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Confessions of a Train Geek: Elie's Station
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Monday, August 02, 2010. I was in Elie, Manitoba a while ago and saw this structure. This HAS to have been a railway station. The style just screams "station" to me, from the freight door on the left to the slight bumped out center section to the lack of ground level windows on the ends, and the roof line. A cursory Google search showed nothing but I'm convinced this was a train station. Anyone have any proof? 2 August 2010 at 19:42.
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Confessions of a Train Geek: Book Review: Trackside in the Maritimes by Bill Linley
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Book Review: Trackside in the Maritimes by Bill Linley. Bill Linley has finished his third book, "Trackside in the Maritimes 1967-1993" through Morning Sun Books. This book covers railway operations in the three Canadian Maritime provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island). Disclaimer: I consider Bill to be a good friend. The majority of the 235 or so photos. Were new to me, despite my occasio...
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Confessions of a Train Geek: BNSF 1685 Handover Ceremony Friday
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Monday, July 12, 2010. BNSF 1685 Handover Ceremony Friday. BNSF 1685 has been in town for a while now, hiding in the BNSF engine house. It is being readied for donation to the Vintage Locomotive Society. Home of the Prairie Dog Central Railway. CP has graciously offered to move the steam engine and diesel from PDC's location off Inkster Boulevard down the La Riviere subdivision to BNSF's shops, then move all three locomotives back.
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Confessions of a Train Geek: A Morning in Portage la Prairie
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. A Morning in Portage la Prairie. I am normally a "lone wolf" railfan. I find my time to railfan when I can so it's difficult for me to arrange to meet up with anyone else to see trains, plus when I'm alone I get to decide where to go! So when Thomas Sajnovic. Messaged me to ask if I was available, I hesitated for a moment and decided "what the heck! The usual collection of old Geeps were by the shops. BNSF 1685 ...
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Confessions of a Train Geek: 14 Miles and 5 Trains
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Friday, May 15, 2015. 14 Miles and 5 Trains. Last time, Thomas Sajnovic and I were in Portage la Prairie. In the morning of May 3. We had just decided to head back to Winnipeg via the Trans-Canada Highway, and therefore have a CN railfan opportunity. We headed east, and I had to stop in Oakville to check out the grain elevator. again. Onward. we ducked into Elie so I could show him the station-turned-house. Sadly they were destined to...
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Confessions of a Train Geek: Five Minute Railfan Guide - Ottawa
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Five Minute Railfan Guide - Ottawa. A guest post by DaveM. When visiting a city, it can be a bit difficult to find the best places to view trains, especially if you have limited time. Ottawa. Locations are on the map below - click on the link below the map to see them in Google Maps. Point 01 – Overpass Overlooking Ottawa Station. Point 02 – Bridge over Rideau River at Carleton. Point 03 – City Centre. The City C...
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Confessions of a Train Geek: 10 Questions for John Longhurst
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Tuesday, May 05, 2015. 10 Questions for John Longhurst. Railroad magazine used to have a regular feature highlighting an "Interesting Railfan". I thought I would run a similar series with some railfans who have agreed to participate. I'm asking each railfan 10 questions, some standard and some customized for the particular person. I hope you enjoy it. ( See all in the series. 1 Tell us a little bit about yourself. Since I model CP Rai...
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Confessions of a Train Geek: First Impressions of Lightroom 6's Face Recognition
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. First Impressions of Lightroom 6's Face Recognition. I just upgraded to Adobe Lightroom 6 this evening, and here are my very preliminary impressions. I've been looking forward to LR6 for its rumoured facial recognition features. I subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud (Photography). Notice that LR6 takes 1.42 gigabytes, an additional 350 megabytes more than LR5.7.0. You can confirm it by clicking on the checkmark...
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Confessions of a Train Geek: Monday in Halifax
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Friday, May 13, 2011. Well, I saw a fair number of trains while I was in Halifax this past week. I mentioned that I caught a couple of Ocean. Trains. While I was passing through Moncton on May 8 I also saw some units at Gordon Yard - complete sightings here. I spent a little time watching CN 121 Sunday night in Halifax. First they pulled forward. Then they pushed back to couple onto DPU engine CN 2205. I didn't stick around for that a...
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Confessions of a Train Geek: A CEMR Discovery
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Confessions of a Train Geek. The world's longest running railway blog. Friday, September 25, 2009. When I was out railfanning yesterday. I saw a westbound freight on the CN Rivers subdivision that made me turn around and chase it. That train was the CEMR freight, heading to the CEMR Carman subdivision! I had not seen a CEMR train on the move before, so this was a must-see. I don't think the speed limit is very high on the Carman subdivision. This is typical of prairie branch lines! I would have liked to ...
