Pat's Pictures and Videos From Session #8
Pat is now at his cottage in New Brunswick.
From this great distance he was able to send me a number of pictures and videos from this past week's session.
Pat ran Train 302 with Jeff & Moe.
Enjoy your time at your gorgeous beach front cottage, Pat!
Pat managed to capture Passenger 1 moseying around the bushes in 'The Corners'.
Moments earlier Bill monitored the progress of his train as it tunneled beneath St. Helens.
We view Pat's video capturing Train #1 as it travels westbound for Wellington Lake, Bell & eventually, Firgrove.
Train 1 slows to an approach in Wellington Lake.
Jeff is holding the switch lists for his train.
You will note that the locomotive encountered some debris on its run beneath St. Helens.
In this video taken by Pat you will notice the front truck of the locomotive rides above the rail head due to some obstruction encountered beneath St. Helens.
These next four images come from a video Pat took that is too large for the blog to handle...but you can still enjoy seeing what Pat was videoing in these still images.
Here we see their second trick train, Train 312 departing Nelson Yard and navigating around the construction zone leading into the Fallentree Mine and Lilly.
The car directly behind the locomotive is a favourite of mine.
Lawrence found the buoys and created a wonderful bulkhead flat load with them!
The wooden trestle behind the Fred Mills Bridge is named in Lawrence's honour.
Moe is handling the throttle at the moment while Steve switches out Anderson along the route of the RP&M in back.
Finally, we see the tail end of third trick Train 322 descending the grade at the fence line off in the distance to the left of the image.
312 leans into the curve at Lilly.
The IPP&W is making 'coin' as ore is on the move to the huge ore dock in Craig Leigh.
The power is on a slow order as it passes the station in Spruce...rattling the timbers for sure!
The crew continues its eastward journey - although facing west at the moment!
In this ore train video Bob explains to Pat how he managed to purchase the four CN ore cars.
Oops...it would appear a few loads didn't want to enter Spruce!
Ore is on the move once again out from Spruce and into Ironwood.
Hmmm...the pilot truck is now on the ground.
This mishap must be the result of Pat video-taping the train's movements.
'Murphy's Law' you know!
Indeed...'Murphy's Law' is in evidence in this video footage!
Re-railed, the ore train finds the main at Ironwood as two IPP&W trains travelling in opposing directions are spotted working here.
With the ore consist having cleared the western turnout into the yard, Mark is able to now proceed west to Spruce aboard Train 313 - under CP power.
Busy Ironwood video scenes.
Passenger 3 rides atop 'The Plateau' on its westerly journey.
The train reaches the outskirts of Ironwood with a boxcar at Wellington Lake seen off in the distance by the fence.
Train 3 enters Ironwood where a meet is held with 302 on the Spruce Sub while Passenger 4 is seen across the valley along the Bell Sub at Watkins Siding approaching Wellington Lake.
Video across the two subdivisions as offered up by Pat.
With this locomotive not having any steam generating power, a steam generation unit (SGU) car is placed between the engine and the passenger cars.
Passenger 4 meets third trick Train 321 at St. Helens.
Station stop!
Passenger 4 is a video star!
Jeff uncouples his power from his train as ore presses on by along the main.
He is occupied as he checks out the situation with the cars he has to lift and set out here at St. Helens.
Bernie is pulling a 'Mike' as he sneaks out from the dispatcher's cabin to check in on things!
Seeing as all train crews are now on their third run of the morning, then all meets may very well have occurred and he would be able to shut down the dispatch office.
Dilip is nearby as he would either be on his third trick Train 324 or he may have finished all three of his runs on the day.
Bernie is all smiles as he has successfully passed his 'trial' as dispatcher on this day and there were no incidents reported! 😎💪💪😎
Jeff follows the passage of the ore train up to Craig Leigh as he sets the turnouts in order to handle the facing sidings here in St. Helens.
We were lucky that Blogger accepted this 'tad longer' video effort from Pat!
Let's check out a few images Bernie sent from WDWD today.
I didn't attend due to an 80% forecast of rain...which, of course, never materialized!
Due to the forecast, we agreed to drive an elderly neighbour shopping instead...so we were Good Samaritans after all!
Bill & Henk worked on the cabling from the throw stand to the turnouts at Fallentree Mine.
That Mr. Scobie has taken over the "Energizer Bunny" moniker! 👍👍
Bernie is enjoying his experience in the dispatch cabin.
He is willingly changing some of our outdated train numbers using his labeler and creating new labels for some of our newer trains.
Thanks for this Bernie
And now for something completely different...we find my daughter Karen in the Galapagos Islands.
Hey the 'Workday Wednesday' crew could hire this fellow to mow the lawn each week! 👌👌
They've heard that Moe, Paul & Henk have the barbecue going!
These penguins have never been to Pittsburgh I imagine!
Okay...did Karen bring turquoise paint with her to the islands and these seabirds walked all through her paint can?
My research indicates that this species is the 'blue-footed booby'.
The vivid colour comes from carotenoid pigments obtained from eating fresh fish.
Brighter feet signal better health and hunting capability.
Let's head back north to Canada!
Pat sends along these final three images from his family cottage in New Brunswick.
Wow! Who wouldn't want to spend part of their summer in such a lovely location with an amazing view of the water!
Here's Pat with his sweetheart offering up two wonderful smiles!
Thanks so much for sending all of these videos and images our way, Pat.
We look forward to hearing all about your vacation when you get home!
Pat & the crew are the OVGRS of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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