Yea, the future isn't looking too bright. There's still a possibility, just not under the Island Corridor Foundation's ownership and management.

I don't know. I haven't been at the yard since the day this was recorded and I don't plan on going there for a while. If I had to guess, they'd probably put it back by the barge slip and continue to use it as a buffer car when loading/unloading the barge.

@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial I just returned from the yard and they do have the caboose in the shop area I might post it on my channel um idk what to say I kinda tired lol

What are you talking about dude??

It's unsafe to exceed 5-10 MPH anywhere on the line and there are a couple unsafe bridges and all the other customers were located in different towns so it would make more sense to transload at the yard rather than run to the customer and have it take 16+ hours to complete. Back when they couple run 25 mph, they could get a train down to Duncan and back within 8 hours or so.

@@Among_us3.0 I work on weekends, so I wouldn't have a clue. I have a couple friends/acquaintances who message me whenever the train runs and I never got a message about that. They did however run on Friday.

@@Sumairgill123 I don't remember. I think 8:00am. The time it comes into the Vancouver area varies, depends on traffic and how long it takes at crew changes.

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@@Railfan513 yea, I'm not sure. Watch out for the crew though, the engineer doesn't seem to like railfans anymore.

@ yea that’s to bad though might have to wait to do it on the mainland or I just keep touching the tracks to feel for vibrations then place the coin on the tracks and stand back so they won’t see me place the coin on the tracks :)

Ok thanks for the info on that huh..

@@thomas5890 yea, it sways because of lack of maintenance and what not. The rail bed is just dirt nowadays, there's barely a spec of ballast anymore, the ties are rotting and the rails are decades old.

@ I thought so. But I don’t know a whole lot about trains. I like them. But I know very about the technical aspects of them. Also. Do you know why they often have two engines with like 6 cars behind them? It seems like a lot of overkill. I like some overkill when moving big weight as trains can. For safety margins. But this seems excessive.

Beat up and rotten track is still very forgiving.

@@glocke380 no. Guy in the truck was backing into the building I was standing beside.

@@CP8720productions thanks! No, it's still the same K5LA that replaced it's old K3L.

Thanks Mike!

Yep! It got knocked over on Thanksgiving.

Yea, thought I'd bring out some older footage of the train running in the snow and the 124.

@@Among_us3.0 I have no idea. They stopped, 2 guys got out of the locomotive and walked off.

Conservatives promise they'll restore the line if they get elected, and there's that Island Rail Corp thing that's popping up and the ICF got a new CEO who seems to be pretty smart. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens in the near future.

@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial Truly was a beautiful trip. Be great if they did but will not happen in my lifetime. (Local Nanaimo guy). If young it would be possible but would not hold my breath, sadly. Vancouver Island was a beautiful place. Some areas it still is but is becoming less and less beautiful. God bless.

@@romans325kjb yea, it's unfortunate. Being only 17, I get to watch whatever happens in the later future. Hopefully it'll be good.

CPKC's coal trains rarely have anything other than GEVO's in the CP livery.

@tracksidebcproductionsofficial Tru dat ! But I'm thinkin' we'll be seeing alot more of these locos in the near future on CPKC rails. On all types of trains, I would imagine

Thank you!

@@rogerredding5269 if there was a service it'd be much affordable. We just have incompetent morons running the show, so we have nothing but 2 old GP9's running a train once a week through Nanaimo.

@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial The economics were bad. The last train ran in 2010. VIA, which owns the Budd Cars, pulled them off because the track was too bad. In the last year it cost over 2 million to operate and carried 32,000 passengers at $30 average fare collected. Service could not be resumed until the track was brought up to Class 3 standards. The cost to do this today is around $300 million plus 1.2 million for every crossing control which brings the total to over 400 million.

@@julianfell666 last train was in March of 2011 and freight operations outside of Nanaimo followed soon after with the last train being sometime in late 2014. For the past 10 years all train operations have been stuck in Nanaimo. The bare minimum cost is $400 million. But to bring proper modern freight and passenger services to the island, we're looking at upwards of a billion dollars (including new rail crossing intersections). Yes, realistically we could do it for $400 million. But if this the railway is going to be a rebuilt and last, a lot of money will have to be invested into it. If we're going to just do the bare minimum, we might as well just leave it in the state that it's in. Projects that are worth doing are going to cost a lot of money, and this project is worth doing. It's just going to take a lot of time, patience and cost a lot of money.

@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial Sorry. I meant the last year for which we have full financial data was 2010. The plan is over. The Snaw-Naw-as nation has retaken the right of way and is removeing the track. If the Cowichan and Chemainus bands do likewise, the right of way will be gone beyond Duncan.

@julianfell666 the Snaw Naw As ripped up the track mainly out of hate for the ICF from my understanding.

Thanks for subscribing! Yes, the 128 used to have a K3L from it's CP Rail days. It was replaced with it's current K5La when it was sent to the mainland in 2020.

It runs between Wellcox and Wellington. On days where they have to take cars back to the yard they head up to Wellington siding, which is a mile north of Superior where they'll switch ends and head back south.

Good ol' days.

I drove by the feedmill at Duncan yesterday and it's sad to see no grain cars delivering feed grain from the prairies anymore

@@carlfalt174 yea, for sure. All the grain gets trans-loaded onto trucks in the rail yard in Downtown Nanaimo now. All rail traffic out of Nanaimo was siezed in Nov. 2014.

I really have to get out and get some pictures of this around town, I hear them from home most days but never know when the job is out and about

​@@grumbeast there's no fixed schedule during the summer. So, it's kind of all over the place. Best of luck to you!

@@heronimousbrapson863 yep, this one operates a couple times a week.

Bro thinks he is the king of Russia just an another eight-year-old in the comments…

It would be nice, there's hope still.

Oh yeah, that's cool. I didn't notice that until your pointed it out.

I disagree. The rail corridor needs to be preserved for commuter service in the future. An HOV lane will be quickly made obsolete by increased traffic. Just make a trip to Seattle and see how the HOV lanes on I-5 are at a standstill during rush hour

Thanks! There's still hope for the return of island rail. But the government won't be funding the restoration, that's for sure.

@@Hoolopy_01 yeah, Geoff is nice. He doesn't drive the train very often, he usually works in the office and what not.

Thanks Tristan!

@@tracksidebcproductionsofficial is our railway going on strike or no? Like is our train still running? Or….

@@Among_us3.0 SRY get's a good portion of their freight from CN and CP who are going on strike. So most of SRY's operations will come to a hault, resulting in SVI's operations also brought to a hault. The whole countries basically shutting down.