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When I was in Calgary for the SuperTrain 2024 train show, I used Calgary Transit twice. I would like to share my experience with you.

Brian Schuff and I paid our respects to two battered veterans in Medicine Hat recently. These two EMD FP7A locomotives are on display at the Riverside Veterans Memorial Park.

I’ve been holding myself back. I have a million ideas and a dozen things in progress and I can’t finish any of them, because they have to be perfect. It’s a problem.

Once upon a time, CN had a railway roundhouse in Regina, Saskatchewan.

I fear I am losing my mind. Or at least my words. I’m losing track of words.

One of the ways to turn a locomotive is by using a turntable. Unlike steam engines, diesel locomotives rarely need to be turned, but the need arises at times… and so there are still a few turntables around. This is the CN turntable at the Fairview Yard in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

My joy at being included in the 2024 Trackside Guide was muted by the fact that this is the last one with Earl Roberts as co-editor.

The Victoria Pacific Railway was a short-lived tourist operation on Vancouver Island. It ran for two seasons on CN track just west of Victoria, in 1972 and 1973.

Back in the days of steam, water towers were a common feature beside railway tracks. Steam engines used vast quantities of water and they needed to refill frequently. After the end of main line steam in 1960, these towers disappeared quickly. Only a few remain… like the one in Loggieville, New Brunswick.

This is the CN employee timetable for the Prairie Region, Lakehead Area, effective October 31, 1971. This covers three subdivisions: