Heritage Park is situated on 127 acres of land at 1900 Heritage Drive SW, just 20 minutes from downtown Calgary. It opened its gates to the public on July 1, 1964 and is Canada's largest living history museum, featuring a village recreated to appear as it might have been, in early-20 Century Alberta. Most of the buildings are historical and were transported to the park at the end of their life. 

The Park features a Railway Area, which includes a roundhouse, car shop and a turntable built in 1907. The roundhouse and car shop are open to the public and the turntable is heavily used during Railway Days, a 2-day affair usually on a July or August weekend. Access www.heritagepark.ca for more details.

This one at Heritage Park is a rectangular water
tower which was built in 1973 from a 1902 CPR plan,
using plumbing parts permitted by the CPR to be
salvaged from East Coulee,  Alberta (east of Red Deer). 
The tracks nearest to the water tower are the mainline around the Park and the other one a side track.

During the open season May-October, either 
the 2023 or 2024, travels an average of 45 miles
(approx. 72 km), from approximately 10:00 am 
to 5:30 pm daily and uses around 1700 Imperial 
gallons (about 7730 litres) of water from this 
water tower. 

This sand house is never used, firstly because it 
does not have the required plumbing and secondly,
it needs a bin full of sand at the bottom and a
compressor system, to bring the sand to the top;
where it is then fed into the locomotive's sand dome.
Just the same, the structure illustrates what a CPR 
sand house would have looked like. 

During the 1920s, the Canadian Pacific Railway
built this sand tower at the Alyth Yards in Calgary.
It was used in Red Deer from the mid-1960s until 
1976, when the CPR donated it to Heritage Park,
where it was rebuilt in 2008 incorporating many of
the original components.

CPR named the station after one of the contractors 
who built the railway across the Canadian Prairies,
from Flat Creek (near Virden MB) to Calgary AB. 
Using 2000 men and 400 horses they laid 675 miles 
of track during 15 months, including 67 miles of
track in June 1883 .

The large portion on the left side was the freight shed
and is now used as a snack bar area for Heritage Park 
visitors. Like Midnapore Station, it features washroom
facilities.

 http://www.heritagepark.ca/plan-your-visit/attractions
-and-exhibits/shepard-station.html

The "Happy Thoughts" stove brand was first 
manufactured by the William Buck Stove Company of Brantford, 
Ontario. William Buck started making stoves
in the 1850s and died suddenly of heart disease on 
July 15, 1897. The McClary Company of London, 
Ontario; then purchased the plant around 1920 and the factory 
became known as the Happy Thought Foundry Company. 
The Happy Thought Foundry Company closed 
at the end of 1931 when all manufacturing was moved to 
London, Ontario, after McClary became General Steel 
Wares through a merger.

Like all other early stoves, the middle door was
designed to insert wood or coal and the bottom door 
was used to remove the ashes with a small square
shovel. In every Heritage Park wired the doors shut on 
all the stoves in their 3 stations, to prevent tampering.

The station was always occupied by a single station agent who lived upstairs with his wife, before moving on to other stations.
Due to wartime manpower and lack of business, 
the station was closed in 1918. CPR then allowed the station to be occupied by caretakers during the 1940s and 1950s to prevent burglary vandalism, before it was sold to Heritage Park in 1964 for $1, with the stipulation that the building be taken away and the site cleaned up.

Before 1972, Midnapore Station served as the
administration building for the park and today, is basically
the beginning and the end of the Heritage Park steam trips.
During Railway Days in late summer, the station is home to various rail-related displays, such as telegraphy, watchmaking etc.

This area was more or less reserved for the stationmaster's
family and it was customary in those days to grow a vegetable garden in back. Also notice their private entrance. Usually, the family lived upstairs. To the left, 
the double doors led into the freight shed.

http://www.heritagepark.ca/plan-your-visit/attractions
-and-exhibits/midnapore-station.html

Like other railway stations in Heritage Park except 
Bowell, the Midnapore station features a potbellied 
stove as an artifact. 

Because it got very hot when in use, the stove was
raised off the floor on cast iron feet. A sheet metal 
pan was usually placed under the stove to prevent 
burning the floor and help catch some of the stray
ashes or cinders. The chrome plated ring around the 
stove is not just for decoration but to guard against
people accidentally getting burned when walking
past the stove

Notice the nickel-plated skirt around the stove.
It is not there just for decorative purpose but to help distribute the heat.

