Here is a video that I created of my HO scale layout after shooting some action on the mainline with my Samsung Galaxy. The Rapido Route layout is based on Canadian National and VIA Rail livery operations during the late 1970s and 1980s during a time when I had the opportunity to ride the prototypes […]
Led by SD40-2 No. 5810, a Canadian Pacific freight rolls west at Glacier, B.C., on June 14, 1988. Photo by David Lassen […]
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A 700-ton crane lifts lead SD70ACe locomotive No. 522 out of the icy Moisie River on Wednesday. Transportation Safety Board of Canada Finally on land, the locomotive shows the scars from its icy encounter. Transportation Safety Board of Canada SEPT-ILES, Quebec – The lead locomotive involved in a fatal November 2014 derailment on the Quebec […]
LAC-MÉGANTIC, Quebec – Fifteen months after an oil train derailed and exploded in the heart of Lac-Mégantic, city officials have come to an agreement with the Central Maine & Quebec Railway to allow hazardous materials through the community by rail. The new agreement, passed unanimously by the city council earlier this week, puts various restrictions […]
Some men go to war for their country. Others build railroads. In both ventures, there is sacrifice, struggle, and honor. The driving of the Canadian Pacific’s final spike at Craigellachie, B.C., in 1885 marked a defining moment in Canada’s transformation from a vast swath of land into a nation — a political and economic engine […]
CP’s St. Luc Yard roundhouse Walter R. Allen for CPR Canadian Pacific in July 1950 opened its sprawling new St. Luc Yard in the “wilds” above the cities of Lachine and Cote St. Luc, Quebec. Built to relieve congestion at CPR’s Hochelaga and Outremont Yards in Montreal, St. Luc included this 37-stall roundhouse, completed in […]
Near Conklin, Alberta, NAR mixed train 77 ambles toward Fort McMurray on June 26, 1972, the second day of author Armstrong’s four-day adventure. James B. Armstrong At 5 o’clock every Sunday and Wednesday evening, mixed train No. 75 would trundle slowly out of Dunvegan Yards (Edmonton), headquarters and southern terminus of the Northern Alberta Railways, […]
Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 No. 2816 is seen on the Brooks Subdivision at milepost 139 near Strangmuir, Alberta, in June 2010 on a test run following a 20-month rebuild. Photo by Bill Hooper […]
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Canadian National 2-8-0 No. 2444, assigned as the switcher in Chipman, N.B., negotiates the steep grade and tight curves at the town’s brickyard on a gray day in November 1953. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
Follow MRVP’s Drew Halverson, Kent Johnson, and friends as they trace the Canadian Pacific main line into the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Along the way Drew and crew capture a variety of freight and passenger trains in action, railroad engineering at its finest, and astonishing natural settings that are ripe for modeling. […]
