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The winter weather season of 2008/2009 was challenging for both the real Railroads and to G-Scalers alike.

Snow accumulation this January in Roger's
Pass, BC, over the Selkirk Mountains. The Rockies
are 150 miles further east. The locomotive is 15 ft
high.

Here is just a sample of our news letter The Burnt Journal

Niagara Canyon Cantilever Bridge
Vancouver Island

We started our Garden Railroad in 2002. In
2005 we named our railroad the Beaver Cove
railway after the Beaver Cove Lumber and Pulp
Company, which existed for one year in 1918.

It was located in the northern-most area of Vancouver
Island. From that time we have focused our efforts
in representing the operations of the Canadian
Pacific Railway on Vancouver Island. This past
year I built a representation of the cantilever bridge
at Niagara Canyon. The prototype bridge was
originally assembled over the Fraser River in 1884.
It was disassembled in 1909 and moved from the
mainland to replace a large wooden trestle. This
background information was obtained from two
books, “West of the Great Divide” and “Vancouver
Island Railroads” authored by Robert Turner.

The representative bridge is nine feet long
and is made mostly of aluminum and steel. Photos
of the prototype bridge, at its present location on
Vancouver Island, show only portions of the bridge
because of the location at the canyon. The picture
of the bridge is when it was located on the Fraser
River. My next project this winter is another bridge
representing the bridge over the Cowichan River
near Duncan, BC.