RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2021 I 4 hours ago, pH said: Almost certainly CP’s Arbutus line. Now closed and (eventually, after much bargaining) bought by the city as a walking/cycling path known as the Arbutus Greenway. Thanks. It was 78 and 79 when I saw it. I can't remember if it was still there in 99. Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 22, 2021 Author Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) 33 minutes ago, jamie92208 said: Thanks. It was 78 and 79 when I saw it. I can't remember if it was still there in 99. Jamie It was in service until 2001. The track was still there at least into 2014, though very overgrown in places. The city finally bought it in 2016. Edited January 22, 2021 by pH 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 (edited) CN#2199 (C40-8W) and #8951 (SD70M-2) on tanks in Port Moody this afternoon: #2199 was originally ATSF #864, later BNSF #864. Here it is in its original colourscheme: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1074481 2199 did not sound good moving off! Edited February 11, 2021 by pH 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 Canadian National units on a westbound unit grain train on Canadian Pacific tracks at Port Moody March 1 2021. Taken across a road bridge, between passing cars. The train is heading into a very low setting sun. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 A few weeks ago, I posted some pictures of the IOCO industrial spur in Port Moody. I said that there were new ties and tie plates dumped at various points along the track, and that I thought there was going to be a program of tie replacement. Turns out, there was more than that. It seems that the whole spur was relaid. I don't know if the relaying was done with CWR (I was going somewhere, and didn't have time to check in detail) but the rail lengths are certainly longer than previously. The old, jointed rail has been lifted in long lengths, not unbolted and lifted as separate rails. Is this common practice? There's also been some upgrading of things other than the track itself. For example, this dilapidated timber pedestrian/bike crossing: has been replaced with precast concrete panels: 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 Some great memories here. I have visited Canada five times, four of which included Vancouver Island where I have cousins. In 1987 the Dayliner was still sufficiently speedy that it waited time at Nanaimo where you could alight and buy food from a refreshment truck during the layover. We rode the train from Victoria to Qualicum Beach and back one day and on another day from Victoria to Nanaimo and back. Here is #6133 at Nanaimo on October 20th, 1987. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) On 25th August 2009, I rode on the Dayliner service, consisting of #6135 and #6148 from Victoria to Qualicum Beach and back for a lunch date. The neatly manicured lawn and freshly painted station building with its hanging baskets at Qualicum Beach contrasted with the deterioraring permanent way. After returning to Victoria, I photographed the ECS working, as it cleared Johnson Street bridge on its way back to the Roundhouse. Edited March 20, 2021 by cessna152towser 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 Budd RDC #6148 crossing Highway 19A at mile 92, three miles south of Parksville, 8th March, 2011. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 Budd RDC #6148 at Courtenay, 9th March, 2011, with the daily train just arrived from Victoria. I finally got to ride the section north of Qualicum Beach just nine days before the end of the service. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 Passengers accessing the daily southbound train at Nanaimo, 16th March 2011. Due to the station building having been damaged by fire, passengers boarded the train from a parking lot on the opposite side of the line from the station. This temporary arrangement ended two days later when the passenger train ceased to run. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) A short freight train from Wellington to Nanaimo's Wellcox Yard consisting of two empty cars, on 17th March, 2011, returning to the docks after unloading on the island. Hauled south through Qualicum Beach by a pair of GP9s. One of the last trains around here. Passenger trains ended the following day and freight a few months later. Edited March 20, 2021 by cessna152towser 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 Qualicum Beach on 17th March, 2011, with the second last run of the daily southbound service. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 By the date of my next visit, Victoria's small modern station stood trackless and caged off on 18th May, 2012. 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted March 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2021 A final look at the E&N at Langford on 20th May, 2012 where the track still looked to be in reasonable condition. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 On 20/03/2021 at 16:53, cessna152towser said: Some great memories here. I have visited Canada five times, four of which included Vancouver Island where I have cousins. In 1987 the Dayliner was still sufficiently speedy that it waited time at Nanaimo where you could alight and buy food from a refreshment truck during the layover. We rode the train from Victoria to Qualicum Beach and back one day and on another day from Victoria to Nanaimo and back. Here is #6133 at Nanaimo on October 20th, 1987. 6133 is the RDC now owned by Jason Shron of Rapido Trains. I was lucky enough to get a cab ride in it some years earlier, from Victoria over the Malahat to Shawinigan Lake. The island isn't the same without the Dayliner. Had to go all the way up to Beaver Cove to see trains when I was there in 2012 - now that's closed, too. