Anybody ever hear of "The Great Slave Lake Railroad&quo

fred_m

Suppose to be a short line in Canada and the most northern Railroad in North America. I did a quick google search and came up with very little data other than what I just relayed. Anybody have any info or links? Fred

Dougrl · Telegraph Operator Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Posts: 14

Good Evening Fred, look up info. on the "Alberta Great Waterways Railway" this was started in 1922 and went to Fort McMurry Slave Lake and north to the Peace River country. It was started jointly by the CN and CP. Hope this is what you are looking for. Cheers Doug M.

thuffman

also was mentioned on the history channek about the alaska highway you's have to search www.historychannel.com for modern marvels

tom

interurban

Try google serch Fred several links there matey.
Anything in particular your looking for?

fred_m

Not really, just a curisosity. Would be easy to model without paint. Everything white and all. Fred

GearDrivenSteam

Beaser might be your man for this one.

beaser

I just put a system in Slave back in october. All I saw was the inside of a compressor room and the bar at the Sawridge Inn.
morons

Whoops! i found it

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In 1964, the Great Slave Railway (now part of the Canadian National Railway) from Edmonton, Alberta, reached Hay River and the mining site of Pine Point. With 129 kilometres of rail line within its boundaries, the Northwest Territories can lay claim to Canadaâ€™s most northern rail head.

www.greatcanadianlakes..._page6.htm

www.calverley.ca/Part1...16-07.html

www.railway.org/

I'll dig up more

beaser

I was able to get a pretty crummy picture off the google book site which i could only screen print onto a word doc. if you cn reada word doc, I'll email it.

They had 4 GP9's and were set up on an automated system. The pics are black and white but it appears to ne a CN loco with slave divisional markings.

Here's a semi related link. it shows early travel to the region in an interesting vehicle. Kinda like a slide show.
www.virtualmuseum.ca/E...ey_eng.swf

So far as ease in modeling, i wouldn't count on it. there is lots of scrub and muskeg tho. You'd be surprised at the summers.