Paul, the 97' Rosebery handled all the freight, passenger and
barge transfers on Slocan Lake. The few rail passengers
using the once weekly mixed train and train crew would have
been accommodated on the Rosebery where meals, sleeping
facilities and safety equipment from life jackets to lifeboats
were available. For comparison, the Iris G which replaced her
had a length of 45'. BTW, the capacity of the barges on the
lake was eight cars including locomotive and caboose. Hope
this helps.
Rainer
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Paul Smith <pbsmith@...> wrote:
is an
Group,
I read with interest the thread regarding passenger service in the
Kootenay region of B.C.. At the risk of muddying the water here
interesting photo. to consider. If you have a copy of /The Crowand
the Kettle, /check out page 210. The photo. shows CP 2-8-0 3480 onSlocan
mixed train M841 heading north on the Slocan sub.. enroute to
city and the Kaslo sub.(by barge) in 1951. This raises thequestion
that if you were a through passenger to say Nakusp, would you ridethe
barge or more likely catch a steamer at Slocan City to Rosebery?My
1957 employee timetable shows the Arrow Lake subdivision with noregular
service by this date but the mixed train on the Slocan sub. isstill shown.
Presumably in earlier days, you go all the way from Nelson toRevelstoke
by this route if you wanted to. It certainly would make agreat "rare
mileage" tour these days if any of it still existed...
Anybody have any further insight on this?
Paul Smith
Winnipeg
