Steam in the Canadian Rockies:
Summer: In the fifties Will
Whittaker dropped off a local at Yoho, mid-way between the upper and
lower Spiral Tunnels to capture a steam display that could only be
equaled at Horseshoe Curve. In one four hour period in Summer as many as
ten sections of Canadian Pacific Transcontinental trains tackled Field
Hill. Hiking across the face of Cathedral Peak, he shot Mikados, Santa
Fes (2-10-2s), and dozens of the mighty 2-10-4 Selkirks, always double
and often triple headed. Glimpses of Fraser Canyon, Revelstoke and the
twice weekly mixed to Arrowhead.
Winter: Then, in winter 1978, a
single Hudson is photographed from Golden, through the Spiral Tunnels,
to Calgary with a 1950s matched maroon, semi-streamlined consist. Closes
with Royal Hudson 2860 captured on film as she makes her famous run
along the cliff-ringed shore of Howe Sound.
