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…at each end, trains from either direction generally served their respective subs and met operationally in the middle. The walk in along the old roadbed. While the western section came later (completed 1925-1930 period) it tended to originate more traffic as well. There’s less arid land out that way with… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)

…they use a system called directional running. CPR has a line on one side of the canyon, CNR on the other side. There’s no room for doubletracking so Westbound trains use CNR’s side of the canyon, eastbound trains use the CPR side. Some US railways, like BNSF and UP, use… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 2 in comments.)

…travelling from Saskatoon west to Edmonton, then south to Calgary, but since it’s better engineered overall (a GTP trait), transit times did not suffer much. The last through trains travelling over this bridge were in 2008, although I understand some work trains and locals continued to use the line into… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 2 in comments.)

…steam trains. Now it supports, without any trouble, a huge number of heavy freights that travel over the structure every single day. This a Pratt Truss design bridge, a form very common in railway circles. Most date from some time ago – they were very popular with new construction in… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

…at this site and feel they’ve travelled back in time, here at the Meeting Creek Heritage Railway Station and Grain Elevator Park. It looks authentic, because it is. With little effort one’s imagination can be unleashed and you’re part of the scene. Hurry to the depot…the train’s due! What year… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

…work. At some point, (it’s thought the 1950s) the bridge had decking installed that allowed auto traffic to cross the structure. Prior to that only trains used it, and pedestrians who were accommodated on a side walkway, now mostly collapsed. A ferry is mentioned to have been located close by,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions’ tour trains make a regular stop in Big Valley, a charming little community rich in history. Front and centre, it’s the railway station, over a century old, that welcomes those visiting no matter how they arrive. Come by car, or more awesomely by rail, the building… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…saying… “Great tidbits of history, all in our own backyard!” David W Brandenburg. Museums of all kinds… Canadian Civil Defence Museum’s Alsask Dome – A chilling Cold War relic. Wandering the Alberta Railway Museum – Trains, trains and more trains! Museum Tour: Viking Alberta – Small town museums rock! If… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…up, the Alberta Prairie Railway, using the Central Western Railway’s tracks. On weekends in the summer, trains full of tourists would stop in Rowley to take in the sights and have lunch or dinner. This ended in 1997 however when the line was pulled up – these tourist trains still… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

…this line saw its last train earlier that year, all the infrastructure was still in place. Only after my visit would the tracks be torn up. Once a busy line, by the time it was abandoned only a few customers remained, including one sawmill in Princeton and trains operated a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 3 in comments.)

…the beach? Nope, I like trains and so that’s where you’ll find me, preferring that gritty industrial environment over the touristy side of things. Staring at the east side of town, I take some time to check out an old passenger car found sitting on a siding. For some reason… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 2 in comments.)

Here’s a rather rare sight these days, a wooden grain elevator, still in use, sitting along a prairie branch line that still sees trains. Twenty years ago this would be nothing unusual, but today, in times of grain company consolidations, mergers and closings and the wholesale abandonment of lightly used… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 1 in comments.)

…core samples scatted below on the ground. Trains would have run down the centre of the building. You can see insulators above that once held the overhead electrical lines that powered the trains. A sulphur spring emerges from the old sealed workings. Sulphur is a component of coal. 20) Old… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)