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Carlton Trail Railway
The Carlton Trail Railway is a shortline railway with its headquarters in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It is operated by OmniTRAX, an American transportation company in Denver, Colorado. Carlton Trail has been operating on ex-Canadian National track since Dec 8, 1997; however, after the acquisition of the branch line CTRW also purchased from CN the Birch Hills-Fenton-Prince Albert branch line in 2001. Since the closure of the pulp mill in 2006, Carlton Trail has typically adhered to a schedule of twice weekly rail service, hauling approximately 2000 carloads per year. According to OmniTrax president Darcy Brede, when the mill reopens in 2014, the railway will begin six days a week service, hauling approximately 3000 carloads a year. Shortline railways Over the past several decades many branch lines on the prairies have been discontinued as they have not proved cost effective for the two Federally regulated rail lines, Canadian National Railway & Canadian Pacific Railway. Often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Saskatchewan
The regional designations vary widely within the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. With a total land area of 651,036 square kilometres (251,366 sq mi), Saskatchewan is crossed by major rivers such as the Churchill and Saskatchewan and exists mostly within the Hudsons Bay drainage area. Its borders were set at its entry into Confederation in 1905, and Saskatchewan is one of only two landlocked provinces (the other is Alberta) and the only province whose borders are not based on natural features. As the fifth largest province by area (and sixth largest by population), Saskatchewan has been divided up into unofficial and official regions in many ways. As well, it is part of larger national regions. Unofficial regions Parts of Saskatchewan have been given formal and informal names, including: * Ghost Town Trail, region of largely abandoned communities spanning across the southern part of the province and centred around Highway 13. * Medicine Line, along the border between Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saskatoon
Saskatoon () is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It straddles a bend in the South Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province. It is located along the Trans-Canada Highway, Trans-Canada Yellowhead Highway, and has served as the cultural and economic hub of central Saskatchewan since its founding in 1882 as a Temperance movement, Temperance colony. With a Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census population of 266,141, Saskatoon is the List of cities in Saskatchewan, largest city in the province, and the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, 17th largest Census Metropolitan Area in Canada, with a 2021 census population of 317,480. Saskatoon is home to the University of Saskatchewan, the Meewasin Valley Authority (which protects the South Saskatchewan River and provides for the city's popular riverbank park spaces), and Wanuskewin Heritage Park (a National Historic Site of Canada and UNES ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMD GP10
The EMD GP10 is a diesel-electric locomotive that is the result of rebuilding a GP7, GP9 or GP18. The Illinois Central Railroad had three separate rebuild programs to upgrade their old EMD GPs and GPs that they had purchased from equipment dealers such as Precision National Corporation in Mount Vernon, Illinois. The first was the GP8, second the GP10 and third the GP11. All were rebuilt at IC/ICG's Paducah Shops in Kentucky. Core units for the GP10 program were from IC/ICG GP7, GP8, GP9 and GP18, B&M GP9, B&O GP9, CRR GP9, C&O GP7 and GP9, D&RGW GP9, DT&I GP7 and GP9, FEC GP9, GTW GP18, P&LE GP7, Potlach Forests Inc. GP7, QNS&L GP9, RDG GP7, St.J&LC GP9, SLSF GP7, SP GP9, SSW GP7, and UP GP9B. Two IC GP9s were rebuilt to GP10s and sold directly to the Ashley, Drew and Northern Railway. Nine Alaska Railroad GP7s were rebuilt to GP10s by Paducah, and renumbered 1801-1809 (these rebuilds received EMD angled cabs but kept their AAR Type B road trucks from Alco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MLW M-420W
The MLW M-420 was a diesel-electric locomotive manufactured between 1973 and 1977 in Montreal, Canada by the Montreal Locomotive Works. A total of 88 units were built for Canadian railways, including eight B units built for the British Columbia Railway; most of production went to Canadian National. Only seven units were sold outside of Canada, to the State Railways Institution in Venezuela and the Providence and Worcester Railroad in the United States. The M-420 was one of the first locomotive models (along with the EMD GP38-2) to use the wide-nosed Canadian comfort cab, pioneered by Canadian National. By the early 1990s, variations on this cab design had become the standard of the industry. As with wide-nosed General Motors Diesel units from the same period, references to the model commonly add a "W" at the end of the model name, but it is not part of the official model designation. Most M-420 units rode on MLW ZWT (Zero Weight-Transfer) trucks. Variations Other variations of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C424BELTRAILWAY
C4, C04, C.IV, C-4, or C-04 may refer to: Places * Caldwell 4 or NGC 7023 or Iris Nebula, a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus * Circumferential Road 4 or C-4, an arterial road of Manila, Philippines * Ken-Ō Expressway (includes some sections of Shin-Shōnan Bypass), route C4 in Japan *Omotesandō Station, a Tokyo Metro subway station (station numbers C-04, G-02, H-02) People * C4 (rapper), a rap music producer from Birmingham, England * Clarence Mitchell IV, American radio host and former politician * Chris Turner, sometimes credited as Chris Heiner, a.k.a. "C4", Australian musician, part of Modern Day Poets (MDP) alongside Tim Turner (a.k.a. "DubLT") and Joel Turner Computing *C4 (conference), a Macintosh software developers conference * C4 Engine, a next-generation 3D game engine * C4 model (software), a graphical notation technique for diagramming software architecture * Cx4 chip, an add-on microprocessor chip employed by certain Super NES game cartridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belt Railway Of Chicago
