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
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.
I’ve been wanting to read The Sleeping Car Porter for a while now. When I spotted a used copy of the book, I snatched it up and devoured over the next few days.
Ah, Supertramp, a band that defied description. Were they prog rock? Pop? Blues? I’d say they gave a little bit of everything.
I really should say “railway” in Lichtenstein, since there is only one and it just passes through the country.
In my sparse railway video collection,I have a VHS tape entitled “Last Train into Fredericton”. This was produced by Digital World Productions, of Manawagonish Road, Saint John. Digital World was (is?) a store selling used musical instruments, CDs, and computer stuff. I have no idea why they made this video but I’m glad they did.
Back in October 5, 2000, someone* caught several brand-spanking new BC Rail locomotives being shipped through Ontario. These GE-built C44-9W locomotives were the last new locomotives purchased by BC Rail before its absorption into CN. * regretfully I do not know who the photographer was The five locomotives were 4651, 4650, 4654, 4653 and 4652, … Read more
One thing I find about being a railfan is that I do a lot of housekeeping, rather than actual railfanning.
This is the Mountain Region employee timetable for CN, featuring the British Columbia region, effective October 31, 1971.
