Stoney Creek Bridge

Stoney Creek Bridge is a Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) truss arch in southeastern British Columbia.

After a forest fire consumed 14 cars of lumber for the bridge, loggers had to fell additional trees to replace the loss.

Completed in early August 1885, construction took seven weeks, which included ten days lost owing to the death of two workers and wet weather.

Although each of the very high bridges on the east slope of the Selkirk Mountains had been construction challenges, this final one proved the most problematic.

[3] No other railway has ever matched CP in building as many high timber bridges as were required to initially conquer the mountainous terrain of eastern British Columbia.

During construction, a carpenter struck by dislodged rock sustained fatal injuries on falling to the bottom of the ravine.

[8] This track curvature places considerably greater centrifugal forces on the west end of the structure, which limits current train speeds to 40 kilometres per hour (25 mph).

Among the most recognized are those by CP special photographer Nicholas Morant featuring The Canadian when it was the railway's flagship streamliner.

[16] Completed in fall 1986,[17] the spans for the John Fox viaduct were unloaded at the south end of this bridge from early July 1987.

CP passenger train, former Stoney Creek Bridge, c.1890.