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago , headquartered in Bedford Park, IL, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by six Class I railroads — BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway (the BRC's north-south main line's northern terminus is, like the Indiana Harbor Belt, the Milwaukee District West Line in Chicago's Cragin neighborhood), CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad — each of which uses the switching and interchange facilities of the BRC. Owner lines and other railroads bring their trains to the Belt Railway to be separated, classified, and re-blocked into new trains for departure. The BRC also provides rail terminal services to approximately 100 local manufacturing industries. The company employs about 440 people, including its own police force. BRC trackage The BRC has 28 miles (45 km) of mainline route with interchanges to each of its owner railroads, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALCO Century 424
The Century 424 was a four-axle, diesel-electric locomotive. 190 were built between April 1963 and May 1967. Cataloged as a part of Alco's ALCO Century Series locomotives, Century line of locomotives, the C424 was intended to replace the earlier ALCO RS-27, RS-27 model and offered as a lower-priced alternative to the ALCO Century 425, C425. Montreal Locomotive Works also built this locomotive as MLW Century 424. Original Owners Locomotives built by Alco Locomotives built by MLW Preservation * Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway, Toledo, Peoria and Western 801 is preserved as Morristown & Erie 19 by the Tri-State Railway Historical Society and in storage in Boonton, New Jersey, Boonton, NJ * Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Pacific 4237 is preserved at the Canadian Railway Museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec, Saint-Constant, QC. * Reading Railroad, Reading 5204 is preserved by the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society * Toledo, Peoria and Western 800 is preserved as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INCO RunningRS18
Vale Canada Limited (formerly Vale Inco, CVRD Inco and Inco Limited; for corporate branding purposes simply known as "Vale" and pronounced in English) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale. Vale's nickel mining and metals division is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver. Prior to being purchased by CVRD (now Vale) in 2006, Inco was the world's second largest producer of nickel, and the third largest mining company outside South Africa and Russia of platinum group metals. It was also a charter member of the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average formed on October 1, 1928. Pre-Vale history Founding of Inco The company was founded following the discovery by blacksmith Tom Flanagan in Copper Cliff Ontario of chalcopyrite deposits, while the Canadian Pacific Railroad was being built. Initially, ore was shipped for smelting to a plant in Constable Hook, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INCO
Vale Canada Limited (formerly Vale Inco, CVRD Inco and Inco Limited; for corporate branding purposes simply known as "Vale" and pronounced in English) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale. Vale's nickel mining and metals division is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver. Prior to being purchased by CVRD (now Vale) in 2006, Inco was the world's second largest producer of nickel, and the third largest mining company outside South Africa and Russia of platinum group metals. It was also a charter member of the 30-stock Dow Jones Industrial Average formed on October 1, 1928. Pre-Vale history Founding of Inco The company was founded following the discovery by blacksmith Tom Flanagan in Copper Cliff Ontario of chalcopyrite deposits, while the Canadian Pacific Railroad was being built. Initially, ore was shipped for smelting to a plant in Constable Hook, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RS-18
The RS-18 is a reconfigured version of the Rocketdyne Lunar Module Ascent Engine (LMAE), modified to burn liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid methane (CH4) for NASA's Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) engine testing in 2008. Development The 2005 NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS), part of the 2004 Vision for Space Exploration, recommended that the crew exploration vehicle (CEV) lunar surface access module (LSAM) ascent stage propulsion and service module propulsion systems employ a pressure-fed LOX/liquid methane (CH4) engine. "Green" propellants, such as LOX and liquid methane, offer savings in both performance and safety over equivalently sized hypergolic propulsion systems in spacecraft applications such as ascent engines or service module engines. The mass savings over monomethyl hydrazine (MMH) and nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4) were around 1,000 - 2,000 lb (450 – 910 kg) for the LSAM ascent module, which was larger than the current design. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thunder Rail Ltd
Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. Depending upon the distance from and nature of the lightning, it can range from a long, low rumble to a sudden, loud crack. The sudden increase in temperature and hence pressure caused by the lightning produces rapid expansion of the air in the path of a lightning bolt. In turn, this expansion of air creates a sonic shock wave, often referred to as a "thunderclap" or "peal of thunder". The scientific study of thunder is known as ''brontology'' and the irrational fear (phobia) of thunder is called ''brontophobia''. Etymology The ''d'' in Modern English ''thunder'' (from earlier Old English ''þunor'') is epenthetic, and is now found as well in Modern Dutch ''donder'' (cf. Middle Dutch ''donre''; also Old Norse ''þorr'', Old Frisian ''þuner'', Old High German ''donar'', all ultimately descended from Proto-Germanic *''þunraz''). In Latin the term was ''tonare'' "to thunder". The name of the Nordic god Thor comes from the Old Norse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
