Canadian Railroads > MLW Monday-At Pavilion BC

Climbing out of the Fraser River Valley, here we have northbound freight with 709-685-714 & 705 approaching Pavilion on August 17, 1980. Richard Yaremko

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Great shot. Always liked that BCR scheme. What is the gradient coming out of the valley? Looks to be more than 2%. Thanks for posting.

Tom

Most of the grade on "Kelly Lake Hill" is 2 and 2.2 percent with the odd few hundred feet here and there at 2.3 & 2.5 percent.  Nice image Richard, thanks for sharing.  Doug

Cool shot.

KG

A favorite spot

Brian E
 

Breathtaking perspective - is this on the Glenfraser side of Pavilion, or up toward Kelly Lake? I only shot the BCR once, and came into Pavilion from Cache Creek. As I recall (and I'm fuzzy on this), the highway came in and overpassed the tracks (?) at the apex of a tight 180 curve, and on the downgrade side was a short siding with trans-loading facility for pressure-unloading covered hoppers. I'm trying to relate your location to the landmarks I know. Thanks.
Fred 

feclark Wrote:
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> Breathtaking perspective - is this on the
> Glenfraser side of Pavilion, or up toward Kelly
> Lake? I only shot the BCR once, and came into
> Pavilion from Cache Creek. As I recall (and I'm
> fuzzy on this), the highway came in and overpassed
> the tracks (?) at the apex of a tight 180 curve,
> and on the downgrade side was a short siding with
> trans-loading facility for pressure-unloading
> covered hoppers. I'm trying to relate your
> location to the landmarks I know. Thanks.
> Fred 

Richard's image is of the curve most likely immediatealy south of Pavillion. The highway overpass that you mentioned would be behind the photographer. Pavillion is at mile 178,  Glenfraser is mile 173.   Doug

Doug is right. Memory is a little foggy, but we drove down Pavilion siding as far as we could and walked the rest of the way to this vantage point. Richard

hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> feclark Wrote:
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> > Breathtaking perspective - is this on the
> > Glenfraser side of Pavilion, or up toward Kelly
> > Lake? I only shot the BCR once, and came into
> > Pavilion from Cache Creek. As I recall (and I'm
> > fuzzy on this), the highway came in and
> overpassed
> > the tracks (?) at the apex of a tight 180
> curve,
> > and on the downgrade side was a short siding
> with
> > trans-loading facility for pressure-unloading
> > covered hoppers. I'm trying to relate your
> > location to the landmarks I know. Thanks.
> > Fred 
>
> Richard's image is of the curve most likely
> immediatealy south of Pavillion. The highway
> overpass that you mentioned would be behind the
> photographer. Pavillion is at mile 178, 
> Glenfraser is mile 173.   Doug