1

Top view of Steam Engine #2703 buried by avalanche.
22 January 1935
Three Valley, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection
Mead Family

2

View of rock slide on CP main line
Circa June 1973
East of Field, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection
Meade Family

3

Working in the Mountain Subdivision of the Canadian Pacific Railway challenges workers and equipment to its limits, enough to make railroaders wonder if they have "made the right career choice". James describes a night, as tail-end brakeman, when the train derailed in the ditch. "In the rhubarb" means in the ditch in railroad jargon. Another common term is "getting a knuckle" which refers to the coupling between cars being broken and requiring 30 minutes to change. A brakemen needs to be able to lift 85 pounds, the weight of the replacement coupling. Sound like a job you would like to have?

4

"A dirty night out there . . . "
15 March 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Speakers: Bill Belton and James V. Walford
Coffee Club members: Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger, W. L. Handley and Edward Jaatteenmaki
Interviewed by Michelle Cole
Filmed by Michelle Cole

5

Rock slide at West Portal of Connaught Tunnel
Sept. 1931
Glacier, British Columbia, Canada
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Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

6

Listen to a description of the different seasons to be found in the mountains of British Columbia. Paul describes the dangers and slides he survived. You can almost feel the engine rocking as it rode up on the mud.

7

"Every season has different challenges . . . "
26 February 2011
Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Speaker: Pavel Mares
Event filmed by Ben Beruschi, Bryce Derosier, Aaron Haaf, Bailey Hutton, Destinee Lebuke, Jessica Ralph and Summer Richardson

8

Remembering back to the challenges of working on the railroad . . .
26 February 2011
Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Railway Reflections panel member: Pavel Mares
Photos by Ben Beruschi, Bryce Derosier, Aaron Haaf, Bailey Hutton, Destinee Lebuke, Jessica Ralph and Summer Richardson

9

Rock slide resulting in derailment of a Fairbanks Morse engine
May 1959
Stoney Creek, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

10

The weather and the railroad have their own timetables, as Clancy reveals in the telling of his Crowsnest Christmas. His plans for Christmas changed when his train derailed in a "Yoho Blow", a blizzard. "Hours in cold twenty below wind" putting the train back on the track, Clancy finally made it to his parents' home for Christmas.

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"Crowsnest blizzard - I'll tell you it was a dandy . . . "
16 February 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Credits:
Speaker: Clarence (Clancy) L. Boettger
Coffee Club members: Bill Belton, Denis Holdener, Edward Jaatteenmaki, Ernie Ottewell and James V. Walford
Filmed by Michelle Cole

12

View from above snow slide at Illecillewaet (1500 ft. long 57 ft. high)
Unknown
TEXT ATTACHMENT


Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

13

An epic winter in Revelstoke's history, 1970-71 caused many a long trip. Roy tells of being on a train at Stoney Creek for 36 hours awaiting avalanche clearance. After 24 hours a passenger train dropped off the makings for breakfast. Once the train crew had clearance to move, three to four feet of snow had fallen between each box car. Can you imagine how they moved all that snow?

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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