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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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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

At the Elk Falls Division pulp mill at Duncan Bay on Vancouver Island, Crown Zellerbach had a rail-barge connection from the BC mainland, and for many years their yard was switched with a Shay steam locomotive. For the occasion of the presentation of the Shay to the Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, all railway equipment was cleaned up, including Baldwin VO-1000 7128 which previously worked CZ’s Nanaimo Lakes log haul, and it is seen here switching the mill on Saturday 1974-09-14 after the presentation ceremonies were over.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1974-09-14
Location:	Duncan Bay
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 17 Favourites

With less than a year left before CP shutdown most CLC/FMs, four of them, 8714 + 8724 + 8549 + 4104, are hustling a freight westward by the freight shed at Fernie, with Mount Hosmer in the background on the right and Three Sisters on the left. The fourth unit, C-Liner 4104, is happily preserved today outside the former CP depot at Nelson.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-09-29
Location:	Fernie
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 19 Favourites

As a followup to my post last week showing Stuart Channel Transportation number 9 preparing to switch the SEASPAN DORIS rail ferry, here is a much closer view of that Whitcomb after the subsidiary was taken into the BC Forest Products entity and the unit painted in the corporate colours. When the ferry slip was out of service for maintenance, BCFP took loads uphill to the E&N junction at Osborn Bay, and brought empties back down for a week, here on Friday 1980-06-13.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1980-06-13
Location:	Crofton
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 26 Favourites

On the east coast of Vancouver Island at the BC Forest Products mills at Crofton, the primary railway connection to the mainland was provided by rail ferries, here showing as SEASPAN DORIS (formerly DORIS YORKE of F. M. YORKE and Sons) and about to be switched by Whitcomb number 9 of Stuart Channel Transportation shown lurking at the lower right on Friday 1975-05-09.

<p>CP’s E&N had a direct connection to Crofton, known to CP as Crofthill, from a junction at Osborn Bay, but in later years it was used only when various marine difficulties made the rail ferry option unavailable.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1975-05-09
Location:	Crofton
Province:	British Columbia

4 Comments | 16 Favourites

On Vancouver Island, Crown Zellerbach at Ladysmith often borrowed a locomotive from CP (E&N) when their lone road unit was down. On Wednesday 1977-10-26, the unit on loan was S-4 7116 from Wellcox yard in Nanaimo, and is seen here idling in the distance as the CZ Humdirgen log car unloader (on Shay running gear) is encouraging loads into the saltchuck for boom boats to organize into rafts for towing to mainland mills. A goal of photographing that action was catching the THUNK-SPLOOSH as each bundle hit the water.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1977-10-26
Location:	Ladysmith
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 17 Favourites

A network of light-rail branchlines radiated from Prince Albert, and on CN that meant GMD-1 power, amply illustrated here with 1041 + 1014 + 1018 on Work Extra 1018 busy lifting loads eastward from the elevators at Spiritwood on Monday 1976-09-27.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1976-09-27
Location:	Spiritwood
Province:	Saskatchewan

Comments | 18 Favourites

That fine row of grain elevators is now history, but the depot at Wetaskiwin still stands as it did on Thursday 1978-09-14 at 1831 MDT for the passage of train No. 987 with 5674 and two other SD40-2s. Today, the track side is blanked off, but the town side is active with local businesses.

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

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

In earlier years, CP operated a rock pit a couple miles west of Agassiz, primarily for rip-rap rock for shoring up eroded banks along the Fraser River. That is the pit track on the lower right, with No. 1 The Canadian powered by 4068 and 1404 passing by at 0952 PDT on Friday 1978-10-06. No. 1 was then timetabled 0943 at Agassiz, two miles back, so was wonderfully close to right on time that day.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1978-10-06
Location:	Agassiz
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 18 Favourites

After a scheduled 1725 departure from South Edmonton and 30.8 miles onward, No. 304 with RDC2 9107 departed the 1907-built depot at Wetaskiwin right on time at 1803 MDT on Thursday 1978-09-14. That depot survives to present day (2022), as does the distant Unifeed (now UGG) elevator.

