Re: Canadian Narrow Gauge
| July 01, 2017 11:26AM |
Thank you very much Charlie for Birthday Wishes.. Nice NG photo.
Here's another Canadian NG photo. A postcard from around the same time as your picture…and just about as far as you can get from the Yukon and still be in Canada.
Taken on "The Rock" and posted in 1975…
Did you know the original Bullet train was not from Japan…It was from Newfoundland.
As you may have guessed....it's moniker…" The Newfie Bullett " reflects Newfoundland humour….It was about as fast as a speeding ox-cart.
Very similar in many ways to Colorado.
In today's Politically Correct world we aren't allowed to say Newfie any more. But my father served on Canadian Navy minesweepers ..hunting U-Boats on the North Atlantic during WW2.
The port of Newfie John and it's welcoming people were literally a refuge from the storm. He never forgot the kindness shown to him. A young sailor far from home and wondering if he would ever see it again.
Newfie's they are...and Newfie's they remain…Long may they live.
Here's another Canadian NG photo. A postcard from around the same time as your picture…and just about as far as you can get from the Yukon and still be in Canada.
Taken on "The Rock" and posted in 1975…
Did you know the original Bullet train was not from Japan…It was from Newfoundland.
As you may have guessed....it's moniker…" The Newfie Bullett " reflects Newfoundland humour….It was about as fast as a speeding ox-cart.
Very similar in many ways to Colorado.
In today's Politically Correct world we aren't allowed to say Newfie any more. But my father served on Canadian Navy minesweepers ..hunting U-Boats on the North Atlantic during WW2.
The port of Newfie John and it's welcoming people were literally a refuge from the storm. He never forgot the kindness shown to him. A young sailor far from home and wondering if he would ever see it again.
Newfie's they are...and Newfie's they remain…Long may they live.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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