Recent content by NW87

A derailed car at 15mph feels like someone is jackhammering concrete near your feet and in some cases no sudden jolt is felt at slower speeds, as the car even derailed is still headed in the same direction. (From experience).

The moon landing footage from the 60's was filmed on Unwin.

DPU trains (remotes in middle & tail) are Ferrari's compared to a conventional train (all locomotives on head end). As engineer, it's important to know the make up of your train, and when and where to manage your slack carefully. There are certain well known locations where dips in the sub are...

Yeah this road is definitely one of the worst and another is Basin St. but that's a dead end and full of squatters in mobile trailers.

Taken 26/01/14

CSL (Canada Steamship Lines) Welland being unloaded this early morning 26/01/14, one of the last ships to transit the St. Lawrence Seaway after major ice delays forcing the seaway to stay open past its seasonal closing date. The sugar was loaded in Quebec which was previously offloaded from...

The largest excavator in the GTA in the foreground, a 210 ton customized Hitachi EX1900-6, was previously working on the Pickering Nuclear Power plant intake pipe project on a barge.

Taken back around 2018 from Sugar Beach.

Some throwback shots to when the powerhouse of the Lakeview Generating Station was being torn down. This was the preparation prior to using demolition charges to level the main structure. The four smokestacks (4-sisters) were demolished using explosives a year prior (2006). After...

25/12/23 at 1am at Goodwood. Unit 22 at idle with the other shut down.

Departing Uxbridge for the final time with all the freight & passengers cars in tow.

I've seen Mute Swans in larger groups but never that many Trumpeter Swans.

2025/11/22