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About Steve Young

My interest in trains started in 1972, in London, while on a Miles for Millions Walk (Remember those?). We would bike out to Hyde Park or take the bus downtown to watch trains. I then moved to Waterloo, and in a few years acquired my first SLR. This is when my rail photography started. I visited Toronto a few times because that was where the train were. I had to go where public transit would get me. My eyesight precluded me from obtaining a Drivers License (until I was 49, while living in the "States). My folks moved to Halifax in 1980 while I stayed in Waterloo to attend school. Generally, I was too busy to much railfanning, but I did have a couple work terms in Calgary. Upon graduation in 1984, I got married and moved to Calgary for a few years. Once the oil patch tanked, my career died and we moved to Edmonton, where I went back to school and my wife's career took off. I got to be Mr Mom for about 20 years. We left Canada in Jan 1998 on what was supposed to be a temporary assignment. As my kids grew up, I had more free time and continued my rail photography. I may not be a very creative photographer, but I think I have learned enough to keep most of my shots.

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I probably should have paid more attention to CN's switching activities around town, but I didn't. This tard job or local is seen in from of the massive Inland Cement facility on the north side of Bissell Yard.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/21/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 5 Favourites

Most of the time when one visited the Walker Shops, there wasn't really all that much to keep your interest. Sometimes, there would be something worth photographing.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/21/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 5 Favourites

A very new 5707 and a LMS unit lead 413, a Scotford Yard (Fort Saskatchewan AB) to Vancouver train. Coming from Scotford, it is dominated by chemical traffic.
Seen here as it passes the Walker Shops.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/28/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 4 Favourites

This is 814's power going to Walker Shops. They left their empty grain train in Bissell Yard.
The impressive Alberta Terminal structure makes for an interesting background. I used to think that it was huge until I moved to central Illinois.
I think that I read, just the other day, that these, then new units are to be rebuilt.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/28/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 6 Favourites

The new SD75I's seemed to be always leading. I don't even know if I ever saw one trailing. Granted, I left Canada in less than a year after taking this photo, and did not get back into CN territory until 2005.
This intermodal train may have been running late, because I rarely saw it in Edmonton, and virtually all of my railfanning was done in daylight.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/23/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 4 Favourites

403 was another train heavy with chemical traffic. The hoppers on the front end may have been used to transport raw or finished materials for the Sherritt fertilizer plant just outside Fort Saskatchewan. It ran from Winnipeg to Edmonton.
The steam in the background is from the now-defunct Celenese plant by Brettville Junction.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/07/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 5 Favourites

512 was the late afternoon run from Walker Yard to go up the Vegreville Sub. It isn't listed in my CTG, but I think that it went to the Fort Saskatchewan area and dealt mostly with chemical traffic. The grain cars must have been dropped at a smallish elevator in that area.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/07/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 5 Favourites

The SD75I's were being delivered in droves about this time. Here, one is leading 219, the Toronto to Edmonton hot-ish train dominated by chemicals. They already made a set out in Clover Bar Yard, and are continuing to Walker Yard with the remaining cars.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/07/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 3 Favourites

A sunny side view of the second section train 818. It is a Vancouver to Winnipeg grain empty train.
It is led by a very new SD75I and is about to allow "B"'s, whatever that is.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/07/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 6 Favourites

579 will travel up the Vegreville Syb, to St Paul Junction, where it will run up the Coronado sub to Kerensky where it will diverge onto the Lac LaBiche Sub. from there it will go to Boyle, where it will veer off again to go up the newish 24 mile AlPac Spur to switch out the OSB plant.
Here, it is leaving the easternmost tracks of Walker Yard. The leftmost track is the Walker Yard Bypass track. I think I see two such tracks on recent Google views.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/07/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 5 Favourites

It must be the February thaw in Edmonton. Besides the train with the Conrail unit trailing, there is quite a bit to see here. At far right, the stockyards can be seen. A small specialized elevator is also visible. At right, the smoke/steam is from the inland cement plant on the far side of town

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/01/1997
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 6 Favourites

The local that services the Cold Lake AFB is returning to Edmonton in the mid afternoon. I am virtually certain that this is a train that goes out one day, and returns the next.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/14/1996
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 4 Favourites

After abandoning the chase down the Camrose Sub, we returned to Edmonton, where my wife took our son into Superstore. Somehow, I knew this train was on its way so I set up in the then empty strip between N Calgary Trail (I think that is what it was called back then, not Gateway Blvd) and the CPR. Note that the Sun is now out.
This is one of only 2 times that I would see a SOO locomotive. The other was on the BN along Sprague Lake in Washington.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/13/1996
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 8 Favourites

Another view of 550 as it continues down Camrose Creek Valley. The treatle that the train is occupying is no more. It is now an earthen berm.
Those hoppers are probably going to the polyethylene plant a Joffre AB.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/13/1996
Location:	Camrose
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 2 Favourites

In spite of the miserable clouds, I shot the 550 as it worked further down the Camrose creek valley. This train will work Mirror, and then head out the Brazeau sub, when it will service the industries out that way and switch Red Deer.
The engines are on the 4th of nine wooden trestles in this small valley. The train is on the 3rd trestle, but it is in the hidden part of the train.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/13/1996
Location:	Camrose
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 6 Favourites

Vancouver to Ram River AB sulphur empty, begins the descent to the Battle River south of Camrose. The first two of several wooden trestles are visible.
It was sunny, when we left Edmonton earlier this morning. A band of clouds stayed overhead and to the east for a few hours.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/13/1996
Location:	Camrose
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 11 Favourites

A few strategically placed empty flat cars allow the trailing section of the intermodal train to be seem as it sweeps around the big curve at Bremnar.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/12/1996
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 5 Favourites

This westbound gtain train gave me little warning of its approach. The prevailing west winds probably had a lot to do with that. Those winds are probably the biggest downside of living in the Calgary area.
We have two of CP's "latest" EMD's (plus an earlier version of the SD-40) pulling the train. Those SD-40-2F's are still 8 years old, and I believe are the last new EMD's that CP would purchase, until the SD-43/90 debacle.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/01/1996
Location:	Cochrane
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 9 Favourites

This westbound grain train is passing all that remains of a once-thriving Glenbow. Apparently, that building was the store.
I don't know if this shot is repeatable, even though this is now public land. The Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park pamphlet says that one must stay on the paths. If this is strongly enforced, and the new fencing put in is too restricting, then I would have to say that they ruined it for us.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/01/1996
Location:	Cochrane
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 6 Favourites

A view of the Bow River Valley to the Rockies. Apparently there was a small town here (furthest right, by the tracks), that operated the sandstone quarry and then a brick making operation. All of that closed down before WW1, and the place was abandoned. This side of the river is now Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park. In 1996, it was still an active ranch, with some crops.

Name:	Steve Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/01/1996
Location:	Cochrane
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 5 Favourites

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