Constructed in 1893, the station was built of locally 
quarried sandstone, similar to the material used in many homes in the city.  Between 1910 and 1911 dismantled 
stone by stone. The west half (to the left of the picture) became the High River CPR station and the east half 
(to the right) was moved to Claresholm   Alberta, to
become its CPR station.

The High River CPR station subsequently renamed "Museum of the Highwood" and housing railway and ranching artifacts, was damaged by a fire on July 28th,
2010. After some restoration, it was again damaged 
June 21, 2013 by the waist-deep flood which engulfed 
the downtown part of High River. 

The original image is from the 
Glenbow Archives (NA-1497-11)

Due to its location in Heritage Town Square,  just 
outside the main gate, it requires no admission. 
This view show the back of the replica station.

The 3rd Calgary CPR Station featured two buildings
linked by a canopy. One of the buildings was the ticket office/baggage room and the other one was probably the restaurant/waiting room.  In larger railway stations such 
as Calgary and Vancouver, counters were usually curved
to accommodate the maximum number of customers, in the
least space. 

Due to its location before the Park gates in Heritage Town Square, the Railway Café requires no park admission. It is open year-round and serves a light fare, all dishes being prepared on-site and priced at $15 or less. Once inside the gates, there is more food available, ranging from ice cream and homemade pastry to fine dining. 

To remedy the situation, the railway dropped off a 
"portable station"; basically a boxcar on skids, which
only cost $100 to build (a good sum in those days), to 
provide a ticket office and waiting room. Unlike 
permanent stations later constructed in bigger hamlets
or junctions,  portable stations did not provide  for a
trackside station agent overlooking movements and
were more or less just a flag stop, opened at certain
hours. 

Bowell station at Heritage Park was the actual 1909
depot, located a few miles northwest of Medicine Hat.
It as not uncommon in those days to name stations after public figures and this one was named after 
Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Prime Minister of
Canada 1894-96.

Canadian Pacific Railway  donated the building to
Heritage Park in 1964 when they started their collection 
and the Park now uses it solely as an efficiently divided
washroom. The track in front is the "mainline" circling 
the Park. 

When this station was in use, horses carried passengers
in wagons for some distance to the Lake Louise Lodge,
some distance away but with an elevation of 800 feet
(roughly 243 m). Complains led the CPR to have the line serviced by the famous self-propelled Lake Louise 
Tramway, shown in these pages. http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/CPR/travel/
tramway.htm

Some basic tools are seen, consisting of railway lanterns, telegraphy equipment, as well as an Underwood typewriter.

The green board in the centre of the picture between the windows, holds a chain for working the track signal 
board,  either turned face-on and fully visible to the
engineer and fireman, or rotated away so as to be
practically invisible. Hence the railway term 
"Clear Board". Some rotated two ways, some 3 
ways,  on a pivot usually attached around  the
roof area.

Laggan Station is serviced by the Heritage Park steam 
train, which stops in front of it, on every alternate trip.
A full trip around takes approximately 45 minutes
and covers the Park perimeter twice. Passengers are 
free to get off at any of the 4 stations covered on this
page and then re-board.
 

The car shop is on the top and  the roundhouse
on the bottom. 
 

Left-to-Right: Car 76 "Construction Car" (1882), 
Car 141 (1907), used as a passenger coach, then 
work car; Car 100 "YORK" (1901) lettered "Dominion 
of Canada" and used by the Governor General and other dignitaries, CP 5 "RUPERTSLAND" ((1902) and 
CP 2658 "COLONIST CAR" (1912). Hidden behind
Car 141 in a replica of a Winnipeg horse streetcar.
Various pieces of track maintenance equipment 
occupy the centre aisle.

The interior of the Colonist Car will be covered on
this page soon.
 

It was constructed in September 1901 for the Royal Train, 
transporting the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall during their 
visit to Canada 
http://www.cwjefferys.ca/recollections-of-the-royal-tour
-of-1901#.UmCFAnCsg6Z
In 1906, it started in service on the Canadian Pacific Railway as Car 100 YORK. 

After being acquired by the Federal Department of
Railways & Canals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Railways_
and_Canals_(Canada) in March 1928, the heavyweight luxury car was used to transport the Governor General
and occasionally by Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. 
 

There are a couple of references to the car in the text on 
my steam engine page http://yourrailwaypictures.com/CPRsteamengines/ near
the top under the very narrow picture of the first train
arriving in Lloydminster AB. 

