I’ve taken the liberty of posting a link to the first steamup of 2013 to take place in the backyard of a steamer in Delta BC, along with some of his friends, one of whom put this on Youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafQnfyKnGE
I think you’d agree that the sound coming out of the K4 is remarkable, and as for the stooms of pleam from every loco running there, especially the RH, well, words nigh-on fail me.
Thanks Peter!
tac
Good stuff tac. The sound is awsome and great steam coming out. Loved it. How is it they have no snow but I do.
I’d be guessing from your address that you be’s about halfway up a mountain, say, 600 feet. Note - Wantage is situated in a sub-section division of a valley that is a part of the Great Appalachian Valley that stretches for 700 miles (1,100 km) from Canada to Alabama.
Delta BC is just about sea level, on a ‘delta’ [right?] about halfway up a part of the world known as sub-tropical rain forest - hence the lack of [much] snow. Sure it snows, on Grouse Mountain, and on the high bits, and occasionally in Greater Vancouver.
For the same reason that 300 foot high trees don’t grow in the desert, ~sea level with almost 150 inches of rain a year is not conducive to the formation of drow-snifts.
tac
Nice video. Thanks for posting.
tac said:
I'd be guessing from your address that you be's about halfway up a mountain, say, 600 feet. Note - Wantage is situated in a sub-section division of a valley that is a part of the Great Appalachian Valley that stretches for 700 miles (1,100 km) from Canada to Alabama.Delta BC is just about sea level, on a ‘delta’ [right?] about halfway up a part of the world known as sub-tropical rain forest - hence the lack of [much] snow. Sure it snows, on Grouse Mountain, and on the high bits, and occasionally in Greater Vancouver.
For the same reason that 300 foot high trees don’t grow in the desert, ~sea level with almost 150 inches of rain a year is not conducive to the formation of drow-snifts.
tac
Uh, Banff is in Alberta, the next province in from BC.
BC AND AB get enormous amounts of snow, but not usually down at sea level in the sub-tropical rain forest geographical region that is the Fraser river delta. Think Amazon…
Ask Mr Mueller - who lives in Coldstream, about snow.
tac
Whistler Mountain, where a recent Winter Olympics was held, is only a short drive from Delta, BS.
Go figure.
Of course, the drive is pretty much straight up.
Straight up will do it.
And that’s BC, by the way, NOT BS.
Freudian slip, maybe? 
tac
Steve Featherkile said:
Whistler Mountain, where a recent Winter Olympics was held, is only a short drive from Delta, BS.Go figure.
Of course, the drive is pretty much straight up.
tac said:Maybe he was thinking of the pollyticians ...
And that's BC, by the way, NOT BS. Freudian slip, maybe? ;) tac
John Le Forestier said:There was no problem at Whistler or at Callaghan Valley - I worked those Olympics [b]and[/b] the Paralympics. We actually had race delays (up to 2 hrs) because there was so much snow, and it just kept coming, that we couldn't prep the XC stadium until it stopped. The problem was at Cypress Mountain. Not enough elevation and too close to the ocean. BTW the road distance between the turn-off to Cypress and the venues at Whistler is 110 kilometers. ;) :)
And that year they didn't get enough snow to do the job properly at Whistler either! Any, Delta is on the very wet and usually very mild, raincoast... Think, maybe, Seattle, but moreso..
When the snow flies in Vancouver it is chaos time, happened twice in the past two weeks. That big, fancy, brand new bridge across the Fraser was shut down twice because of weather conditions. A lot of “not so happy campers” on the commutes.
tac said:
Straight up will do it.And that’s BC, by the way, NOT BS.
Freudian slip, maybe?
tac
Certainly not done on porpoise.
