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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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Right on the border between Alberta and Northwest Territories at mileage 300.4 on the Meander River sub. of CN’s Great Slave Lake division, northward symbol train 875 on Saturday 1978-09-23 had two GP9s and an SW1200RS, CN 4341 + 4351 + 1376, for power as it crossed latitude 60 degrees north at 1141 MDT. Last station was Indian Cabins, AB, at mileage 291.3, next is Grumbler, NWT, at 311.3

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1978-09-23
Location:	Grumbler
Province:	Northwest Territo…

2 Comments | 18 Favourites

CP used to service its White Fox subdivision with a crew and typically three lightweight RS-23s from Prince Albert, heading north on CN running rights for 18 miles to a junction at Sharpe, then east on CP rails picking up grain loads from elevators. After exchanging loads for empties and wyeing the units at Nipawin at mile zero, westward they went, peddling empties at elevators through to Meath Park, then cab hop to Sharpe at mileage 73.4 and south on CN back to Prince Albert.

<p>Seen on Wednesday 1981-09-23 at 1353 CST, CP 8018 + 8016 + 8014 are wheeling the empties across the Saskatchewan River (71 km as a crow flies downstream of the confluence of North and South branches) bridge at mileage 1.6 just west of Nipawin, a crossing then shared with old highway 37 on a lower deck, but now closed to road traffic. The railway there is now Torch River Rail, and extends westward only to mileage 27.2 at Choiceland.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1981-09-23
Location:	Nipawin
Province:	Saskatchewan

3 Comments | 27 Favourites

Just east of Haney in Maple Ridge, CP’s mainline crosses Kanaka Creek at mileage 101.5, and the generally smooth water surface provides reflecting opportunities. As seen on Monday 1989-08-07 at 1004 PDT, VIA No. 1 powered by VIA 6307 + 6602 + 6603 was about half an hour behind scheduled time, still with 30 miles to Vancouver.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1989-08-07
Location:	Maple Ridge
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

Right at the west switch of Walhachin, CN’s close association with the Thompson River is very evident as long symbol train 414 powered by SD40s 5120 and 5176 heads eastward at 0929 PDT on Tuesday 1987-06-02.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1987-06-02
Location:	Walhachin
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 14 Favourites

West of Walhachin, CN runs on the north bank of the Thompson River, and at 0635 PDT on Sunday 1980-06-08, in a view essentially just turned around from last week’s post, symbol 218 made its way eastward with month-old 5344 leading 5277 and 5284, with the aged road bridge in the background connecting Walhachin to the Trans Canada Highway.

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

Comments | 9 Favourites

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

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

A former oxbow of the Thompson River near Walhachin provided abundant photographic opportunities, with CN down close to river level compared to CP who climbed high above, their Thompson sub. visible in the distance. CN 5289 + 5286 + 5126 westward appeared at 1236 PDT on Saturday 1980-05-24, and passed milepost 30 shown on the far right shortly before arriving at the east siding switch at Walhachin.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1980-05-24
Location:	Walhachin
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 11 Favourites

For filming of a portion of the movie The Grey Fox, ex MacMillan Bloedel number 1077 now British Columbia Provincial Museum 1077 was used to simulate a CP steam locomotive hauled train at “Kamloops” using the original E&N now CP depot at Parksville on Vancouver Island on Friday 1980-11-14. The regular southward passenger train No. 198 with RDC-1 CP 9064 arrived at 1410, precisely on time (of course, that’s just how we operated). Note the chalked arrivals and departures board for “Kamloops”.

<p>That depot remains in place to this day, now occupied by the Arrowsmith Potter’s Guild, and the young lady from the Wellcox yard office in Nanaimo who accompanied me that day on our first date is with me to this day, too!

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1980-11-14
Location:	Parksville
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 20 Favourites

Westward from Kamloops Lake, while CP chose to ascend to high ground at Walhachin, CN remained close to the Thompson River, requiring several bridges to avoid difficult terrain, providing a wonderful array of photo opportunities. Here, just east of Walhachin, an oxbow of the river was crossed twice by fills, this being the west one, occupied on Tuesday 1982-06-01 at 0708 PDT by westward grain loads powered by CN 5139 + 5125 + 5280.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1982-06-01
Location:	Walhachin
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

Alongside the Thompson River west from Savona, CP’s mainline climbs to Walhachin, and at the summit on the compass-south side is an outcrop of rock ideal for crushing into ballast, hence the two extra tracks beside the siding. From the top of that rock, the view eastward on Sunday 1980-06-08 at 1635 PDT included a CP westbound, symbol train 67, with 5664 + 5785 + 57xx + 8501 for power, and in the distance down close to the river, CN’s Ashcroft sub. mainline.

<p>The area from Savona to Walhachin and Semlin to near Ashcroft is not blessed with many easy access points, but is well worth long walks, one of my “happy” places on this planet.

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

3 Comments | 10 Favourites

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

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