Taghum
Today's edition of 'Big Scenery, Little Train' was taken across the Kootenay River, at Taghum, British Columbia.
The small, quiet community in the West Kootenay region gets disturbed twice a day by the passing of CP's A18 & A19 wayfreights between Trail and Golden, BC. The morning A19 trundles along the the shores of the river at a crawl, due to the speed restriction on the curve at the west end of the Kootenay River Bridge (right side of frame).
The river is calm here, as it's flow is restricted by the first of five hydroelectric dams over the next 13 miles. The original purpose of the dams was the same as that of the railroad. To serve the burgeoning mining and smelting industries of the region. The huge smelter at Trail, now part of the Teck corporation, required a monumental amount of electricity when built. That appetite for power only grew as the facility did over time, and its output increased.
Taghum
Today's edition of 'Big Scenery, Little Train' was taken across the Kootenay River, at Taghum, British Columbia.
The small, quiet community in the West Kootenay region gets disturbed twice a day by the passing of CP's A18 & A19 wayfreights between Trail and Golden, BC. The morning A19 trundles along the the shores of the river at a crawl, due to the speed restriction on the curve at the west end of the Kootenay River Bridge (right side of frame).
The river is calm here, as it's flow is restricted by the first of five hydroelectric dams over the next 13 miles. The original purpose of the dams was the same as that of the railroad. To serve the burgeoning mining and smelting industries of the region. The huge smelter at Trail, now part of the Teck corporation, required a monumental amount of electricity when built. That appetite for power only grew as the facility did over time, and its output increased.