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Really neat. I had no idea that CN served a coal operation down there into the late 80′s.
The Coal operations were a hangover from the steam era (lake ships mostly), but they managed another 3+ decades of mountains of coal stored along the east banks of the Canal. In addition to seeing brown SANTE FE, Black Chessie “CAT” hoppers were also common. Complaints from neighbouring houses of coal dust led to tarping all bulk shipments as can be seen on the right…Cheers..Thanks
Sure looks like one of the train crew is decked out in short sleeves and short shorts.
Sharp contrast with the Bucket Rail Crane Operator on the right… full on coveralls, cigar in hand, covered in coal dust…they just don’t make ‘em like that anymore
Hi Michael. I have a photo of that American crane I snapped in the summer of 1974 that I will send you once you have my email address from the moderators. Regards, Paul
Would love to see that Paul, and I will pass along the BURRO shots I have once I get your email….I have some good Crane shots at the Algoma Steel as well, just have to find them
Did you get my email address from the moderators? I haven’t seen anything from you yet. Checked my SPAM folder as well.
Hello Paul, I requested your email from the moderators, but never go a response, Michael
Hmmm. I gave them permission to pass my email address on to you. Let’s see if these messages get through to a moderator.
Sorry boys, just buried in e-mail. I’ll press the forward button soon
Thanks Stephen. Didn’t know how else to check.
So gents, all, sorry about the delay. The thing about our ‘contact’ request feature is it’s 100% done by hand. Requests are sent by e-mail to my inbox (copying a couple other people) and we have to read, review, and forward, by hand.
Because these requests contain personal information of the requestor, and has the potential to be abused,
it is set up this way to form a barrier as we cannot share personal information without permission, reduces spam, nefarious purposes, and people seeking long lost relatives or looking to serve people with papers.
We get about 1-5 requests per month on average and sometimes they do get buried. Sometimes we get more than the usual…
On the Internet things like this are also abused to inject ransomware, spam, scams, etc and we’ve been VERY successful in stopping it so far. If the feature was being abused, i’d just as soon shut it down, but for now, it’s fine
It works, it just takes a bit of manual labour to get around to it out of someone’s busy day
hope this helps explain. I don’t mind doing it at all, neither do the other guys. When something is really timely, we try to forward really quickly
the thing is I only check my e-mail once a day.
LOL
Thanks Stephen. I was concerned my original request had not made it through to anyone, or that a response to me had got lost in cyberspace.
Thanks for the detailed explanation of the process. Much appreciated. Paul