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"When the tanker blew . . . "8 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: Douglas El(Roy) Mitchell
Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger, W. L. Handley, and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Clancy recalls an accident in Midway that re-enacted a children's song when the downhill train hit their train jumping the track and hitting the station. Can you imagine Mrs. Jones' surprise when a boxcar ran into her kitchen?32
"HERE COMES THE TRAIN . . . "15 March 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger
Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, W. L. Handley, Edward Jaatteenmaki and James V. Walford
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Ed remembers his worst experiences as a Bridges and Buildings (B&B) master. The foreman of a B&B gang, working out of Golden, confused the time of a passenger train and met the train with a track motor car. The gang jumped off but he was killed. Ed identified his fellow worker at the morgue.34
"The most sad experience . . . "23 February 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: Edward Jaatteenmaki
Coffee Club members: Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger, Ernie Ottewell and Warren M. Watson
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Work gang possibly filling sinkhole.Circa 1950s
Near Princeton - Copper Mountain, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection
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Clancy tells of the last conventional passenger train from Nelson to Midway, February 3, 1958, due to damaged caused by bombing. Fortunately as Clancy's train engineer had reduced their speed, being ahead of schedule, when the engine hit the hole blown in the track, the engine came back up on the other side. 158 passengers, two express cars, a baggage car and two coaches were saved as all the joints held together.37
"The last conventional passenger train from Nelson to Midway . . . "23 February 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger
Coffee Club members: Edward Jaatteenmaki, Ernie Ottewell and Warren M. Watson
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Clancy Boettger shares his experiences recorded in time books since 1948 . . .15 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Photo by Jennifer Dunkerson
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Jack recalls the time when a passenger, kicked off a train in Revelstoke, made a bomb threat as a scare. The crew told the 200 passengers they were looking for a lost doll. Heading east over Rogers Pass, in the dead of winter, not an ideal place to stop a train and put the passengers off while you search.40
"There's a bomb on your train . . . "25 February 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: John (Jack) Carten
Railway Reflections panel members: W. L. Handley, Dennis Holdener and Warren M. Watson
Filmed by Ryan Stilwell and Ewan Uquhart
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Risks on the railroad include illegal passengers. The Coffee Club tells of a few incidents. During the building of the Trans-Canada Highway "you were lucky if you could find your own seat."42
"She got on the train illegally . . . "15 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger, Hugh Chase, W. L. Handley and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Clancy explains how the "(ho)bos riding in the back unit" were making their way to the Calgary Stampede on "a hot day in July". Imagine having to ride in a coal car to Calgary. |
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