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Category Archives: Railroad

The High Line in 2008

December 30, 2008by neath Leave a comment

Here are some updates for those of you curious about New York City’s beloved restored elevated train line, The High Line. Newsletter here. And here is a recent shot of […]

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architecture, History, Photography, Railroad, Structures

Turcot Yards 1956

December 15, 2008by neath 2 Comments

Big thanks to striderv over at Flickr for posting an amazing set of pictures from his grandfather’s collection. Seems there was an open house at the roundhouse that day (and […]

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History, Photography, Railroad, Urban

Doney Spur (7)

August 25, 2008by neath 3 Comments

And so the journey ends. This last leg has no track but it’s quite easy to follow where it went. This whole adventure was a lot of fun, though it […]

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Activism, Infrastructure, Photography, Public Transportation, Railroad, Urban

Movement

August 11, 2008by neath Leave a comment
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Photography, Railroad

Doney Spur (6)

August 4, 2008by neath 4 Comments

The last leg with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson. Glenn Garner of The Green Coalition joined us for half this walk. We started out at Sources and  went as far […]

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Photography, Railroad, Urban, Walking

The Doney Spur (5)

July 29, 2008by neath 3 Comments

Continuing the journey with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson.  We started at rue Douglas -B- Floreani and went to Toupin. Not a real long walk but we did a lot […]

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Green Space, Infrastructure, Photography, Railroad, Urban

The Doney Spur (4)

July 22, 2008by neath 3 Comments

Continuing the journey with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson. Here is a map of this leg. We started at Sources and went east. As far as I know the La […]

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Activism, Bridge, History, Infrastructure, Overpasses, Photography, Railroad, Structures, transportation, Urban, Walking

Doney Spur Revisited

June 26, 2008by neath 4 Comments

Been doing some hikes along the Doney Spur recently with Avrom Shtern and Andrew Dawson, who are rail fans and transportation activists. We started at the east end at Bois […]

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Activism, Photography, Railroad, Walking

Glen Yards 1971

May 7, 2008by neath 3 Comments

some amazing shots from Factotum.

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History, Interchange, Railroad

Competitions And Knowing Your Developer

April 28, 2008by neath 2 Comments

The High Line is probably one of the best known urban reclamation projects in the world and it does have the advantage of cool art/concert projects produced in it’s behalf. […]

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Development, History, Railroad, Urban, Urban Reclamation

Terrain A Vendre

March 6, 2008by neath 4 Comments

Or Land For Sale. Former 2M Ressources glass recycling plant land. Not sure who would want to buy that especially if they know that they will be surrounded by a […]

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Abandoned, architecture, Photography, Railroad, Signs, Snow, Structures

Grain

February 20, 2008by neath 6 Comments

This reminds me of when I worked on the railroad at Albert Canyon, B.C. in the late 70’s. One winter there was a derailment of about 8 grain cars near […]

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History, Interchange, Photography, Railroad, Urban, Winter

CNR Black

February 14, 2008by neath 4 Comments

Saw this train on the branch line that runs south west of Dead Dog Tunnel last week. There was only about 4 cars on it as it had dropped some […]

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freeway, Infrastructure, Interchange, Photography, Railroad, transportation, Urban

Nude

February 8, 2008by neath Leave a comment

(the image that was here was removed as Photobucket claimed it violated their terms of service, if you can believe that! It was no more revealing than what you see […]

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architecture, Art, Infrastructure, Interchange, Nude, Photography, Railroad, Tunnel

Two Killed At Turcot, Big Storm, February 3, 1908

February 4, 2008by neath Leave a comment

From the Gazette 100 years ago article here. “It is years since the city streets have been so thoroughly blocked by snow,” The Gazette said, “and it will take weeks […]

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History, Maintenance, Railroad

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