Mar 29, 2022
A (coming up on 40 years old and still humming along!) Bombardier/BN “Type 1” car leads a northbound train into Clinton & 12th station.
—orc Tue Mar 29 20:54:24 2022
Mar 26, 2022
Based on profiles drawn by Joshua Moldover @ The Railroad Paint Shop and yours truly @ my dining room table
Answering the question “what would have happened if CPR hadn’t dieselised the CPER in the early 1960s?”; eventually the CPR would get tired of all the duplicate lines and start abandoning the old interurbans, at which point a shortline operator jumped in and bought them (only to be absorbed into a new regional (Canada Southern’s line from Niagara Falls to Windsor)) which was later grabbed by the LT&L during the PV&T’s second round of acquisitions.
1980 (the last motor built – by the CPR shops – for the Grand River after CPR decided to keep the wire up on switching districts, and still in use because the energy crisis of the 1970s put the fear of G-d into the central office) was transferred from the GRR to the LE&N during the process of divesting/abandoning these lines, and was renumbered to 1980 to commemorate the year when the ORRC’s founders decided to try and buy the old radials before the CPR could tear down the wires and abandon them.
—orc Sat Mar 26 22:34:05 2022
Mar 25, 2022
A little evening snack
—orc Fri Mar 25 23:24:13 2022
Going out for a (slightly) longer ride this afternoon.
—orc Fri Mar 25 20:03:38 2022
Mar 24, 2022
PAT PCC #1730 – wearing the best trolley paint scheme ever – coming down the ramp at Overbrook Junction in the early 1970s.
—orc Thu Mar 24 14:20:35 2022
Mar 18, 2022
Dust Mite & Mavis are cozy
—orc Fri Mar 18 22:36:58 2022
Mar 12, 2022
But not an rsc-2m this time; 573 is a rsd-5, but it’s really nicely posed in front of the North La Crosse roundhouse, so it’s a perfectly cromulent image to post.
—orc Sat Mar 12 18:29:14 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Archiving some rsc-2m (and C-628) slides
—orc Fri Mar 11 23:34:13 2022
Mar 04, 2022
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