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"An extremely tough winter . . . "
26 February 2011
Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Speaker: Douglas El(Roy) Mitchell
Event filmed by Ben Beruschi, Bryce Derosier, Aaron Haaf, Bailey Hutton, Destinee Lebuke, Jessica Ralph and Summer Richardson

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Roy and Ed remember the challenges of snow . . .
26 February 2011
Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Railway Reflections panel members: Douglas El(Roy) Mitchell and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Photos by Ben Beruschi, Bryce Derosier, Aaron Haaf, Bailey Hutton, Destinee Lebuke, Jessica Ralph and Summer Richardson

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Even in springtime icy rails in tunnels and frozen ties are a challenge. Hear Clancy remember a cold two hours hammering a spike into a tie to secure the replacers needed to put the train back on the track in the Paulsen Tunnel.

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"Ice built up during the night . . . "
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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Mud slide took out three sidings
Circa 1944 or 1945
Three miles east of Field, British Columbia, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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The Mountain Subdivision's challenges have been known to give railroaders heart conditions. James recalls a fireman who had another narrow miss when his train hit a mudslide at Flat Creek. The rails were not the only thing made of steel on the railroad!

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"Hit a mudslide and derailed . . . "
15 March 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Speaker: James V. Walford
Interviewed by Michelle Cole
Filmed by Michelle Cole

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"Ernie Ottewell in front of the #5909 that ran through a rock slide . . ."
17 May 1948
West of Twin Butte, British Columbia, Canada
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Photo by Roy John McCrory
Thanks to Ernie Ottewell Collection

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The mountain environment threatens communities as well as the railway. Listen to Les describe the flooding in the 1940's when the ice jammed the Columbia River to the point Canadian Pacific used a steam engine to hold down a bridge. The high water spread oil around the entire community of Golden.

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"The ice jammed up in the river . . . "
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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1948 flooding of Mara Lake
1948
South from Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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In 1948 the flooding reached Shuswap Lake and the yard in Kelowna. Bill speaks of needing to have a worker walk ahead of an engine. Les explains "the engine was running in about a foot of water", when clearing the tracks. Imagine you are sitting on the very front of steam engine, the pilot, while it crawls along so you can clear the debris as it floats in the water over the tracks.

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"The engine was running in about a foot of water . . . "
1 December 2011
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

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

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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