Rob/Windsor Ont.
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Different surroundings and scenery. Sure beats the heck out of a four wall situation. Keep the ride coming ! A most pleasant journey.
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Another Railroad story......Part 1- Part 2- Part 3- etc :thumbup:
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Rob/Windsor Ont.
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Did you ever take any pics ? It'd be a treat to see !!
Part IX Covered bridges
Out on the rails, we are fortunate to be able to see things from a totally different perspective than if one was touring by auto. As we roll along, away from the hillside, we enter the farming area of the valley floor. The local farmer has had a good year with his alfalfa field and is putting in his fourth cutting. He bales it in the large white round bales. I think they look like giant marshmallows. Of course he doesn
Out on the rails, we are fortunate to be able to see things from a totally different perspective than if one was touring by auto. As we roll along, away from the hillside, we enter the farming area of the valley floor. The local farmer has had a good year with his alfalfa field and is putting in his fourth cutting. He bales it in the large white round bales. I think they look like giant marshmallows. Of course he doesn
their beshide you. I love covered bridges, therefore one of my favorite movies and books was "Bridges of Madison County". You simply MUST take your camera and share some of this scenery with us. It sounds like a very beautiful, relaxing ride thru your country side. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!! 
Wayne in BC
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and i have found many old coins and goodies around the foundations of old stations and stops. I am truly enjoying the trip but my mind keeps going to my detector!
, maybe I should try it again!Wayne in BC
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with my old Garrett Grandmaster CX111 (lots of discrimination)and found an 1864 US half dollar in VG condition and 4 Canadian "fishscale" silver nickles along with several old dimes, quarters and pennies from 1900 on through to current times.
The tiny Silver 5 cent pieces were easily lost so show up more often on an old site than the larger dimes and quarters.
The tiny Silver 5 cent pieces were easily lost so show up more often on an old site than the larger dimes and quarters.
Rob/Windsor Ont.
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Wayne in BC
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thanks a bunch for taking the time to tell this really interesting series!
I remember taking a train from Pontiac to Detroit when I was a kid and then the trip to California. The ten hour trip to Hurst on the Algoma Central was long and boring.
It seems that the trip up through Algoma country would be interesting but the forest is so close to the tracks it is like being in a tunnel. There is little to see for much of the way/
Now that trip to California was three days or so and I saw some wonderful country. I had never been west and that wide open country was amazing to a seventeen year old boy!
These stories are bringing back some memories
It seems that the trip up through Algoma country would be interesting but the forest is so close to the tracks it is like being in a tunnel. There is little to see for much of the way/
Now that trip to California was three days or so and I saw some wonderful country. I had never been west and that wide open country was amazing to a seventeen year old boy!
These stories are bringing back some memories
Part XI Running around in Chester
In Chester, we usually run around the cars while they are spotted on the station platform. When we have more cars than can fit between the crossings, we hold everything together and after the passengers are all back safely on board we shove back down into the yard and do the run around using the passing track.
Today, we only have four cars so we can run around using the back track. When this was an active station, there were two tracks on the platform side and three tracks on the other. Think of the station being an island between the tracks and you get the idea.
I step up on the footboard after switching the engine onto the back track. I stay here so I can watch for any errant passengers that might move across our path as we travel behind the station. The feed store is on the other side of the back track and more than once, we have had to go find the driver of some car that has parked too close to the rails. Of course, I could give them a 100 ton nudge, but that causes too much paperwork Ha Ha! On the other side of the road serving the feed store, we have a static display of the last caboose in train service on the Green Mountain. It is a "bay window" caboose instead of the usual cupola style. It saw train service right up until the eighties when regulations and equipment precluded the need for someone to be riding the rear of the train. We open it up so people can walk through and see how it used to be. Inside there are two cots, a conductors desk and a pot belly coal stove.
Moving down the back track, I tell Bruce to stop. Stepping down, I walk into the roadway to flag the traffic. The mainline has flashers and bells where the back track has just a pair of rails so it must be flagged.
In Chester, we usually run around the cars while they are spotted on the station platform. When we have more cars than can fit between the crossings, we hold everything together and after the passengers are all back safely on board we shove back down into the yard and do the run around using the passing track.
Today, we only have four cars so we can run around using the back track. When this was an active station, there were two tracks on the platform side and three tracks on the other. Think of the station being an island between the tracks and you get the idea.
I step up on the footboard after switching the engine onto the back track. I stay here so I can watch for any errant passengers that might move across our path as we travel behind the station. The feed store is on the other side of the back track and more than once, we have had to go find the driver of some car that has parked too close to the rails. Of course, I could give them a 100 ton nudge, but that causes too much paperwork Ha Ha! On the other side of the road serving the feed store, we have a static display of the last caboose in train service on the Green Mountain. It is a "bay window" caboose instead of the usual cupola style. It saw train service right up until the eighties when regulations and equipment precluded the need for someone to be riding the rear of the train. We open it up so people can walk through and see how it used to be. Inside there are two cots, a conductors desk and a pot belly coal stove.
Moving down the back track, I tell Bruce to stop. Stepping down, I walk into the roadway to flag the traffic. The mainline has flashers and bells where the back track has just a pair of rails so it must be flagged.