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About Ken Perry
Worked 41.5 years in CP mechanical department at Victoria and Port Coquitlam, now retired. First job was on Victoria Miniature Railway (10 1/4” gauge”) at Mattick’s Farm in Cordova Bay, with steam and battery power.
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![Canadian Pacific’s E&N Division on Vancouver Island handled Crown Zellerbach logs from Lake Cowichan to CZ’s dump into the sea at Ladysmith on trains named Nitinat for CZ’s Nitinat Logging Division. On Tuesday 1980-01-08, a snowstorm north of Duncan at the village of Westholme highlighted the northbound Nitinat log loads, powered by CP GP9s 8689 and 8530, with the telephoto view nicely capturing the angled-outward white flags which distinguished that lead unit (and a few others) from the rest of the fleet.
<p>Completely unknown to me then, the last Nitinat log train ran just over one month later, 1980-02-13, with a happy-photographer reprieve when Pacific Logging used the same facilities for a few weeks to clear out their inventory of logs from Lake Cowichan.
<p>Considering the posting date, a very Merry Christmas to all.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/img12544_1980-01-08-1324pst_cp8689+8530-northward-nitinat-logs-in-snow-at-westholme_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x881-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1980-01-08 |
Location: | Westholme |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![To connect traffic off CN’s Great Slave Lake line from Hay River and Pine Point to the rest of the railway network, Northern Alberta Railways ran a GSL Turn from McLennan to CN’s Roma Junction yard near Grimshaw then back to McLennan, and acquired four SD38-2 units with dynamic braking to handle the grades down to and up from a crossing of the Peace River at the town of the same name. Here, a trio (typical power on a GSL Turn), 402 + 403 + 401, is well into the ruling grade southward from Peace River heading back to McLennan.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/img446_1980-09-27_nar-southward-gsl-turn-departing-peace-river-ab_ken-perry-4800-dpi-1920x1276-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Northern Alberta R… |
Date: | 1980-09-27 |
Location: | Peace River |
Province: |
Alberta |
![On northern Vancouver Island, Canadian Forest Products had a spur eastward from Woss to a road-to-rail log reload at Crowman Lake (which CFP spelled Croman), passing along the north side of Hoomak Lake around the halfway mark, thus the H-Line name of that spur. On Wednesday 1979-08-29, dynamic-brake-equipped SW1200 301, new to CFP in 1956, handled a long string of skeleton log empties by Hoomak Lake enroute the Croman reload, with Mount Markusen prominent in the background.
<p>This H-line spur is the same line where a multiple-fatality runaway of loaded log cars occurred closer to Woss on 2017-04-20 (https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/rail/2017/r17v0096/r17v0096.html) which resulted in the total shutdown of that railway (then the Englewood Railway of Western Forest Products) as announced on 2017-11-07.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1979-08-29_cfp301-eastward-empties-along-hoomak-lake_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x1910-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Forest Pr… |
Date: | 1979-08-29 |
Location: | near Woss |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![Perhaps one of the most boring railway photos I have taken, this is a view from the BC Ferries road causeway at Tsawwassen northwestward to the rail-and-road causeway to the Westshore Terminals export coal terminal at Roberts Bank, and is notable for being in the early years (1972-05-30, so 25 months to the day) of operation there, and for showing an entire CP coal train with two MLW M-630s leading, then 39 cars plus two units with a robot car, then 49 more cars and a caboose, all stretched out on the single track after exiting the dumper loop. Amazing for the time, 88 cars in one train! This is from the second roll of Kodachrome in my two-weeks-old Pentax Spotmatic camera, another amazing advance at that time.
