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.
(INSERT)
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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