Alberta Atlas of Railways Tracks -- Contents

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Front Matter

Poem: "Wheels of Change"

Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword by R.G. Ironside

Alberta's Geography

Alberta’s Land, Climate and Resources

Physical Geography of Alberta

Alberta’s Relief Features

Alberta’s Physiography

Alberta’s Land Resources

Alberta’s Soils

Climate and Weather

Alberta’s Climate, Precipitation

Alberta’s Climate, The Warmest Month

Alberta’s Climate, The Coldest Month

Alberta’s Climate, The Mean Annual Snowfall

Snow Plough at Work on CPR Track

Railways and the Coal Mining Industry

Alberta’s Coal Areas

Coal Industry Employment and Mines in Operation

Coal Mined in Alberta by Ton

Coal Commonly Found in Alberta (by area)

Development of the Railways

Settlement of Western Canada

Before the Railway: Trails, Canoes and York Boats

Fur Trade Routes by Canoe and York Boats

Western Canada’s Established Trails

Land Grant System

Canada’s Political Evolution

Township and Range System in Alberta

Plan of a Township of Thirty-Six Square Miles

Van Horne’s Radial Scheme for Dividing a Township

Alberta Land Grants

Railway Land Grants in the Prairie Provinces

Land Subsidies to Railways by Province

Alberta’s Early Non-Indigenous Settlers

Alberta’s Population and Railway Networks

Railway Accessibility in Western Canada

Early Plans and Planners

Millington Henry Synge

Millington H. Synge’s Transcontinental Railway

Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth

Robert Carmichael Smyth Proposed Railway Route

Captain F.A. Wilson and Alfred B. Richards

F.A. Wilson and A.B. Richards’s North American Work Plan

F.A. Wilson and A.B. Richards “Line of Railway”

Manner of Working the Railway Between Each of the 400 Mile Distances

Proposed Use of Convict Labour

Alexander Doull

Thomas Rawlings

Alfred Waddington

Alfred Waddington’s Projected Overland Route

Sandford Fleming: Surveyor and Engineer

Sandford Fleming and Standard Time

Standard Time in Canada

Prime and Initial Meridians in Western Canada

Sandford Fleming’s Proposed Time Reckoning

Sandford Fleming’s Proposed Routes for the Pacific Railway

Sandford Fleming’s Proposed Prairie Railway Network

Canadian Pacific Railway from Lake Superior with Proposed Extension to Bute Inlet

Canadian Pacific Railway from Lake Superior with Proposed Extension to Burard Inlet

Sandford Fleming’s Canadian Expedition

On the Regulation of Time and the Adoption of a Prime Meridian

Building Railways

The Railway Labourers: The Navvies

Grave of an Unknown Railway Worker

Canada’s Great Highway

The Life of the Station Man

Types of Railway Surveys

The Section Man

Building the Railways

Building the Permanent Way

Grading

GTP Russian Station Men and Shack

“Station Men” at Work

CPR Construction Train on Calgary and Edmonton

Grading on Grand Trunk Pacific at Clover Bar

Construction Hamlet

Steam Shovel on the Grand Trunk Pacific

Rail Cross-section

CPR Standard Roadbed and Ballast Section

Rail Identification

Specification for Construction and Equipment

Wheels of Change

Infrastructure

Town Layout

Alexander Doull's Railway Town Layout Plan

Sandford Fleming’s Design for Towns and Village Plots, Canadian Pacific Railway

Sandford Fleming’s Reservations for Railway Purposes and Town Plots, Canadian Pacific Railway

Typical Town Layout, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Towns and Villages, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Lethbridge, Canadian Pacific Railway Yard

Lethbridge Yard

The Town of Viking, Aerial View

Railway Townsite Plans Used in Alberta

Railway Townsite Plans Usage in Alberta

Erskine Townsite Plan

Millet Townsite Plan

Chauvin Townsite Plan

Wetaskiwin Townsite Plan

Coronation Townsite Plan

Lacombe Townsite Plan

Detail of Doull Town Layout

Sandford Fleming’s Correspondence Respecting the Location of Roads and Road-crossings

Alexander Doull's Railway Town Layout Plan

Stations

Canadian Pacific Railway Standard No. 5, Provost

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Design A, Pocahontas

Canadian Northern Railway Third Class, Meeting Creek

Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Coumbia Station B House, Dunvegan Yards, Edmonton

Representative Stations

Layout of Canadian Pacific Railway Standard No. 5

Layout for Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Design A

Layout for Canadian Northern Railway, Third Class

Layout for Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia, Station House B

