Crowsnest Southern Line

The Crowsnest Southern Line is a 271.0 mile (61.4 miles in BC) railway line of the North Western Pacific Railroad (NWP) running from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA on the NWP's Kootenay & Pend Oreille Line to Flathead, British Columbia. It connects to the Spokane International Railroad's Coeur d'Alene Division and to the Burlington Northern & Gulf Railroad's Spokane–Missoula line at Coeur d'Alene, to the Canadian Pacific Railway's Cranbrook Subdivision at Elko, and to the Outlier Ridge Line at Mount Broadwood Junction. Additionally, it connects to the BN&G's Seattle–Duluth transcontinental trunk line in four places.

The Crowsnest Southern Line is part of the Eastern Division of NWP's British Columbia District.

= History = The Glacier Line was opened by the Bellingham Bay & British Columbia Railroad in 1902, running from Sumas on its Mission, BC–Fairhaven, WA mainline to Glacier; in 1912, the BB&BC became the Bellingham & Northern Railway, and in 1924 it was absorbed into the Milwaukee Road. The line was electrified in 1966.

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