Canadian Railroads > Hot enough??

How is the weather in your area?  Here in south west Nova Scotia it has been hot and dry, although there is usually a refreshing breeze. Today is shaping to be hot and muggy with no breeze. Province wide ban on campfires, other fires as well as a ban on fireworks for Canada Day celebrations.

these images might help chill you.  Doug
T1 south portal, mile 43.6 of the 3.7 mile long Wolverine Tunnel on the BC Rail Tumbler Subdivision, one of 4 tunnels on the sub.
T2 loaded coal train on the outbound track at Teck loadout
images taken February 1985

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That is cooling.  I think I will go outside to the 90 degree outside and warm up.   Thanks.

Looking cool for sure. Interesting to see the electrics with their pantographs lowered like that.

They must have had a heck of a snowblower for that tunnel entry way

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> They must have had a heck of a snowblower for that
> tunnel entry way

Used ballast regualtors equipped for blowing snow, also smaller bulldozers.  If that failed, a 12,000 ton coal train made a good battering ram.  Doug

ATSF854 Wrote:
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> Looking cool for sure. Interesting to see the
> electrics with their pantographs lowered like
> that.

Generally the trailing pantographs on each unit were used when operating, hard to tell in the image if any are raised.  Usually all pantographs were lowered when the units were unattended. Doug