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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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West of Kamloops, CP follows the south shore of Kamloops Lake to Savona, then starts a significant upgrade along the Thompson River to Walhachin. In earlier years, this was a helper grade with daunting steeper sections instead of today’s steady climb. On Sunday 1980-06-08 at 1107 PDT, a westbound with SD40-2s 5790 + 5661 + 5666 (one with wide stripes and two with narrow ones, and all with full-height multimarks) is working hard at mileage 28.5 with three more miles to Walhachin.

<p>In the distance near the tail end, evidence of the lower older grade can be seen, and on the other side of the river is the CN Ashcroft sub.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1980-06-08
Location:	Walhachin
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 9 Favourites

On a CP mechanical On-Line Failures team trip to Toronto in 1994, an amazingly hot evening walk from the hotel up Markham Road took me to the Finch Avenue overpass directly above the Toronto Yard station name sign, and not-yet-rebuilt SW1200RS 8159 passed below westward at an opportune time at 1904 EDT.

<p>CP 8159 escaped the CP switcher rebuild program, sold to Black River & Western in New Jersey in 1999 as their 8159, later BDRV 1259.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1994-07-13
Location:	Toronto Yard
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 23 Favourites

During the bitterly cold winter of 1993-1994, mechanical personnel were deployed to known difficult areas to improve the chances of trains getting over the road without delay, with particular emphasis on “hot” intermodal traffic. Thus, I was on eastward symbol train 482/03 with SD40-2s CP 5943 and SOO 6622 on Friday 1994-03-04 when we had a meet at Falcon, SK, 108 miles east from Moose Jaw, which presented an opportunity to railfan on pay. At just under a mile north of the TransCanada Highway, the sound of the idling units competed with the wind singing in the low pole-line wires.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1994-03-04
Location:	Falcon
Province:	Saskatchewan

3 Comments | 13 Favourites

Winter 1993-1994 was a tough one for CP on the prairies, with deep cold causing delays due to malfunctioning locomotives, and to address that, mechanical department “riders” were sent to accompany trains to ensure they kept moving. One rider sent to Moose Jaw was me, three weeks in February and March of 1994, and for a west coast kid, it was colder than ever experienced before or since! But the open landscape and mostly clear skies and especially the outstandingly welcoming people made it memorable.

<p>On Thursday 1994-03-03, symbol train 953 from Moose Jaw west to Swift Current (essentially a wayfreight) had a known malperformer, SD40-2 5625, soon discovered to have a mis-set governor causing the engine to be overloaded at full throttle and die. At Mortlach, 25 miles from Moose Jaw, we took the siding to meet 5672 and 5779 east at 1016 CST. Conductor on the ground, engineer still on the engine, PK OK, highball.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1994-03-03
Location:	Mortlach
Province:	Saskatchewan

Comments | 13 Favourites

Heading for loading at the Quintette mine, BCOL GF6C electrics 6005 and 6003 are eastbound with coal empties under the 50 KV catenary and crossing the bridge over Bullmoose Creek.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	1987-05-29
Location:	Tumbler Ridge
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

Following up on last week’s post showing VIA 2 on the CP Fraser River bridge near Cisco (http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=51394), here is the same train moments later on Saturday 1980-06-07, displaying a wide array of passenger equipment including RIDING MOUNTAIN PARK at the rear, and with the upgrade CP-to-CN connecting track visible above.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1980-06-07
Location:	Cisco
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 22 Favourites

Viewed from a water barrel platform on CN’s bridge over the Fraser River at Cisco on Saturday 1980-06-07 at 1804 PDT, VIA train No. 2 with ex CP 1409 + CP 8527 + ex CP 1425 (note both VIA units still in full CP Rail livery) is at CP milepost 101 just after crossing to the east bank of the Fraser from the west.

