Saskatchewan / Manitoba Skyline Thread - Page 22

Brizzy82 · #**421** Posted **Oct 21, 2017, 3:23 PM**

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DowntownBooster · #**422** Posted **Oct 21, 2017, 3:44 PM**

^Great pictures!

Brizzy82 · #**423** Posted **Oct 23, 2017, 4:35 PM**

Winnipeg

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BigG · #**424** Posted **Oct 23, 2017, 5:23 PM**

Beautiful.

bomberjet · #**425** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 3:33 AM**

Those are awesome. I was trying to pick a favourite, but couldn't. They're all amazing. Maybe the first one from NK with the skyline in the distance.

harls · #**426** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 4:03 PM**

When was the last time the rail bridge was connected? Is the middle part turned like that to keep scofflaws from crossing the river?

bomberjet · #**427** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 4:06 PM**

it's been that way as long as I can remember.

But yes, to prevent trespassers. Likely for liability reasons and just general safety. Who owns that bridge, the City or CP?

Biff · #**428** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 5:49 PM**

I believe the bridge is privately owned and it was turned to permit navigation at the time. Nowadays nothing on the river would require it to be open so it just sits that way.

bomberjet · #**429** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 6:02 PM**

Ah cool. Thanks for the info.

esquire · #**430** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 6:17 PM**

That line (Bergen Cutoff) has an interesting bit of history. It was built as a CP Rail bypass around the City of Winnipeg, literally 100 years before the modern-day discussion about getting rails out of the heart of the city. It was part of a grandiose plan that called for the construction of the North Transcona Yards, which were slated to be one of the biggest railyards/shops in the world at the time.

The North Transcona Yards were partially built and remain in existence today, but the Bergen Cutoff itself was abandoned sometime around World War II with most traces of it having been eliminated over the years. The only remaining signs of it west of Lagimodiere are the bridge over the Red River, as well as a line of trees that marks the old right of way. The reasons why it was regarded as necessary but then ended up never really being used much, if at all by CP are not clear to me... it's something that has to my knowledge never really caught the attention of local historians .

Biff · #**431** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 7:01 PM**

I though it had to do with the land for the proposed North Transcona Yards. If i remember that is the area of the tall elevator that still sits on the site that tilted after construction due to poor soil conditions. It was one of those wonders of engineering that they managed to right the massive concrete structure.

I thought the soil conditions had something to do with the yards not going there.....again this is all just foggy memories and I could be totally wrong.

TimeFadesAway · #**432** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 7:16 PM**

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I thought the soil conditions had something to do with the yards not going there.....again this is all just foggy memories and I could be totally wrong.

That was my understanding of the situation.

esquire · #**433** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 7:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Biff

I though it had to do with the land for the proposed North Transcona Yards. If i remember that is the area of the tall elevator that still sits on the site that tilted after construction due to poor soil conditions. It was one of those wonders of engineering that they managed to right the massive concrete structure.

I thought the soil conditions had something to do with the yards not going there.....again this is all just foggy memories and I could be totally wrong.

Just for fun I googled the Bergen Cutoff, and lo and behold the Manitoba Cooperator ran a very insightful article about it last summer.

https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/co...en-grain-line/

Looks like a combination of factors including the Panama Canal, the Great Depression, growth in Vancouver as a destination for grain exports and, yes, soil conditions did the route and the railyards in.

I suppose that in the eyes of rail line relocation advocates, the Bergen Cutoff was about a hundred years ahead of its time.

bomberjet · #**434** Posted **Oct 24, 2017, 8:07 PM**

The elevator tip is 'the' example in geotechnical engineering. Everyone knows about it and learns from it. Amazing they righted the elevator with locomotives and horses. Also amazing the building stayed together!

Brizzy82 · #**435** Posted **Nov 20, 2017, 10:44 PM**

so Winnipeg..

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rrskylar · #**436** Posted **Nov 21, 2017, 5:30 PM**

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Great shot!

Bottom half looks like it could be a modernized Kurelek painting!

mitchellk12 · #**437** Posted **Nov 21, 2017, 7:12 PM**

We need you out here in saskatoon to do some sick shots like this. amazing photos.

BigG · #**438** Posted **Nov 21, 2017, 8:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by Brizzy82

so Winnipeg..

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Perfect.

Brizzy82 · #**439** Posted **Nov 21, 2017, 9:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by mitchellk12

We need you out here in saskatoon to do some sick shots like this. amazing photos.

To be clear, I can’t take credit for any photos, I always link the Instagram sources below. A lot of them come from Yoshigrams, follow him if you have IG

Wpg_Guy · #**440** Posted **Jan 1, 2018, 9:16 PM**

Winnipeg from the air

Aerial views of a snowy River City

By: Photography by Trevor Hagan / Winnipeg Free Press
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/mu...467480693.html

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Downtown Winnipeg, showing The Forks and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Downtown Winnipeg from the south.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Downtown Winnipeg.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Portage Avenue looking east to Main Street.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Downtown Winnipeg

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS St. Boniface Hospital.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS St. Boniface Hospital.

[img]https://media.winnipegfreepress.com/...owntown_04.jpg
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The Forks.[/img]

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Skating rink and the Winnipeg sign at The Forks.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The Manitoba Legislative Building.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Misericordia Hospital.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS River Heights in south-central Winnipeg.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The Lindenwoods neighbourhood in south Winnipeg.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Downtown Winnipeg.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Downtown Winnipeg, looking from the north.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Health Sciences Centre.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Grant Avenue and Route 90.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The area around IKEA and Seasons of Tuxedo in south Winnipeg.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The Seasons of Tuxedo shopping area.

TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS South Winnipeg.