USA Pics

[gg14835]

Frogpipe, thank you for the good advice.

HLJames, I got the locomotive off the dls

 

[flusi737]

Nice pics tacosrock143 and all the others

 

[gg14835]

 

[NIARTcar]

WIP: Texture Mock-Up on my route, now time to go fullscale!

Southern Entrance to UP's Stockton Yard

cheers

 

[nathanmallard]

E44 and a GG1 on the Riverside Electric RR

Thanks to ATSF854 and Deadpoolmx55 for the E44, Whitepass for the GG1, and philskene for the route.

 

[rodbasin]

cool shoots guys. heres some of mine. I love the 1940/50 stuff the best

 

[simon27295]

 

[Isegrinns]

 

[BobCass]

#610 2-10-4 Texas Type..

Here is the #610 Texas Type made by Colorado71..

 

[gisa]

Nope! French spelling. Some box cars have CanadiAn, some have CanadiEn. I suspect it is alternate spelling in either side of every car, but not certain on that...

Yes indeed. I am 90% certain though that the spelling does not alternate on the car itself; rather, a car would either be 'French' and have the en spelling on both sides or English with the an on both. I don't know what determines it...perhaps when they were painting the cars, a quota of them had to be spelled in French?

Aye, French people use simple logic, when you think of the word Canadian, the A sounds like an E, so instead of doing it the English spelling way, they put an E in place of the A..

I am sure there is a bit more to it than that, but that is the most likely simple explanation..

From the French I do know, I would say that it has less to do with logic and more based on their own pronunciation rules. I would argue that the "ian" sound is not common at all in French, whereas the ien sound is much more common. The pronunciation of Canadian in English is what most English speaking people generally know, however the French pronunciation is noticeably different. For those who are curious/bored

http://www.forvo.com/word/canadien%2Fcanadienne/#fr (French pronunciation)
http://www.forvo.com/word/canadian/#en (English pronunciation)

As an Canadian English major, I couldn't resist, sorry.

Great pics as always all!

 

[Enzo1]

Quite interesting Gisa! Thanks for the lesson! Learned something new today!

 

[flusi737]

Just a little bit Scenery......(East Shore Line, NEC)

 

[lorma]

Sherman Hill Shots

 

[BobCass]

Comin Thru Diablo Canyon:

 

[817TAYLOR]

 

[mikelj001]

 

[Dermmy]

 

[enginewhistle]

It's just another day with the Maintenance of Way crew...

Eventually, i'll retake this shot with better lighting.

 

[nikitka1988]

 

[colbe]

Sherman Hill Shots

*Snip*

I tried to download Sherman hill but on the website it said the file is private on mediafire and I can't download it. Help please?