<p>By no means do I intend to condone trespassing to obtain a photo. Just 3 minutes earlier, I was surprised by a westward CN train (visible in the distance above the bridge), and shaken like the dickens by vibration of the CN bridge. Today, a drone camera would be my vantage point of choice there.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1980-06-07
Location:	Cisco
Province:	British Columbia

6 Comments | 20 Favourites

In the first year after CN took over Northern Alberta Railways, visual changes were not dramatic, limited to CN numbers replacing the originals but NAR emblems and lettering (including locomotive names) remaining intact. Here is a GSL Turn from McLennan arriving at the former NAR/CN junction of Roma Jct., the south end of the Great Slave Lake line, at 1048 MDT on a smoky (distant forest fires) Friday 1981-09-18. SD38-2 units 5701, 5702 and 5700 are ex NAR 402, 403 and 401.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1981-09-18
Location:	Roma Jct. near Gri…
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

In 1979, the BC government ran a west coast Canada and USA tourist promotion train, with ex CP 2860 Royal Hudson as the attention-raising star. Here, on its second day, Thursday 1979-03-29, the Good Times ‘79 Express is eastbound on CP at Squilax at 1150 PST, ascending to Notch Hill, with another MLW, BCOL M-420 644, assisting under MU control. Blind luck on my part that the exhaust rose just enough for sunshine on 644! That is Little Shuswap Lake below on the upper right, and on the lower right, a typical Shuswap sub. telegraph pole with a pattern of two long, one short, and one long cross arms.

<p>This photo is dedicated to the memory of artist Peter Sawatzky (1922-2012), who came up shortly before train time, waved at me higher up the bank, then blended himself into an inconspicuous spot in the brush. Can you see him? A true gentleman railfan photographer.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1979-03-29
Location:	Squilax
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 18 Favourites

On Vancouver Island, CP’s line from Parksville to Port Alberni was ruled from 1949 to 1971 by Baldwin diesels, but increasing tonnages from the mills in Port Alberni plus the risk of fire from the common steel brake shoes on prolonged grades resulted in trial of pairs of GP9s with dynamic braking. At the same time, due to advanced age of two large timber trestles, diversions on culverted fills were constructed. This is an eastward train powered by 8684 and 8649 on the Four Mile Creek bridge at mileage 24.4, just east of the siding at Stokes. In another half mile, bridge 23.9 over Five Mile Creek will be encountered.

<p>Stokes, in common with numerous other stations on the Port Alberni sub., is named for one of its surveyors, this one for William Marpole Stokes, later an E&N division engineer.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1971-09-19
Location:	Stokes
Province:	British Columbia

4 Comments | 30 Favourites

West of Edmonton, Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific both built rail lines to the Yellowhead Pass, and west of Hinton, CNor was on the north side of the Athabaska River with GTP on the south. This is a view eastward at the former CNor depot at Entrance, now known as Old Entrance, with the name relocated across the river to the GTP station originally called Dyke, where CN runs today. The depot still stands, serving as the office of Old Entrance B ‘n B Cabins and Trail Rides.

<p>At the time of the photo, the gravel road shown continued to the west behind the photographer to the CN bridge at mile 193.6 Edson sub. near where the GTP alignment was connected to the CNor, but recent aerial views suggest that is probably impassable now.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Northern
Date:	1979-09-24
Location:	Old Entrance
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

With only half an hour remaining before sunset, the thrice-weekly westward wayfreight from Grande Prairie, AB, to Dawson Creek, BC, is leaving Dimsdale, nine miles into its journey and with seventy-nine miles still to go on Friday 1979-09-28. GP9 209 named SLAVE LAKE leads the way.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1979-09-28
Location:	Dimsdale
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 28 Favourites

On the first day, Tuesday 1974-06-18, that former CP Royal Hudson 2860 made a trip on the British Columbia Railway from North Vancouver to Squamish, here she and her train are northbound under the watchful eye of ~1700-metre (~5660 feet) Mount Murchison, with the Squamish docks in the background and the Woodfibre pulp mill in the distance on the far left.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	1974-06-18
Location:	Squamish
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 16 Favourites

On Saturday 1974-12-14, E&N freight train No. 52 to Victoria with GP9s 8668 and 8819 and in-transit idling Baldwin 8004 was much later than usual, probably held for urgent traffic off the barge at Wellcox in Nanaimo, so headed in at the siding at Cobble Hill to clear RDC-1 9199 on passenger train No. 1 which appeared right on time at 0930 PST. Working graveyard shift at Victoria roundhouse put me in prime position to know No. 52 was late, providing an excellent opportunity to catch the meet.

