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A few days earlier on Sunday afternoon, (July 17th) at 14:00, this extra auxiliary train passed through Redwater as it headed up north. The day of this photo, (July 21st) Thursday at 9:15, it is coming home and the 4603 just passed through Gibbons a couple of miles back. They are on the last big curve that then straightens and goes due south 12.5 miles to connect with the Vegreville Sub at St. Paul Jct. A caboose (they had 2 when heading out) and coach 54957 were left up north and did not return until several days later. The dark countryside behind the caboose is the Sturgeon valley and they are climbing the last bit of grade up from it.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	07/21/1988
Location:	Gibbons
Province:	Alberta

7 Comments | 22 Favourites

One of the few times where I saw the Muskeg Mixed reduced to a cabhop from a lack of cars. Taken a couple of miles north of Egremont at 19:30.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/08/1985
Location:	Egremont
Province:	Alberta

6 Comments | 27 Favourites

The unit train is passing the west boundary of Redwater and it was a beautiful evening to be up in the cab with the window open. Tagging along at the back of the sulphur loads are a pair of cabooses, cab 79248 and business cab 70067. I always liked this farmers fence, ties split in half and stuck in the ground. Photo taken at 20:45 using Ektachrome 200 film.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/17/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 14 Favourites

A warm, late in the summer sunny day, finds No. 91 on the way north with an extra baggage car added in for good measure. There was not many runs made with the older noodle scheme GP38's. I liked it when these units did lead as, although the cars all look VIA, everything is labelled with a nice CN.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	August 1986
Location:	Kerensky
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 20 Favourites

A quick photo of the 1545 sitting in front of the South Edmonton station while the crew is in having a break.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	May 1984
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

1 Comments | 16 Favourites

The Thursday at 11:00 836 is on the way east with the 1079, 1069, and 1076 up front, the usual tanks and a few gons at the rear. The clouds played tag with the front of the train. The rear in sunshine, gave an opportunity to photo a random occurrence of CN and CP looking so good together.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/24/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

4 Comments | 18 Favourites

The fuel train had an extra chore in Redwater today. They stopped here at 16:00 and filled our siding with empty flats (seen behind the 9191). They then left the fuel tanks on the main west of town and went to Kerensky and filled the siding there with empty flats. After all that, they came back, rounded up the rest of the crew and went for dinner at the Redwater Hotel. It is 17:30 in this photo and I'm making hay while the crew is busy inside. They continued on their way east to Cold Lake at 19:40, they serve good dinner at the hotel :^). In this photo, we have the front end of the 9191, nice big single sealed beam. This B unit is formerly the 9031 and was re-built in 1972. At the front is the 4391. It is formerly the 4150 and was just re-numbered to 4391 in 1984. In 1991 it will go in for a re-build and become the 7029, which it seems, is still working today. These 2 units have a nice roll of 91's going. Shot at the section shack, Redwater, with Kodachrome 25 film.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/17/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 21 Favourites

On a lovely Sunday May morning, birds chirping, sounds of summer in the air, comes along something else, not quite the same melody as the others, but, it sure photographs well with the surroundings. A unit train of 33 empties is on the way north at 9:00. You always went home feeling so satisfied, even without taking a photo, after a moment like this [even better when the kids came :^)]. Taken with Ektachrome 200 at mile 26.6.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/26/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 21 Favourites

Busy morning on the Coronado. These section fellows left first thing to do work west of Redwater. When busy at the air base, they will call 2 extra fuel trains in a week rather than just the one on Thursdays. So, on this Wednesday, a fuel train headed out at 9:30 (5578, 5587). At 10:30 a unit train with 30 loads goes home (4300, 9163, 4368). Then at 11:45 584 rolls east thru town with empty grain cars (5568, 5514). Following right behind 584 are the section guys. Coming home for lunch. They had their share of stick handling with 3 trains going by in the morning. Also, CN 16013, the last number is hard to make out, could be 3 or 5.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/15/1985
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

5 Comments | 16 Favourites

This is Thursday, a day when some railroading can happen. Today did not disappoint. I initially watched 836 arrive at Redwater. On Thursday, an extra 836 crew is called to take fuel to the air base. If things work out well, the extra crew will meet the regular crew, bringing a grain extra home, at Redwater. Those events happened today, just like a clock. The eastbound 836 no sooner got the cab to clear in the siding and the grain extra is already honking for the first crossing at the north end of town. They had a good number of grain loads and enjoyed not having to slow down or stop. In the photo here, 836 is approaching a farm crossing near mile post 40 as they continue the trip to Cold Lake. The 3 ex-NAR units will have felt a pang of homesickness at Kerensky, just a few miles back. Just across the highway at Kerensky is the Lac La Biche Sub, home rails. You can tell it's the 80's by the amount of pipeline heading out to be laid. Also of interest, and very rarely seen in this area, cab 79543 was on the tail end with International Service written under the cupola window.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	06/06/1985
Location:	Radway
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 16 Favourites

