A derailment from some years ago. Photos posted on the "CPR's Kootenay Division" Facebook group. According to the captions this is at Riley, BC, on CP's Cranbrook Sub.
Is this on the new line (constructed due to the Libby Dam's flooding) between Fort Steele and Cranbrook?
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NDG FYI. The Riley Derailment was here. Train travelling East, Left/Right. Road Switcher to Pulp Mill and Return. https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.6046426,-115.6982751,902m/data=!3m1!1e3 Caused by Grade Subsidence. One Air Dump derailed and hung on bank edge, but did not fall As subgrade saturated, locomotives left in place until solidified, then removed, as shown. The Car Dept. guys were MAD, as they had to carry Locomotive Bells up the bank so they would not be stolen. Engine Crew jumped as lead Unit CP 5004 upset, 3 Units. Crew Held Their Turn and ran first East thru after track repaired. Unit CP 5673 lead which had upset at high speed a few years before, killing two 2. 1973. http://cranbrookhistory.com/image_view.php?ID=52173 http://cranbrookhistory.com/image_view.php?ID=38248 Yes, this is New track constructed account relocation Pond Libby Dam, Fort Steele/North Star. New CPR Bridge over Kootenay River @ Fort Steele. https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.6251985,-115.6339001,1729m/data=!3m1!1e3 Junction Cranbrook Sub. M. 95.6 Left and Origin Windermere Sub. M. 0.0 Right. Looking West/North/Upstream. http://www.carrtracks.com/cap93b.jpg Bridge out of frame to Left/West, as here. http://www.carrtracks.com/cap93d.jpg CP then abandoned Track Colvalli/North Star, Cranbrook Sub. and Bridge over Kootenay River @ Wardner, BC. Abandoned track to right of Station. Looking East. Office Call JU. http://cranbrookhistory.com/image_view.php?ID=36176 Once location CP Bridge, Wardner, BC. https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.4088434,-115.4149557,1407m/data=!3m1!1e3 Limit Full Pond Lake Koocanusa about mile upstream ( Think Flathead Tunnel BN. ) Thank You.
NDG, thank you for the confirmation. I thought the cut in the background looked rather new.
For some reason I can't open those two Carrtracks links, I just get a 403 forbidden message. Tried on both US and Canadian IP addresses.
Thanks! Do you happen to remember this Operator?
http://www.carrtracks.com/cap09.htm
Thank You.
On Remembrance Day I like to remind people about the CPR's history during war time:
https://cpconnectingcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cpr-and-war.pdf
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
. . . __ . ______
We should all pause, and remember.
"We watch in reverence as Narcissus is turned to a flower"
"Never was so much owed by so many to so few"
I always think of the history of different parts of my family, each of my grandparents came from a different European country. Based on the locations and dates of emigration, it is likely that my ancestors fought on both sides during the First World War, and on both fronts.
Anyway, I'm sure that this will get its own thread with better quality photos, but here are Canadian Pacific's military tribute locomotives, unveiled today in Calgary:
Great color choices! Olive drab, desert sand, battleship gray, and I just love the last one, RAF / RCAF "sand and spinach" with the D-Day invasion stripes!
Well done CPR! "Stand fast Craigallachie!"
Recognize this?
Fabulous... hats off to the CPR.
SD70Dude Recognize this?
Absolutely! That's the Allied Armistice negotiating delegation at Compienge (hope I spelled that right!), November 11, 1918.
That's Marshal Foch, Supreme Allied Commander, in front with the cane, and just to his right (our left) Admiral Weymss representing the British. The others I don't know.
No Americans there. I have no idea why.
Foch lost a son during the war. When one of his aides broke the news he said "Please leave me alone for a half-hour. Do not disturb me for any reason. After that, anyone can come in." They left him alone.
No one should ever have to bury their child, for any reason. But war is hell, and the Marshal would have known that better than most.
The same railcar was used by Adolf Hitler to accept the surrender of France in 1940. He even had it spotted at the same location.
Hot off the press, here are the display signs explaining CP's choice of paint schemes:
More.
New Line, looking West to derailment site.
New Fort Steele. June 20, 1970. Looking West.
Whoops! Got it wrong! "Sand and spinach" was the RAF camoflage scheme from 1938 through the Battle of Britain. The CPR locomotive's got the later war scheme.
