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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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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

On Vancouver Island, CP’s E&N division operated a branch westward from Parksville to Port Alberni, with numerous wood trestle bridges due to the mountainside terrain. Two large ones were just east of Stokes, 14 rail miles east of Port Alberni, and maintenance expenses and fire risks prompted bypasses on curved and culverted fills in 1971. Here at mileage 24.4 immediately east of Stokes siding, Baldwins 8012 and 8001 ease a westward train across the bridge over Four Mile Creek, with the new grade and track approaching readiness for connection and service.

<p>Only a few photos of 8012 are in my collection, as befitting its thirteenth status in the fleet it was the first to expire, due to an electrical fire on 1973-02-19 on the severe upgrade a few miles east and on a similar westward run as in the photo.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1971-11-21
Location:	Stokes
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 23 Favourites

When you are on a vacation road trip and the sun sets but the trains keep coming, one way of dealing with that was time exposures resulting in headlight-streaks views, such as this of train No. 303 with RDC-2 CP 9105 sailing around the 65-mph curve at Morningside at 2007 MDT heading for South Edmonton on Thursday 1978-09-14, with the front door Gyralight rotation delightfully obvious.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1978-09-14
Location:	Morningside
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

On Vancouver Island, and between the Lake Cowichan interchange with the E&N and their mill at Honeymoon Bay, Western Forest Industries operated a 1929 Plymouth WLG-8 locomotive numbered 40 (previously 7) as required to bring empties to the mill and take resulting outbound loads to the interchange for furtherance to off-Island destinations. Here, WFI 40 has three empties in tow and is crossing the Robertson River bridge westward on a cool Monday 1974-03 -11, with less than two miles to go to reach the mill.

<p>Number 40 went to Westcan Terminals at Ogden Point in Victoria in 1978, where it regained its number 7, then went to the Ladysmith museum in 1987 and then in 1996 to the Kaatza Museum in Lake Cowichan in 1996, where it is now on display, just 6 km (as the raven flies) east-northeast of this photo location.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1974-03-11
Location:	Honeymoon Bay
Province:	British Columbia

5 Comments | 25 Favourites

While broadside telephoto shots from 400 metres away across the lake were okay, they inspired my purchase of a small inflatable boat to capture closer views of the mileage 79.9 trestle bridge on the east side of Green Lake north of Wellington on Vancouver Island. One result from Wednesday 1981-03-18 was train No. 71 from Wellcox yard in Nanaimo heading to Port Alberni behind GP9s 8646 and 8657 caught at 1330 PST.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1981-03-18
Location:	Wellington
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 21 Favourites

A broken rail caused early-morning southbound freight No. 52 to derail just south of South Wellington on Vancouver Island on Wednesday 1974-02-20. Lead GP9 8531 had only its rear truck derailed, and the crew members were fine, but GP9 8613 was well and truly off and Baldwin 8005 went over so far its internals were damaged and that was its last run.<p>This location is just one and a half miles south of the head-on collision on 1973-06-12 which ended the working lives of Baldwins 8006, 8007, 8008 and 8011.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-02-20
Location:	South Wellington
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

Now mile 109.4 on CP’s Taber sub. (extended west 8.0 miles onto the former Crowsnest sub. to the new Lethbridge Yard from old Lethbridge), the long Oldman River bridge also passes over the 1 Ave. SW exit from highway 3, and on Monday 1974-10-14 it carried an eastbound wayfreight with ex Quebec North Shore & Labrador GP9 PNC 122 for power towards the yard in town.

<p>The construction-era (1897-1898) line west from Lethbridge avoided the immense bridge by swinging considerably south of today’s line to cross the Saint Mary River on a substantial wooden trestle then the Belly River on another to avoid the Oldman River, then trending northwest to join today’s line at Fort Macleod. A great map showing that is at <a href=“https://railways.library.ualberta.ca/Maps-7-4-2”> Atlas of Alberta Railways Maps </a>.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-10-16
Location:	Lethbridge
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

The E&N Baldwin roadswitcher era on Vancouver Island ended in 1975, with GP9s and the odd MLW S-4 (and one RS-23) then utilized, but in January 1978 and much to my surprise and disbelief (the shop foreman in Victoria was well known for his pranks and tall tales), I was advised Baldwin switcher 7070 was working at Wellcox yard in Nanaimo. That was personally confirmed the next day on 1978-01-23, and Kodak did very well that day!

<p>Occasional maintenance trips to Victoria where I worked gave me many photo opportunities, with one of the best on graveyard shift on Monday 1979-04-09 when 7070 was posed half-on the turntable at night. With a time exposure and me sitting very still in the cab and with a reliable friend to open then close the shutter ten minutes later, a shot simulating me running 7070 onto the turntable (note brakes applied and no exhaust) was achieved. Having now reached 70 myself, this is the perfect day to share that shot of 7070.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1979-04-09
Location:	Victoria
Province:	British Columbia

6 Comments | 26 Favourites

In 1974, ABS-signalled double track extended east from Calgary to Gleichen, requiring a 24/7 train order office there. On Wednesday 1974-10-02, an eastward freight extra with 4234 and 4478 for power and dead MLW S-3 6573 enroute overhaul at Winnipeg waited for No. 1 The Canadian with 1412 and 1408 to arrive, which it did on time, of course.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-10-02
Location:	Gleichen
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 24 Favourites

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