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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 lost to history as this stretch of track was abandoned in 1986, the hamlet of Opal (between Carbondale and Kerensky) was at mile 23.5 on NAR’s Lac La Biche sub., and on Wednesday 1980-09-24 saw the passage of GMD1s 311 and 303 on a Mixed Extra South which left Waterways in Fort McMurray the previous morning with an overnight at Lac La Biche.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1980-09-24
Location:	Opal
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 13 Favourites

Normally three of NAR’s four SD38-2 units were utilized between McLennan and Roma Jct. on the Peace River grades for which they were ideal, and the fourth cycled between McLennan and Dunvegan Yards in Edmonton. That is what 401 is doing here, leading GP9 201 westward on the French Creek bridge at mile 81.8 just south of Fawcett at 1243 MDT, with 49 miles to go to a crew change at Smith, then another 131 to reach McLennan.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1980-09-25
Location:	Fawcett
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 27 Favourites

Fifty-nine years separate the origins of the depot and the SD38-2 locomotives in this shot, 1916 for the building and 1975 for the units. NAR 403+404+402 are southbound on the second half of a GSL Turn on Thursday 1979-09-27 with concentrate loads from Pine Point Mines at the far end of CN’s Great Slave Lake line which connects to the NAR at Roma Jct. about ten miles behind the train. The three units, typical for a GSL Turn will soon be wide open climbing to Judah, another seven miles, to reach level prairie again.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1979-09-27
Location:	Peace River
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 22 Favourites

A couple miles north of Anzac on the Northern Alberta Railways line to Waterways in Fort McMurray, there was an area of muskeg, and a long but low pile trestle over one drainage area at mileage 263.5 with a reputation for experiencing a progressive wave action as a train passed over it. On Monday 1980-09-22, Mixed Extra 303 North with 311 trailing passed over at 1643 MDT without demonstrating that characteristic. The sapling on the far right was found lying nearby while I waited for the train to arrive, so was placed into the view for a bit of artistic balance!

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1980-09-22
Location:	Anzac
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

When CN took over Northern Alberta Railways on 1981-01-01, change thankfully came slowly to start, with locomotives renumbered into the CN pattern but Northern Alberta markings and locomotive names left intact, as on CN 4611 (ex NAR 210) and CN 4610 (ex NAR 209) bracketing B-unit 9192 as a westward train approaches Sexsmith on Tuesday 1981-09-15 heading for Grande Prairie. The black-paint background for the cab-side number was later applied over the NAR diamonds and hood-side lettering, too, and that really hurt.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1981-09-15
Location:	Sexsmith
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 15 Favourites

After the arduous climb from Peace River to Judah, now four miles behind them, the returning half of a GSL Turn on Northern Alberta Railways’ Peace River sub. is on essentially level prairie and crossing a minor tributary of the Heart River at mileage 37.7 near the hamlet of Marie Reine on Sunday 1980-09-28, less than four months before becoming part of Canadian National Railway. Note the block of Pine Point ore cars behind SD38-2s 402, 403 and 404, a major traffic source from CN’s Great Slave Lake line at Roma Jct.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1980-09-28
Location:	Marie Reine
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 20 Favourites

This return half of a Barrhead Turn is timetable eastward (compass southeast) on Northern Alberta Railways by the grain elevators at the hamlet of Mearns under an ominous sky on Saturday 1980-09-20, with GMD1s 312 and 303 for power and just 27 miles from home at Dunvegan Yards in Edmonton. In the distance is the bell tower and spire of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church which, unlike those grain elevators, survives to this day.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1980-09-20
Location:	Mearns
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 19 Favourites

A maze of branch lines operated out of Prince Albert, with CP often utilizing CN lines to access CP branches. One was the Nipawin Turn for 18 miles on the CN Paddockwood sub. to a junction at Sharpe with the CP White Fox sub. eastward to Nipawin. Typical service was a pair of MLW RS-23s and a caboose on CN from Prince Albert to Sharpe then on CP to Meath Park, then picking up grain loads through to Nipawin, then empties westward with setoffs at active grain elevators up to Meath Park, then running cab hop home to Prince Albert. On Tuesday 1976-09-28, that is what 8015 and 8017 are doing, westbound at Gobeil Road and less than a mile from CN track at Sharpe.

<p>Today, this is empty grade; track extends northward from Prince Albert only 8 miles to White Star (Carleton Trail) and westward from Nipawin to Choiceland (Torch River Rail).</p>

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1976-09-28
Location:	Sharpe
Province:	Saskatchewan

4 Comments | 27 Favourites

Under a glorious Peace River country clear sky on Friday 1976-09-24, Northern Alberta Railways’ GSL Turn is returning from the CN Great Slave Lake line connection at Roma Jct. to McLennan with its usual trio of SD38-2s, this day 402 plus 404 plus 401, passing the lone grain elevator at Judah at mileage 41.6 after the 8-mile climb from Peace River, where each unit was rated to handle 1200 tons. In another 43 miles they will be at their home terminal.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1976-09-24
Location:	Judah
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 13 Favourites

West of Stettler and east of Lacombe on the aptly named Lacombe subdivision, CP used to cross Tail Creek at mileage 74.3 between Nevis and Macbeth on a straight timber trestle bridge of significant proportions, later bypassed to the north by a curved fill with a culvert. On Thursday 1978-09-14 at 1021 MDT, that bridge was traversed by an eastward ballast work train with GP9s 8834 and 8662 for power.

