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Along the Line: the Kettle Valley Railway as a Community Link
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A self-propelled steam hoist at Mile 87.4
55 of 87 		Bridge repair at Mile 89.4
56 of 87 		Filling the trestle at Mile 92.1 - reducing the replacement cost of wood timbers
57 of 87 		Ditcher at Mile 96.3 loading cars for infilling trestles
58 of 87 		A rail-tester car X-raying track for stress fractures
59 of 87 		Catching a ride on a speeder
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Moving a family and their house on a flatcar
61 of 87 		The linegang - Allen Burkhart is at back, far right
62 of 87 		Catching a ride along the Kettle Valley Line
63 of 87 		North end of Ladner Creek Trestle; the snow shed and part of the steel span
64 of 87 		Diesel Engine and Plow No. 401019 near the Coquihalla summit in very heavy snow
65 of 87 		Plowing out after a heavy snow
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'Letting go' at Mile 132.0 Princeton
67 of 87 		Overnight comfort in a sleeping car
68 of 87 		Moving cattle to market
69 of 87 		Budd Car dayliners replaced traditional passenger trains in 1958
70 of 87 		The railway was no longer economically viable
71 of 87 		Lumber is still transported by rail from the new Pope and Talbot sawmill
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