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Canadian Railroads > MLW Monday's-Rogers Pass HelpersDate: 03/02/15 09:41 MLW Monday's-Rogers Pass Helpers Author: arwye By 1971, the task of helping west bound freights over Rogers Pass by first generation low horsepower GP9's was now assigned to CP Rail's new M630's. Especially now with Crows Nest Pass to Robert's Bank export coal unit trains in service. On this June day, locomotives 4580-4557 and 45-? prepare to leave Glacier BC to assist one of those east bounds out of Beavermouth. Richard Yaremko
 Date: 03/02/15 16:50 Re: MLW Monday's-Rogers Pass Helpers Author: Train611 Excellent!
611 Date: 03/02/15 17:33 Re: MLW Monday's-Rogers Pass Helpers Author: YukonYeti Pretty cool stuff.
My BC Yeti cousins live not far away in a cave. They too miss the MLW's. In fact, they miss the pushers. Yukon Yeti Date: 03/02/15 21:21 Re: MLW Monday's-Rogers Pass Helpers Author: arwye Yeti:
Let them know there will be one posted from Field in a few weeks. They should keep peering out of that cave. Arwye YukonYeti Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pretty cool stuff. > > My BC Yeti cousins live not far away in a cave. > They too miss the MLW's. In fact, they miss the > pushers. > > Yukon Yeti Date: 03/03/15 09:49 Re: MLW Monday's-Rogers Pass Helpers Author: eminence_grise Glacier BC still was a small railway town into the 1970's. Some of the houses are visible behind the locomotives.
Although the agent/operator was gone, the station was home for the pusher crews, and there was a cook to provide them meals. The tunnel fan house in its original configuration required an attendant, plus there were section crews both east and west. The wye had a short snowshed over the tail track , and there was the foundation for a turntable between the legs of the wye. Historians don't think the wye and turntable were in service at the same time, the theory is that the newer steam locomotives used in pusher service were too long for the turntable, so the wye was built. The turntable was in a snowshed also. No picture of the conical roofed building at Glacier has been found, but there is a picture of the one at Donald near Golden. Date: 06/15/18 07:43 Re: MLW Monday's-Rogers Pass Helpers Author: illecillewaetrr Hi gang. I have found a couple of photos of the Glacier turntable cover in the Revelstoke Railway Museum archives. The locomotive is a 2-10-0 which had a wheelbase that would fit on the 70 foot turntable even though there would be overhang of the pilot and rear coupler. In the other photo the cover is just visible behind the hill above the smoke plume.
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