Brian Henderson
Brian has had an interest in trains and railways from an early age. Brian has recently joined the Rocky Mountain Rail Society. He remembers the 6060 locomotive stored in Calgary at the old Cominco fertilizer plant in the 1980s. He has a dream of seeing the locomotive fully operational again.
Brian has volunteered and worked at Heritage Park, on the steam locomotives and rolling stock, for the past 8 years. Brian has served as fireman, track inspector, switchman and brake man, along with other duties. Brian participated in changing the main wheel bearings on both locomotives 2023 and 2024 and boiler repairs to locomotive 2023. He assisted in restoration of the steam crane, the steam road roller and other artifacts. He regularly operates the steam powered Case traction engine (tractor).
Brian has volunteered at Champion Park, south of Calgary, since 2010, in the areas of train crew, locomotive engineer and track maintenance. He has worked on Locomotive No. 19’s electrical systems and assisted with the engine’s mechanical maintenance since 2011.
Education and Qualifications:
Scaffold inspection training, June 2020
Railroad Track Inspection, Level 2, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, March 2019
4th Class Power Engineer, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, November 2018
Special Steam Traction Equipment Operator, Alberta Boilers Safety Association, 2017
Professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) since 1982
Work Experience:
Brian is an electrical engineer specializing in telecommunications, including fibre optic cable, microwave radio, mobile and fixed radio and satellite networks; he has been a self-employed consulting engineer since 1999.
He also has several years of experience operating as engineer, fireman and performing major and routine operating maintenance on steam locomotives at Heritage Park in Calgary, Alberta and Fort Steele Historic Park at Fort Steele, British Columbia.