The car was constructed in built in January 1905 and 
served as CP Dining Car WARWICK in 1917, before 
being being converted to CP Parlor Car 5702 in 1918. 
It then underwent a series of name changes, bearing the
name RUPERTSLAND, from 1946 to 1947. It then 
became CP BRITISH COLUMBIA until 1961. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=
1512394 before finally becoming CP 5 in 1969.

The stairs in the foreground make the interior of the car available for viewing by visitors, during the Park's open hours.

Still well able to be on the mainline; it returned there in November 1985, led by steam locomotive CPR 1201 (shown in these pages) with a special train of today's dignitaries, 
for the commemoration, 100 years later.

Car 76 was built by Harlan and Hollingsworth in May 1882 
and served as a construction car for the Landon & Shepard & Company, which laid CPR track west. It bore  a variety of 
names and numbers on the CPR during its lifetime, before
ending up on the Northern Alberta Railway as NAR
Official Car 3 in January 1964,  and acquired by Heritage
Park who restored it to its former splendor. In intimate 
circles, Car 76 is still referred to as "The Construction Car".
Now protected from the elements in the Heritage Park car
shop, it only ventures out on special occasions but can be
toured inside. The painted panel in front,
enables kids to stick their head into a cut out portion and 
have a picture taken with the group laying The Last Spike. 

The century-old car is fully roadworthy and approved for mainline track.Craigellachie is featured on my station page http://yourrailwaypictures.com/TrainStations/indexBC.html

Winnipeg operated an animal railway from 20 October 
1882 to June 1894, before switching to electric 

Public Transit, in the form of horse car, first ran in
Winnipeg on October 20,1882. Fares were $0.10 cash 
or 15 tickets for $1.00. In the winter fares dropped to
$0.05 cash per ride. The Winnipeg Street Railway 
Company was founded by a young entrepreneur from 
Toronto named Albert William Austin.

The steel crank above the dash is the hand brake, used
by the conductor on  downgrades. Among some of the disadvantages of a horse car,  is that they could not
easily be pulled up hills by the horse. Also running all 
day would require a change of horses. The horses would
also have to eat periodically and soiled the streets.

Among other Winnipeg Transit facts, there's a period 
picture of a horse car on a Winnipeg street at: http://winnipegtransit.com/en/inside-transit/
interestingtransitfacts

To the far right is CP Jordan Spreader 402829 and
behind it, the CP 414328, 50-Ton Bucyrus crane, both featured on this page, about to be restored..
In the background is an unidentified boxcar, also 
to be restored. Steps have been set up, to allow visitors 
a glance inside a boxcar.

The gentleman with the broom in the centre is one of the costumed Heritage Park staff, on site to explain railway artifacts to visitors.
The broom is only one of the many props in use. 
Others are purposely old vehicles locally manufactured, 
to transport staff internally etc.
All Heritage Park staff dealing with the public are 
costumed in period dress 1890-1920,  by the Park's 
wardrobe department.

It was built by the Canadian Pacific in February 1905 and they numbered it 2144 in 1912, then 6144 in 1943. It is a 0-6-0, which means no leading or trailing trucks and was mostly used as a switcher by CP, before being sold to Canmore Mines around 1963. 

After Canmore Mines Ltd. ceased coal production in 1979,  the locomotive was eventually donated to Heritage Park
as a historical artifact. The Park  converted it to diesel 
power and it became Heritage Park No.4, which they used occasionally as a switcher, before renumbering it to CPR 2018 and displaying it to the public in the Roundhouse.

Canmore, about 20 km east, became the overflow for 
Banff by backpackers and other outdoor enthusiasts 
seeking more basic accommodation up to the mid-80s
Now with 12,000+ souls, it played a great part in 1988 Olympic events, such as cross country skiing and
Biathlon because it is ideally situated in the Canadian Rockies and less than 40 minutes west of Calgary

Heritage Park does 95% of its maintenance on site. 
The Railway Roundhouse was financed by a grant
from the Alberta Heritage Fund for Alberta's 75th Anniversary and opened in 1981

CPR is a 0-6-0 locomotive, meaning that it has no
leading or trailing truck. It was built by Lima Locomotive Works (Ser# 8410) in January 1944 for the US Army 
who used it as their 4076. It then switched cars on the
Pacific Coast Terminals in Vancouver as their 4076,
before being sold to a private owner, before coming in Heritage Park service. It was painted CPR 6269 (seen elsewhere on this page) between 1967 and 1969 and 
then renumbered to CPR 2024.

Like her sister CPR 2023, the 2024 was never owned 
by the CPR but was given a "pretend number" 
by Omer Lavallée, the late CPR Corporate Historian.

