Monday, May 2, 2022

Track speeder improvisation

David Legget, Canadian Railways in Pictures, Douglas, David & Charles, 1977

Good thing winter is over, momma wants to sweep the house!
 

6 comments:

rats said...

Where were those passengers bound? And were they a group, a family perhaps? I HAVE TO KNOW.

David said...

Out west for a better life

Mister G said...

The railway is the Temiscaming and Northern Ontario railway, prewar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Northland_Railway
The caption notes that with trains running only once a week, the speeder was frequently put to use,so I would suspect depression era. They don't look like farming folk. or miners, you'll have to make up the rest! ( We have confidence in you!)

rats said...

Hm yes ... A clue: the trapezoidal luggage unit behind the man in coveralls. Experience tells me that it is an autoharp case. So, wherever the presumably musical family is going, it is probable that they were asked, perhaps quite forcefully, to leave the town where they last resided.

The case in front of mister coveralls could very well house an accordion, but that is mere conjecture.

Anonymous said...

I can't tell if the speeder is a Fairmont, since the luggage is blocking the view of the heat exchanger. Interesting cooling system - the cylinder (horizontal) is surrounded by a water bath. The water boils off and the steam rises into the heat exchanger, condenses, flows back into the water bath, and so on.

rdguy

Mister G said...

Rats, I think they're much too cheerful to be in process of being run out of town, perhaps this is pre-concert:-)