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Donated or Garage sale-priced items needed

Things we need, ideally donated or at Garage Sale prices

  • Garden tools: – wheelbarrow, watering can
  • Shop tools: small screwdrivers with all tip styles, small wrenches,
  • Garden Scale Project: track, rail cars, models
  • Climax Project: 36″ x 9″ steel pipe for the Boiler
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Model Building

We have some exciting projects happening on the railroad and other forestry heritage locations.

We welcome new participants!

Possible volunteer? Info sessions each Sunday, 12:15 to 12:30 and 2:30 to 3 pm

Read more here

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Railroad Wood Ties

Plastic ties became too expensive, so, we are back to wood ties for now. Bob cut and donated some 2x2s, and Dan cut up leftover log ends from the Anderson sled project into 2x2s. Then we re-sawed into ties. Dan and Scott cut 120 more a few days later. About 300 now stored in the old shed rafters. More to go – Dan needs his ATV Trailor back, and 2x2s for another few hundred are stored there.

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“Bear Creek” photo near Powell River?

Andrew Martin scanned this lantern slide photo, marked “Edward Bros., Bear Creek”, along with a Sliammon photo (shown below the “continue reading”) and wondered if there is a closer “Bear Creek” to Powell River than the ones north of Comox, near Port Alberni, northeast of Port Renfrew, or north of Sprout Lake. Does anyone recognize which “Bear Creek” logging show this photo of a Baldwin locomotive might have come from?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/423298261169886/permalink/2514709755362049

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2023 Season Opening May 7

We’re glad the spring weather is here, and the Paradise Valley Railroad looks forward to resuming regular Sunday operations beginning May 7 from 12:30 to 2:30 pm beside the Farmers Market at 4365 McLeod Road.  

Come for a ride on the train or on hand cars! Prices are the same as last year, $2 per ride, except May 14 when Mothers ride free! 

Anyone considering joining the volunteer railroad crew is invited to an information session to be held at the train station at 2:15 pm Sunday, May 7.

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WILLINGDON BEACH TRAIL MANAGEMENT TRANSITION – 2022

After 100 years of involvement by volunteers maintaining the historic Willingdon Beach Trail, the Forestry Heritage Society, the maintainer for the past 37 years, turned over its few remaining trail maintenance tasks to the City shortly before the trail re-opened late in 2022, following the installation of the wastewater treatment pipe down the centre of the trail.

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Fall Fair, Sep 24-25, 2022

We introduced a new car at the Fall Fair; an easy-access car for folks having trouble mounting the ride-astride cars. Thanks to Kiwanis Powell River for sponsoring our fabrication of this car.

Our Raffle winner for 2022 drawn was Suzanne Goulet of Montreal. The $2,000 funds generated paid for our insurance bill!

Tickets were $5 each, or 5 for $20, and could be purchased at Tug Ghum Gallery in Lund or at the Railroad on Sundays.

What fun to have the Pipe Band on board!

Some other photos of the railroad during the Fall Fair 2022.

We updated our website that shows all our current rolling stock.

We are lucky to have our chief engineer Dan Parsons bring his various steam trains to the PVR. For Fall Fair 2022 he brought his 1/8 scale Shay steam train “ALBERNI PACIFIC #8”, seen in this 8-minute video.

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Forest History Presentation at the Museum

Dave Florence presented “qathet Region Forest History, an overview” at the qathet Museum and Archives’ Spring 2022 Speakers Series on Thursday, March 10, 2022, at 6:30 pm.
It consisted of a heavily illustrated set of 118 slides, and took about 70 minutes followed by a question and answer session.

A Youtube zoom recording of the session is here (1 hour 23 minutes)

A .pdf version of the slides is here.

A few of the slides follow below.

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10th Anniversary – Sunday – Sep 19, 2021

We introduced this photo display of our first ten years. See each panel here.

We were delighted to enjoy viewing fourteen cars from the Vintage Car Club who visited. Photos here.

We did the Raffle draw: the winner of the Debra Bevaart Sealhead carving was Lynne Andrews of Surrey

Thank you to everyone who participated. More details here.

Photos of the day by Phil Kemp below

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Seal Head Raffle

We did the Raffle draw Sep 19: the winner of the Debra Bevaart Sealhead carving was Lynne Andrews of Surrey.

To help cover our insurance costs in a no-revenue Covid year, we did a raffle.

For 2021 we were pleased to continue our partnership with Debra Bevaart at Tug Ghum Gallery in Lund.

Tickets were $5 each, or 5 for $20, at Tug Ghum Gallery or from members.

Thank you to everyone who participated. More details here.

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