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About Ken Perry

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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One of numerous potash mines in the area, International Minerals and Chemicals had their K-1 mine conveniently between CP’s Bredenbury sub. fourteen miles to the north at Bredenbury and CN’s Rivers sub. two miles to the south at Yarbo. On Tuesday 1976-10-05, thirty-five year old GE 13095 44-tonner IMC 1243 was spotting hoppers through the K-1 potash loadout.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1976-10-05
Location:	Yarbo
Province:	Saskatchewan

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

Canadian National’s Cowichan subdivision on Vancouver Island was separated by bridge conditions, so traffic from the mainland arrived Victoria via barges to a slip at Point Ellice just below the Bay Street road bridge. On Tuesday 1978-12-05, yard engine CN 1002 was switching self-propelled rail barge SEASPAN GREG, with evidence of cold-weather extensive idling drooling down the sides of the engine hood.

<p>On the other side of the harbour, directly above 1002, is another rail barge slip, that one for serving the Victoria Machinery Depot’s facility.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1978-12-05
Location:	Victoria
Province:	British Columbia

5 Comments | 20 Favourites

Carrying on from CWRL 7438 as posted last Sunday, here is CWRL 4301 on the opposite end of the engine shed at Warden on Saturday 1991-10-05, with grit blasting underway at 1040 MDT in preparation for a new paint job.

<p>CWRL 4301 was nee Pittsburgh & Lake Erie 5680, an EMD GP7 serial 14577 of 1951-09, as rebuilt and upgraded by Morrison Knudsen at Boise in 1979.

<p>Warden is midway between two junctions with the CN Endiang sub. (abandoned by the times I visited, but still quite apparent in Google aerial views), from the east on the south end and to the west on the north side of Warden.

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

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

For locomotive maintenance needs, Central Western Railway had a shed (door at other end) at Warden, 5.2 miles south of operations headquarters at Stettler. On Friday 1990-05-25, GP9 7438 (ex Conrail 7438, ex Penn Central 7438, nee New York Central 6038), with magnificent and distinctly different exhaust spark arrestors, awaited its next duty.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Central Western Ra…
Date:	1990-05-25
Location:	Warden
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

Fourteen miles east of the Rabbit Lake depot photo posted a week ago, and five years later, the hamlet of Mayfair experienced the passage of CN 1046 + 1036 and a long train of grain boxcar loads collected on a Loop Job assignment out of North Battleford, via the Blaine Lake sub. to Amiens Jct., then swinging westward on the Amiens sub. to Medstead, southward on the Robinhood sub. to the Blaine Lake sub. at Speers, then westward via Denholm to home terminal North Battleford.

<p>In following that route on a map some years later, I learned that the tail end of that train was very close to where there had been a diamond crossing of CP’s Whitkow sub. (around GPS 52.98752, -107.60351) on its way east to Ravenhead, a line with minimal photographic evidence east of Redfield.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1981-09-22
Location:	Mayfair
Province:	Saskatchewan

3 Comments | 19 Favourites

Among the maze of grain-gathering branchlines between Prince Albert and North Battleford was CN’s Robinhood sub., timetable westward from Speers Jct. through to Medstead then Glaslyn, and around the midpoint was Rabbit Lake, with its depot seen from the west end and in well-maintained condition on Saturday 1976-10-09.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1976-10-09
Location:	Rabbit Lake
Province:	Saskatchewan

4 Comments | 12 Favourites

Lighting angle definitely was not in my favour on Thursday 1980-10-02 for documenting the BCOL wayfreight northbound with RS-18 609 and two cars passing the section house at Chasm at 1544 PDT enroute home base at Exeter (100 Mile House).

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	BC Rail
Date:	1980-10-02
Location:	Chasm
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 12 Favourites

Heading for Edmonton’s ex NAR Dunvegan Yards on its second day of travel from Waterways, a Mixed Extra South with CN 1078 + 1080 (ex NAR 303) + 1072 (ex NAR 311, nee CN 1072) is crossing the timber trestle over the Sturgeon River at mileage 9.7 on Wednesday 1981-09-30 at 1232 MDT.

<p>Until the end of 1980, this was Northern Alberta Railways’ Edmonton sub., logically renamed to the CN Westlock sub. when they took over. Somewhat to my surprise, aside from renumbering NAR locomotives to the CN plan, the NAR diamond symbol and name and unit names (Bishop Grouard and Twelve Foot Davis) were left intact in the first CN year.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1981-09-30
Location:	Sturgeon County
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 17 Favourites

Westward from Ladysmith, Crown Zellerbach’s log-haul railway ascended to Nanaimo Lakes, so what was rain down at Ladysmith often fell as snow farther up. That was the case on Wednesday 1976-02-25 as ALCo RS-3 4097 (ex D&H 4117) hauled empty log flats across a timber trestle over Boulder Creek at mileage 12.2 enroute a reload up at Nanaimo Lakes.

<p>An unusual operating arrangement is shown in this photo. Crown Zellerbach and other tidewater-to-inland logging railways almost always ran their steam locomotives with the smoke box oriented upgrade for best firebox crownsheet coverage, and that front-to-the-woods plan was carried through into the diesel era. However, to counter increased wheel wear on one side of 4097, it was run short-nose-upgrade for several months, and I was fortunate to catch several examples of that.

