Nice job Ian. Grandpa was a steam engine mechanic. I got to take the engines out of the roundhouse and onto the turntable and then to the siding, pull the whistle...I was 4 to about 10. Then they got 'weasels' and he said I called them when they first showed up. I liked the Pisss-in on the wheels", or said he said I said. In 1959 they laid off all the guys over 50, despite them being Vets they hired after the war. No pension. Just a train pass for CN rail.

I used to love taking the camping trailer to Cantley and hearing that steam engine going from Wakefield, the whistle in the dark and the chugging in the distance made me feel like a kid. Dad kept a train schedule in the glove box of our 53 ford and we went down to the CN tracks, where there's 4 lines and sit in our pj's a wait for a steam train to go buy. Mom rolled up the window if the wind was coming at us.

Lots of my friends work at the old GM diesel plant here. I think it's Electro-Motive that owns it now. They built a big one a few years back and were missing a deadline for the Irish railway, so they rented the worlds largest cargo plane, cause we have one of the world's longest runways, and loaded it in and flew it over. Thousands including me went down.

Great job with the website and embedding that, it was well done.

I'm going to do a video of my 'woodshed' practice and post it soon.

I hope that steam train is still running from Gatineau to Wakefield. I'd like to trek up and see that again.

We crossed the country in 66 on a train. The days of the CP train with the dome cars. Anyone who's not made the trip through the rockies on a train is missing more fun than they should ever have. Watching the front come out of the tunnel and being in the back is amazing.

John Conley
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