It was an interesting commentary the conductor gave along with the ride. The steam engine they have no, was decommissioned in the 50's i think he said and replaced by diesel engines. However this being an old track, went from Burlington to Tottenham then branched to Collingwood, the new engines were to heavy, so they ran this one till the line until the railroad bought a smaller diesel engine, #22, which funny you should ask, is the engine South Simcoe has as their other modern engine. I thought that was cool info.Both engines finally were was decommissioned and the railroad was going to sell the land however this 5 mile stretch was bought by the Town thinking some one might want to run a tourist train one day. The SSR was using live tracks at the time and CN/CPR were getting tired of working around them, so this was a marriage made in heaven.:-). Funny thing
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > For my first 10 years we lived about half a block from the railroad tracks > and depot. Boy, does that bring back memories from some 60 years ago. The > chuffing as it gets louder when the train approaches...and the lonesome > sounding whistle as I lay in my bed late at night. I wanted to be able to > get on that train and see where it would take me. > > -p > > > On 5/27/2013 10:59 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >> >> http://youtu.be/1fAlA70HGKk >> >> k-5, sorry not the greatest vid i'm learning >> >> dave >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
