CP Okanagan Subdivision Mileposts

0.0             SICAMOUS

Origin of Name:
Station:             First: 1886-1898 CPR type three destroyed by fire.
                        Second: 1899-1964 CPR Sicamous Hotel, closed 1956, torn down 1964.
                        Third: 1964-1982 Modern station, on hotel site.
                        Fourth: 1982- Present, Modular structures.
Elevation: 1155 feet.
Passing track:            7290 feet long.
Yard:                        Three yard tracks.
Junction:            Junction between Okanagan Subdivision and the Shuswap Subdivision.           
Other support
structures:             Current: Maintenance of Way facilities.
                        Former: Three-stall roundhouse
                                     70 foot turn table.
                                     Freight House
                                     Coach track

0.02             CPR private crossing  and Hi-rail platform.

0.25             Trans Canada Highway ‘R.W. Bruhn’ Overhead.

0.70             Private crossing.

M0.9             LAKE, timetable location, trackage from here to Sicamous is controlled by the CPR, this timetable station was added in November 1998 when OKAN assumed operation of the Okanagan Sub

2.08      Mara West Road Crossing           

2.20             Private Crossing.

2.45             Private Crossing.

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2.52             Former B.J. Carney Spur connected north end.

3.70            Private crossing.

3.75             Diversion By passes a Pile Trestle


4.2            FOSSETT

Origin of Name: Named after CPR roadmaster Charles Fossett.
Station: None
Elevation: 1156 feet
Passing track: Formerly 10 car capacity
Other support structures: None

5.81            Private crossing.

6.42            Private crossing.

6.61            Private crossing.

6.9 Creek culvert.

7.21            Larch Hills Creek culvert.

9.48             Pile Trestle, 42’ long (was 48' long) Rosemond Lake to Mara Lake flow.


12.6            MARA

Origin of Name: Named after former Member of Parliament John Andrew Mara
Station: 1892 S&O station, moved to new locations and now  Mara Station Bed & Breakfast.
Elevation: 1158’
Passing track: 57 car storage track connected at the north end, the south end switch was damaged in January 14, 1997 derailment.
Other support structures:

12.60    Rosemond Lake Road crossing            

12.96            Section 8-20-8-W6M Road crossing

13.26    Coell-Jones Road crossing           

14.77             Private crossing.

15.19            Grindrod Eastside Road crossing

17.25    Highway 97A crossing.           



17.3             GRINDROD

Origin of Name: Named after Edmund Holden Grindrod, CPR telegraph inspector.
Station: Formerly passenger shelter
Passing track: 46 car siding
Other support structures:
Industries: Vernon Paving (McTar Petroleum) receives asphalt here.
Sure-Crop Feeds began a feed mill here in 1957. The facility was expanded in 1962, 1967, and 1982. The feed mill serves farming operations in the Okanagan and Shuswap areas.

17.52             Gordon Creek culvert.

18.17            Private crossing.

18.16            Spur, removed. Custom Pre-cut stud mill. Currently Paragon Wood Products. Connected south end, east side of main line.

19.00    Emney Road crossing.

19.50    Salts Road crossing.



20.80            Spur, Morrill and Sturgeon Lumber Company (Became Cee-En Lumber Now North Enderby Timber), 4 Cars Connected south end, west of main track

21.15    Brickyard Road Crossing.


21.74    Spur removed, Originally B.J. Carney pole
             became Malpass Lumber before becoming
             Riverside Forest Products. Connected
             south end, east side of mainline.           

22.0            Spur, removed. Nee-Ganzeveld Lumber Company, became Riverside Forest Products in 1964.

22.71    Howard Avenue Crossing            

22.85     Regent Street Crossing           

22.92            Former Mill Street Crossing.

23.00     Cliff Road Crossing           

22.94             Spur, off siding, removed. Nee-B.J. Carney 1926-1966, leased to Riverside Forest Products in 1966. Riverside Forest Products began east of Enderby along the Shuswap River by the Roboch Family in 1945. The mill was relocated to Ashton Creek in 1947 and became Riverside Forest Products in 1962 after amalgamation with Steele Lumber of Vancouver. Riverside Forest Porducts began taking over several small sawmills and consolidating them into mills at Enderby and Lavington. Riverside was eventually sold to Tolko Industries in October 2004.


23.0            ENDERBY

Origin of Name: Named after town in Leicestershire England.
Station: CPR type three 1891 to 1951. This structure had a second story added in 1906 as well as a 16’ wide platform located to Mill Street. A ladies waiting room was added in 1911. Replaced with a modernized structure in 1951 and this structure was removed in the mid 1970s.
Elevation: 1160’
Passing track: Former passing track.
Other support structures: Water tank.
Industries: B.J. Carney pole established Canadian operations here in 1909. The Canadian subsidiary was incorporated in 1952 with offices in Enderby, these offices closed in 1990 and were moved to Sicamous.

23.03            Spur. Okanagan Ferilizer began in 1976, also Imperial Oil, and Mable lake Shingles. South end connection added 1997. Located west of mainline.

23.17    Granville Street Crossing           

23.2            Private corssing.

23.4 to 23.55 Trouble washout spot along Shuswap River.

