Revelstoke, BC

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              Revelstoke Railway Museum
              2013.6.36.3.07.01 · Item · [after 1949]
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Postcard depicts the Revelstoke Railway Museum. "Take a run down the track of Canadian History at the Revelstoke Railway Museum, located in the beautiful Columbia Valley. Museum exhibits trace the pople and events involved in the development of the CPR. Highlights include Steam Locomotive 5468 and a unique gift shop."

              General view of Revelstoke
              2013.6.36.3.07.03 · Item · [after 1949]
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Postcard depicts the "general view of the town facing west with the railway station in the foreground. Revelstoke became a divisional centre of the railway in 1889 and has increased in importance with the growth of the railway and the Trans-Canada Highway."

              CPR unit coal train
              2013.6.36.3.07.05 · Item · [after 1949]
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Postcard depicts a CPR unit coal train pulling out of "Revelstoke, BCon May 6, 1978 behind SD-40-2 Number 5845. This locomotive also controls four Mid-Train Slave Units require on this West bound loaded coal train."

              CPR warehouse in Revelstoke
              2013.6.36.1.016.47 · Item · 6 Sept. 1970
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph annotation states that image depicts a CPR warehouse located about 1/4 mile east of the Revelstoke depot, on the north side of the track. The view is looking east. Additional information provided by railway historian Tom W. Parkin: This building is the CPR icehouse at Revelstoke after a partial tear-down. The structure was built after 1929, when a similar facility near the locomotive shops was removed between 1920-29, possibly to make room for a larger turntable. The location is on the northwest edge of the CPR yards. Icehouses once made and stored blocks of ice for refrigeration of passenger coaches and (when crushed) for cooling fresh produce in "reefer cars" en route to market.

              CPR snow plows
              2013.6.36.1.109.08 · Item · [Jan. 1991]
              Part of David Davies Railway Collection

              Photograph depicts a CPR snow plows in Revelstoke placed on track that was believed to be the branchline to Arrowhead.