man that runs so smooth and quite! All at the expense of weight, but its so beautiful to look at and see its operations, Oilers, oiled machine running quite stress free.
Maize Factsheet 2021” also lists the CP policy “not to encourage planting in mountainous areas or conserved forest areas”. The document say all the right things, in the usual corporate gobbledegook, but the proof is in the pudding and that proof floats across the skies of northern and northeastern Thailand every day during the annual crop-burning season, roughly from January to April each year. Inconveniently, the season fits in with the lighter north-easterly airflow, the reversal of the wet season monsoon, which blows the smoke and air pollution south into central Thailand, Bangkok, and sometimes even further south. The previously lush, green mountainous regions of northern Thailand turn into a choking hell from the maize, sugar and rice plantation burn-offs. Despite CP’s carefully curated words, the problems in the north becomes worse each year
I worked for the CPR maintenance of way in 81-85 and I used motorcars with these engines everyday. I ran one once for a mile and a half with a train not too far behind with a I think broken crankshaft and it still kept running. We had one foreman took the cylinder head off of his section motorcar and had the head machined down 0.03" and that thing would hit 50 miles an hour. It was terrifying. You felt like you could just fly off of the track going though switches.
@@mariahhaarstick591 no question it can be done if you have the money. Its also a City of Toronto asset and landlocked. The first thing you need is a half million $ to move it to live rail followed by permission to run it somewhere. Good luck with that.
I can’t believe you got her to start again after being idle for so many years. I was born in Toronto in 1968, I’ve lived in the city my entire life, and I remember seeing that train when it was in service still, and then I remember seeing it just sitting there, rusting outside for years and years. I just thought it was a piece of junk, I had no idea it could ever be brought back to life, you guys are amazing mechanics! For those of you who remember, the area around the round house has changed a lot over the past 30 years hasn’t it? I still remember as a little kid driving along the gardener in the school bus on day trips, having to hold our breath as we passed by the Cherry Street smelting plant, remember that stench? And then as we went along on the right you’d see the railyard, it was absolutely massive, at least it seemed like it when I was 10 years old, I still remember the very first go train that went through there, I just look at it now, it doesn’t even look like the city that I grew up in. My Toronto is long gone, buried under a mountain of sky high Glass and steel skyscrapers, you can’t even see the Royal York anymore, but you can still see the round house, not to mention the steam whistle brewery, always have to make a stop there first before going to the train museum! But I wish I was alive before that, when steam trains ruled the rails, what I wouldn’t give to have seen the round house filled with steam trains. I haven’t been to union station for a long time, but the roof used to still bare the marks of the steam era, as black soot coated the ceiling. Now it’s become all glass, I know change is inevitable, but that entire area changed way too much too fast, and took away something that was, at least for me, so precious about the character of our city, now we’re just another generic forest of skyscrapers, with zero aesthetic appeal, and the round house is now nothing but a big tourist trap, how I long for the days before all the change begin to happen, the days when the CN Tower stood alone, when there was nothing else around it except train tracks. That’s the Toronto that I remember and love.
