LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LETTERS I enjoy reading and viewing your monthly newsletter. I am an ex-CN Engineering employee (1969-1990) and am now employed in the railway supply industry (1990-date). Over the years in both careers I have enjoyed the opportunity to have unrestricted access to railway properties in the performance of my duties, and in the process have taken thousands of photographs. Most of my photos are related to MOW equipment as that is the field I have been involved in all of my railroad and subsequent career. I do, however, have quite a few motive power, passenger, and rolling stock photos that may be of interest to you and the viewers of CRO. When time permits I will submit a sampling of my photos for your review and consideration. Please visit our web site www.naescanada.com specifically the photo gallery to see some of the railroad equipment we currently offer to the industry. Many of the photos in our gallery were taken by me and/or our Sales Manager David Wylie who is also an ex-railroader (CP Engineering Work Equipment 19 years).
Live safe, Work safe.
Paul O'Shell President & CEO NAES (Canada) Ltd. From Phil Mason: At the end of one of the run away tracks on the original 4% Field Hill is this steam locomotive wreck. Omer Lavallee determined that it was a 3ft gauge locomotive, and that it had either been dumped there by the contractor building the Spiral Tunnels, or had fallen off a flat car. The running gear was retrieved years ago. It is believed to be ex-Lethbridge Coal and Navigation, a GN subsidiary which ran from Great Falls MT. to Lethbridge AB. Phil Mason’s photograph was taken in 1978, obviously with the trees much bigger now! This locomotive has been the subject of much research. I was wondering if anyone has any more recent knowledge of it?
Correction to “ON THE ROAD” The museum has an excellent collection and should be a stop on your trip to Bellevue Ohio. Here we see Wabash No 671 F7A diesel at the museum. In November 1964 it could have been seen highballing through Southern Ontario on the CASO. Found on this page: http://www.canadianrailwayobservations.com/2011/dec11/dec11road.htm Please note that the Wabash did not operate on the CASO - it used CN trackage rights from Windsor to Buffalo. From time to time due to derailments and strikes - they did use the CASO - but this was not very often.
Terry Link Bramalea, Ontario, Canada www.canadasouthern.com FROM THE EDITOR By now you have noticed our great new look. Mike Robin, our new Webmaster was chomping at the bit to get started and has made some terrific improvements to our CRO Homepage. Due to declining interest, we have removed PHOTO CONTEST and ON THE ROAD columns. We will bring back a new Photography column at some point with an annual photo contest with a big prize … watch this space! As well, Michael Berry has come aboard as CRO Production Assistant. Many of you have seen his photos in CRO and CRO Facebook. We welcome both of you into our CRO Family. As well,Tamara Fisher and Michael Berry got engaged in December during the Tea service on the rail car “Saskatchewan” at Exporail. We wish them well.
Our CRO Facebook page grew by over 100 Fans over December, hitting 2400~ Thanks to all who support the page and our efforts to promote CRO, and initiate “Newbies” on Canadian locomotives!
Virtual Tour of GE: (Thanks Don!)
William Baird CRO Editor THANK YOU Craig Allen, Larry Amaloo, Cameron Applegath, Guy-Pascal Arcouette, Ronald Barrett,William Beecher Jr, Michael Berry, Andrew Blackburn, Chris Bodkin, Geoff Brozny, Paul Burgess, Rodney Bushway, JP Cadieux, Guilio Capuano, Andy Cassidy, Bruce Chapman, Renaud Chodkowski, Thom Cholowski, Peter Cox, Michel Daoust, Daniel Dell’Unto (GO News),Colin Duff,Kevin Dunk, Joe Ferguson, Mark Forseille, Dan Garcia, Mike Garza, Chris Gertz, Al Gorney, Russ Grycan, Tim Hayman (VIA News), Bob Heathorn, Rob Helm David Howard, Chris van der Hiede, Frank Jolin,Craig Konopski, Gilles Laniel, Ken Lanovich, Roman Litarchuk (CRO), Jason Maino, Lewis Marien, Bryan Martyniuk, Phillip Mason, Chris McMahon, Don McQueen (Froth), Bruce Mercer, Jody Moore (Green Locomotive News), Terry Muirhead (VIA News), Peter Murphy (CRHA), Jason Noe (Railpace), Tim Organ, David Othen, Alex Pallo Jr ,Mark Perry, Mike Pebesma (CRO) Donna Peters (CRO), Rich Peters, Eric Portelli, John Read “GR17f”, Earl Roberts (Branchline), Mike Robin, Jeff Robertson, George Redmond, Bill Sanderson, Wayne D. Shaw, Wilco van Schoonhoven, Cor van Steenis, Avrom Shtern, André St-Amant, Doug Sword, Bill Thomson, Mathieu Tremblay, Jean-François Turcotte (AMT News), Ron Visockis, Dennis Weber, Ed Weisensel (CRO), George R. Widener, Chris Wilson, Randy Zarowny, the Bridge Line Historical Society, MacLean’s Magazine, the Canadian Trackside Guide, and White River Productions Inc.. Merci Marc, Peter, Mike, James, John, Michel, Tony, Denis, Richard, Mohammed, et tous mes amis à la St-Luc Diesel Shop
SUBMIT AN OBSERVATIONNew 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 News & Photo SubmissionSUBMIT A PHOTO We encourage our readers to forward current pertinent news photos, and historical material. Please include the unit no’s, train no. or direction, date, location, etc, and send to Photo Submissions DO NOT send entries for the monthly contest but only those for the newsletter. Use the submit link on the photo contest page.
Note: Photos submitted to CRO should be 1000 pixels wide max and no bigger than 500 K in size.
Please follow these photo submission guidelines to make sure your photos are accepted. As you can appreciate we receive 100's of photos each month so must limit the sizes we receive.
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