B.C. Lake & River Service Route:
Robson-Nakusp-Arrowhead
Upper Arrow Lake
Columbia River
Naksup Lardeau Roseberry
Slocan Lake
B.C. Lake & River Service Route
Slocan City-Roseberry
Lower Arrow Lake
Slocan City Proctor Troup Jct. Nelson Coykendahl Greenwood Phoenix Eholt Midway
Grand Forks
To Pentieton
Great Northern Railway
Archibald
Coryell Farron
Rossland Cascade To Spokane Trail
South Slocan
Robson Castlegar Nelson &
Kootenay Landing
Fort Shepard Railway (Great Northern)
WASHINGTON
Red Mountain Railway (Great Northern)
BRITISH COLUMBIA IDAHO
Tye
Kuskonook Sidar
Creston
WyndellMcConnel To
Bonners Ferry
Eastport
Belington & Nelson Railway (Great Northern)
Kingsgate Yahk Moyie 10
CPR 0
Three Forks
Sandon Kalso
B.C. Lake & River Service Routes:
Nelson-Kootenay Landing Nelson/Proctor-Lake points
Kootenay Lake
Kimberley Fort Steele
Fassiferne Cranbrook
Wardner Galloway
Colvalli Waldo
10
Kootenay River
nay To Fording Natal
McGillivary Hosmer
Fernie Morrissey Elko
Other railways 20
30 40 Michel Crowsnest To Lethbridge ALBERTA ALBER
To Gerard and Trout Lake
Golden
Oringinal approximate route of Kalso &Slocan Railway (3 foot gauge) Kalso - Sandon
British Columbia
To
10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Kilometers Miles
Spokane International
MONTANA
4000 3500 3000 2500
0.58 2.14 0.50
Nelson to Midway 127 miles (203 km) Grades shown are maximum between stations
Boundry Subdivision
Cranbrook to Nelson 138 miles (221 km) Milages of Subdivisions from East to West
Nelson Subdivision
Crowsnet to Cranbrook 99 miles (159 km) Drawing by Ken Lawrence
Cranbrook Subdivision
tracked and dispatching was done by telegraph and train order. Adding to its interest in the diesel era was the re- liance on Fairbanks-Morse C-Liners and road switchers, with a sprinkling of GM and occasional MLW (Alco) power. The Boundary Subdivision itself was primarily an east-west route, but in crossing southern British Columbia it had to climb over a series of north- south running mountain ranges. The net result was a rail route that spent almost as much time going north and south as it did east and west. From Nelson, the railway followed the Koote- nay River to the Columbia, which it crossed on a long steel bridge built on masonry piers, to reach the eastern bank where the town of Castlegar de- veloped. A line, originally built by F. Augustus Heinz, ran south to Trail and Rossland. The CPR built west by climbing a grade that reached 2.4 per- cent over Farron Hill, pierced the mountain ridge with the 2,991-foot Bulldog summit tunnel, and then de- scended on a grade reaching 2.37 per- cent to Christina Lake, Grand Forks, and more mining and agricultural dis-
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN
tricts before climbing again over Eholt summit, reached from the east by a 2.35 percent grade before descending on a 2.3 percent grade to Midway.
GRAND FORKS, B.C.; SEPT. 1973
2000 1500 1000 500
Elevation in Feet
These two summits provided the CPR crews with ample challenges, and in the days of steam two engines were often used on heavier trains. In diesel
49
Midway
Greenwood Eholt
Grand Forks Cascade
Coryell Farron Coykendahl Castlegar
South Slocan Nelson
Proctor Tye
Kootenay Landing Creston
McConnel Yahk
Moyie
Lumberton Cranbrook
Rampart
Wardner Colvalli
Galloway Elko
Morrissey Fernie
Hosmer Michel Crowsnest
2.30
1.08 1.21
1.95
2.34
2.40
2.35
1.48
1.61
2.37
2.30
1.00 1.50
0.90 0.70
1.25
1.31
1.44
1.27
1.28
1.15
1.30
1.37
1.63 1.24
1.42 1.48
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