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CPKC's Lloydminster Subdivision is one of those lines few railfans shoot.
Running 106 miles between Wilkie and Lloydminster Saskatchewan, the line is a hidden gem for numerous reasons.
GE's are restricted from the sub, which means one can find all EMD/GMD consists on every train. South of Lloyd, the line snakes through the Buzzard Coulee, with numerous shots to be had.
Closer to Wilkie there's several wooden elevators, and with the grades and tonnage, one can get ahead of a train without a lot of effort.
Trains one out one day back the next out of Wilkie, usually departing in the morning. We shot the sub over two consecutive days, getting skunked on day 2 in the coulee when the train snuck by us.
On Day One CP 5034 South, with train D65, rolls through the coulee near Unwin Saskatchewan.
Heading for Lloydminster out of Wilkie. Lloydminster is home to a large oil refinery operated by Husky Energy Inc. This facility is Canada's largest provider of heavy-grade oil used in asphalt production.
This photo was taken In Lloydminster, Alberta, at Bud Miller Park, a beautiful lake and recreational center facility.
It was storming pretty hard, but I kept my camera well protected and was able to get some really amazing shots of a stormy magic hour sky over the placid lake during gaps in the rain.
Hope you are all having a great Thursday and an excellent week so far!
Wow!
Just found out that this photo got Front Page Explored at # 7 on May 23rd 2013!
Thanks so much, all who helped it get there!
This was taken in lovely Lloydminster, Alberta in late May of 2013.
We were gathered with a bunch of family for my grandfather's 80th birthday weekend, and this was part of an intensely atmospheric sunset that took place on the first evening we were there while I was out walking Beefy with some of my young cousins.
Hope you are all having an awesome week so far!
This shot was taken a few blocks from my grandparents house in Lloydminster, Alberta during our trip there back in May.
After a day of weather switching frequently between gorgeous, hot sun and intense rain and thunderstorms, the sunset was pretty spectacular!
This industrial facility looked so cool with the intense twilight sky behind it!
Calgary Flood Update: we have not had to evacuate yet, although more than 30 Calgary neighborhoods have been evacuated, whether fully or partially, and houses as close to a couple blocks from here have been marked with an X in tape on their garages signalling that they are recommended to leave for safer territory. The worse of the flooding is said to have passed but there is definitely still more water on the way. Wish us luck and I will keep you all updated!
Have a safe and happy weekend, dear friends!
In fields around Saskatchewan, you often see rusting and decaying equipment and structures. Usually it's agricultural. I don't know what these ones were for, but given the amount of petroleum activity in this area east of Lloydminster, I suspect they were petroleum related.
Courtesy Air Beechcraft 1900Cs at Lloydminster Airport on the
Alberta and Saskatchewan border.
C-FJDF became N68UB of Alpine Air Express in 2020.
C-FJTF became N38UB of Ameriflight in 2020.
By Lori Coolican, Saskatoon Star Phoenix
October 21, 2009
SASKATOON — Violet Marie Heathen was grieving the loss of one of her children — an adult son who died of his injuries after a vicious beating at a house party earlier this year — when she disappeared from Lloydminster on May 14.
The 49-year-old from the Onion Lake First Nation has not picked up her social assistance cheques since then. Police investigators say there's been no activity on her bank account, and no one in her large extended family has heard from her, Heathen's sister, Ruby Whitstone, said in a recent interview.
"It's not like her to take off. In fact, if she got stuck somewhere she always phoned someone for a ride," Whitstone recalled.
"What shocks me is that there are lots of people who don't know about her disappearance."
Heathen was reportedly last seen outside a hotel bar in Lloydminster, getting into a truck with Saskatchewan licence plates — but that might not even be true, Whitstone said. She both accepts and hates the possibility that her sister unknowingly accepted a ride from someone with bad intentions.
"I don't think she's deceased or anything like that," Whitstone said.
But even if it's bad news, they'd rather know the truth than suffer all this uncertainty, she added.
"I guess the not knowing is the toughest part. It's like she vanished into thin air . . . Someone out there knows what happened."
A group of men from several different First Nations in northern Saskatchewan with years of successful experience in ground searches has spent more than two weeks combing the countryside around Onion Lake for a sign of Heathen.
The volunteers are unpaid, and their food and shelter is provided by her extended family, with help from fundraising events.
"Some of them travelled seven hours to come here, and they're not expecting anything out of this," Whitstone said. "It's all from their hearts. My heart goes out to them for all their hard work."
Violet Heathen was last seen wearing and pink and white jacket and blue jeans. She is 5'7" tall and weighs about 150 pounds. There is a tattoo of violets on her left hand.
"She was very honest, very trusting," Whitstone said. "She would never hold a grudge on anybody, she's just really easy to get along with."
After she was reported missing, rumours and tips prompted Heathen's loved ones to make several trips into Alberta, where they distributed posters in Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer.
Although she believes RCMP investigators when they tell her they are working hard to find her sister, Whitstone said they've been unable to share any details about their efforts.
"It gets frustrating."
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