Railpictures.ca - Canadian Railway Photography - photographie ferroviaire Canadienne. » Ken Perry http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:44:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Images by ken-perry http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2964 http://www.railpictures.ca/2026/%postname#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:39:39 +0000 Ken Perry
Eastward from Kamloops, CP’s Shuswap subdivision followed the South Thompson River for many miles, with a telegraph pole line unique (in my experience) with crossarms in a distinct pattern of two long, one short, and another long, first observed on a road trip as a kid. On Sunday 1976-10-17 at 1320 PST, symbol train 964 headed east at Monte Creek with CP 5825 + 5830 + 5689 + 1013 + 1020 + 5768 all on the head end.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1976-10-17
Location: Monte Creek
Province: British Columbia
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With the Fraser River Bridge at New Westminster out of commission, BC Hydro’s Valley Freight to Huntingdon needed to detour on CP to access interchanges with BN and MILW, resulting in a southward detour crossing the home-road mainline at Clayburn with all three MP15DC units, BCH 152 + 151 + 153, for power on Thursday 1976-04-22. <p>The little cabin beside CP’s milepost 4 marker enclosed the manual interlocking controls for that diamond crossing.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1976-04-22
Location: Clayburn
Province: British Columbia
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At the south switch of Nig, a southward freight from Fort Nelson to Fort St. John and Chetwynd on Tuesday 1978-09-26 was powered by a delightfully mixed consist of BCOL 642 (M-420) + 606 (RS-18) + 567 (RS-3) which passed at 1125 PDT.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 1978-09-26
Location: Nig
Province: British Columbia
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Dawson Creek was the farthest east reached by the British Columbia Railway, where it connected with Northern Alberta Railways just east of this photo. On Wednesday 1977-09-21, a crew from Chetwynd has arrived with BCOL 617 + 576 and yarded their train, so now enjoying a lunch break at the depot.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 1977-09-21
Location: Dawson Creek
Province: British Columbia
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With a CN truck foretelling an ownership change just over three months ahead, operations at the Northern Alberta Railways depot at Peace River continued, with NAR 209 bringing the homeward-bound Hines Creek wayfreight into town on Saturday 1980-09-27. <p>That depot is a survivor, built in 1916 and a Visitor Information Centre today.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Northern Alberta R…
Date: 1980-09-27
Location: Peace River
Province: Alberta
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On the E&N shoptrack and sandhouse at Victoria on Thursday 1974-10-24, Baldwins CP 8000 and 8002 are ready to couple to northward freight train No. 51 to Stockett and down to Wellcox yard in Nanaimo. CP 8000 survives and is being restored by the Railway Museum of British Columbia at Squamish, and the two brick buildings in this photo, stores on left and carshop on right, remain as part of a developing museum project in Victoria. The sandhouse and CP 8002 are history.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1974-10-24
Location: Victoria
Province: British Columbia
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In 1995, Canadian Pacific closed the Connaught Tunnel route to allow deepening the tunnel to accommodate double-stacked container trains, requiring the Macdonald Track to carry both eastward and westward traffic, including Rocky Mountaineer passenger trains. On Wednesday 1995-08-09, eastward GCRC 7488 crossed the Bear Creek bridge at Macdonald Track mileage 78.7M at 1433 PDT, just before entering the Shaughnessy Tunnel.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1995-08-09
Location: Bear Creek
Province: British Columbia
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Clean GP9s CP 8664 and 8502 are shown on Friday 1979-05-18 at Lake Cowichan, assembling a train of log loads from Crown Zellerbach’s Nitinat Logging Division, hence the nickname Nitinat for such moves to Crown Zellerbach’s log dump into the saltchuck at Ladysmith. The E&N depot at Lake Cowichan is to the right and behind my photo perch, and it survives to this day as the Kaatza Museum, slightly relocated from its original spot.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1979-05-18
Location: Lake Cowichan
Province: British Columbia
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Southward from the north end of CN’s Athabasca subdivision at Athabasca, the line followed Tawatinaw Creek to start the trip back to Calder yard in Edmonton. On Tuesday 1978-09-19 at 1649 MDT, CN 1383 + 1380 + 1007 trundled by the Station Name Sign and maintenance-of-way shelter at Tawatinaw.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 1978-09-19
Location: Tawatinaw
Province: Alberta
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On Vancouver Island, the north end of the siding at Shawnigan on CP’s E&N Victoria subdivision crossed Renfrew Road at the north end of Shawnigan Lake, an area known as Mason’s Crossing for a nearby convenience store. On Tuesday 1977-06-07 at 1215 PDT, that is where Sperry car SRS 127 tucked away in the siding to meet northward freight train No. 51 led by GP9 CP 8531.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1977-06-07
Location: Shawnigan Lake
Province: British Columbia
