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

Yooo!! That’s sick!!

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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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

Fantastic piece of history!