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Post by okanaganrailfan on Jan 4, 2007 4:08:58 GMT -5
Okanagan Valley Railway connects Canadian Pacific Railway with customers on 94 miles of track in British Columbia's fertile Okanagan Valley. OKAN transports a wide variety of products for companies such as Owens-Illinois Glass (western Canada's only producer of glass beverage containers), forest resource companies Riverside Forest Products and Tolko Industries, animal feed suppliers Sure Crop and Unifeed, OK Builders' Supply and Okanagan Fertilizer. Major commodities handled include sand, lumber, grain, chemicals and fertilizers, cement and soda ash. The Okanagan Valley Railway is owned by OmniTRAX, Inc. Route: Sicamous - Armstrong - Vernon, BC (46.3 miles) Vernon - Lumby Jct - Kelowna, BC (33.4 miles) (via trackage rights on KPR) Lumby Jct - Lumby, BC (14.4 miles) (via trackage rights on KPR) (KPR also has trackage rights over OKAN from Armstrong to Vernon) Headquarters: Vernon, BC Junctions with other railroads: CP: Sicamous, BC Radio frequencies: 160.545, 161.445 (repeater) History: Letter-of-intent signed August 12, 1998 between CP and OmniTRAX for the transfer of the lines. November 1, 1998: First unit (1064) arrived in Sicamous, BC. November 2, 1998: Second unit (1038) arrived in Sicamous, BC. November 12/13, 1998: Third unit (1049) arrived in Sicamous, BC. Service began November 22, 1998 under a long-term lease agreement. Ownership: OmniTRAX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pictures to follow.
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Post by RR Redneck on Jan 4, 2007 8:05:38 GMT -5
I was wonding how long it would take for you post about this railroad.
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