LETTERS TO THE EDITOROctober 2011
LettersWill, How would I make a financial contribution to CRO without having to use PayPal? I don’t use any of of those Electronic Payment features. Thanks, Reg. Fitzpatrick Bracebridge, Ontario Thank you for your letter and your kind offer to make a donation Reg. All our staff work for free and donate hours of their spare time. As you might imagine, it is costly to maintain our CRO website, mailserver, large bandwidth, with hundreds of monthly readers dialing us up, often at the same time! Other costs include our prizes and give gift packages (CRO Caps, DVD’s etc) to winners and to those offering $75 - $100 donations. If pertinent, we can make CRO advertising arrangements at no cost, to those offering $50 plus donations. To answer your question, while most of our readers and advertisers prefer using PAYPAL, most bank now allow you to send money by email. They can be sent to donations@canadinarailwayobservations.com We do accept donations by check. Send an email to editor@canadianrailwayobservations.com for details. Will, Just a quick note to advise that GO GP-40TC, #606 (shown in the August issue in break-in service on CN) was dark navy blue, not black as stated. At this point they were frequently seen at the Spadina roundhouse as GO's Willowbrook locomotive facilities had yet to be built. Keep up the good work, I look forward to each issue of CRO. Regards, Gord McOuat VP / Master Mechanic OERHA / Halton County Radial Rwy. ON. My Bad Gord, having never seen #606 in person, I was going only by the photo, which appears to be black . I stand corrected. Thanks. (Will) Re- your "On the Road" section. Walter's photos of the Halton County Radial Railway are excellent! I've been a member of the museum since 1983, but have been much less active since I moved to Alberta fourteen years ago. It is nice to see it recognized in a National forum such as CRO! Cheers, Alex Reed Alberta From the EditorHi All, We received many letters about the September issue of CRO, and we thank you for your feedback. Many readers liked our complete VIA coverage last month. A tip of the hat to our VIA Editor Tim Hayman who did a superb job. Our Assistant Editor/Photo Editor Walter Pfefferle and US coordinator Ed Weisensel worked 110% on the issue as far as visual presentation, editing and fact checking. We also got positive comments on Jody Moores Green Locomotive News column, which had a wealth of hot news in September. Dan Dell’Unto, Don McQueen, Roman Litarchuk, J-F Turcotte, John Read, Donna Peters, and the rest of the Staff help create this great issue. What I am most gratefull for are the quality news photos we receive each month from our readers. We could not publish CRO at such a high standard without your kind contributions. We encourage our readers to subscribe to CRO. It is FREE, fast and easy! Simply click here: Please use the same link to update your email or if you want to cancel your subscription. CRO Facebook
Our Facebook page has over 2200 fans and is a vehicle for our readers to view CRO news updates, daily news photos and vignettes from years past. As well, our readers are invited to post their own railway photos for all to see. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Railway-Observations-CRO/287488550757 CRO FACEBOOK posting guidelines: Railroad photos posted must be of interest to our readers. The photo must include a caption with date, location, Loco Number(s) and any pertinent info. (If known try to include the Train #, Loco Model, direction, and the Subdivision as well) . If the photo is not your own, you must have the photographer’s permission to post it. NOTE: Only three photos may be posted in a row - allowong others to share. CRO Administrators may delete any photo that does not comply with our guidelines, and we will delete and block any posts that contain offensive language or images. Our thanks to all our website readers and our new FB Fans! WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUBMIT A SPECIAL REPORT, OR JOIN THE CRO NEWS TEAM? CRO is seeking potential columnists for our news pages. We are always unterested in your ideas for new SPECIAL REPORTS, simply contant us with your what you would like to submit. Out guidelines are on the home page and please check out our ARCHIVES page for previous Special Reports we have published.
Please help keep CRO “Free!”
Thank You
Kevin Andrusia, Guy-Pascal Arcouette,
David Baer, Daniel Barnett, Michael
Berry, Larry Broadbent, James A. Brown,
Guilio Capuano, Andy Cassidy, Bruce Chapman,
Charlie De Jean, Daniel Dell’Unto (GO News), Bruce Denny, Jim Dorst,
Submit An ObservationNew issues of CRO are posted each month on our website. News stories pertaining to Canadian railways, photos, comments, favourite links, and questions are always welcome. Please send us your photos, newsworthy sightings and railway stories and if used, will be placed in the CRO newsletter. Please indicate if you wish your name to be withheld. If your own website pertains to Canadian railways, please contact us. Submissions should be sent to News & Photo Submission.Submit a PhotoWe encourage our readers to forward current pertinent news photos, and historical material. Please include the unit no’s, train no. or direction, date, location, etc, and send to CRO Photos DO NOT send entries for the monthly contest but only those for the newsletter. Use the submit link on the photo contest page.
Note: Photos submitted to CRO should be 1000 pixels wide max and no bigger than 500 K in size.
Please follow these photo submission guidelines to make sure your photos are accepted. As you can appreciate we receive 100's of photos each month so must limit the sizes we receive.
Look forward to your submissions. CRO Team
Subscribe to CRO
Please also use that link to change your e-mail address or to cancel the announcement mailings. We invite you to visit the Canadian Railway Observations website to access past issues.
© CRO Oct 2011 |
