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My best guesses: 3:38 is 16th ave. At 4:30 it passes the Hydro substation at 25th. 5:42 is 37th ? 6:25 is 41st. 7:14 is 49th, 8:00 is 57th. by 9:00 we are south of 70th

So interesting. I've seen the plaque many times at Deas Island Regional Park.

The Post office at 2:42 is still there !

Now it's a greenway.

Thank you so much for posting this. It is a shame the trams were replaced by so many more petrol cars. Adelaide's tram ride from the city to Glenelg beach is a great pleasure, and fun for kids young and old as well as tourists. The bus ride from Richmond Centre to Steveston is fast and efficient but perhaps lacks the charm of the old trams.

If in fact that is No 3 traffic crossing the tracks which becomes Granville Ave. then that white building at 6:44 is still there at the north east corner of No 3 at Granville Ave. Just look at a street view on Google Maps and if you zoom in on the build, you can see the real window frames of the old building hidden inside behind the cheap 'sunroom' cladding on the building. www.google.com/maps/@49.1629048,-123.1366804,3a,48.2y,79.08h,88.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBnI0QZlExP8jp4XnQFlL5w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1

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wonderful footage, to bad there is no running commentary as to locatios

I've been watching the incredible footage that has been posted covering these electric inter-urban trains thought the Fraser valley and Vancouver. Some have commentaries by those that actually worked on them (40 years after the fact). They knew every turn, grade, station and crossing like the back of their hand. My father rode these trains and used to refer to them every once in a while. These trains stopped running about 13 years before i was born and it's so amazing to see them thanks to the work of someone who likely wanted to preserve the era before it vanished. I never thought I'd see what my father saw. He used to always say that we should have used the infrastructure that already existed rather than spend billions on something brand new (many of the old lines were still in existence in the 70's and later minus tracks). Vancouver has changed so much since I was a child. Unbelievable how much it's changed since 49/50. I really appreciate that you've posted this!

I Was9my Dad drove me out to Mission after the water went down, I recall the water(mud) line on buildings, gas pumps (the glass type) quite clearly. We then lived #2 and River Rd., and no flooding there.

They can go quite fast actually.

I love this old footage my Dad was a lineman for CP Rail he told me lots of crazy stories lol Trains are awesome My Son drove one years ago ( a big train ) He was about 5 years old the freaking power when that engine fired up it was unreal. That was a experience 😊

that transit corridor is lost

1:39 no powerlines above? explain?

49 short skirt

Thank you. This is terrific.

Arbutus x 16th Ave around 3:50

This is remarkable footage in surprisingly good shape! I only wish someone had added small location captions as is very hard to identify where we are in the first part of the film. The areas shown have been completely rebuilt since the last days of trolleys

Does anyone know how fast these old trains could travel?

There was an Interurban line that ran from Hastings and Abbott to Chilliwack. We had more effective transit in Vancouver in the 1940s than we do now!

please notice you cant see any cables

What was their route from downtown to the Arbutus Corridor? Did they use the Granville Street or Burrard Street Bridges?

that was manufactured by gm to get rid of the trains and replace them with busses.

Used to go with my parents to Steveston in the late 40s as my dad's brother and family lived there. My aunt was one of Steveton's Salmon Queens. My boyhood memories consist of small house and ditches filled with water. They moved to South Vancouver in the early 50s.

Sickening to see that transit was better in 1949 than 2016.

All the whining "What about traffic, what if the bike falls into a rut..." Funny people in 1949 seemed to handle sharing the road with cars, motorcycles, trains, and pedestrians just fine.

I went to Cambie school in the early sixties and the loop was a lunchtime hangout,lol:)

Such a shame that the City of Vancouver can't even bother to keep even one of these interurbans preserved and running on the Downtown Historic Railway.

That's a really neat video. Thanks for uploading it. Let me think, 1948 would mean 31 years before I was born in Vancouver Grace Hospital and about 33 years before I moved to Richmond near Railway and Williams. Love how Richmond citizens helped out with the sandbags and such. I can't wait until you upload the next video!

This is awesome. It sent shivers up my spine seeing old footage of a time way before I was born in an area that I am relatively familiar with. ^_^

Gem :)

I grew up on Lulu Island and as kids we would walk across the train tressle. Not knowing the schedule there was always a chance of a train coming. One day we had to high tail it to the water barrels which jutted out from the tracks where we could avoid being hit. No 'play dates' for us back then.

I rode that train as a boy. From mid Richmond to downtown cost 5 cents... from downtown to Steveston cost 10 cents. As kids we put pennies and nails on the tracks to have the train flatten them. I remember hearing about a kid getting killed by the train, playing on the tracks. Myself I had a close call.... putting pennies or something.... sometimes small rocks on the track.... seeing the train coming and watching it for a bit as it got closer, and then realizing I had left my lunch box on the the tracks, and running to get it, right as the train was very close. It was scary.

Peaceful tranquil idyllic Richmond. Still pretty much the same, except for that damn three road!

Amazing! Never realized her royal highness opened the Massey Tunnel. Alas, the tunnel will be replaced in a few years by a new bridge.

cool film

Nice