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	The Museum's telegraph office has changed very little since 1905. It features an operational telegraph system. The Port Moody to New Westminster line was built in 1882 and was the first in BC.
	The early railway stations were all "live in " with bedrooms on the second floor. With a massive coal and wood stove, copper water heater, and coal oil lamps our kitchen on the main floor predates electricity and piped in water.
	The telegraph office features a hand-operated telephone that dates from 1884 when the Port Moody and New Westminster Telephone Co. was formed.
	Mural of 1905 Station on Burrard Inlet with a Velocipede (a one man handcar) in the foreground.
	The Museum has a CPR sleeping car - the VENOSTA - built in 1920. It features a ladies powder room with 1920 accessories and two sleeping compartments. One compartment shows the top and lower berths set for night use. In the second compartment the lower berth has been converted into a couch for day use and the upper berth is recessed into the wall.
	Four man handcars were used by track crews for transportation and for delivering supplies for maintaining the railway right-of-ways. Today they are used during our annual "Golden Spike Days" celebration - July long weekend - for the "World Championship Handcar Races" which originated in Port Moody in 1979.