Columbia & Western Railway

COLUMBIA & WESTERN RAILWAY was a narrow-gauge line, completed in 1896, connecting the mines at ROSSLAND with the SMELTER at TRAIL. A standard-gauge line was built between Trail and CASTLEGAR the following year. In 1898 the CPR bought it and the Trail smelter from Frederick Augustus HEINZE and rebuilt the narrow-gauge section as a standard-gauge line, thus connecting Rossland via NELSON and KOOTENAY LK to the CPR's CROWSNEST PASS line and eastern Canada. Using the C&W's charter, the CPR built...

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