A trestle is but a memory - Traditional Cache
A trestle is but a memory -
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This was a standing KVR trestle until vandals destroyed it in 1996. However the original "root cellar" still remains - where good footwear, other then that it's an easy find.
Take a quick jaunt down the KVR across one of the trestles, beauty resides here – in our imagination only now
The Kettle Valley Railway, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway was constructed I 1910-1916 to provide an all Canadian railway route between the Kotteay mining region in the southern interior of British Columbia and the BC coast near Vancouver. The 500-km-long railway commenced at Midway, at the western terminus of the CPR’s Crowsnest Pass line (the Columbia and Western Railway) in the Kootenay Mining Region, and ran westward across three mountain summits (the Monashee Mountain Range, the Interior Plateau, and the Cascades Mountains) and through two deep valleys (the Okanagan and the Tulameen) to the Fraser River valley. It established an uninterrupted rail communication from the Kootenays to the Coast by connecting with the CPR mainline in the Fraser River Valley.
The Kettle Valley line stopped using Blakeburn Coal in 1931 when a eport was released confirming that it was one of the two top coal deposits for locomotive coal in North America. Subsequent to this report, Coalmont Collieries raised their prices and the CPR began buying less expensive coal from Merritt as they had raised their rate 25 cents per ton above the rate of other collieries. This was much to the dismay of the fireman faced with working the Coquihalla line.
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Cyrnfr er-uvqr jryy gb cerirag zhttyrf sebz fgrnyvat Nzzb Pnaf!!!