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Post by CN2972South on Oct 19, 2008 0:19:42 GMT -8
Nothing major, it's just routine maintenance. They ran the track inspection train a few weeks ago and found some areas where the ballast had been worn away either by water, track settling, or where people had made trails.
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Post by CN2972South on Oct 19, 2008 15:06:06 GMT -8
British COLumbia railway. BCR was already taken.
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Post by Dane on Oct 19, 2008 18:34:45 GMT -8
Also, when BC Rail actually existed, they had two primary reporting marks and there was an easy way to remember them. They were:
BCOL, and;
BCIT.
The trick to remembering was
BCOL = British Columbia [Railway] On-line, cars/locomotives that for the most part would never be interchanged off BC Rail, or very far from BC Rail.
BCIT = British Columbia [Railway] International, cars that wondered off the BC Rail system most commonly into the USA.
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Post by CN2972South on Oct 20, 2008 8:53:45 GMT -8
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Post by Ferryman on Nov 15, 2008 9:39:51 GMT -8
I couldn't tell if your request was for historic photos, which is what I don't have. But I do have recent photos on my external hard drive. This is one I took during a BC 150 celebration, with a Royal Hudson steam up at our local heritage railway park.  |
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Post by ProudCanuck on Nov 16, 2008 10:18:07 GMT -8
Nothing major, it's just routine maintenance. They ran the track inspection train a few weeks ago and found some areas where the ballast had been worn away either by water, track settling, or where people had made trails. Where people had made trails? This has my curiosity.. please explain. |
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Post by CN2972South on Feb 17, 2009 12:47:22 GMT -8
Some photos I snapped recently. North of Squamish, near Spiral Court. Switchin in Squamish.  Control Stand of BC Rail Dash 8 4621  BC Rail power at Squamish  More BC Rail Power at Squamish. Up from North Van on 546.  BCOL 4644 at Squamish.  |
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Post by pscurr on May 10, 2009 15:10:28 GMT -8
name that curve... recently in the news.  |
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Post by fargowolf on Jun 8, 2009 18:19:11 GMT -8
name that curve... recently in the news. My guess would be where CN had the derailment in Cheakamus Canyon? |
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Post by CN2972South on Jun 13, 2009 12:13:29 GMT -8
name that curve... recently in the news. My guess would be where CN had the derailment in Cheakamus Canyon? I'm guessing somewhere on the BCR. Not the derailment site in the Cheakamus Canyon as it's on a bridge, there's too much vegetation in the picture and it's all CWR ribbon rail in the canyon. My guess is the curve near Porteau along the highway where the rock slide was last summer. |
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Post by CN2972South on Jul 2, 2009 13:01:31 GMT -8
I'm guessing somewhere on the BCR. Not the derailment site in the Cheakamus Canyon as it's on a bridge, there's too much vegetation in the picture and it's all CWR ribbon rail in the canyon. My guess is the curve near Porteau along the highway where the rock slide was last summer. OK, it's been bugging me for a while but I finally figured out where that picture is. It's the curve just south of Loggers Lane in Squamish. |
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Post by CN2972South on Jul 17, 2009 13:37:04 GMT -8
BC Rail 4616, seen where it should be, on the BCR.  |
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Post by CN2972South on Jul 28, 2009 21:16:09 GMT -8
The view from my "office". Sunset at the Squamish Terminals.  |
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Post by CN2972South on Aug 28, 2009 20:31:20 GMT -8
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Post by CN2972South on Nov 22, 2009 7:23:07 GMT -8
Controls of the CN 2615  |
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Post by CN2972South on May 4, 2010 20:28:00 GMT -8
CN power in the yard at Lillooet, BC.  My engine for the 2 weeks I was working on the Exeter yard at 100 Mile House, BC.  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 7, 2010 19:50:07 GMT -8
Northbound train on the bridge over the Fraser River at Lillooet, July 18, 2010:  - note the old vehicle bridge in left background. That same rail bridge in background, as seen from the old vehicle bridge.  |
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Post by lmtengs on Aug 14, 2010 11:11:28 GMT -8
 The old PGE station in North Vancouver. The PGE was taken over by the BC Government, and it was renamed BC Rail. CN bought it [the line] from the government in 2003 (Am I correct with that year?). |
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Post by mrdot on Aug 14, 2010 11:19:08 GMT -8
iI think it was a year or so later that gordo's double-cross off loading of bc rail was completed, but some of the court cases are still ongoing, mr.dot.
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Post by CN2972South on Aug 16, 2010 17:12:30 GMT -8
CN bought it [the line] from the government in 2003 (Am I correct with that year?). CN took over in 2004. |
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 16, 2010 19:23:57 GMT -8
The old PGE station in North Vancouver. The PGE was taken over by the BC Government, and it was renamed BC Rail. CN bought it [the line] from the government in 2003 (Am I correct with that year?). The PGE/BCR became a BC provincial government entity c1920, due to bankruptcy. It started out as a private venture aiming to connect North Vancouver with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Prince George. Unfortunately it did not make that connection complete for almost 4 decades. For 30 plus years it ran as they say from nowhere to nowhere, Squamish to Quesnel to be precise. This is why people dubbed the PGE as the "Prince George Eventually". I think it was 1956 when North Vancouver was finally connected by steel rails to Prince George. |
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Post by Dane on Aug 16, 2010 19:37:18 GMT -8
The PGE was chartered by the Great Eastern RR. Hence the ridiculous name.
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Post by Mill Bay on Aug 17, 2010 19:57:54 GMT -8
The old PGE station in North Vancouver. The PGE was taken over by the BC Government, and it was renamed BC Rail. CN bought it [the line] from the government in 2003 (Am I correct with that year?). The PGE/BCR became a BC provincial government entity c1920, due to bankruptcy. It started out as a private venture aiming to connect North Vancouver with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway at Prince George. Unfortunately it did not make that connection complete for almost 4 decades. For 30 plus years it ran as they say from nowhere to nowhere, Squamish to Quesnel to be precise. This is why people dubbed the PGE as the "Prince George Eventually". I think it was 1956 when North Vancouver was finally connected by steel rails to Prince George. Try the Puff, Grunt and Expire, lol... or, Province's Greatest Expense. CN did not 'buy' the line from BC, they signed an lease agreement to operate it (if you can call what they do operating). The actual rail line is still owned by the province. |
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Post by CN2972South on Aug 22, 2011 10:00:53 GMT -8
You know you're on northern Vancouver Island when.... Photos taken July 2011, on Highway 19 just north of the Zeballos turn-off. Good to see one railway on Vancouver Island moving some decent tonnage. Some sad news, I just recently found out that former BC Rail locomotive engineer and the man that trained me as a locomotive engineer, Bruce MacFarlane passed away at the age of 57, only 2 years after retirement. Bruce on the right on his last run in the spring of 2009 at the station at Lillooet.  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 9, 2011 21:33:31 GMT -8
Seen at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria:  |
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