British Columbia Electric Railway - Fort Langley Substation

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 07/19/2018 at 10:18 • Filed to: Best of COFL, COFL Photos

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Repost for morning crew. This leg of the electric railway used to connect New Westminster to Chilliwack, and now we don’t even have rapid transit to most of Surrey. Opened in 1904, this branch made it possible to ride all the way from Marpole in Vancouver to Chilliwack, only changing trains once. This is the Fort Langley substation, now in ruin.

Make Canada Great Again.

NKato > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 00:08

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Did you get your truck working again without paying a mechanic through the nose? 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > NKato 07/19/2018 at 00:10

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I did! It was just the core plugs. I also had my exhaust fixed!

NKato > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 00:11

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Noice. Still, consider an engine rebuild in the future. 

LOREM IPSUM > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 00:12

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If the city of Fort  Langley would like to reno that building, I’ll happily move in as a caretaker to keep it from falling into disrepair again.

wafflesnfalafel > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 00:14

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nice pic..  Does BC do much rails to trails stuff?  I really like hiking the old rail grades down in the states....

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > NKato 07/19/2018 at 00:16

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100% I just have to have money

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > LOREM IPSUM 07/19/2018 at 00:16

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Yeah, same. Fort Langley is actually part of Langley township, not it's own municipality

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > wafflesnfalafel 07/19/2018 at 00:18

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We have one electric railway (for dam building) nearish that you can. This is actually active rail, just not electric

facw > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 00:18

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It’s always a bit surprising to me how much railroads have been de-electrified here in the US. We peaked at over 3000 miles of electrified railway, and today there is considerably less than 1000 miles, almost all of it on the Northeast Corridor.

For Sweden > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 00:21

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Thanks Hor gan!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > For Sweden 07/19/2018 at 00:27

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This province is going to hell in a hand basket (/s)

LOREM IPSUM > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 00:33

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Which itself is a separate entity to the city of Langley, for those following along at home.

Lol, yeah, I should have phrased that differently ... Done enough work out there to know better.

Had an old pre-internet connected gp s back in the day for work. There were 3 Langley’s, and you’d better have known which one you really wanted. Unfortunately, all of the work orders always read “Langley”

djmt1 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 03:11

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Thanks to my interest in trains and because, I live in area also called Surrey, Google loves spamming me with updates about Surrey’s light rail vs SkyTrain debate.

You would think Google would notice the big ocean and continental landmass in between us. Either way invest in your old railways, it worked wonders for us. Old railway in question:

Cé hé sin > facw 07/19/2018 at 05:20

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Lack of passenger traffic will do that for you. The vast majority of rail traffic in North America is freight which consists of very large trains running relatively infrequently and electrification just isn’t economic. Unless you electrified all of a given route you’d have to have both diesel and electric locos and you’ve also got the problem of getting an electricity supply to remote areas.

I understand that a rule of thumb is that you have to average at least two trains an hour before you’d think of wiring up although the fashionable demonisation of diesel is likely to change that.

For what it’s worth, there was recently a decision in the UK to cancel (on cost grounds) the proposed electrification of some lines and the train operating company involved now has to increase the diesel performance of the electro-diesel stock which it has just bought with the original intention of needing diesel power only for a short, low speed stretch and which will now be required to run at up to 125 mph on diesel.

Milky > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 09:48

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Thats pretty. Someone should renovate that building ( assuming r eal estate is high where you are) .

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > djmt1 07/19/2018 at 10:09

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You live in nice surrey, if you want to know what surrey is like here... well...

Right Haadoke? lol

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > LOREM IPSUM 07/19/2018 at 10:10

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https://oppositelock.kinja.com/british-columbia-electric-railway-fort-langley-1827707447#zSoyz

LOREM IPSUM > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/19/2018 at 10:13

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One part Terminator. Two parts Walking Dead.

TheStiggyOne > wafflesnfalafel 07/19/2018 at 11:32

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A bit further from where we are, but then again BC is quite big when you consider it.... Kettle Valley Railway .

Then, closer to home there is the Arbutus Greenway .

gmctavish needs more space > Milky 07/19/2018 at 11:54

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It’s very high here, but the demand is for poorly built mcmansions, or one bedroom apartments, or older homes to leave vacant. None of the money has taste, unfortunately. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > TheStiggyOne 07/19/2018 at 11:58

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There is also the Railway trail at Hayward lake in Mission which was actually part of this line