This was parked at the bauxite trans-loading facility in the La Baie borough of Saguenay, Quebec. The ore from ships is loaded on to rail there to move it to the aluminum smelting plants in the area. Plenty of hydro power available in the Provence of Quebec to power the smelters.
You can be sure of that. Almost all of our power is hydro-electric. We have some power dams way way up north, with one reservoir about the size of Belgium! That dam, LG2, or Robert-Bourassa Dam, has an overflow spillway that's nicknamed "l’escalier du géant", The Giant's Staircase. Each of the 10 steps is the size of a football field. When they open the flood gates it's impressive. To say that's big is an understatement.
When you say "football field", I am thinking that to be "soccer"? Which is much larger than a field used by US football.
See for yourself: I drew an arrow pointing to the scale bar. This is big. Most of the photos seen on the internet are taken from the photo icon at the bottom left, near the Layers button. Don't you just hate it when people start arguing about size?
At the old Chicoutimi Pulp Mill in present day Saguenay, Quebec. Steeple cab electric doing its thing. Early 1900s.
SCMAGLEV Museum in Nagoya: 0 Series Shinkansen-“Dr Yellow” which is like a track geometry train. Dining cars from the 0 and 100 series Shinkansen: Lead cars- 0, 100, 300, 700 series respectively:
It always surprises me when I remember that some shinkansens are not all-coach. The concept of a diner or smoking lounge seems so strange to me. Other high-speed trains like the TGV and ICE have cafe cars, so I don't know why it seems out of place on a shinkansen. I guess I imagine them like airliners, where you just sit in your seat the entire time.
More from Nagoya: Kuha 381 UK-made Maglev-set world speed record: Last but not least-record setting narrow gauge steamer. Record set while testing the weight limit on a bridge… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It might have been more common when they were slower-I usually take a “Nozomi” and they wheel a cart through with snacks. Haven’t seen a dining car on the N700A series which is all I’ve been on when riding the Nozomi, which I think is like an express-fewest stops-to/from Tokyo and major cities south. Most people grab something from home or a 7/11 before they get onboard. The others-Hikari and Kodama-along the Tokaido Shinkansen line also use N700As but have more stops so they could have a diner/care car. But haven’t been on one so I can’t confirm or deny. These diners were from older series Shinkansen so maybe they stopped the service altogether? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Fantastic photos, from steam to the latest Shinkansens that have a nose that looks like the toe end of a sneaker. That's not a stretch. Some of the early ones look just like they took an aircraft fuselage and put it on rails. I like their classic look.
From yesterday at Lowell, NC, an all-BNSF set leading NS 283 under one of the very few remaining SOU signal bridges on the system. The shot's backlit, but I've seen few BNSF units in my life and I'm happy to have seen these. That's my wife to the left in matching orange shirt.
Apart from what seems to be a missing tie, I really don't like the look of those ties. They're direly in need of replacement. Just look at how the tie plate has sunk down into the left-hand tie, on the far rail in the first photo. And how warped the others are. All the splitting and splintering. That's scary.