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Post by WettCoast on Aug 9, 2015 9:39:25 GMT -8
Kitwanga Mountain forms the backdrop for this long train of grain empties led by CN # 's 5648 & 2401 heading east through Kitwanga, BC, on CN's Bulkley Subdivision (BC North Main) - 6 August 2015 West bound intermodal train led by CN # 8925 heads down the Skeena River east of Terrace, BC, on CN's Bulkley Subdivision (BC North Main) - 6 August 2015
Loaded coal & grain train led by # 2972 heads west @ mile 4 of the Skeena Subdivision @ Kitsumkalum, just west of Terrace, BC - 4 August 2015. There were two other 2900 series locomotives on this train - 2972 lead, 2951 following the lead & 2962 remote mid-train and separating the coal from the grain. These are all new General Electric locomotives with A/C traction motors, having been delivered to CN in 2015. GE locomotives with A/C traction are pretty much the norm for CP over its western mainline. CN, however, has only been using such for just a few years. Locomotives in the 2800 & 2900 series are of this type.This train was very long. All photos © WCK-JST by JST, on Flickr
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 17, 2015 20:05:50 GMT -8
It maybe looks like this pair of CN locomotives are on a rail trestle, but they're on the track behind the BCF terminal trestle. - at Prince Rupert, on August 4, 2015. Snapshot -88761 by Mike Bonkowski, on Flickr
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 9, 2015 9:26:13 GMT -8
At Windy Point, Alberta, north east of Jasper, in Jasper National Park and accessed via the Celestine Lake Fire Road. This place is well named. A great place to shoot/film trains & mountain scenery, both east & west bound... You might have to tie your tripod down to rocks! CN # 5648 & IC # 1036 lead east bound intermodal @ Windy Point, on CN's Edson Subdivision, Jasper National Park, Alberta - 28 August 2015
CN west bound 'local' freight, on CN's Edson Subdivision east of Jasper, Alberta - 28 August 2015. Note ex-BCR locomotive # 4644, just behind the lead unit.
Both photos © WCK-JST by Jim Thorne, on Flickr
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 9, 2015 9:36:59 GMT -8
At Windy Point, Alberta, north east of Jasper, in Jasper National Park and accessed via the Celestine Lake Fire Road. This place is well named. A great place to shoot/film trains & mountain scenery, both east & west bound... You might have to tie your tripod down to rocks! I love the view from that location; I need to add it to my "someday list." Thanks for sharing those shots and describing the location.
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Post by Starsteward on Sept 10, 2015 6:30:52 GMT -8
Great location indeed for a 'far as the eye can see' parade of containers. Being an eastbound train, one can only imagine all the various types of goods,most likely Christmas stock on the move to retailers east of Alberta.
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Post by Mike on Mar 7, 2016 16:46:32 GMT -8
CN 6023 |
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Looks more like CP 6023, a GMDD SD40-2 to me.
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Post by WettCoast on Apr 15, 2016 20:50:56 GMT -8
It has been a little slow of late here on this forum. I do not have any recent ferry/ marine photos to share, but I do have a fair bit of rail stuff from my recent spring break trip. Tonight I have a few CN shots to share from Jasper, Alberta, McBride & Dunster, BC. Dunster is a very small place on CN's BC North route, located between Tete Jaune Cache & McBride (on the route built by the Grand Trunk Pacific c1914). When the Trans-Canada (Yellowhead Route) Highway was built in the 1960's it was located on the far side of the upper Fraser River valley, bypassing this town by several kilometres. It has been hanging on precariously ever since. Jasper (AB) CN - Via Station with CN 8948 waiting to lead its train west, while Via's Skeena will head west later in the morning - 22 March 2016
Ex-BCR engine 4651 idling in the CN Jasper yards - 22 March 2016
Railway station @ Dunster, BC, on CN's Tete Jaune subdivision east of McBride - 22 March 2016. This station was built by the GTP.
CN 2228, along with repainted BCOL 4641, leads a west bound mixed freight past the station @ Dunster (BC) on the Tete Jaune Subdivision - 22 March 2016
CN 2228 leads west bound mixed freight past the old station @ McBride, BC, & off the Tete Jaune Sub & onto the Fraser Sub - 22 March 2016. This place rated a larger station as it was (& still is) a 'division point'. Engine crews continue to change out at McBride. All photos © WCK-JST by Jim Thorne, on Flickr
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Post by Mike C on Apr 16, 2016 8:07:35 GMT -8
Solid photos, WCK. I did some work in Dunster over the summer, and I would agree that resilience is definitely the word I would use to describe that community. Many residents (or at least those that I spoke with) live off-the-grid, and generate their own power / grow their own food, etc. Pretty interesting and very cool.
