LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
William (South Of The Border June CRO): With Ref: RSIX SD40-3 6963 (ex-BNSF 6963, BN 7303,m nee-GTW SD40 5915, via AMF) –Editor likely to go to India, i think this is highly unlikely as they have never purchased any 2nd hand locos which would undermine their own manufacturing capabilities. However if IRCON or one of the other Indian Railway consultancies ordered it - it may well be for Saudi Arabia as all the railway construction companies have taken quite a few rebuilt GM locos for railway construction. Regards,
Hello Bill, As an addendum to your Glen Yard Memories, I've come across some other panoramic views similar to those you sourced from Kevin Day. They're on a blog at http://moblog.net/view/326956/glen-yards-1971 posted by 'factotum', true name unknown. The first two in particular, taken from the roof of 245 Victoria Avenue in 1971, provide a slightly different perspective of the yard throat, Westmount station, and a full complement of car types. In a reply to a comment further down the page, 'factotum' references something I'm certain you can relate to: The smell of baking bread emanating from POM. http://moblog.net/view/326956/glen-yards-1971
Dear Readers, We offer our condolences to the family of Duncan DuFresne, who passed away in June 12th at 82 years old. Loving and cherished husband of 59 beautiful years to Joyce (nee-Bennett). Duncan was a renowned and much sought after railway historian, author and founding member of the Bytown Railway Society in Ottawa, well known as a CPR historian and contributor to Branchline magazine. Also a retired air traffic controller, Duncan personified everything transportation. When not restoring and running steam locomotives at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Duncan spent many hours cruising down the Rideau Canal system on his pride and joy, the “Channel Island,” a 36-foot cruiser he built himself. Duncan will be deeply missed by his family and friends.
On June 17th, our CRO FACEBOOK Page hit 3,000 FANS! We thank all of you who support our efforts! See the CRO page HERE. Two months ago we launched CLUB CRO, and thanks to the major effort by our webmaster Mike Robin, it went very well. A big thank you, to all our readers, supporters, and advertisers who cared enough to help CRO continue. The first week did have a few gremlins, specifically a few readers were unable to utilize their assigned passwords but by the end of the week, it was smooth sailing again. Most everyone got their Password in a timely fashion too. One thing we learned … shorter Passwords proved superior to the long ones, and going forward we will be using user friendly passwords only. Obviously, with paid subscription our overall reader numbers declined somewhat, but we anticipated this in our decision. CLUB CRO subscribers continue to sign up daily, and we expect a mad rush with the posting of the June 2012 issue. Last month, I missed the email announcement of the May issue, but I have created a new mailing list and you should have received the June and July CRO announcement. IF NOT … EMAIL ME PLEASE! I battled with the decision to implement a subscription fee for many years, but as donations had dried up, we really had no choice. The good news is, the price is around $2 an issue, with the previous issues free. As one can imagine, paying for server storage, bandwidth, email server costs, and paying internet provider fees has always come out of pocket. When you factor in the hours per day that Mike Robin and I put into creating your monthly CRO issues, you can understand and appreciate why we had no choice. “CLUB CRO” has many benefits for you the reader, which will become apparent to you. One perk is personalized service from Mike Robin and myself, email me for what ver reason. We will email NEW ISSUE ANNOUNCEMENTS on the first of each month, and updates if needed. CLUB CRO Subscriber’s “user name” is your email address, and your assigned “password” will open it.
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