PHOTOS BY KEITH GRIFFITHS, UNLESS NOTED
CPR’s Boundary Subdivision M
Canadian Pacific’s rugged Boundary District was the inspiration for this HO layout/Scott Calvert
y interest in the railways of the Kootenay area of south- eastern British Columbia be-
gan in my university days when my fa- ther and I modeled a proto-freelance railroad that was based on the CPR that operated in this part of the province. This interest continued to grow, and with it, my desire to model the actual prototype more accurately rather than somewhat generically. When my wife and I built our previ- ous home over 20 year ago, a room for my layout was part of the planning, and it seemed logical to develop a lay- out focused on the CPR prototype. Af- ter many railway research excursions (cleverly disguised as family camping trips) in the southern part of B.C., I settled on the Boundary Subdivision of
The contrast between two scenes on the Boundary Subdivision couldn’t be more stark. The author and his friends were initial- ly interested in making the layout operable and therefore many areas lacked scenery (right). But as years passed, more trees and rugged landscape were installed. This is never more apparent than seeing Extra 8523 with a load of coal going downgrade over the Dog Creek trestle (above).
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the Kootenay Division, including the extensive divisional yard and locomo- tive shops at Nelson as the specific sec- tion of the CPR to be captured on the layout. Over time, we also established the era as the mid-1960’s. As noted in last month’s feature on the CPR’s Boundary District, this sub- division of the CPR possesses many at- tributes that are very appealing from a
modeling and operations perspective. Some of these features were all too ap- pealing to pass up. Among them were a single track mainline with timetable and train order operations; modest sized trains, including through freight and passenger trains, plus numerous way freights and various extras; inland lake and river barge operations on the connecting subdivisions and several
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