#Dunsmuir

[20th-century-railroading]

Southern Pacific Weed Local

You didn't see this every day. The Weed Local is approaching Black Butte from the Dunsmuir side. By August 1994, the SD9s shoving the tank car were probably on very short time.

#sp #southern pacific #1994 #trains #freight train #history #dunsmuir #california

[360nw]

Amtrak #42 in Dunsmuir CA - June 2015

#northern california #dunsmuir #railroad #amtrak #rails #rail station #train #passenger train #original photographers #original photography #photographers on tumblr

[unteriors]

Shasta Avenue, Dunsmuir, California.

#Dunsmuir #California

[horsecockphepner]

#dunsmuir

[metalsongoftheday]

Wednesday, October 4: Dunsmuir, "The Bats (Are Hungry Tonight)"

Given that Dunsmuir counted Brad Davis from Fu Manchu, Neil Fallon and Vinny Appice among its members, “The Bats (Are Hungry Tonight)” came out exactly as one would hope, simultaneously storming and swaggering with a great steady groove and cool attitude.  The track was incredibly confident in its execution, with everybody totally in the zone and Fallon in particular hollering with the insouciant joy that powered Clutch’s best material.  Appice was perhaps a bit more restrained, but he had been moving towards a more groove-oriented approach for the better part of a decade by that point and his percussion fit in seamlessly with the thick and sweaty riffing.  Dunsmuir was all about having fun and bashing out greasy piledrivers, and it was impossible to argue with the hollering and boozing on display.

#heavy metal #metal #heavy metal rules #heavy metal music #listen to metal #metal song of the day #metal song #song of the day #song #dunsmuir #clutch #fu manchu #black sabbath #dio #neil fallon #vinny appice #hard rock #sludge metal #heavy music #heavy rock #metal rock #metal music #listen to music #long live rock #Youtube

[concupiscience]

N. California Train Trip by Wes Modes Via Flickr: A brief weekend trip from Dunsmuir to Roseville to resupply two crazy friends riding horses up to N. Washington.

#trainhop #train #freight #hobo #dunsmuir #roseville #railroad #flickr

[celinewylde]

#dunsmuir #bc #castle

[9kmovies-biz]

The Worst U.S. Chemical Disasters Caused by Train Derailments

Officials examine a derailed car in Paulsboro on November 30, 2012.Photo: Mel Evans (AP) The accident most similar to what’s happening now in Ohio occurred in November 2012, when a train owned by Conrail derailed over a bridge, causing four rail cars to fall into the Mantua Creek in Paulsboro, New Jersey. One of the cars contained some 23,000 gallons of vinyl chloride—the same chemical released…

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#Accident #Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry #California #CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY #Chemical warfare #Chemistry #Conrail #Disaster #Dunsmuir #environment #Gizmodo #Graniteville #Graniteville train crash #Health consequences of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill #Mark Stopher #Mike Elm #Minot #New Jersey #Norfolk Southern #North Dakota #Oil spill #Paulsboro #Physical sciences #Pollution #Scott Lyons #South Carolina #Vinyl chloride

[annapolisrose]

Dunsmuir St.

#vancouver #Granville & Dunsmuir #downtown #street photography #local #photographers on tumblr #original photograhers

[oldshowbiz]

March 1952.

Racist extremists detonated a bomb at 2130 S. Dunsmuir in midtown Los Angeles.

#hollywood extremism #los angeles #dunsmuir ave #Civil Rights Era

[20th-century-railroading]

Encore by Greg Brown Via Flickr: Over a year after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, an eastbound drag pounds the lap switches at Mott/Azalea, near Dunsmuir, California. The duo of SP SD70Ms - part a 25-unit delivery in 1994 - was soon going to have a lot of company when UP began acquiring replacement motive power. September 21, 1997

#up #union pacific #sp #southern pacific #1997 #trains #freight train #history #dunsmuir #california

[kxantares]

In which I SkyTrain-post about: the Dunsmuir Tunnel.

Or, actually, why the SkyTrain network as a whole feels like a goofy little toy train, while also being a really cool example of quirky '80s technology being pushed right to its absolute limits. But first, some context is useful — specifically, the urban freeway plan for Vancouver, which, unlike many cities in North America, was largely aborted.

↑↑↑ This is what they wanted to do to part of the City of Vancouver…

…and this is the overarching plan that was mostly defeated by an organised left in Vancouver. (The few areas that weren't saved, well, those deserve their own posts.) So, with a massive freeway plan being shot down for the city centre, what was the plan going to be for transit? Well, after some amount of messing around with express buses throughout the '70s on the part of the regional transit network, which was operated by BC Hydro before BC Transit took it over… …Vancouver got chosen to host Expo 86. Which was themed around transportation, being named "Transportation and Communication: World in Motion — World in Touch".

