Having spent a couple of hours yesterday cross-checking the models of the new Rapido gondola release I can report the following: 1. The addition of hat braced ribs to some offerings rather than Z-brac

FYI No idea who else is selling these, but I don't think they're exclusive to Dispatcher. This missive was sent to all his customers. Just a happy Canadian modeler. Blair -------- Forwarded Message --

Hadn't seen this before, thought I'd pass it along: http://yourrailwaypictures.com/MaintenanceEquipment/Img_0004(1)mar3.jpg Blair

This question came up in passing elsewhere. I know that CN operated several mobile school cars in rural/remote areas. Does anyone (Dale?) know of any references to smaller railroads like the ACR ever

Does anyone have an approximate date when this plant ceased production of ties? I remember in 1995 when I first visited Hawk, the area at that end of the yard was a fresh, green lawn, so remediation h

Friends, A few photos my father took in the mid 70's, looking up at the trestle. Hard to identify the locos, but I suppose that is a trio of SD40s pulling an afternoon ore extra. How many full cars co

Good afternoon everyone. I have spent time over the last year reading through all of Chris's informative web pages. I decided to try the southern sub, from Soo to Hawk Junction, with a little Algoma S

As first delivered by EMD, the GP7s looked like the two 1966 photos below, WITHOUT the large numbers centred on the long end. The shot of AC 160 was by the late Jim McRae, whose photo collection is no

For both teaching and qualification of, usually train crew, but the larger railways had more specialized instruction cars for people like back shop workers and, as computers came in, data processing.

dale et al, Does anyone have any information about an ACR conductor or tailend guy who was given the moniker "Skip Back?" I heard a lot of interesting reminiscences of him but never did get his real n

Just took a look at the history photos available in maps.google.ca. The two tall tanks south of the Steelton Enginehouse were present on April 2nd, 2005, but are gone from the 28 August, 2005 image. S

And happy modelling!

Marc, Chris, Dale Another tidbit on this topic comes from Kennedy/Brittain's article about the early ACR, available on the old time trains website: Other traffic sources included an iron mine at Mile

All the cool kids are doing it... Well, I'm pushing the button. Over the next few days the group should be transferred over to Groups.io. Everyone that's currently a member should be transferred over

Any thoughts of migrating to groups.io - seems like that's what the cool kids are doing ... well I really only have one example, canmodeltrains@groups.io. Still, it doesn't take away how much more I'm

> Any thoughts of migrating to groups.io - seems like that's what the cool kids are doing Might not be a bad idea, and it sounds like there's a relatively seamless migration from Yahoo. I need to find

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I’ve asked a friend of mine, retired from doing exploration for Falconbridge Nickel and now doing his own prospecting about this. The Goudreau area had a number of operations over the years, some quit

Thanks Dale, great info. The particular SA&I spur referenced was at mileage 176.5, just south of Goudreau. That should help identify the property. Chris van der Heide http://vanderheide.ca/blog

More on this company. My source is right to wonder WHICH iron/sulphide deposit might be of interest; a number of the properties Algoma et al mined still had ore reserves and there was a major ore body