E&N Duncan Turn October 31, 2013
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2013
- Caught E&N's Duncan Turn hauling 4 loads to Top Shelf Feeds and lifting 3 empties. Started out the morning at Wellcox Yard in Nanaimo and traveling 32 miles south to Duncan and return.
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The depressing end of an era on Vancouver Island.
You can hardly tell the tracks in this video were once the final link in CP's transcontinental mainline.
And today there's almost nothing left.
Freight service gone almost 9 years, passenger for 15... Only the rail ferry and a very small stretch of urban road between Nanaimo and Nanoose remains active and even that could come to an end any day.
The communities of the island seem totally disinterested in returning service to the line even as a tourist attraction, and as of last week I discovered here in Duncan the rails are finally being removed north of Drinkwater.
I don't know why I only just now got recommended this video, but its an incredible documentation of E&N's final year, and for me personally, it's look back into my childhood to see the railway I grew up with one last time before its gone forever, so thank you.
This was absolutely never a mainline, and track conditions were never anywhere near mainline statice. Also, this rail line is very much active, they run 5 times a week around the Nanaimo area
@@thompsonriverrailfan it’s the main line for Vancouver Island, it’s not as if we have a double track class 1. As for active… yes the stretch between Nanaimo and Nanoose Bay is still active, but that’s about 10-15km of the network that used to stretch from downtown Victoria all the way to Port Alberni.
@@trainknut the “mainline” went all the way to Courtenay, the Port Alberni sub was just essentially a spur reaching to some mills. As for the active track, it only goes as far as Wellington Siding in northern Nanaimo, they switch superior propane and then run power around the train a few miles north of there.
Awesome video Chris!!! thanks for posting
+WestCoastRails thanks!
Good record, thanks. But... aren't there 3 cars for the southward run to Duncan (3:56), 5 cars back north? Was looking forward to the switching at Top Shelf itself. Ah well. (Better camera since your 2010 vid, eh)
hi there, looking back it should've said "2 loads southbound for Top Shelf with the first car after the engines being an empty idler car, 4 empties north, with the empty idler car on the rear of the train."
@@vicguy12 Thanks for the update
During a week in mid-June 2014, I photographed the 128 and 110 at Wellcox Yard on 2 different occasions but it is the first time that I've seen the locos in action.
The operation pales with whatever I am used to on the mainline in Calgary, with CP trains having 3 locomotives at the head end or two at the head end, one in the middle and a pusher and taking about 5 minutes, to go by a given point at speed, with 150 or more cars.
Thank you for some nice steady shots and great angles.
I'll be sure to look at more of your good stuff.
And here's from a guy who's been shooting trains steady, since 1964..
MASSEY JONES thanks for your comments! I have filmed a little more and was going to make a compilation of clips, but the railway has scaled back their operations to just around the yard and a short trip to serve one customer, so I probably won't be able to finish it. The E&N's better years are far in the past.
@@vicguy12good news the E&N rail way is now getting repaired 10 years from now
A great video and fantastic locations,Thanks for sharing.
thanks!
you did it!
Oh, the earliest time i saw one was at 10:45AM at Albert street. and the latest time i saw one was at 6:22PM on Monday at Albert Street.
Thanks! I'm not sure about average speed but it seems to vary between 10-25mph? They are still waiting on VIA to commit to returning which would trigger the funding for track repair. Not sure about the 2 RDC's that were here, I think one was scrapped, but there are 3 refurbished RDC's for the E&N if VIA comes back. Don't mind the questions at all!
Cool! do they still run up to the Duncan Feed Mill?
no unfortunately they do not
Do they still have mixed freights on the island? i have just seen oil tankers.
their only customer that's outside of the yard is Superior Propane, so the trains unfortunately only haul propane cars
negotiations have been going on for what seems like forever, deadlines come and go with no resolution. If VIA doesn't come back then the railway will be abandoned. Hopefully it'll work out but it remains to be seen.
How often do you go up to Nanaimo to take pictures of trains? can you take videos too? what time and days to the trains run in Nanaimo? do they ever run on the weekends?
I go maybe once or twice a year. They operate M-F, mostly just working in the yard
Chris City what time do you see the trains here in Nanaimo?
I think the crews are usually on duty around 7:00-7:30am
oh ok can you record more trains in nanaimo?
I usually just take photos but I'll see what I can do in the future
ok thx
Hello,
saw your pictures on Flickr while railfan web surfing, Many many amazing shots!
Can I pick your brain,, I don't see rail link hauling very much. Is SeaSpan's truck ferry's undermining rail link's business? I did a google look up and down the rail line and except for a few sidings, It seems all the locations for goods to be dropped off have been removed. Its like Via tailored the track for themselves and cut out all the other purposes for the rail in the first place. I don't even see rail link hauling recycling. That's a no brainer money maker in itself?
I know the track needs repair but do you know the condition of the bridges and trestles? One steel bridge is over 100 years old, what shape can it be in?
Since Rail America took over from CP, who has been doing track maintenance since then?
Thanks in advance!