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 3, 2017 19:00:38 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 3, 2017 19:06:23 GMT -8
Another beauty spot on CN's route through the Canadian Rockies ... This is just east of Jasper National Park, Alberta, near the little community of Swan Landing at the east end of Brule Lake. You've got my attention with this location. I've spent a bit of time scounting via Google Maps of this famous rail-photo view area. Did you come in via Hinton, or did you take the rough road from the Park? Cheers !
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 3, 2017 19:26:30 GMT -8
Via Hinton (just west of to be more precise), Hwy 40 north to Brule Road. I can give you more details if you wish.
Jim, aka WCK Valemount, on my way home ...
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 18, 2017 8:51:47 GMT -8
A CN west bound stack train passes through Swan Landing, Alberta, @ the outlet of Brule Lake - CN Edson Subdivision - 1 September 2017. Its too bad that CN does not typically run remote engines on the tail end of their trains. It would have been so much better if there was a tail-end DPU on this train ... This would be a first rate location for catching east bound trains, including Via's Canadian (which has to be more or less on time for it to pass here in daylight. © WCK-JST by Jim Thorne, on Flickr
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Post by WettCoast on Jun 19, 2018 20:20:28 GMT -8
I have put nothing up here for some time of CN action on the BC North route, the one-time Grand Trunk Pacific main. So here goes with a couple of photos ... Heavy Metal on the Kitimat Sub ... CN 3117 along with leased power GECX 9130 are about to depart Kitimat with north bound freight for Terrace 14 May 2018 Most, if not all, of the cargo is aluminium ingots of various sizes produced at Rio Tinto's Kitimat smelter (formerly Alcan).
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 14, 2018 19:44:58 GMT -8
CN 8865 leads a stack train east along the Skeena River near mile 96 (and the former passing siding at "Grand Trunk"), CN Bulkley Subdivision 13 October 2018
Happy autumn, everyone!
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Post by WettCoast on Dec 14, 2018 22:06:35 GMT -8
It is likely that few, if any, members here have ever heard about the tragedy that took place on CN's mainline in BC in the late fall of 1950. Two passenger trains collided, head on, and 21 lives were lost. The accident happened just south (railway west) of Valemount, BC. A young telegraph 'operator' at Red Pass Junction was charged with manslaughter for being 'at fault' for the accident and he was headed for trial in May of 1951. The young man was from a little town in Saskatchewan named Zealander. His father, who also worked for the CNR, managed to convince a woman named Edna, to get her husband, a criminal lawyer on the up & up, to take the case. The rest is history, tragic & interesting ... www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/community/canoe-river-disaster-direct-result-of-war/
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Post by Low Light Mike on Dec 15, 2018 9:41:22 GMT -8
It is likely that few, if any, members here have ever heard about the tragedy that took place on CN's mainline in BC in the late fall of 1950. Two passenger trains collided, head on, and 21 lives were lost. The accident happened just south (railway west) of Valemount, BC. A young telegraph 'operator' at Red Pass Junction was charged with manslaughter for being 'at fault' for the accident and he was headed for trial in May of 1951. Thanks for the reminder. I think I first read about it in one of my CN history books, and also think it was mentioned during a "Mighty Trains" episode in October 2018 on Discovery Channel (There's no episodes-for-view-on-internet yet, so I can't go back and see for sure). Any accidental death is unfair, but this Canoe River accident seems especially unfair and cruel.
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Post by WettCoast on May 3, 2019 8:45:20 GMT -8
A shot I have been wanting to get for some time. Prompted by LLM's fine photo & video work on Vancouver Island's E&N, I finally got off my butt and went out & got the shot. CN #2518 leads 'Heavy Metal' over the Thunderbird 'S' trestle @ mile 8.5, CN's Kitimat Subdivision, near Terrace, BC - 02 May 2019. This train is north bound, returning to Terrace with 8 cars loaded with aluminium ingots from Rio Tinto Alcan's Kitimat smelter (my former place of employment). This is a substantial & fairly high wooden trestle bridge that has been strengthened with steel support piers (and made less susceptible to fire loss). The bridge has a lazy 'S' shape to it. It was built in the early 1950's. There are not too many structures like this still carrying trains in Canada in the 21st century. The Kitimat Subdivision runs along the west side of the Kitimat Valley between Terrace & Kitimat. The highway (#37) runs along the east side of the valley, separated by several kilometres. The rail line can be accessed easily in Terrace & Kitimat, but is otherwise relatively hard to get to other than by rough logging roads in a few locations.
The second photo, taken five years ago, shows the same trestle from the top side ...
CN north bound freight crossing the Thunderbird 'S' trestle on CN's Kitimat Subdivision, about 10 km south-west of Terrace, BC - 3 May 2012 © WCK/JST by Jim Thorne, on Flickr
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Post by Low Light Mike on May 3, 2019 9:45:12 GMT -8
A shot I have been wanting to get for some time. Prompted by LLM's fine photo & video work on Vancouver Island's E&N, I finally got off my butt and went out & got the shot Thanks for the shot ! I love the look of that lazy-S trestle.
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