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There were 4 trains every week on the Coronado at this time. Peddling grain cars and bringing the loads back to Edmonton. 2 of those 4 would also have fuel tanks in the consist (destined for the cold lake air base). It looks to be a solid train of grain loads, but, it is possible that the front few CN hoppers may have had a different purpose. The late 80's was the last hurrah for GMD-1's on the Coronado Sub. GP9's also. By 1990, the GP38-2's owned the rail, on occasion, a GP-9 would trail as a helper, never leading. This did not last long either. The 1070 at the rear seems to have its CN noodle on the long hood painted just a little lower than the others. Photo taken at mile 26.6 on Saturday, just after lunch.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/16/1987
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 15 Favourites

I was watching this crew for a short while as they made their train ready to go. Once they were tied on and had air, this was the result. It was full speed ahead as they left the yard. Like on the cartoons where there is a flurry of heel prints flying behind the character. I'm guessing a customer had been waiting for cars to be spotted. The train was a fair number of cars (30 to 40 range), plus a yard cab at the end. Photo taken at Scotford yard at 13:00.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/15/1985
Location:	Fort Saskatchewan
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 15 Favourites

A short train returning to Edmonton at 10:30 on a clear Saturday morning. The empty sailboat in the middle of the train will have had farm machinery as a load. That was the 9173 trailing. This photo taken with Ektachrome 200asa film, an infrequent stray away from Kodachrome.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/18/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 20 Favourites

First day of summer holidays and on the lookout to catch those somewhat new SD50F's in action. Trouble is, it's pouring rain and I'm standing with my coat over my head as the train passes over a bridge right next to the McMurphy rest area.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/29/1986
Location:	McMurphy
Province:	British Columbia

7 Comments | 15 Favourites

The snow dust swirling down by the hoppers shows the engineer has some speed on the train. As soon as the units have crossed the trestle, the hill up to Redwater starts. The grain extra has 31 loaded cars in tow and will pickup 3 more in Redwater, a nice sized train for these 3 units.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/22/1986
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 19 Favourites

Back when signs and posts were a serious matter. The girth on the post, cars will likely bounce off of it. Plus, the bold "Railway Crossing" printed on the sign. There were 2 signs with big posts in the Redwater area, this one just west of town and another down by the river and trestle. Also, a bonus back at this time, was having these little buggies full of men go zipping by on occasion. Sadly, the posts and signs were replaced shortly after this photo was taken (The standard reflectorized sign with red trim lines) and the speeders left just a few years later.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/06/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 15 Favourites

Last day of this fantastic sunny weather Edmonton has been having all week. Took off on the mountain bike to see what else ETS might offer up. The last photo went over lukewarm, maybe this will do better. My last stop for photos was here, the Avonmore station. I'm pretty happy, the lead car is the 2025, fits the year nicely. The reason I posted another? Check the roof on the station, didn't notice that until I loaded this picture up at home. That brought a smile and a laugh to my face.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Edmonton Transit S…
Date:	03/08/2025
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 11 Favourites

It is another amazingly sunny day for March. Last year this type of weather did not happen until April. Best get down to the tracks and snap that yearly photo of the LRT. Nope, not much has changed, although they still look pretty new. :-)

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Edmonton Transit S…
Date:	03/04/2025
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

Things have changed since this picture. Big red smoke stack is gone, the little SW's are gone, more of the round house has been removed. Just the part with doors open remains. No more rail liners. The 5531 is retired and sold (2000??) to another road. By how much of the main yard has been removed, it cannot be much longer until CP vacates the property. The Whyte avenue area has been waiting a long time for this to happen. Photo taken with a little 110 pocket camera.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	Mid 80's
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 9 Favourites

First thing in the morning finds a unit train of empties on the way north to exchange them for loaded hoppers. As far north as this train would go, the there and back time was not that long typically. Like this day, most unit trains would head out between 7:00 and 8:00 and return the next day anywhere from 16:00 to 20:00. Photo taken just north of Egremont with storm clouds already making an appearance in the west.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	June 1987
Location:	Egremont
Province:	Alberta

6 Comments | 14 Favourites

The crew for 584 had finished spotting cars at the elevators in Redwater and were headed to the mainline to couple back onto the train and continue the trip east.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/22/1987
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 15 Favourites

