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CN 5484 and standard cab 2134 are setting out tailend cars into Clover Bar yard and when done will head south to Mirror. A quick search shows that the SD60's are still around in 2020, but, many of these photos are in America. I did find a few pictures of them in Vancouver. Having been recently repainted by CN, they look pretty good for their age.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/19/2018
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 7 Favourites

I was having a look through the slide collection and found this beauty. I previously posted a photo of GMD-1's pulling a long string of grain boxes up this hill. The boxes here are lead by the 4607 (still in NAR paint) and the 4267. They are hauling a somewhat longer train. The units have gone 10 to 15 car lengths past me and there is no sign of the caboose way down at the corner in the photo. In my GMD-1 picture, the caboose had entered that far corner by this time. Doing a quick measure on Google Earth, there is approx. 1.3km of box cars in this photo. That's a lot of peddling the boys will be doing tonight. Time of photo is early evening.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1st week of July, 1987
Location:	Kerensky
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 22 Favourites

This cut of tank cars was backed out of Clover Bar yard, through the crossover and onto the Wainwright mainline. The 9482 came to a stop when it cleared the signal seen just behind the cab in this photo. The cars are being delivered to a customer north of the mainline. This is the result when the light to go ahead came. I love the reaction by the 1438.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/24/2020
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 12 Favourites

A quick photo out the front window as we head north into the curve that leads to the diamond with the CPR. I cannot remember any particulars about this speeder except that it was yellow, which makes me think it may have been ex-CPR. It was certainly a rough ride, the only rail equipment I recall that had a bumpier ride were the trackmobiles we used at the ESSO Chemical (Beamer) plant.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Central Western Ra…
Date:	06/18/1988
Location:	Stettler
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 7 Favourites

Central Western 4302 parked in the Stettler siding waiting for the next call to duty.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Central Western Ra…
Date:	06/18/1988
Location:	Stettler
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 17 Favourites

Unit train traveling south at mile 89 of the Camrose Sub. With only 5 miles left to Mirror yard, the crew will be anticipating a short rest before heading back home to Edmonton.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/19/1988
Location:	Mirror
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 12 Favourites

Gliding downgrade from the town of Redwater, empty sulphur buggies are headed north to be refilled. Once the units have passed over the trestle, which is immediately to photo left, the throttle will be upped a few notches to climb the hill to Kerensky. At Kerensky, they will leave the Coronado Sub., taking the connecting track to the Lac La Biche Sub. and the distant destination of Waterways. It will return 2 evenings later with nearly 50 loads and the 4602 added in for extra help.

Name:	L. Priest
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/26/1988
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 15 Favourites

A photo not to be admired for its beauty, heavy overcast and almost 20:00, the units were in heavy shadow. Thus, a little photo work was required to bring out the subject. What is shown in the photo and I saw several times going to and from Jasper is this typical use of the F unit "beetles". With 2 trains meeting just east of Edson, both making use of these B units, all in one frame. The consist on the left is made up of 5093, 5000, 9106 and 5335. The right has the 5418, SD50F and F7Aum, (cannot make out the unit numbers).

Name:	Larry P.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/05/1986
Location:	Edson
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 22 Favourites

A late return home for the Muskeg Mixed finds it passing through the hamlet of Coronado at 13:30 rather than the dark hours in the middle of the night. The comboose is ex-NAR and has a history that goes back to the turn of the previous century (18 to 1900's). Up front the consist was made up of the 4319, 9172 and 4285.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/06/1985
Location:	Coronado
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 13 Favourites

I had a little fun with CN - CP in the same photo this morning. This is the Fort Sask. switcher finally on the move after waiting for a couple of CN trains to clear the diamond at Clover Bar. I have not been at the tracks for a few weeks and what a difference today. 6 trains, all in good morning light, in an hour and half. I have not seen this much action in awhile. I must thank M. Berry for his recent comment that they are bringing CN GE barns back into service. It got me thinking, if it is busy there (Quebec) it could be busy again here, it is. :-)

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/23/2020
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 6 Favourites

I stopped in at the downtown city yard on a Saturday morning knowing that the majority of crews here have the weekend off. I surely expected to find several switch engines and that was certainly the case. This is the west leads goat parked in its usual spot by the yard office which is just out of the picture to the right. They will be one of the few jobs working today. The usual routine for them will be switching the yard until around lunch and then after lunch take a transfer to the NAR and bring one back for interchange with the CPR. The CP yard at that time is behind me in this picture (south side 104th ave.). The only thing today remaining of both railroads in downtown is the CN tower, which even that is no longer owned by CN. Behind the black Procor tank, parked on the shop track, the 1263, 1264, 1291 and 1507 are idling and waiting for their next call to duty. During my time at CN, the typical goats at the city yard will have been a thirteen hundred for the west lead and on the shop track there will have been the 7100 number series SW8's with the occasional SW900 in the 7200 series. Checking the CNRHA, the 1508 only has 5 years to go from this date before retirement and it seems there was no second life for this unit.

