The Canadian Railroad
The second half of the holiday was on the Rocky Mountaineer from Jasper to Vancouver. In the main this travelled along the Canadian Pacific Railway which was completed on 7 November 1885 with the last spike being driven in at Craigellachie. The achievement is rememberd with a plints (right) and small visitor centre. The railroad was built in four years and the completion allowed for British Columbia to become part of Canada.
Also located here at Craigellachie, named after the village of Craigellachie on the River Spey in Moray, Scotland, the ancestral home of Sir George Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway was the snow plough pictured here on the left.
I don't know if this is a working one or a museum piece but either way it makes a joke of the "wrong type of snow" excuse we have to put up with! If you get snow that needs this size a plough - it's got to be deep!
While on the history bit there was a chance to see and get close to one of the old steam engines that used make the journey along the railroad.
The engine was located just outside the station at Jasper, Alberta which was on the Candian National.
The engine is the Canadian National 4-8-2 6015 at Jasper, which was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company between 1923-1924 and was placed on display in Jasper during the 1980s.