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A bit of sunshine pokes through the morning fog at Sherbrooke, Quebec, in the form of Canadian Pacific M424 #4205 sporting a fresh coat of "action red" paint on an otherwise miserable weather day. Something like this on the Sherbrooke sub always pushed away any negativism. With constant MLW power riding the rail here, it was difficult for any negativity to be found!
Entering Shady Dale, GA, a trio of CaterParrott Railnet (CPR) GP40-3's lead a lengthy train that originated in Madison to interchange with Norfolk Southern. The majority of the traffic on this day came from Georgia Pacific, making for a nearly dedicated train of boxcars and loaded chip hoppers.
The overnight VIA train #98 the "Northland" from Cochrane, Ontario meets sun light passing underneath the CPR mainline in the Don Valley of northern Toronto with FP9A 6540 leading the way - September 24, 1978.
Here a CPR plow extra pushed with a pair of snow hidden RS18's rolls out of Woodstock, Ontario on the St. Thomas subdivision, where at Ingersol it will turn south getting on the Port Burwell subdivision. Once on that sub she is headed for Tilsonburg and the large deep drifts located south of Ingersol on this line - February 1986.
Doug Harrop Photography • August 11, 1975
CP Rail's transcontinental passenger train "The Canadian", glides swiftly through Glacier, British Columbia on its journey west through the Canadian Rockies to Vancouver.
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An eastbound CPR stack train lead by the 9135 has stopped for a crew change at White River, Ontario on June 1, 2003.
This shot I posted several years ago with the wrong information so it's only appropriate to set things straight today.
After arriving into Roxton Falls, Quebec, the crew of the Drummondville local pause for refreshments, and to take a hand off of lunch provided from yours truly for their wonderful hospitality.
The rails here did some center street running for a short distance in this village. Today this is completely paved and part of the bike path.
On my trip one unusual thing the crew did was to share responsibilities. They all at one point operated the locomotive and all rotated to the ground work, except for the conductor, who stayed in the van.
I myself was included to operate the 1839.
"You know how run, don't you"?, I was asked.
"Sure"!, so they let me take over for a ways, not even leaning over my shoulder as I ran. I believe I ran from Roxton Falls to the Route 55 crossing south of Drummondville.
It's not a difficult run, but there is a bit of a hill between Acton Vale and Drummondville. I was asked, "just keep it at 25", so I did what my step-father taught me. "Take off a little air, bail off, and use throttle your way through. A procedure he called, "power braking".
At Drummondville we stop to cut the van in the middle of the wye, and up comes the old head conductor.
"Who was running back there?!"
The crew had an, "Oh, shit" look on their faces.
"This young fellow was", they told him.
The conductor immediately snaps, "HA! I knew it wasn't any of you! That's the smoothest ride I ever had coming down the hil!"
With that, he turned and went back to the van.
As GSP points out in my previous post, he never shot the falls. Well, due to providing lunch here, either did I, but my traveling companion did on the northbound run while I was touring the line from the cab.
It can be seen here.
CP train #935 on a shelf above the rugged Lake Superior shoreline with a nice consist of SD40-2 5917 leading "Cat" powered M636M 4711 toward the crew change at Schreiber seen here passing through Mink tunnel near Cavers, Ontario on August 18, 1995.
A westbound CP Rail extra crawls through Campbellville. Ontario and it looks like some recent sidedump activity along the mainline to beef up that shoreline - June 2, 1979.
A rare visitor made its way to northern Kentucky Saturday afternoon. CP 6248 leads K815, solo, past the former L&N searchlights at Visalia, KY on CSX's CC Subdivision.
In the heat of the day, CaterParrott Railnet, train 15 is seen working hard at Shady Dale, Georgia on August 30, 2021.