Stopped in at Jasper at suppertime coming home from vacation. I found the 5296 making a move, setting out a BO?, on an eastbound freight. The NAR 13024 was the interesting tag-along at the rear. Finding some info on this caboose required some extra work. I finally found a photo of it on page 17 of volume 2 in the soft cover fold over The Northern Alberta Railways by Colin Hatcher. In the caption, it is mentioned that the 13024 to 13026 were the first NAR caboose to have bay windows applied. Also, that these 3 were built at their own Dunvegan shops in August 1953. In the booklet photo, the 13024 has end ladders going up and then curling down onto the roof, with a nice running board. All have been removed here. Glass in the bay windows has disappeared and the trees behind can be seen. Not a wreck though, plenty re-store-able. Could find no net info on it, thought it may have turned up as a historical item somewhere. Nifty that the NAR paint had not been modified.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	July, 1983.
Location:	Jasper
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 15 Favourites

Saturday morning at 11:00 and the regular crew is heading home for a day off. They will be back on Monday with 836 the fuel train. They have 35 loads in tow and cab 79836 at the back. Unusual that they changed ends rather than turn the units. Worked for me, the Fort McMurray was always high on my list for catching photos of. Taken just a short ways east of the Coronado siding.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/22/1986
Location:	Coronado
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 21 Favourites

The unit train is passing south over the connecting track between the Lac La Biche and Coronado Subs, there is also a grade crossing with Hwy 28 at this point. I posted a photo of CN 61202 some time ago, it was also making a trip to and from Fort McMurry. For whatever reason, these cars made the occasional trip during the 80's. Unlike the 61202, this car is single ended, reading the 1989 CTG, it reports that it was originally built as an express reefer in 1957. No date as to when it was converted, this will be when the single end was added (the other end still looked like a box car end) and those pretty sweet trucks (or are they from express reefer days?). The 61202, although double ended, rode on caboose trucks. As I mentioned before, to have one of these for your personal use would be a dream come true. This one, if you look close on the roof (it is folded up), even comes with a TV antenna, nice. Photo taken at 20:30 using Ektachrome 200 film.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/17/1985
Location:	Egremont
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 22 Favourites

Climbing the hill up to Redwater, the grain extra has quite a bit of power for approx. 40 loaded hoppers. The units are hardly breaking a sweat compared to bringing 50 loaded sulphur hoppers up the same hill.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	Mid-June, 1986.
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 16 Favourites

This fresh set of re-painted 5500's has just finished coming around the curve into Kerensky and will be at the Jct. switch to the Lac La Biche in a few more car lengths. A long train of empty hoppers and cab 79795 at the rear. Time 8:00am.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	Mid-April, 1988.
Location:	Kerensky
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 15 Favourites

The one time I was able to catch the 5600 paired with the 5500. They do make a nice looking couple. Especially with a CP plug door box, and my fav script lettering on it, following right behind. Photo taken at 10:15 by mile 24.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/21/1988
Location:	Redwater
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

Standing at the recently constructed Woodgrove super elevator, 836 is about to pass by with 3 lonely hoppers and approx. 3 times that many loads of jet fuel. This is one of the largest trains of tanks I saw heading out to Cold Lake, a lot of thirsty jets in the next few days. This new elevator now served a large radius of farms, it also brought about the end to many of the elevators located within towns.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	05/27/1990
Location:	Radway
Province:	Alberta

10 Comments | 16 Favourites

The 2008 is being turned on the wye at Bretville jct. on a clear but smoky morning.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/08/2018
Location:	Edmonton
Province:	Alberta

2 Comments | 12 Favourites

Climbing the hill up from the river, 584 has a late start to the day at 14:30. The usual ballpark for passing through is 11:00 in the morning on Wednesday. The mile 34 post is right behind me and they will soon be getting the switch at Kerensky to continue east. 31 hoppers should not keep them to busy. Amazing weather for March 2nd, hardly any snow. Winter, most years, still has a good grip at this time.

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	03/02/1988
Location:	Kerensky
Province:	Alberta

Comments | 22 Favourites

On the way to bring sulphur buggies home. Cab 79497 at the rear. Shot first thing in the morning, just a short ways north of Egremont. Black trucks just don't work, way better when they get some sanding dust on them. :-)

Name:	Seth B.
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	End of July, 1987.
Location:	Egremont
Province:	Alberta

7 Comments | 16 Favourites

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