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The BC Forest Discovery Centre, located in Duncan, chronicles the history of logging in British Columbia, Canada. It is a 100-acre (40 ha) site with 2.5 km (1.6 miles) of operational 3 ft ( 914 mm ) narrow gauge railway .
BC Forest Discovery Centre, Duncan, B.C., Canada The steepest incline on a 3 ft narrow-gauge railway in Canada, the BC Forest Discovery Centre is a Forestry and Logging Museum that runs a tourist train, using a combination of steam locomotives and diesel locomotives, usually with trains consisting of 1-3 coaches in length, as well as motor cars.
Two Climax locomotives are preserved in Canada, both at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan, British Columbia. Shawnigan Lake Lumber Co. No. 2 is a 25-ton Class B locomotive, and was built in 1910 as shop number 1057. [13] Hillcrest Lumber Co. No. 9 was built to a larger, 50-ton Class B design in 1915, and is Climax shop number 1359. [14]
This list of museums in British Columbia, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
Pages in category "Duncan, British Columbia" ... BC Forest Discovery Centre; British Columbia Highway 18; C. CJSU-FM; Cowichan Leader; Cowichan Secondary School;
British Columbia Forest Discovery Centre, Duncan, British Columbia: Climax Locomotive Works [1] Canadian National 49: 4-6-4T: Canadian Railway Museum in Delson, Quebec: One of three preserved CN 4-6-4Ts, along with CN 46 and Canadian National 47: Canadian National 46: 4-6-4T: Vallée-Jonction, Quebec
[2] [3] Between 1995 and 2009 a two-truck Shay locomotive, Mayo Lumber No. 3 was on loan from the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan; it was returned to Duncan on September 17, 2009. Passenger rolling stock includes two ex-CP coaches and three ex-CP stock cars converted into open-air cars.
The railway initially operated with one 1924 Shay locomotive loaned from the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan, British Columbia. It was originally operated by the Mayo Lumber Company on Vancouver Island, and was specifically designed to work on rough forestry trackage. Rolling stock for the railway was donated from BC Rail.