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In Winter, The Railway Sleeps

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Some scenes along the Right of Way. The management apologizes for the poor image quality; the pictures were taken with a Blackberry in evening, middle of February. At earliest, the track may be usable in thirty days.


At the west end of the circuit is the only visible, and to a far lesser degree, only transitable section of track.


The track snakes through these bushes in a broad S-curve from the top right, down to middle then finally bottom right. The path is just almost visible in the shape of the snow. A bridge is at the bottom right which will hopefully survive it’s third Canadian winter. As of yet, there is no sign of it. The snow at this point averages approximately 50-70cm in places.


The eastern passing loop is between the three control boxes (submerged in the snow) and the foliage.


The foundation of the mine-head at the north end. The building was taken in for the winter and a major redesign/bash. The mine spur is immediately ‘below’ the foundation and further below that is the main line. This area is probably the least snowed in.


Part of the same area as the second photo plus more to the west, looking at the S-curve from the other side.

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February 17th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

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Cricket Goes To Work

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February 10th, 2010 at 10:45 pm

I Can’t Wait For Spring

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This grade is the reason all my locomotives are all-wheel drive.

The weather was an unseasonably warm -2 Celsius this afternoon which made my thoughts turn back to scenes such as this photo from July of last year lurking around on my hard drive. Oh, those were the days, and those days will come again to be sure, but the waiting is the problem.

[Note to self: build a weed-trimming car for the new year.]

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February 2nd, 2010 at 10:17 pm

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