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Heading east on the TCH I heard Via No.1 on my radio and drove into Walsh for a shot passing elevators, and Lo & behold to my surprise an E unit leading followed by 2 RS18's

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/24/1980
Location:	Walsh
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 18 Favourites

With a leased former BO F unit trailing,Power for the "KCS" the Cranbrook bound freight sits at the station getting orders before heading to the south yard to pick up its train

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/17/1972
Location:	Golden
Province:	British Columbia

4 Comments | 13 Favourites

RDC2 9197 on Lethbridge to Calgary train 309 lines the switch from the Crowsnest Subdivision to the MacLeod Subdivision near the the Fort Macleod station.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/05/1970
Location:	Fort MacLeod
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 15 Favourites

CN's Regina to Moose Jaw wayfreight crosses the bridge over the CP, Moose Jaw Creek and Manitoba Avenue after switching the interchange and industries on the cities south side

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/20/1993
Location:	Moose Jaw
Province:	Saskatchewan

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

[Editors note: rare] CN's Emerson wayfreight out of Winnipeg crosses the Red River at Emerson after turning on the wye on west side of river,Former NP junction. It will pick up cars off the BNSF(Former GN) including haulage cars for BNSF's yard at Winnipeg. The train operated in 2003 as a daily daylight turn

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/11/2003
Location:	Emerson
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 10 Favourites

The last remaining segment of CPR's Maritime operations, the McCain spur from St.Leonard to McCain plant at Grand Falls NB, sees RS23 8019 heading east along the St.John River to the McCain plant. The line was sold to CN later that year and now abandoned

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/23/1996
Location:	Martin
Province:	New Brunswick

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

CP Spinoff Great Sandhills Railway with leased ex ATSF GE's rolls past the station that tops the Canadian Gazetteer alphabetic station list. Tank cars are either taken out of storage of loads from Empress Gas Plant south of Leader

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Great Sandhills Ra…
Date:	08/12/2009
Location:	Abbey
Province:	Saskatchewan

Comments | 9 Favourites

Westbound "Chaleur" from Gaspe to Matapedia pulls up to the station at Barachois on Gaspe's south shore for a regular stop

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	VIA Rail
Date:	09/26/1996
Location:	Barachois
Province:	Quebec

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

BCOL southbound train 2 passes the preserved water tank at Lone Butte in B.C.'s Cariboo district

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Pacific Great East…
Date:	09/18/1991
Location:	Lone Butte
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

P1e 2-8-2 5123 returning from Brandon takes the east leg of the wye into the east yard on the Glenboro Sub. at Souris, an important terminal in the steam era

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1954/10/01
Location:	Souris
Province:	Manitoba

Comments | 11 Favourites

CP was considering buying GE power. During a test a trio of GE Built BN Dash 8's with dynamometer car in tow descends the west slope of Rogers Pass.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	05/03/1985
Location:	Flat Creek
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 16 Favourites

Grain empties from the UP at Kingsgate BC bound for Glenwood MN passes the grain elevator lettered Dog River for the sitcom Corner Gas which was filmed on location here

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/10/2011
Location:	Rouleau
Province:	Saskatchewan

Comments | 5 Favourites

Prior to the last run on the isolated Kaslo Subdivision, only accessed by car barge on Slocan Lake, the crew rounds up M of W equipment stored at Nakusp. The train crosses Kuskanook River headed to the wye where snow plow will be put in trailing position for trip to Rosebery

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/20/1988
Location:	Nakusp
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 21 Favourites

In 1985 Via Rail leased an Amtrak train set to test HEP power trains. The set was used on the Winnipeg Edmonton Panorama and on a very cold January day the eastbound passes underneath Highway 83 at Miniota between Melville and Rivers

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	01/14/1985
Location:	Miniota
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 10 Favourites

CN's Rycroft turn returning to Grande Prairie passes a derelict elevator as a storm brews in the north

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/19/1999
Location:	Clairmont
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

Power sits in the servicing area west of downtown Dauphin. Once a major division point on CN's PNL

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1972/05/20
Location:	Dauphin
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

Westbound Edmonton to Whitecourt Alberta wayfreight crosses the Paddle River on a massive matchstick wooden trestle

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/24/1999
Location:	Rochfort Bridge
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 11 Favourites

Eastbound Southern Manitoba Railway, who operated CN's former Morris to Elgin branch, picks up grain from the Baldur elevator. The line was originally built by the Northern Pacific to Brandon in 1889 and was a founding component of Canadian Northern.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Southern Manitoba …
Date:	09/20/2000
Location:	Baldur
Province:	Manitoba

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

After walking train while G3c 4-6-2 2317 took on coal and water at the west end of town, the conductor gets off at the station to fill out the train register. In the steam era grain moving from southeast Saskatchewan moved from Weyburn via the Kisbey and Arcola subdivisions through a terminal at Souris. The 2317 is preserved at Steamtown in Scranton Penn.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	06/01/1956
Location:	Reston
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 9 Favourites

Grain empties approach Carlin siding on the south track from Notch Hill to Tappen on CP's Shuswap Sub. This was original main on a 2% grade. The north track buuilt in 1970's eased the grade to under 1% via a massive loop and is used for loaded westbound trains.

Name:	Bill Hooper
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	04/05/1997
Location:	Carlin
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 12 Favourites

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