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Eastward woodchip loads from Midway and Grand Forks sawmills bound for Kraft pulp mill near Castlegar dominate on an extra east with CP 3021 + 4211 + 8816 + 5023 (GP38-2, C-424, GP9, and GP35) crossing the Kettle River at mileage 82.7 approaching Cascade on Saturday 1984-06-16. Another 1.6 miles east is another (and much bigger) bridge, the fifth of total five over the Kettle River, then the beginning of a significant ascent to the summit at Paulson Gap and Farron. <p>Today, this is the Columbia and Western Rail Trail.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1984-06-16
Location: Cascade
Province: British Columbia
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Current news reports of wildfire damage in the Summerland to Faulder area reminded me of many years ago with mid-week days off work and able to photograph operations on the CP Princeton sub., with West Summerland a definite favourite location. The daily Penticton to Princeton wayfreight, usually a caboose hop but occasionally with leftover westward tonnage, was quite predictable for timing, such as on Tuesday 1984-06-12 passing along Prairie Valley after a bridge over Fyffe Road while returning to Penticton. <p>Happily, the Kettle Valley Steam Railway, which operates over this track, has escaped fire damage.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1984-06-12
Location: West Summerland
Province: British Columbia
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Northward from Prince George, the British Columbia Railway crossed the Fraser River one last time to reach Bridge yard serving pulp mills and onwards to Peace River country. On Friday 1976-09-17 at1825 PDT, that bridge was utilized by a northward train of empties, powered by BCOL 643 + 806 (ex Erie Lackawanna 2456) and PGE 576 not yet repainted.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: BC Rail
Date: 1976-09-17
Location: Prince George
Province: British Columbia
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In recognition of a century since the company was founded, Canadian Pacific organized Family Days open house opportunities at significant facilities for employees, and at Coquitlam Yard in Port Coquitlam, that included train rides on the X-Yard running lead. On Sunday 1981-08-09, MLW S-4 CP 6518 with three coaches and a caboose took riders from the west end of the yard to the east end and back on a hourly schedule.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1981-08-09
Location: Port Coquitlam
Province: British Columbia
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Timetable train No. 83 was a wayfreight between Medicine Hat and Lethbridge, shown here arriving near the east end of Lethbridge at 1430 MDT on Thursday 1974-10-03 when the line still ran through downtown. I have seen many filthy locomotives, and C-424 CP 4204 certainly deserves a prize — imagine the river of muddy water resulting when it finally was washed!
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1974-10-03
Location: Lethbridge
Province: Alberta
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While BC Hydro had four SD38 units (one SD38AC and three SD38-2s), catching all four together was not common. Looking eastward from the Queensborough road bridge on Tuesday 1982-03-23 provided this view of BCH 384 + 381 + 383 + 382 waiting at the Trapp Yard main office in New Westminster in preparation for taking a Valley Freight train eastward to Huntingdon interchanges with CP, BN and MILW.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: BC Hydro
Date: 1982-03-23
Location: New Westminster
Province: British Columbia
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In the early years of VIA, gloriously mixed passenger train consists from CN and CP origins were common, and by seeking elevated camera perches, catching a complete train was one of my goals. On the east side of the Thompson River at Basque, CN and CP ran parallel for a short distance, allowing interchange connections that were handy during detours for track outages. On Sunday 1980-05-25, train No. 1 was on the CP mainline, powered by CP 1425 and VIA 1965 and VIA 1418.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1980-05-25
Location: Basque
Province: British Columbia
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At the very north end of CN’s Athabasca subdivision (originally Canadian Northern’s subsidiary Edmonton & Slave Lake) was the town of Athabasca, on the south side of the Athabasca River. A turn from Edmonton on Sunday 1980-09-21 with branchline GMD1s CN 1008 + 1007 +1009 brought empties for loading at the several grain elevators, and as seen here, collected a train of loads to take back southward. That depot was then occupied by the Athabasca District Senior Citizens Society, and survives to this day administered by the Athabasca Heritage Society.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian National
Date: 1980-09-21
Location: Athabasca
Province: Alberta
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To connect Vancouver Island railways and the continental rail system, a range of marine transportation was utilized. A regular visitor to Wellcox barge slip in Nanaimo was the unique SEASPAN DORIS (former Doris Yorke), capable of rail and highway vehicles, with an elevator for also carrying trailers on the top deck. In this view, SEASPAN DORIS is arriving Wellcox from Vancouver, with one boxcar first-up, on Saturday 1980-05-17.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 1980-05-17
Location: Nanaimo
Province: British Columbia
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While working a temporary assignment based at Ashcroft, a wander around the maintenance-of-way office revealed the concrete octagon base for the final water tower location there, seen here viewed compass northward (timetable east) on Tuesday 2007-06-05, slightly cleared of loose ballast.
Name: Ken Perry
Railway: Canadian Pacific
Date: 2007-06-05
Location: Ashcroft
Province: British Columbia
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