Bus Photos of the Month:
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| January 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Calgary Transit 2051 is a 1984 Siemens/DuWag U2 model LRV car shown
here at the Fish Creek/Lacombe LRT Station. 2051 was having some
technical difficulties when this train arrived to go into service on the
Route 201 - Brentwood/Fish Creek Line. It was later uncoupled from
the rest of it's consist and a mechanic ran the train back to the Anderson
Shops to do the repairs. The rest of this train's consist did go
into service about a half an hour late after they had moved 2051 out of
the way. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: Strathcona County Transit #1003 is a 2002 Prevost XL-II. This bus was probably on testing when it was photographed in Downtown Edmonton on 100 St at 102 Ave. |
| February 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Victoria Regional Transit System #8005 is a 1991 New Flyer
D40LF. This bus is one of 9 that were ordered that year for Victoria
and were the first New Flyer D40LF's to be delivered to a Canadian Transit
System. I like this shot cause it shows the bus pulling through to
the bus terminal at Butchart Gardens in June 1997, one of my favorite
older photos of mine. 8005 is about to enter service as a Route 75
to Downtown Victoria. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: Ooops! ETS #4079 is seen on the back of a
tow truck after suffering an engine fire after leaving the garage only
about 20 mins before. Apparently the fire was caused by the turbo. I was
told that $50 000 damage was done. |
| March 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Calgary Transit C-Train #2059 is a 1984
Siemens/DuWag U2 LRV car shown
at the 7th Street SW Station on a snowy night on February 9, 2003.
The photo may look a little fuzzy in spots from the snow but I liked the
way it turned out. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: King County Metro 2002 Gillig Trolleybus
#4109 was photographed while it was working a route 32. These buses have
new Gillig "Phantom" bodies, with the rebuilt propulsion package
from the now nearly extinct AMG trolleybus fleet. Check back though out
the month for the new Seattle photo page, as well as Community Transit and
Sound Transit! |
| April 2003:
About our Photos of the Month for April 2003. April 22, 1978 marks the 25th Anniversary of Light Rail
Transit in Edmonton. For this reason we decided that both of us would use photos from ETS's LRT system as our Photos of the Month. Go check out Edmonton Transit's website at www.TakeETS.com
for the details on the 25th Anniversary celebrations. Don't forget
to check out the ETS SLRT Special
section for photos showing the construction of the South LRT
Extension. |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Edmonton Transit 1037 is a 1983 Siemens/Duwag U2 LRV Car. This
photo was taken at the University of Alberta while it was on a charter for
the South LRT Extension. The people riding this train previously
attended the SLRT Meeting at the Alberta School for the Deaf and were transported in ETS buses 206 and
4115 to the University LRT station where they boarded 1037 for a system
tour. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: ETS #1017 leads a 3 car train south from
Belvedere Station. I don't have a date for this photo (except it was taken
in 2001), but by this time it was rare to see a consist without at least 1
wheelchair ramp equipped car. This train was one of two out on this day
without a wheelchair ramp equppied car in its consist. The other train was
a 4 car train set! #1017 was also the last car to have a wheelchair lift
installed, being done sometime in the late spring/ early summer of 2002 I
do believe. |
| May 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Boy was this a beautiful sight to see! Transit systems in North
America running Fishbowls are becoming fewer and fewer every year.