I first became acquainted with the SS Keewatin of the Canadian Pacific Railway as a youngster by way of David Plowdens wonderful photography in the classic book "Farewell to Steam". She did survive and was a museum boat in Douglas, Michigan until 2012 when she was towed to her old homeport of Port McNicoll north of Toronto on Georgian Bay for use in a development that fizzled. She was donated to the museum in Kingston, Ontario and began her tow there late this past Monday. Today she would enter the St. Clair river off of Lake Huron a continue toward Lake Erie. Here she is as viewed yesterday in the river at Algonac, Michigan . . . . . what a look - and that giant funnel - what a beauty she is !!
Located in the wooded hills of the Wood Mountain Uplands, the community of Rockglen is central to an area rich in Indigenous and archeological history. It is a full-service community that offers a variety of businesses and facilities to its residents and visitors alike. The town and surrounding area provide endless choices for recreational activities including boating, hiking, touring, photography, hunting and a variety of local events.
Vestiges from before the last ice age, a land of hidden treasures, petrified wood and fossils, hammers and arrows of the Assiniboine, Plains Cree, and Blackfoot peoples. But it is the followers of Sitting Bull who left one of the strongest impressions. Following the Battle of Little Bighorn 5,000 Lakota Sioux Lakota fled to the Wood Mountain Uplands where they were under the jurisdiction of the North-West Mounted Police under the command of Major James Morrow Walsh. The hills, first surveyed by the Henry Youle Hind expedition in 1858, were used for hunting by day, and at night fires could be seen of meat being smoked. In 1879 the U.S. Cavalry set fires in Montana that spread and burned the grasslands of Rockglen, causing the ensuing famine and leading to the toponym "The Burning Hills".
It is in these Burning Hills where the Ferbane ranch was located. By 1910 the homestead became a post office, soon German and Austro-Hungarian settlers built homesteads out of tar paper shacks and sod huts. Wood building were built for businesses, such as the pool hall, which also contained the Wesley Methodist church, which became the Wesley United Church of Canada in 1925; Valley City became an unofficial community.
To the north the Kent homestead became a post office in 1915. Soon thereafter Beromé Prefontaine built a store and by 1917 Joeville, named for Joseph Prefontaine, was founded as a village. In 1926 Joeville was a prosperous community when the Canadian Pacific Railway constructed a rail line south from Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Alberta Pacific both built elevators along the line. Joeville split into the French community of Liseux near the new elevators and 26 buildings were moved south to the new CPR junction near Valley City. Valley City was relocated north of the tracks and incorporated as the Village of Rockglen in 1927.
Services were soon established in the tiny village. Mr. Sproul ran a school out of the Pinking Hotel on Centre Street. It was a community effort with desks and blackboards furnished by local carpenters and fundraising organized by Mr. Sproul. To the relief of Centre Street commerce a proper school house was built in 1928. It had three rooms: Mr. Preston as principal and two classes instructed by Miss Campbell and Miss Jarvis. In 1929 the Red Cross built a hospital, and a permanent post office was built, as was a branch of the Imperial Bank of Canada, and Charlie Switallo’s hardware store, which was the longest running Rockglen business to date.
Electric lighting was provided from 1929–1950 by the Rockglen Power Company, which ran every day from dusk to midnight, when three flashes indicated shut down. It wasn’t until 1950 when the Saskatchewan Power Corporation came to Rockglen that full 24-hour 120- and 240-volt electric service came to Rockglen.
The depression caused rural decline which was furthered by mechanization of agriculture during the later stages and in the time following the Second World War. Nearby Constance and Strathcona were dissolved and the one-room rural school houses were replaced by a system of buses and Bombardier tracked vehicles for winter use. Rockglen grew to a population of 500 persons when incorporated as a town with L. J. Bolster elected the first mayor. During the 1960s a new school was constructed, as well as a new post office, school office, Imperial Bank of Canada, and hotel.
The late 1970s saw a rise of inflation, combined with exceptionally high grain prices; many farmers retired and moved into Rockglen. In 1975 construction began on the Poplar River Power Station in nearby Coronach commissioned in 1981. 1981 also saw the construction of a new Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator. This is currently the last elevator in Rockglen and is owned by Poplar Valley Producers Co-operative. The resulting population influx had led to development of homes along Second Avenue and construction of Hillcrest Drive. To date, these are the newest housing developments in Rockglen. In 1988, Rockglen resident Jack Wolfe was elected as a Progressive Conservative Member of Legislative Assembly a position in which he served until 1991.
