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Item Name:	Size:	Description:	Price:	Photo:
A Future Empress in Earlier Times:	20" x 32"	Paper Edition 350-35 A/P	Suggested Retail $265.00 A/P $295.00
Seventy-one years after its entry into service for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Hudson type 2816, fully restored, recently made a triumphant return to Calgary. Re-aquired by the railway in 1998 and given the title CPR Empress, she'll now become a roving ambassador for the company she served for a third of the past century. In a harvest-time scene from the 1930's, the engine gets its train underway after the passing of a westbound on the mainline. The car is a Ford sedan, also of 1930 vintage.
Rock Mountain Majesty:	20" x 27"	Canvas Edition 225-20 A/P	Suggested Retail $550.00 A/P $600.00
One of the most impressive sights on any railway, I believe, is the view of Mounts Cathedral and Stephen, as seen from the valley floor, approximately three miles east of Field, B.C. This is the Canadian Pacific Railway's "Big Hill", eight miles of 2.2% grade leading to the crest of the Continental Divide. Ahead are the famed Spiral tunnels which the train must negotiate on the winding route out of the valley. In steam days, one or more locomotives were added to all eastbound trains at Field.
A Winter Morning at Yoho:	20" x 24"	Canvas Edition 100-18 A/P	Suggested Retail $500.00 A/P $600.00
On the lower slopes of the valley between the spiral tunnels sat the little station of Yoho. Moments after the passing of a westbound train on the near track, this eastbound starts slowly out of the siding under clounds of white exhaust. The station operator and his dog watch the proceedings, as does the brakesman on the east switch. The train will shortly enter the upper spiral tunnel, and will then cross the picture from right to left along the faint line through the trees in the lower background.
Early Spring, Moose Lake:	20" x 30"	Canvas Edition	Suggested Retial $500.00 A/P $600.00
The train is Canadian National's Continental, eastbound along the shores of Moose Lake, a twelve kiolometre long body of water through which the Fraser River flows on its journey from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.
Fall Colours in Rogers Pass, 1950:	20" x 30"	Edition Size 195-15 A/P	Suggested Retail $450.00 A/P $550.00
The location is in the area of Ross Peak, a place name on the railway west of the summit and tunnel at Glacier. This eastbound train is drawn by #5468, at the time one of CPR's newest locomotives, now housed in the Revelstoke Railway Museum. The helper engine, #5915, is one fo the early "Selkirks" of 1930.
Great Northern in Marias Pass:	20" x 30"	Edition Size 195-15 A/P	Suggested Retail $450.00 A/P $550.00
Todays Burlington Northern Railway was formed by the 1970 merger of four railways including the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. The Great Northern mainline, still very much in use, crosses the Rocky Mountains via Marias Pass in northern Montana's Glacier National Park. In this scene, an eastbound freight emerges from a snowshed approximately ten miles from the summit of the grade on the continental divide. The locomotive is one of Great Northern's largest; the massive and powerful R-2's, built in the railway's own Hillyard shops at Spokane.
Jasper in Winter:	20" x 30"	Edition Size 450-50 A/P	Suggested Retail $265.00 A/P $290.00
Sunset of a winter afternoon darkens Athabaska valley and lights begin to appear in the town of Jasper. Canadian National's westbound Continental eases to a stop between the station and waiting eastbound freight. Both will soon be on their respective ways. The year is about 1950. The buildings across Connaught Drive include Otto's Hall, the Chaba Theatre, Jasper Hardware & Groceries and the Pyramid Hotel, named after the large peak in the background.
Jasper Lake and Roche Miette Mt.:	20" x 30"	Edition Size 95-10 A/P	Suggested Retail $450.00 A/P $550.00
The Athabaska River flows past the town of Jasper, Alberta and widens into Jasper Lake approximately ten miles to the north. At this point, the Canadian National mainline and the present day Yellowhead Highway part company till they meet again at Hinton, some thirty-five miles to the north-east. Most of this stretch of railway is inaccessible by road as the rails follow the northern side Jasper and Brule Lakes. This scene is just inside the eastern boundary of Jasper National Park; the eastbound train is approaching the narrows leading into Brule Lake. The distinctive peak to the south is Roche Miette, at the northern end of the Miette Range. #4318 was one of thirty-three T-4 class freight locomotives built for the railway in 1929-30. Most were assigned to western Canada.
Ladner Creek Bridge:	20" x 30"	Edition Size 195-15	Suggested Retail $450.00 A/P $550.00
Ladner Creek Bridge:	20" x 30"	Canvas Edition Size 50-5	Suggested Retail $1100.00 A/P $1200.00
The most difficult section of the Kettle Valley Railway was the line through the Coquihalla Pass. After years of coping with slides and washouts, the line was closed in the winter of 1959-60 and officially abandoned two years later. Rails were then removed and the Coquihalla Division passed into history. However, this high, curved steel bridge remains standing forty years later. In this scene from the early 1950's, an eastbound passenger train, pulled by two C.P.R. "Mikado" type locomotives, approaches the tunnel at the eastern end of the bridge.
