Kettle Valley Railway
Writing

Using your imagination, write a dialogue between two characters involved in the history of the Kettle Valley Railway. You might want to work with a partner, and each of you could pretend to be one of the characters. Remember to put the name of the speaker, followed by a colon, at the beginning of each new speech.

Andrew McCulloch: Today I had quite an adventure.
Mrs. McCulloch: Did you now. What happened to you?

Suggested dialogues:

1. Between the engineer and the brakeman before the great crash
2. Between two citizens in Penticton as they watch the first passenger train pull into the station
3. Between McCulloch and his wife when he injures his leg after the crash
4. Between Dick Parkinson and a work mate when they start work at Myra Canyon

Write down ten questions you would like to ask someone involved with the Kettle Valley Railway if that person were around to answer them.

For fun, after you have completed the questions, you might like to work with a partner. You will be the interviewer while your partner will pretend to be the interviewee. The partner will answer the questions using his/her imagination. In addition, the pair of you could act out the interview for the rest of the class.
Possible people to “interview”:

1. Andrew McCulloch
2. An engineer who survived the great crash
3. An old timer who rode on the farewell trip of the KVR in 1963
4. A young man who worked on the Myra Canyon section of the line
5. A fruit picker who caught a ride on the KVR