Hi all from Vancouver
Posted: Fri May 15, 2009 5:52 pm
My old comp is acting up (video card) so all I can do is surf until i save my $ for a fix.
I've been a fan of RRT since day one and returned to it a year or so ago. I found this site
awhile ago and love the map section; so much work by all !!
I just read Hawk's notes about growing up by the tracks and it brought back some
memories that I had almost forgotten.
I was about 4 or 5 when my mom rented a small house next to the CNR mainline in a
small town in Saskatchewan. She was a schoolteacher and my dad was overseas during
WW2. We had the big transcontinental steamers then. We lived about 100 yards from the
large switchyard and I remember the huge icehouse when we would go on a hot summer day
to cool off. No electric refrigerator cars then ! On cold winter nite you could hear the
steam whistles at crossings 10 miles away !
It is hard to believe the changes in 60 years. The CNR now runs to the Pacific coast, the Atlantic,
the Arctic (at Churchill on the Hudson's Bay) to Alaska, to Slave Lake in the NWT and to the
Gulf of Mexico at Mobile and New Orleans.
Anyway - good to see that so many all over the world love and remember the trains
and how important they still are.
I've been a fan of RRT since day one and returned to it a year or so ago. I found this site
awhile ago and love the map section; so much work by all !!
I just read Hawk's notes about growing up by the tracks and it brought back some
memories that I had almost forgotten.
I was about 4 or 5 when my mom rented a small house next to the CNR mainline in a
small town in Saskatchewan. She was a schoolteacher and my dad was overseas during
WW2. We had the big transcontinental steamers then. We lived about 100 yards from the
large switchyard and I remember the huge icehouse when we would go on a hot summer day
to cool off. No electric refrigerator cars then ! On cold winter nite you could hear the
steam whistles at crossings 10 miles away !
It is hard to believe the changes in 60 years. The CNR now runs to the Pacific coast, the Atlantic,
the Arctic (at Churchill on the Hudson's Bay) to Alaska, to Slave Lake in the NWT and to the
Gulf of Mexico at Mobile and New Orleans.
Anyway - good to see that so many all over the world love and remember the trains
and how important they still are.