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

Comments | 31 Favourites

Northern Alberta Railways extended westward into British Columbia from Grande Prairie in Alberta, with two large timber trestles near the west end. This is Bissette Creek at mileage 131.5 on the eastern edge of the village of Pouce Coupé, with the thrice weekly wayfreight No. 51 with GP9 206 handling three ballast loads and four empties and caboose 13006 on xxxxxx 1977-09-21. In another 3.2 miles, they will encounter the second big trestle, over Dawson Creek, and 3.3 miles more the city of Dawson Creek.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1977-09-21
Location:	Pouce Coupé
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 17 Favourites

East of Calgary, train No. 2 The Canadian on Thursday 1976-10-14 was timetabled at 1741 MDT at Tilley, not long after I took a calculated break from the Trans Canada Highway on a road trip westward, and to my considerable (CP employee) satisfaction the train passed by precisely on time, with 1403 and 1416 and seven cars making good use of the 75 mph permitted speed on that stretch of ABS single main track.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1976-10-14
Location:	Tilley
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 21 Favourites

At Minnedosa, MB, where CP’s Minnedosa subdivision from the south joins to the Bredenbury sub. to the west, timetable train No. 977 with SD40-2 5756 and F7B 4439 and SD40 5514 is passing an early railway history display of caboose CP 431970 just before crossing the Little Saskatchewan River then Main Street. Since then, CP FP7 4038 in maroon/grey with block lettering has joined the caboose in that display.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1976-10-04
Location:	Minnedosa
Province:	Manitoba

1 Comments | 14 Favourites

The Baldwin 606SC engine (sans turbo) of 8011 in the air during scrapping at Wellcox yard in Nanaimo on Tuesday 1974-07-30. One near-comical tension relief during the scrapping was when each engine was first lifted clear. All shopstaff “knew” there should be a treasure trove of tools lost underneath during earlier years, never to be retrieved unless the engine was removed, but nothing of significance was ever discovered there, much to the prime scavenger’s dismay!

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-07-30
Location:	Nanaimo
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 22 Favourites

After the E&N 1973-06-12 head-on collision near South Wellington, the four Baldwins involved were stored at Wellcox yard in Nanaimo, and in July 1974 were scrapped and sent off to the mainland for recycling. The cab of 8008, remarkably intact as seen from its front left (but totally demolished from the rear right), was torn from its home of twenty-six years, and deposited to one side for later loading into a scrap car.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-07-30
Location:	Nanaimo
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 15 Favourites

For me, the shot of E&N Baldwin scrapping at Wellcox in Nanaimo in July of 1974 that sums up the mess there is this, debris all about but operations continuing with cabooses all lined up and the yard office with scrap cars being scaled behind the crane’s boom. In the foreground, the day and afternoon chargehands at Wellcox (a job I worked six years later) are observing. That I was able to photograph it all from a variety of perches among the activity was due to the tolerance of Victoria locomotive foreman Hugh Albert Miller, who also organized and managed all the scrapping with no injury to any of us. Thank you, Hughie.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-07-30
Location:	Nanaimo
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

On Vancouver Island, CP’s E&N Division handled logs from the Crown Zellerbach Logging Division reload at Lake Cowichan east 18 miles to Hayward (just north of Duncan) then north 17 miles to Ladysmith and CZ’s log dump. Here, typically clean GP9s 8676 and 8640 are eastward with a fire-season water car and log loads crossing the awkward-to-photograph (and seldom documented as a result) trestle bridge over Bings Creek at mileage 1.6 west of the junction at Hayward.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1976-07-26
Location:	Duncan
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 22 Favourites

At Courtenay, the north end of CP’s Dayliner passenger service on Vancouver Island, a wye was used to turn the car to always have the baggage compartment leading, but in the Spring of 1972 that wye was removed, so changing ends became normal practice, with the result seen here on Friday 1973-06-02 as E&N southbound train No. 2 with Budd/CC&F RDC2 CP 9199 eases to a flagstop at Union Bay at mileage 130.2 of the Victoria subdivision, baggage compartment trailing but precisely on time at 1213 PDT.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1973-06-22
Location:	Union Bay
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 18 Favourites

At Westlock, AB, mileage 52.2 timetable west (compass north-northwest) from Edmonton, on Saturday 1976-09-25 just before noon, train Second 40 with two GMD1s was in the clear on two tracks for a meet with No. 31 with SD38-2 403 and trailing GP9s 211 and 203 which appeared at 1225 MDT. Of the four SD38-2s on NAR, it was normal for three to work the severe Peace River grades encountered by GSL Turns between McLennan and CN Roma Jct. while the other was cycled in rotation between McLennan and Dunvegan Yards in Edmonton for main shop maintenance.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Northern Alberta R…
Date:	1976-09-25
Location:	Westlock
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 17 Favourites

Saltair at mileage 54.5 on CP’s E&N Victoria subdivision on Vancouver Island, midway between Chemainus and Ladysmith, had a 24-car siding on the west side up to and including timetable 96 of 1971-04-25, but timetable 97 of 1971-10-31 showed it as “nil” and Saltair disappeared from record in timetable 92 of 1973-10-28. A few years later, clear evidence of the siding remained as a Nitinat log train (Crown Zellerbach loads from Lake Cowichan to Ladysmith) with GP9s 8668 and 8613 headed north on Friday 1975-03-07.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/07/1975
Location:	Saltair
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 15 Favourites

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