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The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) was a historic railway which operated in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.Originally the parent company for, and later a division of, BC Electric Company (now BC Hydro), the BCER assumed control of existing streetcar and interurban lines in southwestern British Columbia in 1897, and operated the electric railway systems in the region until the ...
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.
The heritage line is 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) long, using only a small fraction of the original 120-kilometre (75 mi) interurban line of the BC Electric Railway that connected Vancouver to Chilliwack. [11] One of two operational interurbans is run seasonally on weekends, from stations at Cloverdale to Sullivan. [20]
The line was originally built in 1910 as the British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER), an interurban trolley service for passengers (until 1950s) as well as for freight such as farm produce. The railway was taken over by Crown corporation BC Hydro in 1961, and was known as the BC Hydro Railway. In 1988 Freight rights, rolling stock and Rails ...
Brantford, Hamilton and Western Railway: British Columbia Electric Railway: Owned by BCH. Sold to become SRY. British Columbia Railway: British Columbia: 1972–2004: Acquired by CN. Brockville and Ottawa Railway: eastern Ontario: Acquired by CPR. Brockville, Westport and North-Western Railway: eastern Ontario: Acquired by CNoR. Bruce Mines and ...
Instead of replacing the trolleys with battery-electric buses, TransLink will purchase newer trolley buses to continue to make use of the catenary infrastructure. [49] In August 2023, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Vancouver trolley bus system, TransLink began testing a trolley bus by Polish manufacturer Solaris , called the ...
The railway connected the Port Moody-Ioco spur of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the Coquitlam Dam and was built during the early 1910s in-order to haul supplies and materials to the dam. It was built by B.C. Electric in partnership with Robert McNair of the Robert McNair Shingle Company, who signed a twenty-five year deal with B.C. Electric ...
Seven of these locomotives were built in 1983 and 1984, for use on the BC Rail's electrified Tumbler Ridge subdivision. Similar to EMD's GM6C testbed locomotive, the GF6C used a frame and running gear that was identical to that of EMD's popular SD40-2 diesel-electric locomotive, [1] but had a wide cab and carbody similar to that of GMD's SD40-2F.