The railway at Heritage Park uses 100-pound rail 
on a standard gauge track (four feet, 8½ inches 
wide - 1,435 mm), and its main loop is 4,300 feet long 
(1,310.64 m).

You can see the rod and piston in operation on the
preserved  Bytown Railway Society
(Ottawa), Central Vermont steam crane at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k81SDuG8JYg

While Heritage Park has a reputation of rebuilding 
better than new, it could only apply mostly to the 
exterior. and a bit of the interior for static display. 
Missing from the steam crane is the chimney, which
is now sitting on flatcar Morrissey Fernie & Michel 
Railway #53, shown on this page.

In front is one of the operating handcarts owned by 
Heritage Park.

This one is on the right side and available for view
to the general public. 
The wheel is about 3 ft. in diameter.

Everything has been restored to working order. 
Almost all the controls were operated by wooden levers. When the elevator is open (May-Oct), it is attended to
by a staff interpreter in bib overalls. 

A brass plaque screwed outside the door states: 
"The  Alberta Wheat Pool donated this elevator 
to Heritage Park in 1967".

The name Mewata is for the nearby armory, which is
still used today as a Militia Drill Hall,  while the 
stadium formerly located at the back was razed and 
turned into the Shaw Millennium Park, a City of Calgary outdoor skate park. The Calgary Stampeders football 
club subsequently relocated to McMahon Stadium in the northwest.

The locomotive was subsequently renumbered 5931 and moved. This view looks east and a bit south.

CPR 5934  was originally located at Mewata Park in
Calgary now known as Shaw Millennium Park. In 1978 it
was moved to the  9th Ave. tracks and a diesel engine
pulled it from there to Heritage Station. It was then 
placed on sectional track where there were no tracked 
and then moved to the entrance of Heritage Park 
where it still is located. CP 5934 was repainted in 1991 
when the original number ( 5931) was reinstated.

Click here to view how this move was accomplished

The track in front was laid in 1990 to accommodate the Heritage Park streetcar, which shuttles visitors from the parking lot to the main gate during the open season May
to September (Daily during July and August, otherwise weekends only)  See it in operation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIF0QlU99uU
 

First of all, it's called a 2-10-4 because it has 2 leading wheels, 10 driving wheels and 4 trailing wheels. The name Selkirk comes from where the locomotive was normally operating, the Selkirk Range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia. 

Notice the rounded shape of the cab. Selkirk locomotives were specifically designed to operate in mountain tunnels 
and not in open areas as others, with square cabs.

Around 2007, with the Heritage Park expansion and construction of what is now called The Heritage Town Square, the gate was moved back and the boardwalk 
and stairs disappeared, as did the cairn in front of the locomotive (shown in another picture) The streetcar
tracks now run parallel to the locomotive just about 
where the end of the sidewalk sits on the right side, 
after the grassy slope to the left was leveled.

_____________

LAST OF THE 5900s

Locomotives of this type were used by the Canadian
Pacific Railway to wheel trains over the mountains 
between Calgary and Revelstoke., BC in the days of 
steam power.

They were known as the Selkirks, after one of the
mountain ranges to which their exhausts barred 
defiance. The first of the fleet of 35 was built in 
Montreal in 1929 and they were the largest
locomotives in the British Commonwealth.

Specifications: Length, 98 feet; Height, 15.5 feet; 
weight, including tender, 529,000 pounds; drivers,
63 inches; tender capacity, 12,000 gallons of water, 
4100 gallons of fuel oil.

Its origin is unclear. To the best of the Park's 
knowledge, it was built in 1907 or 1922 at the
Canadian Foundry Company in Winnipeg.
First installed in train yards in North Bend, B.C., 60 kilometres north of Hope, it was later relocated to Arrowhead, B.C., and then Sicamous, B.C.
In 1981, the Canadian Pacific Railway donated the
turntable to Heritage Park. 
http://www.heritagepark.ca/plan-your-visit/attractions-
and-exhibits/railway-turntable.html
 

Some non air-operated turntables have been called "Armstrong turntables" by railway crews, meaning that strong arms were needed to activate the turntable, by 
hand, while pushing on it. View one at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzIt7YN9Fx0. The
little blue and white beauty being turned in the video is
a GE 25-ton switcher. http://www.cteastrrmuseum.org/GE25.htm
 

In 1930, there were 104 different commodities being 
shipped (such as acid and vinegar) in 140,000 tank 
cars but by 1939, 15,000 less tank cars due to the Depression. Older ones (mostly with wooden exteriors)
were then dismantled.

