The old Shay locie at Lake Cowichan, part of the Kaatza Station Museum outdoor exhibit at Saywell Park. We passed by here a couple of weekends ago and I took this rather indifferent shot. Better views of this and more Vancouver Island logging locomotives can be viewed at 'Preserved! Steam Locomotives of British Columbia' . The last steam loco in use on the island was an Alco, last working out of Woss until 1976. This video shows her running after restorations in 1988.
Woss has the last logging railroad system on the island but nowadays the equipment used looks like this video of a spectacular trestle and a load of empties. 'From Camp to Community' is a great site for getting a view of the old days in the logging industry, check out the pages on The Camps, The Loggers etc too, along with 'loggers lingo' and 'now you're logging'
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Do they still operate this railway?
ReplyDeleteThe Woss railroad is likely no longer running excursions. The last time I was though Woss (about 3 years ago) the locomotive was on display but no signs of anything for excursions.
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