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Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » L. Parks http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:06:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Images by baby-dash http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1160 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Thu, 07 May 2026 17:29:00 +0000 L. Parks

It was June 1989 and happily the unit train still looked much like it had for many years. The re-built units, the 4006 and 4004 on this occassion, blend right in with the older 4332. The older units rarely ran first up anymore, this being the usual setup, old timers in the middle. This train returned early Wednesday at 5:20 with the 4004 leading and 35 loads of sulphur.

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/12/1989
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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Great fall afternoon to be out taking a few photos. This was an empty unit train, approx. 50 cars, with a smooth and short sided hopper neatly placed in the middle. The 4331 will head north to the Lac La Biche Sub. at Kerensky, a half mile or so past where I was standing. Keeping the theme from my other captions lately, notice the road bed, so neat and tidy. Pretty sure all the crews were enjoying it. Time of photo, 16:40, cab 79694 on the end.

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/15/1988
Location:	Kerensky
Province:	Alberta

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The recent posting of the former NAR 302 (CN 1079) from August 20/2023 at the Alberta Railway Museum made a person have a look through the photos. The 1079 made only a handful of trips through Redwater during my time on the Coronado Sub. In this photo the, crew was building a train in the Egremont siding from empty covered hoppers stored on the abandoned portion of the LacLaBiche Sub. It is nice knowing that the 1079 (302) is still being admired and cared for all these years later.

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/18/1985
Location:	Egremont
Province:	Alberta

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My reason for this picture was inspired by Ian Malenfant-Picard's recent posting of CN 4715 (05/11/2025, search photo 58127). With over 36.5 years between the 2 photos, although the 4715 still looks very much the same, there are a number of small differences. If you look back through my postings, I have taken a number of pictures at this location. But, none look like this. The track has been groomed to perfection. Trains were rolling by so very smoothly, even on the elevator track. As I have mentioned in my other captions, as great as this looked, by November of the same year, the grain elevators were torn down. By early 90's, no more speeders parked in the siding. Replaced by hi-rail trucks. GP38's by this time became the dominant power. In just 5 years (87/92), the face of railroading on this branchline went through quite a change.

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/28/1988
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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A unit train was just entering the connecting track which will take the empties across Hwy.28 and then connect to the Lac La Biche Sub. From there it is still a long trip north to Waterways. The siding at Kerensky was all a buzz with activity. The 3 tracks (main, siding & elevator) in Redwater were being fluffed and folded, plus the main track from Redwater to Kerensky was receiving the same treatment (new ballast and ties, then leveled). Cab 79420 on the tail end.

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/21/1988
Location:	Kerensky
Province:	Alberta

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Sunday after lunch at the Calder diesel shop finds this varied display of GMD engines. The west tower job at the right was pulling a string of cars with a bi-level of VW's next to the 1268. Also of interest, I stopped in at the east tower before coming here. Parked in a stub track there were 4 superintendent cars, the 61202,61201,61200 and 70067.

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	04/07/1985
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

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Nice sunny weather the morning before when this unit train went north as the 9171, 9190 & 9167. Ditto the weather at 18:30 the next day as it returned home. It made photographing the f units a delight. It had 36 sulphur loads coming around the bend to the hamlet of Coronado. On the tail end next to caboose 79286 was a scale test car (number unknown).

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/27/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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A seemingly endless train of tanks waiting at Bretville Jct. for traffic to clear on the Wainwright Sub. Approx. an hour and a half later they were given the okay and a light to proceed to Walker yard.

