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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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Coalhurst, west of Lethbridge, once was a simple junction of the Aldersyde and Turin subs from the north with the west-east Crowsnest sub., and as such had a small yard and a 24/7 train order office in the depot as shown here beyond the tail end of First 992 (note the green flags) with a pair of M-630s on Wednesday 1974-10-16. They have just set off the train they brought down from Alyth in Calgary and are headed to Lethbridge.

<p>Nowadays, Kipp yard and maintenance facility occupy the space west and north of this location, replacing the downtown Lethbridge yard and roundhouse area which now has just the relocated through mainline and industrial trackage.

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

3 Comments | 22 Favourites

Providing a hint of the future, with two MLW M-630s (4566+4561) leading but two GMD SD40-2s (5613+5616) trailing them (and another two SD40-2s plus a Robot car, 5579+5644+1015, unseen mid-train), this westward train of coal is passing milepost 28 at Craigellachie (about 0.15 mile east of the cairn) at 1205 on Tuesday 1974-04-23.

<p>Note the telegraph pole crossarm arrangement of two long plus one shorter plus one long, in my experience unique to the CP Shuswap sub., and first noticed years earlier as a bored kid while eastward by highway from Kamloops.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-04-23
Location:	Craigellachie
Province:	British Columbia

Comments | 14 Favourites

In the early years of coal train operation from southeast BC to Roberts Bank, CP MLW M-630s were regular power as they were the first CP units equipped with Locotrol, as illustrated here by 4568 and 4564 (with SD40-2 5641 and SD40 5552 and Robot car 1009 mid-train) handling coal empties eastward alongside the Trans Canada Highway and crossing Emory Creek.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1973-12-18
Location:	Choate
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 21 Favourites

Single unit operation has always been photographically appealing to me, with GP9s fairly common in British Columbia, and in Alberta also the odd MLW. So it was a happy encounter finding the daily wayfreight No. 83 from Medicine Hat arriving Lethbridge with a single script albeit grubby C-424 4204, seen here on the eastern outskirts of town on Thursday 1974-10-03.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-10-03
Location:	Lethbridge
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 24 Favourites

On Thursday 1974-10-03 after a busy day of photography, all was quiet on the CP Cranbrook sub. at Elko as the moonlight broke through the clouds, allowing time for a long exposure of the depot and its clear order boards. It was a cold night, that one.

<p>That depot is now part of the Cranbrook History Centre, 53 km to the northwest.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-10-03
Location:	Elko
Province:	British Columbia

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

After the 1981-01-01 takeover by CN of Northern Alberta Railways, NAR power was renumbered into the CN series, then later the Northern Alberta lettering and diamond symbols were blacked out, and eventually (typically coinciding with overhauls) full CN paint was applied. One full and one partial remarking are shown here, 4602 the former NAR 201 and 4606 formerly NAR 205. Spirit River is at the very west end of the CN Smoky subdivision, five miles west of a junction at Rycroft where most traffic runs south to Grande Prairie, and the five-mile stretch is utilized now for car storage. The crossing in the photo is 52 Street, and the grain elevators and trackage seen here are now history for five blocks east, all blank to 47 Street.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	1987-05-26
Location:	Spirit River
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

North of Wellington, Green Lake is on the west side of the E&N Victoria sub. with a trestle bridge at mile 79.9 over a little bay of the lake. Of my numerous visits there, this one from a little inflatable boat on Tuesday November 11th 1980 with kids on school holiday and CP 9064 running on time at 1439 as train No. 198 is probably my favourite shot at that location. Forty-one years ago today.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1980-11-11
Location:	Wellington
Province:	British Columbia

3 Comments | 24 Favourites

On the cold morning of Thursday 1974-10-03 at Aldersyde, AB, train Second 75 with FM/CLC H16-44 8720 leading and GMD F7B units 4433 and 4444 trailing has paused at the depot (the mast seen above the first boxcar is for the radio at the depot) for a meet with southward train 992. No. 75 was a daily train from Lethbridge via the Aldersyde sub. to a junction with the Macleod sub. (near the tail end of this train) and onward to Alyth Yard in Calgary. Now, the Macleod sub south of Aldersyde is history except for a short spur, and north of here is a continuation of the Aldersyde sub.

Name:	Ken Perry
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	1974-10-03
Location:	Aldersyde
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 34 Favourites

Westward from Grande Prairie, AB, the Northern Alberta Railways line to Dawson Creek, BC, travelled through numerous small communities, the first being Dimsdale, and this view is a few miles east of there at mileage 54.8, providing an ideal picturesque prairie branchline scene with good lighting for the Monday, Wednesday, Friday passage of train No. 51 westward from Grande Prairie, seen here with GP9 206 on Wednesday 1977-09-21, just a normal day in the paradise that is the Peace River region in autumn. A single GP9 running short-nose-leading was always a magnet for me and my cameras.

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

Comments | 13 Favourites

In Taber, Alberta, 2/3 of the way between Medicine Hat and Lethbridge, the hotel in the distance in this shot survives, as the Palace Hotel at the corner of 47 Ave. and 53 St., and the CP main track remains, but the locomotive and depot and distant elevators have all gone off into history. Here, on Monday 1974-09-30, the daily westward wayfreight No. 83 with GP9 8700 has paused at the depot for switching instructions.

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

Comments | 21 Favourites

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

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