User talk:Al guy

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1 Welcome
2 CPR
3 River naming
4 CPR map
5 Subtags etc.
6 Thanks
7 Route map of The Canadian
8 Amtrak route category
9 New template
10 My RFA

[edit] Welcome

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thanks for the welcome. Al guy 19:40, Aug 15, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] CPR

Good article re. Anderdonk. I recently read Pierre Berton's "The Last Spike"? Did you get most of your facts from there? I also had the good fortune to work for the CPR on a maintenance crew in 1988, and I worked over Craigellachie. BTW two questions: 1) do you know the OTHER last spike picture? Major A.B. Rogers is the man holding the spike-pull and I don't think he's visible in the posted picture, but he is, I've heard, visible in the other less famous one taken one or two minutes before. and 2) Does ANYONE know what "A.B." stands for? If Berton knew, he never wrote. It's one of those details of which no record seems left. Cheers, Vincent 05:36, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

There is now an article that answers the question: Albert Bowman Rogers. Fawcett5 14:25, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, that answers a long nagging question. Albert Canyon was named by Rogers after his nephew BTW. I noticed you have Berton's "The National Dream" but not "The Last Spike" in your bibliography. He writes at length of Onderdonk, and mentions that he is the only major participant in the CPR to have had nothing, not a mountain, not a stream, not a hamlet or a siding or a hill, named after him. There's also a recent bio of Van Horne available. I'll try and pick it up next time I'm home.

The Kamloops Art Gallery ?!? Oh, that brings me back! I dated a girl I met in that gallery the summer I worked for CPR. Vincent 03:25, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The Van Horne book is here at Amazon but I guess you can find it at Chapters too. Vincent 00:03, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] River naming

I noticed your question to Decumanus. U.S. and Canadian rivers usually use the form, X River (state/province). Some other countries do not but use X River, place. In the U.S. we have to worry about diambiguating towns like Indian River, Michigan from the Indian River in Michigan. see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers Rmhermen 19:13, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for. Al guy 19:27, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] CPR map

Hi, I've posted a reply to your comment at Talk:Canadian Pacific Railway. Thanks for creating the map! JYolkowski 15:28, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Subtags etc.

A lot of the new subtags were just created, hence the new addition. As for external links, the links should be lowercase. Spinboy 02:01, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for reverting the vandalism to my user page. I really appreciate it. :-) --Spinboy 07:09, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Route map of The Canadian

Hi Al, since we have a common interest in railways and the history of the Canadian west, I've naturally noticed that you have significant expertise in creating maps. I have been working hard on establishing and upgrading the article for the CPR / Via Rail train The Canadian. The article would much enhanced with maps for both the historical CPR routing and the Via rail routing. And the VIA rail route map would do dual duty as the route map for the Super Continental... Would you have any interest in taking on these projects? Fawcett5 14:25, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Al, thanks so much for doing the map, it looks really good. The only thing I might suggest now is that since you already have the GIS data input for the CN routing, you could very easily also make one with only that and put it into the Super Continental article, which I hope to get a chance to expand soon. And again, thank you! Fawcett5 02:00, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Amtrak route category

Hi Al, would you please take a peek at the controversy at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Strategy, I would appreciate your feedback on this - I'll be willing to go with whatever consensus emerges there. Cheers Fawcett5 21:25, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New template

Hi, I just wanted to let you know about a handy new template I created.

{{Canadabio|ID=}} expands to:

*[http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId={{{ID}}} Biography at the ''Canadian Dictionary of Biography Online'']

You can use it with subst: to avoid the small server hit associated with templates. Fawcett5 16:04, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Hi Al, thanks very much for your vote of support on my recent RFA. It was good to your sig pop up again. Exams over now? Regards, Fawcett5 19:06, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)