<p>In those early years, the entire causeway was off limits to railfans and the general public, with a gatehouse at the east (shore) end, so the specific equipment identity is unknown.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1972-05-30_view-from-bc-ferries-to-cp45xx+45xx+39-cars45xx+45xx+100x+49+1-cars-eastward-coal-empties-on-bchb-causeway-at-roberts-bank-2_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1920x1255-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | British Columbia H… |
Date: | 1972-05-30 |
Location: | Roberts Bank, Delt… |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![In Alberta’s foothills of the Rocky Mountains, natural gas extraction and related sulphur production became a significant industry. One plant served by CN via the Brazeau sub. from near Red Deer and then the Ram River sub. had an ALCo (78939 of 1951-08) RS-3 ex Reading 524 as the plant switcher, shown here on Friday 1978-09-15 on its shoptrack conveniently near the sulphur loadout.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1978-09-15_aquitaine-petroleum-524-right-rear-at-ram-river-ab-2_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1920x1292-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Industrial |
Date: | 1978-09-15 |
Location: | Ram River |
Province: |
Alberta |
![In the 50+ years since this scene, so much has changed. The British Columbia Harbours Board Railway was only a few years since built (first CP coal train 1970-04-30), with only a single track along the causeway to the Westshore Terminals dumper loop at Roberts Bank, and MLW M-630 units like 4554 and 4570 (and unseen remotes) still reigned on the unit coal trains (an astonishing 88 cars long) from southeastern BC. Now there is a significant yard on the left side of the photo, and a large intermodal terminal on the right behind the photographer, and the MLWs are long history.<p>Forty years (almost to the day!) later, this was where the last workday of my CP career occurred, as a roll-by inspection of a departing much longer coal empties with GE power.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1973-08-12_cp4554+4570-westward-_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1920x1267-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | British Columbia H… |
Date: | 1973-08-12 |
Location: | Roberts Bank, Delt… |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![Nine miles south of Grande Prairie on CN’s Alberta Resources Railway, a saw and pulp mill of Proctor & Gamble Cellulose (now Weyerhaeuser) operated an ALCo RS-1 to switch their operations. Here, on Wednesday 1977-09-21, PGC 1 (still carrying 22 in its numberboards as ex Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion 22, nee Minneapolis & St. Louis 234, built 1951-10 as ALCo 79347, those details obtained from http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/industrial/ab/gallery2.htm) enjoys a moment in the sun before its next chore.
<P>This unit has been preserved, painted as Great Northern 182, at the Railway Museum of British Columbia in Squamish.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1977-09-21_proctor-gamble-cellulose-22-right-front-at-shaver-near-grande-prairie-ab_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1920x1324-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Industrial |
Date: | 1977-09-21 |
Location: | Shaver |
Province: |
Alberta |
![West of Swift Current by 67 miles on the Maple Creek subdivision, and with 80 miles to go to reach the next crew change point at Medicine Hat in Alberta, a combination of one SD40-2 (5677) and one GP9 (8657) has a westward train rolling by the lone grain elevator at Piapot (named after Cree chief Payipwat) in Saskatchewan on Thursday 1976-10-14.
<p>If that date rings a bell, perhaps it is because it was the day a Canada-wide day of protest or general strike occurred due to a federal wage control program.
<p>If the Piapot grain elevator is recognized, possibly that is related to a news photo of it being moved by road in January 1979 (to where I do not know, possibly a museum). Check https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Changes-in-the-collection-and-cleaning-of-grain-led-to-the-near-elimination-of-grain_fig5_338035679 for one version.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/1976-10-14_cp5677+8657-westward-at-piapot-sk_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x853-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1976-10-14 |
Location: | Piapot |
Province: |
Saskatchewan |
![From Alyth yard in Calgary, CP ran a Princess Turn eastward 75.7 miles on the Brooks sub. mainline to Bassano then eastward 41.7 miles on the Bassano sub. to an oil loadout at Princess. On Wednesday 1974-10-02, that job was running as timetable train No. 96 with a pair of GP35s, 5004 and 5014, as it passed milepost 125 near the grain elevators at Gleichen, with 27.2 miles to reach the junction at Bassano.