The car was built in 1912 by The American Car 
& Foundry (ACF).
They produced stock cars like these for decades
during the last century, straddling both the steam
and diesel eras 

Heritage Park CPR 2023 going over the only rail bridge 
on the property

Heritage Park CPR 2023 going over the only rail bridge 
on the property

The normal Heritage Park train consist  is composed of either 2023 or 2024 and passenger cars Morrissey, 
Fernie & Michel Ry 62 and 63, built around 1885;  as
well as Canadian National Observation Car 15097, built in January 1892 and featured in two photos on this page. 
All are seen here. 

To prevent excessive rail wear, the train runs clockwise
one year and counterclockwise the following year during 
the visitor season, May to September. A ride around the park is usually twice around the property and lasts about
45 minutes. Ticketed passengers can get off at any of the
4 stations and re-board. 

Michel, now a ghost town, was once a thriving community 
of 1000 people in the BC "Crowsnest Pass", which, at the turn of the century, featured several coal mines. The Morrissey, Fernie and Michel Railway connected the Coal Creek mines with the Canadian Pacific and the Great Northern railways at Fernie. Gas outbursts led to the
closure of the Morrissey operations in 1909. http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/coal03.html 

For obvious reasons - fire and smoke are bad in a coal
mine - CNP 3 mostly operated outside, towing small 
rickety wooden cars, one of which is displayed behind
the loco. Weighing 32,000 lbs (14515 Kg) empty,
CNP 3 was given to Heritage Park in 1965. 
This view is from the road.

When the rickety coal cars became too worn out, they
were simply replaced by building a new one at very low 
cost on the same set of wheels.

The track in front is part of a wye, used to back up a locomotive to the square water tank shown elsewhere,
rather than go all around the Heritage Park
perimeter again.

The Crowsnest Pass Coal Company operated in the 
Fernie area of Southern BC from the late 1890s to the
late 1950s. By that time, coal was on the decline and
most mines of Alberta and BC closed down.
Some coal mines still exist in the area, now exported
to Asia, but the companies do strip mining.

The six-ton locomotive in front was used in Canmore for
nearly 80 years, before Canmore Mines Ltd donated it to Heritage Park in 1979, while the one eight-ton locomotive
in the back, nicknamed "Jumbo" was used for 40 years
at the Crowsnest Pass Coal & Coke Company at 
Michel BC, before being presented to Heritage Park
as a gift in 1965.

Both units were built by the H.K. Porter Company Ltd,
the largest manufacturer of mine locomotives; one in 
1909 and the other one in 1902.

Being fireless, compressed air locomotives were used 
inside the mine itself and pushed the cars to an outside
area, where steam locomotives such as CNP 3 or the Canmore 4 "Goat" both shown on this page, took over.

Left to right: CPR 306684 (aka OY22), 
CPR 311386 (aka OY21). It's impossible to read 
the markings on the 3rd car but it's also from
the CPR and the same era.

MF&F was a holding company catering to the CPR 
coal supply and it operated in Southwestern BC near
the Alberta border. The load is very likely tied to the
coal industry. One of its two lines was built by the
Canadian Pacific in 1900 and leased by the
Cows Nest Pass Coal Company (owners of the 
small No 3 on this page) and it was built to connect 
the mines at Coal Creek and at Morrissey with the
Canadian Pacific and Great Northern railways.

In addition, free passenger trains operated several
times each day to provide transportation for the
miners who lived in Fernie. The cars are features 
somewhere else on this page.

While today's road locomotives have a small plow in
front, bigger snowdrifts require one of these, known 
as a "Wedge Plow". Weighing in at about 20 tons, the
plow has no power on its own and must be pushed by a locomotive. Average plowing speed on mainlines is 
about 50 mph. See one in action at the beginning of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzqRQr8tQPQ

At the very bottom of the plow is a blade or "tongue", 
which is adjusted by the operator so it doesn't catch any obstacle while plowing between the rails. The snow flies
up the tongue into the plow, throwing it on both sides of 
the unit. If a wider swath is desired, the side mounted 
wings are extended. The operator which sits above the 
plow in the cupola controls the plow with only 2 gauges.
One  for monitoring air pressure to the plow brakes and 
the other one to monitor the cylinder pressure necessary
to raise and lower the blade and actuate the wings as well 
as the whistle used by the plow operator to signal the locomotive engineer.  A very distinct code applicable to
plows only is used for Stop at once (o), Move backward 
(o_o) and Move forward (_o_). "o" indicates a short
sound and "_" indicated a long sound. In this case, it 
is sometimes better than radio transmission and unmistakable. The cupola also contains a heating stove.

