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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.
Kettle Valley is on the south side of the Kettle River in the Boundary region of south central British Columbia. [1] The unincorporated settlement, on Kettle Valley Rd S. (off BC Highway 3 ), is by road about 29 kilometres (18 mi) west of Greenwood and 56 kilometres (35 mi) east of Osoyoos .
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.
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 .
Kelowna Pacific Railway: Okanagan Valley, British Columbia: 1999 - 2013: Entered receivership July 2013. CN once again operates a portion of the line. The Vernon to Kelowna portion is under abandonment procedures. Kettle Valley Railway: Midway BC to Hope BC, Southern Interior Route: 1915–1961, all except Penticton area until 1989: Acquired by ...