Follow Friday: CP Rail Manitoba and Minnesota Subdivision

On some forms of social media, Follow Friday is a tradition where people recommend that their readers go check out someone else's stuff. It usually has the hashtag #ff. I'm trying out the same idea here but for web sites and blogs.

I really encourage you to check out John Longhurst's blog "CP Rail Manitoba and Minnesota Subdivision".

John posts pretty frequently and shares a great variety of topics, from layout visits to his own layout to upcoming model railroad products to... Facebook, his most recent post. He mostly writes about model trains but some 1:1 scale trains creep in there too.

I posed 10 questions to John as part of my "10 Questions" series.

John has a beautiful layout that I am embarrassed to say I have never seen... it's embarrassing because he lives here in Winnipeg and has invited me over, but I have yet to take him up on it. I really should get on that.

Until I do that, go read John's blog... or at least read his 10 answers :)

Follow Friday: Yukon Yeti

On some forms of social media, Follow Friday is a tradition where people recommend that their readers go check out someone else's stuff. It usually has the hashtag #ff. I'm trying out the same idea here but for web sites and blogs.

This Friday I wanted to feature a Flickr user, "Yukon Yeti". I don't know his real name but he has some great railway photos!

Here's a selection of Canadian-related photos. A lot of them are in the British Columbia area but he certainly gets around.

How did this one get in the Canadian list? ;)

He has a lot of American photos as well as European trains... and a good mix of roster-style photos and action photos. Highly recommended.

Check out Yukon Yeti's Flickr stream!

Follow Friday: Shane Stewart's Canadian Railroads

On some forms of social media, Follow Friday is a tradition where people recommend that their readers go check out someone else's stuff. It usually has the hashtag #ff. I'm trying out the same idea here but for web sites and blogs.

I was doing some web searches and stumbled across Shane Stewart's Canadian Railroads. Shane's web site features some excellent drawings and photos of Canadian locomotives and rolling stock, photos of many Alberta grain elevators, train stations and a lot more.

Check out his moving train GIFs, for example. Click on one of the links on the left to view a VIA passenger train GIF, a CN ballast train (complete with Operation Lifesaver caboose and orange ballast cars, dumping gravel with a crew walking beside operating the doors), and several more.

I like his list of Alberta grain elevators as well. I saw Foremost and Skiff and others from the CP Stirling subdivision.

See Shane's site at http://canadianrailroads.ca/ !