Caption: When CP closed the Connaught Tunnel in 1995 to deepen it to handle double-stacked containers, the normally westward-only Macdonald Track and Shaughnessy and Macdonald Tunnels had to accomodate all traffic, and to help maintain fluidity, a mechanical department troubleshooter was set up in an RV near Bear Creek between the two tunnels, meaning a paid-to-railfan vacation for me for a short while.

One reliable treat during daylight hours was the Rocky Mountaineer passenger train running under the original Great Canadian Railtour Company name, with two ex-AT&SF GE B36-7 units for power. Here is an eastward passage, crossing Bear Creek at mileage 78.7 Macdonald Track at 1438 PDT on Monday 1995-07-31 with GCRC 7488 and twelve cars, and about to enter the Shaughnessy Tunnel. The RV in the distance was my temporary home, and the facility on the left near the far end of the bridge was a transformer station plus backup generator for the rooftop jet fans in the tunnel.