Nearing the top of the grade at Glacier, the east-bound train will soon enter he five mile long Connaught tunnel through Mt. MacDonald.
In the 40 mile climb from Revelstoke, the train has gained 2000 feet in elevation, the last 19 miles on a 2.5% grade.
Equal to the task are two big ‘Selkirks”, T1B #5929 and T1a # 5915, one of the original twenty of the class; Canadian Pacific’s largest and most powerful locomotives.