Hi William,

Happy Holidays!

The new look is awesome!!!

Thanks again for the opportunity to submit monthly images from my collection to your fine publication. Looking forward to working with you in 2014!

Rgds...
Herb Iske
Orange County, CA

FROM THE EDITOR: William H. Baird
editor@canadianrailwayobservations.com

Hi all,

OUR NEW LOOK:

We have received positive feedback on CRO consultant, Walter Pfefferle’s new Website appearance. Many like the cleaner appearance and user-friendly applications. Now, when you click on the new issue, it will open the advertisers page first, and then another click, will open the current issue.

CRO TWEETS is our brand new CRO Twitter account and Face book page. Using the Twitter feed you may post your sightings, and we will post CRO updates. It will be administered by Alex Tito. Just click on the Twitter logo on the home page to send Tweets.

NEW PASSWORDS ARE REQUIRED TO ACCESS CRO in 2014:

As of JANUARY 1st, 2014, only our CRO subscribers, our clients, and news and photo contributors will be able to open the issue. It will require your USERNAME (Your email address) and your “New”PASSWORD.. Therefore, only those of you who have who have renewed in 2013 will have access to the January issue, As usual VIP access will be granted to those who contribute photos and news items each month, and may email me for access. If you have not yet renewed access for 12 more months, please do so via our Paypal link on the CRO home page. Please sign up early to avoid the rush.

Click here for our HOME PAGE.  The CRO PAYPAL link is on the right: 
http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/

SUBMITTING PHOTOS TO CRO:

We have new guidelines in place for those of you submitting photos to CRO. The size should be (APPROXIMATELY) no larger than an image width of 800 and a height of 500. We can no longer accept over sized photos. Include the date, location, train number (if known), and other pertinent information in the photo caption.

As our “Vignette” segments are very popular with our readers, please continue to submit railroad photos from the past, and send along suggestions for future Vignette subjects, and ideas for CRO Special Reports.
editor@canadianrailwayobservations.com

CANADIAN RAILWAY OBSERVATIONS (CRO) is also on FACEBOOK and you may also post your photos there. Just include a caption (Date Location etc) with each post. We have been on Facebook for about six years, and have over 6100 Fans!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Railway-Observations-CRO/287488550757?fref=ts

The mission of CRO remains the same: to keep CRO readers informed of pertinent Canadian train news, which is compiled and verified over the month, and updated as needed. The accurate information we post each month is obtained and confirmed from our reliable sources. CRO is also a vehicle to showcase beautiful locomotive shots submitted by our readers, credit them, and help promote their photography. We never post photos, without asking the photographer for permission, and once granted, they are given free CRO access for as long as this sharing relationship continues. The same goes for our valued news sources. This arrangement has worked out well for 10 years!

Jim Shaughnessy is famous for his Rutland, CV and D&H photos, but he was also a big fan of Canadian Steam. Check out the CNR and CPR 1950’s steam photos in this link titled “Oh Canada”, and the RLHS Link:

http://ocanadablog.com/2010/07/27/jim-shaughnessy-and-canadian-rail-photography/

RLHS QUARTERLEY Canadian Steam
http://rlhs.org/Publications/Quarterly/PDF/nl28-3.pdf

How CP Rail Melts Snow and Ice:  Some of you may have already seen this video, but I'll bet that not all of you have.  Very noisy! 

Take care all,
William H. Baird CRO
Editor
Montreal, QC
editor@canadianrailwayobservations.com

Are you a Hobby Shop, DVD distributor, Railway Museum Tourist Railway, Rail Photographer, and wish to tap into our railfan demographic? Contact us to learn of the advertising and promotional opportunities in CRO.   editor@canadianrailwayobservations.com

THANK YOU:

Guy-Pascal Arcouette, Eric Aucoin, Tim Ball, Tysen Biermann, Michael Berry (CRO), Christopher Bodkin, Kenneth Borg, Derek “Buffie” Brown, Martin Baumann, Dan Braun, J-P Cadieux, Ian Campbell, Doug Cameron, Andy Cassidy, Bruce Chapman, Warren Calloway, Neil Compton, Peter Cox, Michel Daoust (TSH), Jeremy Davy (WCRA), Daniel Dell’Unto, Patrick DeLarue, Richard Deuso, Matt Donnelly, Paul Donovan (CRO Eastern News), Darren Doss, Kevin Dunk, Brandon Dunne, Geoff Elliott, Ted Ellis (ACR), Ron Ellison (CP), John Eull, Ray Farrand, Joe Ferguson, Mark Forseille, Francois Gagne-Audet, James Gardner, Mike Garza, Chris Gertz, John Godfrey, Bruce Harvey, Tim Hayman (CRO - VIA News Editor), Bob Heathorn, Chris van der Heide, Mark Hinsdalem James Hoffman (ONR), Francois Jolin, Kim Kafura, Bryant Kayden, Darin Larabee, Guillaume-Raymond Lavasseur, Wayne Koch, Bob Krone, Flavio Lage, James Lalande, Matt Landry, Roman Litarchuk (CRO), Richard Marchi, Brian Marsh (Overland), Mike and Mark Mautner, Phillip Mason, Rob McCormack, Chris McMahon, Don McQueen (Froth), Jim McPherson Bruce Mercer, Earl Minnis, Jody Moore (Green Locomotive News), Terry Muirhead (VIA News), Cal Murray, Peter Murphy (Exporail-CRHA), Jason Noe (Railpace), Tim Organ, Mark A. Perry, Donna Peters (CRO), Walter Pffeferle (CRO), John Read “GR17f” (CRO), Earl Roberts (Branchline), Mike Robin (ONR), George Redmond, Ken Reiss, Davey Robinson, Kraus Rumbut, Wayne D. Shaw (ONR), Dave Schauer, Wilco van Schoonhoven (CPR Diesel Roster), Aaron C. Schlegal, Pat Scott, Cor van Steenis, Avrom Shtern (AMT News), Paul Smith (CP), Maxime Skorynin, Jason Tarasenko (J&L), Alex Titu (CRO GO NEWS / CRO TWEETS), Lorence Toutant, Jean-François Turcotte (CRO - AMT Editor), Sidney Vaught, Ron Visockis, Craig Walker, Dennis Weber, Craig Williams, John Young, Randy Zarowny, Mark Zulkoskey. My thanks as well to our many CRO Facebook contributors, the Bridge Line Historical Society, Tempo Jr. the Canadian Trackside Guide, and our good friends at Railpictures.net. Merci a Guillaume, Mac, Giulio, Don, Marc, Patrick, Peter, Mike, James, John, Michel, Denis, Richard, et Antonio, et tous mes contacts a CP, CN, and AMT.

SUBMIT AN OBSERVATION

New issues of CRO are posted each month on our website. News stories pertaining to Canadian railways, photos, comments, favourite links, and questions are always welcome. Please send us your photos, newsworthy sightings and railway stories and if used, will be placed in the CRO newsletter.  Please indicate if you wish your name to be withheld. If your own website pertains to Canadian railways, please contact us.

Submissions should be sent to "CRO Editor"
editor@canadianrailwayobservations.com

© CRO January 2014