Last Train to Fort Qu’Appelle
On the RailsMBSK Facebook group, Chris C asked when the last passenger train served Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. Naturally, I leapt to my timetable collection for the answer.
On the RailsMBSK Facebook group, Chris C asked when the last passenger train served Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. Naturally, I leapt to my timetable collection for the answer.
After Oren Helbok adapted the “Interesting Railfan” concept to pretend to put a few questions to photographer Dennis Livesey, I decided to ask Dennis 10 actual questions.
I was in the Halifax area recently and had a chance to see some of Canada’s Atlantic Fleet (from afar). The Canadian navy is divided into two fleets, Atlantic and Pacific, to match the oceans they patrol. Perhaps we’ll have a third fleet soon, for the Arctic Ocean?
Back in June, I felt like going for a long bicycle ride, and I brought my camera with the “long lens”. Why not?
This pop-up post needed a little digging before I could identify the location. All I had was two images that I scanned off a 4-image 35mm film strip of mine… CN 5691 above, and CP 5570 below.
Continuing the pop-up post series, here’s a quick look at an empty potash train rolling into Winnipeg from off the Sprague subdivision.
Since blog partner Eric Gagnon has been posting a panoply of “pop up” posts, perhaps I could do one of my own. Popping up in Kitchener, Ontario!
It was time to grab my camera and tripod and hit the road. The aurora was calling… and I had to answer.
In the summer of 2013, we drove from Winnipeg to Banff to spend a week in the Rockies. We stopped in the Regina area going west and going east, and I took the opportunity to go see some trains while we were there.