end of the Newfoundland Railway.
Here's CN train #6 ready to leave Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1958, a slide by John McIntosh.
Finally, here's a 1953 shot of a Newfoundland Railway steam engine. There are a lot of Newfoundland Railway photos and slides in this stream.
Please go look at all of Jon's Flickr stream.
6 comments:
Thanks Steve. I believe the photo of CN #6 was taken at Truro ready to leave for Sydney.
I have a question regarding the CN Train #6 photo: Behind the large water pipe in the foreground are two smaller pipes on stands. What are these and why are they mounted so high?
Graham, those are fuel pipes for the diesels. They have a counterweight as part of the assembly, but the fuelling nozzle is lower.
Hope this helps,
Eric Gagnon
Kingston, Ontario
Yes thank you Eric!
Thanks Steve for the kind words.
Jon A.
Graham the pipes you are referring to are water hoses for the steam units. Before we topped up the tanks, we would put the contents of a few bags of anti-scale in the hoses. There were no fuel facilities at the Truro station, as the roundhouse was a mile to the east. I'd like to have a buck for every time we went from the roundhouse to the station to top up water tanks!
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