Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: canadian

From inside SkyDome (well, Rogers Centre). The Yanks beat the Jays tonight.... Camera: FujiFilm FinePix F10 Photo by Joel Dinda

Yeah, I'm a reformed railfan. Sometimes it shows.... Same train as yesterday's photograph , again by Clara's restaurant in downtown Lansing. Interesting power consist, if you care about those things. Canadian Pacific 9006 is an SD40F--which means it had a wide cab, a wide body, and a "Draper taper" behind that wide cab so the crew could see back. These were built by GMD and designed for the CN, as I recall; CP bought a few. Not exactly a failed experiment, I gather, but neither railroad bought a lot of 'em. The "Red Barn" moniker, as you can see, is descriptive; the look's pretty distinctive. That bell over the windshield is a nice touch. Seeing a lot of unusual locomotives this year. That generally means that traffic levels are high, so they're digging out the mothball fleet---but I'm no longer following railroad news very closely, so that's speculation. Last time I saw so many unusual locos was the early nineties, when these guys were part of the "new" fleet and were thought of as huge. Now they're (relatively) small, and uneconomical. Rather odd thing: If you Google for CPR 9006, you discover that CP's first diesel locomotive was a converted railcar , also numbered 9006. Not this loco.

Old CN roundhouse, with coaling and water tower ruins, Toronto. The Canadian National Railway used to have an enormous rail yard near downtown Toronto, which is marked by the CN Tower and partly occupied now by the SkyDome (Rogers Centre). This roundhouse, and a much smaller yard, are all that remain. You can see Lake Ontario in the background. The picture's a little noisy largely because I shot it through a window. Camera: FujiFilm FinePix F10 Photo by Joel Dinda

Another view. Just west of SkyDome in Toronto. Camera: FujiFilm FinePix F10 Photo by Joel Dinda

Just west of SkyDome/Rogers Centre in Toronto; evidently dedicated in 2003. Really a terrific monument.

One last photo (for now) from the 1990 MHSD Detroit-Port Huron excursion aboard the big BobLo boats. This is HCMS Saguenay, a Canadian Forces destroyer helicopter escort. She must have been on a farewell tour, as she would be decommissioned days after I took the photo. She's now an artificial reef , presumably for the use of divers, off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Canadian Coast Guard bouy tender/ice breaker Samuel Risley heading toward Lake Huron in the rain after casting off from Sarnia's Chemical Valley.