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

2 Comments | 20 Favourites

Once upon a time, CP established a terminal at mile 47.9 at Ruby Creek to serve crews and equipment from the Coquihalla sub. junction a few miles to the east, and it became the east end of double track when that was installed. With the passage of time, the Coquihalla connection was shut down, and later the end of double track was relocated west to mileage 51.7 at new Ruby Creek. This shot of No. 2 The Canadian on Sunday 1978-07-30 at 1815 PDT passing milepost 48 was taken from the site of the former wye west switch at old Ruby Creek.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1978-07-30
Location:	old Ruby Creek
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

On my first visit (by CN Super Continental from Vancouver) to Edmonton, a local railfan took my friend and me to CP’s station at South Edmonton one evening, just after No. 303 had arrived from Calgary. A good thing, as when we went to depart on No. 302 with the same RDC CP 9113 the next morning, the place was blanketed in snow.

<p>Today, that depot still stands, no longer a passenger train terminal, and the CP track no longer extends north another two miles to downtown Edmonton, but just across Whyte Avenue in the distance is now the south terminus of the Edmonton High Level Bridge Streetcar line operated by the Edmonton Radial Railway Society.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1972-11-29
Location:	South Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 14 Favourites

Less than a year after gaining its orange-with-white-stripes livery, Crown Zellerbach RS-3 4097 is eastbound with log loads from Nanaimo Lakes on the Boulder Creek bridge at 12.2 miles west of Ladysmith on Friday 1974-07-26. Since it is fire season, the water car is continuously sprinkling the roadbed while a crew member has opened the soaker valve on the coupled end to minimize the chances of a bridge fire from brakeshoe sparks.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1974-07-26
Location:	near Cassidy
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 28 Favourites

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	1978-10-05
Location:	Australian
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

At Stettler in central Alberta, the Central Western Railway hosted Alberta Prairie railtours powered by 1920 Baldwin 2-8-0 number 41 (originally Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern in Arkansas), seen here arriving southward enroute Big Valley on Saturday 1991-10-05 at 1725 MDT.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Central Western Ra…
Date:	1991-10-05
Location:	Stettler
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 20 Favourites

North of Quesnel, the British Columbia Railway crossed Ahbau Creek on a 920‘ long steel bridge at mileage 406.3, about a 0.8 mile walk in north from the highway 97 overpass at the north end of Greening. Passenger train No. 2 with lone RDC-3 BC-33, running right on time at 0859 PDT (scheduled at Greening at 0901) on Thursday 1978-10-05, casts its shadow on the nearby trees.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	1978-10-05
Location:	Greening
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 13 Favourites

On the north side of the town of Stettler in central Alberta, the CP Lacombe sub. at mileage 56.5 (westward from Coronation) crossed the Central Western Railway at Stettler sub. mileage 50.4 (measured southward from Ferlow Jct. near Camrose). In this northward view on CWR, a CP Coronation Turn is westbound on Sunday 1991-10-06 at 1635 MDT, heading for home at Lacombe. Visible beyond the signal in the distance is the interchange connection from CWR to CP — this is now all Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions territory.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1991-10-06
Location:	Stettler
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 17 Favourites

On the CP Lacombe sub. in central Alberta, a Coronation Turn with a pair of GP38-2s, 3056+3130, is eastward at 1117 MDT on Sunday 1991-10-06 with twelve empty grain hoppers through the village of Halkirk at mileage 33.7. Nowadays the rails only reach 15 miles to the west at Botha.

<p>Yes, this is the same train as posted last week, that one originally marked as at Halkirk but with the wrong photo, and actually at Stettler, as first noted by SD70Dude. Thanks to Steve Host for straightening that entry out for me.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1991-10-06
Location:	Halkirk
Province:	Alberta

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