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Northern Alberta Railways (reporting mark NAR) was a Canadian railway which served northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia. Jointly owned by both Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway , NAR existed as a separate company from 1929 until 1981.
On January 19, 2006, CN announced the purchase from RailAmerica Inc. of the Mackenzie Northern Railway, the Lakeland & Waterways Railway, and the Central Western Railway (jointly known as RLGN/CWRL). CN came full circle by paying $26 million for the three northern Alberta rail lines it had sold nine years previously. [12]
Originally built as the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway between 1909 and 1925, the line runs 325 kilometres (200 mi) between Boyle, Alberta and Fort McMurray, Alberta. It eventually became part of the Northern Alberta Railway, which was jointly owned by the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway, and it was closed in 1989 ...
Alberta Prairie Steam Tours Ltd. Private Company Shortline Freight: The oldest of all the privately owned shortlines in Alberta. Former Canadian Pacific Lacombe Subdivision and former Canadian National Stettler Subdivisions. Primary markets are grains, fertilizer, rail car storage and passenger train day trips. Battle River Railway [4] BRR
The locomotive was leased to the Northern Alberta Railways (NAR) on May 31, 1957, where it was reassigned to pull short-distance work trains and weed trains throughout Alberta. [2] No. 1392 was retired from revenue service in June 1958, and it was thereafter donated to the City of Edmonton, who decided to move it to the Edmonton Exhibition ...
The Alberta Railway Museum (ARM) is a railway museum located in the north end of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It houses a collection of railway equipment and buildings and has locomotives from both the Canadian National Railways (CNR) and Northern Alberta Railways (NAR).
Jasper was created as a railway siding in 1911 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. It was originally called Fitzhugh, part of the Grand Trunk Pacific's alphabet line, but was renamed in 1913 when the townsite was surveyed. By 1913 both the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Northern Railway called on Jasper. [2]
Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) arrived in Edmonton in 1905. In 1905, CNoR reached Edmonton, [13] just as part of the old NWT had changed into the province of Alberta. The rail-line crossed the North Saskatchewan River at Fort Saskatchewan, coming into Edmonton from the northeast, following the present-day LRT track. [14] [15]