Recollections of a Country Railway Station

Sandford Fleming’s Correspondence Respecting the Location of Stations

The Railways

The Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway in Western Canada

Canadian Pacific Railway Main Line

Canadian Pacific Railway Prairie Network

Canadian Pacific Railway Subdivision Chart

The Galt Enterprises

Alberta Railway and Coal Company, St. Mary’s River

Alberta Railway and Coal Company, Lethbridge Alberta circa 1890

Great Falls and Canada Railway

Alberta Railway and Coal Co. Yard, ca 1890

View of the Incline Railway taken from the Bankhead

Great Falls and Canada Railway, Sleeping Car, Narrow Gauge

NWC & NC Engine

Time Table of the AR&CC and GF&C Railway

Chronology of Southwestern Alberta Railways 1882–1912

Alberta Railway and Coal Company Mining Operation

The Calgary and Edmonton Railway

Calgary and Edmonton Railway, Proposed Extension

Calgary and Edmonton Railway

Calgary and Edmonton Railway, Lacombe to Kerrobert

Edmonton’s High Level Bridge, Canadian Pacific Railway

First Train on the High Level Bridge

Construction of the High Level Bridge

Train Wreck on the Calgary and Edmonton

Edmonton to Calgary Dominion Statutes

Calgary and Edmonton Railway, Lacombe to Kerrobert Statutory History

Laying Track in Calgary

The Cost of the Calgary and Edmonton Railway

The Crow’s Nest Line

Crow’s Nest Pass Railway from Lethbridge to Nelson

Crowsnest Pass

CP Train on High Level Bridge, Lethbridge Viaduct

Slide at Frank, Alberta

Bridge Decks on Crow’s Nest Line

The Crow’s Nest Pass Agreement

Building the Crow’s Nest Pass Line

The Construction of the Lethbridge Viaduct

The Alberta Central Railway

Alberta Central Railway, Amended Route Map

Alberta Central Railway, Schematic Map of Proposed Lines

Alberta Central Railway, Red Deer to Rocky Mountain House

Alberta Central Railway Reconnaissance Profile

Engineer’s Report on the Alberta Central Railway, 1914

Aneroid Barometers: Determining Altitudes

The Lacombe and North Western Railway

Lacombe and North Western Railway

Petrol-Hydraulic Motor Car for the Lacombe and Blindman Valley Railway

Canadian Northern Railway

The Canadian Northern Railway

Canadian Northern Alberta Railway

Canadian Northern Railway System in Western Canada, 1916

Canadian Northern Tollerton Townsite

Canadian Northen Alberta Railway, Huff’s Spur

Edmonton, 1917

Calgary, 1917

Canadian Northern Railway Branch Lines, Schematic Map of Proposed

Buildings and Sidings from Edmonton to Jasper

Canadian Northern Alberta Railway Statement of Cost

The Coronado Subdivision: A Typical Branch Line of the Canadian Northern Railway

The Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway

Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway, Edmonton to Stony Plain

Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway, Edmonton District Railway Company Right of Way Plan

Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway, Edmonton and Strathcona

Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway, Comparative Profile

Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway, and Edmonton District Railway Proposed Routes

Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific, Edmonton to Assinboine, Edmonton Distric Railway

The First Train into Edmonton

First Train Crossing North Saskatchewan at Edmonton

Statutes for Edmonton District Railway and Edmonton, Yukon, and Pacific Railway

The Edmonton and Slave Lake Railway

Edmonton and Slave Lake Railway

The Alberta Midland Railway

Alberta Midland Railway, Proposed Lines

Alberta Midland Railway

Rosebud River Crossings, An Engineering Challenge for the Alberta Midland Railway

Alberta Midland Railway, Drumheller Coal Area

Drumheller Coal Mines

The Canadian Northern Western

Canadian Northern Western Railway Lines, Schematic Map of Proposed

Canadian Northern Western Railway Lines

Canadian Northern Western Railway Lines, Warden to Nordegg

Brazeau Collieries, Nordegg Alberta

CNWR Company Conductor and Group

Building Townsites: The Town of Nordegg and the Mount Royal Connection

Montreal, Plan of Mount Royal

Nordegg, Plan of Townsite

Aerial Photograph, Nordegg, 1944

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Western Canada

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Proposed Transcontinental Routes

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Alberta and British Columbia With Alternative Routes Abandoned

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Alberta

Grand Trunk Pacific Branch Lines Company, Tofield-Calgary Line

Mirror and Bullocksville Area, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Camrose and Battle Area, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

