Revelstoke Railway Museum - British Columbia, Canada

Beside the Revelstoke Railway Museum in British Columbia, this camera looks across the Canadian Pacific main line, with mountains rising behind the town and long freight trains rolling through day and night.

Up to 40 trains a day pass here, hauling potash, grain, coal and containers, and from spring to fall the Rocky Mountaineer comes through too. East of town, trains climb toward Rogers Pass, where the 5-mile (8 km) Connaught Tunnel opened in 1916 to avoid an avalanche zone.

Revelstoke grew up with the railway in the 1880s on the banks of the Columbia River, with Mount Revelstoke National Park just north of town, and its ski resort claims the greatest vertical drop in North America, 5,620 feet (1,713 m).

Did You Know? Canada's first transcontinental railway was completed when the Last Spike was driven at Craigellachie, just west of Revelstoke, on November 7, 1885.

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