Switching the yard at Chatham, Ontario (CPR Eastend) SD40 5527 leads a M636 passing the boarded up tower for the diamond with the C&O line to Sarnia. Here making up their train #918 the Chatham turn out of London which handled the C&O interchange, here back on January 19, 1985.
Yesterday while out looking for fall colors to photograph, I thought to myself, "It sure would be nice if there was a little more red around". And then, there is was in the form of two Canadian Pacific Railway EMD SD30C-ECO locomotives in their CPR bright red paint. A few orange and yellow maple trees in the background would have looks nice. Davenport, IA.
Doing the math 51 years ago this year, a westbound CP Rail freight has arrived at Windsor, Ontario. It is seen working thru the south end of the yard back to the engine terminal for fuel and servicing. Digging through my old note books the crew had us up to ride to the roundhouse in the FA, we had taken the tunnel bus to Windsor from Detroit. Then a long walk to the CPR, this power was C424 4240, RS18 8738 and FA1 4025 on July 4, 1973.
This General Motors Electromotive Devision Diesel FP7 (EMD) is the ex Canadian Pacific unit 4069 and is on display at the West Coast Railway Heritage Park in Squamish, British Columbia.
A typical dark, dreary, wet day in northern Vermont like this, one would most certainly find comfort in the van heading into Newport.
CaterParroott Railnet #8 is southbound with four Interfor loads outside of Thomaston, Georgia. May 7, 2022
With the fog lifted and a little under two miles on the river under our belt, a stop at the railway's Spanish River crossing just west of the small hamlet of Sheahan for the Budds was in order. The Spanish River was an important route historically, at Lake Pogamasing just around the corner from here one of the larger Hudson's Bay Company trading posts was established in 1869 for fur trading and its strategic location in competition with the North West Company. Ultimately it was the building of the CPR that led to the demise of the fur trading, but the railway opened up the area for logging with several companies operating here from 1891 to the 1930s with even a mill popping up towards the end of that time. Birch now line the river banks, typically a place with sandy soil that old growth white pine thrive in, but those were profitable, low hanging fruit for logging operations. Birch of course is thin and spindly making it almost useless for lumber, and grows like wildfire if left unattended. The colourful and rugged terrain provides a picturesque backdrop for VIA’s #186 as it glides east across the river with its trusty trio of RDCs, a meet with 119 at Pog next up on deck - MP 23.26 CPKC Nemegos Sub.
A westbound CPR extra with sulfuric acid rolls toward clearing skies at Glencoe, Ontario behind an M630 and M636 4716 - April 1982.
I recently rescued an armless and legless CPR dummy from an industrial rubbish bin and gave him a new life as a portrait model. He seemed happy enough with his new career and as it turns out is one of the best models I have ever worked with.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway Great Lakes fleet steamer Keewatin is seen resting at her longtime display berth on October 13, 2007 in Douglas, Michigan. On display since 1967, she was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. Launched on July 6, 1907 at 336'L x 43' W x 23'-7' draft retired in November 1965,
she was sold in 2011 and moved to her longtime former CPR port of Port McNicoll, Ontario in 2012.
Canadian Pacific train Inco #2 nears the north end of Sprecher north of Sudbury, Ontario after picking up emtpys from International Nickle. They await an eastbound before heading north to deliver these emptys and pickup loads at Levac about 22 miles north on the Cartier subdivision. Here GP38-2 3113 leads RS18R 1834 and sister 3021 on August 29, 1997 nearing the end of the MLW era on the CPR.
CP A02 slows to a stop at Township Road 192 as a crew bus pulls up to our right. This would be the end of the line for this crew. The job of removing these grain cars from storage has taken 3 crews thus far, and the arrival of the crew bus signals that a 4th would be needed. However, for now the train would be tied down here for at least a few hours.