Translucent memory - an N scale NAR GP9 (Part 2)…

The latest ‘Canadian adventure’ has been somewhat deliberately limited in scope to somewhere, imagined, in northern Saskatchewan - helping inform the sort of models I felt able to justify and my choice of ‘company’ for the grain elevator…What’s this then? An interloper?The Northern Alberta was a joint Canadian National and Canadian Pacific venture to prop up the survival of the prospector and frontier shortlines that had spread north from Edmunton. In 1980 the line became part of the CN and its small collection of GP9. GMD1 and SD38-2 gained new identities and within a number of years, the company colours - the NAR was gone, in all but memory.I can’t remember when I first heard of it but since I’m certain that I have always loved it. The nature of the branchlines especially are very “Hilton and Mears”. I’ve crossed its path and stood pondering the nature of life and the human condition in my late teens in its company. This then, an ode to that simple, childlike energy for a distant,…

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