What's On Deck?

[TinGoat]

Surfing around on Live Search Maps I found this in Bird's Eye View...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Eastern Inner Harbour, near Cherry Street and Unwin Avenue.

In the first picture you can see a longer view showing some Wind Turbine sections [Circled in Red]. Some parts are laying on the ground and a couple of pieces of the mast are loaded on trucks. In the Blue circle are a trio of EMD built British Class 66's waiting to be shipped across the Atlantic Ocean.
   

The next picture shows the Wind Turbines on the trucks
   


Here's a closer view of the British Class 66's
   

[Ralph]

Those are very cool pictures, although I always get a "Big Brother's watching" feeling when I see such things!

I just happened to see some of those wind turbine sections in Duluth Harbor when I took their Vista King tour, a very good tour that gets you close to taconite loading, water side cement plants, international shipping...

Anyway, here is a photo of wind turbine sections waiting to be loaded for shipping.



Anyone have a pic of the 66s?

Ralph

[upnick]

I found two pictures of Class 66 locos in my collection tonight first the units getting ready for the journey .......... and deilvery at the docks this side of the pond.

[TinGoat]

Toronto Star: Wednesday June 11, 2008; Business Section page B3. TONY BOCK/TORONTO STAR Shipping Trains:Locomotives line up for loading ahead of a transatlantic trip.

Six new diesel locomotives, built by Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. of London, Ont., stand quayside this week at Marine Terminal 51 in Toronto's Outer Harbour, near the foot of Cherry St. The locomotives were being loaded on to Jumbo Shipping's MV Stellanova for shipement to Britian and delivery to Freightliner Group Ltd., the largest carrier of intermodal freight in the U.K. Hundreds of the locomotives have been supplied to European railways by EMD, which was a division of General Motors until it was sold off in 2005.

Class: 66
Weight tonnes: 127
Brake force tonnes: 68
ETH index: 0
RA: 7
Max Speed mph: 75

The photograph is from the Toronto Star Webpage.
   
There is also a photo showing one of the locomotives being hoisted onto the ship by a crane and a picture of the builder's plate in the actual newspaper.

[TinGoat]

I know that the loading gauge in Britian is smaller that many other places in the world. It's amazing to see them side by side with North American Power.

The pair of GP38-2's dwarf the Class 66's.

But squeezed under the hood of the Class 66 is the same Power Plant as an SD40-2!