Alberta Midland – CNoR Calgary

Here’s the most northerly extant section of an unfinished railway line that was to run south from Calgary. Part of Canadian Northern Railway’s Alberta Midland,. it dates from the 1910s and a planned foray into southwestern Alberta. This was in competition with the dominate player in the region, Canadian Pacific Railway, but only two sections (separated and at each end) were ever built.

It’s that brush covered berm and somehow it escaped being obliterated when Deerfoot Trail was put in many decades ago.

Other sections of the the roadbed still exist, mostly outside the city and in the Fort MacLeod area. A short spur did see completion and served an explosives plant once located about where that large blue building is in the background. That’s an Ikea…mmmm, meatballs. Trains never went further south and the line never well documented, so it’s little known, even in railway circles.

From the same card dump…
The Wilson’s Arch Building Calgary.

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Date of adventure: April, 2022.
Location: Calgary, AB.

Alberta Midland - CNoR Calgary

Never finished: Alberta Midland – CNoR Calgary.

3 responses

  1. Jason Sailer says:

    Very cool! A person doesn’t realize what is still left after all these years, sometimes in plain sight!

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