"Selkirks at Glacier"

Forty uphill miles along the Illecillewaet Valley from Revelstoke, the engineers of this eastbound train open their throttles after slowing to pick up train orders (attached to a hoop) handed up from trackside by the station operator. The crest of the grade is a few hundred yards past the station at the west entrance of the Connaught Tunnel, a five mile bore through the base of Mt. McDonald, completed in 1916 to avoid the extreme grades and avalanche hazards of the summit of Rogers pass. Both engineers are T-1-A "Selkirk" types built in 1930; the log station (no longer in use) is still standing a short distance from the Trans Canada highway.