A short unit train of sulphur was passing the north switches to the siding and elevator tracks at Gibbons. For trains heading home, Gibbons was the last town you passed through. In a half hour or so, Edmonton will have become the dominant feature on the horizon. Now for something completely different, (for those that like numbers). Total the numbers on the lead unit, 4+6+0+2=12, do the same for the other 2. You end up with 12, 13 and 14. Seems these units were in their natural order. :-)

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	May 1987
Location:	Gibbons
Province:	Alberta

7 Comments | 17 Favourites

An extra going back to Edmonton with a few loads of grain and some empty tanks. Photo taken at mile 12.7 just south of Gibbons. The train was ascending the last of the hill up from the Sturgeon river. The valley can be seen to the left of the hoppers. In less than a 1/2 mile, the track straightens out and goes directly south to the junction switch.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/05/1987
Location:	Gibbons
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 20 Favourites

My first photo of the 70067 does not show the blunt end of this car very well. It is a little blunt looking, for sure, on the other hand, there will be more living space inside. Myself, I like the style of the 61202 superintendent cars. A porch at each end so you can have a chair out the back, no matter which way you are going.

Name:	Benny
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/17/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 16 Favourites

Another photo from May/88 showing the amount of work being done on the track. A lot of ties to be replaced in this scene, a lot of those old ties ended up on our golf course. Tee boxes, shoring up bunkers, etc. This picture shows the grain extra returning to Edmonton with a train of hoppers nowhere near big enough to need 4 engines. The unit at the very back is the 1002, which I believe, had spent recent time working on the west coast. Possibly it had come to Edmonton for repairs and was out on on a test run before heading back. Photo time was 14:45.

Name:	Extra 5610 west
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/07/1988
Location:	Kerensky
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 24 Favourites

584 had just pulled up clear of the main road through town, cut off 2 cars from the train of grain hoppers and are now bringing those cars to the east end of the elevators for spotting. All loads will be shoved to the west end of the elevator track and empties then spotted where needed. The loads will be an easy grab when they return home the next day. The less than perfect sun works well with the black paint, details are easily seen. For myself, the standard cab GP38's looked their best when wearing the noodle scheme. Photo taken at 11:00.

Name:	Extra 5610 west
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/28/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

Although there is fresh ballast on the track and ballast hoppers in the train, the two are not connected. The crew of the 5606 will have stopped wherever the work was being done on the Lac La Biche Sub. and picked up the 15+ empty ballast cars to bring back to Edmonton. The ballast on the track was applied by the work train that had been working in our area for the previous couple of weeks. The whole route to Fort Mac was getting a major upgrade. Behind the empty ballast cars there were 35 loads of sulphur and cab 79511. Photo taken at mile 26.6.

Name:	Extra 5610 west
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	End of May, 1988.
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

The noodle scheme on a GP9 in the mid-eighties was a tough catch on the Coronado. Plenty of GP38's went by with this paint job, I only saw and photographed 2 GP9's. In May of 1985 the 4368 passed through town and then this photo of the 4283 from 1986. On this day, the 4283 and 4343 were making good speed hauling 25+ grain loads as the train came around the corner at mile 24 that leads to Coronado. It looks like a few wind drifts of snow were driven through on the way home. Cab 79836 on the end, photo time was 11:30.

Name:	Extra 5610 west
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/13/1986
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 19 Favourites

The fuel train was zipping right through town, no meet or stop on this day. A few interesting cars lead the 12+ tanks. 2 gondola loads of pipe for the oil field and a flat car of ties. Cab 79836 at the end, photo time 10:45.

Name:	Extra 5610 west
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/03/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 19 Favourites

The Muskeg mixed, with an almost solid train of empty hoppers, is just north of Duagh at mile 4.7. This is one of the few spots on the Coronado where you can take a reasonable photo of longer trains. The coaches can sort of be seen at the back in this photo, no red caboose for sure. Nice combo of numbers for the units. No mistaking spring in Alberta, brown grass everywhere. Please see neighbouring photo for tail end equipment. Photo taken at 19:00.

Name:	Extra 5610 west
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/26/1989
Location:	Duagh
Province:	Alberta

7 Comments | 20 Favourites

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