Canada's last remaining authentic steam-powered trains and climb the Gatineau hills as did the pioneers at the turn of the last century. After an hour and a half arrived in the quaint town of Wakefield, the operation of the manual turntable! Once the train reaches its final destination the 93 ton steam locomotive needs to be turned around for the drive back to its original location. The engineers slowly drive the train onto a swiveling circular platform. Then the musicians get to manually push the platform using lever arms and this turns the locomotive around in the opposite direction. This is one of only two manual turntables left in North America.
