Canadian Railroads > Three Shots from CN's Sangudo Sub

Earlier this month I spent some time on CN's Sangudo Sub, a branchline that runs north west from Edmonton to Whitecourt Alberta. The line features the largest wooden trestle in North America at 2,414 feet long. I shot the daily eastbound CN train L516 in a few locations:

1.L516 passes the preserved grain elevator at Mayerthorpe Alberta

2. The trestle at Rochfort Bridge Alberta, so long that a drone is needed to capture the entire structure

3. A lessr known but equally impressive structure is this bridge just outside of the town of Sangudo. L516 crosses the Pembina River on this bridge in the early afternoon of October 2 2020

-Trevor

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Three first-class scenes.
Bob

Oh... oh sure. This would have been your Altamont program this past weekend. Nice.

(Uncle) Dave in MT

Three very nice photos. Hard to believe those big largely wood trestles on a class one RR. Thanks for posting.

Real nice trio.
JB

monaddave Wrote:
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> Oh... oh sure. This would have been your Altamont
> program this past weekend. Nice.
>
> (Uncle) Dave in MT

Yeah and I was looking forward to it being held in Canada this year! Oh well......

-Trevor

King_Coal Wrote:
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> Three very nice photos. Hard to believe those big
> largely wood trestles on a class one RR. Thanks
> for posting.

Well, it is on a branchline and not a mainline. Probably didn't generate enough revenue to justify replacing the wood trestle with a fill or a steel viaduct.

Gorgeous; too bad the Mayerthorpe trestle was burned a few (several, now?) years ago.
Fred

feclark Wrote:
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> Gorgeous; too bad the Mayerthorpe trestle was
> burned a few (several, now?) years ago.
> Fred

Was it replaced or was that the death knell for the branch?

feclark Wrote:
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> Gorgeous; too bad the Mayerthorpe trestle was
> burned a few (several, now?) years ago.
> Fred

That was a smaller bridge to the west of Mayerthorpe, not the large trestle in my photos. After the fire the bridge was replaced using a spare from Kamloops. The sub was only out of service for a week before the replacement bridge was completed.

Trevor

Posted from iPhone

Very nice..!!

tsokolan Wrote:
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> feclark Wrote:
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> > Gorgeous; too bad the Mayerthorpe trestle was
> > burned a few (several, now?) years ago.
> > Fred
>
> That was a smaller bridge to the west of
> Mayerthorpe, not the large trestle in my photos.
> After the fire the bridge was replaced using a
> spare from Kamloops. The sub was only out of
> service for a week before the replacement bridge
> was completed.
>
> Trevor
>
> Posted from iPhone

This shows how often I have been up there - just once, years ago. I shot both Rochfort Bridge and the Mayerthorpe one. When Mayerthorpe burned (arson, a fire-fighter?), did they reduce the length of the replacement with long fills on the approaches? I don't remember where I think I heard this.
Fred

feclark Wrote:
> This shows how often I have been up there - just
> once, years ago. I shot both Rochfort Bridge and
> the Mayerthorpe one. When Mayerthorpe burned
> (arson, a fire-fighter?), did they reduce the
> length of the replacement with long fills on the
> approaches? I don't remember where I think I heard
> this.
> Fred

Yes fill was added to both sides of the bridge to replace the original timber sections, making the new bridge shorter then the original. The new bridge is a little difficult to access, but a shot can be made from the north isde of the tracks if the light is right 

-Trevor