Railfan Stories

I’ve been struggling lately, mentally.
The signs have been pretty obvious to me. I’ve been irritable. Tired. Feeling overwhelmed. A lot of that was work related… but not all.

I like to walk. One night in Regina, I went on a long walk to a restaurant, and stumbled across CN interchanging some cars with CP. Exercise and trains – a good combination!

When I was in the Regina area in June 2024, I decided to drive home south of the Trans-Canada Highway. That meant a trip along the Stewart Southern again, which was great, as I knew there had been changes in the past 9 years and I wanted to see the line again.

In part 1 I covered the Stewart Southern from Regina to just north of Stoughton. In part 2 I discussed the Crescent Point Energy oil transloading facility. In this post we explore Stoughton and go back to Regina. This is a “reprint” of a series I posted back in August 2015. Stoughton There are two … Read more

In my last post I had traveled along the Stewart Southern Railway in the summer of 2015 from Regina, SK to just before Stoughton, SK. In this post I’ll talk about the oil transloading facility just outside Stoughton.

The Stewart Southern Railway is one of the many shortline railways in Saskatchewan. I mentioned their start back in 2010. We were in Saskatchewan at the beginning of August to visit family and friends and I negotiated some time to see the Stewart Southern.

My friend Jason Paul Sailer was in Winnipeg recently, and we made plans to go railfanning together, again! I picked him up at 5 PM and off we went.

In June 2024 I traveled along almost all of the Last Mountain Railway, from Lumsden north to Davidson. Here are my photos and observations.

CPKC has a large presence in the Regina area because it is on their main line. CN’s presence is much more limited, and Regina is connected to CN’s network via a branch line from Melville to Regina named the CN Quappelle subdivision, which runs through the Qu’Appelle Valley.

After I crossed the border into Saskatchewan, I passed through Langenburg and Churchbridge. Melville was on my mind, but before that, I went to Bredenbury.