Here are a few pictures of the people who made our British Columbia railway adventure truly memorable.
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| Mo finds McGuire Street near our hotel in North Vancouver | Mom & Dad study our itinerary in the North Vancouver station as we await our Budd car | Our home for the next ten days - Budd RDC BC-10 | The BC-10 pictures were taken at the Lillooet station |
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| An authentic back country engineer - the Southbound Cariboo Prospector passes us near Kelly Lake | Look carefully and you'll see Mom in the cab of the Budd | Our traveling partners for the week | Mo says this switchboard in the Quesnel museum looks a lot like the one she ran at the Sherwood Inn |
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| I remember playing with Grandma's treadle sewing machine | Mo plays the school teacher | September 11, 2001 Our gracious Canadian hosts expressed their sympathy for the terrorist attacks by playing the Star Spangled Banner on these antique bells |
At the museum, one of the docents handed each of us a carnation to express her sorrow at the days events |
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| "Phil's Good Eats", a play on the original name of BCRail - the Pacific Great Eastern | Here's Terry lined up to video a passing freight | Dad examines the rail & spikes at a brief rest stop while we wait for clear track | L to R: Trainmen Ken & Marvel, and Conductor Roy |
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| Mo meets her Mountie at the Fort Nelson museum | The curator calls this his "knothead" | Here's the curator next to the trapper's cabin | Mike from Chicago is flanked by dancers costumed from the Alaska Gold Rush era at a community welcome in Fort Nelson |
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| Mo gets a canine fix at the Trapper's Den in Fort Nelson | Here we are at the "end of iron" - the tracks go no further North | Another photographer's lineup | Mom and Ron, one of our volunteer tour guides |
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| Roy and Dad in the cab of our Budd car | Engineer Joe waiting for us in Dawson Creek | Three monkeys in the zoo | Mom and Dad share a ride in the cab with Conductor Roy |
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| Engineer Joe hard at work | Mom and Chicago Mike | Taking a break at a photo stop on a beautiful sunny day | Along the lake shore at the Fort St. James historic park |
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| Our singing Trainman, Marvel | Mike took about 50 rolls of film on our trip. Here he scrambles up a hillside to get the best shot | Volunteer guides Keith and Ron | Mike and Ivy (our Engineer's wife) |
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| Judy, our Conductor's wife, and Ivy | Mike gives the high sign | Tour leader Dave | The crew poses at the Lone Butte water tower |
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| Our tour guides | Ivy and Judy taking pictures of their husbands at Lone Butte | Mike poses in front of the Painted Chasm | I think everybody is watching the high railer (pickup truck with rail wheels) get on the track |
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| On the last leg of our trip, Roy was able to work from the comfort of a passenger's seat | Waiting at Whistler to meet up with the Cariboo Prospector for our return to North Vancouver | Our daily seat rotation meant Bob and Bill followed us every day! |