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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@Hiker_Scott The road at Resolute Bay does not lead to any other roads 🙂

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@chad Did your panels produce 64.86kwh, and you exported 10.67kwh ? Or did I read your image wrong?

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass The CP Rail Miule End station opened 1911. (there was a previous saller one before).

There is a video about Mile End (français).
https://youtu.be/AkOAL1zs9Mg

Station made sense when the main CP terminal was the Viger Station as trains from both the west and those that came from Ste Thérèse (petit train du nord, Hull train and trains from Québec) would pass through it. Once Windsor station opened, trains were shifted and no longer passed through Mile End station.

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass Actual station was demolished 1970 when the Vanhorne/Rosemont overpass construction began. Need to do some more research to find out if any remnants remains between then and more recent times.

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass ' Mr Google tells me this structure in your pictures in 77 Bernard. 77 Bernard was
"L’entrepôt situé au 77 Bernard Est est apparu à la même époque, en 1959-60"

According to one map the station was web of 77 Bernard.
Thsi photo from 1954 seems to place the station a little bit to the east of where it was on map (aerial predates construction of 77 Bernard. There were yards just east of station. It was a big milk exchange point from rural, to milk processors downtown.

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass History of Mile End en français.
http://memoire.mile-end.qc.ca/fr/gare-du-mile-end/

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass What the CP Rail station looked like after 1911 rebuild to a bigger one.

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass 1960 yep, station is to the west of the 777 Bernard whatehouse. (which is the structure that was partly demolished and I guess being rebuild in your photos, not the actual train station).
Also right to the east of where Bernard curves.

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@Milnoc reminds of when every teenage girl HAD to have blinking lights at end of mobile phone antennas (back when phones had antennas) :-)

jfmezei, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

@notjustbikes Thanks. I was running low on Orange Pills™, this video should help refill my prescription 🙂

Here is the bridge on Street View. Mr Google still thinks it is open to car traffic BTW.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.34733,4.9115175,312m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@notjustbikes was under wrong impression this was “current”. When you first announced this, I asked my Google for info about bridge closures in Amaterdam and that is when I found that CNN article about the dangers of cycling in Amsterdam with ground giving way and cyclists falling in water etc.

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@sps greetings from Montreal !

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass @EdwinG The Deux Montagnes station is to be the terminus. (this actually opened with the 1995 rebuild of commuter trains.

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass @EdwinG You can still see the branch line that went to Hawkesbury via north shore (and a bridge to Hawkesbury over Ottawa river at Hawkesbury). This is now a bike path that goes to Oka).

Alas, the tracks continue a fair distance north of the Deux Montagnes station to the "terminus" yards where CDPQ also built a mini mainteance garage and a big power substation. And to get thete, you need to cross the 640 highway. With CDPQ, one has to assumed fenced tracks due to driverless trains

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass @EdwinG rior to CDPQ ripping everything out, the tracks were electrified one or 2 train lengths beyond end of yards to allow for trains to makes the switches after whcih tracks cotinue in abandonned state for a while ebfore turning into farmer's field and just a "scar". At La Fesnière, the right of way was owned by Transport Québec for a very long time. (signs at crossings indicated so). They kept in to build train service to Mirabel until Mirabel closed.

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@heliomass @EdwinG So it is quite a distance to get to a point where the right of way is usable as path. But from 2 Montagnes station, it is fairly easy to get "out" of town to head towards Mirabel

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@EdwinG @heliomass There were 3 opeting railways to Hawkesbury area.

CP Rail north of Grenville. (green)
CN from Deux Motagnes via St-Philippe which crossed just east of Hawkesbury.
And the Montréal and Bytown Railway that terminated at Grenville.

Note the the ear;ly 1980s when I first bikes that far, I recall seeing the rail right of way (no tracks) crossing the 344 before Greenville but had no idea that it used to cross the river. Figured it was industrial customer there berore.

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@EdwinG @heliomass Today, there are absolutely no trace of the former railway crossing the 344 there, mostly because homes have been built. BUT...

At Hawkesbury, there are still tracks to an industrial customer that point to where the bridge was. but on shore, no trace there was ever a railway there on either side of the river.

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@EdwinG @heliomass BTW, it was 16km to the boundary between actual Mirabel airport ( a tunnel under runway/taxiway would have avoided long detour around the airport itself) About 8 road crossings with the 148 being the only major one. The train station was already built in terminal (but later converted to employee parking once ADM took over and wanted to shut down airport.

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jfmezei, 1 month ago

@DrTCombs Now ! Now ! The driver is a far less stressful situation high above where humans live. At this height and with the mass of this vehicle, he will neither see, hear or feel when he hits a cyclist, pedestrian or child. Far less stressfull for the driver who is oblivious to accidents and can continue to sip his coffee while enjoying the power of an engine controlled by a muscle in his ankle 🙂

BTW, Paris has imposed parking surchanges for large vehicles.

jfmezei, 1 month ago

@DrTCombs The major problem is the propaganda that drivers and occupants are safer in larger vehicles than in smaller ones which seriously drives people to buy larger and larger vehicles (in reality, the car makers make more profits off larger vehciles so find ways to push people to buy them).
There needs to be real campaign to sensitize all drivers of the real dangers of such large vehicles.