Revelstoke Railway Museum - BC, Canada

This Virtual Railfan PTZ camera is hosted by the Revelstoke Railway Museum, looking across the Canadian Pacific Shuswap and Mountain Subdivisions with the snow-capped Monashee Mountains forming one of the most dramatic backdrops of any railfan camera in North America. Up to 40 trains pass daily including CP unit potash, grain, coal, intermodal, and manifest freight, with the seasonal Rocky Mountaineer luxury passenger train also appearing on this route between spring and autumn.

Revelstoke sits at a critical point on the CP mainline where trains begin the climb through Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains, one of the most challenging stretches of railway in Canada. The original CP line through Rogers Pass required so many avalanche-prone open cuts that a spiral tunnel system and later the 14.6-kilometre Connaught Tunnel, completed in 1916, were built to bypass the most dangerous sections.

The Revelstoke Railway Museum, from which this camera operates, houses CP locomotive No. 5468 and a collection of rolling stock and exhibits documenting the construction of the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway, completed at Craigellachie just 45 kilometres west of Revelstoke in November 1885. Revelstoke itself sits in the Columbia River valley with a population of around 8,500 and is also known internationally for Revelstoke Mountain Resort, which has the greatest vertical drop of any ski resort in North America at 1,713 metres.

Did You Know? The Last Spike completing Canada's transcontinental railway was driven at Craigellachie, just 45 kilometres from this camera, on 7 November 1885, an event that linked Canada coast to coast by rail for the first time.

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