<p>Note the rotating white beacon above the RDC’s headlight, part of a conspicuity test by the National Research Council, an alternate to the Gyralight usually carried below the window on the end door. That test ended on CP 9199 on 1975-01-05.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-12-14
Location:	Cobble Hill
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 16 Favourites

Just getting underway for its 139-mile run back to home base at Victoria, Budd/CC&F RDC-2 9199 is leaving the depot at Courtenay on Friday 1974-08-02, on time at 1300 PDT, in a view from the top of a boxcar spotted on the spur as seen on the left.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-08-02
Location:	Courtenay
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 27 Favourites

CP tried reversing the Victoria-Courtenay-Victoria schedule of its Dayliner on Vancouver Island from 1975-04-26 to 1975-11-15, and when ridership did not support that, returned to the original plan. One minor challenge was the operating timetable still showed the reversed timing, so for two weeks (until Supplement 1 to Timetable 95 was effective on 1975-11-30), Passenger Extra provisions were utilized, illustrated here on the second day at 0855 PST on Tuesday 1975-11-18 with 9103 carrying white flags and classification lights and crossing Shawnigan Lake Road immediately north of Malahat station.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1975-11-18
Location:	Malahat
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 25 Favourites

At the end of the Baldwin roadswitcher era on CP’s E&N Division, pairs of prepared-for-storage units were sent north from Victoria shop to Nanaimo for barge movement to the mainland then furtherance to storage (and eventual scrapping, except for one) at Calgary, shown here with 8000 (in script, the one that survived) and 8003 (in red) in train No. 51 on the ruling grade up to Langford and with GP9s 8540 and 8665 on the headend in the distance on Wednesday 1975-03-19. Two days later, the last one to have been running, 8010, made the same trip.

<p>On the left is the CN Cowichan sub., that portion last used by the Victoria Pacific steam tourist operation a few years earlier.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1975-03-19
Location:	Langford
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 19 Favourites

On Vancouver Island, CP’s E&N Division hauled logs for Crown Zellerbach’s Nitinat Logging Division from Lake Cowichan east 18 miles to Hayward then north 17 miles to the CZ log dump into Ladysmith harbour. On Tuesday 1980-01-08, that assignment was handled by GP9s 8689 and 8530, seen here eastward in fresh snow on the outskirts of Duncan about to duck under Cowichan Lake Road and carefully descending the grade with a bit less than one mile to the junction switch at Hayward.

<p>Note the white Extra flags on 8689 are angled outwards, a pleasing departure from the standard straight-up display on most CP GP9s, also standard on TH&B GP7s 71 to 77 and SOO SD40-2s 6615 to 6623.

<p>A very Merry Christmas to all.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1980-01-08
Location:	Duncan
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 23 Favourites

The homeward-bound (southward) GSL Turn on Saturday 1980-09-27 is shown making excellent use of the dynamic braking on SD38-2 units 402 + 403 + 401 at mileage 50.5 as they descend the grade approaching the Peace River crossing and town of the same name, a perfect match of machine and task.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1980-09-27
Location:	Peace River
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 20 Favourites

Occasionally, typically to verify some just-completed maintenance such as traction motor changeout was okay, the 0600 yard crew at Victoria was provided a Baldwin roadswitcher instead of the usual MLW S-3, and on Thursday 1975-03-06 that was the assignment for 8003. Immediately north (by timetable, west by compass) of the Johnson Street bridge over Victoria harbour, a spur connected down a grade to an interchange with CN, and in this shot the yard crew is returning upgrade and crossing over the Harbour Road bridge just before reaching the main track switch. This photo was taken from an overpass of Esquimalt Road that is today’s end of track at mileage 0.2.

<p>Completely unknown to me at that time, it was only five days before shutdown of all seven remaining Baldwin roadswitcher units was begun, so this was a happy coincidence of sunshine and blind luck timing and my camera if ever there was one.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1975-03-06
Location:	Victoria
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 22 Favourites

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