STEAM AT KELOWNA IN 1952

Scan of a 1951 postcard looking south west shows Sun-Rype and B.C. Fruit packers. Tall red building by B.C. Fruit packers is the Ice House. Smoke stack on right is from Rowcliffe Canning.

Steam engine CP 962 leaving Kelowna. Large white building to the left is B.C. Fruit Packers Co-operative, which still looks the same today. The ice house was opened in 1950 and removed in the mid 1960's. Another view of the ice house. Later a two track intermodal ramp was installed at this location.

D-10 #962 in the Kelowna yard. Tender has been painted for passenger train service.

962 has just crossed High Rd. (Mile 118), and is about to cross Gordon Dr. on its way to the Kelowna station.

962 is in the Kelowna yard.

Aug/Sept 1954 CP Spanner

Budd demonstration train on a Canadian tour stops at Kelowna in 1954.
Shown is Banff Park, CP 15403 senic dome lounge car and hidden is
Chateau Bienville, CP 14202 sleeper in the Kelowna CP yard.

March, 1957: newspaper article about the end of CP 962.

First diesel locomotive in Kelowna was a CP MLW S-4, #7111 on Sept.11, 1952.

CN 5118 - head of the passenger train.
In the background, a B.A. oil tank car is shown. These cars used
to frequent Kelowna. For info on modeling B.A., click here.

C.N. Pacific #5121 in the Kelowna yard taking on water. Station is just over Ellis St.

Another view of 5121 at the water tower.

5121 heading west into the yard.

A Santa Fe type freight engine, 2-10-2 #4307 faces northward in the yard.

The following scanned photos are not of best quality.

Refrigerator cars are being loaded onto the CN barge at Kelowna.

Looking east in the Kelowna yard.

5121 crossing Ellis St. heading into the yard. Station is to the right of the refrigerator car.

Engines in the yard.

The Occidental Fruit Company in the background was destroyed by fire on March 27, 1961. CP 3661 is coming into the yard. The job of the man looking at the engine was to check the friction bearings on each train car for adequate lubrication. He always rode a girl's bike, so that he could leave it anywhere in the yard, without it being stolen. He figured no boy would ever steal a girl's bike!

A September 1929 picture of CN 2-8-0 2102 by the water tower. A much later view taken in the late 1940's after 2102 was converted to a switcher, pulls special train heading south from B.C. Fruit Processors. A 1947 aerial view of Simpsons saw mill also shows B.C. Fruit Processors location location by the arrow.
A 1964 view of the north end.

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