Dave, The railroads in the US went to deisels in the late 40's to the early 50's. It was an efficency move. Steam was in operating condition 50% of the time. Deisel was more like 95% of the time. Management went for Deisel in a big way, saving on maintenance. Other issues were not so apparent. If a steam engine could get a train rolling, it could move it at high speed, often 60 mph+. Deisels ran out of horsepower. They could get trains rolling, but ran out of hp over 20mph. So the railroads slowed down. Less track maintenance it speeds were less meant $$$ too. And there went the romance and glory of Steam Railroading. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:45 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
