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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 trail was developed during the 1990s after the Canadian Pacific Railway abandoned train service.
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 ...
Suggested alternative bestowers have been James J. Warren, the Kettle Valley Railway president, or one of the daughters of these men. [8] [9] Tunnels Rd runs along the former right-of-way. Once standing about 100 metres (328 ft) before the northward bend into the visitor carpark, the station comprised a small freight/passenger shelter.
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 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 ...
Craft beer, distilled spirits, and cider are also widely manufactured. Penticton is known for its early involvement in the craft brewing movement and is a featured route in BC Ale Trails. The Kettle Valley Rail Trail, with trail heads leading to more than 160 km (99 mi) of flat, railbed trails for hiking and biking, can be accessed from Penticton.
In April, the rail head crossed back into BC at Chopaka, having crossed the border five times, and reached Keremeos in July. [17] The recession following the Panic of 1907 slowed the northwestward progress beyond Keremeos. [6] The rail head reached Hedley in August 1909 and Princeton in November, with passenger service commencing the next month ...
East Gippsland Rail Trail signage in Victoria, Australia, indicating the shared trail usage. A rail trail is a shared-use path on a railway right of way. Rail trails are typically constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track has been removed but may also share the right of way with active railways, light rail, or streetcars (rails with trails), or with disused track.