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D&H photo I was
quite
taken
with William
Schaumburg’s photograph of the D&H setting off a car at the GLF Co-op in Jasperdale (April, 2013 RMC). I am pretty sure I have stood on that very spot, hearing the clank as the pin was lifted, and the pop as the air hoses parted. A great model is both evocative and believable, Kip Grant has succeed- ed on both counts.
JEFF VAN WAGENEN Middlebury, Conn.
CPR’s Boundary sub I was fascinated to see Robert Turn-
er’s and Marc Dance’s article on CPR’s Boundary sub in the May, 2013 RMC. The photos were all very familiar to me, having taken similar shots myself and having worked in Nelson at the shops in the early 1970’s during the summer months. To add to Mr. Turner’s article, the steam crane shown in the issue is No. 414325 and is presently to be found in the Prince George Railway Museum la- beled as the Victorian hook. It spent
more time in Nelson. It’s boom car is included there, too . I did get to see it in operation on a couple of occasions, first on the rip track trying to re-position a log load which had shifted and later at a derailment about ten miles west of Nelson. Several Alco/MLW S-4’s were as- signed to Nelson. I recall No. 7109 was the yard engine for many years and No. 7110 was used for the way freights such as the Craft switcher, which went to Castlegar (Celgar Mill) and the Kaslo and Slocan subs. One afternoon, a fellow railfan and I rode 7109 while it did its switching, always from the west end. Nelson yard had a slight grade westward; the train would come in from Cranbrook, east of Nelson, with four engines, No. 7109 would couple up and pull the whole thing out to the west end and would sort by kicking the cars back into the yard. I was told that at that time the train would normally be around 100 cars but there had been occasions when 125 cars were present and 7109 would still handle it. At one point, the Canadian Pacific Railway tried to replace 7109 with an S-3 No. 6572. It lasted only two months on account of insufficient pow- er.
No. 7109 was replaced by
SW1200RS No. 8117. The crews liked it as it had a little more power. Mention was made of the shorty ca- booses used on the Rossland sub. There was actually three such cars but one was kept on the prairies and to my knowledge never used there. In its last years, one of the cars, No. 437111, was in such bad shape, it had two steel bands wrapped around it to hold it to- gether. (An article on 437110 was pub- lished in RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN many years ago.) The
Nelson streetcar mentioned
came from the Cleveland, Ohio Transit System. While many of the C-Liners and H liners shown are well known to me, the area is now served only by EMD SD40-2’s and GP38-2’s.
MIKE BARONE via e-mail
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