<p>Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1976-02-25
Location:	Cassidy (nearest)
Province:	British Columbia

4 Comments | 30 Favourites

From New Westminster, BC Hydro ran a daily Valley Freight to the U. S. A. border interchanges at Huntingdon, regularly using three (and occasionally four) of their SD38s for power. On Monday 1977-04-18, SD38-2 units 382 + 383 + 384 were in command, shown here passing the former BC Electric Railway substation at Coghlan just before crossing 256th Street.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	BC Hydro
Date:	1977-04-18
Location:	Coghlan
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 25 Favourites

On Vancouver Island between a CP interchange at Lake Cowichan and a sawmill at Honeymoon Bay, Western Forest Industries operated a six-wheel Plymouth WLG3 (serial 3365 built 1929-11) numbered 40 (previously 7), and on Tuesday 1973-10-02, it picked up one empty boxcar from the interchange, seen here westward crossing over the Robertson River with three miles to go to reach home base.

<p>Remarkably, that locomotive survives today at ninety-five years old, after serving for Westcan Terminals at Ogden Point in Victoria, now on display at the Kaatza Museum in Lake Cowichan, only three and one-half miles east of this photo location.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1973-10-02
Location:	Honeymoon Bay
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 18 Favourites

Running alongside the Thompson River between Ashcroft and Savona and enroute next crew change at Kamloops on Thursday 1987-05-21, an eastward intermodal freight powered by CN 5281 + 5291 + 5439 is at mileage 31.8 and just about at the east end of the siding at Walhachin.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1987-05-21
Location:	Walhachin
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 17 Favourites

In addition to two GE 25-tonners at their Taber factory, Canadian Sugar Factories had one at Picture Butte, GE s/n 32636 of 1956-05, shown busy switching carloads of recently harvested sugar beets just received from CP on Thursday 1974-10-03.

<p>This unit was later numbered 1501 and worked in several other Alberta industries, and is now in the CP/E&N roundhouse in Victoria, BC, in private ownership.

<p>Map pin is an approximation since most traces of that operation have succumbed to history in the intervening 51 years.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1974-10-03
Location:	Picture Butte
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 16 Favourites

An autumn 1974 prairie road trip placed me in the midst of the sugar beet harvest, with deliveries by road and rail to Canadian Sugar Factories in Taber, Alberta. Exploration of the mill site (with permission) revealed a busy railway network, including these two un-numbered GE 25-tonners s/n 29232 of 1948-01 origin and s/n 33671 of 1957-02 (not sure which is which in the photo).

<p>The CSF Picture Butte mill had another 25-tonner, a photo post planned for next week.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1974-09-30
Location:	Taber
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 17 Favourites

West of Revelstoke by 21.6 miles and a bit over a mile east of the east switch of Taft, CP and the Eagle River and the TransCanada Highway were squeezed through a small gap, and by climbing a gravel bank, a view excluding the highway was possible. On Sunday 1974-10-13 at 1211 PDT, that worked well for a westward loaded Coleman coal train (note cross-hoppers with bottom-dump doors rather than bathtub rotary-dump gondolas) with all-SD40-2 power CP 5821 + 5660 + 5618.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-10-13
Location:	Taft
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 13 Favourites

Fifty-seven miles west of Calgary, the Trans Canada Highway runs on the south side of Lac des Arcs, and as a kid riding in the back seat on family vacation, I recall looking north across that lake to a fascinating reflected view of a mill exhausting great clouds of steam.

<p>Twenty-five years later, that was discovered to be the home of Canada Cement, with a GP7 (GMD A-273 of January 1952, ex Algoma Central 166) for switching their plant at Exshaw, seen here with number 12 active on Tuesday 1989-05-30.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1989-05-30
Location:	Exshaw
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 25 Favourites

Ten and a bit years after CN’s Alberta Resources Railway was completed in May of 1969 between Swan Landing and Grande Prairie, this was the northward view at downtown Hoff at milepost 57 from Swan Landing, with a new style Station Name Sign apparently having just recently replaced the original.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1979-09-25
Location:	Hoff
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 9 Favourites

In following the Fraser River westward from Glen Valley, CN’s Yale subdivision squeezes by a bluff before reaching Fort Langley, and right at the beginning of that constriction it crosses West Creek at mileage 100.8. On Sunday 1991-03-17, a westward mixed freight with CN 5323 + 5058 utilized the North Track at 1313 PST.

<p>The silver-coloured water tower on the far bank of the Fraser River marks Whonnock on CP’s Cascade sub.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1991-03-17
Location:	Fort Langley
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 12 Favourites

A pair of EMD SD38-2s, BC Hydro 384 and 382, brought a regular westward Valley Freight down Scott Hill and paused at the interlocking signal for the Fraser River Bridge to cross into New Westminster on Sunday 1982-05-09 at 1802 PDT, as seen here from the Patullo highway bridge sidewalk (ear plugs very handy for reducing road traffic noise).

<p>This view was lucky timing for me, as twenty days later on 1982-05-26, a major fire involving the swing span of that Fraser River railway bridge completely disrupted local railway operations on BCH, CN, CP, VIA, and Amtrak, providing many photo opportunities when all rail traffic was detoured via a bridge from Mission City to Matsqui.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	BC Hydro
Date:	1982-05-09
Location:	Surrey
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

Believed to be the westernmost industrial railway operation in Canada (there were earlier logging lines on Haida Gwai), Prince Rupert Grain built a terminal on Prince Rupert harbour and alongside CN’s Skeena sub. For switching loads and empties, in 1981 they acquired a 1955-built ex-Southern Pacific ALCo S-6 numbered (on paper, no external mark) 1219, as seen Monday 1981-10-05.

<p>When expanding export terminal business for several commodities developed near Prince Rupert on Ridley Island, Prince Rupert Grain built a new terminal there in 1984, and the original site appears to be a wood pellet terminal now.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Industrial
Date:	1981-10-05
Location:	Prince Rupert
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 18 Favourites

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