23.75    Fortune Road Crossing            

23.79            Leduc Creek culvert.

25.5             Fortune Creek Bridge, Pile Trestle, 44’ long. (was 47' long)

26.7             Harland Creek Pile Trestle, 16' long.

26.75    Stepney Cross Road Crossing           

26.8             STEPNEY

Origin of Name: Named after Sir. Arthur Stepney.
Station: Former portable station location.
Elevation: 1161’
Passing track: Short passing track, removed.
Other support structures:

27.8            Private crossing.

28.10    Lindsay Creek culvert           

28.66    Highway 97 Crossing           

29.01             Glazier Creek culvert.

29.60            Private crossing.
29.71             Joyce Creek culvert.

29.90             McCallan Road crossing.

30.0             Anderson Creek culvert.

30.6             Davis Creek Pile Trestle, 45’ long (was 59' long)

30.76    Landsdown Road Crossing           

31.24            Meighan Creek culvert.

31.72    Mill Creek Crossing                        

31.63            Junction with Canadian National Okanagan Subdivision.

31.8             ARMSTRONG

Origin of Name: Named after William Charles Heaton-Armstrong construction engineer for S&O.
Station: CPR type three 1891- Mid 1980s. This structure received an addition in 1910, followed by a rebuilding in 1948. Also received Insubrick in 1950.
Elevation: 11:79’
Passing track: 73 car siding
Other support structures: Water tank.

31.90    Okanagan Street Crossing           

31.92            Spur Nee- J. Richardson Flour Mill, became Buckerfields in 1946 which closed in 1997. Currently Armstrong Wood Pellet Inc. Connected north end, east side of mainline.

32.05    Former Bridge Road crossing.

32.31    Foot Path crossing.           

32.55    Rosedale Avenue crossin

33.95     P.V. Cross Road crossing.           

34.2             REALM

Station: N/A
Elevation: 1301’
Passing track: formerly

34.35            Maid Creek culvert.

34.95    Pleasant Valley Road Crossing           

35.43            Brook culvert.

35.75    Crozier Road Crossing           

35.76            Spur, Kopper’s International Canada Limited. Extended in 1997 by Canadian National to facilitate Unifeed and Rapid Span. Connected north end, east side of mainline.

36.3            Spur,
            Armstrong sawmills     -1969
            Crown Zellerbach             1969-1973
            1973 Crown Zellerbach built a new mill here to consolidate many smaller mills, at the same time the plywood plant was constructed.
            Crown Zellerbach            1973-1982
            Crown Forest Industries                        1982-1988
            Fletcher Challenge Canada            1988-1993
            Riverside Forest Products            1993-2004
            Tolko Industries                                    2004-Present

Woodchips are loaded here and shipped to Fibreco Export in North Vancouver (adjacent to the former BC Rail yard). From 1973-2009

36.45    Otter Lake Cross Road Crossing           

36.65            Spur, removed. Imperial Oil.

36.69             Private crossing.

36.73            Private crossing.

37.90    Larkin Cross Road Crossing           

48.4            LARKIN

Station: CPR type three 1891-1963, Insubrick 1951.
Elvation: 1313’
Passing track: 64 car siding.
Other support structures:

39.07            Highest point on the S&O, Elevation 1336’

39.83            Spur, removed, L&A Ranching. Connected north end, east side of mainline.

39.90    L&A Cross Road Crossing           

39.98            Greenhow Creek culvert.

40.49            Spur, removed. Nee- Canfor Limited, then became Cigas before becoming Superior Propane. Connected north end, east side of mainline.

40.56            L&A Cross Road crossing, added 2004.

40.62    Highway 97B Crossing           

40.93    Highland Road crossing, added 2004.

41.00            Malysh Brook culvert.

41.19            Private crossing.

41.88    Lochdale Road Crossing           

42.20    Meadow Road Crossing           

42.8 OLD ORCHARDS

former CPR timetable station location, Spur, removed, Northgate Sales Limited

43.5             Spur, removed, Silver Star Lumber Company.

43.65    Stickle Road Crossing

43.90    BX Creek Pile Trestle 15' long

44.0             ORCHARDS

timetable station location, added in 1998 when OKAN assumed operation of the Okanagan Sub

44.20     Highway 97 (Swan Lake) Overhead

44.39    58th Avenue Crossing, added 2004.           

44.96    48th Avenue Crossing

45.48    43rd Avenue Crossing           

46.65    41st Avenue Crossing           

45.80    39th Avenue Crossing            

45.90    37th Avenue Crossing           

46.00    35th Avenue Crossing                        

46.15    32th Avenue Crossing           



46.2            VERNON

Origin of Name: Named after Hon. Forbes George Vernon
Station:            CPR Type three 1891-1912
            Replaced in 1912 with a 135’x40’ special station. CN and CP had offices in this depot until the early             1980s. Modernized in 1981 after roof damaged in fire.
Elevation: 1282’
Passing track:
Other support structures:

46.27    30th Avenue Crossing            

46.46    30th Street Crossing           

46.60    32nd Street Crossing           

46.71            34th Street Crossing

46.76            34th ‘A’  Street Crossing

46.82            35th Street Crossing

46.94    Spur, Gulf and Shell Oil

46.96    Swan Lake Creek Pile Trestle            

47.10    End Of Spur           

47.13            37th Street Crossing

47.55            41st Street Crossing
47.62            43rd Street Crossing

48.20            27th Ave Crossing

48.55            Tronson Road Crossing

49.82            Cummings Road Crossing.

49.95    Wye                                               

50.8            OKANAGAN LANDING

Origin of Name:
Station:
Passing track:
Other support structures: Barge slip, station, water tank and small yard, connection with Okanagan Lake Barges to Penticton, the trackage from here to a point near Vernon was abandoned and removed in 1940 after the CPR barge facilities were relocated to Kelowna. The CPR by this point used running rights over the CNR to Kelowna. CPR had a 2 stall enginehouse, wye station and shipyard here, today the most of the site remains as paddlewheel park. CP started to Run to Kelowna Over the CNR Okanagan Subdivision January 7 1935, The section of track from Mile 47.1 to Okanagan Landing was abandoned July 16 1940 and Rails were lifted by August 1940

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