The International Rail Road Systems was a Canadian short line railway company operating in the

West Kootenay The Kootenays or Kootenay ( ) is a region of southeastern British Columbia. It takes its name from the Kootenay River, which in turn was named for the Kutenai First Nations people. Boundaries The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Koot ...

region of southeastern

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. In 1998 the International Reload Systems subsidiary International Rail Road Systems leased the Columbia Gardens–

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section of the original Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway from

Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

(BNSF). North of Parks was abandoned that year. The railway has operated one

EMD GP9 The EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between 1954 and 1959. The GP9 succeeded the GP7 as the second model of EMD's General Purpose (GP) line, incorporating a new sixteen- cylin ...

locomotive. A decade later, Fruitvale–Parks was abandoned. In 2010, ATCO Wood Products, the primary user, purchased the section, which was renamed the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway Corporation in 2012. Interlining to the south was BNSF initially, replaced by

Kettle Falls International Railway The Kettle Falls International Railway is a shortline railroad in the U.S. state of Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia. This OmniTRAX subsidiary operates of track. Former operators The Chewelah– Waneta– Columbia Garde ...

from 2004, and St. Paul & Pacific Northwest Railroad from 2019.

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British Columbia railways Defunct British Columbia railways Spin-offs of the BNSF Railway {{BritishColumbia-transport-stub

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