Which meant: well shit, maybe now's a good time to make up for having dodged the whole highway bullet. However, using a normal heavy rail network, on entirely new infrastructure, with human drivers, was untenable, because: I guess I need to introduce the Socreds.

I'm not going to get into the ideology of social credit, which the Socreds never actually ended up being able to give effect to, or the somewhat unusual conservatism of WAC Bennett's long administration, but effectively, by the early '80s, the Socreds had pivoted to plain old neoliberalism, which meant: cutting costs all over and also keeping unions out of whatever they could. (As an aside, if you've ever got the time, read about the Solidarity protests of 1983 in BC, because the sheer intensity of the Bill Bennett administration's fuckery on that front is a pretty clear demonstration of shock doctrine.) And yes, if you're keeping track, that's William Bennett for 20 years → 3 years of not William &c. → Bill Bennett for 11 years → Wilhelmus Vander Zalm for 5 years. Lots of William happening. And all of those assorted Williams were Socred Premiers. But how do you cut costs and also keep unions away from a brand new metro system? Well, Urban Transit Development Corporation, a Crown Corporation (basically a state-owned enterprise, but Canadian) in Ontario had an idea:

A tiny train. But it runs frequently. It's also automated, and uses a linear induction motor for propulsion. That's kinda critical to the fact that the SkyTrain works whatsoever, really, given other constraints I'm about to get into. And what else can one do to save costs on a rail system?

Reuse old alignments, like the Central Park Line of the British Columbia Electric Railway.

But what saves even more money?

Reusing old infrastructure. Basically, until just a few years before the SkyTrain started operation, Canadian Pacific ran long-distance trains, all the way out to Toronto (and sometimes further), through the Dunsmuir Tunnel from Waterfront Station, which is now the "main" hub for TransLink, linking the SeaBus, Expo Line, West Coast Express. Canada Line, and many bus routes. But that got shut down, to make way for literally slicing the Tunnel in half height-wise — and thus letting two tracks use the same tunnel, which was built tall enough for old steam trains. Which means: you've got trains constrained to a fairly tiny loading gauge, which, sure, maybe you'd want to build longer platforms to compensate for that, but:

No. Hence automation. For example, try to find a precise timetable for the Expo Line anywhere on the Internet, without screwing around with APIs or whatever. You can't, last I checked. The design philosophy resulting from the "let's spend as little as goddamn possible while still having a grade separated rapid transit system" approach means that, well, we've got trains so tiny in loading gauge terms that you can fit two in a barely modified single-track rail tunnel, which are barely even 80m long, which still could carry 25,700 people per hour per direction, solely thanks to completely absurd frequencies. Like, TransLink deserves to be yelled at over the lack of redundancy in such a critical transportation backbone, and the provincial governments that they rely on for funding deserve it even more, but it's. Well. Kinda interesting how the most ridiculous possible political pressures resulted in, like, a fairly functional transit system, via the weirdest specifications possible. However, this is also why, not even 40 years after the Expo Line opened for regular service, it's already close to its limits. They were far too cautious and non-ambitious in their design for the system, chasing ideologies of Fiscal Responsibility™ instead of future-proofing, and now we've got transit infrastructure that's going to require redundancy to the tune of an entire extra metro line in the northwest/southeast direction eventually, even if other connections should be able to pick up the slack in the medium term.

#transit #transportation #public transit #numtot #Vancouver #Metro Vancouver #SkyTrain #Dunsmuir Tunnel #Social Credit Party (British Columbia) #socreds #Wacky Bennett #Downtown Vancouver #Expo 86 #urban planning #longpost

[elcineblue]

#2022 #Amber Gaston #Drama #Fishlake #Horror #Hotel Dunsmuir #Jet Jandreau #Jose Rosete #Michael Zaiko Hall #Mystery #Thriller #TUBI #Utah

[darkmovies]

Hotel Dunsmuir (2022)

#Amber Gaston #film d'horreur #Hotel Dunsmuir (2022) #Jet Jandreau #Jose Rosete #Michael Zaiko Hall #Surnaturel #film poster #affiche de film

[germanpostwarmodern]

Dunsmuir Apartments (1936-37) in Los Angeles, CA, USA, by Gregory Ain. Photo by Julius Shulman.

#1930s #apartment building #modernism #modernist #architecture #usa #architektur #los angeles #gregory ain #julius shulman

[celinewylde]

#dunsmuir #castle #bc #british columbia