Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive number 374 pulls the first train into Port Moody - 4 Jul 1886 Photographer unknown.

3 July 2011

On This Day in History:  July 4

1886:  At noon, a crowd of 1,500 British Columbians cheers as the Pacific Express, the CPR's First scheduled transcontinental passenger train from Montreal, rolls into Port Moody, the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, after a five and a half day journey of 4,650 kilometres.
 
The train carries 170 passengers in two immigrant sleeping coaches, two first-class coaches, and two first-class sleeping coaches (named Yokohama and Honolulu).
 
There is also a dining car (Holyrood), two baggage cars, and a mail car with 16 bags of English and Canadian mail.
 
It is one minute late.