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Caboose Coffee: June 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Friday, June 21, 2013. The Bunkhouse As An Ever-changing Community. The operator at Boston Bar has given us track one at 'The Bar'. A mile west of the yard, the engine, a brace of SD40-2's rolls onto the Anderson Creek bridge, a long, high, curved trestle spanning the Anderson River. Westbound over Anderson Creek -. Peter Cox - 1970. Beyond the CTC controlled main line switch, the hand-operated switches leading to each of the storage tr...
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Caboose Coffee: March 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Saturday, March 30, 2013. Last Minute Follow Up on the Okanagan Wine Train. Since I posted my last segment on the Okanagan Wine Train, a number of emails have come in from readers who would like to know what happened to the Wine Train. Well, here it is, in a nutshell. But that's not the fate that should befall those beautiful cars. They should be cleaned, painted and put behind a couple of FP9A's or GP9U's, filled with happy train buffs...
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Caboose Coffee: January 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Monday, January 14, 2013. I Stood Up, So Others Could Sit Down. The file I was developing on locomotive cab conditions, and in particular., cab seating, had grown to an almost un-manageable volume. The seat pictured above is almost exactly the same as the one that had caused my spinal injury, and bore the same similarity to the one tested by Dr. Robertson in his study. Photo courtesy www.ScienceDirect.com. By pre-arrangement, I arrived ...
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Caboose Coffee: October 2013
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Thursday, October 31, 2013. A Work of Art, Hidden Behind a Work of Art. That was our old house on Sellwood Road. In the summer, 'the swamp', as we referred to it, was a wonderful place to spend the day. The Tea Bush grew to four feet in height and the bull rushes grew much taller than that. There were frogs and snakes, turtles and bitterns, blue herons, hawks and a great many small birds which nested there. One such cold, winter night, ...
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Caboose Coffee: Time Passes While We Watch
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Thursday, June 5, 2014. Time Passes While We Watch. Watches and railroading go hand in hand., if you'll forgive that clever little pun. She would say "One moment, Please", and be gone. The watch, he would gently slip into the watch pocket that was designed and sewn into the front of the overalls, just about at the center of the wearer's chest. The clasp would then be clipped onto a spare button hole place nearby for the purpose. The Acc...
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Caboose Coffee: Bravery and Courage Defined
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Saturday, October 8, 2011. Bravery and Courage Defined. Photo credit Peter Cox. CN train hits rock slide at Boothroyd on Ashcroft Sub in Fraser Canyon. Let me tell you a story of exemplary courage and bravery of a different sort. Bruce at the throttle on the Okanagan Valley Wine Train in 1999.when business was good! Photo credit Phil Moreau ex CN Rule Instructor @ Kamloops, BC. After leaving the classroom environment in Gimli. The photo...
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Caboose Coffee: March 2014
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Monday, March 3, 2014. What’s in a Name? Sometime shortly after we’re born, we assume an identity which is partly attributable to the genes we inherit, and partly by the name we’re given. We grow up with the realization that our given names are a good fit with the personalities we develop, or perhaps that isn’t the case at all. As he sat, staring into the small fire that was only large enough to warm his legs, he felt abandoned by his t...
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Important Documents - CN Pensioners Association of Manitoba
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Pages From Our Past. CN Pensioners' Association of Manitoba Constitution and By-laws. Guidelines for Estate Planning and Duties of An Executor. Also, here are some guidelines for Ontario residents - just Click here. General guidelines for handling the estate of a deceased pensioner can also be found on the National Website. Just click on General Guidelines,. From Health Insurance for Travelers Pamphlet. Revenue Canada Pension Income Splitting Form. For more information, call 1-800-959-2221. To access thi...
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Caboose Coffee: The Difference Between A Locomotive Engineer And A Hog Head.
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A purely social and personal perspective of railroad life in Canada. Thursday, February 2, 2012. The Difference Between A Locomotive Engineer And A Hog Head. There had been a rush of traffic as CN's Mountain Region pushed to clean up all the traffic that was stretched across hundreds of miles of track. It had been a very busy season for everyone involved. The grain elevators, coal unloading facilities and other bulk operations prepared their plants for the shutdown and the longshoremen drove their cars a...
