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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 ...
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.
The Kettle Valley Rail Trail is a multi-use recreational rail trail located in the Okanagan-Boundary region of southern British Columbia. The trail uses a rail corridor that was originally built for the now-abandoned Kettle Valley Railway .
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 ...
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 ...
Canadian Pacific 3716 is a N-2-b class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Montreal Locomotive Works for the Canadian Pacific Railway, owned and operated by the Kettle Valley Steam Railway in British Columbia, Canada. [1]
The Kettle Valley Rail Trail in British Columbia uses a rail corridor that was originally built for the now-abandoned Kettle Valley Railway. The trail was developed during the 1990s after the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned train service. The longest rail trail in Canada is the Newfoundland T'Railway that covers a distance of 883 km (549 mi).
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.