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Train on the Kettle Valley Railway crossing trestle at Sirnach Creek, 1916 The Little Tunnel above Naramata, July 2009. The Kettle Valley Railway (reporting mark KV) [1] was a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) that operated across southern British Columbia, west of Midway running to Rock Creek, then north to Myra Canyon, down to Penticton over to Princeton, Coalmont, Brookmere ...
In 1895 the Valley Railway became the Cleveland, Terminal and Valley Railway. In 1915 the line was absorbed into the Baltimore and Ohio system. Although many small independent lines from this era were absorbed into larger lines and acquired parallel tracks, the Valley Railway retains single track alignment and has been well preserved.
The Coquihalla railway link, operated by the Kettle Valley Railway (KV), a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) subsidiary, connected the Coquihalla Summit and Hope in southwestern British Columbia. This standard gauge trackage, which followed the Coquihalla River through the North Cascades , formed the greater part of the KV Coquihalla Subdivision.
With the incorporation of the Republic and Kettle Valley Railway, a private railway based in Republic, Washington, Curlew was identified as a major stopping point on the proposed line between the gold mines in Republic and connection to the transcontinental railways at Grand Forks, British Columbia.
The company was incorporated in 1900 in Republic and was bought out in 1901 by the Canadian Republic & Grand Forks Railway Company, who retained the Republic and Kettle Valley Railway name after the buy out. The company reorganized under the Spokane and British Columbia Railway name in 1905 which operated service on the line through 1919 and ...
Ohio Valley Railway: PRR: 1871 1890 Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley and Cincinnati Railroad: Ohio Valley and Junction Railway: PRR: 1897 1902 Cleveland and Mahoning Railway: Ohio and West Virginia Railway: C&O: 1878 1881 Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway: Painesville, Canton and Bridgeport Narrow Gauge Railroad: W&LE: 1875 1880 Chagrin Falls ...
The Kettle Valley Railway (KV), a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) subsidiary announced the station name as Tulameen. [83] When scheduled CP service via Tulameen and Spences Bridge to the coast began in June 1915, [84] GN handed over all general freight and passenger traffic northwest of Princeton to the KV. [85] That month, GN erected the station ...
The railway also has an ALCO S-6 diesel electric locomotive (originally Southern Pacific No. 1050, more recently owned by Portland Terminals, then Neptune Bulk Terminals [1] in North Vancouver). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Between 1995 and 2009 a two-truck Shay locomotive , Mayo Lumber No. 3 was on loan from the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan ; it was ...