While it looks simple, the plowman must be familiar 
with the track layout and various obstacles along the 
way as well as when to raise the blade to prevent
damage which could derail the plow while at speed, if
the tongue encounters a heavy immovable object.

The original number for the Heritage Park snowplow was 300884 when manufactured in December 1911 and it
became renumbered into the 400XXX series when 36 
newer units were manufactured in the CP Angus Shops between 1920 and 1929 in that series.

Both sides have extendable wings and you can see the
four hinges on which they'd swing out to about 12 to 
14 feet for plowing to the side.
Plows are usually pushed at speed (50-60 mph) by one 
or more diesel locomotive and have adjustable "tongues"
in front to control the depth of plowing  and the wings
are also adjustable. Specific trackside signs alert the plowman to raise or lower the tongue, because the
plow can easily derail if it hits an obstacle such as a 
turnout (switch).

The centre portion is adjustable and the operator must ensure that it clears the ties, turnouts (switches) and
other protruding objects between the rails while the side blades clear the top of the rail. The air hose hanging 
down is from the previous car.

Snow is lifted by the blades and pushed into the wedge, 
which them throws it on each side of the track.

This type of plow is used for single track only. Double 
track plows use a design which features a flat portion
on one side, such as shown on this page with 
CNR 55501 and especially well with CN 23475 
snowplows.

The tender gets periodically switched around 
Heritage Park as an outdoor exhibit. 
The fireman's side is seen here on July 1st, 2014. 

Heritage Park likes to restore their railway artifacts in pristine condition, as good or better than when they 
were in use and move them around from year to year
within the railway-themed area of the Park to
showcase them.

The track in front is their "Mainline"

"Lil" Pat is a 20-ton yard switcher and a builder's 
plate could not be located on the frame to indicate
the model, serial number etc.  Some web research 
determined that it's probably a Whitcomb type 20DM,
built between 1946 and 1952 (possibly closer to the latter, due to the truck-style grille - early models had a
flat grille). The first two numbers stand for the weight 
and the next two for the engine /drive combination. 
DM is for Diesel-Mechanical. There is also a series of numbers and letters which would follow, indicating
variants of the model. View a couple of this type of locomotive at http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_brcs7.jpg and http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/dgp1.jpg

Whitcomb industrial locomotives ranged, from 
2-ton battery locomotives used in underground 
mine work, to 100-ton oil-electric models used in 
road work. Production of the Whitcomb locomotive
line came to an end in March 1956 after producing approximately 5000 locomotives. Those truly
interested in Whitcomb can access: http://www.northeast.railfan.net/diesel96.html .
Other sites in the North East Rails series address 
Whitcomb locos of higher size and capacity.
All with an individual thumbnail, that can be
brought to full screen.

On the extreme left, Heritage Park staff  give
rides to visitors on a hand cart during Railway Days, September 28-29, 2013. 

In the very back, Construction Car 76, built in 1882
(shown on this page)

The following is from Brian Manning
Chief Engineer/Chief Railway Mechanical Officer
Heritage Park Historical Village® 

"Lil Pat was donated to Heritage Park by Orica in 
Carsland.  They used it as a yard shunt engine, and
had done extensive work to it including a rebuild on
the Twin disc clutch and installing a new 250 Cummins
diesel engine to replace the old Buda unit.  They
parked it soon after and replaced it with a new 
Trackmobile.  It is a 1942, 25 ton Whitcomb 
ser #40738, and was owned by Continental Explosives
LTD (CIL) and was originally used 
on James Island, BC."

This car was built in 1892 and is now at Calgary's Heritage Park and in daily operation during their open season,
May to September. 
View it on YouTube by accessing "Calgary's Heritage Park Steam Train"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPHKvYIbWA

This car was bui;t in 1892 and is now at Calgary's Heritage Park and in daily operation during their open season,
May to September. 
View it on YouTube by accessing "Calgary's Heritage Park SteamTrain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPHKvYIbWA

A video posted by Massey at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPHKvYIbWA takes
the viewer for a ride on the platform of this car for a
portion of the Heritage Park loop. 

