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Not much in the way of RR'd shots I'm afraid

My camera just isn't good enough. And I'm almost never up early enough to catch ETR doing most jobs.
Hey! I do shift work!

Oops! Sorry, ment to say where it was from :oops: lol What do you think is going to happen to them? I know there's one at Colasate's tropical garden...maybe he'll want two more? And congrats! I was lucky enough to find a wife that isn't annoyed at all by my trains. And she has agreed that when we ge...

Yeah this is sad......it make-a me wanna cry here's the vid I found on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjLmLfeFKE AARR - I suppose Zalev Bros scrap metal in Windsor by the Devonshire Mall would be it locally. csxt4617 - The wig-wags should be near Tilbury. I hope nobdy steals them and they c...

Great story ETR#101. I may be one of the few that knew the light-weight Mosquito was the fastest machine in the European theater until the 262 came out. :) Thanks! You know....there's a Mosquito being rebuilt at Windsor Airport as we speak! http://railroadfan.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11308/mosse...

I used to help restore Lancaster FM 212....so I'm a bit partial :D As far as payloads go, the only two top of the class were the Lanc and the 29 as far as I'm concerned. I think only the 29 beat her out for a standard load of 20,000 (versus 14,000)pounds, but the Lanc used to carry ONE 20,000 bomb w...

Canadian Pacific just donated a 1952 streamlined baggage express car to the restoration group I belong to, the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society! The car was built in 1952 as CPR baggage-express car #4769, a round roofed streamlined car that was used system-wide and originally painted ...

I couldn't agree more Robert. I'm 29 now, but at 16 I was restoring Avro Lancaster FM 212 on a pedestal in Windsor. Now I've moved on to 3 Alcos in Amherstburg. 2 ex-Essex Terminals from '41 and '46, and another from '56 who's ID remains a mystery. The one from '41 worked everyday of her life until ...

Boy....them VIA cars sure get around!

HOWEVER do not think that just because we're "a bunch of volunteers" that we are not "experienced" when it comes to track work. Many of our volunteers work for other railroads as their day jobs, some at class 1 railroads. We are more than capable in that department. That's very true. With the resto...

For any of you folks who have had to endure ANY amount of time in our....*cough* "Station".....expect a spanking new one by the end of 2011. The current station will remain open while construction proceeds. http://www.windsorstar.com/health/Plans+Windsor+station+unveiled/3795069/story.html Now my co...

I've also heard this about these types of cars. Now precious, PRECIOUS seconds are going to be wasted in emergencies. Hopfully, average joe who wants to help doesn't pay the price. You're right about that. I know from talking to people I worked with at Orion... when they first brought the Oldsmobile...

--Well me too, personally I like diesel cars, BUT, like you say there is nothing like the insta torque of an electric engine. Speaking of which- here is a clip from an Austrian class "Taurus" electric locomotive doing 0-60 in about 12 seconds then tops out at 120 km/h - for a rr locomotive, this is...

Why don't they just have the Enterprise grab it with a tractor beam? Oh......the Enterprise is only 190,000 tons! I think it looks good enough to watch. How many times do we get train movies...ya know? Should be plenty of seats though. I can't imagine the general public is really gonna have much int...

I drove a GM employee's Chevy Volt last night, and was able to get hands-on with one personally, despite being very skeptical, and not particularly open minded, I have to say I was blown away. Really. If I were looking at a new car I would consider it, it was that cool. The lease price of $350 a mo...

Hey ETR#101, No it just means those cars stenciled Return to ETR were assigned to the car pool for that parts plant. The DT&I had their 86 ft hi-cube boxcar fleet painted in different colors to match up with a certain parts plant they were assigned to. It worked well for awhile until demand changed...

We got a lot of cars off the Essex Terminal for (CSX) Lousiville, IIRC, dont know where they went from there. They were clearly makded on the car Retrun to Essex Terminal Railway Windsor, ONT :? Does that mean ETR owns the cars or they lease them? I thought they only owned two ballast hoppers, two ...

GM assembly plants don't get parts in by rail anymore, it all comes in by truck now....even the big stuff like transmissions and engines. The only "parts" that they would get by rail still are the frames for the trucks. I think they deliver some parts by rail to central distribution centers who in ...

CHECK OUT GOOGLE MAPS ALSO. I LIKE THE STREET VIEWS. BETWEEN BING AND GOOGLE, YOU CAN GO ALMOST EVERYWHERE. :D :D :D I'LL BET I SPEND ALMOST AS MUCH TIME ON BING AND GOOGLE MAPS AS I DO LOOKING AT PORN AND WATCHING MUSIC VIDS. :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: You too? I just spent the better part of my 12...

I'm not exactly sure what happens either, but here in Windsor it's the same as hoborich sees in Port Huron. The CPR line from the US customs X-Ray machine at the Pelton spur, all the way west to the tunnel is full of cameras and flood lights. The security gets even more beefed up west of Dougall ave...

Arkansas and Missouri #50 C-420 is Essex Terminals old #106. Nice to see her still in service!