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    Nova Scotia

    As usual, the news sources here are doing a lousy job on reporting on the weather in the Maritime Provinces - weather doesn't stop at borders. Having heard isolated reports of deaths, evacuations and electrical power outages, I do sincerely hope that all of our Nova Scotian members and their...
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    "Whirlie/Whirligig" Steam Cranes

    On pages 54-55 of Michael Kreiger's "Where Rails Meet the Sea," there is a photo of "whirly" steam cranes being used, circa 1885, on the Cuyahoga River, to unload coal from a schooner into hopper cars on a track parallel to the ship. They appear to be built primarily of timbers and the side view...
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    WW&F - MC Based Track Plan

    Circa 1994-5 I saw a plan in a book of plans for a dual gauge waterfront layout. It was an inverted U or W shaped, around the walls, room size point-to-point layout that had both narrow and "standard" gauge trackage patterned after the WW&F - MC configuration at Wiscasset, Maine. It included...
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