Duhamel Bridge

Steam Shovel on the Grand Trunk Pacific

Steam Engines

A Look at Mirror, November 1, 1920

Pioneer Bridge Builders

The Call

The Pacific Northern and Omineca Railway Company (Inactive Subsidiary of GTP)

Pacific Northern and Omineca Railway

The Coal Branch

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Coal Branch

Mountain Park, circa 1940

Mountain Park Coal Company

Mountain Park Mine, 1927

Coal Mines in Operation 1910–1949

Time Table, GTPR: Lovett Subdivision, Mountain Park Subdivision, Luscar Subdivision

Grand Trunk Pacific Coal: Inspection Tour, September 15, 1920

Halfway Between Heaven and Earth: A History of the Coal Branch in Alberta

Canadian National Railways

The Canadian National Railways

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Canadian Northern Track Consolidation

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Track Consolidation: Scheme I

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Track Consolidation: Scheme II

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Track Consolidation: Scheme III

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Arrangement of March 19, 1919

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Jasper’s Fitzhugh Terminal Yards

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Track Consolidation Obed to Solomon, Revisions in 1926 to 1927, in 1928 and in 1932

Summary of Facilities at Division Points, Canadian National Railways

World War I and the Consolidation of Rail Line in Canada

Rail Consolidation

Consolidation Scheme Proposed June 4–5, 1917

Northern Alberta Railways

The Beginnings of the Northern Alberta Railways

Northern Alberta Railways, Incorporated

Northern Alberta Railways, circa 1955

Northern Alberta Railways, Shipment of Products in Percent, 1930–1960

J.D. McArthur’s Dream of the “Trans-Prairie” Railway

Railway Charters for Central Canada

J.D. McArthur, Veteran Builder of West, Dead

Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway

Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia

Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, Grouard: Capital of the North

ED&BC Railway Bridge over the Heart River

The Central Canada Railway

Central Canada Railway

Central Canada Railway, Proposed and Existing Lines

Grouard Boom and Bust

The Peace River Outlet

Peace River District, Proposed Railway Outlets

Northern Alberta Railways, Zones for Originating Traffic

Northern Alberta Railways, Proposed Routes to Stewart Via Findlay Forks

Northern Alberta Railways, Proposed Routes to Prince Rupert and Vancouver Via Peace Pass

Northern Alberta Railways, Proposed Routes to Vancouver and Prince Rupert Via The Monkman Pass

Northern Alberta Railways, Proposed Routes to Vancouver and Prince Rupert Via Sturgeon Lake and Obed

The Alberta and Great Waterways Railway

Alberta and Great Waterways Railway

Laying Alberta and Great Waterways RailwayTrack

Skunk Train on Great Waterways Railway, Lac La Biche

Grand Island Portage

Grand Island Tramway

View of the Island in Grand Rapids on the Athabasca River

The Pembina Valley Railway

Pembina Valley Railway

Howe Truss Bridge over the Pembina River at Manola

Time Table Supplement, Barrhead Subdivision , October 17, 1927

The Prairie Network

Small Resource Railways and Other Lines

Introduction to the Short Railway Lines

Small Resource Railways

Crowsnest Pass Spur Lines

Crowsnest Pass Spur Lines, Hillcrest Mines

Crowsnest Pass Spur Lines, Frank and Grassy Mountain Railway

Crowsnest Pass Spur Lines, Lille

Frank and Grassy Mountain Railway Engine

View of Lille, Alberta

The Kootenay and Alberta Railway

Kootenay Region Coal Mines and Charters

Kootenay and Alberta Railway

The Western Coal and Coke Company, Limited

The Forestburg and Halkirk Spur Lines

Forestburg and Halkirk Spur Lines

Canmore-Banff Corridor Spur Lines

CP Roundhouse at Canmore, Alberta

Spur Lines in Southern Alberta

Lethbridge Spur Lines

Taber and Elcan Spur Lines

Redcliff-Medicine Hat Spur Lines

T.B.H. Cochrane and the “Betsy” Logging Line

T.B.H. Cochrane’s Logging Railway, 1887

Betsy Locomotive

The North West Lumber Company

North West Lumber Company, Green Court Spur

North West Lumber Company, Lac La Biche Area Spurs

Shay Geared Locomotive

The Edmonton Interurban Railway

Edmonton Interurban Railway

Streetcar on the Edmonton Interurban Railway

Incline Railway

INCLINE STARTED TO-DAY: The First Steet Hoist in Western Canada

Post Steam Era Railways

The Great Slave Lake Railway

Great Slave Lake Railway

Great Slave Lake Railway, Proposed Railway Routes to Pine Point

The Alberta Resources Railway Corporation

Alberta Resources Railway

Alberta Resource Railway Condensed Profile

Rocky Mountain Passes

The Passes Through the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Rocky Mountain Passes