Name:	Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/17/2018
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

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There were 4 trains every week on the Coronado at this time. Peddling grain cars and bringing the loads back to Edmonton. 2 of those 4 would also have fuel tanks in the consist (destined for the cold lake air base). It looks to be a solid train of grain loads, but, it is possible that the front few CN hoppers may have had a different purpose. The late 80's was the last hurrah for GMD-1's on the Coronado Sub. GP9's also. By 1990, the GP38-2's owned the rail, on occasion, a GP-9 would trail as a helper, never leading. This did not last long either. The 1070 at the rear seems to have its CN noodle on the long hood painted just a little lower than the others. Photo taken at mile 26.6 on Saturday, just after lunch.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/16/1987
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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I was watching this crew for a short while as they made their train ready to go. Once they were tied on and had air, this was the result. It was full speed ahead as they left the yard. Like on the cartoons where there is a flurry of heel prints flying behind the character. I'm guessing a customer had been waiting for cars to be spotted. The train was a fair number of cars (30 to 40 range), plus a yard cab at the end. Photo taken at Scotford yard at 13:00.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	09/15/1985
Location:	Fort Saskatchewan
Province:	Alberta

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A short train returning to Edmonton at 10:30 on a clear Saturday morning. The empty sailboat in the middle of the train will have had farm machinery as a load. That was the 9173 trailing. This photo taken with Ektachrome 200asa film, an infrequent stray away from Kodachrome.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/18/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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First day of summer holidays and on the lookout to catch those somewhat new SD50F's in action. Trouble is, it's pouring rain and I'm standing with my coat over my head as the train passes over a bridge right next to the McMurphy rest area.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/29/1986
Location:	McMurphy
Province:	British Columbia

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The snow dust swirling down by the hoppers shows the engineer has some speed on the train. As soon as the units have crossed the trestle, the hill up to Redwater starts. The grain extra has 31 loaded cars in tow and will pickup 3 more in Redwater, a nice sized train for these 3 units.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	02/22/1986
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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Back when signs and posts were a serious matter. The girth on the post, cars will likely bounce off of it. Plus, the bold "Railway Crossing" printed on the sign. There were 2 signs with big posts in the Redwater area, this one just west of town and another down by the river and trestle. Also, a bonus back at this time, was having these little buggies full of men go zipping by on occasion. Sadly, the posts and signs were replaced shortly after this photo was taken (The standard reflectorized sign with red trim lines) and the speeders left just a few years later.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/06/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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Last day of this fantastic sunny weather Edmonton has been having all week. Took off on the mountain bike to see what else ETS might offer up. The last photo went over lukewarm, maybe this will do better. My last stop for photos was here, the Avonmore station. I'm pretty happy, the lead car is the 2025, fits the year nicely. The reason I posted another? Check the roof on the station, didn't notice that until I loaded this picture up at home. That brought a smile and a laugh to my face.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Edmonton Transit S…
Date:	03/08/2025
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

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It is another amazingly sunny day for March. Last year this type of weather did not happen until April. Best get down to the tracks and snap that yearly photo of the LRT. Nope, not much has changed, although they still look pretty new. :-)

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Edmonton Transit S…
Date:	03/04/2025
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

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Things have changed since this picture. Big red smoke stack is gone, the little SW's are gone, more of the round house has been removed. Just the part with doors open remains. No more rail liners. The 5531 is retired and sold (2000??) to another road. By how much of the main yard has been removed, it cannot be much longer until CP vacates the property. The Whyte avenue area has been waiting a long time for this to happen. Photo taken with a little 110 pocket camera.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	Mid 80's
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

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First thing in the morning finds a unit train of empties on the way north to exchange them for loaded hoppers. As far north as this train would go, the there and back time was not that long typically. Like this day, most unit trains would head out between 7:00 and 8:00 and return the next day anywhere from 16:00 to 20:00. Photo taken just north of Egremont with storm clouds already making an appearance in the west.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	June 1987
Location:	Egremont
Province:	Alberta

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The crew for 584 had finished spotting cars at the elevators in Redwater and were headed to the mainline to couple back onto the train and continue the trip east.

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/22/1987
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

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A short unit train of sulphur was passing the north switches to the siding and elevator tracks at Gibbons. For trains heading home, Gibbons was the last town you passed through. In a half hour or so, Edmonton will have become the dominant feature on the horizon. Now for something completely different, (for those that like numbers). Total the numbers on the lead unit, 4+6+0+2=12, do the same for the other 2. You end up with 12, 13 and 14. Seems these units were in their natural order. :-)

Name:	L. Parks
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	May 1987
Location:	Gibbons
Province:	Alberta

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