Thank you for this. Hopefully someone will read my comment and relpy: in April of 1910 my Great Grandfather wad a fugitive from the law and WALKED from Victoria to Chamainus on the E&N tracks! This video gives me a prettt good idea as to what it might have been like. Perhaps someone with knowledge of these old tracks has feedback for me? Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing. How nice would it be to have this back now when gas is $2 per liter. Imagine 2x daily trains with bike capacity between Victoria and Campbell river, that would be amazing.
Amazing video of our railroading past here on the Island. Sad to see so much gone but we do have the memories and videos like these. Thanks very much for making this available to us 😊
I miss the train from Vic to Courtenay. Used to take it a lot and my Mom would come to visit often from Victoria. We loved it and sure would like to see it running again!
Oh my - what a treat, so much to see, so much to learn from. Sure, technology has given us HD and 4G - but it has taken away steamers, diesels, the Budd cars, and a different way of life. But I'll take this, warts and all, as a reminder of what used to be. Thankyou for uploading this... I just have to post it to the Vancouver Island Railways and Historical Discussion and Modelling Group, if you don't mind. They'd love it, too. A small note - at 53:28 it might be of interest that this is Cameron Lake on the Port Alberni subdivision, on the way to Port Alberni itself. Mind you - those of us in the group won't need that reminder! Thankyou once again
@@phoenixman8569 definitely yea it would be nice to have VIA rail back and I’m confident it will return sometime in the next 10 years and hopefully we get a different train then the old bus car wich my mom said broke down every time she went on it for school trip so it would be really cool and the island railway corridor did some cutting of the bushes and black berries close to Esquimalt high school so maybe that’s a sign that things are happening 😁
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Can you confirm, does CP Rail own the right-away from Courtney to Victoria? ... and is this called the Esquimalt & Nanaimo subdivision? ... and finally, does CP Rail run any freight trains anywhere on the line anymore? I do understand the Malahat stopped runnin in March of 2011? Thanks again for this very educational video. I'm from Ontario and rode the Malahat in 2005.
The forest museum in Duncan is the best place to get your train fix. it won't make sense to burden the taxpayers with the hundreds of millions or billions to replace all this for a slow tourist train that can't get to Victoria anymore. We just have to wait untill the population on the island reaches a point where an elevated commuter transit or similar can be justified.
But yet we gladly waste billions on new highway projects only for the roads to clog up with smog inducing traffic. Invest in the rail now and get people out of their cars.
@@jdigg2007 The math just doesn't work. It costs around $6 million / km to update the track in 2024. You'd need 100,000 commuters each paying $100+ / month to justify that. And based on ridership before it shut down it was a tiny fraction of that. Ain't going to happen. I'll admit that Island highways are getting heavy but 'smog'?!? Lmfao! Even on the Colwood Crawl during rush hour you'd never even come close to 'smog'!
![Canada's Fraser Canyon [CP and CN in Summer and Winter]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2Mo0UAuXy3M/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you for this. Hopefully someone will read my comment and relpy: in April of 1910 my Great Grandfather wad a fugitive from the law and WALKED from Victoria to Chamainus on the E&N tracks! This video gives me a prettt good idea as to what it might have been like. Perhaps someone with knowledge of these old tracks has feedback for me? Thanks again.
Thanks for sharing. How nice would it be to have this back now when gas is $2 per liter. Imagine 2x daily trains with bike capacity between Victoria and Campbell river, that would be amazing.
Amazing video of our railroading past here on the Island. Sad to see so much gone but we do have the memories and videos like these. Thanks very much for making this available to us 😊
I miss the train from Vic to Courtenay. Used to take it a lot and my Mom would come to visit often from Victoria. We loved it and sure would like to see it running again!
Would the train ever run again on Vancouver island ?
@@chriscox1535 Hoping for it!
Fantastic piece of history!
Truly amazing history, it would be so nice to be able to talk to the men who worked these trains back in the day.
isited from the Uk year before it all wnt ,,a great loss as a tourist opportunity,we loved it and the Island
Oh my - what a treat, so much to see, so much to learn from. Sure, technology has given us HD and 4G - but it has taken away steamers, diesels, the Budd cars, and a different way of life. But I'll take this, warts and all, as a reminder of what used to be. Thankyou for uploading this... I just have to post it to the Vancouver Island Railways and Historical Discussion and Modelling Group, if you don't mind. They'd love it, too.
A small note - at 53:28 it might be of interest that this is Cameron Lake on the Port Alberni subdivision, on the way to Port Alberni itself. Mind you - those of us in the group won't need that reminder!
Thankyou once again
So sad that VIA rail is not operating on Vancouver Island anymore they should bring them back 😭
No kidding the tracks have been in disrepair for ages now, so only fraights are running but a crawl....
@@phoenixman8569 definitely yea it would be nice to have VIA rail back and I’m confident it will return sometime in the next 10 years and hopefully we get a different train then the old bus car wich my mom said broke down every time she went on it for school trip so it would be really cool and the island railway corridor did some cutting of the bushes and black berries close to Esquimalt high school so maybe that’s a sign that things are happening 😁
28:46 Cool to see Denman Island here
15:39 CPR took over in 1905, not 1913.
Nice to see Jimmy Stirgill on 3004/3009, I spent a lot of trips with Jim! Who was the engineer running the bud car?
I used to play on the tracks in Vic west back in the 90’s. Not much has changed and I hope they revitalize this line
How did the freight and passenger trains or even on themselves conflict on the single track
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Can you confirm, does CP Rail own the right-away from Courtney to Victoria? ... and is this called the Esquimalt & Nanaimo subdivision? ... and finally, does CP Rail run any freight trains anywhere on the line anymore? I do understand the Malahat stopped runnin in March of 2011? Thanks again for this very educational video. I'm from Ontario and rode the Malahat in 2005.
The whole railway is now under the ownership/stewardship of the Island Corridor Foundation.
Used to ride dirt bikes in Fiddicks gravel pit!!!
OK When I play this it's very blurry but if I watch it in mini player its great. Time for a new monitor?
The resolution isn't exactly high since it was originally a VHS tape from 1994. So it might just be a much more blurry image than you're used to now.
"Perhaps god created Vancouver Island because he so loved his forests"
Better not show him Langford today then.
The forest museum in Duncan is the best place to get your train fix. it won't make sense to burden the taxpayers with the hundreds of millions or billions to replace all this for a slow tourist train that can't get to Victoria anymore. We just have to wait untill the population on the island reaches a point where an elevated commuter transit or similar can be justified.
But yet we gladly waste billions on new highway projects only for the roads to clog up with smog inducing traffic. Invest in the rail now and get people out of their cars.
@@jdigg2007 The math just doesn't work. It costs around $6 million / km to update the track in 2024. You'd need 100,000 commuters each paying $100+ / month to justify that. And based on ridership before it shut down it was a tiny fraction of that. Ain't going to happen.
I'll admit that Island highways are getting heavy but 'smog'?!? Lmfao! Even on the Colwood Crawl during rush hour you'd never even come close to 'smog'!