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The British Columbia Railway Company (reporting mark BCOL, BCIT), commonly known as BC Rail, is a railway in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Chartered as a private company in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE), it was acquired by the provincial government in 1918.
BC Rail was a provincially owned regional railway, operated by the BC government from 1918 to 2004. At its height, it boasted 2,320 km (1,440 mi) of track and was the third largest railway in Canada. The railway got its start in 1912 as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE).
Feb 6, 2006 · The British Columbia Railway was incorporated as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1912 to build a line from North Vancouver to Prince George, where it was to link up with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Initially it was privately owned, but financial difficulties developed quickly and in 1918, after only 283 km of track from the coastal ...
1972, April 1 - Pacific Great Eastern Railway changes its name to British Columbia Railway. 1972, May 31- the last day of the Morse code in Canadian railroading. Canadian National sent its last message at 12:38 pm, just 25 1/2 hours before Canadian Pacific tapped out its last telegram.
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The 462 mile trip on the BC Rail RDC from Prince George to Vancouver was, I think, one of the most exciting standard gauge train trips in North America. However it did not cover all the BC Rail system which went north to Fort Nelson (see the map below from the back page of Employee Timetable 19).The RDC made its last run on 31 October 2002 and BC R...
Eleven years later, a northbound freight led by M-420 646 in the zig-zag livery, 644 in the red, white and blue livery and SD40-2 763 is preparing to leave the Chetwynd yards early on the morning of 8 June 1989. BC Rail were kind enough to allow me to travel in the cab. After travelling up the Pine River valley we reached Septimus, where there is a...
On 27 May 1999 we followed another southbound freight through the Pine Pass. By now the Alcos had been replaced by GE locomotives DASH 8-40CM 4622 (purchased new as an add-on to a CN order) and C36-8 3622 (purchased second-hand) with Dash 8-40CM 4620 as mid-train helper. However there was still a rain storm in the pass! In the photo above the train...
At Wakely the electrified Tumbler Ridge branch from Quintette joins the main line. This line carried metallurgical coal from the Quintette and Bullmoose mines through a long tunnel to the junction at Wakeley. The line was electrified in order to reduce the costs of tunnel ventilation. The mines closed in 2000 and 2003 and subsequently the electric ...
At Quesnel there is a large pulp mill, a yard and station and often a lot of switching activity. From Quesnel south to Williams Lake, the line travels on a plateau above the Fraser River. There is fertile agricultural land on the plateau as seen here near Kersley. Dash 8-40CM 4613 & Dash 9-44CWL 4644 were on the point of this southbound train and D...
Lillooet is an important yard and the terminus of many RDC services. On 19 May 1986 six RDCs (33, 20, 31, 10, 11 & 21) are loading passengers before proceeding south to North Vancouver. The first two RDCs have come from North Vancouver and the other four from Prince George. All six are returning to North Vancouver. South of Lillooet the tracks hug ...
At Squamish on 1 June 1995, the northbound train # 1 with RDCs 31 & 33 passes Stawamus Chief Mountain and a few minutes later a southbound freight passes the same location. The Vancouver-bound freight is hauled by DASH 8-40CM 4609, SD40-2 766 and 629 a CAT re-engined RS-18 (RS-18M). From Squamish the line travels along the rugged coast to North Van...
The British Columbia Railway Volumes 1& 2 by Timothy J. Horton published by BRMNA Calgary BC Rail – British Columbia’s Great Train Adventure by Chris Harris published by Country Light Publishing. BC Rail Condensed Profile No 3 BC Rail Timetable 19 Back to David Othen’s Canadian Train Photographs Material on this page is copyright by David and Pat O...
Feb 8, 2017 · In 1958 the PGE reached Fort St. John and Dawson Creek to meet with the Alberta Railways, and on September 10th, 1971 a rail line was largely extended to connect Fort St. John to Fort Nelson. In 1972 the Pacific Great Eastern changed its name to British Columbia Railway (BCR).
The former British Columbia Railway, now known as BC Rail (reporting mark BCOL, BCIT) and as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) prior to 1972, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia up until 2004 when the provincial government leased its operations to the Canadian National Railway for 99 years.