Some systems like Calgary Transit and Vancouver don't usually run GM
Fishbowls on the weekends, but to see a 1972 GM T6H5307N in service on a
weekend is rare! Edmonton Transit 562 is one of those 1972 GM
T6H5307N's that Edmonton still runs today and was photographed on Saturday
April 26, 2003. Although the Route 5 - Coliseum to Westmount is
normally a trolley bus (Operated with similar bodied buses but with Brown
Boveri Canada electric motors), This is the second best bus to run on
these runs! At least it wasn't a New Flyer Low floor where there
would be less seating & standing room for passengers, but it would
have been good for people with mobility aids & wheelchairs to board
the bus. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: ETS #582 is running on a route 85 heading for Capilano as it leaves Downtown on 100 St after loading passengers at Telus Plaza. Hopefully this bus will remain in service for a few years to come. It will celebrates 30 years of service to ETS in December 2003. |
| June 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Of course my own bus had to be bus of the month one of these
days. This is Ex-Edmonton Transit #638, a 1976 GM T6H5307N, shown
here posed for photos just a little east of Calgary, Alberta, taken May
31, 2003. My bus is powered by the Detroit Diesel 6V71N engine with
the Allison VH9 transmission. It was retired in the late summer of
2001 from the city of Edmonton, right after the 2001 IAAF World Track
& Field games ended. It was later sold to a private owner who
wanted to make this bus into a motorhome, but later sold the bus to me on
March 23, 2002. For a more detailed history of the restoration of my
bus please see the Preserved Bus
section at this link or visit my entry to the Visitor's
Gallery at Bernie's Bus Depot here. Hopefully more people will
take an interest in preserving one of the greatest examples of transit
buses out there. |
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Martin Parsons Pick:
ETS #2010 is a 1949 GE 44 Ton locomotive purchased and rebuilt by ETS to replace 1912 GE/Alco electric locomotive #2001 in work service on the LRT line. One of 2010's most recent
outings was a trip down to Grandin and back to D.L. MacDonald with some work
equipment on May 13, 2003. Flat car #2101 was carrying the equipment which was unloaded at
Grandin. This first photo shows the locomotive inside Grandin and the second photo shows it returning to
D.L. MacDonald. |
| July 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Ex-Lethbridge Transit #103 is a 1970 GM T6H5305
shown here posed for photos at the Lethbridge Transit Garage on March 25,
2000 when Steve Parkin decided to purchase this wonderful bus. It
has the distinction of being the first Canadian built T6H5305 for 1970 and
was operated up until late 1999 when it was retired almost at the age of
30. It was one of the last 3 buses for Lethbridge Transit to have
the manual steering and the lower exhaust system. For more details
about this bus, please visit the Preserved
Bus page here for the history of this bus. |
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| September and October 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Translink - Vancouver S5512, a 1976 GM T6H4523N is shown here on it's
last day in service in the two above photos. The first photo shows
the bus on layover as a Route 108 - Eighth Ave on it's third to last trip
sitting at Bay 8 at New Westminister Skytrain Station. The second
photo shows the same bus at the same spot after completing it's last trip
on the 108 with a GM Fishbowl. As of that moment, that bus was to
write Vancouver history as being the last GM Fishbowl in active service,
returning to the Surrey Transit Centre to await disposal. But as of
September 15th, 2003, the Fishbowl era was reopened temporarily using 5 of
the 1982 GM T6H5307N "Hillclimbers" #'s P4104, P4106, P4107,
P4108, and P4109, which entered service once again until further notice,
possibly because the Port Coquitlam Transit Garage just transferred 3 New
Flyer D60LF's back to the Richmond Transit Garage and PCTC needed a couple
more buses. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: Well, I guess its about time I get my photo of the month up for September. This will also be my photo for the month of October. Work in the Photo Lab has kept me busy catching up with the summer rush and with installing a brand new Noritsu printer in less than a week I don't think I will have time to get the October pic up! Anyways, here we see ETS #1016 leading a train south from Belvedere Station on September 6, 2003 shortly before rail grinding was set to start on this fine evening. Look for a section to appear on Barp in the future with some pics of the rail grinder and it in action. |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Canadian Premier Charters 965 is a 1980 GM T6H5307N, Ex-Edmonton
Transit #965, shown photographed on 13 Street NW near Kensington Road on
September 1, 2003. This bus was later renumbered to 330 but was not
renumbered at the time of the photograph. For more information on
Canadian Premier Charters of Calgary, Alberta, or to charter one of their
buses, please visit www.canadianpremiercharters.com |
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Martin Parsons Pick: Here we see Grande Prairie Transit (GP
Transit) posed for photos while running a route 2 during the afternoon
peak hour. The photo was taken in the Countyside South area of Grande
Prairie. Take a look at the revamped Grande
Prairie pages! |
| December 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick was not selected for December 2003 because of server
problems |
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Martin Parsons Pick: If you take a look in the Edmonton Transit
1977 U2 section you will find a photo of #1008 inside of D.L. McDonald
awaiting decals. 7 months later we find #1008 running in service still
painted plain white as the new decals have yet to arrive! #1017 was also
