My grandmother lived a good stones throw from the CN main line in Burnaby B.C. I can remember Great Northern frieghts and passenger trains going by. Is BNSF still running trains to Vancouver?
Yes.
The Great Northern actually built the line into Vancouver, with CNoR gaining trackage rights on it.
CN and CP interchange a lot of freight with BNSF in Vancouver. BNSF's export coal trains from the U.S. all go to Vancouver-area terminals, as there is currently no coal port on the U.S. west coast.
BNSF still owns the track from New Westminster (Fraser River bridge) to downtown Vancouver, though CN and CP are its main users these days. Most freight traffic turns north at Willingdon Jct, to take the CN-owned Thornton Tunnel and Second Narrows Bridge to North Vancouver.
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