BC Electric Railway: Then and Now

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B.C.E.R. "Then and Now": Historical footage of interurban, including the eastern district from Carrall depot in Vancouver to Chilliwack (excludes Arbutus and Richmond). Includes some footage of streetcars on Oak, Dunbar, and Broadway and the development of Vancouver's Downtown Historic Railway from 1997 to 2001.
Published 2004 - Vancouver Transit Museum Society
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@NormanSilv 6 месяцев назад

Rode daily from Chilliwack to Vancouver .Fun ride. Quick too. No traffic to mess with. Great motormen too.

@aattura1541 5 месяцев назад

Beautiful memories. And those cars!!!

@craigrobertson8090 Год назад

Rails to rubber was a massive mistake

@NomaDairy 6 месяцев назад

Love being a local and seeing how it was back then!

@reccesixty6322 9 месяцев назад

No longer in service. Both cars are now In Cloverdale as part of the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway society. (20230)

@joesutherland225 5 месяцев назад

Omg my great grandfather took pictures of tourists on this car from granville and broadway office .Bullen.his son worked for pcl as a driver on dollarton route

@BADBIKERBENNY 7 месяцев назад

I will never understand why they discontinued this? Toronto and I believe Edmonton (correct me if I am wrong?) still have them. Along with several European countries. The interurban would be a great east/west transport between Vancouver and Chilliwack. Perhaps even extending it out to Hope.

@thestarlightalchemist7333 6 месяцев назад

Edmonton got rid of them, and then made a new one. They also did rails-to-rubber initially, but even the trolleybuses are gone now, scrapped in 2009.

@joesutherland225 5 месяцев назад

Pacific stage lines my grand uncle drove the dollarton bus for them till about 1970😊

@westbenchmancave 7 месяцев назад

I do believe that the reason for the removal of rail was to protect the environment. Ironic isn’t it?

@thestarlightalchemist7333 7 месяцев назад

Yeah... at least some of the streetcar lines became trolleybuses, electric traction still lives on. Alas, I wish the electric rails stuck around.

@keatonsparksvideoproductions 2 года назад

Bc should've kept some form of street car

@matthewsvideos8235 2 года назад

Closest we have is the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society located in Cloverdale (Surrey) They have 1207, 1225, 1231, and 1304. 1225 and 1304 are operational and carry passengers on the weekend using part of what was the Chilliwack Line. Richmond has 1220 as a restored static display in the Steveston area. Burnaby Village Museum has 1223 also as a restored static display. All of these are the larger interurban cars. Sadly no streetcars anywhere in Vancouver. Only one left is the car inside the downtown location of the Old Spaghetti Factory.

@joesutherland225 5 месяцев назад

My father work on constructing horne payne sub

@joesutherland225 5 месяцев назад

This should be taken back for transportation to the valley the rails from new west to chilliwack are still in use by the washington group

@joesutherland225 5 месяцев назад

Darn skipped the stop at granville and broadway with the famous coca cola sign lol how the conductor got everyone to look at great grandads camera for the photo people on boatd could buy at the end of the trip magic in those days lol they had a great system to getvthis done that quick .lol

@joesutherland225 5 месяцев назад

Very cool footage had realatives that worked for it.very shortsighted to have eliminated it could be brought back new west to chilliwack if the political will was there