spotted running in service plain white. The fleet numbers were spray
painted onto the windows with stencils. |
Rail Photos of the Month:
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| January 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick:
Canadian Pacific #5719 is a 1975 GMD SD40-2 Locomotive shown in the
"No Name" paint scheme. This locomotive is shown hauling a
couple of covered hoppers, a flat car, and CP Caboose 434659, photographed
in the afternoon of December 13, 2002 along Mile 171.5 of the Brooks
Subdivision, near the Ogden Shops. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: GEC Alstrom SD40-3 #6058, ex CN SD40 #5110
that was rebuilt by AMF. This locomotive is sitting at CN's Walker Yard
with SD50F #5506. |
| February 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Canadian Pacific #5826 is a 1974 GMD SD40-2 Locomotive shown in the
"Multimark" paint scheme, also known as the pacman paint scheme. This locomotive is shown
hauling coal gondolas through the Rocky Mountains in Sentinel, Alberta on
June 21, 1986. Special Thanks goes out to Ken Allen for allowing me
to use his wonderful train slides on Barp.ca. There will be some
more of Ken Allen's slides to come on Barp soon! |
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Martin Parsons Pick: CN SD75I #5684 is leading a train on the
Vegreville Sub passed ETS's Clareview LRT Station (where this photo was
taken from) on its way to the CN mainline. |
| March 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: SOO Line 6021 is a 1989 GMD SD60 shown here with CP Rail AC4400CW #9568
waiting to head eastbound at the CP Rail Industrial Yards in Calgary
Alberta on January 4, 2003 in the late afternoon. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: CP AC4400CW #9738 was still pretty new when this photo was taken of the locomotive helping to push a train into the south Edmonton intermodal yard. The photo was taken at the 51 Ave grade crossing. |
| April 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: CP Rail 1805 is a MLW RS-18u shown in Montreal, Quebec, possibly at the St
Luc Shops. This unit along with 1800-1868 were rebuilt in between
1980 and 1989 but were retired or sold by 1993. Special thanks to
Doug Boyd for letting us use this photo and the rest of the RS-18u's in
the CP Rail section. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: CN 9-44CW #2601 is leading a train heading northeast on CN's Vegreville sub past ETS's Clareview LRT Station on March 25, 2003. |
| May 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick:
CP Rail 8531 is a 1998 GE AC4400CW Locomotive running with a potash unit
train detouring on the BNSF mainline along White Rock Beach, White Rock,
BC, on a windy day. (normally only BNSF trains run here - very seldom do
CN trains detour on these tracks, and this was the first time that the
photographer, Michael Chu, had seen a CP train pass over these tracks) |
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Martin Parsons Pick: CN #1651 and 1652 are both ex NAR SD38-2's aquired by CN when CN took over CP's share of the
NAR. The NAR had 4 SD38-2's which became CN #1650-1653. These two shots show 1651 and 1652 leading a train together at the south end of the Vegreville sub. |
| June 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: Canadian National 5166 is a EMD SD40 shown here in
Skoonka, BC hauling a
train through the mountains. This spectacular view almost looks like
a model railroad, but is another beautiful photo from Ken Allen's
Collection. Thanks again to Ken Allen for letting us use his slides
on our website! |
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Martin Parsons Pick:
I had a photo of a GE locomotive for ETS for the my Bus Photo of the Month for June, so why not a bus as the my Rail Photo of the month?
Here we see CP Rail 54 passenger Bluebird International #3710-49 (I think... some of the numbers are missing so that is a guess based upon residue left by them!) This bus has an older International chassis. I believe that these buses are used to transport works between work sites. The bus was photographed in south Edmonton. |
| July 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: CP Rail 1400 is a GMD FP7A locomotive that was upgraded
to FP9 standards, built in April 1953. It is shown here coupled together
with CP 1900 and CP 1401 leading a train eastbound along the Laggan subdivision
(Mile 1.5) in Calgary, Alberta on a sunny June 17th, 2003 as it returns from one
of it's tours along the Royal Canadian Pacific vintage outings. |
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Martin Parsons Pick: Ex Canadain National S-13u #8704, now Canac 8704, is
seen sitting in CN's Sarcee Yards. |
| September and October 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick: CP Rail 9639 is a General Electric AC4400CW locomotive, built between
September 1997 and January 1998. It is shown here leading a train
westbound along the Laggan subdivision (Mile 1.6) in Calgary, Alberta on
February 1st, 2003 as
it heads towards Field, BC with a series of auto racks, possibly with some
intermodal containers too |
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Martin Parsons Pick: Canadian National GP38-2(W) #4766 is the second locomotive in this 4 locomotive lashup heading north on the Vegreville Sub out of Edmonton. #4766 has been repainted in the most recent CN paint scheme. |
| November 2003: |
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Ken Baker's Pick:
CN Rail 1421 is a GMD-1u shown photographed heading towards CN Port Mann
Yards in Surrey, BC leading a grain train on September 14, 2003 |
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Martin Parsons Pick:
Canadian National SD40-2 #5381 is helping pull a train off of CN's Vegreville Sub and onto the mainline. This photo was actually taking from a moving ETS LRV at the time. |
| December 2003: |
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Because of server problems, neither Martin Parsons or Ken Baker selected a Rail
photo of the month. |
