Canadian Railroads > Picking up CWR track ...(2)

Hello,
Nice images from Kylie and MR. E_G on the track gang on CN...very interesting.

1. This is a better angle to see the pick-up work with the CP unit. It is also used to place rail.

2. Mentioning Herzog on the rail train: on 4/22/2015 CN 2205 East had a string of Herzog ballast cars in tow.

3. Not sure of the final destination, but perhaps somewhere near the rail laying project.

Railroads at work!!!

Thanks for looking,

611

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Your location on the CN, between Mackenzie and Vinsulla north of Kamloops is interesting.  The buildings visible around the road crossing are now the "Tournament Capital Ranch", a city owned facility with many soccer and football fields. Before that it was the Rayleigh Institute, a minimum security Provincial Jail, and before that it was a Government of Canada ammunition storage facility. The Rayleigh institute was where prisoners convicted of minor offences and those who could not make bail were sent. Inmates worked the fields and produced vegetables that were sold locally. Some have fond memories because they were serving time for DUI and their stay allowed them to dry out and stay sober. The Rayleigh Institute closed because the buildings contained asbestos.

Now it is a good photo location but fifteen or twenty years ago, the prison guards would have chased you away.

Great history of the area...thanks E_G.

And I actually met the guy who has the property there, and I have his ok to be on a little dirt road of his.

See you for a coffee one day soon!

611

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Let's do that.

The ranch itself is patrolled by a herd of about 100 goats, a shepherd and his dogs.  We met when he was tracking down an errant kid (young goat) that had wandered too far from the flock. Proving that almost every dog has the herding instinct, his working dogs were of several different species, some not what we would think of as shepherd dogs.

Any one know if that pusher car was built by Davidson Kennedy ?