MF&M 63 was built in 1902 and MF&M  62 dated from 1885. Morrissey Fernie & Michel Railway served a mine
in the Crowsnest area of Southern BC (Alberta/BC border) http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/branchlines05.html. You can see the car in action up close (including this picture) during a 15 minute video on the Heritage park steam train which 
Massey posted at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPHKvYIbWA 
 

Car 14 was the very last streetcar to run in Calgary,
from the Ogden CPR shops to City Hall downtown on December 29th, 1950.  It was donated to Heritage Park 
in 1973, who restored it, to move visitors from the corner 
of 14th Street SW and Heritage Drive to the main gate. 
The car is double-ended with the trolley pole simply
lowered at the end of the run and the other one raised
before the streetcar reverses direction. Between 2007
and 2010, the Park underwent a great expansion. At that
time, the streetcar tracks were removed and then 
reinstalled on a new route, doubling the journey. Enmax (formerly The City of Calgary Electric System - now a 
private corporation) was the major sponsor. 

More streetcar parts were found and donated to 
Heritage Park, which then built a replica (No 15) in
1991. During the summer season, either or both 
streetcars operate between the parking lot and the 
main gate. While walking from the different parking
lots to the main gate is not too far, taking a noisy trolley 
the long way around for about 15 minutes or so is a
lot more fun for a loonie (the Canadian dollar coin)

Thomas Henry McCauley, superintendent of the Calgary electric streetcar railway, from the beginning in 1909 to
his retirement about the 1940s,  designed the system in 
order to enable an ever growing Calgary population to
board and alight quickly during rush periods on the busier routes. He held several streetcar patents over the years.

The door mechanism patent was filed on 5 June 1917
and issued on 20 Nov 1917 (now CA 180474), while the 
door patent was filed on 5 Jun 1917 and issued 22 Jan 
1918 (now CA 181729). Both original submissions are
now on archives at the Canadian Intellectual Property 
Office in Ottawa. 

The Patent also made its way to the States as US 1249976 http://www.google.com/patents/US1249976
The latter gives a better read than the pdf files, which 
are a scan of the 1917 originals.

Be it known that I, THOMAS HENRY MCCAULEY, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada and subject of England, residing at Calgary, in the Province of Alberta and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and
useful Street-Car Doors, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to street car doors, and aims to provide a 
novel arrangement of the entrance and exit doors, providing for 
compactness in construction, and enabling the entrance and exit doors
to be placed at the front end of the car with a short vestibule, such a vestibule being of advantage in that it will not overhang the opposite
track in turning corners.

The present invention also enables ordinary short vestibule single entrance cars to be converted into the double door construction, or to be equipped with the entrance and exit doors at one end in a compact arrangement.

Another object of the invention is the provision of novel means for
operating either or both of the entrance and exit doors, in order that they can be operated individually or jointly.

It is also within the scope of the invention to provide the aforesaid improvements, 
which are of comparatively simple construction, which can be readily installed without prohibitive alterations or expense, .and which will
increase the efficiency and utility
of the car.
..................
Thomas Henry McCauley also provided an invention patent for a 
mechanism to open and close the door from inside and retract the step
while the car was running.

Of note in these pictures is the large “cowcatcher”, prominent in these
days to scoop up anything that might fall in front of the streetcar (mostly pedestrians not yet familiar with the streetcar speed at crossings). Note the air whistle on top of the centre window.

The uniformed conductor is just opening the Prairie-style door, locally invented by Calgary Electric Superintendent McCauley and getting ready to off-load passengers at ANDREW station, by the main gate within a minute or two.

Car #15, built in the Heritage Park shops,  is a replica
of Car #14, which was the very last streetcar to run in revenue service on the streets of Calgary. The two
cars are used alternately in season.

To mark its 50th Anniversary season, unlimited rides
on the steam train, the streetcar and the SS Moyie
paddle wheel boat have all been included in the 2014 Heritage Park admission price.

This telephoto shot is taken from a hill accessible
to all,  but a bit removed from the public area.

It’s next assignment was as part of a ski train, which 
the CPR inaugurated to the Laurentian Mountains 
around 1926-1927, ferrying about 10,000 passengers per weekend between Windsor Station in downtown 
Montreal to areas such as Ste-Agathe and Shawbridge, 
about 60 miles (100 km) north. Many skiers went up
on Friday and came back on Sunday. 

