Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 3hFor instance, the MV Aorangi, which had run Vancouver-Sydney, was still undergoing its post war refit through the summer of 48, and the touchy post war trading situation meant there was insufficient cargo to sustain the service commercially. 230
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026considering realigning the track map from the current 'partially random-partially real solid-colour-with-dashed-white-overlay' with actual railway livery colours. Not sure it works though 040
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026the main driver seems to have been Wigwam Inn, which was an open-to-the-public hotel that was popular as a weekend excursion, while supported by the various small hamlets up there along the shore and a logging camp at Indian River. searcharchives.vancouver.ca/boat-trip-up... 380
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026in the late 1940s there was a commute-hour steamship service down Indian Arm 2236
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I’m sorry is this guy’s late campaign message “double left turn lanes?” Municipal government! 1192
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Any one wanna take bets on how many boats are beached in False creek by this storm? 4140
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Few know this, but the Federal office that analyzed which of the Jersey Creams were the Richest and Best made it all the way to the Martin Cuts before being dissolved in 1995 021
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The ROYAL BANK OF CANADA Would like you to know That they have a lot of money And they would also like Your money, as well 110
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Friends I have acquired more pixels archive.org/details/dail... 2301
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The actual depiction is somewhere in Philadelphia or New Jersey just in Englewood Livery 110
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A series of quite short hops through Seymour narrows have been identified as bridgable since the Canadian Pacific Survey, with access to the interior via Bute Inlet and the Homathko River 140
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Stumbled upon a 1909 map from the Victoria Daily colonist of projected island railways 6252
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Just another fine report from BC’s most popular fishery 141
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In 2026 society must ensure that decent, ordinary people are not oppressed by the lunatic schemes of cranks and kooks, and it seems that Lorne Doerkson and the B.C. Conservative Party disagree 3221
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026reading about some of the steam ships that come up in putting this together really gives you an appreciation for how safe things are these days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Prin... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Catala 060
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I once asked my grandmother about riding the Burnaby Lake Line and all she could recall was that it was good for going berry picking, in case you're wondering why they turned it into a highway 080
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Latest Update has steamships, obscure mixed trains. Generally settling on the summer of 1948, though not 100% yet claude.ai/artifact/6BM... 2110
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On the other hand, you have people who work in regions that draw a lot of their economy from fossil fuel extraction who have a pretty obvious interest in the continued extraction and export of fossil fuels, as well as the wider universe of upstream and downstream industries across the country. 180
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I don't think this is attempting to ape market forces. market forces are happy to furnish a quite large amount of density in Langley Township skytrain or no. What they're trying to do is to do upzoning without generating entirely motorist households. 010
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We are approaching a complete model of the BC passenger rail network in the summer time in the late 1940s 260
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The great thing is that this is a self-contained html. I could just email it to you or post it on my own website 150
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Would you like to see my little digital model electric railway? claude.ai/artifact/6BM... 3311
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.reddit.com/r/transit/s/... neat map of Ontario passenger train volumes in 1966 3263
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Civil War- No trains for 13 years First train runs at 160 km/h excuse me, I didn’t appreciate your game Syrian Railways 819927
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026TIL when sacking the Old Summer Palace outside Beijing in 1860 British soldiers found a Pekingese dog, who would then be presented to Queen Victoria She named the dog “Lootie” 080
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026very unfortunate that the Ottoman Empire and it's arab successor states have ben Bad At Trains 5480
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am not sure why the current CPKC Toronto Yard could not simply be reconfigured for the new traffic pattern. It’s half empty 210
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026100%. Probably one of the underexplored ways that politics has shifted since the millennium that would make it much harder for leaders to lead 2120
Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You lend your car keys to your loopy friend and they crash it into a ditch. Someone pulls them out and they aren’t driving your car anymore. Nonetheless your decision to hand them the keys still matters quite a bit 4403