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LIFTING 808
Original pen & ink drawing
August 2006
Image size 8" high by 12" wide (200 mm by 300 mm)
(Cropped low resolution image illustrated)
INTRODUCTION
This is a scene from my years of working on the B.C. Rail Rock Gangs. Engine
808 has just been pulled out of Seton Lake, where it sank 180 feet deep after
derailing on a rock slide. The Rock Gangs rigged pulleys on the cliff above
the wreck site while Candive rigged the other end to the engine, and it was pulled
up and onto the railway right of way. In this scene it has been tied off to
a rock anchor at the base of the cliff, and two wrecking cranes are being
rigged to pick it up and put it on trucks so that it can be towed south to
the Squamish yards for repair. One of the trucks is visible on the flatcar
in the foreground. Seton Lake is on the right, with the north end of
the Duffey Lake road coming down the mountainside in the distance.
The image illustrated is a cropped version of the actual drawing.
It is drawn with Pilot DR pigment ink pens and india ink brush pen on
translucent vellum. The drawing is in a 12" x 16" OPUS black metal
exhibition. It is available for $400.00 (four hundred) Canadian.
To order, please refer to Contact page.
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