Carefully guided by a railroader the CP 5500 locomotive comes to a halt at its new home in the Revelstoke Railway Museum yard.

15 November 2011

New Rolling Stock Find a New Home at the Railway Museum

Revelstoke British Columbia - Six new pieces of rolling stock, Canadian Pacific Railway diesel locomotive number 5500, a robot car, a coal car, a tanker car, box car, and a double-track snow plow, pulled into the Revelstoke Railway Museum last Wednesday.
 
According to Museum Executive Director Jennifer Dunkerson this is the culmination of "years of planning to augment current exhibits by adding an early diesel locomotive and era-appropriate rolling stock to present a broader interpretation of our region's railway history".
 
The exhibits enable the museum to chronicle not only the steam era but the impact of diesel technology on the development of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
 
The equipment was donated by the Canadian Pacific Heritage Equipment Committee and waited patiently in the Revelstoke division's K-yard until the track was laid this summer in preparation for its transfer to the museum property.
 
Here's the second photo of the big machines courtesy of Keri Knapp:

This photo shows the equipment moving onto the museum's property last Wednesday.