David Milton McGowan

  Let’s think about this.   On I-76 in the USA on Dec 6, 2014 Received this a few days ago from a valued friend. Had a look through some of the information it contains and it appears – through an hour’s research that the information is correct but then, I didn’t find the differences all that surprising but did find the volume astounding. Found this very interesting. I’d never thought about ships hauling oil and every other item purchased from around the world.  This was fact checked —if you can count on Google accountability.    KEYSTONE PIPELINE VS TRAIN VS SHIP TO MOVE OIL   A little time was spent putting some numbers together:   1 Train has 100 cars, 2 engines and weighs 27,240,000 LBS. 1 Train carries 3,000,000 gallons of oil. 1 train uses 55.5 gallons of diesel per mile. It takes 119,000 gallons of diesel to go 2150 miles from Hardisty, AB to Fre...

 Background for "Lucky" ... and a taste This is one of the pictures I took for “A Voice From Beyond” but didn’t use. It is of the “Sunrise Valley” cemetery west of Dawson Creek. This is an excerpt from “Lucky” a short story that is part of my “ A Voice From Beyond; anthology” or collection. There are three stories and three rhymes in this collection. The second story is about a woman, watching the ranch for her absent (winter trapping) husband and the third about one of the many so-called hobos who ‘rode the rails’ during the 1930s. The rhymes are all about Christmas. Christmas is over, you say? That’s your fault; it was published back in November. Besides, there’s another Christmas coming. Sure, sure, it seems like forever with this Covid stuff, but it’ll get here.   1867                 At the end of the US Civil War many of the combatants left the country for Mexico or Canada (which was just co...