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From: "camerons" <camerons@...>

Hi guys:

here's a good one. When Railink took over the Cartier sub there were two

Doug

From: "Chris Davidson" <Trainman79@...>

TRAIN 469 PASSED THROUGH AT 16:10 WITH SD40-2's, 6067,9007, AND DEADHEADING
BEHIND ARE PACIFIC EXPRESS GP10's, (THEY LOOK LIKE ex. OK.VALLEY
UNITS.OMNI-TRAX) #'s 605 & 606 (I BELIEVE, I WAS MOVING TRUCKS, ONLY GOT A
QUICK LOOK.) ON THE TAIL-END ARE AT LEAST 12 OR 13 OLD HEAVYWEIGHT COACHES,
ONE STILL LETTERED CB&Q, 4 OR 5 ex. VIA (STILL BLUE), THE REST OHIO CENTRAL
CARS, FOLLOWED BY AN OC STEAM GENERATOR CAR. KICKING HORSE DID YOU HAPPEN TO
SEE 469 UP YOUR WAY?

TAKE CARE,
Chris Davidson
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From: Bob Eley <genlee@...>

I posted a similar article to this about a year ago and am reposting it
because at the end, it has one more little known fact. Enjoy!

The US standard railroad gauge (width between the two rails) is 4 feet,
8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads
were built by English expatriates.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines
were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and
that's the gauge they used.
Why did "they" use that gauge then? Because the people who built the
tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons
which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if
they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some
of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of
the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in
Europe (and England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The
roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war
chariots first formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match
for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made
for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel
spacing. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches
derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.
Specifications and bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are
handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you
may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made
just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses. Thus, we
have the answer to the original question.

Now the twist to the story..............
There's an interesting extension to the story about railroad gauges and
horses' behinds. When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad,
there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel
tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by
Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs
might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be
shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line
from the factory had to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs
had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the
railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses'
behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the world's most
advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago
by the width of a Horse's Ass!


Bob Eley .
ICQ # 7813066
Revelstoke (Pleasantville), B.C.

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From: "Mark Beltrano" <mbeltrano@...>

Hello,

I have been conducting some research on the CPR through the Rockies.
I have
been gathering information on the line durring the last days of steam
around
1950-1953. I am wondering if anyone can tell me if the railway ran
any of
it's Big Otis gons durring this time between Field and Golden B.C.?
Any
information on this subject would be of great help to me.

Regards,

Mark Beltrano

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From: Christian Base <cbase@...>

Simple question...

Is Chase BC east or west of Revelstoke on the CPR line?

CB

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