Bruce, the last time I drove along the Bow was from Banff to Calgary just before Palm Sunday four years ago (we went to church in Calgary the next day). It was a nice, placid river, as I remember. We were making a loop around from Jasper and back, staying in the former railroad hotels in Banff, Calgary, and Edmonton. I am well aware of what a sudden influx of water can do to such a watercourse. As I recall, during the hurricane season in1964, a mild bayou (hardly noticeable unless you were looking for it) stopped the northbound Panama Limted above McComb. I am not certain, but the train probably went back to McComb, and unless the crew were carried to Canton, there was no one to bring the next morning’s Pannyma down to McComb. I did not learn when the water went down to less than four inches above the rail.
I wish I had been home the second day after the flooding so I could have seen what foreign cars were on the northbound train that day–all of the cars that were regularly on the train, even foreign-owned cars, were painted in the IC colors (there was at least one car, from the E-L, which was on the train regularly).