Comments on: West of Swift Current by 67 miles on the Maple Creek subdivision, and with 80 miles to go to reach the next crew change point at Medicine Hat in Alberta, a combination of one SD40-2 (5677) and one GP9 (8657) has a westward train rolling by the lone grain elevator at Piapot (named after Cree chief Payipwat) in Saskatchewan on Thursday 1976-10-14. If that date rings a bell, perhaps it is because it was the day a Canada-wide day of protest or general strike occurred due to a federal wage control program. If the Piapot grain elevator is recognized, possibly that is related to a news photo of it being moved by road in January 1979 (to where I do not know, possibly a museum). Check https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Changes-in-the-collection-and-cleaning-of-grain-led-to-the-near-elimination-of-grain_fig5

Comments on: West of Swift Current by 67 miles on the Maple Creek subdivision, and with 80 miles to go to reach the next crew change point at Medicine Hat in Alberta, a combination of one SD40-2 (5677) and one GP9 (8657) has a westward train rolling by the lone grain elevator at Piapot (named after Cree chief Payipwat) in Saskatchewan on Thursday 1976-10-14. If that date rings a bell, perhaps it is because it was the day a Canada-wide day of protest or general strike occurred due to a federal wage control program. If the Piapot grain elevator is recognized, possibly that is related to a news photo of it being moved by road in January 1979 (to where I do not know, possibly a museum). Check https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Changes-in-the-collection-and-cleaning-of-grain-led-to-the-near-elimination-of-grain_fig5_338035679 for one version. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1