Canadian Railroads > on this day, 10 years ago

Aug 30, 2005 at Exeter BC, working the "switcher again".
images:
01 3612 power for the day, once again a "no name" unit, although I liked running these units
02 lots of fuel in the tank
03 "motley crew", my Conductor and the Brakeman. They were trying to convince me to get in the cab and "go to work". I had other plans to photograph the soon to arrive 470.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/30/15 07:11 by hoggerdoug.

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04: 470 arrived with 4651 leading and made a setout in east one, logs for the OSB plant
05  CN 5325 third unit also the DPU consist was three units way back in the train.
06  Conductor Tom Dodd on train 470. Sadly Tom was one of the two trainmen killed 10 months later in the horrific run away and derailment on Kelly Lake Hill.
      attached link to the TSB report, crew was absolved of any wrong doing and derailment.  http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2006/r06v0136/r06v0136.asp

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07   4651 leading unit on 470
08    4612 second unit in the three unit consist.

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last 2 images, thanks for looking.  Doug
09  4651 pulling away, heading to Lillooet after making a pickup at the south end of Exeter.
10   3 unit DPU consist passing the Exeter station.

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 A nice snapshot of your workday and the people you worked with.  

Neil Compton
Calgary, AB

Always a great series to look at.  Do you have any "20 years ago today" or "30 years ago today"?  I loved the Dogwood scheme not to mention MLW's.

Rick

rschonfelder Wrote:
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> Always a great series to look at.  Do you have
> any "20 years ago today" or "30 years ago
> today"?  I loved the Dogwood scheme not to
> mention MLW's.
>
> Rick

Rick, you may  have to endure "on this day" (digital) until Dec 21, 2018!!!  I'm working on my slides and perhaps can post some from "20 or 30 years ago" with two tone green as the slides are done.. Please bare with me. Sadly, on this board there seem to be more views and comments about some of the "newer" units, that to me all seem the same whether they are EMD or GE.  At least I try to post stuff that I worked with and experienced during my day to day railroad experiences. Has anybody else done a post this long running?? on this day??
Thanks for your interest and thoughts.   Doug

Nice...:D