50 years ago - The Delta municipal government planned action to get CP Rail to cover their coal cars.
 
Revelstoke was not making the same demands.
 
Revelstoke locals, on the contrary, did not have any complaints about dust from cars.
 
They wanted to continue encouraging train movement through the city as it was benefiting the economy.
 
120 years ago - A tragic accident happened on the passenger train on the south branch to Arrowhead on 26 Apr 1902.
 
Brakeman W.J. Lee died when a bridge collapsed 17 miles south, and he was thrown from the train, and pinned beneath a fallen train car.
 
The rest of the crew escaped without injury.
 
Madison Bridal.