In 1951, the car was withdrawn from passenger service 
and converted internally to a bunk car to accommodate 
CPR maintenance crews and assigned to the CPR
subsidiary Dominion Atlantic Railway as DAR 411585, operating around Kentville NS. http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=
File:411585_(1).JPG

After the TV series which ran in 1974, CPR ran a display train, to complement their “CP Bygone” store at Windsor Station in Montreal where surplus artifacts could be procured, such as railway dinnerware and CPR Beaver heralds formerly used on their passenger cars.. In addition to showcasing the CPR history to the public, it made acquisition of some artifacts possible. The train toured Canada, with a business car at the end for the crew.

Car # 141 is the last varnished mahogany railcar
in North America and because of its historical value;
it is not run as part of its steam train. Normally stored 
in the Heritage Park Car Shop it is displayed between Construction Car 76 and the replica of the Winnipeg
Horse Car and is available for daily visit by the public 
but only brought out of storage for special occasions, 
such as for Railway Days each September. 
 

 "Colonists" paid only $7.00 in passage from 
Montreal but were expected to be self-sufficient and 
look after, not only their family, but also their
livestock, located a few cars ahead of the colonist car. Supplies enroute were of course sold by the CPR, 
but most colonists chose to travel at low cost, with only minimum of comfort for 7 days between Montreal and Calgary. 

For others leaving from Eastern Canada, railway 
fare from Montreal was $23.00 for First Class 
and $18.00 for Tourist Class passengers

Car 2658 in Calgary's Heritage Park, built in 1912 is
one of two relatively-intact CPR wooden colonist cars in existence today and one of only 3 such cars in existence
across Canada; others being the CPR 2514 at the West Coast Railway Association Museum in Squamish 
BC and the CNR 2929 at the Canada
Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.

This view in September 2013, of the Ladies' end of 
Colonist Car CP 2658 shows therestoration that is
needed and will soon be undertaken. 

These upholstered seats were about the only comforts 
of the car. While women prepared meals and looked
after the children during the 7-day trip, most men rode 
with their livestock, which also had to be fed and
watered. Livestock cars were generally placed ahead 
of the Colonist car in the train for easy access. It also 
ensured that colonistswouldn't mix with passengers 
in other classes, who had paid a higher fare.

This "Golden Nugget" wood stove, manufactured by 
the Gurney Foundry in Toronto was located in a small kitchen, opposite the Ladies' end of the car. Each car featured only basic sanitation, such as a wash stand 
and a toilet at each end.

No mattress was provided but CPR would sell one 
for a dollar, same price for a wool blanket. Pillows 
were35 cents each and curtains for privacy cost a
dollar
a pair.

If they so desire, Colonist car 2568 visitors can
request a free replica as a memento from the CPR-uniformed Heritage Park staff member after attending his 45-minute play where they become 1907 "Colonists" and listen to a presentation of what their contract entails and what is expected from them 
during the 7-day trip. 

RIVER FORTH was built in 1929 for the "The Trans 
Canada Limited" http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/tcltd/history.html 
a First Class Service and the ancestor of today's "The Canadian" 
and later used by the Soo Line (the CPR US subsidiary) 
on the "Mountaineer", between St. Paul, 
Minnesota and Vancouver and other "named" 
CPR trains. http://sooline.railfan.net/resources/timetables/
55ptt4.jpg

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw all but 4 
of these elegant cars put into storage.  The River Forth continued to operate on the Mountaineer during the summer months, before the car was reconfigured with sleeping compartments and renamed CAPE KNOX
in 1943. It became CPR Business Car 21 in 1962 
and finally Boarding Car 411752 in 1974 on work trains, before being stored south of Calgary at
Skiff Alberta, without wheels but earmarked for donation by the CPR; 
since the car was still relatively intact inside and
out. http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.ca/2014/01
/cp-stored-cars-at-skiff-alberta.html

CPR's Solarium-Lounge Car came to Heritage Park 
without wheels but was perceived to  be fairly intact
inside and out.

When rolled out again, the car will be used for special 
events as well as available fine dining experiences, 
reflecting the elegance of a bygone era.  Funds 
gathered will be used to restore the Colonist Car, 
shown in these pages.

The photos are just a general concept for now but 
Heritage Park has a history of restoring things to
pristine condition.

When completed, the car will be rolled out for fine 
dining on Heritage Park track. 

Funds raised through the rental of the dining car will be
put towards restoring another important piece of 
Western Canada's rail history, a 1912 wooden
Colonist Car.

Fine dining is the main purpose of this section and 
Heritage Park will make RIVER FORTH available 
for special events, as a fundraiser to refurbish the 
Colonist Car shown on this page.

For all you steam fans, this page is a must

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