Yellowhead Pass

Crowsnest Pass

Kicking Horse Pass

Kicking Horse Canyon, the “Big Hill” and the Spiral Tunnels

Meeting of the Rails at Promontory Point

Northern Pacific: Driving the Last Spike

Driving the Last Spike on the CPR

Building the Spiral Tunnel

CPR Construction Train at Kicking Horse Pass

Passes Through the Rockies, Comparative Profile

Spiral Tunnels Cross Section

CPR Plan of Grade and Line Revision Between Field and Hector, B.C.

Prairie Branch Line Networks

The Prairie Branch Line Networks

Canadian Pacific Railway Prairie Network

Canadian National Railways Prairie Network

Canadian Pacific Railway Subdivision Chart

Canadian National Railways Alberta District Timetable

CNR Estimated Cost of Constructing 1 Mile of Branch Line Railway for Industrial Use

CNR Alberta District Organizational Chart

Model of Divisional Organization and Lines of Authority, 1930s

E.W. Beatty on Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways Western Branch Construction

Agriculture and the Railways on the Prairies

Agriculture on the Prairies, Wheat

Agriculture on the Prairies, Oats

Agriculture on the Prairies, Barley

Agriculture on the Prairies, Rye

Agriculture on the Prairies, Flax

Operating the Grain Elevators

A Typical Prairie Grain Elevator

Alberta Country Elevator Shipments, by Railways

Incorporated Railways Never Built in Western Canada

Railway Mania

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1880–1890

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1891–1900

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1901–1905

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1906–1908

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1909, 1910

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1911

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1912, 1913

Incorporated Railways Proposed for Western Canada, 1914–1960

Statutes of Proposed Railways for Western Canada Never Built

Growing Time for Trans-continental Railways

Railways Incorporated but Not Built, Yearly Distribution

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta and Athabasca Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Anthracite Coal Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Athabaska Northern Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Bow River Coal Mine Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Cardiff Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Macleod, Cardston and Montana Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Medicine Hat Ry. and Coal Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Northwest Coal and Coke Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Rocky Mountain Ry. and Coal Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta Oil, Coal, and Wheat Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta Southern Ry. Co. 1894

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Athabasca Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Calgary, Alberta and Montana Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Edmonton and Athabasca Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Edmonton and Saskatchewan Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Gleichen, Beaver Lake and Victoria Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Kootenay, Alberta and Athabasca Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Vermillion and Cold Lake Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Western Alberta Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta and Saskatchewan Central Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta Metropolitan Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta Southern Ry. Co. 1906

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Bassano Electric Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Bow River Collieries Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Calgary and Knee HIll Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Carbon HIll Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Chestermere and Calgary Suburban Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Cochrane and South-Western Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, High River and Hudson Bay Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Knee Hill Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Lacombe, Bullocksville and Alix Electric Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Maharg Electric Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Peace River Great Western Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta and Brazeau River Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta North-Western Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Alberta Western Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Athabasca Valley Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Crow’s Nest and Prairie Electric Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Edmonton Radial Tramway Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Lacombe and Brazeau Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Lethbridge Radial Tramway Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Magrath Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Pincher Creek and Southern Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Red Deer Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, South East Calgary Electric Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Southern Alberta Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Strathcona Central Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Medicine Hat and Northern Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Athabasca and Fort Vermilion Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Burmis Carbon Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Calgary Petrol Interurban Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Crow’s Nest Pass Street Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Edmonton, Stony Plain and Wabamun Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Edmonton, North-Western Radial Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Edmonton and Southwestern Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Elbow River Suburban Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Entwistle and Alberta Southern Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Granger Collieries, Ltd.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Highwood Western Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Medicine Lake Collieries Ltd.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Smoky Valley and Peace River Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Taber Transit Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Algonquin Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Athabasca and Grande Prairie Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Brule Lake Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Calgary and South Western Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Canadian-American Collieries Ltd.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Cascade Scenic Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Crow’s Nest and Tent Mountain Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Fort Smith Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Medicine Hat Southern Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Medicine Hat Central Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Peace River Tramway and Navigation Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Red Deer Valley Ry. Co.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Tramways Ltd.

Incorporated Railway Proposed for Alberta, Medicine Hat Electric Railway Co.

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