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Once a busy place, now this large station is just a building with a few computers inside. Even as I clicked this picture, not 1 CPR employee was on the ground. With only 15-20 freight trains a day, and the bidaily Lake Superior RDC set it is not hard to figure out why everything has been moved...
My father Ray Loran took this Photo in February of 1947...He was a Section Forman for the Canadian Pacific Railway. This Snow Storm I believe lasted a Week...with Snow Drifts as high as houses, all across Southern Saskatchewan.
AC4400CW #8557 rounds the curve and passes Signal No. 118, the advance signal to Keith yard on CPR's Laggan Subdivision.
Photo taken at 11:30am, Feb 15 2004.
One hour after leaving Ozada, 8557 East rounds the curve and passes Signal No. 118, the advance signal to Keith yard on CPR's Laggan Subdivision. Photo taken at 11:30am, Feb 15 2004.
CPR AC4400CW 8557 leads a CEFX AC4400, a SOO SD60, and a CEFX SD90MAC eastward out of the Ozada siding after a meet with a westbound. Photo taken at 10:30am, Feb 15 2004.
The Beautifully Decorated CPR Holiday Train Stopped in Indian Head, Sk. on Dec.14th 2003 and Entertained the Crowd of 300 Plus for a Half Hour, an Excellent Show. To see a Audio and Video Presentation of the Holiday Trains Stop in Indian Head, Sk. log on to this site www.townofinndianhead.com
At about 10:00 we get to Duncan, the next major city on our trip north out of Victoria. At one time Duncan boasted a fair sized yard, including engine facilities as two Baldwin Road Switchers were based out of Duncan as power for the Lake Cowichan log trains. CP Rail ripped all of it out in the...
Looking through a station window in Courtenay, RDC1 6135 is being readied for the return trip to Victoria in the Spring of 2001.
In recent years the 6135 has been used the most on the passenger trains, from December 15,1999 to April of 2000 it was the only operational RDC on the E&N...
This is the Turntable at Vic West. The E&N's last functional turntable. It is still used to turn the RDC's. The RDC's are turned every month or so to even out wear on the wheels. The turntable still sports it's steam powered engine(now powered by compressed air). When the turntable was first...
This is one of 2 standing water towers on the E&N Railway, the other being in Port Alberni, BC used for the Alberni Pacific steam excursions.
The tower was located just south of the station but was moved to this location and restored when the MOW shops were expanded.
The rusty rails...
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