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But um, in the early days though it was uh, I had quite a little experience… I was firin' one trip on freight oh, it'd be the summer of uh, '98, with an engineer on the four aught one, I think it was, and his name was Nat Scott. A very fine engineman… and coming down the west slope, this side of what is called Flat Creek. There are three snowsheds, 35, six, seven… but I'd like you to understand that at that time there was no airbrake… And there was no automatic couplers - there were a lincoln pin. … And the brakeman-two brakemen- on 18 cars… would bring that train all the way from Glacier to Albert Canyon. That's where the two percent grade ended, from Albert Canyon to here in spots are one or one and a half percent… But as we come in to this here 35 shed, Scott said to me, he had looked out, you see, we had no electric headlights, it was a coal oil headlight- Scott said to me 'Look out Geordie!'…. So I just took a glance through my front window and here I had a big tree had been broken off on the bank and hung down like that. And it wasn't it was about five or six feet off the ground.