Hello my name is Larry and I spent most of my working career with the Canadian Pacific Railway from November 1965 until November 2002 when I retired disability pension this was due to an accident while on a bus tour of North and South Dakota in November 2000. There was a bad winter storm and we had just left Buffalo, North Dakota when the bus rolled over and I ended up head first into the luggage carrier, the results left me quadraplegic hence the name Broken/rail this ended my career on the CPR, the last 22 years working as a locomotive engineer in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. Over my working career I also worked as a jackhammer operator for a paving company, a plumber gasfitter pipefitter apprentice, with A.R. Wright and, Trotter and Mortin. In 1968 I worked as a warehouseman and an apprentice miller at Pillsbury Canada Ltd’s flour mill located at 4002 Bonnybrook Road, In the summer of 1972 I worked as a yardman for Alberta Phoenix Pipe and Tube Limited and was located south of the Ogden Shops Were the pipe mill manufactured 36 inch pipe Our job was to Load 11 pipes on flat cars, I was the helper on a track mobile, this job switched the flat cars of steel into the pipe mill where they were unloaded using a crane with magnets that unloaded the pipe into a pile. When the cars were unloaded we would set them over to the lead that ran along the west side of the mill there we will remove all the dunnage that kept the sheets of steel from moving. When this was finished we took the empty cars over to the loading track. This and my railway career as a tinsmith apprentice, yardman, yard foreman, trainman, baggageman, conductor, car retarder operator, yard master, locomotive fireman, and locomotive engineer. My hobbies are collecting railway pocket watches, clocks. Railway labor memorabilia from the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Switchmen’s Union of North America, and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
I have been married for 29 years to my dear wife Anita I have two step sons from her previous marriage. They are Colin and Cory, Colin and his wife Karin I have been blessed as a grandfather to Ella aged 11 years, and a grandson Hanson 8 years. We live on a small acreage between Okotoks and High River. It’s located in a pretty valley with a creek flowing through it, we have lots of wildlife deer, coyotes, raccoons, muskrats, and numerous wild fowl. We have 1 donkey Nowlollipop, and One cat Squeaky, most.