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British Columbia Railway
Squamish Subdivision
Jobs and Trains
Squamish Subdivision
Jobs and Trains
| Dispatcher The dispatcher runs the railway using time table and train order as defined in the uniform code of operating rules | Squamish Yardmaster Squamish originates 2 trains during the session.These are the Squamish Wayfreight and the Squamish Cariboo through freight. In addition the squamish Industry switcher works out of the north yard.At least 3 trains will drop cars for Squamish. The yardmaster controls all traffic between yard limits since the RTC has no authority within yard limits. | North Vancouver Yardmaster This is the southern terminus of the railway.Arriving cars go to local spots or the CN interchange. Three or 4 trains originate here.The yardmaster switches local spots and CN and makes up tomorrow's trains.There are 50 car spots in North Vancouver |
| Train | Description | From | To | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Vancouver way freight | Local Freight | North Vancouver | Squamish | Switches Horseshoe bay, Porteau, Britannia and Squamish Returns to North Vancouver with all the North Vancouver cars |
| Squamish way freight | Local Freight | Squamish | Seton | Switches Mons, Pemberton, Evans, McGillvray and Seton Returns to Squamish with all the cars picked up. |
| Squamish Industry turn | Local Freight | Squamish | Squamish | Switches the Town spur, Main south of yard limits, Squamish terminals and the shops The train works out of the North yard. |
| Checkamus way freight | Local Freight | Cayoosh | Squamish | A Cariboo Western train that switches Checkamus. After switching Checkamus it runs to Squamish, drops it's cars, picks up cars and returns to Cayoosh. |
| Cariboo Dayliner | Passenger train | North Vancouver Lillooet | Lillooet North Vancouver | This trains consists of RDCs and has stops at North Vancouver, Squamish, Checkamus, Mons, Pemberton and Lillooet. On the layout it runs north one day and back the next. |
| Road Freights | ||||
| Vancouver-Peace Peace-Vancouver | Through Freight | North Vancouver Chetwynd | Chetwynd North Vancouver | These trains run across the whole layout. On the prototype it serves the peace country and usually carried priority freight. |
| Squamish-Cariboo Cariboo-Squamish | Through Freight | Squamish Lillooet | Lillooet Squamish | Because there is more traffic on the layout than the prototype. These trains usually run instead of the prototypical Vancouver-Cariboo. |
| Vancouver-Omenica Omenica-Vancouver | Through Freight | North Vancouver Lillooet | Lillooet North Vancouver | These are another pair of trains that run across the whole layout. On the prototype these trains ran to and from Prince George. |
| CWR empty coal | coal drag | North Vancouver | Cayoosh | This train will sometimes run to CWR staging with empty coal cars.. |