http://kootenaymodelrailway.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/riding-the-hotshot-from-nelson-to-trail/
Thought this one might interest the folks on good ol’ /111/, thanks for looking!
Wow ! Great article, wonderful photos (though necessarily a little repetitive in their perspective . . . ). Still, it was fun to see again how pretty that region is. Thanks for sharing !
- Paul North.
[tup] I lived in Nelson for several years and familar with the geography between there and Trail. A part of railway history that may have been forgotton by many.
Just be glad I didn’t post the other 381! [:O]
It’s easy to forget, looking at this one train a day line with 10 per slows everywhere, just how important a link it was prior to the 40s, and how it really drove the creation of the area.
Wonderful, wonderful pictures! And a great write-up, too. Once upon a time, this was the kind of material we used to see printed on the front cover and across eight or ten feature pages in some magazine.
Such as this one:
“The Iris G, et al. - an entire train traveling on a lake barge”
by Patterson, Steve,
from Trains, March 1977, p. 43
See also:
“The Crow and the Kettle - Canadian Pacific’s other crossing of the Continental Divide”
by Emmott, N. W.,
from Trains, May 1968, p. 37
“Indian summer for Kootenay cabooses - cabooses on CP Rail branch”
by Hungry Wolf, Adolf,
from Trains, June 1994, p. 66
- Paul North.