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A late return home for the Muskeg Mixed finds it passing through the hamlet of Coronado at 13:30 rather than the dark hours in the middle of the night. The comboose is ex-NAR and has a history that goes back to the turn of the previous century (18 to 1900's). Up front the consist was made up of the 4319, 9172 and 4285.
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Caption: A late return home for the Muskeg Mixed finds it passing through the hamlet of Coronado at 13:30 rather than the dark hours in the middle of the night. The comboose is ex-NAR and has a history that goes back to the turn of the previous century (18 to 1900's). Up front the consist was made up of the 4319, 9172 and 4285.

Photographer:
L. Parks [301] (more) (contact)
Date: 03/06/1985 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN 78966 (search)
Train Symbol: Muskeg Mixed (search)
Subdivision/SNS: Coronado Sub. (search)
City/Town: Coronado (search)
Province: Alberta (search)
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3 Comments
  1. Joe Harrison
    August 29, 2020 at 12:14 am

    CN 78966. Interesting photo Larry. What were these combooses used for? Thanks for posting this.:)

  2. Larry Parks
    August 29, 2020 at 1:22 am

    Hi Joe, besides the familiar function of the caboose, the coach part of the car served a similar purpose as some of your posts showing the BCR moving people in remote locations that have little road access. From the Lac La Biche area to Fort McMurray, good roads were not available until later in the 90′s. Which brought about the end of this novel Mixed train. There were at least 2 other nearly identical combooses I believe. At least 2 have been saved, one on display in Fort Mac, the other actually still runs on rails at Fort Edmonton Park in our river valley (a little loop railroad, like Stanley Park). :-)
    Thanks for your interest.

  3. dhaisell
    August 30, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    I can’t get over that VIA-painted CN RPO.
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