num_pages: 168
description: The kettle valley railway may be gone but it springs back to life in this marvellous collection of stories and photos from Barrie Sanford author of the KVR classic McCullochs Wonder and Steel Rails and Iron Men.From years of recording stories told to him by railroaders and their descendants coupled with his own research Barrie has compiled stories of the men  and women  who gave the KVR life and purpose. Here are the surveyors who charted the railway through the wilderness the labourers who built the railway with pick and shovel and the locomotive firemen and engineers who ran the trains through winter storms and summer heat. Meet colourful characters like Hurricane Hawkins Minniei Engen and Bunkhouse Bill along with many others who contributed their lives to the KVR in its heyday. They are all given their due and show that in addition to being an engineering marvel the Kettle Valley Railway was also the product of a generation of dedicated pioneers.Told as a series of long and short pieces this is social history carefully preserved by one of BCs foremost railway history experts.
language: English
title: Tales of the KVR
publisher: The National Railway Historical Society BC Chapter