NDG Corbin. http://www.ghosttownpix.com/bc/corbin.html
Today it is very easy to forget where Unions came from. Stories like this are why they were formed.
It is no coincidence that Coal Miners, Steelworkers and Railroaders were the first to unionize. Same Draconian management style, some of which endures today.
NDG North Coal to Corbin. Another Coal Project. https://www.northcoal.ca/ https://www.northcoal.ca/michel-coal-project-2/ https://ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/documents/p80110/125708E.pdf https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.5416852,-114.6761243,18007m/data=!3m1!1e3
Good news for your area, now that Coal Mountain has closed. Hopefully the world Metallurgical Coal market improves, prices have dropped significantly this past year.
NDG CPR McGillivray/Fabro. https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.6421413,-114.7842565,749m/data=!3m1!1e3 Junction to Corbin to South. View from Internet Looking North/Downstream. Train heading West. Note Grade West/East. +/- 1.9 %. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5812/29964530993_a1b27c1400_b.jpg No 72 Eng 4053 Approaching Bridge. Pine Point Etys. ahead of Box Cars. Before present Track and Wye to Corbin Relaid in Seventies. http://cranbrookhistory.com/image_view.php?ID=38292 CP 8639 in Creek. 1977. 60 MPH Upset. Rotair Valve Improperly Set. 24-RL . No H/B Applied. http://cranbrookhistory.com/image_view.php?ID=36568 Thank You.
Oops. Tying a handbrake on is not hard, even on those old units. Or did it not work?
The forest service was probably quite relieved when those FM/CLC units were finally retired.
More should have been saved. There are no C-Liners left from any railroad besides CP, nor Erie-Builts.
Yes, it's a shame more of those unique first-generation diesels weren't saved, but at the time the burgeoning rail preservation movement and it's members weren't interested. After all, those were the diesels that killed their beloved steam engines, so they weren't feeling too kindly toward them.
Understandable, if a bit short-sighted.
zugmann SD70Dude The lead unit of their train was not so lucky, I hope the crew made it out ok.
SD70Dude
The lead unit of their train was not so lucky, I hope the crew made it out ok.
Flintlock76Yes, it's a shame more of those unique first-generation diesels weren't saved...
I've run an SW1, RS3, F7, F10 (rebuilt F3) and a GP9. Pretty cool. Our RS18u's date to the sixties, so they are classics, too...
It would probably take me a bit to get oriented to the modern features of a current loco, although the AAR stand is little changed.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Signals! You got some 'splainin to do!
That's on the north side of Lac La Biche, AB. I thought I recognized the crossing.
2548 (with it's bleached cab paint) was a common sight around Edmonton for quite some time.
Definitely OT.
FYI.
You've triggered a nostalgic moment.
When I was at the Englewood School for Boys, the only 'pay telephone' on campus (or in the area!) was on the end wall of the science building. Vandals pulled out the wire from the bottom of this phone (inside thin armored flex; I recall only the typical four wires). One day I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting for a ride, and in those pre-cell days of the very early 1970s I needed to 'phone home' ... but the phone was broken!
I thought I could make some kind of call if I carefully twisted the pulled ends together, so I carefully stripped and wrapped color to color, and picked up the phone. Eureka! I had the Dial Tone. But for some reason I didn't actually dial a number, instead I hung up and was reaching for something ... when I heard the landslide.
So much change had accumulated in the phone that it wouldn't fit down the chute into the coin-return foldout. As I recall I had to scoop out three times to get it all. Quite a few quarters in there, too. That was my introduction to reward for things other people wouldn't do...
Trying to find a 'pay phone' these days is next to, if not impossible.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
NDG Close. https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=Cr9aD_1573526161 Look at all the Joint Bars. Thank You.
Holy cow! Yikes.
The engine apparently snagged something off the semi. Maybe a bumper?
Lithonia OperatorThe engine apparently snagged something off the semi. Maybe a bumper?
I believe that's the post that had the crossing signals on it which you see the truck knock over.
Overmod Lithonia Operator The engine apparently snagged something off the semi. Maybe a bumper?
Lithonia Operator The engine apparently snagged something off the semi. Maybe a bumper?
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