| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
11/2/2007 5:17 AM | remove |
might seem like I am stretching things but this is actually the first time I have ever seen piggyback containers on that backtrack - just about everything else. but not these, must have been a pretty good problem that layed it over, or they were record bursting full, full, full, at Tashereau.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
11/3/2007 5:16 AM | remove |
the traffic at taschereau is insane these days, last week there were trucks waiting in the old eatons warehouse parking lot to get into taschereau hickmore during the day is no longer my shortcut to get to nedco
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
11/4/2007 3:09 AM | remove |
This one wasn't laid up, Charlie, it was passing through. And stupidly enough, I was walking along this very track not an hour earlier with the iPod on 10 and not a care in the world. Duh!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
11/4/2007 5:20 AM | remove |
I had a few close calls when I was actually working on the railroad so I became a member of the sharp focus on tracks club. Could be there was a crew doing some work on one of the mains.
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| Posted by Samurai |
11/4/2007 7:35 PM | remove |
me and a group of friends learned our lesson early... we almost got flattened by a southbound CP Rail freighter just north of Port Henry... In the cliffs that run along the lake, it hides the sound, especially if the wind is right and when we realized where it was... it was right on top of us!
Scared the everlovin shit out of us.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
11/5/2007 7:05 AM | remove |
it s uncanny! One time we were a crew of 5 putting in a temporary 4 foot piece of rail at a joint. What slowed us down ( and you don't stop trains for this kind of a job) was that we had to drill new holes for the bolts. So we put the steel in place and I sent 3 guys back to our motor car and me and one other guy drilled the holes (using a special machine) and we had to basically line up the angle bar and screw the bolts in. Now a train is due any minute and this is in BC and we are just around a curve with high cliffs around us. I got the damn machine off just as we saw it blasting towards us and we got out of the way. Now we had to shit a brick or two for the next minute or two as there was nowhere to go except into the train or down a cliff into a river. We didn't have one bolt in so we just had to swallow it and hope like hell that train didn't derail. If we could have heard that train we would have been able to put a couple of bolts in and let it pass. This whole thing happened because the railroad is always waaay up yer ass about getting things done and I have to admit there was also some extra machismo involved in our young heads about doing these things. CPR had preposterous rules about safety by the book yet on the other hand you were a total pussy if you didn't break those rules and were constantly waiting for trains.
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| Posted by BOX |
11/9/2007 8:34 AM | remove |
so THIS is where you all comment-whore....
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
11/9/2007 3:50 PM | remove |
... like the little old ladies we all are.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
11/9/2007 7:16 PM | remove |
and then there was the time we hopped a freight to get back to to....
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| Posted by Samurai |
11/10/2007 3:37 PM | remove |
hehehe... one of my friends ended up getting caught on a freighter... he rode that fucker from Ticonderoga all the way to Plattsburgh!
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| Posted by CyenS |
3/23/2008 7:16 PM | remove |
I don't think you went to Plattsburg riding from Turcot.....
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
3/24/2008 12:08 AM | remove |
My new job's in Lachine and it's awesome for train watching. Every morning there are one or two freights farting about the station. I actually had to climb over one to get to work the other day.
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| Posted by Samurai |
3/25/2008 6:57 PM | remove |
The Bridgeline runs from Washington DC to Montreal... There was/is a siding in Ticonderoga where two trains meet. We jumped up on it, Willard couldn't get off and rode it all the way to the siding in Plattsburgh!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/28/2008 3:59 PM | remove |
Could that be a statement regarding the total lack of public transport, Wang? I may know where you work, lol.
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
3/28/2008 10:30 PM | remove |
Actually, no. I could bitch and moan about the joke of a schedule they're running on the CP line, but it so happens that the train works for my needs. Un-fucking-believable, really.
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
4/2/2008 6:33 PM | remove |
yea, it is strange how all that can work out sometimes.
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