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The Arbutus Corridor in Vancouver is just wrapping up the abandonment process. It's a few miles and runs from False Creek to the Fraser River where it joins up with the Marpole Spur. I only remember seeing very short trains (usually no more than a few cars) running up and down this line at a very young age. It's an awsome right-of-way, cutting through many parts of Vancouver that are now all residential and light commercial, it really looks as though it doesn't belong there nowadays. It used to connect Downtown Vancouver with the Marpole spur, which would run out to Coquitlam, but Downtown Vancouver lost much rail traffic over the last few decades with the outgoing of Industrial lands and the incoming of Residential apartments and condos. In the Last few years of operations late 90s to turn of the century, it only served one industry, the Molsen Brewery, and eventually Molsen switched to trucks (I believe at the request of CP) and the line has not seen any traffic the last 4-5 years. The tracks are still intact, but are all overgrown, and would likely not hold up to any rail traffic. Too bad to see, but I suppose that's just the way things go. There's still a small chance the right-of-way will be turned into some sort of a transit line, but that's not looking like it's going to happen anytime soon, CP would rather sell the line to realestate developers (obviously). [img]http://www.savecambie.org/images/F2490016-41-north750.jpg[/img] There are some other pics here: http://www.savecambie.org/avc.htm
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