7

Moving a family and their house on a flatcar
1946
Kettle Valley Line

Credits:
Kettle River Museum
Mark Myers photo

8

Teacher and students of Midway School
1930
Midway, BC
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Credits:
Courtesy of Cecelia Bourgeois

9

Crossing the high trestles of the KVR could be unnerving for passengers
1924
Myra Canyon, Kettle Valley Railway
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Credits:
Courtesy of Joe Smuin

10

Wesley Shafonsky in Castlegar on the Kettle Valley Line
1943
Castlegar, BC
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Credits:
Courtesy of Wesley Shafonsky

11

Riding the Kettle Valley Line
1942
Kettle Valley Line
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Credits:
Kettle River Museum
Mark Myers photo

12

Overnight comfort in a sleeping car
Circa 1955
Kettle Valley Line
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Credits:
Canadian Museum of Rail Travel
CPR stock photo, Cranbrook Archives

13

A young rancher accompanies his cattle to the stock yards at the coast and gets a look at city life. Families visit each other up and down the line, and children catch a ride home from school on the speeder.

14

Moving cattle to market
Circa 1940
unknown
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Credits:
BC Archives I-30844

15

Catching a ride on a speeder
Circa 1945
Carmi Subdivision, Kettle Valley Railway
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Credits:
Kettle River Museum

16

Mr & Mrs Baird W. Bubar with one of the first trains to go through Beaverdell
Circa 1915
Kettle Valley Line
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Credits:
Kettle River Museum

17

'Letting go' at Mile 132.0 Princeton
1950's
Kettle Valley Line
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Credits:
Joe Smuin collection
WJ Presley photo

18

Budd Car dayliners replaced traditional passenger trains in 1958
1964
Penticton, BC
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Credits:
Penticton Museum & Archives

19

The sound of the KVR whistle also meant travel to far off lands, and travel to the front for some in both World Wars. Many would never return.

20

The Boundary's 225th Battalion detrains in Penticton and from there overseas
16 July 1916
Penticton, BC

Credits:
Penticton Museum & Archives