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I fear I am losing my mind. Or at least my words. I’m losing track of words.

One of the ways to turn a locomotive is by using a turntable. Unlike steam engines, diesel locomotives rarely need to be turned, but the need arises at times… and so there are still a few turntables around. This is the CN turntable at the Fairview Yard in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

My joy at being included in the 2024 Trackside Guide was muted by the fact that this is the last one with Earl Roberts as co-editor.

The Victoria Pacific Railway was a short-lived tourist operation on Vancouver Island. It ran for two seasons on CN track just west of Victoria, in 1972 and 1973.

Back in the days of steam, water towers were a common feature beside railway tracks. Steam engines used vast quantities of water and they needed to refill frequently. After the end of main line steam in 1960, these towers disappeared quickly. Only a few remain… like the one in Loggieville, New Brunswick.

This is the CN employee timetable for the Prairie Region, Lakehead Area, effective October 31, 1971. This covers three subdivisions:

This is the employee timetable for the Ottawa Valley Railway (OVR), effective October 28, 2001. At the time of this timetable, the OVR was operated by RailAmerica. Today it is owned by the Genesee & Wyoming, and is about half the length that it was in 2001. Download the timetable This timetable shows the OVR … Read more

This site has been delisted by Google, and man, has the traffic plummeted.

My wife and I visited Denmark in September 2019. I was headed to an OSIsoft PI conference in Gothenburg (Göteborg) Sweden and we decided to wrap visits to Denmark and Norway around the conference.