<p>In my ignorance, assuming a turbocharged GM was an SD40, those similar-sounding GP35s were entered into my notebook as 5504 and 5514, with that error not corrected until I got my slides back from that trip! If only I had known those units would be my exasperating work when they were assigned to CP’s (Port) Coquitlam locomotive facility ten years hence.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1974-10-02_no-96-eng-cp5004+5014-princess-turn-at-gleichen-ab_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1920x1283-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1974-10-02 |
Location: | Gleichen |
Province: |
Alberta |
![On CN’s westernmost subdivision, the Skeena between Terrace and Prince Rupert, the halfway point of Kwinitsa (mileage 48.2 from Terrace and 46.4 to Prince Rupert) was a vital communications point before CTC. On weekdays, a regular Terrace Turn, running as No. 892 eastward from Prince Rupert, was operated to handle logs from Terrace to a pulp mill at Watson Island, and this photo shows the empties eastward behind CN 5589 + 5593 on Tuesday 1981-10-06 at 1159 PDT, with the depot operator providing a roll-by, and his dog ensuring a clear passage (and just missing my camera tripod as it zoomed past).<p>That Grand Trunk Pacific origin depot has been saved, now relocated to the waterfront in Prince Rupert as the Kwinitsa Railway Station Museum.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1981-10-06-1159pdt_no-892-eng-cn5589+5593-by-cn-depot-at-kwinitsa_ken-perry_2400-dpi-1920x1382-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 1981-10-06 |
Location: | Kwinitsa |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![While 110 SD40-2 units were available on CP in 1974, it was not unusual to see a high-priority train like number 965 powered by a pair of plain SD40s out of the fleet total of 65 units. Here, on Tuesday 1974-10-01 on my first Saskatchewan road trip, 5509 + 5503 are eight years old as they scoot by the elevators at Tompkins, 50 miles west of the previous crew change point at Swift Current.
<p>Regard that glorious Saskatchewan sky. Combine that with the friendly people there, and it is no wonder this west coast kid gained a strong appreciation for prairie railroading. CP management folks were rather surprised when I happily accepted a temporary winter assignment to work there (based out of Moose Jaw) twenty years later. Little did they know!](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/no-965-eng-5509+5503-at-tompkins-sk_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1920x1281-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1974-10-01 |
Location: | Tompkins |
Province: |
Saskatchewan |
![Westward from Smithers, CN’s northern mainline to Prince Rupert follows first the Bulkley River to Hazelton then the Skeena River most of the way to the Pacific Ocean, crossing that river once, just west of the aptly named flagstop of Skeena Crossing. Here is train number 9, VIA’s Skeena (nicknamed the Rupert Rocket), on that steel deck truss bridge at mileage 62.3, with CN 9158 leading the VIA consist (with a CN business car carrying the markers) on Thursday 1979-10-04, as seen from the north riverbank.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1979-10-04_no-9-eng-cn9158-over-skeena-river-near-skeena-crossing_ken-perry_4800-dpi-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian National |
Date: | 1979-10-04 |
Location: | Skeena Crossing |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![South of Seton and Anderson Lakes on the run from Lillooet, the British Columbia Railway also ran along the west side of Gates Lake near Birken, illustrated here by BCOL 718 + 701 on Thursday 1990-04-05, with Mounts Nequatque and Marriott supervising.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1990-04-05_bcol718+701-southward-at-gates_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x1954-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | BC Rail |
Date: | 1990-04-05 |
Location: | Birken |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![CP’s Montana subdivision runs generally southwest from the Lethbridge area to a BNSF interchange at Coutts/Sweetgrass, with two junctions at Stirling. The nearer switchstand is for the Stirling sub. seen exiting to the left, and the farther one is for the Cardston sub. visible exiting to the right, as a Coutts Turn with 5810 + 5801 + 5759 + 5813 passes the old water tower foundation heading for Lethbridge on Friday 1989-05-26 at 1522 MDT.
Nowadays, the Stirling sub. is only a spur, reaching 49 miles eastward to Foremost, and the Cardston sub. is disconnected right at Stirling per https://maps.app.goo.gl/j52QTLsaV2Hv8oUu5?g_st=im.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1989-05-26-1522mdt_cp5810+5801+5759+5813-northward-at-water-tower-base-at-stirling-ab_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x870-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1989-05-26 |
Location: | Stirling |
Province: |
Alberta |
![Between Ashcroft and Walhachin, and just a short distance west of the west siding switch at Semlin on Thursday 1987-05-21, an eastward train with CP 5855 + 5951 + robot car 1026 + two more SD40-2s is stretched out along the Thompson River as it passes long-standing glacial remnants at mileage 39.7.
