Topic: A tour of the James Ave Pumping Station in winnipeg - ACTUALLY FIXED NOW

[Bubba]

Fascinating.  Great pics and commentary.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Those are great pictures. I love old industrial stuff like that. Thanks for sharing.

[KD]

   Cool post!

[draghon]

Awesome! way more in depth than the photos I have previously seen in the media! The big generator is particularly interesting to me, only 150rpm! Typically generator engines now turn at 1800rpm.

[Weels]

Fascinating.  Great pics and commentary.

Agreed.  Really interesting.
Would love to have seen it in operation.

[Golly]

Agree, very cool and fascinating.  Thanks for all the work putting this post together.  I wonder if there any public tours of this place say during the Open Doors Winnipeg weekend.  Probably not due to safety concerns.

So what did you have to do to get the pictures to show up?

[Great_Big_Abyss]

Agree, very cool and fascinating.  Thanks for all the work putting this post together.  I wonder if there any public tours of this place say during the Open Doors Winnipeg weekend.  Probably not due to safety concerns.

So what did you have to do to get the pictures to show up?

I just hosted them on a site that allowed linking to from a forum.  Originally I had them on. My company's cloud, and I could see them from my work IP, but nobody else could.

[Brig]

Okay, I rehosted the pictures.  Should be good now.

Thanks for taking the time, GBA!  That was a very cool tour.      Old equipment always seems to be made with such care.

[Great_Big_Abyss]

Okay, I rehosted the pictures.  Should be good now.

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Thanks for taking the time, GBA!  That was a very cool tour.      Old equipment always seems to be made with such care.

I was thinking about that some time ago.  The machinery would have been made in Manchester, England from 1900-1904.  It would have then been loaded onto a steamtrain and sent to a port.  At Port, it would have been loaded onto a steamship and sent across the Atlantic to a North American port.  I imagine either Boston, New York or Montreal.  From there, it's back on a steam train for the long journey to Winnipeg.  If the ship docked in the US, it would likely have come through Chicago enroute to Winnipeg.  Oncein Winnipeg, it would have been a short journey by horsecart from the rail yards at what is now the Forks, to the location where they now rest.  Quite the journey.

I also suppose that a representative from the manufacturer (likely an engineer) would have also made the journey in order to supervise their installation by the tradespeople here in Winnipeg.

[revalations]

Thanks! A very interesting read