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View out engine of flooded tracks on Mara Lake
1948
South from Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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The force of flooding water can change the landscape as described by the Coffee Club's recollection of the Illecillewaet washout. Taking out the railway and the highway bridge over Woolsey Creek, the river cut off all transportation east of Revelstoke. Can you imagine the detour?

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"Remember when the Illecillewaet washed out . . . "
1 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, W. L. Handley and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Filmed by Michelle Cole

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Szowski & McDonald's steam shovel
Early 20th Century
Rogers Pass, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection
Photo by Richard Truman
Donated by Sandra Murray

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Have you heard of the time oil flowed down the Kicking Horse River? Ed shares how an abandoned CP oil separator in Field leaked when Parks Canada dug into it while putting in a sewage treatment plant.

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"Oil all down the Kicking Horse River . . . "
1 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Speaker: Edward Jaatteenmaki
Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, W. L. Handley and Warren M. Watson
Filmed by Michelle Cole

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Steam engine coming through Kicking Horse Canyon
Circa 1930s
Kicking Horse Canyon, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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Spills in the Revelstoke yard included fuel as well as oil. Ed remembers how the Canadian, a passenger train, left with the fueling hoses still connected leaving behind a little lake of diesel fuel. While in Kamloops, Les speaks of the hoses filling up four units being run over by his train and chopping the hoses into four pieces. Would you have understood what they said over the radio?

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Talking about spills . . .
1 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Speakers: Edward Jaatteenmaki and W. L. Handley
Coffee Club member: Bill Belton
Filmed by Michelle Cole

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Snow plows, waiting to be attached to 5900s engines, next to the #5757 in Revelstoke yard.
Circa 1940s
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
E. Hawkes Collection
Thanks to the Ernie Ottewell Collection

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The railway yard and shops were a large part of Revelstoke. Tuck behind this industrial area, a pond of waste oil with a plank bridge attracted the attention of the school children who were cautioned to keep away. In Ed's youth, the oil pond caught fire sending up "huge smoke and flames". Imagine not being able to see Revelstoke due to all the black smoke.

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"The old oil pond they had behind the CPR shops and roundhouse . . . "
24 November 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Coffee Club members: John (Jack) Carten, W. L. Handley, Edward Jaatteenmaki and Ernie Ottewell
Filmed by Michelle Cole

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Fire presents a challenge to both the railroad and communities. Listen to the Coffee Club reminisce about the fires they reported, on and off of work time. Les recalls a diesel engine that set fires from Sicamous to Mara Lake when the exhaust caught fire.

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"Sparks flying or something . . . "
24 November 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Coffee Club members: John (Jack) Carten, W. L. Handley, Edward Jaatteenmaki and Ernie Ottewell
Filmed by Michelle Cole