Athabasca Northern Railway

The Athabasca Northern Railway (reporting mark ANY) is a shortline railway in Alberta, Canada. Originally built as the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway between 1909 and 1925, the line runs 325 kilometres (200 mi) between Boyle, Alberta and Fort McMurray, Alberta. It eventually became part of the Northern Alberta Railway, which was jointly owned by the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway, and it was closed in 1989.^[1][2]

Athabasca Northern Railway

Overview
Reporting mark	ANY
Locale	Alberta
Dates of operation	2000–2007
Predecessor	Canadian National Railway
Successor	Canadian National Railway
Technical
Length	325 km (201.9 mi)

The line was reborn as the Athabasca Northern Railway in 2000 when it was sold to Cando Contracting.^[3][4] By 2007, the track had deteriorated due to increased traffic, and the line was set to be abandoned.^[5] It was re-acquired by Canadian National in December 2007, however,^[6] and as of 2011, rehabilitation was underway. However, as it currently stands in 2023, everything south of Athabasca has been torn up with only a roadbed. There is a small section that spurs off of the Westlock subdivision that was once the Athabasca subdivision, but it only goes so far and is now a storage spur for CN. Anything past this spur however no longer remains.^[7]