November 1959. Cisco Crossing. Looking north. This is the famous crossover, wherein the Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Railway exchanged sides of the Fraser River between Boston Bar and Spences Bridge. Boston Bar is about 100 miles north of Vancouver, BC., on Trans Canada Highway 1.


The Canadian National Railways occupies the upper level bridge, as Milepost 104, Ashcroft Subdivision, and the Canadian Pacific Railway occupies the lower level bridge, as Mile Post 99.6 of the Thompson Subdivision.
It is easy to find photos of trains crossing the bridges, but not to easy to find photos taken from a train crossing the bridges. Well, I located a set of photos taken by Gordon Hall.
Under the joint agreement CPR will handle all trains of both railroads, from Boston Bar to Vancouver’s South Shore, using CPR train crews. CN will handle all trains of both railways from Boston Bar to Vancouver’s north shore, Burrard Inlet, using CN crews, and finally, CPR will handle all coal trains from Boston Bar to the Robert’s Bank coal terminal.
CN and CPR have a long established directional running zone extending west of Ashcroft to Mission, BC., in the Fraser Canyon. All westbound trains operate over the CN line, and all eastbound trains of both railroads operate of the CPR line."
Cisco Crossing, then and now.
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