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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 November 1915, the Kettle Valley Railway (KV) took over the management of the line, [95] and coal shipments continued as the primary traffic. During 1916–1959, blockages on the KV Coquihalla segment or in the lower Fraser Canyon created bursts of activity when trains temporarily diverted via Merritt.
In early 1910, McCulloch was appointed Chief Engineer [3] for the CPR's Kettle Valley Railway in British Columbia, [2] a project which was to be the most challenging of his career and included the 18 Myra Canyon Trestles, 14 of which that were destroyed in 2003. [4] Following completion of the line in 1916 he was appointed Superintendent of ...
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 Steam Railway is a heritage railway near Summerland, British Columbia. The KVSR operates excursion trains over the only remaining section of the Kettle Valley Railway . This section runs from Faulder to Trout Creek , running through West Summerland and the Prairie Valley railway station .
When the railway was built, the section of railway between Myra station and June Springs station required 18 wooden trestles and two tunnels in order to traverse the deep canyon. For years after the abandonment of this section of rail line, the area was a noted attraction; with its relatively gentle grade, it became a hiker and cyclist haven.
The Kettle Valley Railway - A look at the history of the now extinct railway in B.C.'s southern interior and at the life of Andrew McCulloch, the man who masterminded the construction of the line and especially the building of the tunnels and huge trestles. 22.
A trans U.S. railway that had a railway in the BC Fraser Valley competing with CP for the natural resources. Great Northern Railway of Canada [2] 1892-1907: between Rivière-à-Pierre, Quebec, and Hawkesbury, Ontario [3] Great Western Railway: southwestern Ontario: 1853–1884: Acquired by GTR: Guelph and Goderich Railway: Acquired by CPR.