19-685
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Looking for confirmed frequencies for Battle River Railway - freight operations and passenger excursion service.
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
Battle River Railway confirmed frequencies
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I did some DB and Google searching and couldn’t exactly find anything. Not helpful I know. However, (assuming you have a scanner); what I can suggest is you can try scanning all AAR channels when you know they’re operating and see if any of them are being used. A close call scan may help too.
MiCon
Mike
I'm not sure what you're looking for, but I'm aware of two possibilities.
If you're looking for railway operations, you can try searching the 160 ~ 161MHz segment, or program all of the railroad frequencies into your scanner and see what pops up.
As a local private business, which this railroad is, you'll need to do a lot more searching, as business frequencies exist in nearly every segment of the spectrum (not to mention MURS, GMRS, and FRS radios) To compound that aspect of it, they could even be using digital business radios.
I don't know of any source of frequencies for this short line railroad, so for now, searching is pretty much your only option.
<>< Mike
If you're looking for railway operations, you can try searching the 160 ~ 161MHz segment, or program all of the railroad frequencies into your scanner and see what pops up.
As a local private business, which this railroad is, you'll need to do a lot more searching, as business frequencies exist in nearly every segment of the spectrum (not to mention MURS, GMRS, and FRS radios) To compound that aspect of it, they could even be using digital business radios.
I don't know of any source of frequencies for this short line railroad, so for now, searching is pretty much your only option.
<>< Mike
I took an excursion from Kelsey to Heisler.
battleriverrailway.ca
www.battlerivertrain.com
Taken from the CANADIAN TRACKSIDE GUIDE 2009.
Alliance Subdivision CN. Freq 161.415.
Historic Heisler Hotel Excursion
One of the conductor's at Heisler called the Engineer on the cellphone. Unknown to me, if there's any communication other then that.
Homepage - Battle River Railway
Battle River Railway is a new generation cooperative, shortline railway, based out of Forestburg, Alberta. The railway was purchased in 2010 by area producers and residents. The railway is Alberta’s longest straight section of railway, beginning in Alliance and continuing 52 miles to the Camrose...
battleriverrailway.ca
Battle River Train Excursions
www.battlerivertrain.com
Taken from the CANADIAN TRACKSIDE GUIDE 2009.
Alliance Subdivision CN. Freq 161.415.
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Had to laugh when I saw Batter [Junction], Hanna as the rails were removed from that line long time ago.I took an excursion from Kelsey to Heisler.
Historic Heisler Hotel Excursion
One of the conductor's at Heisler called the Engineer on the cellphone. Unknown to me, if there's any communication other then that.
Homepage - Battle River Railway
Battle River Railway is a new generation cooperative, shortline railway, based out of Forestburg, Alberta. The railway was purchased in 2010 by area producers and residents. The railway is Alberta’s longest straight section of railway, beginning in Alliance and continuing 52 miles to the Camrose...Battle River Train Excursions
Taken from the CANADIAN TRACKSIDE GUIDE 2009.
Alliance Subdivision CN. Freq 161.415.
19-685
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Thanks for all the responses. Didn't know if they were using the old CN sub frequency or something different.
Researching for a possible future railfanning trip of this interesting shortline.
Best regards
Researching for a possible future railfanning trip of this interesting shortline.
Best regards
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omrail
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Hello, sorry I just saw this thread. I do not have specific frequencies for the Battle River. I do know a few folks who work for them and I can try to get some information next time I see one of them.
Not sure if you got an answer or not. I've heard them on whatever frequency the Camrose sub is on as they interchange with CN in Camrose. I did chase an excursion train out to Forestburg one time, but I don't remember what frequency they were one. I didn't have to program anything special into the scanner so they're just using one of the regular RR frequencies.
