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It is an impressive layout de- signed for operations and with scenery that captures the beauty and challeng- ing rail operations of this vast area. You will enjoy the ride. Then watch for Scott Calvert’s stunning HO interpretation of the Boundary Subdivision coming in the June issue of RMC.


Further reading: Burrows, Roger G. 1984. Railway Mileposts: British Columbia. Vol. The


Southern Routes from the


Crowsnest to the Coquihalla. Railway. Milepost Books, North Vancouver, BC. Dean, Murray W. and David B. Han-


NELSON, B.C.; JULY 1989


The upper floors of the elaborate CPR passenger station at Nelson housed division of- fices. The wooden-framed building was built at the turn of the last century. It is no longer in use by the railway, but has been preserved as a heritage structure.


which continued in service into the Burlington Northern era. Originally called the Spokane, Falls & Northern, a line served Nelson via a mountainous route from Washington until it was abandoned beyond the small town of Salmo and more recently cut back even further. In busier times it provided an opportunity to see Great Northern and, later, Burlington Northern power at the CPR’s Nelson shops, where it was serv- iced. RS-3’s, SD9’s and various EMD GP9’s and occasional F-units and other power were in use on the trains. Nelson had the distinction of having its own street railway which operated until 1949 when the system was re- moved and buses took over. However, in 1992 streetcar track was laid along the waterfront parallel to the Canadian Pa- cific mainline, and a carefully restored 1906-vintage Brill, No. 23, which oper- ated on Nelson’s street railway between 1925 and 1949 was placed in summer service by the Nelson Electric Tramway Society. This operation would be an in- teresting addition to a modern-day model setting, and a great excuse for some traction modeling. Cutbacks to the railway came quick- ly in the 1980’s and 1990’s. In 1990 the mountainous line west of Castlegar over Farron Hill to Midway was aban- doned except for isolated trackage at Grand Forks, which was later sold and operated as an industrial line known as the Grand Forks Railway, with an SW900. It provided local mills and oth- er industries with access to the Burlington Northern’s branchline that swung into British Columbia briefly north of Colville and then swung south back into Washington State south to


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Republic. In 2004 the BNSF trackage was taken over by OmniTRAX as the Kettle Falls International Railway, but two years later, after mill closures, the trackage beyond Danville, Washington, it was abandoned. At Nelson, once such a busy place on the railway, nearly everything except a small lumber loading facility has been removed, as traffic went increasingly to trucking or mills simply closed for rea- sons of markets, timber supply or aging equipment. The operation of Kootenay Division trackage west of the CPR- Union Pacific interchange on the BC- Idaho border at Kingsgate, B.C., and Eastport, Idaho, was restructured as the Kootenay Valley Railway, an inter- nal shortline within the CPR system. Its actual end of track is a junction called Curzon, just north of the border. In earlier times, the Spokane Interna- tional provided this link between the CPR and the Union Pacific at Spokane, running as far north as Yahk, B.C. The SI was eventually taken over by the UP, and in the era of free trade the gateway has become very busy. East of there, the railway is much busier with the traffic featuring heavy trains with CPR and Union Pacific power. To the west the railway is a shadow of its once-busy sta- tus as a second mainline through British Columbia.


Challenges sometimes seemed never ending on the Boundary Subdivision for the CPR and its hard working crews, and that setting makes a great back- drop for model railroads. In the follow- ing eight pages, Mark Dance will take you on a tour of his beautiful N scale layout based on the CPR’s Boundary Subdivision and other nearby rail oper-


na. 1981. Canadian Pacific Diesel Loco- motives. Railfare/Fitzhenry & White- side Ltd., Don Mills, ON. Doeksen, Gerry. 1985. Railways of the Boundary. Railways of Western Canada, Vol. 4. Published by the au- thor, Montrose, BC. Doeksen, Gerry and Corwin. 1988. Railways of the West Kootenay, Part 3, Railways of Western Canada, Vol. 5. Published by the authors, Montrose, BC.


Garden, J.F. 2004. The Crow and the


Kettle. Footprint Publishing, Cowley, AB. Kennedy. W. Gibson. 1983. Canadian


Pacific’s Rossland Subdivision. BRN- MA, Calgary, AB. Kennedy, W. Gibson, 1986. Canadian


Pacific in Southern British Columbia, The Boundary Subdivision. BRNMA, Calgary, AB. Turner, Robert D.


1984 and 1998.


Sternwheelers & Steam Tugs, An Illus- trated History of the CPR’s British Co- lumbia Lake & River Service. Sono Nis Press, Winlaw, BC. Turner, Robert D. 1986. West of the Great Divide. An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia. Sono Nis Press, Winlaw, BC. Turner, Robert D. 2003. “A Trio of N Scale Switchers: Detailing SW9’s for the UP and GN, and an SW8 for the Grand Forks R.R.” RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, March issue. Turner, Robert D. and J.S. David


Wilkie, 2007. Steam Along the Bound- ary. Sono Nis Press, Winlaw, BC. Turner, Robert D.


2010. “Floating


Branchlines: Sternwheelers, Tugs and Barges.”RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, November issue. Welch, Al. 2006. “Canadian Pacific


Shay Locomotive No. 111,” RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, April issue. Whetham, Bob.


2002. “CP Rail’ s


Kimberley Subdivision and its Narrow Gauge Connection,” RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN, August issue. Zuters, Gary. 1994. CP Rail Review. Hyrail Productions, Ferndale, WA.


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