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 6133 reflected in Shawnigan Creek when it was operating the Malahat Dayliner (Victoria-Courtenay) service around 1991. (CJL) 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach james Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 On 20/03/2021 at 10:22, cessna152towser said: A final look at the E&N at Langford on 20th May, 2012 where the track still looked to be in reasonable condition. That section had been relayed fairly close to the end of service, due to the road crossing which you are standing in being redone. Not as extensive as at the graving dock, but still very little used by rail. There are more in Langford which are yet to see a train...up by the west shore YMCA. Floyd’s Diner is fairly good for brunch... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 1, 2021 Author Share Posted June 1, 2021 A couple of 'roster' shots - the only usable photos from a frustrating couple of hours this afternoon: AC4400CW #9735 in Port Coquitlam yards: AC4400CWM (rebuilt AC4400CW) #8054 at Port Coquitlam: 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Had some slides scanned recently and couldn't resist posting this one, taken at Lillooet on the British Columbia Railway in 1981. The chop-nosed Alco and single passenger car formed the morning school train for indigenous children from Seton Portage. They would return home on the southbound regular passenger train. The coach (heated by a log-burner which w3asn't necessary in the 95deg heat when I was there) was named Budd Wiser, a gentle poke at the line's regular passenger RDCs. (CJL) 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 This was taken quite a few years ago and I wasn't quite sure where I was so I'll caption it as what I think it is. A brace of Southern Railway of BC (Washington Group) switchers (SW900s?) head a long train of triple-deck auto-racks over the bridge to Annacis Island (over the Fraser?). From memory they approached across the street but I missed that shot due to having to change the camera battery at the wrong moment. (CJL) 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted July 26, 2021 Author Share Posted July 26, 2021 4 hours ago, dibber25 said: This was taken quite a few years ago and I wasn't quite sure where I was so I'll caption it as what I think it is. A brace of Southern Railway of BC (Washington Group) switchers (SW900s?) head a long train of triple-deck auto-racks over the bridge to Annacis Island (over the Fraser?). From memory they approached across the street but I missed that shot due to having to change the camera battery at the wrong moment. (CJL) Yes, those are Southern Railway of BC SW900s. They are crossing a swing bridge over the north arm of the Fraser River from New Westminster - you are standing on the riverside walkway in New West. They are on their way to Annacis Island, but that’s not Annacis Island on the other side of the bridge - it’s an area called Queensborough. They will have to cross another swing bridge from there to get on to Annacis Island. The street they will have crossed on the way to the bridge is Quayside Drive. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) Three flavours of BNSF autorack in the BNSF/CN/CP exchange sidings in Coquitlam on August 13. With BNSF emblem (left hand end): 'Swoosh' on a yellow car: 'Swoosh' on an orange car: CPR SD30C-ECoS #5004 and 5007 on transfer trip with containers from Port Coquitlam yards to container terminal in downtown Vancouver on August 19. This location has been changed recently from 'Barnet' to 'Walker'. #5004 was rebuilt from SD40-2 #6027. #5007 was rebuilt from SD40-2 #6056. I liked the 'going away' shot too, more for the overall impression than details: Edited March 4, 2023 by pH 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdvle Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 17 hours ago, pH said: CPR SD30C-ECoS #5004 and 5007 I liked the 'going away' shot too, more for the overall impression than details: I too like the SD30C-ECO units - if nothing else as you note they provide a nice visual change to the dominance of the various GE units that have taken over the railroads (I wonder if CP fans said the same thing back in the day when the SD40-2 so dominated the CPR). Sadly I don't see the SD30C-ECO or its sibling the GP20C-ECO ever being done in model form. At only 50 and 130 units, and only 1 owner with not much variation in paint schemes, I doubt they would sell enough - though perhaps worth a request to ScaleTrains in case there is enough that could be shared with their SD40-2 tooling. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 20, 2021 Author Share Posted August 20, 2021 47 minutes ago, mdvle said: Sadly I don't see the SD30C-ECO or its sibling the GP20C-ECO ever being done in model form. At only 50 and 130 units, and only 1 owner with not much variation in paint schemes, I doubt they would sell enough - though perhaps worth a request to ScaleTrains in case there is enough that could be shared with their SD40-2 tooling. On the SD30C-ECO, the frames and trucks from the donor SD40-2s were used in the rebuilding, and look to be unaltered. A kit for the body shouldn’t be too difficult (Kaslo Shops?). The biggest problem might be the fuel tank, which was replaced in the rebuild and appears to have a different profile. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 20, 2021 Really enjoyed that thanks chaps Here’s a few from my trip in 2011 From the tower in Vancouver The trains were a tad smaller when I visited a friend on Vancouver Island Just missed the approaching train at the Cisco bridges Heading for Kamloops Revelstoke Field and up to Jasper I better include 6015 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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