<p>Semlin was named after area businessman Charles Semlin, and a good history of him is available at <https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/18848.html>.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1987-05-21_cp5855+5951+1026+two-eastward-approaching-semlin-2_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x894-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1987-05-21 |
Location: | Semlin |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![Access to Semlin between Walhachin and Ashcroft was by a rough Barnes Lake Road, but well worthwhile for the views possible. Here, westbound coal loads symbol 803 with 5809 + 5800 on the headend plus mid-train remotes is lifting from the siding and passing milepost 39 after meeting an eastbound on Sunday 1980-06-08.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1980-06-08_cp5809+5800-westward-s803-from-siding-at-milepost-39-at-west-end-of-semlin_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x806-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1980-06-08 |
Location: | Semlin |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![To serve customers west of Kamloops through to Ashcroft, CP ran a daily wayfreight to Ashcroft, typically with a single unit, and with no wye at Ashcroft, that meant running in reverse one way. In later years, twin sealed-beam headlights and ditchlights and a snowplow were fitted to the rear on a few assigned units, but on Thursday 1987-05-21, just a single headlight led the way on SD40-2 5599, seen here at the west switch of Semlin, with CN’s rock pit at McAbee across the Thompson River visible on the upper left.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1987-05-21_cp5599-westward-wayfreight-at-semlin_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x1876-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1987-05-21 |
Location: | Semlin |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![Westward from Kamloops Lake, CP and CN follow the Thompson River into a canyon, through Walhachin and onward to difficult-to-access Semlin (CP on the south side) and McAbee (CN on the north side). Here is a late evening time exposure eastward view at the east end of CP Semlin on Sunday 1980-06-08, with headlight and ditchlight streaks of CP 5676 + 5651 westbound in the foreground, a CN westbound across the river, and the Trans Canada Highway distant above. The total peaceful environment there made it a happy campsite for me.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1980-06-08_light-streaks-of-westward-trains-at-night-at-east-end-of-semlin_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x817-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1980-06-08 |
Location: | Semlin |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![Directly below the Saddle Rock Tunnel on the Trans Canada Highway in the Fraser Canyon, a CP grain train with three UP Dash8-41CW units on loan for evaluating possible General Electric locomotive purchases (which eventually occurred in 1995) is experiencing winter snow as they leave Saddle Rock at 1503 PST on 1991-03-03 headed for Yale and onward to the CP yard in Port Coquitlam.
<p>A slightly later view posted a while back is at <http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=45854>.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1991-03-03-1503pst_up9413+9416+9409-westward-grain-at-cp-mileage-23d6-near-saddle-rock_ken-perry_4800-dpi-1280x843-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1991-03-03 |
Location: | Saddle Rock |
Province: |
British Columbia |
![On this day, August 13th, in 1886, Canadian prime minister John A. Macdonald drove the last spike of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway at Cliffside, then around milepost 48 from Nanaimo. Mileposts were reversed to run northward from Victoria after CP took over 1905-06-08, with Cliffside becoming milepost 25. In 1958, a stone cairn was constructed to commemorate the 1886-08-13 last spike ceremony.
<p>Ninety-two years after the last spike, on 1978-08-13 during a period of of optimism that CP could be persuaded to continue running E&N passenger service, a re-performance of the last spike ceremony was held with a surprisingly large number of general public attendees, and the northward passenger train (running Passenger Extra since it was a Sunday and the operating timetable had not been updated to reflect the 1978-07-28 introduction of Sunday service) paused briefly for the ceremony at a time (0911 PDT) astonishingly close to the the reported “shortly after 9:00 a.m.” of the original occasion, although the original was on Standard Time.
<p>Southward the same day, there was no crowd, allowing a composition including the cairn and the fresh CLIFFSIDE station name sign on the flagstop platform as CP 9067 + 9103 running as Passenger Extra South passed at 1621 PDT.](http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1978-08-13-1621pdt_no-2-eng-cp9067+9103-by-last-spike-cairn-and-92nd-anniversary-sign-at-cliffside_ken-perry_2400-dpi-1280x1024-pixels-200x150.jpg)
Name: | Ken Perry |
Railway: | Canadian Pacific |
Date: | 1978-08-13 |
Location: | Cliffside |
Province: |
British Columbia |
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