Weekend....gee, that sounds familiar.
Sep. 3rd, 2010 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tehluggageNo more work train for me, but boy was it good while it lasted.
I had the caboose all to myself, and while the one day the heater didn't work was the one day it was fucking freezing, it was pretty damn awesome otherwise. We ended up shoving all the way out to Gap, which was a little nervewracking. It's one thing to head out with two people always keeping an eye on things, and the hoghead able to react to what he sees, not just what the conductor tells him. It's another thing entirely to have one person on the point, having to keep a very close eye on sixty miles of track. I'll say this much, though - it did wonders for my confidence.
After the work crew finished yesterday, the hoghead and I put the train away in Gap, then brought the caboose and light engines back to Calgary, which was a very fast trip. (Holy track speed, Batman!)
All told, it was a great week, I got to sleep in today, and I have the weekend off.
This means (finally!) gaming time, possible ficcage, because I have the plot bunnies, and general R&R. Yay!
I had the caboose all to myself, and while the one day the heater didn't work was the one day it was fucking freezing, it was pretty damn awesome otherwise. We ended up shoving all the way out to Gap, which was a little nervewracking. It's one thing to head out with two people always keeping an eye on things, and the hoghead able to react to what he sees, not just what the conductor tells him. It's another thing entirely to have one person on the point, having to keep a very close eye on sixty miles of track. I'll say this much, though - it did wonders for my confidence.
After the work crew finished yesterday, the hoghead and I put the train away in Gap, then brought the caboose and light engines back to Calgary, which was a very fast trip. (Holy track speed, Batman!)
All told, it was a great week, I got to sleep in today, and I have the weekend off.
This means (finally!) gaming time, possible ficcage, because I have the plot bunnies, and general R&R. Yay!
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Date: 2010-09-03 09:01 pm (UTC)Hooray for cabeese!!
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Date: 2010-09-04 03:05 am (UTC)The flocks of wild cabeese have diminished in the last few years, but can still be seen in certain places, if one is patient.
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Date: 2010-09-05 05:26 am (UTC)Unfortunately the aftermath of the Hinton accident resulted in three things: the Foisy rules, which railroaders and railroads have detested since, the implementation on the Alerter-RSC, and the removal of cabooses and head-end brakemen since they were proven to be ineffective to the safe conduct of a train.
As far as my own two cents are concerned, the Wikipedia article, Hugh Halliday's account in Wreck! Canada's Worst Railway Accidents, and the the Discovery Channel show it spawned, are all biased and uninformed. The Foisy Report itself is very interesting and thorough...it is actually available for sign-out (along with 30 volumes of testimony) from the Rutherford Library at the U of A.
It was a sad incident that changed the railway industry in Canada...and the aim of the modern railway is to put it back to exactly what it was before this terrible disaster.
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-04 03:06 am (UTC)