Caught the Oisin Sand Cat car mover shoving two cars down to the interchange with Conrail.


Bruce

   

The Leetown Division recently celebrated a historical event to recognize the retirement of the road's most senior employee---engineer John Ramsay.John was born in Stirling Scotland, joined the Royal Navy during WW2 and after the war worked as a fireman on the steam locomotives of the London Midlands and Scotland RR. until he immigrated to Canada and settled in Leetown where he quickly found employment on the CNR Leetown Division.It wasn't long before he qualified as a locomotive engineer and never missed a day in his 55 years of dedicated service.Reluctantly and with regrets John decided it was time to pack in his beloved career so he can spend time with his extended family.
Management on the Division wanted to do something special to mark this occasion and when they learned that there was a special tour of British locomotives in Canada to celebrate Canada's connection to the British Empire arrangements were made to have these locomotives visit Leetown at the same time as John's retirement.John's last runs were at the controls of the famous "Flying Scotsman" and LMS #5112 which he actually fired back in Britain.

P1470091 by Ed Creechan, on Flickr

P1470095 by Ed Creechan, on Flickr

I'll get started early this week and I am hoping for more pictures this week.  Here is a PRR passenger train overtaking a livestock train near the summit.      Charlie

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Just a thought, we haven't had a video chat for a while. We did have a bit of a problem with the last one that I hosted, It turned out that out of seven that said they'd be there, only Lutz and myself showed up. Remember, Lutz stayed up very late to talk with others and no one else showed. I know that Big Blue is part of a hobby and we're pleased that everyone takes the time to participate here. Getting together by video is a plus, but we sometimes all have more important things that takes precedent, just that it would be nice if we could set aside the time we agreed to.

So, do we arrange a video chat one of these evenings, or even earlier to accommodate those not living in North America? If so, would someone else like to host it? I am willing to give it another shot. If you are, then post something here about a time that would work best for you and see if we can't get another chat going. With vacations coming up, that may not happen until the fall, but let's start talking about it now.

A really late start for this weeks photo thread.  Here is a different angle of a train climbing the grade on the Wilderson.      Charlie

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A little bit of action in the east yard.     Charlie