![]() ![]() The construction was completely virtually all by hand with the assistance of some horse drawn scrapers and black powder. This section of the line would become the most expensive kilometre of railway track in the world which has been estimated at to be around $300,000 in 1914. The Coquihalla subdivision included 61.1kms from the Coquihalla Summit to the junction with the CPR mainline across the Fraser River from Hope. ![]() McCulloch took on the challenging task of building the railway which would include building a railway line over THREE major mountain ranges. ![]() In the early 1900s, the Canadian Pacific Railway(CPR) finally decided that a route was a quintessential link that was missing to connect to the Kootenay region to the Southwestern Region in British Columbia by a “ribbon of steel.” Andrew McCulloch was hired by CPR in 1884 but in May 1910 he was no longer an axe man was now a full fledged civil engineer for the incredibly challenging project, the Kettle Valley Railway. Why the Othello Tunnels for this Location? ![]()
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