TWO PHOTOS: DAVID WILKIE
Until the mid-1970’s, the rugged Boundary Subdivision was home to CPR’s CLC (Fairbanks-Morse) diesel fleet. Two C-Liners and two H-16-
MAR. 30, 1967
44’s lead a train at Cascade (above), while four H-16-44’s and a GP9 have just passed beneath a snowshed at Paulson Bridge (below).
CPR’s Boundary District This scenic line in southern British Columbia makes a great modeling project/Robert D. Turner T
his is first of three articles on modeling the Canadian Pacific in this mountainous district of
SEPT. 29, 1971
southern British Columbia, just north of the border with Washington State. In these articles we are concentrating on
the diesel era on the railway. This arti- cle presents a brief history of the rail- ways and a look at the country through which they ran. The second article, which follows, describes how Mark Dance modeled this fascinating area in N scale in a large, multi-level layout, and the final installment, which will ap- pear next month, looks at the work done by Scott Calvert to capture the region with its complex operations in HO. Our stories focus on the CPR’s Boundary Subdivision, which was built in the late 1890’s as the Columbia & Kootenay Railway between Nelson and the Columbia River about 25 miles to the west and the remainder, which was built westward to Midway and south to Trail and Rossland, chartered as the Columbia & Western Railway. Later it all became part of the CPR’s Kootenay Division, which formed a link in a southern route from Alberta, through the Crowsnest Pass to Kootenay Lake. Steamers and barges provided the connection to the railway in Nelson (or to a transfer slip at Proctor a few miles
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