Morants's Curve:	20" x 32"	--	Ltd. Run Prnt. $417.00 L.R. Canvas Prnt. $660.00
Max Jacquiard's first diesel painting portrays a pair of classic maroon and grey Canadian Pacific FP-7s bringing The Canadian around "Morant's Curve" in the Rockies. The location was named for famed CP photographer Nicholas Morant, who took several pictures at the site which have found their way into books, calendars, and promotional materials over the years.
Over the Selkirks:	20 3/8" x 31"	Edition Size 450-50 A/P	Suggested Retail $265.00 A/P $290.00
Over the Selkirks:	20 3/8" x 31"	Canvas Edition 100-25 A/P	Suggested Retail $500.00 A/P $550.00
Nearing the top of the grade at Glacier, the east-bound train will soon enter the five mile long Connaught Tunnel through Mt. MacDonald. In the 40 mile climb from Revelstoke, the train has gained 2000 feet in elevation, the last 19 miles on a 2.5% grade. Equal to the task are the two 'Selkirks', T1b #5929 and T1a #5915, one of the original twenty of the class, Canadian Pacific's largest and most powerful locomotives.
Revelstoke Twilight:	15" x 30"	Edition Size 195-15 A/P	Suggested Retail $450.00 A/P $550.00
A winter afternoon fades into evening. Lights in and around the station seem to brighten as the sky darkens. A westbound train, mail and express #5, perhaps, pulls away from the station behind Hudson #2860, and P2K #5468, a freight locomotive pressed into pusher service this evening for the climb over Eagle Pass. Headlights of a Pontiac sedan illuminate a taxi, a 1947 Plymouth. Building aand cars are long gone, but both of these locomotives escaped the scrapper's torch and survived into the year 2000.
Royal Hudson Under Lions Gate Bridge:	11" x 18"	Edition: 3500/300AP/50PP	Suggested Retail: $115.00 AP/PP $165.00
BC Rail's Royal Hudson #2860 was built for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1940, one of the last group of five ordered by the railway. Locomotives of the 4-6-4 wheel arrangement were pioneered in North America by the New York Central and named after its Hudson River line. When the King and Queen of England toured Canada in 1939, the royal train was drawn by C.P. Hudson #2850, dressed for the occasion with Royal crown crests on its running boards. Royal permission was given for this engine's sisters to continue to wear this crest in regular service, hence the name 'Royal Hudson'. Spanning the First Narrows between Stanley Park and the North Shore, Vancouver's Lions Gate bridge is about three years older than the 2860.
Selkirks at Glacier:	20" x 32"	Canvas Edition 75-18 A/P	Suggested Retail $500.00 A/P $600.00
Forty uphill miles along the Illecillewaet Valley from Revelstoke, the engineers of this eastbound train open their throttles after slowing to pick up train orders (attached to a hoop) handed up from the trackside by the station operator. The crest of the grade is a few hundred yards past the station at the west entrance of the Connaught Tunnel, a five mile bore through the base of Mt. McDonald, completed in 1916 to avoid the extreme grades and avalanche hazards of the summit of Rogers Pass. Both engines are T-1-A "Selkirk" types built in 1930; the log station (no longer in use) is still standing a short distance from the Trans Canada Highway.
The Dominion and Massive Mountain:	16" x 24"	Edition Size 550	Suggested Retail $240.00
The Dominion and Massive Mountain:	16" x 24"	Canvas Edition 50	Suggested Retail $395.00
The Dominion and Massive Mountain are seen near the east of the Bow River Valley Parkway just before it joins Highway #1, on this picturesque curve of the Bow River. Train #8, The Dominion, with Selkirk #5922 on the point, rounds the curve at mile post 86A a few minutes from its arrival at Banff Station six miles ahead.
Then and Now:	20" x 30"	Edition Size 195-15 A/P	Suggested Retail $450.00 A/P $550.00
Then and Now:	20" x 30"	Canvas Edition 50-5 A/P	Suggested Retail $1100.00 A/P $1200.00
The right hand half of this picture shows Royal Hudon 2860 during its earlier career with the Canadian Pacific Railway (1940 to 1956). In the left half of the picture, many years later, the same engine approaches BC Rail's North Vancouver station on the return leg of one of its many Squamish Excursions. Restored and now maintained by BC Rail, the Hudson shows no sign of its advanced age.
Winter Afternoon:	20 5/8" x 33"	Edition Size 550-50 A/P	Suggested Retail $265.00 A/P $290.00
Winter Afternoon:	20 5/8" x 33"	Canvas Edition 80-25 A/P	Suggested Retail $500.00 A/P $550.00
Train #8, the Montreal Section of the "Dominion", rolls through the snow-coated landscape of the Bow Valley on its eastward journey. Castle Mountain, aptly named by James Hector in 1858, was renamed Mt. Eisenhower by Prime Minister MacKenzie King in 1946. The new name was never popular, and was officially changed back in 1979. Leading the train is the original member of the 5900 series 'Selkirk' types; Canada's largest steam locomotives, built for mainline service in the western mountains.