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Steam era tools
Early to Mid 20th Century
Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
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Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection
Photo by Fern Hansen

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Caring and maintaining a steam engine is an art. Knowing when to put sand in the fire box to clean out the soot and making sure the water never ran out, killing the engine. Clancy tells a story about exactly how that happened . . .

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Steam train stuck in a section . . .
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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Revelstoke smoke stack and back shops.
Circa 1985
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
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Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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The Revelstoke smoke stack orientated folks like the needle on a compass, part of the large industrial complex of the rail yard and back shops. Listen to the account of the last person to ride the little elevator to the top of the chimney, for an inspection, before "they fell it like a big tree . . . "

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"They fell it like a big tree."
16 February 2012
Business Car #4, Revelstoke Railway Museum, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada


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

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Demolition of CPR smoke stack - 15:53 pm
16 December 1988
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
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Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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Demolition of CPR smoke stack - 15:53 pm
16 December 1988
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
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Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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Demolition of CPR smoke stack - 15:53 pm
16 December 1988
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
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Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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Steam engines crews at round house.
Early 20th Century
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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From early days on the roundhouse dominated the landscape of the rail yards of the Canadian Pacific (CP). Les recalls when the roundhouse at Beavermouth burned down. Can you imagine the trouble the workers responsible for the fire caused?

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Burning the roundhouse down at Beavermouth . . .
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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Steam Engine #5912 at roundhouse
Field, B.C.


Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection

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Snow shed construction - rails, crane and ties.
East end of Laurie snow shed, British Columbia, Canada


Credits:
Revelstoke Railway Museum Collection