Rails On Vancouver Island - Revelation Audio Visuals 1994 - VIA Rail "Malahat" RDC

Rails On Vancouver Island - Revelation Audio Visuals 1994 - VIA Rail "Malahat" RDC - CP Rail Freight

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Original VHS:
Copyright 1994 Revelation Audio Visuals
PO Box 129, Tallmadge, Ohio
Photography:
Michael Kocot
Ronald McElrath
John Stein
VIA Rail "Malahat" RDC - CP Rail freight - BC Forest Museum - Canfor Steam - Vintage Logging - Barge Operations
She's a survivor. From 1955 to 1994, the "Malahat Dayliner" faithfully plied the Victoria-Courtenay route. While the future is uncertain, here you may enjoy this operation trackside and on board. You will also join the crew of a Canadian Pacific freight between Nanaimo and Victoria. Watch from the control tower as the rail barge is unloaded on a rare snowy day at Nanaimo.
Then we turn the clock back to about 1960 and glimpse heritage views of three logging roads: Comox, Hillcrest and Macmillen & Bloedel. There is even some modern-day steam logging as Canadian Forest Products 2-8-2 no.113 pulls a heavy train. We also pay a visit to the BC Forest Museum. So hop on the ferry and come on over!
*DISCLAIMER* Hail Zorik Media is not the owner or original producer of this media. This has been posted with the intention of historical preservation and tribute to the original production.

Пікірлер: 21

@pacificcoastminiatures 10 ай бұрын

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 😊

@Railfan513 9 ай бұрын

So sad that VIA rail is not operating on Vancouver Island anymore they should bring them back 😭

@booishoois309 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jamesd2128 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic piece of history!

@Mr29roses 4 ай бұрын

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.

@twofoottaylor1 Жыл бұрын

Truly amazing history, it would be so nice to be able to talk to the men who worked these trains back in the day.

@kerryclausen-kilmury5665 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@chriscox1535 Жыл бұрын

Would the train ever run again on Vancouver island ?

@kerryclausen-kilmury5665 Жыл бұрын

@@chriscox1535 Hoping for it!

@pwblackmore Жыл бұрын

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

@CANControlGRAFFITI Жыл бұрын

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

@TOPWOP999 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see Jimmy Stirgill on 3004/3009, I spent a lot of trips with Jim! Who was the engineer running the bud car?

@Rayman1971 2 жыл бұрын

Used to ride dirt bikes in Fiddicks gravel pit!!!

@twofoottaylor1 Жыл бұрын

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.

@drgw1982 5 ай бұрын

The whole railway is now under the ownership/stewardship of the Island Corridor Foundation.

@Themapleleaforever 3 ай бұрын

How did the freight and passenger trains or even on themselves conflict on the single track

@jameshill6492 2 жыл бұрын

OK When I play this it's very blurry but if I watch it in mini player its great. Time for a new monitor?

@hailzorikmedia5536 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@trainknut Жыл бұрын

"Perhaps god created Vancouver Island because he so loved his forests" Better not show him Langford today then.

@joeblough2485 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jdigg2007 4 ай бұрын

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.