Kaatza Station Museum

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Katherine

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The Kaatza Station Museum is housed in a restored Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway station that was constructed in 1912. The museum is in Cowichan Lake, just off Highway 18.

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Comox Logging & Railway No. 11

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Katherine

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Comox Logging & Railway Company No. 11, a 1923 Baldwin 2-8-2 Mikado at the Ladysmith Train Station & Railway Museum

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E&N Victoria Subdivision – Mile 42.6 Highway 18

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Katherine

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The E&N crossing at Highway 18

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Logging truck

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Katherine

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A nice logging truck on Highway 18

The E&N Highway 18 crossing – just as quiet as the spur a few hundred feet up the line. The Lake Cowichan Subdivision once ran 18.6 miles into the Lake Cowichan area and it was extensively used to haul out logs, until the easy to get at standing timber was all gone.

Now it’s all truck hauling relatively short distances to log sorts.

The train don’t run here anymore

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Logging truck

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Katherine

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A nice logging truck on Highway 18

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Cumberland No. 4 Coal Mine

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Katherine

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No.4 Mine – Cumberland near Whytes Bay on Comox Lake

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There’s not much left to see of the No. 4 mine, which is a shame but understandable as the main access to the mine was by a drift tunnel and it has long since been covered and grown over. What remains is an interesting glimpse into what was once a profitable, but deadly, coal mine – 105 men lost their lives in the mine between 1888 and 1935.

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The image above is linked to a photo album with 24 images of the No.4 mine

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Wellington Colliery Railway

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Katherine

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On the trail to Whytes Bay

An exposed section of rail from the Wellington Colliery Railway that connected to the No. 4 Mine near Whytes Bay, and further to the north on a trestle over Comox Lake to the Scott’s Slope portal.

The railway ran through Cumberland, Royston, and then on to the coal washing plant and loading pier in Union Bay.

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Perseverance Creek

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Katherine

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Getting around the collapsed bridge over Perseverance Creek as I head to Whytes Bay

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CF-100 Canuck

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Katherine

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Spring cleaning for the CF-100 Canuck at the Comox Air Force Museum

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The old and the new

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Katherine

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The old and the new – my unique view of the Comox Valley Airport from the cockpit of a CF-100 Canuck

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