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Telegraph operators for Canadian Pacific22 March 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: Ken Magnes
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Les tells a story demonstrating the excitement of office jobs on the railway. The Golden station agent's desk ended up with more than a bit of dust!42
"Blowing the pipes off the (bunkhouse) stove . . . "24 November 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: W. L. Handley
Coffee Club member: Edward Jaatteenmaki
Interviewer: Michelle Cole
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Being a railroader often means not sleeping in your own bed at night. Ed shares his experience in the bunkhouse at the Field YMCA. Imagine losing your whole pay check in a poker game.44
Field bunkhouse at the YMCA.24 November 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speakers: W. L. Handley and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Coffe Club member: John (Jack) Carten
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Heading off to work railroaders had to be prepared. Lunch in your grip might have to last a good long while if you got stuck due to a snow slide. Clancy's fishing expertise contributed to many a healthy lunch despite the health and safety challenges he faced. You can almost taste the fish and toast . . .46
"Eat 50 pints of fish a year . . ."15 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger
Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, Hugh Chase, W. L. Handley and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Parmer Dean, Harely Dean, and Jack Charmichael posing on the cow catcher (pilot) of a steam engine.Circa 1928
Credits:Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection
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"You had to have a little joke . . . "25 February 2012
Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: John (Jack) Carten
Railway Reflections panel: W. L Handley, Dennis Holdener and Warren M. Watson
Filmed by Ryan Stilwell and Ewan Urquhart
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Coping with the everyday happenings of railway life requires a healthy sense of humour. Whether "derailing in normal operation position" or raining tins cans, a little joke lightened the job.50
"It rained tin cans . . . "1 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: Les Handley
Coffee Club members: Bil Belton, Edward Jaatteenmaki and Warren M. Watson
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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Les Handley, regular member of the Coffee Club and long standing volunteer at the museum.15 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Coffee Club member: W. L. Handley
Photo by Jennifer Dunkerson
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Award winning storyteller, Les Handley, speaks of the only spot in the world where the mythical ice worms nest. Could you keep your face straight while telling this joke?53
"The only spot in the world . . . "1 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Speaker: W. L. Handley
Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, Edward Jaatteenmaki and Warren M. Watson
Filmed by Michelle Cole
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