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Caption: Just starting to work really hard on the job for which they were acquired, three SD38-2s (of the fleet total of four) of the Northern Alberta Railways have left the big Peace River bridge and the significant Heart River bridge behind, and at 1405 MDT are now crossing road 744 at mileage 47.56 of the Peace River subdivision, working the return half of a GSL Turn with loads from the CN Great Slave Lake Railway at Roma Jct. bound for McLennan then Edmonton and onward. With seven miles of severe grade ahead before reaching the level prairie at Judah at mileage 41.6, NA 402+404+401 will soon be in notch 8 and dropping close to their minimum continuous speed on the hill, with each unit rated for 1200 tons upgrade there.This shot is a crop of about one quarter of an expansive scene, originally done casually to verify the angled-out white Extra flags (a rivet-counter detail on all NA 400s and just a few blocks of other GMD and EMD units since the 1950s), and then the cropped view was realized as very effective on its own at capturing the essence of that operation and those units.
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There’s not enough NAR on here! Great shot in Peace River.
NAR 402 became CN 5701, later renumbered to CN 1651. It was retired and sold by CN after suffering a major mechanical failure, but was later rebuilt by the new owner and has since returned to Canada, it is currently owned by Cargill and switches their Nesbitt, MB facility:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4509729
Wow, this is great Ken. Not too many of shots of these units, especially of this quality! Thanks for posting. I second Rob’s comment.
More NAR shots to come, single GP9s to Dawson Creek being a favourite target, and glorious countryside.
I can’t get over the sharp clean (new?) paint. Stunning. Most of us miss the days when a paint scheme was something to be proud of.
Gorgeous image !!!
This is awesome.
I concur, more NAR! My grandfather worked for the NAR, and i grew up in Bon Accord