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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.
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.
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 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 .
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns is a Canadian historical documentary show, created and produced by television station CHBC-TV in Kelowna, British Columbia for Canadian syndication and hosted by Mike Roberts with historian/storyteller Bill Barlee. The show was filmed in a studio which resembled an old trapper's cabin.
The westward advance of the Kettle Valley Railway (KV) rail head passed by Westbridge in spring 1911 [39] [40] and Rhone in fall. [41] By early 1913, the station was erected and construction trains were running beyond Carmi. [42] The Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) motive is unclear for the establishment of the Zamora station in close proximity.
In Grand Forks, a former north–south section of the Kettle Valley Lines (KVL) (the operating company for the Kettle River Valley Railway (KRVR) and the Spokane and British Columbia Railway) [1] both crossed and connected with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) line near the north end of today's 5 St. [2] The KRVR became the CP's Kettle Valley Railway.