Name:	L. Priest
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/23/1985
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

7 Comments | 13 Favourites

This is a scene that I have not seen trackside in several years. One fellow pounding in spikes that have lifted, the other tightening the bolts on rail joints. Plus a little flat car in tow with a rail jack as a load. Same speeder as the one that I just posted a while back and I still cannot make out the number (for those who may inquire).

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/15/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

9 Comments | 14 Favourites

The grain extra has just passed through Redwater and will make a quick stop in Gibbons to pickup a string of empty flats. This will be the last bit of work they will do, Edmonton is only a short distance away. By this late in the 1988 summer, having pure GP9's for power was becoming uncommon. The GP38's had become the goto unit for heading up trains.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/27/1988
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 16 Favourites

Looking through the collection today and I found this speeder to go with the other recent posts of these little track motor cars. This older style is the one that I am most familiar with. It is chasing behind a work train of sidedumps about a half mile ahead of it. The speaker on the cab top was real handy for listening to what, if any, rail traffic was in the area. It helped to plan where to go. Quite often, in downtown Redwater, as the section men brought the speeders out onto the track in the morning, you could do a little eavesdropping.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/21/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

7 Comments | 15 Favourites

The eastbound they were waiting for has now passed. Next is to have the route lined up plus a light to proceed and the 5277 with a train of open top hoppers will leave Clover Bar behind.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/19/2018
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 9 Favourites

On the way to tend the many industries located around Scotford. These trains are typically pretty long and this one is of considerable size. CP does a good business northeast of Edmonton. The work days are long and I would imagine the crews enjoy the bonus of overtime hours and the extra pay. The occurrence of foreign units has become somewhat rare in 2020. What was common in 2018 is not so this summer.

Name:	L. Priest
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/27/2018
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 7 Favourites

An elevator scene from the end of June, 1983. I took photos of all 3 elevators, with this being the best and of most interest. Every elevator has a single car spotted, with each one being different. Elevator 1, to the right in this photo, has a Trudeau hopper, elevator 3 has a grain box. The filling spout has been left in for the night on this CN hopper, with 2 more bays to fill tomorrow. The large elevators of today, with the long lines of cars being run through the loading dock, seem to have lost a little of the human and farm factor. In only a few years after this picture was taken, the lineups of farm trucks waiting to unload will be gone from Redwater. As well as the farmers and their families that would make a day of visiting and shopping at this busy time.

Name:	L. Priest
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	June 1983
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 16 Favourites

Having finished switching on the south side of the yard, the 4512 has come over to the north track and is heading back to continue working. I had a look at CPRDIESELROSTER.COM and the 4512 in November 2011 was still in the Milwaukee Road paint scheme, although lettered for the SOO. I sure do enjoy the new shade of red the CP uses vs the shade on the 3105 and the older GE's. The dashed white line on the frame looks better too.

Name:	L. Priest
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/23/2020
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 8 Favourites

The Thursday grain extra is on the way to Edmonton and passing over the Redwater river trestle for this photograph. The 4345 is still wearing the Polar Bear from its time on the GSLR. I believe that the yellow showing on the dynamic brake grills is also the yellow paint scheme applied for a short time while working the GSLR. The great part of having a safety cab paired with an old GP9, you get 2 longhoods forward when the older unit leads. The 4345 was rebuilt to the 4126 in 1989. It did not enjoy a long second life as it was involved in an accident in 1997 and retired (info from CNRHA).

Name:	L. Priest
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/22/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 15 Favourites

Of the numerous times that I have passed by Kinder Morgan, this is the one instance where their switcher was off the shop track and in a place where taking a photo had no obstructions in the way. The fence being the worst for getting in the picture. Only a handful of times have I seen the 9022 started up and making a move. On this day it is pulling a small string of tanks, 10 or so, and working hard at the task. I cannot imagine when or how extra cars become available. The unit trains sure do seem to remain intact during their stay at the loading facility. RSSX 9022 is a former SW9, it appears that it went for rebuilding sometime in 2014. There are several internet pictures from 2015 showing it in transit to Edmonton. As already mentioned, it has spent most of those 5 years sitting out in the back 40, not the best second life scenario.

Name:	L. Priest
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	05/26/2019
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 9 Favourites

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